GOULD – Born August 3, 1912, at Manor, SK, to Oliver Robert and Sarah Elizabeth Hindmarch, Stan had five brothers, Clarence (Slim), Cliff, Lloyd, Roy, and Frank and one sister, Dorothy. Stan’s mother died in 1919, and Stan and his brother, Frank, went to live with their grandma, which had a profound impact on Stan’s life. Stan and Uncle Frank lived there for four years, then went back to live with their family when Grandpa marries Daisy Maylin in 1924. Daisy died in 1926 after producing two children, daughter Glenn (who died as a wee baby0 and son Garth who was subsequently adopted by a relative and went to live in Eastern Canada. Grandpa’s third wife, Hazel Maxwell Reid, bore him one girl, Mary (Midge), and four boys, Arthur, Ewart, Lorne (Max), and John. Stan left home when he was 18 and rode the rails for a few years in the “Dirty 30’s.” While working for the Malchows, he was smitten with his future wife, Ruth. Shortly, thereafter, he went to work in the Sheridan Cooper Mines near Flin Flon, MB. After working for only a short time, he broke his wrist at work and came back to Cantuar to marry Ruth on December, 3, 1938, at the First United Church in Swift Current. The two of them went back to Flin Flon and began their married life together where their son Garland was born in 1939. Early in his mining career in 1938, Stan was unable to go to work and the man who worked for him was killed down in the mine. Stan always said that every day since that day in 1938 was a bonus day in his life…and he had 61 years of bonus days! In 1941, Stan and Ruth moved back to the Cantuar district and took up residence on the Pat Balff farm west of Cantuar. In 1944, they bought a half section of land from Mrs. Honsey and moved to the white house on the hill. Ruth and Stan said the only sure crops they had in those years were kids – Wayne in 1944, Bob in 1948, and Anne in 1953. A seemingly hopeless yet continuous thirst for a water well was quenched when they discovered a highly productive well in the flat below the house and buildings on top of the hill, and subsequently built a new house there in 1964, where they lived until they moved to Swift Current in 1981. Even after moving to Swift Current, they made many, many new friends. They took up bowling, and Stan played horseshoes almost every day in spring, summer, and fall, becoming a formidable opponent. They spent countless hours playing cards with friends, and their house was always open to everyone for a coffee visit. In 2001, following Ruth’s stroke, Stan moved to a house on the south side closer to the Palliser Regional Care Centre and, after Ruth passed away in 2003, Stan (at the tender age of 92!) bought and moved into another house at the north end of third avenue northeast. He lived there until failing health caused him to move to Riverview Estates on December 9, 2008, where he lived until March. On March 17, he had surgery then a subsequent stroke on March 30 that debilitated him and kept him in the hospital until he passed away peacefully on May 29, 2009. Stan is survived by his sons, Garland (Joanne), Wayne, Bob (Bea); daughter, Anne Ford; grandchildren; great grandchildren; great great grandchildren; half-brothers, Lorne and John; and half-sister, Midge. He was predeceased by his wife, Ruth (April 2003); daughter-in-law, Jean (December 2003); son-in-law, Terry (April 2008); father, Oliver (1951); mother, Elizabeth (1919); brothers, Clarence (Slim), Cliff, Lloyd, Roy, Frank, sister, Dorothy; half-brothers, Ewart and Art; and an infant granddaughter.