Ruth Elizabeth (Gibson) Melle(July 21, 1923 - May 20, 2007)A memorial page for a Canadian Mom by her son Gregory
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| Ruth Elizabeth Melle (The Later Years) | ||
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Ruth loved to swim and hike. She would walk up Grouse Mountain from the Lonsdale Streetcar to go skiing.
She met my father, Milton Melle, when he arrived here in uniform at the end of WWII.
My father was from Montreal but he had spent some early childhood years in Vancouver and out west is where he wanted to stay. Ruth lived with her children in Vancouver and North Vancouver.
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But what a survivor she was! This was a woman who had Multiple Sclerosis for half her life; she had heart problems and eventually a stroke in early 2006. She last drove a car more than 20 years ago but made up for it by exploring most of Richmond and downtown Langley on her electric scooter. She was a lifelong believer in the pleasures of cigarettes and plenty of coffee. She enjoyed reading and loved crossword puzzles, scrabble and solitaire. Some of my earliest memories involve sitting with my mother as she nursed her coffee and cigarette and watched the sun rise over Mount Baker. She loved getting her hands deep into garden dirt and thought nothing was more beautiful than a baby's freshly powdered bottom. She knew that planting seeds and applying some fish fertilizer – the smellier the better – would eventually lead to some wonderful blooming flowers. In the same spirit, I invite you all to ignore the crap that life brings to us all and appreciate life's rays of sunshine when they do come your way. | ||
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