DEATH OF P.C.A. MCNAMARA
[Welland Tribune January 6, 1947]
Provincial Constable Almer Charles McNamara died early this morning in the Niagara Peninsula Sanatorium in his 38th year, after a five months’ illness.
A popular member of the local detachment of provincial police since the fall of 1939, Constable McNamara was a fair and efficient police officer, and his courtesy and affability won him many friends throughout the district he served.
Constable McNamara was born in East Toronto, and lived there until he joined the provincial police in 1939.
He is survived by his widow, Catherine Shaughnessy, and four children, Charles, Joan, Michael and Paul. Also surviving are two sisters, Mrs. H.J. Lawrence and Mrs. H. Rose of Toronto.
The funeral will be held from the H.L. Cudney funeral chapel, 241 West Main street, on Wednesday, January 8, at 8.30 a.m., to St Mary’s church for requiem mass at 9 o’clock. Interment will be in St Francis De Salle cemetery, Pickering.
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