Pharmacist’s 50-year career spent in Sydenham | and Picton Writer PICTON i Florence Boyce, Hdl in 1919 was the first married woman to Born in Jones Falls in Leeds County, she'was raised in Prince Edward County and is a he aes of Prince Edward Collegiate Insti- tute. She met her husband, Har- graduate as a pharmacist in On- old, when both were pee at tario, died here Monday atthe age same Picton boarding house. The ores, couple moved to Sydenham fol- lowing their Mrs. in honor graduate of the Ontario SCallege of Phar- macy in Toronto, was one of three women in the class. She was the only one of the three to later at- tend the University of Toronto ‘to earn a Bachelor of Pharmacy de- gree. The degree was optional until about 1929. When Mrs. Boyce first aduated the pharmacy course fea diy ‘was one year at the college, preceded by a three or four year apprenticeship with a ' “T became a pharmacist be- cause of my father-in-law,” Mrs. ined in an interview in 1980. “My father-in-law was a ‘pharmacist and so was my hus- ind, but he had worked in the ites and his qualifications were son, Albert. A brother, Stewart York, lives at reek. f Mrs. Boyce, who had been Mrs. Boyce is resting iat the| working in her father-in-' ve 3 Home in Picton enjc her job so much that she return to Black River Bridge eter come a full- d pl the spring, % oe ed for poe the chapel on at 2 p.m. Interment will be in marriage. “Drugstores were very differ- ent, in those days from what they are today,” she once recalled. “We did a lot of our own manufactur- ing pens from the ineiycuel in- though not in the same sense as today. They were put up in papers, ea folded paper holding once dose,” Mrs. Boyce spent 38 years in the, pharmacy and after retirement) worked part-time in all of the tour 's iy stores until a few yethe s College of Pharmacy gavel her a 50th anniversary certificate od to mark her long career. he is survived by a daughter, a. Vinal Clarke (Rosemary) of| Oshawa, and predeceased by a Friday PRianc EDwatp Co i-Biege lee e Foren ye aera . ESWARS FLORENCE BOYCE se hig Standard eb. 18) 1982