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1 CONC Acton Free Press, March 8, 1972 - p.10
1 CONT Funeral Friday for Mrs. F. Day
1 CONT Rockwood villagers were saddened last week when they learned of the dea
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1 CONT one of it's best known citizens.  Mrs. Ella L. Day, the mother of a renown
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1 CONT Rockwood family, passed away at the Guelph General Hospital on March 1 aft
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1 CONT a four day hospitalization period.
1 CONT Born on January 7, 1890 on San Juan Island, in the State of Washington, El
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1 CONT Leola was the daughter of Robert H. Wansbrough and Emma A. Swackhammer who
1 CONT had moved from the Acton district to San Juan to return to the area after
1 CONT ten years.
1 CONT Mrs. Day was organist at the Crewson's Corner's Methodist Church where she
1 CONT met her future husband, on date of March 25, 1909, became the bride of Fra
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1 CONT Day.  In the same year Mr. and Mrs. Frank Day were the youngest couple
1 CONT assessed as owners of a farm in Eramosa Township on the 7th line of Eramos
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1 CONT presently occupied by Howard Donnell.  They moved to Rockwood in 1928 when
1 CONT Frank Day was appointed postmaster.  Mr. Day died in 1958.
1 CONT Survivors are C.R.A.(Fred), Ancaster; George, Rockwood; Marion(Mrs. Milton
1 CONT Greer), Burlington and Roy, Toronto; sisters Mrs. Gordon(Annetta) MacKay,
1 CONT Toronto and Mrs. Anna Smith, Acton.  Brothers Roy and Harold Wansbrough
1 CONT predeceased her.
1 CONT Mrs. Day was a member of the W.M.S. and the U.C.W. of Rockwood United
1 CONT Church.
1 CONT Funeral was at the Rumley-Shoemaker funeral home, Acton, Friday, March 3,
1 CONT conducted by the Rev. Ralph Williams.
1 CONT Interment was in Rockwood Cemetery.  Pallbearers were sons Fred, George an
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1 CONT Roy Day, son-in-law Milton Greer and grandsons Glenn Greer and Chirstopher
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