Tofield Lodge residents look back in wonder
Tofield Lodge resident Mary Brown is 99 years old, and John Cooper will be turn 90 on Wednesday, July 31.
Both Brown and Cooper discussed what life was like before they started residing at the Lodge, and the many friendships and laughs they have had after.
“I have been a resident at the lodge for about 15 years,” said Brown on Friday, July 12. “Before that I lived in the old hospital apartments.”
However, Brown did not grow up in the Tofield area. She explained that for the first seven years of her life she lived on a farm.
Brown recalled that her family moved to the south end of Calgary in 1927.
“I lived in Calgary for many years,” Brown said. “Then I lived in Okanagan for a few years after that. I was very used to city life before I came to Tofield.” . . .
Cooper, another Lodge resident reminisced, “Some of my most cherished memories are those that I have spent with my wife.
“We had been married for 60 years before she passed away.”
Cooper had met his wife Elsie when she was 14 years old.
However, according to Cooper they did not marry until after he had returned from fighting in the Second World War (WWII).
“I told my wife that I was not going to get married until I came back home from fighting,” Cooper recalled. “So she waited for me to return from the war and as soon as I came home we got married!” . . . contd.
