This website was created for our loved one, Alma: wife, mother, grandmother, aunt, cousin, friend, and teacher. Mom passed peacefully away on April 11th at St Michaels in Lethbridge. Dawn and Mary were privileged to share in that experience. We thought this site provided the best format for us to share our thoughts and our feelings about Mom..
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Children of Alma Davies (Mary, Dale, Dan, Kathy, Dawn)
Funeral Information
Funeral Service: April 18th at 11am
Magrath Stake Center: 21 E 1st Ave S, Magrath, Alberta T0K 1J0
Interment: April 18th at 2:30pm, Cardston Cemetery
Friends may meet with the Family on Wednesday evening, April 17th from 7:00 - 8:00pm or Thursday morning, April 18th from 9:30 - 10:30am.
An audio recording of the service is available in the gallery section of this site.
DAVIES Alma Thursday, 18 April 2013 14:50
ALMA MAE ARLENE (EAGLESON) DAVIES of Magrath, Alberta, departed this life on April 11, 2013 in Lethbridge, Alberta. With patience, faith and dignity she spent her seventy fifth year fighting a debilitating cancer. She leaves to celebrate her wonderful memory, all who knew her: five children, Carol “Dawn”, Kathy, Daniel Jr (Alice), Dale and Mary; and nine grandchildren, Chris, James, Hanna, Sophia Ahmed; Miles, Becca, Cadence Davies; Marcia (David) Samonds and John Hansen; sons, daughters, brothers and sisters (in-law); and friends. Beyond, she now reunites with her dear husband, Daniel, her mother and father Marcia and Robert Eagleson, her beloved older brother Wilbur, her stepfather Clyde Shields and friends and family.
Alma was exceptional and passionate in her life as daughter, sister, wife, aunt, mother, grandmother, student and teacher. She grew up on her father’s farm in Warner, Alberta, loving nature, the animals and the flowers. Alma became an accomplished pianist studying with her much honored teacher, Beatrice Foster, of Lethbridge. She attended the University of Alberta where she was accompanist for the choir. During a school break, Dan Davies, from Hillspring, asked her to play the piano for him to sing in church. They fell in love and Dan proposed at the piano on Christmas Eve 1957. They married in June 1958 and made their home in Bow Island, then Lethbridge, and later moved their family to Magrath. Alma loved music and shared this passion with her husband who had a beautiful tenor voice. Together they performed for many weddings, funerals and other events at the request of friends and family. Just before her death, Alma received a certificate of recognition from the Alberta Registered Teachers’ Association for forty-five years of membership. She has touched the lives of hundreds of piano students. Despite life's challenges, including her disabled son, whom she devotedly cared for as long as she was physically able, Alma loved life and the people in her life.
Friends may meet the family at Magrath Stake Center, Magrath, Alberta on Wednesday, April 17th, 2013, from 7:00 to 8:00 p.m. or from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. prior to the Service Alma will be remembered and honored on Thursday, April 18th, 2013 at 11:00 am at the Magrath LDS Stake Center: 21 E 1st Ave S, Magrath, Alberta. Alma’s body will be laid to rest beside her husband, Dan, at 2:30pm on April 18th in the Cardston Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations can be made to the Lethbridge and Cardston Music festivals towards scholarship funds in Alma's name. Friends are welcome to visit the families memorial site for Alma Davies at www.forevermissed.com. E-mail your condolences to:
legacyfh@telus.net
Funeral arrangements entrusted to Berry Gorham of Legacy. Legacy Funeral Homes Ltd. P.O. Box 208 Cardston, Alberta T0K 0K0 Phone (403) 653-3222 Fax (403) 653-3677
legacyfh@telus.net
Death is nothing at all
Death is nothing at all
I have only slipped away into the next room
I am I and you are you
Whatever we were to each other
That we are still
Call me by my own familiar name
Speak to me in the easy way you always used
Put no difference into your tone
Wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow
Laugh as we always laughed
At the little jokes we always enjoyed together
Play, smile, think of me, pray for me
Let my name be ever the household word that it always was
Let it be spoken without effort
Without the ghost of a shadow in it
Life means all that it ever was
There is absolute unbroken continuity
What is death but a negligible accident?
Why should I be out of mind
Because I am out of sight?
I am waiting for you for an interval
Somewhere very near
Just around the corner
All is well.
Nothing is past; nothing is lost
One brief moment and all will be as it was before
How we shall laugh at the trouble of parting when we meet again!
Canon Henry Scott-Holland, Canon of St Paul's Cathedral (1847 - 1918)
Sister Davies was a key influence in my life! Through her mentoring and tutelage, I developed a love for music, and the piano specifically, that has blessed my life and others hundreds of times over. She sacrificed many early mornings to teach and train and support me. She taught me discipline and focus and skill. She encouraged me and gave me the confidence to practice well and perform well. And then she wisely let Dale sit on that piano bench by my side for hours upon hours of lessons. What I didn't realize then was that my skill and ability came from Sister Davies' efforts to teach and train, and my ability to feel and interpret music came from Dale's companionship on that bench. He felt the music deep down inside and his innate ability to do so rubbed off a little on me. Every time I play the piano I give credit to both, for both were an equal necessity in my learning and development. Both have continued and will continue to mentor and influence me through the lessons learned on that piano bench, lessons that were not always just theory and technique.
And then the lessons continued when despite distance and time, Sister Davies further encouraged and supported me through my missionary service. I had countless opportunities to share my music on my mission, and her influence has extended across the world as a result.
To the Davies family, thank you for sharing both Sister Davies and Dale with me. I know that all the hours she spent teaching and mentoring were hours that pulled her away from family and Church, but those hours and those efforts and their influence was not wasted on me. I will be forever indebted to both. Thank you!!
Last summer, Mom went to Waterton with her family a few times. Each year we usually drive up there for a day. Mom always would tell us that each summer, when she was a young girl, their family, especially her MOM and a girl friend would come up and stay for a few weeks while the men were working on the farm. Her dad built this house.
