Emily Margaret Bruinsma
Husband (details suppressed for this person)
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Wife Emily Margaret BRUINSMA (details suppressed for this person)
Born: Christened: Died: Buried:
Father: Mike BRUINSMA Mother: Dana Suzanne ARMSTRONG
Children
Ethan Michael Bruinsma
Husband Ethan Michael BRUINSMA (details suppressed for this person)
Born: Christened: Died: Buried:
Father: Mike BRUINSMA Mother: Dana Suzanne ARMSTRONG
Wife (details suppressed for this person)
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John "Jack" Eugene Bryan and Joan Marie Wilson
Husband John "Jack" Eugene BRYAN
Born: 7 Jun 1923 - London, Ont. Christened: Died: 28 Aug 2002 - London, Ont. Buried:
Father: Jack BRYAN (1898-1970) Mother: Catherine "Ann" ARMSTRONG (1887-1967)
Marriage:
Noted events in his life were:
• Hobbies
Flying aircraft; Husband and father to two children.
• Military
Served as a Pilot Officer in the RCAF during WW11 (1942 - 1945)
• Occupation
Telephone technician with Bell Canada for 43 years.
• Cremation, Aug 2002
London, Ont.
Wife Joan Marie WILSON (details suppressed for this person)
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Children
1 M John Michael BRYAN (details suppressed for this person)
Born: Christened: Died: Buried:Spouse: Bonna Suzanne TWIGGER (living)
2 M Matthew James BRYAN (details suppressed for this person)
Born: Christened: Died: Buried:Spouse: Amy Barbara ALKINS (living)
General Notes (Husband)
Jack flew with the Royal Canadian Air Force over seas during the Second World War. After the war was over he continued to fly for pleasure and in the reserve until health problems restricted him from flying.
John Michael Bryan and Bonna Suzanne Twigger
Husband John Michael BRYAN (details suppressed for this person)
Born: Christened: Died: Buried:
Father: John "Jack" Eugene BRYAN (1923-2002) Mother: Joan Marie WILSON
Marriage:
Wife Bonna Suzanne TWIGGER (details suppressed for this person)
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Children
Donald Lee Bundy and Christine Anne Tracy
Husband Donald Lee BUNDY
Born: Christened: Died: 12 Jun 1988 - Banks, Oregon, USA Buried:Marriage:
Wife Christine Anne TRACY (details suppressed for this person)
Born: Christened: Died: Buried:
Father: Robert Allen TRACY (1923-2008) Mother: Margaret Jean CARRAHER
Children
1 M Peter Sean BUNDY
Born: 8 Jun 1976 - Helena, Montana, USA Christened: Died: 12 Jun 1988 - Banks, Oregon, USA Buried:
2 M Scott Ryan BUNDY (details suppressed for this person)
Born: Christened: Died: Buried:
3 M Nicholas Connor BUNDY (details suppressed for this person)
Born: Christened: Died: Buried:
Nicholas Connor Bundy
Husband Nicholas Connor BUNDY (details suppressed for this person)
Born: Christened: Died: Buried:
Father: Donald Lee BUNDY ( -1988) Mother: Christine Anne TRACY
Wife (details suppressed for this person)
Born: Christened: Died: Buried:
Children
Peter Sean Bundy
Husband Peter Sean BUNDY
Born: 8 Jun 1976 - Helena, Montana, USA Christened: Died: 12 Jun 1988 - Banks, Oregon, USA Buried:
Father: Donald Lee BUNDY ( -1988) Mother: Christine Anne TRACY
Wife
Born: Christened: Died: Buried:
Children
Scott Ryan Bundy
Husband Scott Ryan BUNDY (details suppressed for this person)
Born: Christened: Died: Buried:
Father: Donald Lee BUNDY ( -1988) Mother: Christine Anne TRACY
Wife (details suppressed for this person)
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Children
Guy Allen Tracy and Florence M Butterfield
Husband Guy Allen TRACY
Born: 23 Apr 1896 - Ida, Michigan Christened: Died: 2 Oct 1956 - Ludington, Michigan Buried: - Detroit, MichiganMarriage: 4 Sep 1920 - Bay City, Michigan
Noted events in his life were:
• Burial Location
Grand Lawn Cemetery. Detroit, Michigan.
• Hobbies
Fishing; Playing Piano; Time with Family
• Occupation
State of Michigan, Lansing in early 1930s: Assistant Director of Michigan Unemployment Compensation and senior statistician.
