Benjamin Scott Armstrong
Husband Benjamin Scott ARMSTRONG (details suppressed for this person)
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Father: Anthony "Tony" ARMSTRONG Mother: Tracy Ann ALEXANDER
Wife (details suppressed for this person)
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Children
Larry Bieber and Bonita Marie Armstrong
Husband Larry BIEBER (details suppressed for this person)
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Wife Bonita Marie ARMSTRONG (details suppressed for this person)
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Father: Leslie John ARMSTRONG (1929-1977) Mother: Lois Marie PICKARD
Other Spouse: Kevin Joseph PIGEON
Children
1 M Michael John BIEBER (details suppressed for this person)
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Kevin Joseph Pigeon and Bonita Marie Armstrong
Husband Kevin Joseph PIGEON (details suppressed for this person)
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Wife Bonita Marie ARMSTRONG (details suppressed for this person)
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Father: Leslie John ARMSTRONG (1929-1977) Mother: Lois Marie PICKARD
Other Spouse: Larry BIEBER
Children
Bradley John Armstrong and Jo-Anne Grunewald
Husband Bradley John ARMSTRONG (details suppressed for this person)
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Father: Leslie John ARMSTRONG (1929-1977) Mother: Lois Marie PICKARD
Marriage:
Wife Jo-Anne GRUNEWALD (details suppressed for this person)
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Children
1 M Chad Leslie ARMSTRONG (details suppressed for this person)
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2 M Craig Robert ARMSTRONG (details suppressed for this person)
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Brian Harold Armstrong and Gloria Jeanne Bradley
Husband Brian Harold ARMSTRONG (details suppressed for this person)
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Father: Clarence Edgar "Army" ARMSTRONG (1911-1989) Mother: Ann SWEENEY (1916-2006)
Marriage:
Other Spouse: Heather Spring FLEMING
Other Spouse: Sandy Marie STAGG
Wife Gloria Jeanne BRADLEY (details suppressed for this person)
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Children
1 M Steven Todd ARMSTRONG (details suppressed for this person)
Born: Christened: Died: Buried:Spouse: Kathleen O'BRIEN (living)
2 M Michael Brian ARMSTRONG (details suppressed for this person)
Born: Christened: Died: Buried:Spouse: Jennifer GROSSI (living)
3 M Allan Thomas ARMSTRONG (details suppressed for this person)
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4 M Christopher Johnathan ARMSTRONG (details suppressed for this person)
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Brian Harold Armstrong and Heather Spring Fleming
Husband Brian Harold ARMSTRONG (details suppressed for this person)
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Father: Clarence Edgar "Army" ARMSTRONG (1911-1989) Mother: Ann SWEENEY (1916-2006)
Marriage:
Other Spouse: Gloria Jeanne BRADLEY
Other Spouse: Sandy Marie STAGG
Wife Heather Spring FLEMING (details suppressed for this person)
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Children
Brian Harold Armstrong and Sandy Marie Stagg
Husband Brian Harold ARMSTRONG (details suppressed for this person)
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Father: Clarence Edgar "Army" ARMSTRONG (1911-1989) Mother: Ann SWEENEY (1916-2006)
Marriage:
Other Spouse: Gloria Jeanne BRADLEY
Other Spouse: Heather Spring FLEMING
Wife Sandy Marie STAGG (details suppressed for this person)
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Children
Brian Leslie Armstrong
Husband Brian Leslie ARMSTRONG
Born: 17 Mar 1963 - Seaforth, Huron, Ont, Can Christened: 1963 - Stanley, Huron, Ont, Can Died: 22 Jul 1965 - Stanley, Huron, Ont, Can Buried: Jul 1965 - Bayfield Ont
Father: Leslie John ARMSTRONG (1929-1977) Mother: Lois Marie PICKARD
Noted events in his life were:
• Burial Location
Bayfield Cemetery
Wife
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Children
Brooke Lauren Armstrong
Husband
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Wife Brooke Lauren ARMSTRONG (details suppressed for this person)
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Father: Dean Michael ARMSTRONG Mother: Kimberly Ann GOLDSWORTHY
Children
Bruce Weston Armstrong and Jean "Bernice" McKellar
Husband Bruce Weston ARMSTRONG
Born: 7 Dec 1914 - Stanley, Huron, Ont. Can. Christened: Died: 10 Apr 1988 - Hibbert, Twp., Ont., Can. Buried: Apr 1988 - Bayfield, Ont.
