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<div itemprop="description">Andrews, Isobel Delphine (Dunlop). Born in 1924 in Cranbrook, BC. Passed away on October 11, 2013 at the age of 89. Isobel grew up in Cranbrook during the Great Depression. She graduated from high school in the summer of '42. After a year at the University of British Columbia, Isobel returned to Cranbrook and soon enrolled in the nurse-in-training program at St. Eugene's Hospital. She loved to tell stories about her nursing days in small town BC. Her patients ranged from new mothers and children with polio to veterans of WWI, the recently wounded of WWII and the aging gold prospectors of the Trail of '98. Isobel married her husband Stewart, an airforce veteran of WWII, in the summer of 1949. Stewart became a mining engineer, a profession that caused the couple to move from town to town many times with the boom and bust of mining ventures. They lived in Princeton, Allenby, Grand Forks, Hope, Timmins, Saskatoon, Vancouver, and finally Richmond BC. The couple had five children. Sadly, Isobel lost her husband to cancer in 1989, just two years after his retirement. In the years following Isobel would return to UBC to finish the degree that she had started 5 decades earlier, graduating in the spring of 1996, at the age of 72. Throughout her life Isobel maintained contact with a wide range of friends she had made, during her childhood, her nursing days, her years in mining towns, her charity work with the CNIB, UNICEF and Friends of the Richmond Library, as well as students and teachers she had met at university. She will be greatly missed by many. Isobel is predeceased by her husband Stewart and her oldest child Connie. She is lovingly survived by her four children Cathy (Jean-Marie) Nef, John Andrews , Sue (Kevin) Andrews, and Jamie Andrews, as well as her two grandchildren Isabelle Nef and Daniel Nef. A special thanks are due to the staff of Rosewood Manor who cared for her so well in her final years. A funeral service will be held at Richmond Funeral Home at 1:30 p.m. on Friday, October 18th.</div>