The Lucknow Sentinel, 1983-03-09, Page 10ripley news
Luc -know Sentinel, Wednesday, March 9 1983 --Page 10
Ripley residents discuss high school future
On February 28, 1983
which was Monday of last
week, the special committee
from the Bruce County
Board of Education held
afternoon and evening
meetings in the auditoriums
gymnasium of the Ripley
High School to receive
stations from area
concerning the future
of the school here. It was
meted at least one hun-
dred people attended.
Several present students
joined with former
graduates of the high school.
In this way it reminded Ab
Wylds of the meetings in the
winter of 1948-9 held in the
Huron township hall on
rebuilding the R.C.S. after
the disastrous fire on Sunday
evening Feb. 8,1948.
Among those speaking on
Monday afternoon were
Dianne Heinisch, Karen
Wyld, Murray Culbert, Doug
Jim and Dorothy
Needham, and students 011ie
Liddle, Janice Needham, Ian
Culbert and Terry Irwin. In
the afternoon the students
sang the school song for the
committee with Ian Culbert
at the piano.
In the evening presenta-
tions were made by Ab
Wylds, Susan Cliffe, Klaus
Heinisch, Cameron
McAuley, Leah Coulbeck,
Joe Heinisch, Lisa Murray,
Frank van Kooten, John
Wyld, Gladys Huston, Bob
Scott, Murray Thompson,
Elmer Smeltzer along with
several others.
Members of the committee
seated behind the long table
from left to right were Barry
Schmidt of Kincardine,
Gerry Zettel of Chepstow,
W.C. Setterington of Walker-
ton, Jean Woods of Tiverton,
Mike Snobelen of Hinton
township and chairman,
Jack Bowers of Chesley,
Alvin Thompson of Kincar-
diriLe township and Don Car-
roll of Walkerton. Since the
above meeting the commit-
tee met on Friday and Mon-
day and then yesterday it
was the full Bruce County
Board meeting under chair-
man Barry Schmidt in
Chesley.
The school has been the
talk topic in Ripley the past
couple of weeks.
WMiam Steer
Early last Thursday morn-
ing, March 3, 1983, William
Steer passed away in the
Pinecrest - Manor Nursing
Home in Lucknow where he
had been a patient for
several years. Born on Sun-
day, September 18, 1887 in
Carshalton, a southern
suburb of London, England,
Bill was in his 96th year. He
is survived by '" one sister
Agnes Gunn of East Sussex,
England, three nieces and
one nephew and by friends
Mrs. Mary Fludder and her
families in Ripley.
The funeral service was
conducted by Rev. Hugh
Nugent of Knox
Presbyterian Church in the
MacKenzie McCreath
Funeral Home in Ripley last
Saturday afternoon March 5.
Spring burial will be in the
obituary
Tammy [McDonald] Sloebes]
Tammy Lee Mary (McDon-
ald) Sloetjes of Ashfield
Township died suddenly at
home on February 23, 1983
in her 22nd year.
Born in London, Middle-
sex County on June 8, 1961,
she was the daughter of
Lorne McDonald and the
former Doreen McKinnon of
Lucknow.
She married Henry John
Sloetjes of Lucknow in 1982.
Besides her husband and
her parents, she is survived
by a daughter, Leanne Eliza-
beth, two brothers, Jack and
Toin McDonald and a sister,
Hotly McDonald.
The funeral was held from
the MacKenzie and Mc-
Creath Funeral Home in
Lucknow on February 26,
1983. Rev. Hugh Nugent of
Ashfield Presbyterian
Church and Bradford Hen-
shaw officiated.
Pallbearers were Martin
Scott, Michael Koch, Donald
Boak, Donald McLennan,
Alec McLennan and Edward
McDonald.
Spring burial to follow in
Greenhill Cemetery.
Pled B. Keith
Frederick Borton Keith
passed away Saturday, Feb-
ruary 26, 1983 at the Wing -
ham and District Hospital
following a short illness.
He was born in the Tees -
water area in August 1901,
the son of the late Donald
and Eliza Keith. He worked
on several farms in the
Teeswater and Lucknow area
as well as Toronto and
Windsor.
Around 1957 he came to
Lucknow where he made his
home with his uncle, Duncan
MacLeod and his sister,
Beatrice Adams. For the past
several months he has resid-
ed at the Bray Lodge in
Wingham.
Fred was predeceased by
his brothers, Stewart of Sas-
katchewan, Charles of Cali-
fornia, John of Detroit, and
his sister, Beatrice Adams.
