WHJTBY FREE PRESS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1978, PAGE 3 Judy, Morgan opens shop, in great grandfather's store, There are flot many busi- ness people who can saythey are opening a store lni a build- ing which has been owned by their famly for 86 years'. One person who can cor- rectly make this daim is Judy Morgan who opened a'flower' store' in the forme r Collins shoe store Feb. 3. Mrs.. Morgan's great grand- father, Mathias W. Collins, moved bis shoe business into the store on Brock' Street in 1892, and the business was later operated by Mathias' son Russell and Russell's sn obh. .Mrs. Morgan's mother, Mis. Claude Taft, is a daughter of the late Russell Collins, and thus. the famnily connection,. Bob Collins, Mis. Morgan's uncle,closed the shoe business in August 1977 after -more than 100 years as'-a faniily operation. The store has taken a new lease on life under the namfe of "Judy's Flowers"'. It is a complete florist shop with fresh flowers for ail occasions, distinctive designs in silk and dried flowers, and flowerîng and green )Ianitç. Mrs. Morgan was born in Oshawa and has ived in Whitby since the age of five. Many ýWhitby residents wiJl remember her as Judy Taft, the Teen Queen of Whitby's Centennial celebrations in 1955. 1She has raised a family. of two boys, and three years ago decided to go into 'business'. She worked for three years for a florist in Oshawa, and started a free lance business from lier home in Septemnber 1977., In: November she opened a florist's, studio on Dundas Street. Mrs. Morgan, whose hus- band is an employee of a local car dealership, says she has always benin interested in plants an 'd flowers and crea- tive arts of ail kinds. Judy Morgan, proprietor of Iudy's FloWers, has'opeiied ber store i the former'Collins Shoe Store, which bas been owned by members of hber family for 86 years. Mrs. Morgan's niother is a daughter of the late Russell Collins, and Bob Collins,the last'proprietor of the store is ber uncle. Free Press Photo. 911 SROCK ST. M. WIITOY THEHOM 0F1 QIARBROUED Cl I O LD IC4 AV#C AM A r% A PU r7 WATERLOO CAMBRIDGE LOBSTE R TAI1L N IGHT TO AVOID DELAY PLEASE CALL FOR RESERVATIONS 668-369 EVERY WEDNESDAY 15 SURF & TURF NIGHT $7,95 LONDON à STRATFORO BRAMPTON Dul Trading NEO CITRAN 'Adui 1O's, *1. 29 ISPOSABLE '1.99 r ROBITUSSIN Dm 1n2.9 6t Nour Cougis t AMPONSL» '2.19 1 '2e49 COURTICE-ALLIN PHARMACY' Il17 Stock St. N. WHiITDY 06-2394 uuuu., ARRID mon 48% BONUS 12J ln49 13ABY SHMPOO 1 m49 cfflom MABS im 77* ABSORBENT PUJFFS 300s, 790 OM 1599 CREST TDOTHPASTE 99! :mhuf ont .im Stayfree MAXI-PADS 730 1h M Vaseline INTENSIVE GARE *1.59 am mi LOTIO %%. w »«Wb BRECK SHAMPOO j'1.77 -msw BAILEY I.D.A. PHARMACV 362 Brock St. S. WHITOY 668-2100 1 < 1 3 -