Home & Country (Fall 2007)

              A. Lillie Clutton
1929 – 2007
Home and Country Fall 2007
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In Memoriam
A lvina Lillie Dallaire Clutton
was the first daughter born to
Burnt Lake district parents,
Frank T. and Edith M. Dallaire on
March 22, 1929 in Red Deer. She
received her education at the Burnt Lake
one room school and Red Deer High
School. Lillie completed her teaching
certificate through the University of
Alberta and dedicated over thirty years
to this profession mainly in Delburne.
Lillie married Roy C. Clutton
in 1954 and together they raised
three children on their Pine Lake
family farm. In 1958 Lillie became
a member of the Pine Lake Women’s
Institute with continuous membership
until her death June 23, 2007 at 78
years. Lillies’s special gift of creating
beautiful handiwork was recognized by
the numerous awards that she received.
She shared this gift by teaching both
students and adults her skill. She
willingly volunteered her time and
expertise to her community and
demonstrated her love of music in the
community choir. She will be lovingly
remembered by her husband, two
daughters, one son, four grandchildren,
three sisters, one brother and W. I.
friends.
A melia was born August 1, 1912
and passed away April 21,
2003 at the age of 90 years.
She came to Canada with her
family at an early age. They settled
in the Consort area. She grew up on
a farm with 3 sisters and 7 brothers.
In the early 1930s Amelia moved to
Edmonton where she married Fred
Lang. They moved to the Colchester
area south of Sherwood Park and here
they owned a dairy farm and raised four
sons.
Amelia enjoyed spending time
in the garden, growing vegetables as
well as baking and doing handicrafts.
She belonged to several groups in the
area including the Colchester WI, the
Fidelis Group at the Strathcona Baptist
Church and was an active participant
in making quilts for the Red Cross.
After her husband passed
away in the early 1960s she moved to
Edmonton where she put her sewing
talents to work as a seamstress for
a drapery firm. Amelia loved to
travel visiting Australia, the USA and
eastern Canada. She was also an avid
Edmonton Oiler fan.
Amelia moved to the Clover
Bar Lodge in Sherwood Park and then
the Sherwood Park Care Centre in 1996
where she passed away.
She is missed by her many
friends in WI.
Amelia Lang
1912- 2003
O n July 30, 2007 Leslieville
WI members met in Westview
Lodge, Rocky Mountain
House to present Victoria Mottus with
a Leslieville Branch Life Membership
and pin. Vicki joined the WI in 1984
and was a very active member.
On September 15, 2007 at the
age of 84 years Victoria passed away
of cancer. She was born in Bostutrok,
Sweden and came to Canada at the age
of four months. In 1942 she married
Albert Mottus and they raised three
sons.
Victoria will be remembered
by her WI friends and members of the
Leslieville community.
Victoria Mottus
Life Membership
and snapping goofy poses of human
pyramids, rolling down hills and
sightseeing.
Mum taught me how to
embroider and knit. Her knitting
needles were constantly clicking. She
specialized in sweaters and layettes. I
bet she dressed dozens of babies over
the years.
She also made the best ever
roast beef dinner with Yorkshire
pudding. Those long ago Sunday meals
are still so clearly visible in my mind’s
eye that I can almost smell and taste
Grandmother, Mother
and Me
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