The Huron Expositor, 1976-08-26, Page 7get away on a weekday,!' Mrs.
Coleman says,
Being able to predict with some
accuracy when some people are
going to die might scare the heck
out of most of us. Vera isn't
scared or morbid, although
practically her earliest memory,
-skew told W.I. members, is of
knowing ' that a friend of her
parents was going to be killed in a
car accident,
She was two y ears and 11-
months old then, Vera says. She
had a hard childhood, because
her father didn't like. her "gift."
"There's a devil in you, I don't
want the devil in my house. I'll
kill you first," she says her father
told her, and he hit her hard
enough to knock her unconscious.
Her father disowned her later
when, after she graduated as high
school valedictorian, none of her
family in the audience, she went
to Listowel Hospital to train as a,
nurse Her father didn't believe in
, education, she said, because he
had wanted to be a Baptist
minister and his Amish mother
had burned all his books.
Vera is best known nationally
for her work in the Tuer murder
case in Mitchell. A vision she, had
of a body weighed down in an old
well and a fair description of
where the well was helped police
find the body of Mac Tuer. His
brother was " convicted of his
murder and although Vera says
she thought he might be guilty ,
' "1 told the police 'I found the
dead man, now it's your job to
find the guilty one.' "
Police often consult the
Millbank seer for help in finding
missing persons and solving
crimes and she had a fair bit to
say about the famous Clinton case
involving Steven Truscott.
"He wasn't guilty," she told
the W.I. members as many in the
room loudly agreed, "That's
"I know who did it ...,an older
person in uniform. He later
hanged himself. They should
make somebody put the truth in
the paper," Mrs, McNichol said.
The trauma of all those years in
jail for a crime he didn't commit
will affect Truscott forever but "it
svia be made , t9ha,JP ..The
hereafter," Vera- told the Wies,
in spite of little family APIPPot
she learned hoW-.to use her 'eft*
with the help of a minister. Ypx#
says she's been "happy ever
since." ,
In nursing she poured out the
affection that she couldn't
express to her family to patients,
especially the yeling otieS,
"`Could.: she .tell when a , patient
.40.40going t9.:*4P it7'r'dn -of
the W,I. xffhembdrs. asked,.
Qt *OS, Vera 'saW(gtea. the:.
doctors ask her
Jpoi at this patient that
Just to .sea what $4F: 0*
chances for ,snryivallvere,, • :
. JiPlppc1:: .agt,
habit=s, 7/era. gays; .4)timo
slue nolottgernurses„ she.still his
fair success at. Predict**. ftie set,
of anbOrn. *babies for exp..ectaot
*mothers who. visit leer un
Milbank,
She is. •strongly religious 'and
says shuhelped a young Japanese
girl who, • • was' possessed'
"Eprciat" style, by the devil.
"My God is in my kitchen" she
said, her tali" sprinkled with -
biblical verses. 'Although a
number of ministers and
established religions criticize her,
she doesn't .mind.
"I haven't met anybody yet I
haven't liked ...though I like
some better than others." .
Along with the policemen,
judges and ordinary people.
looking for a little advice, in
Vera's kitchen, she's 'persuaded
escapees to turn themselves in.
Kids who are on, drugs "find.
Jesus in my kitchen. I've been
rewarded a ' hundredfold," gaYS
Vera, who accepts very little
' money for her help., • •
She relies on income from her
several- books, whiCh she's had
published herself in England.
In addition to the hordes of
people who'll wait all day to get in
to talk to Vera in her kitchen, she
answers letters from many, many
more.
She 'tells the. W.I,• members
that she's sent and received
thousands of letters • and spent.
"over $4000 on stamps in 1975",
...at the end of her talk.
THE SEER OF MILLBANK - Vera McNichol,
theMillbank fortune teller and author who helped
police find the body in the Tuer murder case and
gives advice to thousands every year was in Seaforth
last week to speak to the Womens Institute. She
answered questions and chatted about her work at
the W.I. meeting at the home of Mrs. Bea Kerr.
(Staff Photo)
I.
Jim Stephenson is
manager of new bank
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y God is in my 'kite
di
Vera McNichol_ is a friendly,
jolly woman. She looks as if she
could be anybody's grandmother.
She's happy and she brims with
enthusiasm.
She isn't one. ,
-Vera McNichol has a gift for
seeing into the future that brings
thousands of people to her small
house in Millbank, near
Milverton.
Mrs. M eNiehol had a bit of a
rest last week when she got away
xl)usitor
from home, where she §c9*
people every day except Sunday,
and came Itere to speak to the
4 Seaforth W. ',Vera, as she invited
everyone to call her, stayed at the
home of Margery Coleman while
she was here for the meeting. ,
"She told me I'd better come
and pick her up Sunday (for the
Tuesday , night meeting) because
cars start lining up then to be first
in to see her on Monday morning.
