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Muriel Eileen Folkes

by Legacy News

Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada

Died April 4, 2020

Age 87

Obituary

FOLKES, Muriel Eileen (Meadows): Of Camrose (formerly of Kelowna and Edmonton), passed away on April 4 at the age of 87…

Upon graduation she worked at Brandon’s Bank of Montreal and banking became her career throughout her life. Her husband Gerald Folkes was in the Canadian army and so they lived many places in Canada as well as in Soest, Germany and Mclean, Virginia. Being an army wife, on many occasions, she was a single mom to their three children as Gerry was off on courses or on exotic postings…

Her last trip was to Arizona for Karen’s birthday and celebrated along with Cheryl. It was on her return from this holiday that she contracted COVID-19…

Published in The Daily Courier Penticton Herald

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“Muriel was a great story teller and I wish she had been around to tell me more. I will so miss her smile and outgoing nature. I hope where she is is sunny and bright and full of friends and family that left her behind. Goodbye dear friend, we will miss you.”

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