Event Date : Monday, February 02, 1953
Event Type : Death
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Community : West Gwillimbury
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Description : In failing health owing to advanced age, Mr. Harry Norton Gapp had been bedfast for about three months before his death at the home of his son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Ben Steers, of West Gwillimbury. The immediate cause of death was a stroke.Born in Norfolk, England, the late Mr. Gapp was married there to the former Ruth Dack of Birmingham, England. In 1911 they came to this country and settled at Bradford. In earlier life he worked with the railroad but later turned to his favourite occupation, gardening. On December 3, 1935, Mrs. Gapp died very suddenly. Mr. Gapp continued to make his home in Bradford until after the marriage of his only daughter, Mrs. Steers. In more recent years he has made his home with her and her husband on the farm where his last years were spent gardening and doing the lighter tasks about the farm which was a manner of living much enjoyed by him.He was a member of the Church of England and of the I.O.F.Mr. Gapp is survived by four sons, John, Edward and Sydney, all of Bradford, and Harry of Toronto, and one daughter, Mrs. Ben Steers, West Gwillimbury. A son, Robert, predeceased him a few years ago. A sister in Canada, Mrs. George Rowson, Port Nelson, and four sisters and a brother in Norfolk, England, also survive.The funeral was held on Thursday, February 5, from the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Steers, to Trinity Anglican Church, Bradford, where services were conducted by two former rectors of the church, namely Rev. H. G. Blake of Toronto and Rev. T. J. Dew of Mimico. Interment was in St. Paul's Cemetery, Coulson's Hill.The pallbearers were his four sons, Edward, John and Sydney Gapp of Bradford and Harry Gapp of Toronto, Douglas Stewart and James Steers.Flowerbearers were three grandsons, Robert, Thomas and Donald Gapp of Toronto, D. Chantler and Bill Williams.