14. | ARTHUR BARRETT GOODMURPHY was born on 23 Jun 1896 in Deseronto, Tyendinaga Twp, Hastings County, Ontario,Canada (son of Ralph GOODMURPHY and Annie Harriet BARRETT); died on 24 May 1987 in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. Notes:
Private Art Goodmurphy, a member of A Company of the 28th Northwest Battalion of the Canadian Corps.
Art Goodmurphy, a former glazier from Regina, was a veteran despite his twenty-one years. He had been through a lot with the 28th -- the Somme in 1916, Vimy Ridge, Hill 70 and Passchendaele in 1917, and already this year -- Amiens, the D-Q Line, Canal du Nord and Cambrai.
Private Art Goodmurphy was with Private George Lawrence Price, the last soldier to die in the Great War.
See the story - The Last Patrol of Private Price by James McWilliams.
Reta was born in Sinclair, Manitoba. She moved to Regina in 1919 to work for SaskTel. She drove taxi for Arthur (and Albert Deal) who had a Black & White Taxi business during WWII.
Reta passed away in 1990 at Regina Pioneer Village.
Died:
Buried in Riverside Memorial Park Cemetery in Regina
ARTHUR married Reta Ellen FISETTE on 29 Dec 1920. Reta (daughter of Israel Joseph FISETTE and Mary Elizabeth RINTOUL) was born on 23 Mar 1902 in Sinclair, Manitoba; died on 25 Jul 1990 in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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