YURISICH o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2007-11-22 published
FERGUSON,
Christine
A resident of the Wexford Nursing Home, Toronto, formerly, of
Sydney, Nova Scotia, passed away peacefully on Monday, November 19,
2007, age 80, at North York General Hospital. Born in Sydney,
she was the daughter of the late Sarah Jane
FERGUSON and raised
by loving foster parents, the late Donald John
MacLEOD and Mary
Ferguson MacLEOD (née
MacLEAN.)
Christine grew up on their farm
in Framboise where her life was shaped by the Depression years
of the nineteen thirties. As a young woman, she taught school
and later married at the age of 20 to Neil Alex
FERGUSON on November 20th,
1946. She was a happy homemaker giving birth to 5 children until
Neil passed away from a heart attack at only 39 years of age.
She worked very hard raising the children alone and bravely survived
the untimely death of her 8 year old daughter Sarah Anne. On
April 2, 1964 Christine married the late Edward Charles
BROWN
of Dutch Brook and gave birth to another daughter and for years
supported his auto body business until their divorce. She loved
to play bingo, dance, tend plants and tell a joke. She will be
sadly missed by her daughters, Christine Brown
CAMPBELL
(Howie,)
Marie CLEMENTS,
Cora
MacNEIL (Roy) and Belva
HOOPER (Wendel)
son, Sheldon
FERGUSON and foster sister, Helen
MORRISON.
Survived
by grandchildren; Scott
CLEMENTS,
Tracy
WADE, Ronnie
MacNEIL,
Angela YURISICH,
Andrea,
Sarah and Michael
HOOPER, Robert and
Lyndsay FERGUSON, Bhreagh, Ceilidh, Daniel and Meaghan
CAMPBELL
great-grandchildren, Michael James
WADE,
Zachary
YURISICH, Kieran
and Avery MacNEIL, and Bria
FERGUSON.
Christine was predeceased
by her first husband, Neil Alex
FERGUSON, daughter Sarah Anne,
brother, Arthur Bartholomew and former second husband, Edward
Charles BROWN.
Visitation will take place at Sydney Memorial
Chapel on Friday 7-9 p.m. A funeral service will be held in the
chapel on Saturday 11 a.m., with Nancy Whitney, DLM officiating.
Interment in Zion United Cemetery. Condolences may sent to the
family at sydmemchapel@ca.ns.sympatico.ca
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