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From: "RDCobon" <>
Subject: Re: [WARBRIDES] hooray for Annette!
Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2006 19:34:53 -0500
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Thank you Annette, job well done, I too enjoy all the lovely emails. I too
miss my Mum and reading all these wonderful emails only makes me miss
them(Mum and Dad) even more...it will be a teary day on Sat when I go to our
local cemetary for a Remembrance Day service, carrying my Dad's WW11
picture, and this year wearing the war bride pin, for my Mum....once again
thank you kindly for all your articles...Diane (daughter off war bride Jean
Tyson..ne barnett)she came over in 1944 on the Ille De france...
----- Original Message -----
From: "Connie Murdoch" <>
To: <>
Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2006 7:01 PM
Subject: Re: [WARBRIDES] hooray for Annette!


> I second, third or fourth the hooray! I've been sending all the notices to
> my mom's best friend who was also a warbride and who married my Dad's best
> friend - she is Connie Vaillant (I was named after her) and she and
another
> friend Betty Potter - who married my Dad's cousin were good friends from
the
> day they each arrived in our small villiage of Murillo just outside of
Fort
> William and Port Arthur (now Thunder Bay). My Mom, Maisie Williamson loved
> to attend the warbride events in Winnipeg that she went to. If anyone on
the
> list recognized their names please speak up because I'd love to hear from
> you.
> My mom passed away on February 27th of this year and my Dad passed away
> about 2 months later. His ashes were reunited with her on their 61st
wedding
> anniversary. Dad had said just a few weeks before that this would be the
> first time in all their years that they hadn't been together on their
> anniversary. So we made sure that the funeral was on the right day so they
> could be together again.
> My Mom would have loved to have gone to Halifax, and if she were still
here,
> I would have made sure she got there somehow. She was an organizer and a
> joiner and loved to have fun with these sorts of activities. She was
always
> organizing Halloween and Christmas parties in her apartment building -
just
> a real spark of life. I've been following all the excitement but with a
lot
> of sadness in my heart knowing that she's not here to enjoy it. It would
> have been right up her alley and it makes me miss her so knowing how she
> would have loved it and picturing her face, and hearing her sing (in my
> head) all the old songs with her accent coming back full force as it
always
> did when she got together with her Scottish friends and started to sing. I
> once took her and Dad to see Vera Lynn at the local auditorium for their
> anniversary, and she sang along with all the wartime songs. It was a great
> show. I miss them so much. Last year they laid the wreath at their Long
Term
> Care facility and it was bittersweet. I had no idea that would be their
last
> rememberance day.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> > Thanks, Linda! As you know it's a labour of love. I am one of the
> > fortunate
> > people to have a war bride in my family tree. The only difference is
that
> > my grandmother was a war bride from the First World War. She came to
> > Canada
> > in 1919.
>
>
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