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BAY YIELDS BOY’S BODY TO FIREMEN
Youthful Victim of Drowning Yesterday Will be Buried on Friday Afternoon
[Welland Tribune December 29, 1943]
Port Colborne firemen in charge of Acting Chief Claude Culp recovered the body of Harold Bruce Christie, 12-year-old son of Mr and Mrs Thomas Christie, 227 Ash Street, Port Colborne, from the waters of the bay near the breakwall about 3 o’clock yesterday afternoon.
Firemen pushed a boat across the ice to the place where the boy had skated through the thin ice and dragged only a short time before recovering the body, which was removed to the Dell and Merton funeral home, 50 Clarence street.
Young Christie had been skating with other boys on the ice of the bay yesterday morning when he skated out too far onto thin ice and went through the ice about 10.30 a.m.
Coroner Dr. E.A. Mackenzie said this morning that no inquest would be held.
Harold Bruce Christie was born in Welland and had resided in Port Colborne for the past eight years. He was a pupil of Grade Seven, Steele Street public school and of First Presbyterian Sunday school. He was a member of Third Port Colborne Troop of Boy Scouts and an athlete of ability having been a member of bantam baseball champions of the Recreation club league last season and a member of a Lions league bantam hockey team. He was one of Jack Taylor’s troup of acrobats.
Surviving are his parents, Mr and Mrs Thomas Christie and two brothers, Richard, 17 and Wilfred, 14, 227 Ash street his grandparents, Mr and Mrs David Christie of Belfast, Ireland, and Richard Haynes of Kingston.
The funeral will be held from the Dell and Merton funeral chapel, 50 Clarence street, Port Colborne, on Friday, Dec. 31 at 2 p.m., Rev. G.H. Knighton and Rev. R.T. Rutherdale, conducting the service. Interment will be in Oakwood cemetery.
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