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Emma Marjorie Deloris Vick Morrison

Birth	:	31 Oct 1931 Peace River, Grande Prairie Census Division, Alberta, Canada
Death	:	17 Jun 2012 Edmonton, Edmonton Census Division, Alberta, Canada
Burial	:	Our Lady of Peace Cemetery, Edmonton, Edmonton Census Division, Canada
Coordinate	:	53.4871712, -113.3443527
Description	:	This morning the most courageous, strong and graceful woman I know faded away. She no longer has pain. And I know she is in all her glory with her maker. Emma Marjorie Deloris Vick Morrison October 31, 1931 to June 17 2012. I love you mom. On Sunday, June 17, 2012 Deloris Morrison passed over at the age of 80 years. She was predeceased by her husband Gilbert Elmore Morrison on Mar. 10, 1992. She is survived and is lovingly remembered by her children: Wayne (Sharon), Valerie, Zelma (Alan) Buchanan, Lynette (Dwayne) Roach; grandchildren: Terri-Lynn, Laurie, Shawn,... Read More	This morning the most courageous, strong and graceful woman I know faded away. She no longer has pain. And I know she is in all her glory with her maker. Emma Marjorie Deloris Vick Morrison October 31, 1931 to June 17 2012. I love you mom. On Sunday, June 17, 2012 Deloris Morrison passed over at the age of 80 years. She was predeceased by her husband Gilbert Elmore Morrison on Mar. 10, 1992. She is survived and is lovingly remembered by her children: Wayne (Sharon), Valerie, Zelma (Alan) Buchanan, Lynette (Dwayne) Roach; grandchildren: Terri-Lynn, Laurie, Shawn, Zachariah, Haley, Alexandra, Stefan, Mikaela and Carter; great-grandchildren: Ryley, Parker Aodhan and Calum; brother Gerald; sister Dorothy Cox and an extensive number of family and friends. A Celebration of Deloris's Life will be held at 1:00 p.m. on Wednesday, June 20, 2012 at St. David's Anglican Church, 7751 - 85 Street, Edmonton, AB. A private family interment will follow. Her granddaughter is buried at her feet. Maren Hope Tkalcic . Deloris Morrison story provided by Vera Brisbin To the best of my recollection my family moved from Last Lake to Deer Hill in the spring, summer and fall of 1938. I started grade one at the Meridian school. I can still picture the school and teacherage clearly in my mind. I had only been going to school for a short time when my ear started to ache due to a bad infection. The result was that I had to have an operation in the Berwyn hospital. I could not go back to school the rest of that year, so Mom taught me grade one by correspondence. We moved back to Last Lake for the winter of 1939-1939. Spring saw us moving back to Deer Hill to stay. The edge of our land ran along the lake known in those days as Island Lake. Today it is labelled as Gerry's Lake on the map. As a child I remember hearing the loons on the lake, such a lonely sound they made at night. I also remember hearing the coyotes and wolves. Another sound that was common during the cold winter was the cracking of the ice on the lake. It sounded like a rifle shot. As we lived on the edge of a populated areas Dad and Mom lost cattle to the wolves. I suppose Mom was very worried about Dorothy, my sister and I straying into the bush. She often warned us about wild animals in the area. Sometimes I got the idea that bears lived among the spruce trees and it was quite a while before I was not afriad to walk along a spruce bluff. I went to Deer Hill school for grades two and three. In the winter months when the lake was frozen, I rode two and a half miles on horseback across the lake to school.If it was really cold Dad would take me with the horse and cutter. In the fall and spring when I could not travel across the lake, I would stay with the Knoepfli's. they were good friends and neighbors who lived two and a half miles south of our place. There Jean and Allan Knoepfli, Roy Nystrom and I would ride the five miles around the lake to the school. On weekends I would always be able to go home. I remember one day being caught in a bad hailstorm on the way home from school. The stones were large enough to hurt so we took shelter under some trees and held our lunch pails (lard pails) over our heads for protection. Of course we were very wet and cold but we were lucky as Mr. Knoepfli and Dad came to meet us. They were worried for our safety because of the storm. I remember going to local dances with Gerald, Garnette, Dorothy, Mom and Dad. In those days everyone took their children to the dances. Dad played the guitar and if there was a piano Mom would play also. Some