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[Welland Tribune Januar 18, 1945]
Greavette-At her late residence, 20 McAlpine avenue north, Welland, on Wednesday morning January 17, 1945, Myrtle Amanda, beloved wife of George Greavette and mother of Marion and Ronnie, in her 42nd year. Funeral arrangements will be completed later.
DEATHS – MRS GEORGE GREAVETTE
The death of Myrtle Amanda Greavette, wife of George Greavette, took place at her home, 20 McAlpine avenue north, on Wednesday morning in her 42nd year. Born in Midland, the late Mrs Greavette resided in Toronto for 10 years, before moving to Temagami, where she also lived for 10 years. Mr and Mrs Greavette have resided in Welland for the past four years.
Surviving are her husband, George Greavette; one daughter, Marion (Mrs Gordon Shaw); a son Donald at home; a grandson, Gordon Shaw; three sisters, Mrs Arden Wilson of Fort William and Mrs K Pearson and Mrs George Nicholas of Toronto, and four brothers, George,William,Albert and Dalton Holt, all of Fort William.
The funeral will be held from the Sutherland-Thorpe funeral home, 152 Hellems avenue, on Saturday afternoon, January 20th, at two p.m. to the Church of England cemetery, Smith street for interment.
[Welland Tribune January 16, 1945]
In ill health for a number of years and seriously ill for the past few weeks, Mrs David Morgan died Sunday at her home, 14 Myrtle avenue, in her 52nd year. The former Gladys Mae Harris of Port Talbot, South Wales, Mrs Morgan came to Canada and Welland 18 years ago. She was a member of First Baptist church, and also of the Welland Welsh Society.
Surviving are her husband, David Morgan; one son, Gwyn of Fort Erie; one sister, Mrs J. Isherwood of Welland, and three brothers, Sydney, Levi and Tudor, all in South Wales.
The funeral will take place from her late residence, 14 Myrtle avenue, on Wednesday, January 17, at two p.m. Interment will be in Fonthill cemetery.
FUNERALS
MRS DAVID MORGAN
Many friends and relatives, including a number from out-of-town points, were present yesterday at funeral services for the late Gladys May Morgan, wife of David Morgan, who died at her home, 14 Myrtle avenue, on Sunday. Services were held at the late residence with Rev. S.R. Weaver of the First Baptist church, assisted by Rev Lloyd Evans, conducting the service. A favorite welsh hymn, “Pen Park” was rendered by David Thomas.
Interment was in fonthill cemetery. The pallbearers were D. Cronshaw, E.Sage, A. Isherwood, D. Thomas, W.J. Thomas and E. Glanfield.
By David Len Blazetich
From the personal files of his grandfather George ‘Udy” Blazetich
My father saved many of the articles DOWN MEMORY LANE printed in the Welland Tribune from the files of George Blazetich and I would like to share a couple of them. No dates were saved.
Captain and former Police Chief of Welland and Crowland Harry Jones. In the 1920’ served as police chief in Welland and 10 years in Crowland Township and later as police chief in Timmins. He was a charter member and founder of the Great War Veterans Association of Welland later Branch 4 Royal Canadian Legion and founder of the Sons of England Lodge. He was a member of All Saints Anglican Church, Welland A.F. and A.M. he was a captain of the 2nd Dragoons 57 Field regiment and was a commander of C squadron. He was very popular with the children of Crowland and originated an annual picnic to Nickel Beach in Port Colborne. He obtained use of the land owned by Pere Marquette railway and set up Crowland’s first playground. With the aid of Reverend H. G. Forster and parish priest Charles Barron, pastor of Sts. Peter and Paul Parish, swings, teeters and other playground equipment was installed. Later a wading pool was made available on the present site of No. 2 fire hall and provision was made for skating in the winter.
Captain Jones retired in 1946 and resided with his niece Mrs. Art Jones, at Welland Junction. He passed away March 3, 1964 at the age of 89.
Branch 4 of the Canadian legion held a memorial service under the direction of Vice-president Wm. Haig and Leonard Wintle. At the cemetery the last post was sounded by bugler Allan Crichton. Pallbearers were all members of the Legion, James Green, Alfred Cope, Dan McIntyre, Maurice Dolan, Robert Russell and Fred Battle.
