The Citizen, 1989-07-05, Page 3THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, JULY 5, 1989. PAGE 3.
After 30 years Lloyd
Tasker sells Blyth
funeral home
Tasker s sold
Lloyd Tasker (centre) of theTasker Funeral Home in Blyth has sold his business to David Beattie of
Clinton. The home will be run by both Mr. Beattie (right) and Neil Elliott (left). Mr. Tasker will
continue to live above the Funeral home and run the Sears Order office.
Lloyd Tasker has sold the Tasker
Funeral Home to David Beattie of
Clinton after 39 years of service to
the Blyth area.
Mr. Tasker will remain involved
in the running of the funeral home
in an advisory capacity said Mr.
Beattie who will be operating
the home along with Neil Elliott, a
former resident of Blyth who now
lives in Clinton.
The building that houses the
Tasker Funeral Home on Queen
Street in Blyth, was built in 1906 by
the Blyth’s first undertaker, Joseph
H. Chellew. Mr. Chellew’s son,
Stanley succeeded his father in the
business and sold it in 1947 to
James Lockwood. Three years la
ter, in 1950, he sold the business to
Lloyd and Jean Tasker.
Mr. Tasker was bom in Blyth in
the building housing the present
Sears Canada Ltd. order office and
has lived on the main street in
Blyth for most of his life. He now
lives in the apartment above the
funeral home.
In the early days of the funeral
business, funerals were conducted
from the private home of the
deceased and Mr. Tasker operated
in similar fashion until 1952 when
he opened the village’s first funeral
home in the building which had
housed the village post office (now
Sears). He also ran Tasker’s Furni
ture Store which was two doors
north from the funeral home.
In July 1978, Taskers closed the
furniture store and renovated the
72 year old structure. The doors
opened again in November of that
year to a modern funeral home. At
the same time, the Sears office was
moved into the front of the original
post office building.
Mr. Tasker still plans on operat
ing the Sears office and he says
he’s only semi-retiring. He will
continue to live in the apartment
above the funeral home.
Blyth.
People
Doris and Harold McClinchey,
Mary and Lloyd Walden returned
recently from an enjoyable nine-
day trip. On June 24 they attended
the wedding of Raymond Jennings,
son of Bob and Shirley Jennings of
Kalkaska, Michigan. After a short
visit they continued their trip up
and across northern Michigan into
Northern Wisconsin and Minne
sota, crossing the border at Fort
Frances. Here they visited with
Walter and Eunice Cunningham
and sons Kelly and Rodney Cunn
ingham, (grandsons of Lloyd and
Mary). They returned home by
northern Ontario, crossing to
Tobermory on the new ferry nick
named “Little Sister’’ to the Chee-
Cheemaun. It doesn’t take any
large trucks or sports cars, but can
carry over 700 passengers besides
cars, small trucks and motorcycles.
It just started on Friday, June 30.
There seems to be no problems
now in getting a crossing. There
are six each day.
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Longman
and family of London visited on the
weekend at the home of the
former’s parents’ Mr. and Mrs.
Carl Longman.
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