26 - Sunday, January 24. 1999 - North Shore News
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Still Crafting with love at 80

“KEEP active and you
won’t feel age creeping
up on you.”

Practising what she preach-
es, Chrissie He:bson has an
interesting life successfully
interwoven with the usual and
not-so- usual activities. From
her butchershop days to
decoupage heirlooms and her
annual pwo-month snowbird
flights, Chrissie welcomes cach
new day.

Asa child and young adult,
she fondly remembers her par-
ents taking her and her two
sisters on camping, trips to
Waterlow Lakes, Alberta. In
the evenings the girls would

“watch” at the Jitney Dances.
A dance cost 10 cents. Music
was provided by a live dance
band called Mark Kenny and
His Western Gentlemen.

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meaning. She enjoved her new
role as mother, and her life
suddenly filled with all sorts of
interesting things.

Since Vern was one of the
founding members of the
North Shore Winter Club,
they were involved in the
club’s activities. Chrissie curled
for 20 years at the winter club
and for eight years bowled
with the CKNW Orphans’
Fund Team.

ceramics and doll-making.

process of building a paper
frame for a photograph one

NEWS photo Julle ‘verson

ASIDE from her many interests, Chrissie Hobson has
always found time for handicrafts like decoupage,

snowbird at their home in the

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time, both the dancers and the
watchers,” recalls Chrissie.

Educated in Lethbridge,
Alberta, her birthplace,
Chrissie enjoyed being on the
high-school council, She start-
ed her working years as cashier
in the coffee shop of the CPR
Horel.

Chrissie married Vern in
1944 and moved to Red Deer,
Alberta, then back to
Lethbridge where she helped
her dad in his butcher shop for
five years while Vern was over-
seas in the RCAF, She nor
only “did” the books, and
learned how to make sausages
and ground meat, but made
deliveries by truck.

“That part was sometimes
hard, because in winter the
streets were icy, and the dri-

- ving was tough,” Chrissie says.
“But I always made iv.”

After the war, in 1947,
“Chrissie and Vern came to the
coast and settled in North
Vancouver. Their son was born

’ ~ and Chrissie’s life took on new

young and the fathers were
busy, Chrissie became involved
with the Cubs organization
and joined another woman in
assisting the Akcla (leader) at
the Capilano Hall. During
these years, the three Hobsons
spent their holidays at
Lethbridge and LaCombe,
Alberta.

Energy and desire pro-
pelled Chrissie to excel as a
home-maker, a great cook and
hostess. Before Vern retired
from his job as a construction
supervisor for Kelly Douglas,
Chrissie did a lot of gardening
in addition to her other activi-
ties, but always found time for
her hobbies.

Their clegant home is a
reflection of her artistic and
creative mind and exhibits
exquisite pieces of her works
such as porcelain dolls, vases,
figurines, bowls, lamps, plant
pots, birds and animals.

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made candles, then moved
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gold leaf, before settling into Enjoy.
working with ceramics. One of

her decoupage favourites is a
phcto of her parents.

Now a grandma, Chrissie
has not slowed down much.
She still does a splendid job at
running their spacious and
comfortable home, entertain-
ing friends and hosting the
occasional party. When need-
ed, Chrissie lends a hand at
her daughrer-in-law’s shop,
Among Friends. in Lynn
Valley Centre.

Chrissie enjoys watching
baseball and football on TV

-and is always eager to join her

friends in the clubhouse at
Fraser Downs to do some bet-
ting: “I love to watch those
horses run —~ and sometimes
I’m lucky.”

As Chrissie sees it, she’s
been “extremely lucky to have
such a wonderful husband and
a great family.”

She turns a young 80 in
February and will celebrate the
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