>Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 18:38:02 -0600 >To: [email protected] >From: "Carolyn Wallace" <[email protected]> > >Bad Fall:LEVANGIE,Mrs. Nancy-1942 > > >The Eastern Chronicle, New Glasgow,N.S.-Thursday, Feb.12, 1942: > > >Aged Woman Hurt In Fall > Antigonish, Feb.11- Mrs. Nancy LEVANGIE, of Frankville, a woman of >between 94 and 100, who walked two and a half miles to church at Havre >Boucher one Sunday morning recently is in St.Martha;s Hospital suffering >from a broken hip. Mrs. Lavangie's strength at so advanced an age- some of >her neighbours believe she is closer to the century mark than the >conservative 94 years shown in the hospital records- has won the admiration >of those who know her. Everybody is sorry to learn of the mishap. Mrs. >Lavangie has lived in the same house at Frankville for 80 years. She was >twice married, the first husband the late Mr. DeCoste, a widower, with a >large family, died some 70 years ago. Three sons and a daughter form this >union are living, the sons each being over 75 years old, Her husband's first >family was also marked by longevity; about ten years ago eight of his >children who were Mrs. Lavangie's stepchildren, were living, all past >eighty. > Her second husband, Agustus Lavangie, died in 1917 at the age of 101. >Since the death of her second husband, Mrs. Lavangie and her daughter, >Eliza, have occupied the old home at Frankville. > >xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >Carolyn Wallace