McCann family to hold memorial service

A memorial service will be held next weekend for an elderly St. Albert, Alta., couple who went missing a year ago while on vacation.

The family of Lyle and Marie McCann will hold a prayer service on Saturday, the date that would have been the couple's 59th wedding anniversary.

Their son Brett McCann said he has accepted that his parents are probably dead.

"I've been so focused, not just me but my whole family, has been so focused on that," he said. "But I felt today that it was depressing today — not that depressing is the right word, but it really started to hit home."

 He said he still wants to know what happened to his mother and father.

"It gnaws at you all the time," he said. "What could have happened to my parents? We need to know.

"We meet regularly with the police. In fact, tomorrow [Monday] we're having another update session with them."

McCann is convinced someone out there knows what happened to his parents.

The family has put up a reward for information on the case.

The McCann family published an obituary for the couple last week in the St. Albert Gazette, the newspaper in the couple's hometown.

Lyle and Marie McCann disappeared July 3, 2010, after leaving St. Albert in their motorhome on a roadtrip to Abbotsford, B.C. Their burned-out vehicle was found in woods near Edson, Alta., two days later.