🦋 Stella Elizabeth, May 20 1919 – February 12, 2015 Age 95
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▫️▫️▫️▫️What a place for a baby on the roof of the chicken coop 🔻
🔻 A girl and her dog
🔻Our Mother just loved sweet peas, didn’t realize it went this far back
▫️▫️I found this article in the Wainwright Star Archives▫️▫️
▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️🔻 Stella the fashion queen 🔻▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️
🔻 Just look at these shoes, where did Stella shop▫️▫️▫️▫️
▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️ This was Stella’s dress, Michele has worn it a few times🔻
▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️ May 1938 – check out the depth of the snow 🔻
▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️ 1944 – Stella and her Mother – check out the boots…🔻
🔻 Same coat but with a new belt and a new hat to match – told you she had fashion sense, which her Granddaughter Jill inherited
▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️What a lovely sketch portrait ▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️
🔻 These pictures are for the nephews – check out these cars!
🔻 Stella, the horse woman. She told us stories of riding her horse 3 miles into town. It was so cold one winter she boarded with a family in town.
▫️ ▫️ ▫️ ▫️ ▫️ ▫️ ▫️ ▫️ ▫️ ▫️🔻 1942
▫️ ▫️ ▫️ ▫️ ▫️ ▫️ ▫️ ▫️ ▫️ ▫️ ▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️ Stella and Austin 🔻
🔻 1935 – Stella sitting on the snow plane her brother Austin built
❇️ 1939 – Stella age 20 married 🦋 Joe Harrison Collett, February 4, 1939
🔻 1940
🔻 Unfortunately Joe was killed in the second WW on May 12, 1943. Stella was almost 24.
🔻 Stella was working at Birks in Edmonton when this little box arrived at the store for her. Lorne Kinghorn found this box on the farm when he was 16, 1952. He kept it all these years, then in 2010 he brought it to Dianne on one of his visits to Calgary
🔻Oddly enough the memorial cross was made by Birks
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🔹 I found this envelope (which I have never seen) on Remembrance Day, Nov 11, 2018. I feel so sad on this day every year thinking about what my Mother went through.
🔻 This is what was in the envelope:
🔻 THE FIELD OF CROSSES MEMORIAL PROJECT:
The Field of Crosses Memorial Project, started in 2009, is an annual display of white crosses on Memorial Drive in Calgary, Alberta. The display memorializes soldiers from Southern Alberta who lost their lives fighting for our country. Over 3400 crosses will stand in the military cemetery formation in the 5 acre memorial park from November 1 – 11 to signify the ultimate sacrifice so many made fighting for the freedoms we enjoy today.
🔻 This is the cross for Joseph Harrington Collett
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❇️ Stella married David Floyd in 1946. They had 2 daughters, who Stella raised on her own, they spent many summers on the Kinghorn farm.
▫️ Dianne Elizabeth, September 10, 1947
▫️ Jane Margaret, October 14, 1950, Jane has 2 children
▫️▫️Jarrod Russel, November 8, 1973
▫️▫️Jill McNeil, December 3, Jill has one child
▫️▫️▫️William McNeil April 27, 2013
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🔷🔷 Our new Dad, Bill Dennison 🔷🔷
🔻Stella married 🦋 Bill March 5, 1960 when the girls were 12 and 9 years of age. Bill regarded Stella’s parents, Allen and Laura, with the highest respect and considered them his parents as well.
🔻Dianne, Stella, Bill and Jane with the attendees and Minister in the back row.
▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️What a cute picture of the bride, our MOM🔻
🔻 Some one is throwing confetti at us
▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️ ▫️ ▫️ ▫️ ▫️▫️ ▫️ ▫️1963 – our new home in Edmonton 🔻
🔻 1967 – on the back deck at Kathleen’s in Vancouver
▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️1970 – Klondike Days in Edmonton 🔻
🔻 1974 – Hawaii
1978 – this is a very familiar look, football tickets for the coming year 🔻
🔻 1979 – Happy Hour, “it’s 5 o’clock somewhere!”
▫️▫️▫️ 1979 – Bill’s retirement party – we have never witnessed dancing 🔻
🔻 1981 – Bill’s 65th Birthday
▫️▫️▫️ ▫️ ▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️ ▫️▫️▫️1987 Bill just finished cutting some ▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️ wheat for Stella – the old shop in the background 🔻
🔻 1987 – Stella and her siblings
▫️ ▫️ ▫️ ▫️ ▫️ ▫️ ▫️ ▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️ ▫️2006 – Christmas at the Whites 🔻
🔻 2008 – Stella and Bill under the mock orange at the Duncan’s in July
🔻 2009 – Big Fork Montana▫️ ▫️ ▫️ ▫️ ▫️ ▫️ ▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️ 2010 – Kananaskis🔻
🔷🔹 Stella and her girls 🔹🔷
🔻 1987▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️1990🔻
🔻 1995▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️1996🔻
▫️ ▫️ ▫️ ▫️▫️ ▫️ 🔻 2003 – every now and then we let Dad get into the picture
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▫️🔹🔷🔹🔷🔹Stella and Bill having fun 🔹🔷🔹🔷🔹▫️
🔻 1971 – huge oranges and lemons from Phoenix AZ
▫️ ▫️ ▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️ ▫️▫️▫️▫️ ▫️ ▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️ ▫️1978 – Cruising 🔻
🔻 1989 – sitting by the Magnolia tree in China ▫️ ▫️ ▫️ ▫️1990 Mexico🔻
🔻 1993 – The “Love Boat”, Caribbean Islands
▫️ ▫️ ▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️ ▫️ ▫️ ▫️ ▫️ 1993 – Cody, Wyoming🔻
🔻 1994 – Bogies Bar Casablanca
▫️ ▫️ ▫️ ▫️ ▫️ ▫️ ▫️ ▫️ ▫️ ▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️ 🔻1996 – Red Dog Saloon, Alaska🔻
🔻1996 – on the Mississippi Queen
🔻2009 – The Stanley cup came to their retirement place
▫️🔹🔹 Bill’s 90th Birthday, Aug 4, 2006 🔹🔹▫️
🔻 We had a birthday party for Dad, Jane and I wrote out what we wanted to say…
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🔻 2009 – Kananaskis, August to celebrate Stella’s 90th and Bill’s 93rd Birthdays with Jill, Bob, Jane, Jarrod, Dianne and Allen
🔻 2009 – Stella and her girls, Dianne, Jane and Jane’s daughter Jill
🔻 2013 – Hazel, Lorrie, Jane, Stella and Dianne
🦋🦋Sadly the parents have passed away 🦋🦋
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🔻 Jean Gilchrist was kind enough to submit this to the local paper🔻
🎈 Thank you for looking into our life, I wonder what Dianne and Jane have been up to 🎈
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