Mrs. Alice Gabert, wife of the late Bert Gabert of Lakeside Manor Care Home, formerly Yorkton and the Ebenezer district, passed on Friday, January 13, 2017. She was ninety-one years of age. Alice Gabert (nee Johnson) was born on October 9, 1925 on a farm near Pelly, SK, the daughter of Carl and Ellen (nee Peterson) Johnson. She was the fifth of six children and attended Pine School. She graduated from high school in 1943 during World War II. Because teachers were needed she went for a two week training course in Saskatoon and then out to teach in a one room school in rural Saskatchewan. After seven years teaching she married Bert Gabert on October 11, 1950 at West Ebenezer Baptist Church. She then became a farm wife. The farm was isolated by heavy snow drifts during winter so she homeschooled her son Kenneth through grade six. All her life Alice remained a teacher at heart with a love of children. One of her strengths, as a person and as a teacher, was that she had a good sense of humour. For years she taught a Sunday School class at Central Baptist Church, Yorkton. After her husband Bert died in 1985, she started a job babysitting twin boys for the Jacobs family. Soon she was babysitting three young boys with the same family. Alice remained active with her gardening and riding her bicycle. She only stopped riding her bicycle at age eighty, after she had an accident. She stayed in her own home until 2010. In 2010 she became very sick. After she left the hospital she made her home at the Lakeside Manor Care Home where she resided until her passing on Friday, January 13, 2017. Even in the nursing home Alice continued to teach as she would lead devotions in the home. She continued to care for other people as she would often visit with residents who were bedridden. Alice was predeceased by her husband, Bert; her parents, Carl and Ellen Johnson; her brothers, Clarence (Ellen), Rudolph and Art (Vi), her sisters, Edith (Don) MacPhedran and Mildred (Reuben) Katzberg. Alice is survived by her loving family, her sister-in-law Vi Johnson, her son Ken, her daughter-in-law Jum and her granddaughter Alina, along with numerous nieces and nephews. A special thank you to the workers at Lakeside Manor Care Home who took such good care of Alice during her last years of life. A Memorial Service for the late Alice Gabert, wife of the late Bert Gabert, of Yorkton will be held this summer with interment to follow in the Yorkton City Cemetery. Friends so wishing may make donations in Alice's name to the Health Foundation for use in Lakeside Manor Care Home as gifts of remembrance. Condolences can be sent to the family at .
