----- Original Message ----- From: "DIANA HENRY" <dianahhenry@btinternet.com> To: "Jennifer Gibson" <celticj@icr.com.au> Cc: "sct-wigtownshire@roots" <Sct-Wigtownshire@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2007 1:04 PM Subject: Re: [WIG LIST] Death Notice/Obituary for Leslie Osborne JORDAN > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jennifer Gibson" <celticj@icr.com.au> > To: "WIGTOWNSHIRE Mailing List" <SCT-WIGTOWNSHIRE@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2007 6:21 AM > Subject: [WIG LIST] Death Notice/Obituary for Leslie Osborne JORDAN > > Dear Jenny, here is the death entry for Leslie Osborne JORDAN From the > WFP. I also enclose the entry from the acknowledgements column from the > following week. > I printed off the copy and now I discover there is a (partial) Obituary in > the next colum so I will hve to check it again - sorry. > 1/7/1971 > "JORDAN - At 95 Sheuchan Street, Stranraer, suddenly on 28th June, 1971, > Leslie Osborne Jordan, aged 67 years, beloved husband of Margaret Smith. > Funeral on Thursday, 1st July, 1971 at 12.15 p.m. to Glebe Cemetery. All > friends respectfully invited. Place of meeting, St. John's Church, London > Road." > > 8/7/1971 > "JORDAN - Mrs Margaret Jordan desires to thank all friends and neighbours > for their kind expressions of sympathy and floral tributes received in her > recent sad bereavement, doctors for unfailing attention, and Rev. A. E. > Kerrin, MA, for kind ministrations - 95 Sheuchan Street, Stranraer." > I can scan the copies if you would like. > From what I can glean from the partial obit he was an Englishman by birth, > his father coming to Portpatrick as a Coastguard. Leslie became a Manager > and Director at Messrs McHarrie in Stranraer and had joined as an > apprentice in 1921. During the war he worked with the Dept of Agriculture > in tractor servicing. He was a life-member at Dunskey Golf club. > I will send the full obit next week. > My husband remembers their son Percy, who married Nan Campbell and went to > Perth, Western Australia. She is believed to be deceased but he is > believed to be still living. > Diana > > >> G'day All, >> >> Could sks please check the WFP for a few days following 28 June 1971 for >> a death notice and/or obituary for Leslie Osborne JORDAN. He died on >> that date at 95 Sheuchan Street, Stranraer. he was the husband of >> Margaret Gibson SMITH. >> >> Many thanks. >> >> Jenny Gibson, >> Toowoomba, Australia. >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> SCT-WIGTOWNSHIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without >> the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >