Pioneer Lodge resident Ellisabeth Pfeffel celebrated her 100th birthday Friday at Pioneer Lodge with friends including Emil Wettstein.
Fort Macleod’s Elisabeth Pfeffel celebrated a milestone birthday last week at Pioneer Lodge.
Elisabeth, who born in Germany and came to Canada in 1953, celebrated her 100th birthday on Friday with friends and family at Pioneer Lodge.
Elisabeth and her husband Hans and daughter Gisela (Kellner) immigrated to Canada in 1953. Hans had been a prisoner of war in Alberta and had the opportunity to work for a farm family in Magrath. That farm family that sponsored us in coming to Canada, where they welcomed two more children, Irene and Hans, to the family.
The Pfeffels started a dry cleaning and clothing business in Magrath and within a decade were well-established and added a coin laundry to the business.
In 1968 they moved to Coaldale where they continued dry cleaning, alterations and selling men’s clothing. In Coaldale they added a new venture, selling women’s clothing. Hans was a tailor by trade and did all the alterations for free.
Now living at Pioneer Lodge in Fort Macleod, Elisabeth is a healthy and active senior citizen.
Two years ago, Elisabeth turned her daily walks into a fund-raiser in support of her senior neighbours. Elisabeth raised $5,000 — twice her original goal — in her own individual walk-a-thon in support of senior entertainment at the lodge.
