- 1978, Wednesday August 2, The Almonte Gazette page 2
MRS ANNIE JAMES
Annie Adella Rintoul James passed away at the Carleton Place and District Memorial Hospital on July 17th, 1978, at the age of 72. Born on August 13, 1905, in Darling township, she was the daughter of the late James Haig Rintoul and Agnes Jane Caldwell. She was educated at S.S.#2, Darling, Lanark Continuation School and Ottawa Normal School from which she graduated in 1924. She taught school at Herron's Mills prior to her marriage on June 16, 1928, to Benjamin Edward James of the James Settlement in Lanark township. She farmed with her husband in Lanark township until 1949 and while there was, for a time, secretary-treasurer of Rosedale Cheese Factory at Union Hall. She lived briefly at Appleton and Carleton Place and then moved to Almonte in 1953 where she resided until her death. She was past-president of the Almonte Ladies' Curling Club, the first women elected to the Almonte Public School Board' a long-term member of the Women's Institute and director of the W.I. Provincial Board in 1947 and 1948 and was active in the Progressive Conservative Association, The Anglican Church Women and the Senior Citizens' Club, including the Senior Citizens' Choir. She also worked for the Prices Division of the Dominion Bureau of Statistics for a number of years until her retirement in 1970. She is survived by her children: Benjamin David of Ottawa; William Haig of R.R.6, Bowmanville, and Jane Ann Elaine (Mrs John A. Chamney) of Carleton Place; and ten grandchildren - Margaret Ann, Martha Helene and Elizabeth Jane (Jennie) James of Ottawa; Jennifer Edith Ann James of London, Ontario; Donald Thomas, Glenn William and Sheila Lynn James of Bowmanville and Lori Ann Lila, Sara Jane and Amy Melissa Chamney of Carleton Place. She is also survived by her brothers, John C. Rintoul of Lanark and David A. Rintoul of Almonte. She was predeceased by her husband in 1973 and her brother William and sister Helen a number of years ago. Funeral service was held at St. Paul's Anglican Church, Almonte on July 19, 1978, with Archdeacon John Salter officiating, assisted by Geoffrey Coupland, Burial took place at St. George's Cemetery, Clayton. The pallbearers were Ivan Gardiner, grandson Glenn James, nephews Herbert Stanley, Brian Rintoul and Harold James and her neighbour Arnold Gunn.
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