HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1978-02-08, Page 20Page 20- Lucknow Sentinel, Wedneadsy, Feb. 8, 1978
On Tuesday . ux fast week,
January 31, 197$; Mrs. Annie
Wyld, wife of the late Harry
Wyld, passed away in the
Southampton Nursing home
where she had been residing for
the past few years.
The former Annie MacLean in
her 84th year, she was born on
July 13, 1885 on the 8th
concession of Huron Township,
west of Ripley, and just west of
the present Mac MacKenzie tree
farm.
Surviving is 'her son Clifford,
retired school teacher and prin-
cipal in the city of Brantford and
his family. Also surviving is her
one remaining sister, Mrs. Emma
Wylds of the 6th concession west
in Huron Township. They were
descendants of the original Scot-
tish Lewis families who came to
Huron Township' back in 1852,
cleared the land of its trees, and
Week
in Ripley
BY AB WYLDS
set up their farms.
The funeral service was held
last Thursday afternoon, Febru-
ary 2nd, at the MacKenzie
McCreath Funeral Home in
Ripley with Rev. Jim Bushell of
the Ripley St. Andrew's United
Church incharge of the service,
followed by ,temporary entomb-
ment in the cemetery chapel here,
to be followed by spring burial in
the Ripley Cemetery.
Annie and Harry Wyld farmed
on the 6th concession on the home
farm just west of the Farnell
farm. The farm is now owned by
Fred Brooks. On buying the
Ripley Flax Mill business they
moved ' to Ripley and on retire-
ment to Toronto where they lived
for several years. Sympathy is.
extended to Clifford, his wife
Dorothy, and their family, and to
her sister Emma, and to the
several nieces and nephews.
Word has been received of the
death of another descendant of
this group of Lewis Settlers in
Huron Township in Bruce Coun-
ty, She was Mrs. ' Anna Filion
Lind, 88, who died on Tuesday,
December 13, 1977, in a Seattle
Nursing Home where she resided
for the past four years.
She is survived by two nieces;
Ruth Filion and Alpha Pierson,
both cif Port Angeles, in the State
of Washington. -
She was buried in Oceanview
Cemetery there on the Friday
afternoon following her passing.
Her father and mother were
among the leaders in the estab-
lishment of the Presbyterian
Church in Port Angeles. In fact
when the Filion family left the
Ripley area back in 1893 they
were,one of the founding families
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As a girl Mrs. Lind went to
school in Victoria, British Colum-
bia ' and each year made a few
trips home in a small 'open boat.
Her mother was Kate MacLeod
of the 10th concession in Huron.
The farm is the, one now owned by
Donald and Alma Gillies and
straight west across the 15th from
Wally and Elaine Pollock's farm.
The late Murdock and Kenneth
MacLeod who both retired to
Ripley were Kate's brothers. The
MacLeod , house has since been
moved into Ripley and remodel-
led. Mrs. Anna Filion Lind was
born on that farm on September
12, 1889. Her father, Ismael
Filion operated'a sawmill just east
of Bill Peterbaugh's place on the
South Line - four miles north of
Ripley. When the Filion family
moved to Port Angeles they
established the Filion Mill and
Lumber Company there.
Locally there are several cous-
ins of • Mrs. Lind - Orland
MacLeod of the North Line in
Kincardine Township, Mrs. Mil-
dred (Clarence Wylds) and Burt-
on MacLeod both of Ripley and
Mrs. Margaret (MacLeod) Mac-
Kenzie of Ajax. Our thanks to
Orland for bringing the newspap-
, er clipping from 'the Washington
-paper and for adding the local
information.
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Every day since Tuesday of last
week a flock of 20 pine grosbeaks
have ' been feeding on the red
berrieshanging on the highbush
cranberry shrub in Gore Park
Ripley. These birds are mostly
plain slate gray and so not easily
noticed. Also since they come
down from the deep evergreen
bushlands of Northern Ontario
where people are scarce they are
quite tame. Things must be
getting tough up there for eats for
that is the reason- they come
down. Of the 20 only ' a single
male bird was noticed. It has
faded pink regions on its back.
The more colourful yellowish
aiming grosbeaks with their
white bills are gone from Ripley.
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The Ripley Skating Club is
planning a Valentine Dance in the
Complex on Friday, February 17.
The Kountry Kats will be the
orchestra.
On Monday,of last week Mrs.
Pat Cornish of Malcolm Street in
,Ripley underwent surgery in
Kincardine and District Hospital.
Friends wish her recovery.
Mrs. Joan Riley had the
misfortune to swallow a white
headed pin while answering a
door call at her home in Ripley
last week. She was taken to one of
the hospitals in London where it
was located lodged in one of her
lungs. Joan was allowed home on
the weekend. 'Doctors may have
to use surgery to remove it.
* * * * * *•'
Well, frosty 'February is here.
And each day last week added
some more snow to that already
here. Last week's item -should
have read that winter, is slip
sliding away. Well the groundhog
would see . his shadow in the
sunshine ,on the morning of
February 2 last week so it' has
come weeks of sliding yet.
Two Bruce boys, made the first
section of last Saturday's Toronto
Daily Star. They were Harvey
Davis of Dobbinton and Morley
Mills formerly of the Clarks area
on the 12th concession of Huron
Township. Both were in Toronto
at different meetings. We rather
liked that picture beside the story
featuring Harvey Davis', remarks.
Coming up next Monday even-
ing is they February meeting of the
Ripley Agricultural Society. Then
early Wednesday morning the
delegates from the whole area
leave for the Ontario Convention
in the Royal Ydrk Hotel in
Toronto.
On January 21st, Mabel and
Norm Barnard left the snow and
frost of Ripley for some sunshine
in the south. They are spending a
month on Padre Island in the Gulf
of Mexico; just off Texas at a
village called Port Aransas. There.
are 32 miles of unspoiled and
undeveloped beach with a climate
comparable to that of Central
Florida.
On the past weekend the public
room in the front of the Ripley
Post Office was closed in order to ,
make renovations to the tile floor.
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*
Down at the Ross Martyn
Office, Mrs. Carol Fludder has
been keeping it open for business
in the mornings while Mrs. Mary
C. MacDonald is • in Arizona.
* * * * *
Dr. and firs. Ken Smith of
Kitchener visited her parents Mr.
and Mrs. Francis Gemmell over
the weekend.
Sunday visitors with Mr. and
Mrs. Les Wardell, were Miss Lois.
Wardellof New . Hamburg, a
friend Miss Susan York ' of
Kitchener, Mr. and Mrs. Glen "
Wardell, Tena and Vincent; also
Connie and -Cindy Glover, all of
Tiverton; and Mrs. Colleen
Brown of Kincardine.
Ripley folks are welcoming
Johnny MacKay back home this
week. Johnny returned last
Saturday from a six week visit in
Detroit.
Mrs. Norma MacLennan is in
Toronto with her family.
Mr. and Mrs. George Colwell,
Mr. Currie Colwell and daughter
Anne of Lucknow, Mrs. Donald
Gillies and Mr. and Mrs. Donald
McCosh visited with Mrs. Gladys
Mason in Ripley. All were glad to
visit with Currie who had spent
the past seven weeks in Ghana,
Africa with his daughter Betty
Jane, who is working with
C.U.S.O. in teacher ' training
there.
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