• Residences
Ida, Monroe, Michigan; Bay, Bay, Michigan; Birmingham, Oakland Co., Michigan; Detroit, Michigan
• Military, Between 1917 and 1918
Army - World War I (France)
Wife Florence M BUTTERFIELD
Born: 28 Dec 1898 - Bay City, Michigan Christened: Died: 28 Jan 1975 - Detroit, Michigan Buried: - Detroit, Michigan.
Father: J H BUTTERFIELD (1869-1961) Mother: Eva H ARMSTRONG (1871-1965)
Noted events in her life were:
• Burial Location
Grand Lawn Cemetery. Detroit, Michigan.
• Hobbies
Fishing; Family; Investing.
• Occupation
Substitute Teacher - Bay City, Michigan and Detroit, Michigan; Homemaker.
• Residence
Living in Detroit, at time of her parents 64th Anniversary.
Children
1 F Ruth Alma TRACY
Born: 15 Aug 1921 - Bay City, Michigan, USA Christened: Died: 16 Jan 1987 - Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, USA Buried: - Detroit, Wayne, MichiganSpouse: Stephen TRUPIANO ( -1998) Marr: 13 Jun 1947 - Detroit, Michigan, USA
2 M Donald Arthur TRACY
Born: 14 Oct 1922 - Detroit, Michigan, USA Christened: Died: 14 Aug 1944 - Temples Et Peyrettes, Camaret- Sur-Aygues, France Buried:
3 M Robert Allen TRACY
Born: 22 Dec 1923 - Detroit, Michigan, USA Christened: Died: 26 Apr 2008 - Mesa, Arizona, USA Buried:Spouse: Margaret Jean CARRAHER (living)
4 F Jean Helen TRACY (details suppressed for this person)
Born: Christened: Died: Buried:Spouse: Robert August DEMBECK (1922-2006)
5 F Virginia Ann TRACY (details suppressed for this person)
Born: Christened: Died: Buried:Spouse: Stanford Edwyn HARRINGTON (living)Spouse: James TRASK ( -1991)
6 F Margaret "Peggy" Alice TRACY (details suppressed for this person)
Born: Christened: Died: Buried:Spouse: Robert E. TYLER (living)
General Notes (Husband)
Guy served as a Medic in WWI with the ambulance corps. As a young man he did rounds with his father, Dr. Byrd Tracy, who was a country doctor. He had odd jobs in teaching, plus did anything from bagging groceries to trapping muskrats. He trapped a variety of small animals along the shore of the bay at Aplin Beach, and then skinned them and stretched the hides on boards which were hung on the porch to dry in the cold weather. The skins were sold for much needed cash.
He loved having people from the office come to dinner. He would plan the meal and it always included baked beans, which he made himself from scratch. This is when politics became a regular family subject. Guy played the piano and although he could read music he also played along with the "record player". He would ask whoever was around to wind up the Victrola and start the record at a particular passage of music. Then he would play along with the pianist on the record.
On Saturday afternoons, opera was on the radio and this was Guy's quiet time. The children were all introduced to opera and classical music through their father's love for music.
Guy carried a slide rule in his pocket at all times. He could figure out anything in math with it. He was a stickler for good grammar.
Guy was a valuable employee at his job as a statistician. As the country was gearing up for war, it was his job, to let "the powers that be" in Washington know, how many workers would be able to work the factories, and to get them from the South to the North where the factories were located. He dealt with auto heads, the Edison Company, the Gas Company and other utilities to make sure new housing would be serviced and the factories would have enough power etc. After the war started, he spent as much time in Washington as he did at home.
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General Notes (Wife)
By a daughter, Jean Helen (Tracy) Dembeck
Florence was beautiful with long black hair that she wore in a bun a the back of her head with large hairpins and a curved comb.
She was a very smart woman. With her 2 years in college she was able to get a teaching certificate. When they lived at Aplin Beach she was able to get substitute teaching jobs. She also taught English to immigrants of many nationalities at night school. She also baked bread and cookies in the hard times, the family would put them in the wagon and sell them to the cottagers at the beach.
By a grandaughter, Judy Harrington
Grandmother was definitely the matriarch of the clan. Her word was law, even with my father - especially with my father (Stan Harrington). Dad always laid down, and enforced the law in my immediate family. He was always very ‘assertive’ with waiters, mechanics, etc. I never saw this attitude from him in front of my grandmother though. When she wanted something done; he did it and ‘no lip’. I didn’t see grandmother that often, but I always thought she was this mysterious and powerful person, that even with my father’s own strengths, he always minded his manners in front of her. I had a great deal of respect and awe for her.
