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Obituaries
LAURA EVELINE SMITH
Laura Eveline (McCutcheon)
Smith of Wingham passed away on
Monday, Feb. 10, 2003 at the
Braemar Retirement Centre. Laura
was in her 94th year.
Born on the 6th Concession of
Morris Twp., on Oct. 2, 1909, Laura
was the daughter of the late Henry
William McCutcheon and Ann
Speiran. She married Joseph
Crawford Smith on April 3, 1937.
They had seven children: Ann,
Carolyn, twin sons Joseph and
Adam, Cora, and twin girls, Pauline
and Doreen, and were predeceased
by two infant daughters Josephine
and Laura.
Laura and Joseph lived on the
north half of Lot 20, Cone. 6 Morris
Twp. until 1964, when they moved
to Goderich. In June of 2000, Mrs.
Smith moved to the Braemar
Retirement Centre, Wingham, where
she lived until her passing on Feb.
10.
Laura’s philosophy in life was to
see the good in every person; to have
a friend we must be a friend and to
always count our blessings.
Laura will be sadly missed by her
children Ann Steinbech and her hus
band Edgar of Zurich, Carolyn
Brandon and her husband Bill of St.
Williams. Joseph Smith and his wife
Linda of Wingham. Adam Smith and
his wife Kae of Brussels, Cora
Alcock and her husband Ross of
RR3, Brussels, Doreen Stewart of
Cayuga and Pauline Hetherington
and her husband Bill of Hamilton.
She was also loved by her sister
Verna Taylor of Vero Beach, Florida,
her 18 grandchildren, 28 great
grandchildren and two great-great
grandchildren.
Mrs. Smith was also predeceased
by her sister Cora Barrows, brother
Harry McCutcheon, and three of her
sons-in-law.
Friends were received by the fam
ily from 2 - 4 and 7 - 9 p.m.
Wednesday at the Schimanski
Family Funeral Home, Brussels. The
funeral service was conducted on
Thursday, Feb. 13 at 2 p.m. from St.
John’s Anglican Church, Brussels,
with Rev. Tom Wilson officiating.
Carrying a floral tribute was
Angela Bastel. Pallbearers were
Todd Stewart, Jeff Alcock, Stephen
Thiel, David Smith, Brian Thiel,
Phillip Smith and Karen Steinbech-
Jones.
Spring interment will be in St.
John’s Anglican Church Cemetery,
Morris Twp.
As an expression of sympathy,
memorial donations may be made to
the St. John’s Anglican Church
Building or Cemetery Funds.
CLEVELAND(CLEVE) ROSS
DAVIDSON
Cleveland Ross Davidson passed
away quietly at his residence in
Kitchener on Friday, Feb. 7, 2003.
He was in his 79th year.
He was the beloved father of
Maureen and her husband Stan
Hyndman, Larry and his wife
Kathleen, Bradley, and Jane and her
husband Cliff Massicotte. He will be
lovingly remembered by 11 grand
children and seven great-grandchil
dren. Mr. Davidson will also be
fondly remembered by his friend
Josie Schweitzer. He is also survived
by his sister Eloise (Lolly)
McCauley of St. Marys, Audrey
Langdon and husband Paul of
Fergus and Doreen Wilson and hus
band Jim of Brussels. Steve will be
sadly missed by many nieces and
nephews.
He was predeceased by his broth
er Cal in 1996,
The funeral service was held
Tuesday, Feb. 11 at Westmount
Funeral Home.
Catholic school board no longer in fantasy lottery
By Stew Slater
Special to The Citizen
The Huron-Perth Catholic District
School Board will no longer partici
pate in a London-based, region-wide
prize draw in order to raise money
for such things as music program
ming and extra classroom resources.
At a regular meeting Monday, Jan.
27, trustees voted unanimously to
withdraw the board from its partner
ship with the Monsignor Feeney
Foundation’s annual Fantasy
Lottery.
For the past several years, the
board has sold tickets on the draw,
which originated within London as a
means of raising Catholic education
funds over and above those provid
ed by the provincial government.
When surrounding boards joined up.
funds raised in the draw were even
tually distributed to participants
based on their student population.
Prior to the Jan. 27 vote, board
chair Bernard Murray noted that,
though the partnership had been
valuable, the “trend” seems to indi
cate that the lottery is not as popular
as it once was. The amount of
money received by the board has
dwindled, he explained.
“If you look at what was made
from the previous years, and where
it looks to be going, (the amount
raised) was starting to go down,”
Murray said, in a subsequent inter
view.
The St. Marys-area trustee noted
that organizations operating various
similar prize draws have, in recent
years, opted for higher-valued prize
packages and higher prices in an
effort to continue selling tickets.
Though he stressed the board’s deci
sion represented an amiable parting
of ways, he did suggest there was a
lack of consensus among those
involved with the Fantasy Lottery
about how to approach this “big
business” trend in fundraising.
Both Murray and past chair Mike
Miller expressed appreciation to
those within Huron and Perth who
supported the board’s participation
in the lottery, both through purchas
ing tickets and through working
with the school board to operate the
event.
The loss of the fundraising source
leaves the board without a signifi
cant means through which to cover
the costs of those things not
accounted for by the provincial gov
ernment’s funding formula. This
contrasts with the Avon Maitland
District School Board, which has an
arms-length relationship with the
charitable Foundation for the
Enrichment of Education, Huron-
Perth.
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