Dad got his kidney transplant on January 11, 2004. He sold the house in Procter in August of 2007. He lived in a cold, draughty trailer in Harrop for a short while until he had a bad accident and broke his hip. After being released from the hospital, he moved to Calgary and lived in Grace Gardens until the time of his death on February 26th, 2011. His funeral took place at Procter Hall on March 5th, 2011. The whole town came out for it.
Judith graduated with a BFA from the Alberta College of Art and Design on May 19, 2004. She is currently working at St. Peter's Roman Catholic Parish in Calgary as Coordinator of Youth Ministry.
Gordon has taken up scroll saw work, and can often be found in the garage creating marvelous wooden plaques, knick knacks and toys. He also created some wonderful Christmas tree decorations which were painted by the Sunday School children and hung on the tree at Knox last Christmas.
Mom and Ron celebrated Ron's 80th birthday by going balloon riding with cousins Jerry and Will in Albequerque in October of 2001.
Here are some pictures of Ron and Willie in their balloon! We celebrated Ron's 90th birthday last fall, at the Legion. It was really nice to see all my nieces and nephews again. :-)
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Ron is still the President of the Burma Star Association, which is an association of veterans who fought the Second World War in Burma. The Burma Star Division, also known as the 14th Army, fought in the Far East from December 1942 until August of 1945.Although the 14th Army numbered over one million soldiers, and was the largest Commonwealth army in all of history, it is only now that history books are beginning to be written about its exploits in battle.
For more information, go to the Burma Star Historical Notes home page.Click on the link to access the notes.
LAST UPDATED BY JUDITH McRAE February 20, 2012. Send me feedback at jrlmcrae@shaw.ca