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| Bonnie Bates 1955 – 2011 |
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Tuesday, August 12, 2014
Bonnie BATES (1955-2011)
Tuesday, June 18, 2013
Evelyn Irene HANINGTON (1919-2010)
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| Evelyn Irene Hanington 1919 – 2010 |
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Tombstone Tuesday: ALMER, Kenneth & Marie
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| Kenneth and Marie Almer's full grave site. |
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| Kenneth Almer 1930 - 1990 In Loving Memory |
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| Marie Almer Sept 28, 1930 Sept 13, 2007 Gray's Funeral Chapel |
Source: Foxdale Cemetery (Foxdale, R.M. of Shellbrook no. 493, Saskatchewan, Canada; in SW Section 26, Township 51, Range 3, West of the 3rd Meridian), Kenneth Almer and Marie Almer markers, photographed by Alanna Carswell, September 2009.
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Tombstones Tuesday: SMITH, Sidney
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| Sidney Smith 1918 - 2010 Beau "Lac" Funeral Home1 |
The following information comes from Our Harvest of Memories (1983).2
Hubert Sidney Smith was born in England in 1918 to Hubert Sidney and Ethel Mary (Hedges) Smith.
His paternal grandparents were John and Esther (--?--) Smith who immigrated from England to Canada in 1913 with their children Sidney Sr., Nellie, and Elizabeth (with husband Albert Brundson and sons Cyril and Sidney). Esther and John had been proceeded to Canada in 1904 by their children Fred, William, and Louise (Fred Wernham).
Sidney Sr. enlisted in 1914 with the 53rd Battalion of the Canadian Army and was sent overseas in 1915, and meet and married Ethel Hedges in 1916. In 1919 Sidney Sr. returned to Canada with his wife Ethel and son Sidney Jr. All this moving between England and Canada resulted in a development that Sidney Jr. recounts as thus:
"My biggest disappointment came about 1970, when some of those bureaucrats and politicians in Ottawa decided that because we were not born in Canada we were not Canadians. They disregarded the fact that my father had served four years in the Canadian Army and was therefore a Canadian. It seemed ironic to me that I should be awarded the [Canadian] Centennial Medal in 1967 in recognition of valuable service to the nation, then a short time later be informed that I was not a citizen. Needless to say, I received my citizenship papers immediately and now have a certificate to prove it."Sidney Jr. began attending school in1924 at age six and concluded his high school schooling in 1937. On 3 November 1941 Sidney Jr. married Amelia "Millie" Stene with whom he had a son and a daughter.
Sidney Jr. was an active member of the community, serving as the director of the Stugreon Valley Co-op Hall for a number of years, helped form the early snowplow club, served on the R.M. of Shellbrook council for fifteen years, and as of 1983 served thirty-three years on the district and Divisions School Boards.
One thing of note, Sidney himself alternates between writing "Sidney" and "Sydney" and the short nickname "Sid" and "Syd" so it will be interesting to see what version of his name will be written upon his tombstone if one is erected.
Sources:
[1]Holy Trinity Anglican Cemetery (Sturgeon Valley, R.M. of Shellbrook no. 493, Saskatchewan, Canada; in NE Section 16, Township 51, Range 2, West of the 3rd Meridian), Sidney Smith marker, photographed by Alanna Carswell, May 2011.
[2]Coles, Cathy, ed. Our Harvest of Memories: Foxdale, Sturgeon Valley, Silver Cliff, Three Creeks, Rayside, Rich Valley. Shellbrook: Shell River North Book Committee, 1983. pp. 586-589. Print.
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Tombstone Tuesday: BRUCE, George
1916 - 2007
Age [?]
Holy Trinity Anglican Cemetery, Sturgeon Valley, R.M. of Shellbrook No. 394, SK, CAN.
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Tombstone Tuesday: GALE, Laurence
1937 - 1998
Holy Trinity Anglican Cemetery, Sturgeon Valley, R.M. of Shellbrook No. 493, SK, CAN.
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