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DEATHS – WILLIAM DAVID ROSS
[Welland Tribune February 21, 1947]
Relatives and friends in the city have received word of the passing at his home in Midland of William David Ross, son of the late William Ross of Guelph, and a cousin of Mrs. G.R.T. Sawle of Frazer street. He was a nephew of the late David Ross of Ross street, Welland and he was himself a prominent merchant in Midland.
He died last night immediately following the annual meeting of the Midland Chamber of Commerce from which he had just resigned following many years as director. He was in Midland manager of the large department store which bore his name and had lived in Midland for more than 30 years. Deceased’s widow, Mrs Julia Helen Thompson Ross survives, and other surviving relatives are three children, Thompson Ross of Fort William; Donald of Owen Sound and Helen, Mrs. S. Hodgetts of Port Hope and a brother Midford Ross of Vancouver, B.C.
The late W.D. Ross was born at Morrison near Guelph 68 years ago was educated in Guelph and came to Welland in 1898 to take a position in the Ross Dry Goods Store, operated by his uncle the late David Ross. He operated a dry goods store himself at premises now occupied by the Reilly and Reilly shoe store on East Main, but in 1910 he went to Bracebridge. Four years later he went into the dry goods business in Midland. There he was chairman of the board of health, a director of St Andrew’s hospital board of governors and a member of the Midland Board of Education; also of the executive of the Y.M.C.A. For years he was a … of St Marks Anglican church.
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