Father: George Robert ARMSTRONG (1890-1972) Mother: Pearl ZAPFE (1894-1971)
Marriage: 1 Dec 1945 - Cromarty, Ont., Can.
Noted events in his life were:
• Birth Location
At the Armstrong Homestead on Con. 11 Lot 13 Stanley.
• Burial Location
Bayfield Cemetery, Plot 296F
• Occupation
Farmer
• Residences
Tuckersmith Twp. and Hibbert Twp.
Wife Jean "Bernice" McKELLAR
Born: 5 Sep 1925 Christened: Died: 4 Feb 2008 - Seaforth, Huron, Ont., Can. Buried: 6 Feb 2008 - Bayfield, Ontario.
Noted events in her life were:
• Burial Location
Bayfield Cemetery, Bayfield, Ontario.
• Death Location
Seaforth Manor Nursing Home.
• Occupation
Housewife and Mother
Children
1 M Gerald Bruce ARMSTRONG (details suppressed for this person)
Born: Christened: Died: Buried:Spouse: Mary Jane RAU (living)
2 M Rannie George ARMSTRONG (details suppressed for this person)
Born: Christened: Died: Buried:Spouse: Margaret KNETSCH (living)
General Notes (Husband)
By Gwen Patterson with help from Bun.
Bruce Weston Armstrong's parents, George and Pearl, had gone out west "too help with the harvest." When Pearl found out that she was pregnant, she returned home before Bruce was born and she lived with her father-in-law, George, on the Goshen Line. Bruce was born in the Armstrong stone house on December 07, 1914. After his Dad returned, the family moved to a farm in Tuckersmith, then to one on the London Road and finally, when Bruce was about ten, to the farm he would remember as 'home'. It was Lot 28, Con. III London Road Survey, Tuckersmith Twp. He attended S.S. # 3, Tuckersmith. Following completion of Grade 8, he worked on the farm with his Dad and also worked on neighbouring farms where he earned 50 cents a day.
Bruce was a fun-loving fellow, always ready for a party. He played the violin by ear and with a "sweet touch" and he loved to dance. Indeed, later he would be the one to teach his nieces how to dance. When they were little, they would stand on his toes and he would waltz, fox trot or polka to the music until they learned the beat and could do the dances properly.
When the Second World War broke out, Bruce applied but was rejected because of his heart. He had suffered rheumatic fever as a lad. So, to do his part during the war, he and his friends worked at a Munitions factory in St Catherines. They would travel back and forth each weekend. By this time, Bruce had purchased his own farm, Lot 9 Con. XII Tuckersmith. He was 'batching' it here, when one night he and some friends attended a dance in Exeter. There he spotted a lovely young lady and he asked for a dance. He and Bernice "Bun" McKellar had a couple of dances and when the evening came to an end, they went there separate ways. But Bun was smitten and she kept looking for Bruce at the weekly dances for a long time, but he didn't show up! She would later learn that he was in the London Hospital with gall bladder attacks! He never would have his gall bladder removed, but learned to treat the attacks.
However, Bruce was smitten too, and eventually they met again and began to date. He and Bernice were often at dances and get togethers. Bruce and Jean Bernice McKellar were married December 01, 1945 in the Cromarty Church manse.
Bernice was born September 05, 1925, daughter of Lindsay and Gladys (Miller) McKellar. She grew up in Cromarty and attended S.S. # 6 Hibbert School on Lot 16, Con. XIII. Her teacher there was Ross MacKay, and besides teaching the usual curriculum, he delighted in teaching the pupils how to do the Step Dances, Square Dances, Scottish dances, (Highland Fling and Sword Dance), play the piano, especially the chords so as to accompany the violin, and even hook rugs. Bernice learned all of these and excelled at the dancing. Indeed, when she was Step Dancing her feet were fairly flying! She was so proud to wear the 'proper' Scottish attire of plaid skirt, white blouse, black vest and tartan sash. Bun would later go on to be part of a Square Dance group that won first prize in 1954, at the Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto.