I only saw my grandmother upset once. One time there was a bat loose in the house and Dad had to go chase it. I think he caught it with a broom and a curtain. I thought that was fascinating and couldn’t understand why people got so upset.
Grandmother died of emphysema. I really thought that she was just temporarily sick and would make it out of the hospital since she had ‘tough old bird’ status in my mind. One day I had been joking with her about how the only reason she was staying so long in the hospital was because she was flirting with the cute interns. I kissed her goodnight and that was the night she died. A total shocker.
By a son, Bob Tracy
Mom was the wildest daughter of J H Butterfield and his wife. She was born and brought up in Bay City, Michigan. She had an older sister, Gertrude, and a younger sister, Marion. Marion was meek, and shy, and lovable. Mom always said she should have gone out and got herself a husband, because she would have made a wonderful wife and mother. Gertrude was rather manly the boss.
In Bay City, the Butterfield’s were a fine family, attending the Baptist Church regularly, and Grandpa was a teller in the local bank, a position he was proud of.
My first recollection of my mother was when she was ironing in the living room while there was a thunderstorm going on. I was playing on the floor and would hide under whatever hung down from the ironing board every time it thundered. Next was when we lived in Birmingham. Don and I went out and found our friendly neighbors had left town on vacation. They had a nice vegetable garden, but it was getting weedy, so Don and I picked everything and put it on their back porch. The garden looked good, so we told our mother. She wrote a note apologizing for our actions. She had Dad talk to us when he came home.
When we moved to the Beach she let us roam over the miles of forest that was at the mouth of the Saginaw River. It was the most wonderful place for kids to grow up. In the winter, we'd go out and dig tunnels through the snow drifts that reached the eaves of the cottage. One April we had a beautiful spring day and we kids decided we should go swimming. Mom could still see icebergs floating in the bay and warned us that it was too cold. We begged and she said go ahead. We managed to put our feet in the water and watch them turn blue! That was enough. Mom always favored us boys. She'd laugh at what we did while trying to keep the girls better in line. When the Bay City people came down for the summer, she'd bake cookies and we kids would go door to door selling them. During the depression, everyone tried to help the less fortunate get along, so selling the cookies was just another adventure for us. In going through the different living quarters, my school year got messed up. I started in January in Kindergarten, but there were no half semester classes in the country, so Mom had them put me back a half year to make sure I didn't have a problem. She had done enough teaching to see what happen to others. At that time, I had about three mothers, my real mother, my teacher, Miss Mason and Thelma Letz, the lady with a cottage behind us. Each one thought I was nice, so I could do no wrong. When we moved to East Lansing, we rented a Profs House for the summer. We great times digging tunnels in an undeveloped lot and explored the Michigan State Agriculture College. That included a swim in the river that ran through the College. Nobody seemed to care. No cops reported us; it was a different world in those days.
We next moved to Lansing. To help make ends meet, we kids collected junk and old newspapers and took a wagon full to the junkyard. Our second house in Lansing was within a mile of a wonderful gravel pit. That gave us boys a chance to swim. The girls couldn't swim with us as we didn't have bathing suits. I tell you all of this because Mom knew what was going on most of the time and she thought it was normal.
One day she was telling Dad that she had been walking down the street and had been propositioned. She looked on that as a compliment.
When we were in High School, across the street from our house, Don and I would occasionally skip school, and go to the pool hall. Our normal routine was to go home each day for lunch. Don and I had different class times and one day when I came home first, mother said “Go get your brother, I know he’s not in school” it was no big deal.
When Mom learned that I liked a girl I had met working at Leggett’s Grill (a drug store) next to Hudson’s Department store in downtown Detroit, she had one of my sisters go shopping with her and they lunched in the grill so she could see who I was interested in. You couldn't get much past Mom.
When I was in the armed service, Mom kept me supplied with much appreciated packages and letters.
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General Notes for Child Ruth Alma TRACY
By Daughter, Mary Lou Dixon
I remember my Mother, Ruth Tracy telling us about the cottage at the beach and how tough life was out there when she was young. Whenever I and my brothers and sisters started complaining about how hard life was for us and how cold our house was in the winter, Mother would say, "be glad you don't have to wake up with snow on your bed like she did at the cottage".
Mom also had some fun stories. She would tell us about Aunt Marion and Aunt Gertrude taking their nephews and nieces to Church with them. When the kids came home, all fired up about the stories learned at Sunday school, they would paddle out to the swimming raft in the bay, pray real hard and then try to walk on the water. She said it never worked.
