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    3. UNKNOWN PAPER - AUGUST 1970 WILLIAM GRAHAM REID - Sorrowing relatives and many friends gathered at the Mattatall Funeral Home, Truro, on Friday afternoon, August 14, at 2 p.m. for the funeral service of William Graham REID of 53 Archibald Street, Truro who died at home on Tuesday afternoon, August 11, following a three-month illness. The service was conducted by Rev. D.A. METZLER, minister of the Brunswick Street United Church, and Rev. D. MacEACHERN, Chaplain at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College a former minister of the Brunswick Street United Church. Member of the church choir led in the singing of the hymns "The Lord Is My Shepherd" and "Now The Laborer's Task Is O'er". Fred CUMING sang the solo "You'll Never Walk Alone." E.O. HODGE officiated at the organ. The principal, members of the faculty, members of Mr. REID's graduating class, and fellow students of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College, as well as friends from the Department of Agriculture and Marketing sat as a body in the front of the chapel, and served as flower bearers. The many floral tributes, gifts to the Memorial Fund of the Brunswick Street United Church, Gideon Memorial Bibles, the Lillian Fraser Memorial Hospital, Tatamagouche, and the Canadian Cancer Society, as well as numerous messages received brought consolation to the family and testified to the esteem in which he was held. Following the service the funeral cortege proceeded to the Bell Gift Memorial Cemetery, West New Annan, where interment took place, the committal service being conducted by Mr. METZLER and Mr. MacEACHERN. Pallbearers were Winston BLACK, Bruce TALBOT, Lloyd BLACK, Ronald MacDONALD, John NOWLAND, Richard AUDAS, all of Truro and Gary ARCHIBALD, Antigonish. Mr. REID, who was 25 years of age, was born in Truro, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Dougall REID. Mr. REID was a member of the Committee of Steward of Brunswick Street United Church. He received his education in the Truro Schools and the Nova Scotia Agricultural College, where he was a graduate.

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