of the other entertainment were picnics in the summer and card parties and box and pie socials with a dance in the winter time. These would be for raising money for different causes. The boxes or pies would be sold to the highest bidder and the lady would share her supper with the gentleman who bought her box or pie. The kids would be able to go sledding and play other games while the adults socialized. In the summer time we played a lot of baseball. Then there also was the much loved school Christmas concerts. They were enjoyed by everybody, young and old. I believe it was the first summer that we were in Deer Hill that my brother, while hunting, came across a new born moose calf. He brought the poor thing home and right into the house. Dorothy and I did not know what to think. My mother fixed a bottle of milk right away and it was easy to see the calf was hungry. Well Buck, as we called him grew and quickly became a yearling. He was better than any watch dog as he would not let anyone on the homestead when we were not home. One day when Dad was not home, Mom went to the well to get some milk and butter. She leaned over looking down the well and all she saw was two eyes looking up at her. I can still remember her running as fast as her poor knees would let her and yelling, "Buck is in the well!" Mom's eyes were as big as dollar coins as she told me to take the horse and go for help. I went to the neighbors and they came back with a block and tackle to pull the moose out of the well. He had thrashed so much in the well he was covered with mud and it was days before he was all cleaned off. The well was never any good after that. I only attended grades two and three at Deer Hill before the school was closed due to the shortage of teachers on account of the war. The next closest school was at David Thompson, which was the next school district west of Deer Hill. I had to board with a family by the name of Gorham. From there it was a two mile walk to school. The next year my Mom went to work in Dawson Creek while Dad kept the home fires burning on the farm. I went to school in Dawson Creek for only one year before transferring to Black Duck School, about eight miles north of Fairview. I, along with Dorothy boarded with people who lived next to the school. By the time I reached grade seven we were back at David Thompson again and this time we stayed at the Cox's. Grade eight came along with Dorothy and I moving to our older married sister's place at Goodwin, 30 miles east of Grande Prairie. The name of that school was Rivena. At this school we had what the school board called a supervisor. She only had to have a grade ten education to be a supervisor. The students took correspondence lessons and her job was to help us, if she could and to see that we did our lessons. Then she would send them to Edmonton for marking. That was my last year of school. After that I went to work with Mom in a lumber camp. Mom was the cook and Jean Knoepfli and I were her helpers. A few years later I met and married Gilbert Morrison, who was from Heart Valley, which is south of Wanham. Since then we have lived in Edmonton for 25 years while Gilbert has worked for oil companies for more than 35 years. We have four children, all of whom live and work in Edmonton. Our oldest, Wayne and his wife Shanon have three children. Valerie our oldest daughter works for a law firm in the city, Zelma is married to Alan Buchanan and they have two children. Our youngest daughter, Lynette has recently been engaged to marry Joe Tkalcic and together they are planning their future. Thinking back on my childhood it is hard to remember the difficult times but there were so many more of the good times. All in all I think God has been very good to me.

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Emma Marjorie Deloris Vick Morrison's memorial is located at: Our Lady of Peace Cemetery, Edmonton, Edmonton Census Division, Canada.
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Emma Marjorie Deloris Vick Morrison death on 17 Jun 2012 in Edmonton, Edmonton Census Division, Alberta, Canada
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Latitude: 53.4871712
Longitude: -113.3443527

Family Members:

Parent

Victor Ledius Vick

(1888 - 1972)

Zelma Christine “Casey” Sanderson Vick

(1897 - 1990)

Spouse

Gilbert Elmore Morrison

(1922 - 1992)

Siblings

Gerald Oscar Vick

(1919 - 2020)

Garnette Winnefred Vick Murphy

(1921 - 1997)

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