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Obituary Dean Gibbons was 1962 Citizen of Year A former Citizen of the Year in 1962 Madeleine Gibbons died Wednes day February 11 in the where she trained and served St Michael Toronto She was one of the town s best loved many this past week have been ex changing stones of how Dean helped them and their child Born in Acton August 7 1900 Miss Gibbons first worked as a clerk in the Henderson McLean drug store after graduating from Acton public and continuation She entered St Michael School of Nursing in Toronto in and fulfilled lifelong ambition by grad ualing is registered nurse June 1929 One of 10 spec Gordon Sinclair praises In his radio news broadcast on Thursday Gordon Sinclair spoke of Dean hi Gibbons Surprised S subsequent listeners were happy to hear treatments for lung cancer her praises sung had proven successful she tngulshed broadcaster Here is what Mr Sinclair hi token courtesy of CFRB well 12 1976 Mass Saturday n Aird jmduating the she the prize for in bedside nursing Miss Gibbons spent the next yeirs of her life car in for comforting the sick at St Michael s the Ithoujjh very close to I In parish her hod been part of Miss was a friend of people faiths They came to he help and were always looked after She used her experience to locally to assist the St John in their program Kid with blood clinics She hud been at St Michel Is for six Can spring be far behind I ind Hill arms on is knee deep in babies these days George above admires pair of handsome spotted of ewe herd I his bright baby bunny left poses for the while immy the young goat right too sure The piece tie resistance at Hill is hysterical chicks like bees sight sound With limbing season well under way tern like we kid recently can spring be far behind she loved For for ihose years sin was in of the hospitals nursery officials estimate that romi IS babies earnc under her care during that time Persons she it birth their families and rc- were among the many who called to express it her passing full wis Mary but to her friends in Aeton she was Youngsters even tilled Aunt Dean Doe Smyc eel the Funeral Mass St Joseph Church Saturday with Acton native father Mike a close firmly friend assisting father Vincent Morgan retired of St Josephs dso it tended the Interment followed at St Joseph emetery near the Dublin ice of Miss father Illlbc irers were i nephew irv Gibbons ill of Toronto former neighbor Harry of Tug ind close friends of the family Marzo Dill Is Duval ill Miss Gibbons is survived by two brothers Thomas Acton and Frank of Guelph She was predeceased by a sister Agnes and brother Neil ally The Acton Free Press Wed Febr 1976 IS Obituary Ainley Croft dies At the remarkable age of years and months Richard Ainley Croft passed away Feb Gat the Wellington Terrace Elora He had only been confined to bed for four days before his death Mr Croft was born at It 1 on Nov 1880 He was a fanner and after retiring from the farm worked as a laborer for the Department or He had been at Wellington i half years and before that lived on Station St in Itock wood lie wis in Mary who pre deceased him in 1948 Survivors who handled liter winds of new born babies during her 15 years as Head of the nursery it St Michaels Hospital has died at that hospital Madeleine Gibbons retired from the hospital to Acton when her mother died about years ago Agnes Mrs I don know what iilmenl brother Stanley she suffered but she was Toronto and sisters brought into St n w Guelph Tuesday and t make it j ij Mrs Aim On Madleints return to I Mrs Thr Acton she wis hailed there i- woman of the year Ainley Croft predeceased by brothers Alfred funeral service was Feb it he Wall chapel conducted bv the Garfiefd Roes Interment was Hoc wood cemetery were five nephews and one grandson Mitchell Mitchell Camp Don Croft Rock wood Leslie Alan Guelph cTnp Ida Croft Guelph He JitkBiynton Obituary Harvey Palmer dies After a illness Wilfred Palmer died Guelph Hospital Monday Januiry He his year tune Former Acton man dies in Bracebridge ind St lament on tin bagpipes v is tin fin to the late Dean she Michael hive known wis Around the is iffettionalt ibb When her mother Mir I me pissed iw returned home to ire for her father Thorn i Two years liter she bee i work is a clerk it Cooper drugstore where she wis we known for he to fir orc lyeii hi his at the last rid morning Knox in I George Robert Brow nice died it Mi il short illness Horn near tin I Robert ind I Stores of Itrnel retirenunt lived lb for fiw before r to ith his fu