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She also was know as "Nellie." Like her siblings, her birth was not registered September 23, 1925, which is after her father died. I will never know why there was such a delay.
She was shown as a seamstress on the wedding registration and her religion was noted as Methodist. John and Margaret Forrest were the witnesses.
Here is her obit:
Helen Forrest
Helen Forrest, aged 48 years, wife of Jame Forrest, 122 Tenth Street NW, died Friday evening in a local hospital following a short illness.
Born in St. Mary's Ont the late Mrs Forrest came to calgary some 20 years ago. She leaves her husband and one son, Reid; her mother Mrs G. Timms, at St. Mary's Ont., two brothers Russell Timms, St. Mary's Ont., and Jack, Winnipeg; and three sisters, Mrs. Roy Germaine, Ottawa, and two other in Chicago. An uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. W. Healy reside in Calgary.
Funeral services will be held Tuesday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock from the Foster and Foster funeral home, Rev. Dr. Imrie officiating. Burial will be made in the Union cemetery.
Published - The Calgary Daily Heard 22 AUG 1932
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The family bible extract shows her as "Mary" and Marie at birth. She is Maida in the list coming from the Haley source. She is buried next to her sister Verda May, in the St. Marys Cemetery, section N, row 4, spot 6. Verda is shown as dying on July 29, 1961. How did she get from Chicago to St. Marys?
In the 1901 census, her year of birth is shown as 1885 not 1886.
Austin says that her husband came from Colorado and that for a while, they lived in Los Angeles but mostly in Chicago. She didn't spend a lot of time living apart from her husband. I have found him in several Colorado city directories from 1922 to 1932 and Marie there as well from 1922. He seems to have done quite well. She was a steno with the State Highway Department in 1922.
The newspaper clipping for her death says that she moved to the US when young. She married James Proctor there. She resided in Detroit, Los Angles and Chicago, returning to St. Marys nine years before her death. I don't now believe that to be correct; instead I believe that she returned to Canada after the death of her husband in 1966. She lived the home of Mrs. Jessie D. Crawford. Who would that have been?
Aunt Helen says that she ran a beauty parlour - the Blue Bird Beauty Shop - in Calgary in the Hillhurst district. I can check on that when I am next there.
I believe that I have found her and her husband in Denver in 1930. They lived at 1321 Grant St. He was a real estate accountant and she was not employed outside the home. His full name was James Nelson Proctor. She came to the US in 1920. He went in 1914. He was naturalized; she was an alien. She was 34 years old when married; he was 39. They were 43 and 48 at the time of the census. So they married just after the 1920 census.
I can recall when she died as Vera was a bit upset that she did not get anything in the estate.
Here is her obit:
Mrs. James Proctor in Her 84th Year
Mrs. Marie (Timms) Proctor, formerly of Water Street South, St. Marys, passed away in Avoncrest Hospital, Stratford, on Monday April 7th in her 84th year. She was born in West NIssouri Township, a daughter on the late John Timms and his wife Elizabeth Haley. While young she moved to the United States where she married as. Proctor. She resided in Detroit, Los Angeles and Chicago, and about nine years ago returned to St. Marys where she resided at the home of Mrs. Jessie Crawford. Later she was a patient at the memorial hospital her and a week ago became a patient at the Avoncrest Hospital.
Mrs. Proctor's husband pre-deceased her. She us survived by the following nephews and nieces: Austin Timms, Blanshard Twp. Miss Vera Timms, Lester Timms and Ray and Reid Forrest all of Calgary, Lawrence Timms of Vancouver and Mrs. Helen Bierwagen of Nanimo B.C. Funeral service were conducted by Dr. R. D. Crosby on Wednesday. Burial was in St. Marys' Cemetery.
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Austin says that John and Elizabeth Timms were living in Prospect Hill in Buddulph Township in Middlesex County before they moved to St Mary's in 1918. William Russel was living with them there after his first marriage. William Russel continued to live there after John moved to St. Marys but sold the property after his first wife died and then he went out west doing carpentry work. Austin says that John R. had oxen to do his work then. This was perhaps when they lived near Wheyburn Sask. The two of them were building the local grain elevator. (The Black Donnellys were from Lucan Township.)
William Russel and his wives are buried in section AF, row 4, spot 19 of the St. Marys Cemetery.
He lived on a farm
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She was 18 years old when she and thirteen other young women started a 16,000 mile trip across the US and Canada in 2 cars in 1927. It was a "fun thing" financed by selling magazine subscriptions (120. different magazines.) The newspaper articles of the day were not very complementary; The Halifax Daily Star had a headline "Visiting Ladies Sport Trousers on Halifax Streets." The Border City Star in London Ontario reported; "Touring by Car 14 girls from the East Sell Magazines as a Sideline." A Regina publication referred to them as "Round Eyed Thrill Seekers." All the girls enjoyed a good time and went to a lot of dances.
It seems that she and her younger brother John were sent to Portugal to attend a convent school in 1926. This was after the death of her mother and her father was about to remarry.
Her obituary (I am not sure from what newspaper) reads;
On February 14, 1990, Gloria Timms, aged 81 years of Richmond and formerly of North Vancouver. Predeceased by her husband Larry and daughter Carol. Survived by her loving son, Robert; daughter-in-law Lois, grandson Darren of Richmond. Also other family members in USA. Mass of Christian burial will be celebrated Monday, February 19 at 11 A.M., in St. Edmunds parish church, 545 Mahon Ave, North Vancouver. Father A Galanti celebrant. Interment North Vancouver Cemetery. Flowers gratefully declined Donations to BC Heart Fund.
Richmond Funeral Home