Event Date : Saturday, October 07, 1972
Event Type : Death
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Community : Other - Bradford
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Description : On Saturday, October 7, 1972, Ida (Baynes) Ritchie, wife of the late Fred Ritchie, passed away at the home of her daughter Evalyn (Mrs. Irwin Phoenix) at R.R. 2, Denfield.Slightly more than five years ago, she suffered her first stroke and, in the years following, she suffered several minor ones, each of which caused her to become weaker. In spite of being confined to a wheelchair all these years, she maintained her usual cheerful disposition, even when she lost her speech.She is survived by her daughter and by a sister, Laura Baynes, and a brother, William Baynes, both of Barrie. She was predeceased by two sisters, Mrs. Gordon McCutcheon and Mrs. William Kneeshaw, and in 1947, by her husband, Fred Ritchie.Following the service in the Lewis Funeral Home, Bradford, burial took place in St. John's Cemetery, Coulson's Hill. The pallbearers were six nephews: Clarence Ritchie, Edgar Ritchie, John Kneeshaw, Clarence Baynes, Ken McCutcheon and Walter Lloyd.