Hal Rogers, 96, helped found Kinsmen Club
[Welland Tribune, September 1994]
Hal Rogers was a founder of the Kinsmen Club and received the highest honors at home and abroad.
Former Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, who was himself a member of the Kinsmen Club, once said Mr. Roger’s life work had been to serve Canada and he knew of no one who had done more to mobilize young people in the service of their country.
Mr. Rogers, who died Thursday (15 September 1994) at the age of 96, was made both an Officer of the Order of Canada and of the British Empire.
Considered a visionary, Mr. Rogers gathered three other young men and they started the Kinsmen Club, which has spread to 600 Canadian communities and has become the largest all-Canadian service club.
He was 21 years old, working for his father’s plumbing firm in Hamilton when he decided to start his own club after being refused membership in the Rotary Club. The Rotary, to which his father belonged, had a policy that refused membership to two people from the same firm.
Since the first meeting in 1920, Kinsmen and Kinettes have donated the equivalent of about $1 Billion in work and funds for the betterment of lives at home and abroad.
During World War II, the Kinsmen national war services committee raised millions of dollars to by powdered milk and provide food parcels for Britain. Mr. Rogers was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in recognition of his leadership and the club’s war efforts.
Mr. Rogers was born in London, Ont., and had a Grade 8 education. He started work at 12, delivering parcels.
In 1916 when he was 17, he enlisted with the Argyle and Sutherland Highlanders and was sent to France, where he served in the trenches for two years. He was gassed at Passchendaele in Belgium and then, in 1918, he was wounded at Amiens and was sent to England to recover.
After working with his father in Hamilton, Mr. Rogers moved to Toronto and took a job with Age Publications, which printed a plumbing trade magazine.
By 1933, in the worst of the Depression, when Mr. Rogers had become the company’s general manager, his employer ordered him to cut the wages of all the workers by 15 per cent.
At the same time, his boss said he had just bought a rowboat, canoe, motorboat and sailboat for his summer cottage and he told Mr. Rogers to pay for them out of company funds.
That was too much for Mr. Rogers. He refused to cut the salaries and was immediately fired, although his boss offered to help him find another job.
Mr. Rogers loved to tell the story of how, when he refused the offer of help, his employer asked him what he was going to do. “Go into opposition to you,” he replied.
He issued a trade directory and later came out with other publications to serve the plumbing trade. When he tried to start a magazine to serve the growing telephone industry in Ontario, he found there were 800 privately owned telephone networks in the province.
He started out to co-ordinate the directories and ended up in the business, becoming chairman of the Ontario Telephone Authority and president of the Madawaska Telephone Company and of Canadian Telephone Rentals, Ltd.
Mr. Rogers was chairman of the Forest Hill Village Board of Education from 1944 to 1951. He was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1978.
More than a year ago, Mr. Rogers went into the veterans’ wing of Sunnybrook Health Science Centre, where he died. His wife Elspeth died in 1981.
He leaves his son, Hal, of Santa Barbara, Calif., his daughter Diane of Toronto, three grandsons Glenn, Steven and Scott, and a great grand-daughter. The funeral will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Timothy Eaton Memorial Church on St. Clair Ave. W., followed by a private burial.
AROUND AND ABOUT
Author: Joe Barkovich
Photographer: Dave Hanuschuk
[Date Unknown]
WELLAND-John Aceti has clipped his last customer.
The well-known West Main Street barber has retired, but he’s not happy about it.
Aceti says he decided to take his doctor’s advice to slow down a bit. He says he was just too tired to go to work anymore-even though going to work just meant walking through his house and into his shop-they’re in the same building.
But hey, it is understandable that he’s too tired to work; John Aceti is 81 years old.
He’s cut hair here for about 50 years and before that, for a few years in Toronto.
He says a lot of his clientele who were boys when they started coming to him stayed with him all these years.
“I watched a lot of the guys grow up,” he says.
The affable haircutter got his first job at an East Main Street shop in the basement of a building which was adjacent to the old Park Theatre. A few years later, he bought an established barbershop on West Main, changed its name to John’s Barber Shop and has been there ever since. That was in 1947.
The price of a haircut back then was 75 cents. When John decided to call it quits, he was charging customers $6-not much considering some of the prices for a haircut these days.
