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FUNERAL SERVICES FOR RETIRED UNITED MINISTER
[Welland Tribune February 12, 1945]
Fonthill, Feb. 12- The funeral of the late Rev. John Clifford McClelland, retired United church minister. was held from his late home in Thorold township on Thursday afternoon.
The service was in charge of the Rev. W.A. Monteith, minister of the Fonthill United church, of which the deceased was a member. Rev. W.E. Long of Port Robinson gave an appropriate address taking his text, “He was a Good Man.” Rev. R.W. Frid of St Catharines, chairman of the Niagara presbytery; Rev,. A.R. Johnston of Merritton, secretary of the Presbytery, and Rev. James Hampson of Fenwick took part in the service. Mrs. S.B. Brush sang, “Abide with me.”
The many lovely floral pieces paid silent tribute to the high esteem in which the deceased was held.
Interment took place in the Fonthill cemetery with two brothers Fred and Harold McClelland, two brothers-in-law, Charles Loney and Ben Burgess, and two sons-in-law, William McDonald and Elliot Thomas as bearers.
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