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1 CONC Parents - Alfred Day and Mary Anne Webster
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1 CONT Acton Free Press, June 19, 1958 - p.1
1 CONT F. Day Interred Was Postmaster
1 CONT An active member of church and district groups for many years, Frank Day,
1 CONT the former Rockwood postmaster, passed away on June 14 after an illness of
1 CONT two weeks.  He had lived in Rockwood and district for the past 30 years, a
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1 CONT was the postmaster of the village from 1928 to 1945.
1 CONT Mr. Day was a member of the Canadian Expeditionary Force in France in 1917
1 CONT and 1918.  From 1920 to 1926 he was a trustee of S.S. No.8, Eramosa.  He w
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1 CONT a clerk treasurer of the Eramosa school board and was chairman of the Guel
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1 CONT suburban high school district board in 1948.  A steward of Rockwood United
1 CONT Church form 1924 to 1948, he was then an elder from 1949 to 1953.  He w
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1 CONT member of the executive of Guelph Presbytery executive committee of the
1 CONT United Church from 1947 to 1953 and a commissioner to General Council in
1 CONT Vancouver in 1948.
1 CONT Deeply interested in the history of the district, he compiled and publishe
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1 CONT an historical booklet giving many interesting facts and illustrations
1 CONT concerning Eramosa and the county of Wellington.  He had a rich personal
1 CONT knowledge of the district which was helpful in compiling this booklet.
1 CONT He himself played an important part over his lifetime in the building up o
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1 CONT the Rockwood district and had a wide circle of friends who mourn, with his
1 CONT family, his passing.
1 CONT Mr. Day was born in Swavesy, Cambs, England on January 4, 1887 and came to
1 CONT Canada in 1907.  He was married at Crewson's Corners in 1909 to the former
1 CONT Ella Leola Wansbrough, who survives him.  Four children remain,
1 CONT C.R.A.(Fred), Ancaster, Ontario; George F., Rockwood; Marion E.(Mrs. M.G.
1 CONT Greer), Aldershot and Roy C. Toronto.
1 CONT Also surviving are brothers Alfred, Swavesy, Cambs, England, Cyril,
1 CONT Boxworth, Cambs, England; Christopher, Kawumbwa, Northern Rhodesia, Africa
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1 CONT sisters Bessie, Swavesey, Cambs, England and Mary(Mrs. M. Parish), Wilmslo
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1 CONT Cheshire, England.  Rev. G.A.B. Moore officiated at the funeral service at
1 CONT the Rumley Funeral Home, Acton, on June 17.  Interment followed in Rockwoo
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1 CONT cemetery.
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