HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1987-08-26, Page 11Lucknow Sentinel, Wednesday, August 26, 1987—Page 11
Las Vegas night a great success
Ripley and District Lions Club held their
first Las Vegas Night last Saturday evening
August 22, which turned out to be a success.
Congratulations go to Tena Gardner of
Lucknow who is the lucky winner of the trip
to Las Vegas in co-operation with the
Hanover Travel, Kincardine Branch and
Sunguest Tours. Proceeds go to the Ripley
and District Medical Centre for a Resuscita-
tion Pak.
Miss Florance MacLennan of Kitchener
passed away suddenly on Sunday, Aug. 16,
1987 in her 39th year in the Western Univer-
sity Hospital, London. It was caused by an
aneurism. Daughter of Mrs. Rhetta
MacLennan of Lochalsh and the late Emile
MacLennan, she was born on Wednesday,
February 27, 1949 in Kincardine. Surviving
are her mother Mrs. Rhetta (Arietta )
MacLennan of Lochalsh; a dear friend
Shirley Lillie of Kitchener, three sisters -
Louise, Mrs. Bruce Miller of Palmerston;
Marion MacLennan of Lochalsh; and
Margaret Morton of Point Clark; and five
brothers - Rod of Mississauga (Toronto) ,
Donald of Clinton, George of Agincourt,
Finlay of Kincardine, and Jack of Stratford.
She was loved by several nieces and
nephews. Predeceasing Florance were her
father Emile and two brothers Eldon and
Sandy.
The funeral service was held last Wednes-
day August 19, 1987 starting at 1 p.m. in
Lucknow, in the MacKenzie McCreath
Funeral Home there. Rev. Hugh Nugent,
minister of the Ashfield Presbyterian
Church and the Knox Presbyterian Church
in Ripley conducted the service including
the committal part in Lucknow. Interment
followed in the family plot in Kincardine
cemetery. Pall bearers were Kevin Miller,
Steve Miller, Jason Morton, Tom MacLen-
nan, John MacLennan, and Donnie MacLen-
nan. Visitation was held on Tuesday after-
noon and evening 2-4 and 7-9 p.m.
Memorial donations were received for the
Ripley Legion Branch 440 and the Ashfield
Presbyterian Church.
Sympathy is extended to the family on this
sad occasion.
Cole Carruthers of Owen Sound and Ellen
Rock of Kincardine spent a few days with
their great grandparents Mabel and Norm
Barnard in Ripley last week.
Cindy Emmerton visited last week with
her parents Lorne and Linda Emmerton.
She has returned to Toronto. There she is go-
ing to Seneca College and is working at the
head office of the Hudson Bay Company on
computer security.
On the weekend of August 17th, Mrs.
Mildred White of Huron Villa, Mrs.
Margaret Shopbell of Lincoln Park,
Michigan; Mrs. Edna Tilley of Windsor, and
from London were Mrs. Ellison Kayle, Mrs.
Cecil Howard, and Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Far -
rough Volet attended a Bunch supper catered
by Lorne, Linda, and Cindy Emmerton, and
Lori and son Brent Weber. Its vovered five
generations in the family. Margaret
Shopbell and Edna Tilley stayed over at
Ruth Bogues and had breakfast with Linda
Emmerton. Then they had a great time
touring Pine River Cheese factory, Kincar-
dine and Ripley.
Fire fighters attend car fire
Last Tuesday Aug. 18 at 11:30 a.m. the
whistle sounded at the Ripley firehall. Two
vehicles headed north on the 15th. The fire
was at the base of the base of the Twelfth
concession - a car fire. Firemen answering
were Chief Rod MacDonald, Bob Johnston,
Danny MacDonald, Chris Anger, and Don
Peterbaugh. No estimate of the damage was
reported.
Funeral service for Rita Robb
On Monday afternoon this week, Aug. 24,
1987, at 2 p.m. in the C. Haskett and Son
Funeral Home in Lucan the funeral service
was held for Mrs. Rita (Ruttle) Robb. She
was the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs.
