Obituaries

It is with great sadness we announce the passing of Ina Bernice Campbell, with family by her side. Ina was born July 4, 1932 in Grand Forks, BC to Harold and Nellie Liness. At a young age the family moved to Nelson where she grew up learning to bake and sew. She was active in playing ball (breaking a few windows in the school...

May 19, 1929 – May 28, 2020 It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Arnold (Art) Broster on May 28, 2020 at the age of 91, at Mountain Lakes Seniors Community in Nelson BC. Arnold was born in Elko BC at his grandmother’s house on May 19, 1929. He was second oldest of 13 children. After graduating from Fernie...

Joyce Marie Jupp (Butlin) 1920-2020 Joyce Marie Jupp (Butlin) passed away on May 19, 2020.  She had just celebrated her 100th birthday on April 12 of this year. Joyce was born in St. Albans, England and came as a young child with her parents to Canada.  They lived in Fort Steele before moving to Nakusp in 1928 and then to New...

Kathleen Violet Rutherglen (Nee Stanley) February 14, 1924 –May 15, 2020 The Rutherglen family announces with great sadness the death of their beloved mother and grandmother- Kathleen (Bunty). She left us peacefully May 15 at the age of 96. Kathleen was born on February 14, 1924 in Sheffield, England to Rowland and Catharine...

SEPTEMBER 9, 1930 – MAY 1, 2020 James Ernest Donaldson passed away peacefully in his sleep on May 1, 2020 at Mountain Lake Seniors Community, Nelson, BC at the age of 89. Jim was born in Nelson on September 9, 1930 to James Herbert (Bert) and Mona (nee Harlow) Donaldson.  Tragically Mona passed away of tuberculosis when Jim...

  Bert was born March 6, 1930, to parents Leicester and Elsie Longden, in their family home at the top of Cherry Street, Nelson, BC. He passed away Saturday, April 25, 2020, at age 90 at Mountain Lakes Seniors residence. He attended Central School and as a young man worked at a variety of jobs including CP Rail worker, farmhand...

Howard Gremm, also known as Howie, passed away on March, 16th 2020. Howard was a man of many things, many people in Nelson might have recently known him as the taxi-cab driver who talked about smiling yoga and radical forgiveness, others might remember the funny guy who made creative hats out of paper bags. Those who knew him...

It is with sadness that we announce the passing of Douglas Gloeckner Simmonds on April 19, 2020 in Nelson, BC. Doug was born on a small farm near Semans, SK on October 16, 1927. He joined the RCMP in 1946 and retired 27 years later. He loved the RCMP; it took him up north to Aklavik, NWT and then down south to High River, AB....

Walz, James (Walzy) passed away peacefully at his home on April 24, 2020 with his wife by his side. Jim was born October 25, 1945 in Unity, Saskatchewan. He was raised in Montrose, BC and worked for CPR, Cominco (Teck) in Trail, as well as several locations around the province at dam sites and mill shutdowns including up in...

Max passed away suddenly on March 17th in Nelson, BC, leaving a big hole in our lives. He was a teacher, artist, social activist, philosopher and unpaid comedian. He will be greatly missed by his sisters Marilyn (David) Butts of Calgary, JoAnn Shaw of Toronto, Lorraine (Ken) Jack of Lethbridge, Pamela (Dave) Supina of Lethbridge...