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NAOMI DAWDY
Fenwick News
[The Welland Tribune and Telegraph, 17 March 1921]
Naomi Dawdy, beloved wife of Chauncey Dawdy, passed peacefully to rest at her home near the village on Wednesday last. In her sixty-fourth year.
The deceased had been ill with dropsy for several months and her demise was not unexpected.
She had lived in Pelham several years, coming here from Gainboro. In early life she had been actively associated in church work and had been a consistent member of the Methodist Church for many years.
Besides a sorrowing husband, there are left four children, Mrs. Robert Wiley, Mrs. A. Maxwell Rice, and Lewis and Wesley to whom the sympathy of their many friends will be extended in their great loss.
Funeral was held on Saturday, from her late residence to Knox Presbyterian Church, where services were conducted by Rev. J.A. Neill, assisted by Rev. D.A. Ferguson, both of whom spoke in very eulogistic terms of the deceased. Interment in Dawdy’s cemetery.
DEATH OF MRS. CHAUNCEY DAWDY
Many people in the vicinity of Fenwick, were shocked on Wednesday morning March 9th, to learn of the death of their friend, Mrs. Chauncey Dawdy who passed away at the family residence after a rather brief illness.
Mrs. Dawdy leaves to mourn her loss her bereaved husband, Chauncey Dawdy, two sons, Louis Lavern of Hamilton, James Wesley of Great Falls, Montana; three daughters, Mrs. Robert Wiley of Fenwick, Miss Amada Sarah of Toronto, and Mrs. Max Rice of Thornhill, Ont.
The funeral service which took place on Saturday, March 12th, at 2 p.m. at the residence, thence to Fenwick Presbyterian Church, were conducted by the Rev. J.A. Neill, who was ably assisted by the Rev. D.A. Ferguson and the Fenwick Methodist and Presbyterian choirs. Interment at Dawdy’s cemetery.
Mrs. Dawdy was born in Gainsboro Township 64 years ago on the 28th day of March, and has spent about 10 years of her life in Pelham Township where through her daily walk in life, had arranged a wide circle of friends. The pallbearers who so ably assisted in a respectful manner were Henry Berry, Archie Beamer, C.U. Reece, E.W. Farr, Mr. Kline and Merelle Sitrtzinger.
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