October 29, 1933 – February 07, 2022

It is with a heavy heart that we announce the passing of our beloved mother Beverley.

Our Mother was born and raised in Calgary where she married and raised five children. In 1980 Bev moved to Kamloops with her two youngest children and remained until her passing.

Mom was very fond of the mountains and lakes around Kamloops. She enjoyed camping and boating and in her later years travelling. She enjoyed the Caribbean as one of her favorite destinations areas.

Beverley followed in her father’s footsteps and became a passionate gardener. There were numerous hours she would spend watering and tending to her plants and flowers. Mom was known for her incredible gardens with many people admiring and complimenting her on the beauty she would create. One of her favorite things about gardening was the hummingbirds and butterflies that would come to visit her while tending her plants.

Our mother would often share stories with us when she was a young girl. They most often included mom and her twin sister riding their horse they shared over the prairies and around there neighborhood called Grand Trunk, often with their young sister in tow. She always found it exhilarating to race across the open prairie with her black horse beneath her. She kept her fondness of horses with her for the duration of her life.

Survived by her sisters Barbara (twin sister), Lois and brother Don. Her children; Jeff (Nari), Greg, Colleen, Garry (Mary), Susan (Mike). Grandchildren; Jessica, Amy and Mia, Caitlin, Mitch and Jamie, Timothy and Tana. And several great grandchildren.

Bev was pre deceased by her mother’s Doris, Ethyl, and her father Robert. Her brother Yorke and baby sister Norma, Gary (divorced), Agusta (wife of Greg)

A celebration of life will be held in Calgary later this spring.

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Our uncle Gene passed away on Dec 22 2021 in Overlander Care Home. Eugene was born in Barrhead, Alberta on May 28, 1928. He had
5 older siblings; Gayle, Barney (Ww2 VET), Gilbert (Ww2 VET), Larry, and Earl nickname (Swede).

He left home at age 14, working on farms and construction sites all over Alberta and B.C.

He met and married his wife Thelma in Alberta, they worked together building houses in Calgary for years until moving to Kamloops and opening their own construction company.

During their life together they enjoyed trophy hunting with their cougar hounds, rebuilding antique cars, his favorite being a Stanley Steamer.
He later worked for the City of Kamloops assisting with the building of the water treatment plant and the sewer system.

In later years he gave up his guns for a camera and found great joy in shooting photographs many of which he loved to paint when he took up
oil painting. He spent much of his retirement, after the passing of our aunt Thelma in 1994, fly fishing, ice fishing, camping, and tending his garden.

Many friends will remember sitting in the basement of his home drinking beer and tying flies and telling fish stories.

Many thanks to the Doctors and Nurses at the Royal Inland Hospital where he was before being transferred to the Overlander Care
Home where he received kind care until he passed. Thank you to
everyone working at Overland you are truly Angels.

No service is planned but perhaps a fishing trip to his favorite
Howard Lake.

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Growing up in Spain is the reason José loved the ocean and started working at the very young age of 14 on fishing boats and for that reason explains his favourite show is: Deadliest Catch. José went off to the Spanish Navy at the age of 19. When he returned, he started working on cargo ships, which led him to travel the world. One of José’s ships took port on Vancouver Island that’s when he fell in love with not only Canada but BC. José than started a lengthy career in the lumber industry. Besides his love of soccer, José soon fell in love with hockey.

José is survived by his caring ex-wife and friend: Carmen Insua (Kamloops), children: John (Michelle) Insua (Kamloops), Maria (Rick) Morgan (Kamloops), grandsons: Justin Insua Wouters (Kelowna),
Steven Insua (Kamloops), Dawson Morgan (Kamloops), brothers: Mannuel Insua (Spain), Francisco Insua (Spain), sister: Juana Insua (Spain), plus many nieces, nephews and cousins from Spain.

Predeceased by his mom: Manuela Martinez, father: José Insua,
son: Jaime Insua, and grandson: Jess Bray.

José passed away January 24, 2022 at the Royal Inland Hospital in Kamloops. He will be missed dearly by his family and friends,

especially for his crazy Spanish jokes that made no sense in English
and when he broke out in a Spanish tune.

A memorial service will be held at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church
on Saturday, March 5^th at 1:00pm.

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Daryl lost her battle with cancer on February 2nd, passing peacefully in her sleep surrounded by family and friends.

She was predeceased by her parents (Ruth, Clare), and her aunt (Lea). Daryl leaves behind to mourn: her husband of 50 years, Glenn; her brother Derek (Maureen); 3 children Cameron (Jamie), Kirstie and Joel (Kate); her stepson Paul (Lori) and stepdaughter Shelley; and her 5 grandchildren that she loved deeply: Elliot, Casey, Karolina, Pashabel and Manqoba. She has enriched everyone with her playfulness, love and kindness.

Daryl taught in Kamloops from 1969 until she retired in 2002. She has worked as an English teacher, a counselor, and an administrator but her real love was counseling. She saw people as individuals and she was able to find the good buried inside everyone. The world is surely better for all the broken spirits she has mended.

After retirement, Daryl went to China, to teach at universities in Beijing and Shanghai. The Chinese students loved her for her warmth and kindness and there was much sadness when she returned to Kamloops in 2008. She has continued with some of these friendships until her death.

China reignited her passion for travel and foreign cultures, a passion that has led to extended jaunts with friends and family literally all over the globe. Wherever she landed, she would leave behind a little piece of herself.

Wherever she was, she always found opportunities to lift spirits and ease burdens. Often on a crowded subway she would offer to help someone struggling with heavy bags, or she’d play peek-a-boo with a crying baby on an airplane and transform tears to smiles.

She was a loving force in our lives, one that bonded family and friends, and she will be dearly missed.

A celebration of life will be held at a later date when restrictions to gatherings will be rescinded.

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It is with a heavy heart we announce the death of Francois (Frank) Dupre on January 31st 2022, in Kamloops BC.

Frank fought a difficult battle with cancer for a few years before it took him at 81 years of age.

He was a good man. Kind and generous to a fault, and a heart full of good intentions.

Frank was born in Montreal May 21, 1940, and grew up with 5 Brothers and 3 sisters. Times were tough at that time with most families growing up poor.

After Frank made it through school he began working as a plumber at a large Hospital in Montreal. There he met and fell in love with Louise, who became his wife. They had one child, Daniel.

Frank eventually became a Pipe Fitter – Steam Fitter. He then began wanting to travel towards western Canada to follow the work. To Ontario, then to Alberta, and then to BC, where he liked it so much in Kamloops, that it became the family’s home in 1970.

Frank was a long time member of UA Local 170. He worked many industrial job plants/sites in BC and Alberta including Fort McMurray.

Frank enjoyed the outdoors and went fishing and camping and spending hours gardening. He was also very dedicated to his faith. Frank is pre deceased by his mother and father, 3 brothers, 1 sister, and his only grand son Justin.

Frank was a good father, and will be sadly missed by his family, his friends and those who knew him.

A special thank you from the family goes out to ALL the Health Care workers involved in his care from Home Care nurses to the Cancer Clinic doctors, and to the Kamloops Hospice. Thank you for your service and care.

For those wishing, a donation to the Canadian Cancer Society instead of flowers would be kind.

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