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Served Seaforth for 65 years OBITUARIES
Active on Seaforth's main
street for nearly 60 years during
which he operated the railway
express business here Cameron
Malcolm McKellar died Monday
in Seaforth Community Hospital.
He was 88.
Until the last year or so Mac
McKellar had continued the same
round of activity which he had
followed for more than half a
century and which reflected his
involvement and interest in a
large number of Seaforth
organizations.
Few if any Seaforth area
citizens were more widely and
favorably known along Main
Street or throughout the area.
Never having learned to drive a
car he depended on a bicycle ,for
transportation and this coupled
with his cheery greeting and a
willingness to help were
trademarks recognized by several
generations of Seaforth people.
As express agent no task was
too great as time and again he
went out of his way to
accommodate customers and
provide service.
A native of
MALCOLM McKELLAR
reduced to a trickle.
Mr. McKellar was secretary
treasurer of the Seaforth Public
School Board from 1918 Until a
few years ago when the county
system was introduced. He was a
member of the board of Scott
Memorial Hospital from its
inception in the late twenties and
continued his interest in Seaforth
Community Hospital. President
of the board on several occasions
he was honourary president of the
board at the time of his death.
He had been a member of the
Masonic Order for 62 years and in
1920 was Master of Britannia
Lodge. In 1956 he received an
award recognizin'g 50 years of
membership in the .100F. •
Particularly active in First
Presbyterian Church he served as
superintendent of the Sunday
School for .35 years. He had been
a member of the Church. Session
since 1928 and was session clerk
for 38 years. An active lawn
bowler for sixty years he also
enjoyed curling but recalled on
his retirement from the CNR that
he had had to give it u p because
he "was too busy".
He is survived by his widow the
former Lillian Carter to whom he
was married in Seaforth on June
25, 1913 and by a son Gordon of
Brampton and daughters
Margaret, Mrs. R.H.Williams,
Mt.Clements, Mich. and Isabel,
Mrs. Hugh Williams, St. Paul,
Minna He is also, survived by
eight grandchildren, by four great
grandchildren and by a sister,
Mrs. Wilbur Miller of Staffa.
The remains rested at the
G.A.Whitney Funeral Home,
Seaforth, until Wednesday
afternoon when a service was
held in First Presbyterian Church
conducted by his Minist er Rev.
E.C.Nelson. Interment followed
in Maitlandbank Cemetery.
Honorary pallbearers were
Elgin Nott, F.R.Cosford, Chas.
MacKay, Keith Sharp and John
Thompson. Pallbearers were
John Hoelscher, Clair Rcith, W.
R. Smith, J. C Cornish, Robert
McMillan and James F. Scott.
Flower bearers were
J. S. Patterson, VV.A.Hodgert,
Ed. Andrews and James Keys.
MRS. ELIZABETH ELLIOTT
Mrs. Elizabeth Elliott of
Brussels , widow of the late
Orwell 'Elliott, passed away in
Wingham and District Hospital
on Friday, September 20th. She
was in her 69th year.
Born in. Blyth, she was the
daughter of the late John and
Agnes Fear of Ethel. In 1947 She
married the late Orwell. Stuart
Elliott in Ethel. A graduate of
Stratford Teachers' College, she
taught school for a number of
years. Later she served for some
time as secretary of the Brussels
School Board. She was a member
of Melville Presbyterian Church.
She was also a member of
Morning Star Rebekah Lodge,
"Brussels.
She is survived by , one
daughter, Mrs. Wm. (Dorothy)
Chisholm of Goderich and one
sister, Mrs. John (Dorothy)
Colquhoun of London.
Funeral services were held
from the M. L. Watts Funeral
Home at 2:00 p.m. on Monday,
September 23rd with Rev.
C.A.McCarroll of Melville
Presbyterian Church officiating.
Morning Star Rebekah Lodge
conducted a memorial service at
the funeral home at 9:00 o'clock
Sunday evening.
Pallbearers were Gerald
Gibson, Russ Hall, Jim
McTaggart, Cal Krauter, Tom
McFarlane and George Davidson.
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Burial took place in Btu
Cemetery.
MRS. MARY E. BALLANTY
Mrs. Mary Eliza
Ballanty ne of Knole Crest Lo
Milverton passed away on Fri
September 20th in her 98th
She was a former resi
ofBrussels.
Born in Hensall, she was
daughter of the late James
and Elizabeth Love,
husband, John Brown Ballan
predeceased her in 1937,
She is survived by
daughter, Mrs. Wm. D. (Dorn
Campbell of R.R.1, Listowel;
son, Sydney of Toronto;
grandchildren and two g
grandchildren.
She was predeceased b
daughter, Mrs.(Rev.) T,
(Lorette) Kennedy;
grandsons John B. Kennedy
Wm. E. Kennedy, both \‘
Second World War members.
the R.C.A.F, four sisters and
brothers.
Funeral services were 11
from the M.L.Watts Fun(
Home, Brussels at 3:30 p.m,
Monday, September 23rd. Rev
C. Brush was the officiat
minister.
Pallbearers were Tim Dilwor
Wm. Bremner, Harold Hyndm,
George Love, Jim Moore and J
Robinson.
Burial
Cemetery.
Hibbert at
Cromarty, the son of the late
Sandy McKellar and Mary
Lamont, he came to Seaforth as a
youth to learn to be a telegraph
operator. Three years later in
1911 he became railway express
agent at a time when the railway
station was the gate to the area,
several passenger trains operated
daily in each direction and
express volume was at its peak.
During the years he served he
saw a gradual reduction in the
role of the railway until at the
time of his retirement in 1965
passenger traffic had been
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