Bruce and Bun farmed for a time after they were married, on the farm on Lot 9, Con. XII in Tuckersmith. They were there when their two sons were born. Gerald Bruce was born June 04, 1947 and Rannie George was born July 23, 1949. Both boys were born in the Seaforth Hospital.
In the early 1950's Bruce and Bun bought a farm in Hibbert Twp.on the Staffa Road; east half of Lot 30, Con IX. Here the boys would grow up and attend school down the road at S.S. # 4, Hibbert. Bruce was active with the School Board and he was one of the last trustees for that school before it was closed and the rural schools were amalgamated into large central ones and the pupils bussed to school.
This was the farm that was just two miles east of the farm that Bruce's sister Beatrice and her family lived on. Every Saturday night the families alternated hosting the other to card games (euchre, canasta, or solo), wrestling or hockey on T.V. (if you were at Bruce's), then sandwiches, pickles, and cake. What good memories!
The family farmed there until 1967, when on April 17th a tornado went through and destroyed the house, barn and sheds. Bruce and Bun escaped by climbing under the front porch which luckily had a cement foundation around it! They then bought a farm a couple of miles farther east on the Staffa road, Lot 20, Con. IX. By this time the boys were in their teens and early twenties. They were a good help on the farm. Bruce had always loved his horses and there were always two or three on this farm. Bun said they were 'just for looks', but the boys did ride them, sometimes so fast that their tails were straight out behind them as they tore across the fields! This was their farm until 1988.
Once the boys were gone and Bruce and Bun were on their own, Bruce did some collecting of antiques and they did some traveling. They liked to go to Florida with friends, and they went across Canada. They went to Nashville, for the music, of course. And they continued to attend dances and enjoy time with friends. They followed the weekly dances held at Family Paradise, Unionville and Pineridge Chalet, just to name a few. Bun would laugh at how the women would almost 'line up' to request a waltz with Bruce. He was one smooth dancer!
Bruce and Bun had been at a reception one Saturday evening. They had danced and had a grand time. The next morning, Sunday, April 10, 1988, Bruce went to the barn to do the chores. When he didn't arrive back at the house when he should have, Bun went out to look for him, and there she found him in the barn. He had suffered a heart attack and died. Although it was very hard for the family, they do believe that Bruce would have wanted it to be this way. When it was his time to go, it was quick. Bruce would never have wanted to be 'laid up'. Bruce is buried in the Bayfield Cemetery, Plot 296F. How he is missed!
Bun sold the farm and moved into an apartment on Victoria St. in Seaforth. There she continued to enjoy visiting friends and family. She and her lady friends enjoyed attending functions where there was good old-time entertainment provided with fiddles and accompanied by the piano. She declares that it is getting harder to find these good groups because she notices that the musicians seldom tap their toes to the beat, as good musicians should!
When health issues and mobility became a major concern, Bun moved, in 2004, into The Seaforth Manor Retirement Home. There, she has her own apartment and maintains her independence. She loves to have visits from her family. Great-Grandmother Bun describes her great-grandchildren as "loving little souls". Great-grandfather Bruce would have loved them to pieces! Now remember, she will be watching for those tapping toes!
General Notes (Wife)
Obituary:
London Free Press - February 5, 2008
ARMSTRONG At Seaforth Manor Nursing Home on Monday, February 4, 2008, Bernice (Bun) Armstrong of Seaforth and formerly of Hibbert Township, in her 83rd year. Beloved wife of the late Bruce Armstrong (1988). Dear mother of Gerry and Mary Armstrong of Egmondville and Rannie Armstrong of Goderich. Loving grandmother of 7 grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren. Remembered by her brother Laurie (Helen) McKellar of Seaforth. Family will receive friends at the Whitney-Ribey Funeral Home, 87 Goderich Street West, Seaforth on Tuesday from 2-4 and 7-9 pm, where the funeral service will be held on Wednesday, February 6 at 11:00 am. Interment Bayfield Cemetery. Memorial donations to the Arthritis Society appreciated. Condolences at www.whitneyribeyfuneralhome.com
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