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Notes for James “Ernest” MILLAR


Was employed by Canadian Pacific Railway, Telegraph.

His obituary from the Perth Courier Newspaper, July 29, 1965:

Although enduring idifferent health for a number of years, the end came suddenly for Ernest James Millar on June 19th, 1965, in the GWM Hospital, Perth.

Mr. Millar was the eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas H. Millar, and was born at Allan’s Mills near Snow Road on May 16th, 1990. His wife Clara, second daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. John Gemmill, passed away on August 14th, 1940, after a brief three years of married life. Surviving close relatives include his daughter, Mrs. Leonard Gemmill, her husband and three children of Perth, a sister, Mrs. A.M. Wood of Snow Road and a brotehr, Max Millar, also of Snow Road. A brother Bert died on July 14th, 1945, and another brother,Freddie, was taken in early childhood.

Mr. Millar was a valued member of the Snow Road Presbyterian Church and belonged to the IOOF Lodge of of Snow Road for 40 years.

Funeral services were conducted from the Jackson Funeral Home to Knox Presbyterian Church, McDonald’s Corners and thence to Crawford Cemetery, with Rev. S.M. Murdey and Rev. R.J. Gillanders officiating.

The pallbearers were brother Oddfellows Bert Shanks, Roy Fournier, Harry Trombley, Elmer Gemmill, Fred Trombley and Eldred Gemmill. Nieces carried the many beautiful flowers with which numerous other expressions of sympathy testified to the esteem and affection with which he was regarded.

The patience, Christian fortitude and never-fading cheerfulness with which he bore more than the normal share of life’s disappointments and discouragements will long be remembered by all who knew him.



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