Viola Genevieve Miller

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1989, Wednesday January 18, The Almonte Gazette page 18

?b?Viola Genevieve Reid?/b?
Pakenham resident Viola Genevieve Reid, a recipient of the Ontario Bicentennial Award, died at the Almonte General Hospital Jan 2, 1989 after an illness of more than five years. She was in her 86th year. Born the daughter of the late Christopher Wesley and Annabelle Kinch Miller in Antrim on Oct 10, 1903. she was educated in Fitzroy Township. The Antrim native was married to Murray L. Reid in Antrim May 14, 1923. A resident of Pakenham Township throughout 65 years of married life, Mrs Reid contributed to the community through various efforts. She was a life member of the Cedar Hill Women's Institute and leader of adult Women's Institute courses. He community involvement included church work, member in the North Lanark Agricultural Society and leadership of numerous 4-H courses. Mrs Reid was a valued member of the Pakenham Horticultural Society. Her volunteer efforts in the community were recognized when she received the Ontario Bicentennial Award in 1984. Later in life Mrs Reid's primary interest became genealogy. She spent many hours carefully researching and compiling history. Mr Reid is left to mourn her passing along with her sons Lloyd of Almonte and Lyle of Pakenham; daughter Lois (Mrs Gordon Lowe) of Carleton Place; sister Roxanna MacHardy of Galetta, six grandchildren and five greatgrandchildren. Mrs Reid was predeceased by her brother William R. and her grandson Gregory Lowe. Rev Tom Lowry conducted the funeral at the C.R. Gamble Funeral Home chapel in Almonte Jan 5, 1989. The place of burial was the Auld Kirk Cemetery. The pallbearers were John Henry, Willard Giles, Henry Deugo, Glen Lawson, Elmer Boal and Carson Timmons.

Viola married Murray Lawson Reid on 14 May 1923 in Antrim, Fitzroy Township, Carleton County, Ontario, Canada. Murray (son of William Paul Reid and Janet Bayne Lawson) was born on 7 Dec 1904 in Cedar Hill, Pakenham Township, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; died on 11 Oct 2000 in Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; was buried on 13 Oct 2000 in Auld Kirk Cemetery, Ramsay, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Lyle Lawson Reid was born in 1928; died on 8 Jul 2022; was buried in Auld Kirk Cemetery, Ramsay, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada.
2. Lloyd Reid
3. Lois Reid

Christopher married Annabelle Kinch. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]