Wanda (Weber) Jones
May 26,1925 – Oct. 17, 2024

Wanda was born in Magrath, May 26, 1925, to Gladys (Matkin) Harris and Joseph Raymond Harris, and was the third born of seven children.

Wanda met Erich Weber when they both worked at the Michener Centre in Red Deer. She married Erich in 1945 in Red Deer. They moved to Rocky Mountain House and he was the town photographer.

They had three children: Willard Raymond Weber, Cheryl Kathleen Weber and Carrie Layne Weber.

Erich died on Dec. 4, 1961.

She then married Norman Norris Jones on Dec. 5, 1969. They moved to Sherwood Park in 1970 as Norman worked for Calgary Power and was transferred. Wanda hated to leave Rocky. They lived in Lacombe after Norman retired, then moved back to Rocky in 1985.

She is survived by her children: Ray Weber (Marion), Kay Titford (Ross) and Carrie Mashon (Richard); grandchildren: Tad (Shannon), Lee-Ann (Glenn), Bobbi-Jo (Duane), David, Cynthia (David), Rae (Josh) and Cody (Kindra); great-grandchildren: Angela (Dustin), Jessica (Amesh), Torey(Holly), Megan (Craig), Ryley (Katie) Madison, Brittany (Kyle), Wayne, Aila, Lief, Sunny, Astrid, Emily, Kacee, Taylor and Callie; and great-great-grandchildren: Krayten, Anjali, Kieran, Jaxon, Cohen, Nixon, Stella, Mason, Ellie and Lillian.

She is also survived by: sister Olene, niece Susan Csizmadia ( Richard), Harry Csizmadia, numerous nieces, nephews and cousins and long-time friend, Myrna Greer.

Wanda was predeceased by her father and mother; brothers: Darrel, Klane, Kenneth and Fred; sister Ione; her husbands Erich (1961) and Norman (2015); grandson Ward (2014) and Don Farwell (2020); and great-great-granddaughter Emma Leigh Hainstock (2017).

When Wanda was married to Erich, she learned how to colour tint the black and white photographs that he took; she became very good at it. Wanda loved to cook, with all her grandchildren, and she was great at it. Most of all, she loved baking cinnamon buns and parkerhouse rolls. She loved to make chocolates, and we all looked forward to her maraschino cherries and brownie handrolls. She also loved to make cookies. Wanda spent many hours making the most delicious anti-pasto with her granddaughter Bobbi-Jo.

When Wanda and Norman got married, they spent a lot of time in their fifth-wheel, camping and fishing. Her campfire pies were the best of the best! She loved to fish, and loved to read, and loved to pick berries. Making jam and jelly and canning salmon were right up her alley. She also loved to crochet and do needlepoint. They loved to go to Bella Coola when the salmon were running. Funny that when she got older, she didn’t like salmon anymore unless Carrie made her creamed salmon on toast.  

Wanda and her sister Ione spent some time fishing out at Puntzi Lake at Kay and Ross’s cabin. She also enjoyed bowling.  They holidayed with Ray and Marion and boys in Belgium and area and went to see Uncle Klane’s grave in Bergen Op Zoom. They took a great trip to Haida Gwai with Kay and Ross and went on a couple of trips with Richard and Carrie and kids down to Mt. Rushmore and Yellowstone and another to Deadwood, South Dakota. They could never pass up a chance to go to the casino. They went almost every year to the National Finals Rodeo in Las Vegas.
Wanda’s favourite seafood was lobster, and she got her fill on her 80th birthday when Ray and Marion hosted a birthday party for her. She had her first surgery when she was 80 … gall bladder removal.

Wanda and Norman always headed down to Carrie and Richard’s at harvest time to make lunches for the combine crew — and watch the kids when they were younger.

Before leaving Rocky, Wanda and Norman enjoyed their Sunday pedicures by great-granddaughter Megan.

In 2013, they made the move to Hanna and lived in the Acadia Lodge. She blew everyone’s mind on how she could remember and recite poetry, which she loved. Norman eventually had to go to long-term care and Wanda went to visit him every day. As the years went by, her eyesight started to fail and so did her legs and her hearing. She moved to long-term care in February of 2023 and passed away on Oct. 17, 2024.

Carrie asked her a few days before she passed, “What is the first thing you’re going to do when you get to Heaven?” She said, “I think I’d just like to sit and read a book and then I’m going to go find Verna and George and Harry and Clara.”
Wanda spent a lot of time doing volunteer work through the ladies’ auxiliary and Royal Purple. She was always a giver.
She was a loving mother, grandmother, great grandmother, great-great-grandmother, sister, aunt and friend. We find solace that she is in Heaven with the loves of her life.

I love you, a bushel and a peck, a bushel and a peck, and a hug around the neck.

No funeral is planned but a family get-together will be announced in the spring.