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- Ontario Birth Registration 035069-8
Born 16 Feb 1892
Gladys Beryl
Daughter of Frederick Felker, carpenter, & Lavina Derkie,
Informant: Fred Felker, Fergus,
Registered 18 Jul, 1892 Dr. Groves.
. Ontario Marriage Certificate 21714-25
James Broadfoot Grieive 36, insurance agent, Eramosa Tp., Guelph,
s/o John Grieve & Mary Haxon Millar,
married Gladys Beryl Felker, 33 [1892], Fergus, same, d/o Frederick FELKER & Jane Monkman,
witn: Robert M. Grieve of Toronto & Winifred F. Felker of Guelph on Nov. 18, 1925 at Fergus.
Gladys in her younger days lived with her mother, the former Jane Monkman Felker, twenty years after the others left home. At sixteen (1909) years of age she went to work at Beatty's Hay & Grain Carriers, who switch into tools & then changed to litter carriers for cleaning stables. They bought churns and washers from Workman & Ward, London and also bought out Tolton Bros. in Guelph. She worked seventeen years for Beatty Bros. Ltd. with her mother until she married (1925).
Ref: Ida Crozier.
. Niece Marie Felker said at 91 years (1982) Glayds was bright and active as you could want. She cooked for herself.
. Marriages: Gladys Beryl Felker is the daughter of Jane Monkman & Fred Felker ... cousin of Neil Felker. She is buried with her fist husband James Broadfoot Grieve.
Second husband Neil & Glayds Felker had no children.
. Toronto Dry Cleaning business with Brother Herb. Went with wife to Florida every year. Sometimes Maggie Felker Knight would accompany them. - - -
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