the passing of our mother at the age of 92. Wilma
was born in Vancouver and lived downtown on
Smythe Street until the age of 12 when her family
moved to West Vancouver. She graduated from
West Vancouver High at the age of 17 and
immediately enrolled in teacher training. She loved
teaching and eventually spent over 30 years in the
classroom, mostly in West Vancouver. Wilma
married twice (John Beltz, Harold Wanstall). She will be
missed always by her three children: Gerrie Beltz, Rolf
Beltz and Janet Beltz and by her four grandchildren:
Shaun, Shane, Devin and Amanda Steiner.
We are deeply grateful and sincerely thank the
caregivers who devotedly cared for our mother
during the last 5 years of her life. Their loving care
and attention to all our mother’s needs allowed her
to happily spend her final years in her own home.
Thank you so much Margie, Jeannie, Jean, Caryl
and May. A celebration of her life will be held later
this summer. Please share a memory of Wilma.