It’s with heavy hearts that we announce the passing of Dale MacLean. She handed away in Lethbridge on November 12, 2024 because of issues associated to leukemia.
She was born on the summer season solstice in 1944 in Kidderminster England and grew up within the lovely close by hamlet of Far Forest along with her mother and father, Daisy and Jack Hamer and her little brother, John.
The group of 4 moved to Edinburgh to be nearer to prolonged household whereas she was an adolescent. One among her favorite haunts was Fisher’s Shut. The journey bug hit her early and she or he immigrated to Canada when she was 19 years outdated.
After the passing of her father, Jack in 1964, John and Daisy got here to Canada to stay close by. She attended Alberta School of Artwork in Calgary and was an avid artwork collector and creator her entire life.
In Canada she lived in Calgary, Montreal, Swalwell and at last settled in Lethbridge in 1977. It didn’t take lengthy earlier than her creativity and entrepreneurial tendencies drove her to open Toy Home Day Care in 1979 and Kids’s Village just a few years later. Dale took her place as day care operator significantly and cared deeply for every of the bairns in her care. The daycares, like her dwelling, have been superbly adorned and infused with consolation and heat.
Together with her loving husband Alastair they moved to Beaver Mines and created Alandale Lodge and Retreat in 1993. There they provided a sacred place for household and mates to collect and commune; get pleasure from snowboarding at close by Fortress Mountain, driving and mountaineering the native trails.
All her life, Dale derived immense satisfaction from artistic expression. Together with a gaggle of pioneering girls, The Medication Tree was based in 2004. She loved the method of imagining a singular service and bringing it to fruition for the advantage of her local people.
Through the years she travelled all through Canada and the US, particularly having fun with Sedona, Santa Fe and the Oregon coast. She cherished travelling within the Westphalia. Amongst extra distant places she visited Moloka’i, Singapore, Hong Kong, Thailand, Bali, Turkey, Japan, England and naturally her beloved Scotland.
You may be missed. You made an indelible mark in your group and left it a greater place.
We dinnae know how you can be on this world with out you, however we’re consistently reminded that with out darkness we cannae see th’ stars. And so, in these stars we are going to search out the twinkle o’ yer bricht blue eyes shining again at us perpetually. Journey the celebrities candy Sassenach.
Lovingly remembered at all times by her husband, Alastair, her kids Haidee and Deryck (Karmen), her grandchildren Chihiro, Ayely, Oliver, Mairi, her brother John (Lesia) and all her kin in Scotland. Her mom, Daisy handed away in 2008.
Within the spirit of continuous Dale’s ardour for group constructing and in lieu of flowers please take into account donating in her title to both Inclusion Lethbridge, for whom she was an ardent supporter for many years, or the MacLean Household Endowment Fund (with the Group Basis of Lethbridge and Southwestern Alberta) supporting girls and kids’s points.
Dale selected a inexperienced burial and can be laid to relaxation within the grasslands of the Royal View Memorial Cemetery. A non-public gathering of household and mates can be introduced at a later date.
Thanks to Dr. Benke and Tanya and all the workforce on the Jack Ady Most cancers Centre to your attentiveness and care over the past 14 months. Our sincerest gratitude to Dr. Saleh, Dr Plotnyk, Dr. Roth and the quite a few nurses and well being care aides who assisted over the previous couple of months. Bless you.
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