- RUARK, ARCHIE EARL OF VULCAN, ALBERTA PASSED AWAY AT THE VULCAN GENERAL HOSPITAL OCTOBER 9, 1994 AT THE AGE OF 93 YEARS.
ARCHIE WAS BORN NOVEMBER 25, 1900 AT CLEARWATER, IDAHO. HE IMMIGRATED TO THE KINNONDALE AREA NORTH OF LOMOND TO HOMESTEAD WITH HIS FATHER JOHN "JACK" RUARK. IN 1910, THE FAMILY PURCHASED A FARM AND MOVED TO THE ENSIGN AREA. ARCHIE ATTENDED SCHOOL AT PEACE, ENSIGN AND CALGARY. IN 1921 HE GRADUATED FROM THE OLDS SCHOOL OF AGRICULTURE. HE CONTINUED HIS EDUCATION IN NEW YORK WHERE HE GRADUATED FROM ELECTRICAL SCHOOL IN 1924. HE MARRIED ANNA WILLIAMS IN TORONTO, ONTARIO AND IT WAS DURING THIS TIME THAT HE CONTINUED TO WORK IN HEAVY ELECTRICAL CONSTRUCTION IN OHIO, KENTUCKY AND KANSAS. HE RETURNED TO ALBERTA IN 1926 TO BEGIN FARMING IN THE ENSIGN DISTRICT. ARCHIE TOOK THEOLOGICAL TRAINING DURING THE WINTERS AND IN 1933 HE GRADUATED FROM THE PRAIRIE BIBLE INSTITUTE. IN 1934 THE FAMILY MOVED TO GRAND PRAIRIE THEN TO SEXSMITH WHERE ARCHIE SERVED AS PRINCIPAL OF PEACE RIVER BIBLE INSTITUTE, UNTIL MAJOR SURGERY NECESSITATED HIS RESIGNATION IN 1942.
THE REMAINING WAR YEARS HE LIVED AT VULCAN WHERE HE RAN THE SOLDIER'S, SAILOR'S AND AIRMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE #2 AIR TRAINING BASE. IN 1945 HE RETURNED TO PRAIRIE BIBLE INSTITUTE WHERE HE SERVED ON THE BOARD OF MANAGEMENT AND STAFF. AFTER HIS SERVICE THERE, HE BUILT A HOUSE IN HIGH RIVER AND USED HIS HOME AS A BASE, FOR SHORT TERM PREACHING ASSIGNMENTS ACROSS THE COUNTRY INCLUDING PRINCE RUPERT, QUEBEC AND INTO IDAHO. HE RETIRED TO LANGLEY, B.C. THEN KELOWNA WHERE HIS WIFE ANNA OF 58 YEARS WAS LAID TO REST. IN 1990 HE RETURNED TO THE LAND OF HIS YOUTH, VULCAN WHERE HE HAS RESIDED SINCE.
ARCHIE IS SURVIVED BY A DAUGHTER EILEEN OF CALGARY, A SON DAVE AND HIS WIFE EILEEN OF VULCAN, TWO GRANDSONS GREG (RAQUEL) OF SURREY, B.C. AND ROD (MARION) OF VULCAN, TWO GREAT GRAND-DAUGHTERS KATELYN AND MEGAN, HIS SECOND WIFE CATHERINE OF CALGARY, NUMEROUS NIECES AND NEPHEWS.
HE WAS PREDECEASED BY HIS FIRST WIFE ANNA, TWO BROTHERS GLEN AND LESLIE, TWO DAUGHTERS-IN-LAW MARGARET AND NEVA, TWO SONS-IN-LAW ED ROEBUCK AND LESTER SOMERVILLE AND HIS PARENTS.
FUNERAL SERVICE AT THE CHURCH OF CHRIST, VULCAN THURSDAY OCTOBER 13, 1994 AT 3 P.M. WITH REV. DOUG BARRIE AND REV. W.W. McNOUGHTON OFFICIATING.
INTERMENT SATURDAY OCTOBER 15, 1994 AT 2 P.M. AT KELOWNA CITY CEMETERY, KELOWNA, B.C.
CASKET BEARERS IN VULCAN GREG RUARK, ROD RUARK, JACK WILLIAMS, JIM STINSON, GENE ROWLAND AND DAVE POFFENROTH.
FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS IN CARE OF VULCAN FUNERAL HOME, DIRECTORS.
|
1900 - 1994 (93 years)
