Lori:
Thanks for sharing this. I looked today in the Chronicle Herald Obit Index
in the Halifax Archives but it stops at Jan 1999 so I figured she must have
died sometime after that date.
Dave
On 12/8/08 1:38 PM, "lori" <blusky52@...> wrote:
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> Hi Everyone:
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> Hopefully, this will help someone:
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> [Saturday, August 24, 2002 The Halifax Herald Limited-Lori]
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> DAVIDSON, Margaret Annie "Peggy" - Gables Lodge, Amherst, formerly of Main
> Street, Springhill, passed away peacefully on Thursday, August 22, 2002, in
> the lodge.
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> Peggy was born in Springhill to the late Arthur "Scotty" and Cara (Slater)
> Davidson on June 27, 1918.
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> She will be missed by her sister, Sarah "Sally" Knight and her nieces,
> Margaret Slade, Carolyn Haycroft and Sally Perehudoff, as well as by her many
> friends. For most of her life Peggy taught in the Springhill school district.
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> Her students appreciated her in the classroom and continued to recognize her
> contribution to their lives after they graduated. The acknowledgements from
> her students were her treasures and the letters she received from former
> students were among her most prized possessions.
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> Below you will find an excerpt from a class poem written to her in 1976. Peggy
> was a pillar of the Springhill community and was honoured in 1988 as
> "Volunteer of the Year" for the Cumberland County area.
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> Her many volunteer activities included over 58 years with the Girl Guides of
> Canada who presented her with the Nova Scotia Mayflower Award, one of their
> most prestigious provincial awards. Her contributions live on in all the
> people whose lives she influenced so positively.
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> Visitation 7-9 p.m. Sunday, August 25, in A. H. Brown Funeral Home,
> Springhill. Funeral service 11 a.m. Monday, August 26, in The All Saints
> Anglican Church, Springhill, Rev. Frank Likely officiating.
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> Burial in Hillside Cemetery, Springhill.
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> "She had a special way for teaching/Mixed with her own kind way/Of teaching
> the cold hard facts/To the students every day./She worked long hours, day and
> night/To solve problems for every child,/Beneath her strict teaching voice/Her
> gentle eyes - they smiled".
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> Lori
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