Biographie Barker Queenie
Lancaster - Funeral services for Mrs.
Queenie Elizabeth Lalonde were held at McArthur Brothers and MacNeil Funeral
Home, Second St. East on June 23 at 2 p.m. Rev. Robert Blair, minister of Knox
Unit Church, where she was a member, officiated at the service, which was
followed by burial in St. Andrews cemetery, South Lancaster. Pallbearers were
six grandsons; Lawrence Brady, William Brady Jr., Douglas MacPherson, Clifford
Lalonde, James Lalonde, and Michael Lalonde. Mrs. Lalonde was 84, and had been
a resident of Glen-Stor-Dun Lodge for four years. She died in Cornwall General
Hospital after an illness of about two weeks duration, on June 20. Mrs. Lalonde
spent much of her life here. She was a native of London, England, her birth
place being the district known as Old Kent Road. Her parents were George Barker
and her mother was the former Minnie Pannell. She is survived by a son, Alex
Lalonde, here and a daughter Mary of Woodstock, Ont. Two daughters, Tassiebelle
and Margaret, predeceased her. Mrs. Lalonde came to Canada as a girl of only 10
years. Born April 18, 1887, she was brought to this country after her mother
died and she was placed in Mrs. Birk's Home. She had five sisters, one of them
her twin, named Emma. However, they were all placed in different homes across
Canada and the children lost touch with each other over the years, with the
exception of the twin who lived nearby until her death in 1937. Mrs. Lalonde
was married in Montréal on March 31, 1913 to Donald Lalonde, who died in 1966.
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