Event Date : Sunday, March 18, 1956
Event Type : Death
Municipality : Newmarket, Ont.
Community : Other - Bradford
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Description : Following a stroke on January 6th, Mrs. Mary Jane Latimer passed away at York County Hospital, Newmarket, on Sunday morning, March 18, 1956. The deceased had lived with her daughter, Mrs. Edgar Kneeshaw, Bond Head, since May 7th, 1953, at which time she fell and broke her hip and had been unable to walk since.Born at Angus, May 7, 1867, she was the only daughter of the late Thomas Murphy and Agnes Crosbie. When about two years old she moved with her mother and only brother to the old Crosbie homestead in Tossoronto Township, now owned by Mr. Jim Crosbie. She attended S.S. No. 3, Tossoronto, joined Burns' Presbyterian Church at a very young age, and was a member of the W.M.S. and the Women's Institute for over fifty years.In April, 1896, she became the wife of Samuel Wesley Latimer, a member of another pioneer family of Tossoronto, where they lived with the exception of about four years in Barrie, after they gave up farming. Her husband, the late Samuel Wesley Latimer, predeceased her in March, 1941. She lived a few years in Everett, one year in Schomberg before coming to live in Bond Head with her daughter.She is survived by her only daughter, Lulough (Mrs. Edgar Kneeshaw) and one grandson, Keith Kneeshaw. Her only brother predeceased her about four years ago.The funeral was held at the Thomas Funeral Chapel, Alliston, on Tuesday, March 20, with Rev. R. Love, Bond Head and Rev. W. J. Burton, Kettleby, of the United Church of which she was a member, conducting the service. Place of interment was Alliston Union Cemetery.Pallbearers were Victor Murphy, Borden Kerr, Ross Hand, Norval Kerr, Fred Corrigan and Allan Corrigan.The many floral tributes which bore silent testimony of sympathy expressed to the bereaved were from: Bond Head
Community, Bond Head United Church and W.M.S.; and relatives and friends.Flower bearers were Elwell McKay, Wm. Madill, Wm. Orr, Jack Robinson, Cardy McLean, Gordon Bradley, Fred Amey, Herman Harvey, Wm. Sutherland, Roy Devall, Lloyd Coborn, Jack McLean.