Alberta Grace Malcolm
December 15, 1915 - April 5, 2014
As published in the April 21, 2014 World-Spectator
Alberta Grace Malcolm (Birdie) passed away peacefully on April 5, 2014 at the age of 98, at the longterm care home in Moosomin where she had lived since February 7, 2012.
Birdie was born to Robert I. and Rannie Donaldson on the family farm in Hamona-Oak Knoll School District 10 miles from Rocanville on December 15, 1915. She started school at eight years of age at Oak Knoll driving four miles by horse.
The family moved to Perth School District when she was 15. She wrote her Grade 8 exam in Rocanville and continued other subjects by correspondence.
Both school houses held church services, so at Oak Knoll in 1936 she accepted the Lord as her Savior. She attended Bible college at Winnipeg from 1938 to 1939. She later graduated from the Church of God Bible College at Moose Jaw and Outram near Estevan January 1947-48. She did some preaching at Carrot River from 1949 to 1951. She was very involved at the Pentecostal Church in Rocanville, working in Sunday School and Women’s Ministries.
Birdie married George L. Malcolm October 23, 1961 and they resided on the valley farm until December 1977.
George passed away August 5, 1988. They had moved to Rocanville where she lived until 2007. When she no longer could manage her home she lived in Country Retirement Suites in Moosomin from April 2007 until July 2011. When it closed, she moved to Aspen Grove Home in Grenfell until her health forced another move back to Moosomin.
She is survived by one sister, Beryle Donaldson of Moosomin, and sisters-in-law Vera Donaldson of Moosomin and Anne Donaldson of Fairview, Alberta. She will be remembered by many nephews and nieces as well as by her church family.
She is predeceased by husband George Malcolm; her parents Robert and Rannie Donaldson; her brothers baby John Donaldson, Donald Donaldson, Murray Donaldson, and Gordon Donaldson; her sister Ruth Coghill; sister-in-law Elaine Donaldson; and brothers-in-law Charlie Donaldson and John Coghill.
The funeral service was held at Carscadden’s Funeral Chapel April 8, 2014 with Rev. Calvin McDonald officiating. The pallbearers were Wayne Donaldson, Joe St. Onge, Dennis Danielson, Larry Ashe, Aldyn King and George Gawryluk.
Thanks go to organist Margaret Maki, Marilyn Fahlman for sharing memories of Birdie, John Moffat for the scripture reading, Bud and Phyllis King for singing a duet, and Lorna Pringle for the poem reading.
Interment took place at Sunset Memorial Gardens and was followed by a lovely lunch served by the Rocanville Pentecostal ladies.
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