She said she'd never be able to
•
‘,„-ssg...,' • • • •
My family and friends feel right at home in
my new apartment. Why 'shouldn't they? .
Three-parts of the furniture belongS to them,
Whether the furnishings 'were begged,
te borrowed or stolen, t ey still had to be moved,
and that's when,the n began. (Please don't
take the preceding figure of speech too
seriously; nothing was stolen.) . .'
Odds and ends of furniture plays trickg On a
person. It doesn't seem to 'amount to much
Tilitil the time comes to pack. it and .transpott,
it. Then, after it's unpacked, it doesn't fill as
much space as we hoped.
,:.'..Tlie-Major portion of my move was achieved
in one day with my father's pick-up truck
carrying the larger articles and my car and my,"
sister's car being crammed' with' the smaller
boxes, .
The "moving men". consisted of my, father,
my oldest nephew and a friend of my
nephew, who just dropped in to say hello.
Maybe he thought his timing.was poor, but as,,
far as we were concerned, it was perfect,:
Instead of being greeted:With' a! ail How.are
you ? he was told to grab the other end of the
counch. Then he was either coaxed or bribed
into*riding to town in the back of the loaded
truck. ---
My apartment is located at the top of
nineteen steps - a fact Which was mentioned
several times. that day.
While the others unloaded the vehicles, I
assumed the demanding chore of supervision.
During the procudure, we endeared ourselves
tothe_neighbours_by setting a d6g barking in
the next yard and by waking a baby across the
A former Seaforth resident,
Jim Stephenson, has been named
manager of the new Toronto
Dominion Bank which opened in
Wiarton on Saturday.
Jim, 'who- is a graduate of
hall from my apartment.
The work went smoothly until the davenport
lodged in •the living room doorway. The
movers decided to back up and try again, buts
the davenport refused to budge. With one
fellow in the kitchen and the other in the living
room, communication was difficult, but they
finally removed the 'legs and wiggled the
frame until it slipped through.
During their job, the workers remained
jovial until I asked them to rearrange the
living room furniture.
A week later I held, a birthday party for my -
sister, and after dinner, my brother-in-law
offered to hang some pictures for me.
Actually, my sister volunteered for him, but
that 's beside the point. His only complaints
were that the nails were either too long or too
'.'short, that my sister gave too much advice and
,,,„„„that I changed my mind too 'often.
'Unfortunately, I ran out of nails before all
the pictures were hung, and my brOther-in-
law hasn't been back since. -
After more than a month of apartment
living, I'm almost settled. I found a place for
everything, and everything iin its place. The
only problem is I forge whic place I decided
was right for which thi
A sugar bowl and a couple f knick-knacks
have disappeared, but I'm sure they'll turn up
somewhere sometime. Searching for lost
items is just another part of the Moving
experience.
RAVEN -- BEwLEy
Brenda Jean Bewley, Edmonton, daughter of Mr.
and,iMes-.-- Walter Beitleyi.::WaltOn, and Dan iel,„ Pau1,
Raven, Edmonton, son of Mr. and Mrs. Aubrey'
Raven, Edmonton, Alta. were married in Duff's
United Church, Walton, August 6. The bride's
attendants were Miss Elizabeth Bewley, Edmonton,
(the bride's cousin) and Mrs. Karen Warwick, Owen
Sound. The best man was Tom Hegi of Standard,
Alberta and the usher was Bob Warwick, Owen
Sound. Follo7wing the wedding a dinner W.Os held at
Duff's Church and a reception at the. Legicin ,Hall,
their wedding trip, they will four
-0ntirid then ieturp.-td EdMonton via automobile land
camper...The bride is on the staff of University
Hospital in Edmonton and the groom is on the Smith
Ambulance Staff in Edmonton. Wednesday, August
4, the bride's sister, Mrs. Mary Baker of. Albany,
Australia phoned to wish the couple much
happiness.
Odds n' Ends
• by Elaine Townshend
Moving
Opening
new doors
to small
business
SDHS, started his banking career
in Seaforth nine years ago. H e's
the son of Verna Stephenson and
the brother of Dawn Papple and
Terry Stephenson, of Seaforth.
Jim i following in the footsteps
of his late fathe'r, W. D.
Stephenson, who was manager of
the Toronto Dominion Bank here
when he died in 1974.
He and his wife Denise and son
Christopher, 3, moved to •Wiarton
from Alliston.
Financial assistance _ _u„
' Management counselififig-
Management training
Information on goyernment
programt for business
- Dave Alexander
One of our representatives
will be at '
The Queen's Hotel, Seaforth
on the 1st Thursday of each month
September 2nd
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• - ELAINE RYAN
Elaine Ryan, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Frank' ItYan, Dublin,
graduated from • Fanshawe
£ College School of Nursing, St.
Joseph's Campus, London.
Elaine is a graduate of S.D.H.S.
She has accepted a position in
Clearwater, Florida.
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