OBITUARIES
Recent Obituaries
Local Obituaries for Canmore, AB, Southern Alberta, & Surrounding Areas
Suzanna Lakeman
Precious daughter, sister, wife and mother.
Suus was born in Ter Aar, the Netherlands, and passed away
peacefully in Calgary at the age of 100 wonderful years.
She was predeceased by her loving husband Rienk in 1993,
and survived by their sons; Lex, Rienk, and Martin, grandsons; Thomas, Christopher, Jonathan, numerous...
Flora Scoular
Flora Scoular was born Flora Doucet in Bathurst, New Brunswick.
Her father Abélard attended the Catholic Church daily, and was musical, loved carpentry and his family. Her mother Béatrice was also French Acadian, was a proud, hard working mother. Flora was born into a large family, her brothers Lou, Gerald, Clifford, Dolphous, Raymond and sisters, Lea and...
Marlis Hoar
Marlis Anni Hoar (Eckert) passed away peacefully in her home in Canmore, Alberta.
She was born in Hanover, Germany to Herman Eckert and Minna Jordan. Marlis had two siblings, Wolfgang "Walter" (Gudrun) Eckert,
and Heidemarie (Horst) Langer.
Marlis liked to tell the story of how she one day spied a handsome
...
Lorraine Gordey
Alta Lorraine Gordey was born to Cecil and Ann Short in Wetaskiwin, AB. and passed away at home in Canmore.
Lorraine is survived by her sisters, Shirley (Archie) Hubman and
Patricia (Sam) Kay. She had two children Terry (Cathie) Gordey
and Tammy (John) Brewster.
Lorraine is also survived by her grandchildren...
Percy Hergott
It is with heavy hearts that we announce the sudden passing of
Percival Ronald Hergott, at the age of 86 years in Canmore, Alberta.
Percy is survived by his loving wife and best friend, Dana, and his adoring daughters: Kareen McCoy (Kevin), Kim Buchanan (Tom) and Wendy Hergott (Pat Cymbala). He is also survived by...
Elsie Edmonds
Elsie Mae Edmonds passed away peacefully at St. Martha's Place
in the Banff Mineral Springs Hospital, after a short stay there with kind and caring staff.
Born in Lethbridge, Alberta, Elsie worked with Alberta Government Telephones after high school, until moving with her parents and sisters to Banff in 1951. In Banff she worked for...
Christopher Hugh Smith
Christopher died peacefully in Canmore Hospital after a short illness
He leaves behind his wife, Judith and son Robert.
He was predeceased by his daughter Anna.
Funeral service arrangements will be announced in the future.
Services provided by Russ Reynolds and Bow River Funeral Service.Mary G. Andrews
Mary Garnham Andrews, born in Montreal, was a leading Canadian weaver and gifted teacher. She first discovered that she was
a natural weaver while she was a Senior Counsellor at the Taylor Stratten Camp in Algonquin Park in the early 1940's. She went on
to study weaving in Korea and Japan while serving with the...
Richard Morris
Richard Hart Morris was born in Coral Gables Hospital in Miami, Florida. Growing up with his family, he attended Coral Gables High School before joining the United States Air force right out of high school at the age of 19. He remained in the Air Force for several years and retired to work for many years in sales of...
Donna Swift
Donna Shirley Swift (nee Glaim) passed away peacefully at the Canmore hospital after her battle with cancer. She will be sadly missed by all her friends and family. Donna will be remembered in the Canmore community as a good organizer who helped out in the minor hockey program, Canmore C.G.I.T. and the annual Miners Reunion as well as an...

Arthur Fry
Sadly, Arthur Joseph Fry died suddenly in Scotland at the age of
92 years. He is greatly missed by his wife Nora and two sons.
Art and Nora spent over thirty years visiting Canmore and on Art's retirement lived here for nine years. He will also be remembered for doing a little substitute teaching at...
Don Wilcox
The Wilcox family announce, with great sadness, the loss of their beloved father and grandfather Donald Lester Wilcox. As many of you know he had being struggling with dementia for some time now and
we are relieved that his passing was peaceful.
Don was predeceased by the love of his life Marlene in 2013 and...
Lance Cooper
With deeply saddened hearts we announce the passing
of Lance Dereck Cooper.
Born in Ontario, Edgewater, BC later became his home,
and the world, his to Explore.
In 1971, Lance joined the Warden Service where he became one of the original pioneers of the Mountain Rescue team. In 1981, he left...
Brad Whiteley
Bradley John William Whiteley passed away peacefully at home in Canmore, surrounded by his family. He will be lovingly remembered by his wife of 40 years, Karen, his daughters, Genevieve, Rebekah, Rhonda and Ronni as well as his grandchildren, Jasmine, Sierra, Ariadne, Savannah, Sophie, Phoenix and Brailee.
Brad worked for Lafarge in Exshaw his entire life, retiring...
Greg Pickrem
With heavy hearts, we announce the death of Gregory "Greg" Scott Pickrem. After a courageous struggle with cancer, Greg passed over the Great Divide at the Banff Mineral Springs Hospital. He was surrounded by his family who travelled from Nova Scotia to be with him over the course of his illness.
Greg was born in Halifax, NS...
Richard Boruta
It is with deep sadness that the family of Richard Boruta announce that Richard was killed during a climbing accident on Three Sisters.
He was 49 years old.
Richard will be lovingly remembered by his wife Kamila; sons, Michal, Thomas and Lukas; daughter-in-law Petra; granddaughter Sophie; mother Jirina; father Richard; mother-in-law Helena; and father-in-law Joseph....
Erling Pedersen
Erling Pedersen of Lake Louise passed away peacefully at age 89 at
St. Martha's Place, Banff Mineral Springs Hospital, in the mountains he had called home for the past 60 plus years. He is survived by his daughter Jane MacAulay of Bluffton , Alberta and his son Jack Pedersen (Lana) and 3 grandchildren Amanda, Cody and Caitlyn...
Glenda Martin
Glenda Florence Martin (nee Sanderson) was born in Melfort, Saskatchewan on October 21, 1949 to farmer George Sanderson and school teacher Tillie Sanderson (Biliske.) As an inquisitive young girl growing up on the family farm near Pathlow, SK, Glenda helped her parents cook, chop wood, milk cows, pick berries, and gather eggs. She taught her younger sisters lessons in...
Margaret Wilson
Peacefully at St. Martha's Place, Banff Mineral Springs Hospital in her 97th year.
Predeceased by her husband, Pipe Major John Wilson and elder son Ian. Margaret, devoted mother of Ewen; proud grandmother of Laurel, Malcolm and Reid; appreciative mother-in-law of Trudy.
Margaret's passing marked the end of one branch of the Reid family whose members: James, Marjorie, Mary, Florence, Hazel, Joy and...