DRESS

Description: SHEER YELLOW DRESS, WITH SHOULDER STRAPS & WIRE LACE "VEST" ALL 1 PIECE. YELLOW ROSE FASTENED AT WAIST. LACE VEST ENDS AT THIGHS. SMALL STAIN NEAR HEM, LEFT SIDE. WIRE "LACE" TORN AT BOTH SHOULDERS. ROSE HAS TASSELS WITH BUDS AND ARTIFICIAL LEAVES. CLOTH AT BOTH UNDERARMS STAINED. SMALL HOLE ON FRONT RIGHT SIDE NEAR WAIST HAS BEEN REPAIRED WITH YELLOW THREAD. SHOULDERS ARE DEGRADING.

History: FORMERLY BELONGED TO JOHANNA DE VALOIS, (DECEASED 1929). IMMIGRATED TO CANADA AND LIVED ON FARM IN BARONS AREA WHERE HER PARENTS HOMESTEADED. SHE WAS ELDEST CHILD IN FAMILY. DONOR COULD PROVIDE NO ADDITIONAL INFO. *UPDATE* IN 2016 COLLECTIONS ASSISTANT RUTHANN LABLANCE CONDUCTED A SURVEY OF CLOTHING, INCLUDING A PAIR OF STOCKINGS DONATED BY MARQUERITE PAULSEN. THE FOLLOWING BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION WAS COMPILED USING ARTICLES FROM THE LETHBRIDGE HERALD. JOHANNA DE VALOIS PASSED AWAY AT THE AGE OF 19 ON MAY 16, 1929, FOLLOWING AN OPERATION AT THE HOSPITAL IN LETHBRIDGE. SHE WAS BORN IN BARONS AND HAD GRADUATED FROM BARONS HIGH SCHOOL. SHE WAS THE DAUGHTER OF ARIE DE VALOIS AND JOHANNA (MAIDEN NAME UNKNOWN) DE VALOIS. ARIE DE VALOIS PASSED AWAY ON MAY 11, 1929. JOHANNA PASSED AWAY AT THE AGE OF 82 ON MARCH 23, 1969. SHE WAS BORN IN THE NETHERLANDS IN 1887 AND MOVED TO BARONS, AB IN APRIL 1911. ARIE AND JOHANNA HAD SEVERAL CHILDREN, INCLUDING: LIEDEWIJ (DIED 1919), JOHANNA (DIED 1929), CORNELIUS (DIED 1963), AND CORNELIA (DIED 1980). CORNELIUS DE VALOIS WAS MARRIED TO INGETTA (NEE KOOLE) IN MAY 1938. HE PASSED AWAY AT THE AGE OF 48 IN FEBRUARY 1963. INGETTA PASSED AWAY AT THE AGE OF 98 ON APRIL 11, 2007. SHE WAS THE DAUGHTER OF LEONARD AND JOHANNA KOOLE (NEE WILLIAMSON). CORNELIUS AND INGETTA ARE THE PARENTS OF THE DONOR, MARQUERITE PAULSEN. SEE PERMANENT FILE FOR COPIES OF THE ARTICLES FROM THE LETHBRIDGE HERALD.