of or j mothers mxious to know if it would hurt their to too much whit to feed them Shi givennnvof Atlon s citizens their first bath Miss Gibbons continued as it the same Mill St location where present ink of Commerce is situalid first for Ken then Morn if tht Public maintain rinks Outdoor rinks ime undcr discussion once tit the Acton and Recreation Com meeting Thursda evening Recreation progrim i John Cooper hid the group their opinion on whether the town should set up ind main tin rinks or whether groups of people or clubs should take ire of them Mr Cooper explained It takes two or three men one entire day to set up i rink and it his to be flooded two limes week He pointed out that the rinks ire untuned from the middle of the middle of February or March Pirn Sheldon was opposed to the town men maintaining the She snd she thought if the kids want to skite bid enough they will do the work themselves money bother thought I I ike should be put to somi use as itine rink Mr Cooper lined tint there could be legal In bill on the like Mrs tile would be old she clerked for Hill limit it Alton nnev Slit vears is rttirtri in lilt fall of em honored with i retirement party at that Unit 1- ill is il i red letter date on Miss Gibbons calendar year she would take a of hours from a busy Saturday it the drug store to act as a judge at the Fall F air jMoplt it by show of whither the St Josephs shovel the snow themselves knew her not or p mil tin inn Shi pointed mil tint if d Miss devotions id lown cut ii iik on ul leader one who at monts this is good pi ice to he depended Toronto is i lw mil wis edue including his elcejct mil It it the University of Toronto He ilso I iter nullified for the It in ins lone nth in the public school svsl of nrrer Mr lirounlte w is for 41 irs of them as principal I his eluded shorter terms it II Smiii schools mil for time is of Sehnol Shirts were ilwavs one of bis gre it mttrists he loathed ill mil bill learns in sthoeils He also coached minor the irs he lived in w is the of tin Softbill tt He served is director of the Northwest wis i past of the York Township liusiness mil Mens i and Archie MeUin of Arthur all relatives Keith of and lonetimi from Wood bridge I Davis ind Victor Milts the Senior Ciliens Club Affectionate tribute is iJe to Mr his ill friends in the Senior Club it a simie on Thursday in noon in r Mr Brownlet hid been with tht work ft of the club and other ic up until hi was taken ill rut or financing utile funeril si I ml tin tin IVUlf tin dutteel by the Rev Chirks Beaton were held on Jinuary Pi it the Burnley Shoemaker tuner Interment the On March 17 1JG2 in Acton United church he m irried Margaret Ilester now re siding at St Mr Palmer worked for I ither I in Aurori and Beirdmore Co I for 45 ye irs until retiring from in June He injoved help his family ind friends in am possible Mr P ilmer loved to build improve homes He is predeceased by his first wife Beatrice Obee in I ind one son William of Guelph October Mr timer is survived by his sons and daughters Mrs Mrs Shirley and John of Acton Donald of Brampton Mrs in McDonald Bronte Mrs Bolton ind Mrs Joan Jackson Oak ville He gnndchildren and seven Pillbearers were John lovell Murny Smith all of Aeton Jim McDemot of and Glen Near of FIRST LINE TELEVISION SALES and SERVICE 5 Mill St E Acton func anyway ind do so church they could test the ice for Mr I mn She served as president thickness and thus safenevs recommend in to Womin s i Mr it the town men si up the mcL firmlies We the lint church choir When wedding hive i thine there them Ml hi were common at we ire wasting it it members with Ibis iseph during the said He wt on to lie in pastorship of I- in favored the end of f Drive is spot for Mr Cooper out there ire rinks in Aeton four in and one il Pine view which is main lined the school He tint such places as I could not hive rinks because of the question of v it ildtr the It was in IJ41 tint he met ind married Norma Mel in of Wtstmount Quebec whe survives him with then two sons C len of Richmond Hill and Warren of Toronto Mr Cooper said 1 wis spent 1 ist year on the six rinks making to set up md maintain Mrs Sheldon mikmCj the rinks ivirhblt for underdevelopnd countries Interdenominational Church Service SUNDAY FEB 22 7 30 KNOX PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH GUEST SPEAKER FRANK PHILBROOK MP Film Discussion Coffee iSSOC All Welcome February PAINT no WALLPAPER SALE O All Paint and 7Q Wallpaper OFF Book CIL PAINTS WALLPAPERS by 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