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Members in Memoriam

The success of the Alberta Genealogical Society is dependent on many factors including a membership dedicated to professionalism in research and volunteer service in leadership with the society and in our communities, all done with the support of their spouses and/or partners. We wish to express our deepest gratitude and thanks for the time the following members have shared with us and for their contributions to the Society and to the genealogical community.

2021 - 2025

Name	Home Branch	Date of passing
Jean Schattle	Medicine Hat	March 28, 2021
Donald Adams	Edmonton	August 29, 2022
Margaret "Marnie" Marshall	Red Deer	January 8, 2023
Igor Lozynsky	Red Deer	February 10, 2023
Anne Luciuk	Edmonton	February 24, 2023
John "Stuart" Hosler	Edmonton	March 21, 2023
Douglas Jober	Edmonton	May 4, 2023
Peter Arabchuk	Edmonton	May 29, 2023
Donna Ritter	Edmonton	May 30, 2023
Art Avery	Fort McMurray	July 6, 2023
Nick Stefaniuk	Edmonton	July 14, 2023
William "Alan" Bell	Edmonton	July 30, 2023
Dave Nixon	Fort McMurray	August 20, 2023
Frances Losie	Edmonton	September 5, 2023
Sharon Livingstone	Edmonton	September 7, 2023
Beverley Trace	Edmonton	October 1, 2023
Sheila Majeau	Edmonton	October 22, 2023
Frank Easton	Edmonton	November 9, 2023
Edna McKelvie	Medicine Hat	December 4, 2023
Rose Goutbeck	Edmonton	December 7, 2023
Norma Jean Stewart	Brooks	December 17, 2023
Joan P Wegert	Edmonton	December 18, 2023
Jim Tennant	Medicine Hat	December 22, 2023
George Alfred McKay	Wetaskiwin	December 28, 2023

Name	Home Branch	Date of passing
Margaret (Maggie) Ruth Ballantyne	Edmonton	13 Oct 2022
Joan Alexis Shortt Campbell	Red Deer	12 Feb 2022
Fay Carlson	Camrose	16 Jun 2022
Ian George Holmes	Edmonton	15 Jan 2022
Derek Roland Hoyle	Wetaskiwin	13 Nov 2022
Roseline "Rose" Joa	Red Deer	8 May 2022
Peter Donald Godschall Johnson	Edmonton	11 Sep 2022
Margaret Elizabeth "Liz" Kohle	Edmonton	12 Sep 2022
Susan Joyce Kuzmak	Edmonton	17 Jan 2022
Maurice Legris	Drayton Valley	26 Jul 2022
Clement "Clem" Albert Nadon	Edmonton	19 Jul 2022
William Dave Thomas	Edmonton	29 Jan 2022

Name	Home Branch	Date of passing
Doreen Easton	Edmonton	11 Aug 2021
Pamela Farmer	Edmonton	16 Jul 2021
Archie Fischer	Medicine Hat	14 Apr 2021
Brian Campbell Foster	Red Deer	15 Oct 2021
Roderick McLeod	Lethbridge	1 Feb 2021
John Polutranko	Edmonton	22 Nov 2021
Jean Schattle	Medicine Hat	28 Mar 2021
Ilia Skeith	Lethbridge	9 Nov 2021
Carin Thomas	Edmonton	25 Dec 2021
Shona Wards	Edmonton	10 Aug 2021

2016 - 2020

Name	Home Branch	Date of passing
Norma Jean Bosman	Lethbridge	28 Nov 2020
Carol Breakell	Brooks	4 Nov 2020
Mary Lydia Burkholder	Brooks	27 Jun 2020
William John Dowler	Medicine Hat	22 Jun 2020
Doreen Gauvreau	Wetaskiwin	6 Apr 2020
Sylvio Gauvreau	Wetaskiwin	12 Dec 2020
Ralph Gray	Grande Prairie	30 Mar 2020
Verna Hockey	Grande Prairie	18 Nov 2020
Colin Hrychiw	Grande Prairie	1 Feb 2020
Doris Nadon	Edmonton	5 Dec 2020
Richard Hugh Nash	Fort McMurray	18 May 2020
Mary Nutting	Grande Prairie	20 Apr 2020
Alexander (Sandy) Payne	For McMurray	9 Aug 2020
Joffre (Jeff) Plaquin	Wetaskiwin	1 Sep 2020
Allen Ronaghan	Edmonton	21 Jan 2020
Randall (Randy) Thompson	Wetaskiwin	18 Jul 2020

Name	Home Branch	Date of passing
Margaret Eykelbosh	Edmonton	22 Feb 2019
Jack Layton	Red Deer	30 Mar 2019
Patricia Lundie	Edmonton	6 Nov 2019
Fern Muirhead	Medicine Hat	13 Oct 2019
Merna Nelson	Drayton Valley	17 May 2019
John Rocheleau	Medicine Hat	24 Feb 2019
Lynda Sallis	Edmonton	21 Mar 2019
Donald Schau	Grande Prairie	25 Oct 2019
Ivy Stead	Edmonton	1 Mar 2019
Vic Willoughby	Red Deer	13 Jun 2019