“I own my own building,” he says. “I didn’t have to pay rent so I didn’t charge my customers too much.”
He wishes he was back cutting hair.
He misses the people and is touched that they still miss him. He’s been getting phone calls and cards and letters from many of them, wishing him well.
Every so often, he goes into his barbershop and thinks back to the old days. John Aceti says he wishes he could turn back the clock to when the brushcut reigned supreme to when barbers used styptic pencils a lot more than they do today; to when a barber’s service charges listed things like singles, 25 cents; hair tonic, from 25 cents; and razor honing, 75 cents. He wishes he could turn back the clock to when he was younger. Ah….those were the days.
[Welland Tribune January 2, 1947]
The funeral of the late Frederick Boyd, who died at his home, 32 Myrtle avenue, on Sunday, December 29, in his 75th year, was held from the Sutherland-Thorpe funeral home, 152 Hellems avenue to the Church of England cemetery on Smith street, on Tuesday afternoon. Rev. A.H. Davis, rector of Holy Trinity church officiated. There was a large attendance of Free Masons, and of Legionnaires. The casket bearers were members of Cope-Stone Masonic Lodge, and members of Welland Canadian Legion. Members of the Legion formed a guard of honor at the cemetery, and they deposited poppies upon the casket. The guard of honor was under direction of Legionnaire Harry Oakes.
The casket bearers were Brethren W.J. Thomas, W. Rowe and Harold Headington representing the Free Masons of Welland and Legionnaires Arthur Hanson, Herbert Walker and A.G. Tulk from Welland Canadian Legion.
The Last Post and the Reveille were sounded.
[Welland Tribune January 3, 1947]
The funeral of the late Mabel Ann McCaffery, widow of the late William McCaffery, whose death occurred on December 29 in her 69th year, was held Thursday morning from the late residence, 156 Fares street, Port Colborne, to St Teresa’s Church, where mass was sung by Rev. B.P. Malone. Interment was in Mount Joseph cemetery.
The pallbearers were Fred Beck, Clarence Beck, George Kelly, George hall, Reeve James P. Greenn and Frank Godak.
Among the floral tributes was one from the employes of Humberstone Shoe Co. Ltd.
Friends and relatives attended from Youngstown, O., Mayville, Dunkirk and Buffalo, N.Y. Welland and Montreal.
[Welland Tribune December 24, 1943]
William T. O’Reilly Loses Life in Canal Lock, Humberstone
William T. O’Reilly, 63.of 213 West Main street, a Welland canal maintenance employe, was drowned in the unwatered lock eight of the Welland Ship canal at Humberstone about 4 o’clock yesterday afternoon when he broke through ice over an equalizing pool in the lock’s bottom and fell into the seven feet of icy water in the well-like opening. O’Reilly’s body became wedged in ice caked at the bottom of the pool and it was some 35 minutes before fellow workmen of the canal could recover the body.
The mishap occurred as O’Reilly was fastening a rope to a cable as the winter repairs got under way on the lock, unwatered following the close of navigation last Saturday. O’Reilly was on the lock floor which was covered with ice. He apparently did not notice that he was walking from the ice-covered cement floor onto the inch of ice which covered the pool at the north end and his weight broke the ice and he plunged into the pool, some seven feet deep and leading to a tunnel under the lock.
Inhalator Used
Workmen rushed to his assistance, but had difficulty in locating the body at the bottom of the pool and freeing it. Port Colborne firemen, under Acting Chief Claude Culp and Assistant Chief Walter Diamond, answered a call and worked with an inhalator for an hour after the body was recovered at 4.35 p.m. but their efforts were futile.
Coroner Dr. G. N. Black was called and said that O’Reilly was dead when removed from icy water of the pool. The body was removed to the J.J. Wichmann funeral parlors, Main street, Humberstone.
Constable Frank Kelly of Humberstone and coroner Dr. Black investigated the mishap. Coroner Black is conferring with Crown Attorney H.W. Macoomb, K.C., today regarding the holding of an inquest.
Born in Ottawa
The late Mr. O’Reilly was born in Ottawa, coming to Welland 24 years ago. He had been employed in the maintenance department of the Welland ship canal since that time.
