Sterling James Shrum died May 8th, 1965. He was a resident of the Halifax County Home at the time of his death.
--- In nscumber@yahoogroups.com, David Winter <davidwinter@...> wrote:
>
> Sterling James Shrum is alive on Dec 25, 1961 and living in Dartmouth but
> his obit is not on the Herald Obit. Index
>
> On Sterling's sister, Amy Elvira (Shrum) Cote's Nov 1972 obit, she only
> mentions a surviving sister, Daisy (Shrum) Topple, no sterling.
>
> Sterling James Shrum m/1 Lila May Dow on 14 Mar 1921, St. George's,
> Parrsboro, divorced (date ?). Lila May m/2 divorcee, Burpee Freeman Canning
> sometime after 1942.
>
> Dave
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> Chronicle Herald, Tuesday, December 26, 1961, pg. #19; Reel #5886, NSARM,
> Halifax, N.S.
> OBITUARY: Andrew Howard Shrum
> Andrew Howard Shrum, of Fletcher's Lake, Halifax County, died Monday at the
> Victoria General Hospital. He was 78. He was born in Dartmouth and was a
> member of Christ Church and of the Eastern Star Masonic Lodge. Surviving are
> his wife, Edith; one daughter, Marguerite (Mrs. Harry Heffler), Fletcher's
> Lake; one brother, Sterling, Dartmouth; sisters, Mrs. E.L. Cote, Dartmouth
> and Mrs. Walter Topple. The remains are resting at Mattatall's Funeral Home,
> 217 Portland Street, where funeral service will be held Thursday at 2:00
> a.m. With Rev. W. Ryder officiating. Interment in the Public Cemetery,
> Dartmouth.
>
> Source: Dave Winter, 31 May 2010
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> Chronicle Herald, Thursday, September 10, 1987, pg. #26; Reel #6299, NSARM,
> Halifax, N.S.
> OBITUARY:
> Canning, Lila G. - 85 - Parrsboro, died Sunday in Parrsboro Hospital. Born
> in Parrsboro, she was a daughter of the late Freeman and Lottie (Brown) Dow.
> She is survived by a son, ***Clair Shrum, Beijing, China***; two sisters,
> Mrs. Stella Bell, St. Stephen, N.B.; Mrs. Beryl George, Canning; two
> brothers, Glenford, Moose River, Seldon, Sudbury, Ont. She was predeceased
> by her husband, Burpee. The body is in Smith's Funeral Home, Parrsboro.
> Funeral service will be 4 p.m. Friday in Parrsboro Baptist Church, Rev. Eric
> Miner officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Donations may be
> made to South Cumberland Memorial Hospital.
>
> Source: Dave Winter, 19 Apr 2010
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