Name	Home Branch	Date of passing
Betty Barnhill	Red Deer	12 Nov 2018
Peter Darby	Red Deer	11 Jul 2018
Jack (John) Fitzsimonds	Edmonton	18 Apr 2018
Kevin McKinney	Edmonton	-- Jul 2018

Name	Home Branch	Date of passing
Elmer Ensminger	Medicine Hat	1 Nov 2017
Robert James Coatham	Red Deer	15 Aug 2017
Janet Lorraine Coatham	Red Deer	10 Aug 2017
Wayne Nelson	Camrose	15 Feb 2017
Ingrid Pasay	Edmonton	22 Jan 2017
Elizabeth "Betty" Smyth	Drayton Valley	20 Jan 2017

Name	Home Branch	Date of passing
Lorran "Larry" Clark	Edmonton	26 Dec 2016
Marcel Venne	Edmonton	22 Dec 2016
Peter Goutbeck	Edmonton	23 Nov 2016
Mitsuo Iwaasa	Brooks	9 Oct 2016
Edith Hesson	Edmonton	29 Aug 2016
Lucille Horne	Edmonton	10 Aug 2016
Lyle Kloth	Brooks	10 Jun 2016
John Sterling Bradley	Grande Prairie	14 Apr 2016
Norris Tomlinson	Edmonton	31 Mar 2016
Claudette Vague	Edmonton	21 Mar 2016
Richard Cooper	Edmonton	8 Mar 2016
Lorraine Joyce Yackulic	Edmonton	1 Mar 2016

2011 - 2015

Name	Home Branch	Date of passing
Wish (Wilfred) Walters	Medicine Hat	6 Dec 2015
Richard McNeill	Edmonton	27 Nov 2015
Gary Flug	Medicine Hat	14 Nov 2015
Jean Madill	Edmonton	19 Oct 2015
Sharon Allred	Lethbridge	4 Sep 2015
Arthur (Wes) Murphy	Grande Prairie	19 Jun 2015
Patricia Peterson	Brooks	15 Jun 2015
Mary (Mairi) MacCrimmon	Edmonton	7 Jun 2015
Peter Staveley	Edmonton	23 May 2015
Myra Anderson	Medicine Hat	2 Apr 2015
Paul Workman	Edmonton	26 Feb 2015
Hugh Critchley	Edmonton	18 Jan 2015
William Lappenbush	Grande Prairie	10 Jan 2015

Name	Home Branch	Date of passing
Patricia Woodman	Edmonton	18 Dec 2014
Shirley Yurkewich	Edmonton	11 Sep 2014
Herbert Albrecht	Edmonton	6 Sep 2014
John Luciuk	Edmonton	30 Aug 2014
June M. Hughes	Wetaskiwin	28 Aug 2014
Anne Knight	Edmonton	14 Aug 2014
Peter Williams	Edmonton	30 July 2014
Howard Sim	Edmonton	28 June 2014
Mary (Aitken) Hermans	Grande Prairie	---- May 2014
Winsome Olive Spence	Brooks	11 May 2014
Wendee Nicoll	Edmonton	6 May 2014
Doreen Smillie	Edmonton	4 May 2014
Ruby Engler	Medicine Hat	4 May 2014
Margaret Mary McKay	Edmonton	12 April 2014
Nick Wengreniuk	Edmonton	7 April 2014
Vera Annabelle Hauck	Brooks	22 April 2014
Bonnie Hande	At Large	23 Feb 2014
Wilma Rix	Edmonton	5 Feb 2014
Beatrice Cecelia McBride	Brooks	8 Jan 2014

Name	Home Branch	Date of passing
Robert Milson	Edmonton	2 December 2013
Reanne Smith	Edmonton	29 October 2013
June Reder	Edmonton	10 September 2013
Dorothy Chartrand	Edmonton	6 September 2013
Barbara Brazier	Wetaskiwin	9 August 2013
Bertha Melnyk	Grande Prairie	6 August 2013
Donald Chapman	Edmonton & Camrose	13 July 2013
Debra Phillips	Medicine Hat	11 June 2013
Bruce Drysdale	Red Deer	14 May 2013
Frances Spence	Brooks	9 March 2013
Iris Edey	Edmonton	24 February 2013
Thomas Gladders	At Large	14 February 2013
Bonnie Drew	Edmonton	9 February 2013
Hal O'Neil	Edmonton	4 February 2013
June Arnison	Edmonton	27 January 2013


Al Richards	Grande Prairie	18 December 2012
Blanche Cherrington	Drayton Valley	2 October 2012
Clair Ellis	Red Deer	12 August 2012
Elsie Seefeldt	Brooks	6 August 2012
Ken Hodgins	Edmonton	14 May 2012
Lila Nagel	Red Deer	2 May 2012
Andrea Lukawiecki	Red Deer	18 March 2012
John Gosior	Edmonton	20 January 2012
Ron Becker	Medicine Hat	4 January 2012
Betty Jean Killaly	Wetaskiwin	2 January 2012