He is survived by his wife, Loretta; one son, Jack, of Welland; six daughters, Mrs Augustus Fox (Beatrice) of Buffalo; Mrs W. O’Reilly (Eva) of Ottawa; Mrs P. O’Sullivan (Marguerite) of Welland; Mrs Lloyd Cope (Evelyn) of Winnipeg; Miss Loretta O’Reilly of Toronto and AW1 Lois O’Reilly, R.C.A.F., of Brantford; also three sisters, Mrs George O’Leary, Mrs M O’Leary and Miss Edith O’Reilly, all of Ottawa.
The remains are resting at the J.J. Patterson and Sons funeral residence, 19 Young street, until Sunday evening at 7.10 p.m. when they will be shipped to Ottawa, for requiem mass at St Patrick’s church on Monday morning. Interment will be in Notre Dame cemetery, Ottawa.
Funerals Late W.T. O’Reilly
Very largely attended and graced with a large number of floral tributes and spiritual cards the funeral of the late W.T. O’Reilly, who was drowned a few days ago in Humberstone Lock, was held in his native city, Ottawa, on Monday morning with Requiem High Mass in St Patrick’s church, and interment in Notre Dame cemetery in that city.
The remains were shipped from the J.J. Patterson and Sons funeral residence, 19 Young street to Ottawa in time for the funeral mass, and in Ottawa were taken from the McEvoy Bros. Funeral Home to St Patrick’s church, where Very Rev. Monsignor G.D. Prudhomme chanted the high requiem mass. Father Burke of St Patrick’s church officiated at the last rites at the mausoleum.
The late W.T. O’Reilly was a native of Ottawa, and was raised and educated there. He was a son of the late John O’Reilly and Jane Anger of Ottawa, and was born in 1880. He married Miss Loretta Fitzgerald of Ottawa on July 24, 1903 at St Mary’s church, in that city.
Surviving relatives are one son. Jack, in Toronto; the following daughters, Beatrice, Mrs A. Fox of Buffalo; Marguerite, Mrs P.J. O’Sullivan, Welland; Eva, Mrs W. O’reilly, Ottawa; Evelyn, Mrs Lloyd Cope, Winnipeg; Miss Loretta O’Reilly, Toronto, and AW1 Lois O’Reilly, S.F.T.S. 5 Brantford; also the following sisters, Mrs George O’Leary, Mrs Morgan O’Leary and Miss Edith O’Reilly all of Ottawa.
[Welland Tribune October 25, 1943]
The death occurred at Ontario hospital, Hamilton, on Saturday, Oct 23, of Patrick Francis Travers, veteran of the First World Was and former resident of Port Colborne, in his 51st year.
The late Mr. Travers was a native of St. John’s, Nfld., and formerly resided in Port Colborne. He had been in Hamilton for the past 13 years. He was a member of the Royal Navy for eight years, including the years of the First World War. While in the navy he held the lightweight boxing championship of the Royal Navy.
Surviving are his mother, Mrs Mary Travers, Port Colborne; three sisters, Mrs M.C. Taylor and Mrs Thomas Williams, Port Colborne and Mrs Eric Birch, Hamilton and three brothers, John of Hamilton and William and Thomas of Port Colborne. Deceased was a member of St Patrick’s church.
The funeral will be held from the residence of his sister, Mrs Thomas Williams, 46 Adelaide street, Port Colborne, on Tuesday, Oct 26, to St Patrick’s church, where mass will be sung by Father Lacey at 9a.m. Interment will be in Mount St. Joseph cemetery.
[Welland Tribune December 10, 1943]
The death of Mike Smoth, 65 Cozy street, occurred this morning at the Welland County General hospital in his 54th year. The late Mr Smith was born in Romania and came to Canada 32 years ago. He was employed at Page Hersey Tubes Ltd.
He is survived by his wife, Annie, and five daughters, Mrs Thomas Malkevich, Crowland; Mrs Nicholas Byspalko, Thorold south; Mrs Joseph Jozha, Crowland; Mrs Nick Sozio, Niagara Falls, N.Y. and Miss Rose Smith at home.
The funeral will take place from the late residence, 65 Cozy street, to the Greek Orthodox church, Fourth street, on Monday afternoon. Interment will be in Woodlawn cemetery.
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