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    1. [MBWINNIPEG-L] George Earnest Carpenter - Obit.
    2. This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Carpenter, Inch, Hartley, Kearins, Penney, Dojack, Woods, Young, Holman, Cowell, Wilson Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/mNC.2ACE/2420 Message Board Post: >From the Winnipeg Free Press, Thursday, May 5, 1977, page 59, under Deaths and Funerals. "Mr. George E. Carpenter, at Central Park Lodge, 70 Poseldon Bay, on May 2, 1977, aged 97 years. Born in Stratford, Ont. in 1879, Mr. Carpenter came to Winnipeg in 1902 as traffic Officer for the Canadian Pacific Railway. In 1916 he joined the Canadian Manufactures Association for which he organized the prairie division, acting as manager for thirty - three years, until his retirement in 1949. He also represented the employers group of the Workman's Compensation Board. He was made a life member of the Sturgeon Creek Masonic Lodge in 1970. He is survived by his daughters, Mrs. Dorothy Inch of Ventura, Calif., Mrs. Jean Hartley of Calgary, Alta., Mrs. Grace Kearins of Largo, Fla., Mrs. Beth Penney of Toronto, Ont., and Mrs. Anne Dojoak of Ottawa, Ont.. Also surviving are eighteen grandchildren, many great - grandchildren and two great - great - grandchildren. Funeral service will be held on Thursday, May 5, 1977 at 2:15 p.m. at the Leatherdale Gardiner Funeral Chapel, 232 Kennedy St., followed by burial in Chapel Lawn Cemetery, the Rev. James C. Woods officiating. Honorary pallbearers will be Messrs; Arthur Inch, K. L. M. Hartley, Norman Penney, Carles Dojack and Harry D. Young. Active pallbearers will be Messers, David Holman, Clark Cowell, Ron Dojack, John Dojack, Frank Dojack and Mr. Justice J. E. Wilson. Leatherdale Gardiner Funeral Chapel in care of arrangements. Phone 942 - 5494." For information only. The poster is not related to nor is researching any of the above.

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