He is survived by two nieces
and a nephew in Saskatche-
wan, and several cousins.
Funeral service was held
at the MacKenzie and Mc-
Creath Funeral Home in
Lucknow on Monday, Feb-
ruary 28, 1983 with the Rev.
Warren McDougall officiat-
ing. Final resting place will
be the Teeswater Cemetery.
Arthur Baaagh
Arthur Ballagh passed aw-
ay in Wingham Hospital on
Monday, February 28, 1983,
in his 95th year, after a very
brief illness. Born 'in Culross
Township, where he lived
until retiring to Wingham, in
1919 he married Eva Mae
Wallace, who predeceased
him in 1950.
The late Mr. Ballagh is
survived by two daughters
and one son, Elda, Mrs. John
Norman, Wingham; Dora,
Mrs. Blake Alton, Lucknow
and Wallace of Culross. He is
also survived by 11 grand-
children and seven great
grandchildren. He was pre-
deceased by two sisters and
three brothers.
The funeral service was
held frorn the MacPherson
Funeral Home, Teeswater on
March 3, 1983, with Rev.
Robert Shaw of Knox Presby-
terian Church, conducting
the service.
The pallbearers were Dave
Carruthers, Mervin McAl-
lister, Currie Moffat, Bert
Brown, Lorne Ballagh and
Harvey Ballagh.
Ripley cemetery. On Friday
evening the Ripley Huron
Legion Branch 440 held a
memorial service with
Chaplain Lester Fe in
charge at the funeral
At the age of 19 Bill
emigrated to Canada coming
in 19�'i to the farm of the late
Mr. and Mrs. Duncan Camp-
bell one block north and one
block east of Ripley or lot 10,
concession 9 east in Huron
township. He enlisted in the
Canadian Army and served
overseas in France in the
First World War. From 1920
on for eleven years he was
the foreman in charge of the
engine block making divi-
sion in the big Ford factory
in Detroit. In 1931 he left the
factory despite urgent pleas
from the head office that he
stay there. Then he return-
ed to the Amberley area to
work at farming again.
There is a grey cement brick
farm house one block east of
Amberley and on the north
side of Highway 86 which is a
standing mark of his ability
for manual work. Bill made
each cement brick using
sand, gravel, cement, and
water in forms and then let-
ting them set.
After two attempts he suc-
ceeded in getting into the
Canadian Army for World
War 2 only to be kept in
Canada looking after the big
artillery guns at Petawawa.
After discharge he worked
with Ontario Hydro until the
age of retirement. Then he
returned to Ripley to work
and live at the Dorothy
Thompson Nursing Home on
Malcolm Street in Ripley.
Here Bill was our next door
neighbour and many a Sun-
day afternoon was spent
with him in discussion of cur-
rent affairs and events.
ELMER REAVIE
The funeral service for
Elmer Reavie who passed
away in his 80th year is being
held this afternoon (Wednes-
day) at the MacKenzie Mc-
Creath Funeral Home in
Lucknow. Temporary en-
tombment is in South
Kinloss. Spring burial will
follow in Ripley Cemetery.
Elmer is a former native of
the Fourth Concession West
in Huron Township. More
details will follow next week.
March wedding
On Friday evening at
seven thirty, March 5, the
wedding ceremony of Lori
Ann Ruth Emmerton,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Lorne Emmerton and
Timothy Dan Weber son of
Murray Weber Sr. was held
in St. Andrew's Church,
Ripley. A reception tea
followed in the church base-
ment hall.
Then there was a wedding
car parade down the
mainstreet and around the
bank corner to the Huron
Township Hall. Here the
reception dance was held to
the music of the Sound
System of Tiverton with a
good attendance. Relatives
and friends were from Wind-
sor, London, Kitchener,
Walkerton, Kincardine,
Ripley, and Lucknow areas.
Mr. and Mrs. Tim Weber are
residing in Ripley where she
is a student at R.D.S. Lori
was honoured with three
showers and a dinner prior
to the wedding.
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Jan Fludder reports that
she will only be sending in
one more bunch of Zehr's
tapes. So if you have some
and want to help the Ripley
Skating Club, turn them in at
the Complex or to Jan as
soon as possible.
There is also a collection
box for Zehr's tapes in the
Lynn Hobby Shop on main
street operated by Judy van
Kooten. These tapes will go
the help the Ripley Guides
and Brownies.
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