THIRD GENERATION

20. Mineatta Margaret BLANCHER was born on Jan 16 1915 in Ingersoll, Ontario, Canada. She died on Apr 10 2007 in Vulcan, Alberta, Canada. She has reference number 1922. She was buried in Highwood Cemetery, Alberta, Canada.

1. " In Loving Memory
of
Mineatta Margaret Jorstad
Born at Ingersoll, Ontario January 16th, 1915
Passed away at Vulcan, Alberta April 10th, 2007

Celebration of LIfe
Snodgrass Funeral Home, High River
Friday, April 20th, 2007 at 1:30 p.m.

Music (recorded)
The Jorstad Orchestra

Eulogy
Gene Rowland

Private Family Interment Service
Highwood Cemetery

Noth eer dies that is not born anew
the miracles of nature all tell us this is true.
The flowers sleeping peacefully beneath the winter's snow
awaken to the sunshine's warmth when spring winds start to blow.
And all around on every side new life and joy appear
to tell us nothing ever dies and we should have no fear;
for death is just a detour along like's wending way.

Helen Steiner Rice

Those wishing to remember Mineatta with a
memorial donation may consider the
Alzheimer's Society of Canada,
20 Eglinton Avenue W., Suite 1200,
Toronto, Ontario M4R 1K8" - Funeral program supplied by Sadie Blancher

2. "Mineatta was born number 12 of 14 children in Ingersoll, Ontario. She was the last of that family and only one sister-in-law who lives in Kamloops, remains of that generation.
Gary Blancher and family in Pincher Creek and Ray Gardiner from Sterling are the second generation nephews living in Alberta. Of course there are many, many nephews and neices and great and great-great-nephews and nieces in Ontario, as you would expect from a fmaily so large.
Also surviving are Mineatta's nieces by marriafe, but her passing means that the Jorstad name will also disappear since Clara, Gloria and Leona all married.
There was a difference of about twenty years between the oldest and youngest children of the Blancher family, so many of Mineatta's nephews and nieces weren't much ytounger than she. But they were all let behind when, as a girl of 17, she came to Nanton where she married Walter Dumper and later, where their only child, Maxine was born.
Beginning in the later 1930's Mineatta became housekeeper for Jimmy Green who farmed west of Nanton until his death in 1950. There Sears family to the east and the Horneckers to the west became good friends - especially Annabel and Maxine. Mineatta called Annabel her second daughter.
Ath that time schoolhouse dances were a great form of entertainment and very often the music was supplised by the Jorstads. Children attended the dances along with their parents and babiescould be found sleeping on a table in the cloakroom with sandwiches and chocolate cake on another tabke nearby. Thus began the association with the Jorstad family.
After Jimmy Green's death Mineatta and Maxine mived unto Nanton and lived in a suite over Armstrong's store. Mineatta worked as a waitress in the Auditorium Hotel Cafe. It was hard work, but quite recently she told Maxine that she had like working there.
In 1954 mother and daughter moved to Calgary where Mineatta worked first as Rosedale Cleaners and later at Dollar Cleaners. This was the first time she had ever rideen a city bus and she used to complain about the strong perfume on some of her fellow passengers.
Clara and Maxine had become fast friends as girls, and visits between Jimmy's farm and Sever and Muriel's was a common occurence. As the years passed, both Clara and Mxine married, but remained friends. Then finally, after knowing one another for many years, romance blossomed between Mineatta and Elmer. They were married in 1971 at Sever and Muriel's house on the farm.
Having married into the Jorstad clan, Mineatta now really got a chance to indulge in her love of music and being with people. Practices at their little house across the street from the old school in High River were great frun for her. Then in 1973 she became instumental in establishing the Old Time Dances held at the Memorial Centre and she and Elmer ran the dances for several years.
In the 1980's Mineatta organized a singing group which entertained, along with the orchestra lef by Elmer and his violin, and often with Clara on the piano. The Medicine Tree Manor here in High River, the Silver Willow in Nanton, facilities in Parkland, Claresholm and Longview were all place where they took their music. Clara and Mazine were sometimes called on to sing. as you'' hear on the tapes plaiyng in the background.
Mineatta put many hourse into gathering the wrods to the songs - particularly the old ones - to create a song book for these sing-outs.
As well as music, she also loved nature.- flowers and animals, drives in the countryside - and in her younger days, she also loved to cook. Her specialties were firied chicken and any kind of pie. However, her pies were not always the success she anticipated.
For instance --- when Maxine and Elsie Alderice became roomates, it was an occasion for an invitation to supper and Mineatta prepared fried chicken and all the trimmings, and for dessert, banana cream pie with whipped cream - wonderful right?
Wonderful expect that Elsie absolutely hated bananas! How embarrassing! After that first supper together whenever Elsie was present, dessert was always her favourite - rhubarb pie!
When Elmer passed away in 1990, Mineatta moved into an apartment in High River. She missed him terribly, as they had been inseparable. However, when summer came in 1991, she bought a car smaller than the big old Mercury that Emler had loved and she began to drive again, often picking up friends to go for lunch.
As her arthritis became more of a problem and she needed a cane and then a walker, she moved to the Manor here in High River where there were lots of epople to visit and play cards with. Then, in Fall of 2003 when it was apparent that she needed more care, she moved to the Extendicare facility in Vulcan.
The care she received in Vulcan was expectional! The staff there - from the management, RN's, caregives and kitchen staff, right down to and including the maintenance man, all treated her with love.
So we say goodbye .... etc. (Gene used his own words here.)
As we go through life, we all leave footprints. Among the footprints left by Mineatta is her daughter Mazine who lovingly and patiently looked after her mother to the end.
As mentioned earlier, Mineatta was the last person with the Jorstad name in this area.
This name will be remember by the good old-time music so generously shared with so many.
Goodbye Jorstad era!
Goodbye Mineatta!" - Eulogy read by Gene Rowland, supplied by Sadie Blancher.

She was married to Walter Henry DUMPER (son of George DUMPER) on Mar 8 1933 in Nanton, Alberta, Canada. Walter Henry DUMPER was born on Feb 25 1894 in Owslebury, Hampshire, England. He died on Apr 28 1975 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He has reference number 1923. He was buried in Nanton, Alberta, Canada.

1. "Walter Dumper came to Nanton from Hampshire, England in 1911. He first worked for R.W. Robinson southwest of town. He attended the fist Calgary Stampede in 1912. He then went to Swift Current, Saskatchewan where he joined the army in the fall of 1915. He served overseas with the 28th Battalion reinforcement returning in 1919 to Woodstock, Ontario. In 1922 he came to Nanton and made his home here. in 1932 he married Mineatta Blancher, whose mother had come west from Ingersoll, Ontario. They had one daughter, Maxine." - Mosquito Creek Roundup, Nanton, Alberta Mineatta Margaret BLANCHER and Walter Henry DUMPER had the following children:

child104 i. Maxine DUMPER has reference number 1924.

She was married to Elmer JORSTAD on Apr 8 1961. Elmer JORSTAD has reference number 1925.

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