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Retirement party for Eleanor Coombs family honored at Christmas
A community gathering in the Hamiota area celebrates Eleanor Coombs with a Christmas presentation led by Louise Armstrong and others. Mayor Harold McLaren reads a life summary as Cyril Anderson receives a scroll from the Post Office. Gifts include a wall clock and barometer, a money tree, and a ribbon with nearly six hundred names.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louise Armstrong
Mary Gray
Johnnie Riddell
Harold McLaren
Coombs
Jack Boyd
You
Cyril Anderson
Virden
Canada
Myrt Caldwell
Guy Miller
Eleanor
Amy Grant
Post Office
Merv Pedlow
Cathie Thompson
Bessie Houck
Marion McDougall
Libby McConnell
Jim Longmuir
Herb
Jean Lynas
Ida Strachan
Gordon
Florence Gray
John
Irene Ridley
Maurice
Dorothy Francis
Amy Harrison
Dave
Gertie Miller
Charlie Ross
The
Hamiota Co-op 1958 Ltd
Sarah Barnes
Perlmutters
Vern
Agnes Litzenberger
Oakden’s Jewellery
Elva Cochrane