Another story she told was that she, Bob and Don, would walk along the train tracks to where they crossed the Kawkawlin River. There they would wait for the train to come and at the last minute, jump from the bridge into the river. I believe this all happened in the time period when the family was living at the beach. I don't remember Mom ever saying how the fire started at the cottage, but did say that everything was lost. They had nothing and then had to move and live in the city.
By Daughter, Ruth Ann Santiago
I remember the stories of the snow on the bed. One time Mother and Dad took my brother Robert and I to see what she said was the cottage they had lived in. There wasn’t any glass in the windows and Mom said “that was the way it was”. Of course, I did believe her. She then took Robert and I to the train bridge to show us where she used to jump from. Hopefully the water was a lot cleaner back then. It looked really disgusting when I saw the water. She said she never got in trouble for jumping off that bridge.
General Notes for Child Donald Arthur TRACY
Enlisted in the Army Air Corps and left for training in January 1943.
General Notes for Child Robert Allen TRACY
Obituary: Arizona Republic - April 30, 2008
Robert Allen Tracy, 84, of Mesa passed away on April 26, 2008. He is survived by Margaret, his wife of 63 years, and three children: James Tracy (Linda) of Wanaque, NJ; Christine Bundy of Mesa; and Karin Tracy of Vancouver, WA. Also surviving are five grandchildren: Jahn Tracy, Scott Bundy, Douglas Ferber, Katherine Kline, and Nick Bundy, and one great-grandchild, Oliver Tracy. He served as a Navigator with the Flying Tigers in China in World War II, receiving a Distinguished Flying Cross. He had a long career as an Engineer, developing computer and business equipment and was awarded numerous patents.
Gertrude Butterfield
Husband (details suppressed for this person)
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Wife Gertrude BUTTERFIELD
Born: 12 Apr 1896 - Bay City, Bay Co. Michigan Christened: Died: 8 Apr 1981 - Bay City, Bay Co. Michigan Buried: 11 Apr 1981 - Bay City, Bay Co. Michigan
Father: J H BUTTERFIELD (1869-1961) Mother: Eva H ARMSTRONG (1871-1965)
Noted events in her life were:
• Burial Location
In the Elm Lawn Cemetery, Section 18 Lot 118
• Marital Status
Single
• Occupation
Principal of MacGregor Intermediate School.
Children
General Notes (Wife)
Obituary:
Bay City Times, Bay City Michigan - April 9, 1981
Butterfield, Gertrude; 1823 Ninth St. Bay City
Miss Gertrude Butterfield, age 84, passed away Wednesday, April 8, 1981 following a lingering illness. The daughter of the-late Mr. & Mrs. J. H. Butterfield, she was born in Bay City on April 12, 1896. Miss Butterfield was a retired teacher having spent her entire life in the Bay City Education System and served as Principal of both the Garfield and the MacGregor Schools.
She began her teaching career in 1916 where she taught 4th grade students at the Woodside School. Miss Butterfield was also active in Physical Education Programs having taught swimming at Handy High School and participated in Bay City Recreation Programs conducting playgrounds at Dolsen and Whittier Schools and at Carol Park.
Miss Butterfleld is survived by her sister, Miss Marion Butterfield of Ferndale, Mich., 4 nieces, a nephew, 22 great nieces and nephews, 20 great-great nieces and nephews and a very dear friend, Sis Johnston of Bay City. She was a member of the South Baptist Church.
Funeral services will be held Saturday at 1:30 p.m. at the Penzien Funeral Home. Rev. Tim Teall will officiate with Interment following in Elm Lawn Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home on Thursday from 7:00 until 9:00 p.m. and on Friday from 2:00 until 5:00 p.m. and from 7:00 until 9:00 p.m. In lieu of flowers, the family suggest memorial gifts to the Wycliffe Bible Translators to be used in the publication of the Monobo Bible under the direction of Dr. Hazel Wigglesworth.
Death Notice:
Bay City Times, Bay City Michigan - April 9, 1981
Former Principal Dead at 84
Gertrude Butterfield, former elementary school principal and Handy High School swimming teacher, died Wednesday after a lengthy illness.
Services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Saturday in the Penzien Funeral Home. Burial will be in Elm Lawn Cemetery.
Born in Bay City April 12, 1896, she began her teaching career in the Bay City School System in 1916 as a fourth grade teacher at Woodside School. She also conducted recreation playground programs at Dolsen and Whittier Schools and Carroll Park.
Among survivors are a sister, Marion Butterfield, of Ferndale, four nieces and a nephew.
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