LEHR, Alma (nee Frank) Alma Lehr (Frank) was born May 5, 1918 in Balko, Oklahoma, USA, and passed away peacefully at Burnaby General Hospital in her 94th year Nov 30, 2012. At the age of 3 her family moved to Valparaiso, Saskatchewan, where her father and mother, Gus and Marie Frank began to farm. They resided on the family farm a number of years until Clarence, the youngest, took over the farm. Alma met Albert Lehr in the Graburn district of southeastern Alberta on the farm of her cousin, Menno Frank and Alberts' sister, Frieda Frank. She married Albert Lehr on November 26, 1943 in Tisdale, Saskatchewan and then became part of the family business, Lehrs' Hardware in Walsh, Alberta.The hardware store was closed out in 1969 when they moved first to Kelowna, BC and then to Burnaby, BC were she resided until her passing. She was predeceased by her parents, brothers Slim (Irene) and Clarence (Clara), her husband Albert, May 9, 2002 and one son Dale, November 7, 2011. She is survived by her
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