John Ruttle, lot 18 of the Tenth Concession
(Con 9) Huron township north of Ripley - the
farm where Donald and Cathy Farrell now
live with family Mandy, Matt, and Heather.
The Ruttle family also had three children -
brothers Ben (Benjamin) Ruttle of Kincar-
dine and Bill of Saskatoon survive their
sister Rita.
Rita passed away at Craigholme Nursing
Home in Ailsa Craig on Friday Aug. 21, 1987
in her 86th year. Rev. Darrell Shule of
Lucan United Church officiated. Interment
followed in St. James Cemetery in
Clandeboye. Visitation was on Saturday and
Sunday 7-9. Donations went to the Canadian
Cancer Society. Rita is survived by her
daughter Rose Marie who is Mrs. Lloyd
LeNeve of Point Edward (Sarnia) and four
grandchildren Susan, Dale, Jeff, and
Michele - also three great grandchildren
Mandi, Michael and Christine. She was
predeceased by her husband Cecil Robb.
Folks on the 4th concession east in Huron
township will remember when Cecil, his
wife Rita, and young daughter Rose Marie
lived on the Robb home farm - lot 4 before
moving to Lucan. Prior to her marriage
Rita was a public school teacher. She taught
in a rural school in the Parkhill area.
A student there was Hugh Dowker who
later completed his Fifth form (Grade 13) in
the Parkhill High School. In 1929, Hugh
entered Western University in London in
Mathematics and Physics - as did Ab Wylds
from Kincardine High School and from
R.C.S. and also Miss Beryl Tindall from. St.
Thomas Collegiate, both with one of the
three major four year scholarships. Yes,
Beryl is a cousin of Dr. J.B. Tindall of Lon-
don. Well Hughie just took off on us. Talking
to Rita later we learned that he was her
outstanding student. In all my years, I
hoped for a Hugh Dowker student here.
Finally, before the end, we had one - Ron
Ferguson of Amberley - third son in family
of Bill and Margaret Ferguson. Just like
Hugh at Western, Ron was miles ahead of
me.
Mrs. Eleanor Irwin, former wife of
George Irwin from Windsor visited in
Ripley last Monday morning August 17,
1987. With her was her family as follows -
her daughter Mrs. Rhonda Shannon Irwin -
Dupuis and husband Dr. Leon Dupuis - a
chemist and their two children, daughter
Dana Leigh Dupuis -4 years, and Jaclyn
Elizabeth Dupuis -2 years, and a friend -Miss
Joanne Keltika a school teacher in
Brantford.
Thanks to Eleanor for writing down the
names. She also wrote that they were
visiting at Deer Park Lodge in Bayfield and
wanted to visit the family roots in Ripley
and that we are enjoying both our visit in
Bayfield and in Ripley.
On Mondays the front door is always open
here for folks bringing *in news items.. So it
was last week. It so happened that all items
were written into the two news columns. Ab
Wylds was resting on the bed in the front
bedroom -flaked out and almost asleep.
Into the room comes this lady - a stranger -
and asks if I am "Ab".
I affirm that I am. She tells me her name
"Eleanor Irwin" and invites me out to the
van to meet the rest. I get the pad of copy
paper and pencil. She writes down the
names of those with =her.
Now a week later, Monday morning
August 24 here Ab is wondering how in the
space and time available does he connect
you the reader into the story of these Irwins.
The original ones were David Irwin and
hiw wife Sarah (Olds) Irwin, who came here
in 1880 (say) . They lived on Jessie Street
west of the Legion Hall. He was a
blacksmith. His shop still stands - the pre-
sent storage building for the Pollock Elec-
tric on Main Street. In a few years he was
out of the blacksmith trade and his wife into
the hotel business - a more lucrative one.
In their family two of the sons were Russ
and Bill. Now my errant father was Russ,
and his brother Bill was the father of George
Irwin which Eleanor names above.
In her notes that she wrote on the pad she
puts it "Rhonda and David are brother and
sister - the children of Eleanor and George
Irwin". May I explain that this David Irwin
is the grandson of the original David the
blacksmith. This David and his wife, Shirley
.visited Fran and Ab back in .1983.
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