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FUNERALS – MRS WALTER F. BOOKER
[Welland Tribune January 20, 1947]
The funeral of the late Maria Violet Booker, wife of Walter F. Booker, Killaly street, Port Colborne whose death occurred at Welland County General hospital on Wednesday in her 57th year, was held Saturday afternoon from the Dell and Merton funeral chapel, Clarence street, Port Colborne, to Oakwood cemetery. Rev. H.G.L. Baugh conducted the service.
The Ladies; Auxiliary of the Port Colborne and Humberstone branch of the Canadian Legion attended the service in a body and in charge of Mrs. Richard Bryan, past president, conducted the auxiliary service. They formed a guard of honor and placed poppies on the casket at the cemetery.
The pallbearers were deceased’s six sons, Arthur E. Booker, Toronto, and Walter F. Jr., William G., George E., Ronald L., and Harry H. Booker, all of Port Colborne.
Among the floral tributes were those of Post No. 4, Canadian Legion Ladies’ Auxiliary; the neighbors; “C” Shift cutters, Inco; Co-workers of Terminal Warehouse, Toronto; employes of bridges and shipping floor No. 5 building, Inco; mastic department, electro-nickel refinery, Inco; boys of the Hydro staff, Stonecliff; staff of No.5 building, Inco; boys of C shift, No. 5 building, Inco, and McMorran’s store.
Friends and relatives attended from Toronto, Hamilton, Welland and Ridgeway.
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