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Persönliche Daten Bèrénice Marguerite Marie HOSTYN 

• Sie ist geboren am 7. September 1931 in Lamoureux, Alberta, Canada.

  Bèrénice Marguerite Marie HOSTYN was born on 7 Sep 1931 in Lamoureux, Alberta. Bèrénice was only three months old when her Grandfather Tremblay was ill and on his deathbed. Her mother, Aurelia, took her to the ailing man and helped her form a sign of the cross on his head saying that he had been blessed by a little angel and could now die in peace. He died soon after.
  
  Bèrénice was born only 3 years after Emily Murphy and other women were victorious in having women declared "persons" before the law.
  She was educated between 1936 and 1947 in Lamoureux, Alberta. Went school to school in the St. Claire School District until Grade 8. Much of her earlier education was in French. She was an eager student and worked by the dim light of her coal oil lamp. She loved to read and was often found in some corner with a novel that she managed to acquire somehow. "She usually disappeared when there were dishes to wash", according to her sister Eva.
  
  Her first year in school, she was dressed up as a witch with a broom and took her little black cat with her. The costume was sewn by her talented mother. She paraded for the school's Halloween party and won the first prize.
  
  As a child, Bèrénice was nicknamed "une guenille" (an old rag) by her sister Eva because she wore old boys clothing. She was somewhat offended by the label and it made her even more determined to wear what she pleased.
  
  From a story written by Bèrénice. "I've been partial to Guardian Angels for many years. I think I began when I was a child. I remember a time when I was about 8 years old when Dad and the boys were digging a new well. All this was done by rope and bucket in those days. As the new well was dug the old well was filled with the dirt brought up in the bucket. When the old well was full it was packed. We, my siblings & I thought it would be fun to run and jump in the hole which wasn't quite full to the top. Dad told us we had better quit this because it really wasn't safe, in case the old well would cave in or air pockets were formed. Meanwhile water was finally reached in the new well and everyone turned to look at the water seeping in. Well I had to have one last jump in the that old well. I ran and jumped one more time and just as Dad had predicted my one leg went through the hard packed cover. I remember it being really cold and damp. I managed to get out but was scared mostly of Dad's reaction so I never yelled or said anything. I kind of crept away. The boys turned and saw the hole in the old well, but thought it had just caved in on its own accord. Dad said "Just as I feared!" To this day no one knew that it was I who had almost went to the bottom of that old well. Now you why I'm partial to Guardian Angels".
  
  Bèrénice and her sister Lorraine were inseparable throughout their childhood. Everywhere one went the other would follow. After chores one sister would inevitably be calling for the other so they could head off to find the mischiefs of young girls. Their elder sister Eva would keep an eye on the girls as surrogate for their mother. Bèrénice and Lorraine found great pleasure in completing their assigned chores quickly and then escaping out of the kitchen window, through the ash pile behind the house and along the trail that lead into the bushes beyond before Eva could assign them more work. They took pleasure in the fact that Eva never discovered their escape route.
  
  They also spent time playing in the hay loft, swinging from an old rope that hung from the rafters. They were told not to play on the rope but did of course. During one episode, the girls were playing and Lorraines foot got stuck in the rope and fell. She screamed as she hung from the rope. Her screams were heard across the field by her father who ran a quarter of a mile to find the two girls safe. Angry at the two he scolded them and forbid them to play with such danger again.
  
  Bèrénice and her siblings used to look forward to listening to the Saturday afternoon serials on the radio such as the Green Hornet and The Shadow starring Brett Morris. The radio was battery powered and would last for about 90 minutes before needing to be recharged. Grandma (Marie Drolet) Tremblay lived with the family at this time and insisted on listening to her French program first. Afterward the children could have access to the radio. The would usually enjoy one entire serial and then half way through the second, Gang Busters, the batteries would fail and the children would be disappointed yet again as the missed the conclusion of the program.
  
  At the age of 13, her and her sister Lorraine (age 9) were expected to help their recently widowed grandma Hostyn (Eva Langhausen) with chores. Each evening, they would travel on horseback to grandma's to do her chores. They would then spend the night with her and then travel home in the morning to do chores their. Each night the girls would have to crawl upstairs to their beds, making their way past the place where grandpa Hostyn laid in state after his death. They were so spooked by the experience they would scamper up the stairs in terror and jump into bed. Lorraine was coerced by Bèrénice to turn out the coal oil lamp. Lorraine would dart out of bed and make a well planned attempt to turn out the light. If she failed, Bèrénice would have to do it herself. One evening they decided to merely turn the light on low to save oil as a recourse to spending the night in the dark. Grandma Hostyn discovered the light on and scolded the girls for being wasteful, unaware of their fears. The light was then extinguished by Grandma.
  
  Bèrénice loved horseback riding. According to Lorraine, "She always found a way to get the race horse, Trixy, leaving me with the stubby and pokey workhorse called Dick."
  
