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Blanche Russell
Identified by Blanche herself
From John Tomlinson:
Blanche, a sister of Hazel Russelll, was a
daughter of W. B. Russell and Martha Norris, and a cousin of Viola
Russell and Audrey Russell. Blanche was
born 1908 and died 2000. She married R. G. Tomlinson in 1939. Blanche was
a classmate and subsequently lifelong friend of Nellie
Birdsell.
Also from John Tomlinson:
"Blanche Marjorie Russell, 1908 - 2000.
Blanche Russell was born in Burford, Brant County, Ontario. She was the second of three daughters born to Martha Jane Norris and Wilfred Bruce Russell. The Norris and Russell lines have extensive roots in Brant and Norfolk Counties respectively. Blanche’s elder sister was Hazel (MacDonald) and her younger sister was Doris (Robinson). Blanche spent much of her early childhood on a farm at Round Plains near Waterford in Norfolk County. Her father, Wilfred, farmed and also owned a butcher shop on Alice Street in Waterford. His shop was next door to the town’s jewellery store owned by R. K. Robinson whose son, William, would later wed Blanche’s younger sister, Doris. At age sixteen Blanche lost her thirty-eight-year-old father to a burst appendix, and shortly thereafter Martha Russell sold the farm and moved with her three girls into a house on Church Street in Waterford. Blanche took business training in Toronto, and until her marriage worked as a secretary for the Western Assurance Company which had offices in Toronto’s famous Gooderham (Flatiron) Building. In 1939 she married Toronto Pharmacist Reginald George Tomlinson (b. 1909, London, England), only son of Jessie and Fred Tomlinson. Reg and Blanche had one son, John Frederick, born in 1945. Blanche lost Reginald in 1970, but she maintained her health and, with the help of her family which included two grandchildren, enjoyed life in her Toronto home for the next thirty years. Blanche and Reginald are buried at Waterford’s Greenwood Cemetery."
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