Name	Home Branch	Date of passing
John DeLaroque	Edmonton	29 November 2011
Elvina Hagan	Edmonton	5 October 2011
Lillian Wight	Edmonton	28 September 2011
Irene Pearcy	Grande Prairie	7 September 2011
Rev. John Nowakowski	Edmonton	27 August 2011
Juanita Block	Drayton Valley	23 August 2011
Joseph Nelson	Edmonton	9 August 2011
Karonne Olir	Peace River	22 May 2011
Eleanor Clyne	Medicine Hat	9 May 2011
Rose Braun	Medicine Hat	31 March 2011
Malcolm MacCrimmon	Edmonton	13 February 2011
Irene Gordey	Peace RIver	21 January 2011
Kay Sales	Edmonton	3 January 2011

2000 - 2010

Name	Home Branch	Date of passing
Lloyd Johnston	Wetaskiwin	22 December 2010
Joe Van Den Berg	Edmonton	8 December 2010
William Clarence Madill	Edmonton	16 November 2010
Terrance Brinston	Edmonton	8 September 2010
Peter Alexander	Lethbridge	2 September 2010
Morris Burroughs	Grande Prairie	1 September 2010
Eunice Geddes	Edmonton	8 August 2012
Joyce Dougan	Edmonton	13 June 2010
George Balding	Edmonton	22 February 2010
William (Jim) Allan	Edmonton	15 February 2010

Name	Home Branch	Date of passing
Merne Livingstone	Lethbridge	2 December 2009
Muriel Jolliffe	Lethbridge	28 November 2009
Pat Hewitt	Edmonton	17 November 2009
Wilma Stevenson	Lethbridge	9 November 2009
Peter Hanhart	Lethbridge	18 October 2009
Florence Woodward	Edmonton	17 October 2009
Mary Allan Cox	Lethbridge	6 October 2009
T. Bryan Campbell-Hope	Edmonton	25 September 2009
Joyce Plain	Wetaskiwin	11 September 2009
Leroy Wright	Edmonton	25 August 2009
Marcel Nault	Edmonton	12 August 2009
Lois Barr	Lethbridge	7 August 2009
Amy Woodruff	Lethbridge	6 July 2009
Adele Johnson	Medicine Hat	8 June 2009
Lorne Whaley	Camrose	3 June 2009
Muriel Jones	Edmonton	2 May 2009
Kenneth Coull	Edmonton	1 March 2009
Kirsten Betttenson	Peace RIver	2 January 2009

Name	Home Branch	Date of passing
Joe Saumer	Edmonton	1 December 2008
Bob Morrison	Edmonton	12 November 2008
Mary Bell	Edmonton	15 October 2008
John Elliott	Edmonton & Medicine Hat	4 June 2008
Richard Nex	Lethbridge	25 April 2008
Margaret Kay	Grande Prairie	1 April 2008
Charles Cripps	Edmonton	15 February 2008
Ken Young	Lethbridge	26 January 2008
Margaret Jess	Edmonton	22 January 2008
Floyd McNey	Edmonton	18 January 2008

Name	Home Branch	Date of passing
Alec Latta	Edmonton	4 November 2007
John Hughes	Edmonton	31 July 2007
Enid Fitzsimonds	Edmonton	13 April 2007
Bob Fraser	Edmonton	25 March 2007
Marion Ledger	Grande Prairie	17 March 2007
Edna Woloshyn	Edmonton	17 February 2007
Ron Johnston	Edmonton	18 January 2007

Name	Home Branch	Date of passing
Ron Brandt	Brooks	27 December 2006
Sandra Bramble	Brooks	25 December 2006
Beverly Henderson	Lethbridge	27 November 2006
Rhonda Dent	Medicine Hat	24 November 2006
Clifton Shook	Edmonton	13 August 2006
Glenda Paisley	Edmonton	20 June 2006
Mary Ann Sibley	Medicine Hat	4 June 2006
Donna Marie Ficht	Edmonton	30 May 2006
Phyllis McNey	Edmonton	28 May 2006
J. Harry Edey	Edmonton	9 March 2006
Ray Jolliffe	Lethbridge	14 February 2006
Gladys Baxter	Red Deer	26 January 2006
Fay Hood	Medicine Hat	-- January 2006

Name	Home Branch	Date of passing
Lorne Nelson	Drayton Valley	unknown
Ed Green	unknown	31 October 2005
Margaret Eaton	Brooks	31 October 2005
Robert Stiles	Brooks	30 October 2005
Jean Fraser	Edmonton	2 October 2005
Alwin Klohn	Edmonton	28 September 2005
Shirley Froese	Edmonton	5 September 2005
Hilda Zewe	Wetaskiwin	-- July 2005
Hubert Rooney	Edmonton	26 July 2005
Hilton Rix	Edmonton	24 June 2005
R. George Davidson	Edmonton	20 June 2005
Vera Biko	Brooks	4 June 2005
Susan Martinez	Brooks	6 May 2005
Joanne Wagner	Edmonton	-- May 2005
Agnes Kelcher	Edmonton	28 January 2005

1999 and Prior

Information about these members will be added shortly.

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