HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1966-06-15, Page 2The ILUCKNOW SENTINEL Attend Graduation
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Donald Stewatt Brooks, gradual-
ed from the University of Waterloo
at the Twelfth Convocation held
on May 28; with. a Bachelor of
Applied Science degree•in Electri-
cal Engineering. Mr. Brooks. Is
a graduate of Ripley Public School
and Ripley District High School..
He is the son of Mr., and Mrs,
Stewart Brooks' of the sixth concess-
' ion, Huron Township..
L`gta, 'with his wife:and daughter,
• now resides in Meaner,. He has
joined the staff of tv'alt�u. Ettll'
and Elliott Li ttited , Consulting ,.
Engineers iii Hamilton
Among th4 °saes ing.rhe grad-
uation exercises head at eag�r•am's'"
Stadium were Mr. and klrs, books
sisters Linda and Stsan, and broth-
ers Jim and John,
Stewart is a great nephew of Mrs
Margaret argaret Sproul of Lucknow.
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• Mrs. J..0 C. (Joyce) Johnstone,
mho resides in Kinloss Township
just, north of Lucknow , returned
Sunday from a 4 -week visit with
her parents; her sister and mem-
bers of the family in England. ' It
was 2.9 years. ago that .Mrs. John
stone came,to;Canada as a "war
bride"andit was her first visit
back home since then.
,The picture and following story
appeared in the'Chester Chronicle
in' England. and we are reprinting
it because of its local ,interest.
Twenty years ago a young North
umbrian and her ten -month-old
baby said farewell to her family
in. Crook, Co. ; Durham, and set
sail for Canada..
On Monday last week Mrs. - Jdyce
Johnstone, now the mother of sev-
en; . once moreset afooton hernat-
ive soil:.
To greet her'home at Heath. Row
airport, London, was her brother -
In -law and only sister, Mr. and
Mrs. Stanley. Lawton, of 53 Main
road', Moulton, . and; the niece
she had not seen previously, 19' . .'
year-old Judith Lawton a student
'. `at London -road Art College, ..
Northwich.'
Anxiously waiting in''Moulton was
Mrs. Johnstone's parents, Mr. and
Mrs. ;Hugh Norman: .
Shown,left to right, are Mrs.-
Johnstone,
rs.-Johnstone, ' her'•father; and mother,
Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Norman, and
her sister, Mrs. ` Editti. Lawton.
Recalling the reunion at London
to a "Chronicle. reporter, Mrs:
Edith Lawton' said "A s soon • as'
Joyce ,left the 'plane I recognized
her. We were so excited , •We
laughed and we cried as we hugged
each other". •
It was shortly after the Second
World War., that Mrs. Johnstone •
married her Canadian husband,
Mr. James Clifford Johnstone/
then serving with the Canadian..
Air Force and' stationed at Darling-
ton, Soon afterwards Mr. John-
stone. returned' to his 'country, and'
his wife and baby joined him' '•
months later. .
Lucknow; Ontario, .• Was -young'.
g
Mrs. Johnstone's destination when
she left England. and it is there
that she has since lived. Tony, •
the baby she took with heris now
•married, and her family hasin-
creased by Brian 18, Donny 16,
Murray 13, Joyce Ann 12, Saindra`
10 and Brenda 7,
HOPES OF REUNION
As her family . grew bigger Mrs.
Johnstone's hopes of a reunion
with her parents and sister •in Eng
land diminished. Her husband
was a civil servant and with hitt
and her children to care for, and;
the running of ;their; home, a
small farm, ,the prospects of a
holiday. in her native country
seemed most remote, -
Then Mr.'.Johnstone decided to
change his profession. He .found
employment at a nuclear plant
near to Toronto andthisyear his
firm founded a charter flight to
England, and Mrs. Johnstone's
dreams came true.
"It was wonderful. My husband;
told me about the flight which was
about half the usual fare. Friends
rallied round' and offered to help
with the family in myabsence, •
and here I am." Mrs. Johnston*
told our reporter. '
Apart from the reunion with her
relatives, it is Mrs. Johnstone's
first visit to Cheshire, Her sister
came. here in '.1952 when Mi. Stan-
ley Lawton,• a former insurance
agent, found employment at the
Winnington.. Mr. and Mrs.
Norman 'fo'llowed ten years ago. on .
Mr. Norman's retirement from a
firm where he had been employed
for 52 years.
During her four weeks stay in
England; Mrs. Johnstone hopes to
visit Blackpool -a seaside resort
she has not yet seen: At themom•
ent, she is kept busy with reunions
with relatives, who are travelling
to' see her from all corners of O.
England,
She is finding it warmer than,
when -she left Southern Ontario
notices that the streets are still as
narrow as when 'she :left.England,
and is not impressed by our motor-
ways after the width and length
of the carriage ways in Canada,
Still although she has been in the'
Dominion, 20 years ,and is quite
settled at Lucknow she would not
say "no" to returning here to live 1
England, will always have a special
cartes of her heat, the adds).
.Mr, 'and . Mrs. Mel Goyette were
guests .of, honour at a • surprise party
recently at •the home of Mr•, and
•
Mrs. Elwin Hallcif Lucknow. The
evening w:as-spent in bridge.,
Eunice and 'Mel were presented '
by tie:gatherJing with a lovely.
vase and figurine,
Mr. and Mrs. Goyette ,will'
leave Luckhow,the end of this
month for Kingsville where he :'
Will, be principal of a new comp
osite school,
Mrs. Goyette and her Maher,
Mrs. W. A. Campbell, were guests- '
at a bridge held recently at. the
Nine' of Mrs. L.. C. Thompson.
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