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Source : The Bradford Witness
Volume Date : Wednesday, August 29, 1962
Volume : Vol. 97, No. 35
Page : 1
Microfilm : Reel # 82
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Event Date : Wednesday, August 22, 1962
Event Type : Death
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Community : Bond Head
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Description : Three young teenagers happily used a tractor to make the trip from one farm to the next last Wednesday evening on some trifling errand. The three were Linda Jean Culbert, 16, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Robert Culbert of West Gwillimbury, Linda Cerswell, 15, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Cerswell, Bond Haven Farm, Bond Head, and Earl Pugh, son of one of the men at Bond Haven Farm. The trip was made on the road, from the Cerswell farm, but in some way the tractor overturned. Linda Jean Culbert was pinned beneath it and was killed. Linda Cerswell sustained injuries which resulted in her removal to Newmarket Hospital. The boy escaped uninjured.Linda Jean Culbert was a bright and attractive young student at Bradford District High School, where she had many friends, who were saddened to learn of her sudden and very untimely death.Linda Jean is survived by her parents and five sisters: Margaret (Mrs. Demsyn), in Germany; Marilyn, a graduate from Normal College this year; Brenda, 12, at home and the twins, aged 2, Dorothy and Dawn.The funeral was held on Friday from the Hughes Funeral Home in Cookstown, where Rev. Jackson conducted the services, and interment was in Bond Head Cemetery.The pallbearers were Lloyd Coutts, Doug. Hughes, Jim Loeb, Larry Crang, Bobby Watt, Gordon Stoneman.The flower bearers were Ann Copson, Catharine Westlake, Doris Sutherland, Caroline Hughes, Frances Sawyer, Nancy Culbert, Donna Hughes, Barbara Noble, Janet Orr, Maureen Walker.