2.3.9.6. Phyllis M. Mortimer (1919-2017)

Phyllis Murriel Mortimer (1919 ~ 2017)

2.3.9.6. Sixth child of John McBride Mortimer and Margaret Ann Campbell, Phyllis Murriel Mortimer, was born October 24, 1919, in Carbon, Alberta.

She married William Matt Jarvin, son of Anders Gustaf (Andrew) Järvin and Alexandra Katharina (Sandra) Warila, October 24, 1938, in Rocky Mountain House, Alberta and had one child:

(2.3.9.6.1) Stacey Dale (1943 ~ )

Phyllis M. Mortimer Jarvin died January 10, 2017, aged 97 years and William M. Jarvin died November 22, 1967, aged 62 years in Rocky Mountain House, Alberta and are interred at Pinegrove Cemetery.

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Phyllis M. Mortimer Jarvin

Phyllis Jarvin (née Mortimer) passed away January 10, 2017 in the Rocky Mountain House hospital at the age of 97. She is survived by son Stacey (MaryAnne) of Victoria; grandson Mark (Charlene Cook) and great-grand-daughter Ivy of Toronto; her sisters Shirley Wilson of Red Deer and Roxina Ashmore of Okatoks; and was predeceased by Mortimer brothers Ray, Reg, Harold and Marshall; and sisters Isabelle Evans and Maxine Yerbury.

She was born in Carbon, Alberta near the middle of what was to become a family of nine children. They moved to the Rocky area when she was 8 and she has lived here for nearly 90 years. The family struggled through the depression, and as her mother died when she was 14, she left school to take care of her siblings, the youngest still in diapers.

When she married Bill Jarvin they built a home on an acreage just across the railway tracks in Old Town where she lived for most of her life. Older residents will remember her from her time at Brownlie’s and the Alpine Drug Stores; a younger generation will know her as the principal’s secretary at the Lochearn School.

The family would like to thank the management and staff of Westview Lodge, and the staff and doctors of the Rocky Hospital (in particular, Dr. Dykstra) for their care and attention.Cremation entrusted to the Rocky Mountain Crematorium, Rocky Mountain House, Alberta. Rocky Mountain House Mountaineer, Jan. 24, 2017.

William M. Jarvin

June 15, 1905 ~ November 22, 1967

William Matt Jarvin passed away in the Rocky Municipal Hospital on November 22, 1967 at the age of 62. Born in Evanston, Wyoming on June 15, 1905, he moved with his family to the Rocky district in 1912, attending school in the Taimi district. He later moved to Sylvan Lake and returned to Rocky in 1939.

Mr. Jarvin is survived by his loving wife Phyllis of Rocky. One son Stacey of Ottawa, two brothers Nel of Sylvan Lake and Abel of Port Alberni, B.C. Two sisters Mrs. Martha Weaver of Trail, B.C. and Mrs L. Douglas of New Westminster B.C.

Funeral Services were held from the Memorial Presbyterian Church on Saturday November 25 with the Reverend Gordon Cunningham officiating. Internment followed in the Pine Grove Cemetery. Rocky Mountain House Mountaineer, Nov. 29, 1967.