  Bèrénice sang with her two sisters Eva, Lorraine. Together they would copy words to songs sang on the radio. They would take turns write down a line from the song sung on the radio until they had captured the songs entire lyrics on paper. Sometimes they would have to listen several times. Some of their favorites included, "Beautiful Brown Eyes", "Crying in the Rain" and "Danny Boy".
  
  She was educated between 1947 and 1950 in Lamoureux, Alberta. Bèrénice took grades 9, 10 and 11 through correspondence. At this time she had aspirations in becoming a teacher. In 1951 she was a meat market hand at Lupel's Market in Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta. After school, Bèrénice and her sister, Lorraine began to date, marry and have children at roughly the same time.
  Between Jan 1952 and 1968 she was a housewife. When her children were young the household was run very efficiently. Every child had their assigned chores to help out but as for Bèrénice herself, clothes were washed in the ringer washer and hung to dry on the line on Monday and Tuesday, bread was baked on Wednesday, miscellaneous activities were completed on Thursday, groceries were bought on Friday, floors were waxed on Saturday and the week was completed on Sunday with church in the morning and a large meal of chicken, mashed potatoes, gravy and vegetables in the evening. During the summer, Bèrénice tended a garden; in the fall she canned fruit for the winter; in the early winter she shopped for Christmas presents; in the spring she did her yearly cleaning of walls and cupboards.
  
  In about 1959 while still living on the Deshoux farm, Bèrénice, realized the only way to overcome the isolation and save the children's lives if need be (they would swing from the rafters in the barn and drop to the hay below) was to learn how to drive. Getting a few preliminaries from her husband ("This is a car. This is the steering wheel. This is the brake. This is the gas. Now go."), she proceeded to learn how to drive. This was not an easy task. She had six children at the time, one of which was a baby. Undaunted, she would load the children into the car (she didn't want to back over any one of them) and drive through the fields to gain experience. Six small children in the car at one time was a good test of what driving with the Schuster family would be like in the future. David recalls his mother parallel parking using the space between two granaries or at other times, a couple of barrels.
  
  Raising her family was difficult and she found very little personal time in such a busy household. As the children matured, Bèrénice began to find moments of time for herself. When this occurred, she would bury her nose in a good novel as she had as a young girl. She was living in Apr 1953 in Westlock, Alberta. Bèrénice followed Ken to Westlock with her son David and her daughter Shirley-Anne on the way. Between 1968 and 1970 she was a babysitter in Westlock, Alberta. She took care of the Victor girls: Carmen, Jackie and Becky while their mother taught school. Andrew and Betty were at home still at this time as well. Between 1970 and 1992 she was a Nurses Attendant at Westlock Nursing Home in Westlock, Alberta. Bèrénice completed her certification as a registered attendant in 1986.
  She died on 16 Feb 2002 in Westlock, Alberta. She owned holiday trailer bet 1970 to 1989. Bèrénice and Lorraine continued their strong relationship throughout life. They even spent many summer's together at Meadow Lake Provincial Park in Saskatchewan (mostly Pierce Lake) with their families. There was only one interruption in the relationship during the family turmoils that resulted when their brother Billy mishandled the execution of their father's will, squandering the funds and misrepresenting himself to the family. The damage was repaired after time was allowed to mend their differences and they reestablished a new relationship that was founded more on a partnership and less upon older sister and younger sister. She was named after Marie Marguerite Tremblay, her godmother and aunt. Children and family were always important to Bèrénice. She had a large family like her mother and is a proud mother of 9 children and grandmother of 20 as of 1997. A good deal of her time has been spent buying food, presents and clothes for her many offspring.
  
  Bèrénice played with drawing throughout her years and took up painting in her late 50's. She completed several scenic pieces that she gave to her daughters. She is a crossword wizard and loves to tackle the daily puzzle in the Edmonton Journal. She confers with her sisters Lorraine and Eva on the tougher puzzles.
  
  Bèrénice was always recognized for athletic ability. As a girl, she was part of the successful Gibbon's Girl Baseball Team when she would generally played first base. Bèrénice loved to bowl, curl and play baseball. She bowled in the Westlock Bowling League from 1969 to 1985. She got the high game score of 334 in 1982 to 1983. She curled in numerous bon spiels from 1972 to 1975 and participated in Woman's Hose Laying competitions as part of the Westlock Volunteer Fire Department.
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• Beruf: Nurses Attendant at Westlock Nursing Home.
• Sie ist verstorben am 16. Februar 2002 in Westlock, Alberta, Canada, sie war 70 Jahre alt.
• Ein Kind von William Nicholas HOSTYN und Marie Aurélia TREMBLAY

Familie von Bèrénice Marguerite Marie HOSTYN

Sie ist verheiratet mit Kenneth Paul Anthony SCHUSTER.

Sie haben geheiratet am 27. Dezember 1951 in Lamoureux, Alberta, Canada, sie war 20 Jahre alt.

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