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Holgate, Myrtle Alice

  • Personne
  • 1893-1977

Myrtle Alice Windsor was born on May 28, 1893 at Oak Lake, the daughter of Bidwell Windsor and Lily Sarles. She was educated at Marsh Hill School and Stirling High School. Myrtle was organist at Carmel United Church, west of Stirling, for two years. She was married to Charles Arthur Holgate on December 29, 1915 in Sidney, Hastings County. They set up a grist and saw mill in Cannifton in 1921, selling it in 1953. In 1962 Mrs. Holgate became a charter member of the United Church Women. She died on November 11, 1977.

Duffy, Angus Bennett

  • Personne
  • 1914-1998

Angus Bennett Duffy was born on July 12, 1914, in Chipman, New Brunswick, the son of Ernest Duffy and Mary D'Aigle. He went to Trenton, Ontario soon after the First World War began. He was educated in Trenton at St. Peter's School and Trenton High School. At the age of 16, he joined the non-permanent active Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment. He enlisted on September 2, 1939 as Company Sergeant Major with Hasty P permanent force, proceeding to England in December of 1939. He was discharged in 1945. Angus Duffy married Helena Bell. He operated Duffy's City Service Station on Front Street from 1946 to 1963. In 1946 he was elected as a Belleville Council alderman. In 1962 he became Emergency Measures Organization (E.M.O.) co-ordinator for Hastings and Prince Edward County. Twenty years later, Angus Duffy was appointed a member of the order of Canada. He died on October 25, 1998 in Belleville. He was buried with full military honours.

Wright, Cynthia Jane

  • Personne
  • 1903-1995

Cynthia Jane Cunningham was born in Ameliasburgh Township on March 1, 1903, the daughter of George Cunningham and Cynthia Pierson. She married Harold Alfred Wright and they lived in Belleville. She was a member of Eastern Star #55. She died on January 12, 1995.

McKenna, Marjorie Gertrude

  • Personne
  • 1900-1994

Marjorie Gertrude McKenna was born in March of 1900 in Trenton, the daughter of David and Nellie C. Bunnett. She married James Albert McKenna on October 4, 1916 in Belleville, Hastings County. She worked at Glanmore on a part-time basis in kitchen preparation. She was a member of St. Thomas Church, and died on January 30, 1994.

Smith, F. Arthur

  • Personne
  • ca. 1900-ca.1990

Canon F. Arthur Smith was in the Canadian Army Chaplain Corps for six years during the Second World War. His first parish as rector had been in Roslin, Ontario. He and his wife, Marjorie, and their children moved to Belleville when he was rector of St. Thomas' Anglican Church during the years 1945 to 1953. He was then appointed rector of Christ Church Deer Park in Toronto from 1953 to 1967. Canon Smith and his wife lived in Oakville, Ontario for his retirement.

Braidwood, Jack W.

  • Personne
  • 1898-1984

Jack Braidwood was born in St. Petersburg, Russia in 1898, the son of a British engineer. During the First World War his duties included that of Russian translator aboard a Royal Navy aircraft carrier. Following the war, he emigrated to Canada and began building boats in Toronto. He was an avid yachtsman and sailed around the world. In the Second World War, Jack trained as a bomb demolition expert and commanded a high-speed submarine chaser used for coastal command. He married Gwendolyn Lazier of Belleville. They retired to the Quinte area in 1965. In 1975 he established the Jack Braidwood Trophy Race held annually on the Bay of Quinte. He died in 1984.

Derry, Hedley Vicker

  • Personne
  • 1893-1975

Hedley Vicker Derry was born on September 12, 1893 in Bancroft, Hastings County, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Willis Derry. He married Bessie Blanche Statia on May 28, 1921 in Trenton. They moved to Trenton in 1930. Mr. Derry worked as a carpenter. He was a member of Grace United Church teaching Sunday School there and becoming Sunday School superintendent. Hedley Vicker died on March 7, 1975 in Belleville.

Freeman, Gustave Albert

  • Personne
  • 1898-1977

Gustave Albert Freeman was born in Aurora, Illinois on January 30, 1898, the son of Mr. and Mrs. John Freeman. He established the Canadian branch of the Stephens-Adamson Division (conveying equipment) of Allis-Chalmers Canada Ltd. He married Mildred Jean Roblin on June 5, 1930. Mr. Freeman was a member of the Rotary Club and Belleville Club. He was a director of the Belleville Chamber of Commerce and the Canadian Chamber of Commerce. He was a member of St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church. He died on February 19, 1977.

Hurst, Phyllis Louise

  • Personne
  • 1909-1985

Phyllis Louise Hurst was born on March 1, 1909 in Belleville, the daughter of Charles Frederick Wallbridge and Ella Emily Lewis. She graduated from St. Hilda's College, University of Toronto, in the faculty of household science in 1930 and worked at Montreal General Hospital as a dietician. She married William Nugent Hurst on September 15, 1936. After the Second World War Mr. and Mrs. Hurst lived in Tweed for five years, returning to Belleville for twenty-five years after retiring in Wellington in 1973. Phyllis Hurst was a member of St. Thomas Anglican Church in Belleville. She played the organ at the St. Paul's mission church in Belleville for many years. A member of an association of classical musicians, the Presto Music Club, she also worked occasionally as a supply teacher at BCI. Phyllis Hurst died on May 18, 1985, at Wellington.

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