Zurich Citizens News, 1977-12-01, Page 2Page 2
Citizens News, December 1, 1977
She's a sprightly 90!
By HIL -DA PAYNE
Ninety years is a long time to
live by anyone's standards and on
Tuesday, Mrs. Daisy Ivey of
Hensall celebrated her 90th birth-
day quietly at the home of Mrs.
Rachael Schwalmµ, with her
companions, Mrs. Elizabeth
Volland, Mrs. Margaret Mac-
Donald and Mrs. Lois Kruger.
Also visiting were her son and his
wife, Mr. & Mrs. Desmond Ivey
of Sarnia and friends from
Goderich, Clinton, Exeter, Grand
Bend, Blyth and Ltican,
Her proudest possession at the
moment is a plaque from
Premier Davis, presented to her
by M.P.P. Mr. Jack Riddell,
bearing a stamp of the Jubilee
crown of Queen Elizabeth. She
is especially delighted with the
crown as she recalls that she was
born in the golden Jubilee year of
Queen Victoria.
Mrs. Ivey was all ready to
receive Mr. Riddell last Saturday
dressed in her new red housecoat,
a velvet rose ribbon in her
shining, fine white hair and
sitting in the chesterfield chair,
but the weather intervened and
About people
you know...
Mr. & Mrs. Morley Witmer
were weekend visitors with Mr. &
Mrs. Ted Steinbach. They also
attended the Sunday afternoon
tea in celebration of Mr. & Mrs.
Bert Klopp's 50th wedding an-
niversary. In addition Mr. & Mrs.
Witmer visited with Mr. Lambert
Witmer at the Blue Water Rest
Home.
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Mr. Riddell was unable to make
the call. He arrived instead on
Monday morning early, just as
Mrs. Ivey was enjoying her
breakfast, Hastily, Mrs. Ivey
was got ready to receive Mr.
Riddell and her plaque, while
Mrs. Schwalm served both with
dandelion and pumpkin seed
coffee sweetened with molasses
and birthday cake. The cake was
a creation in itself, made to look
like an ancient book and called
"The Pages of Time" by its
designer, Mrs. Schwalm. On one
side was written Daisy Ivey and
on the other 1887-1977, while a
green and yellow ribbon
decorated the top.
Mrs. Ivey is Irish by birth and
married into an English family,
the Ivey's. She has had a
colourful life, travelling ex-
tensively through Great Britain
and France as she pursued her
business of buying furs. For
many years, while in England,
she lived in Oakley Green near
Windsor. Since leaving England,
she has lived in Rio de Janeiro in
Brazil, parts of Africa and Ville
D'Anjou in France, where her
sons completed their education at
the university there.
She arrived in Canada in 1946
and took up residence in the town
of the same name in Quebec and
before coming to Hensall lived in
London and Sarnia, Ontario. She
took up residence with Mrs. Sch-
walm in 1973 at which time she
was able to enjoy driving to many
of the neighbouring communities
where she has made friends.
Since suffering a broken hip she
has not been able to travel around
so much.
Mrs. Ivey had a family of two
sons, one of which is deceased.
She has two grandchildren and
four great-grandchildren, two
boys and two girls. She spends
every Christmas with her son in
Sarnia and was visited by M.P.
Mr. Robert McKinley ap-
proximately two months ago, She
is an avid reader, averaging six
to eight books a week, as well as
daily and weekly newspapers
and monthly news magazines.
She is still able to read headlines
without glasses. She is very in-
terested in international news,
watching the evening and late
night news on the C.B.C. nightly.
She also enjoys movies on TV and
recently stayed up until 3 a.m,
watching the true movie,
"Escape"
During her travels abroad,
Mrs. Ivey has met many in-
teresting people, including
Emperor Haille Selassie and she
frequently entertains her many
visitors with histories of people
she has met during her varied
life. In other words, she is a living
history book.
She received congratulatory
messages from Conservative
leader Joe Clarke and Huron MP
Bob McKinley.
Mrs. Daisy Ivey
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