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==Early life==
==Early life==


She was born to [[Alexander Clapperton Currie|Alex Currie]] and [[Annie Snook]] in Port Arthur, Ontario.
She was born to [[Alexander Clapperton Currie|Alex Currie]] and [[Anna Currie|Anna Snook]] in Port Arthur, Ontario.


==Later life==
==Later life==

Revision as of 02:34, 27 March 2019

Flora Heylar (nee Currie) (1916 or 1917 - 5 July 1973) was a housewife who lived most of her life in Winnipeg until she moved to North Vancouver in early 1969.

Early life

She was born to Alex Currie and Anna Snook in Port Arthur, Ontario.

Later life

She married Charles Heylar.

She was mother to a son and two daughters, all of whom moved to North Vancouver:

  • Lillias (born 1936, married Harrill Bjornson (1933-) on 24 November 1958)
  • Neill W. (1939 - 1995, died of cancer, two children)
  • Susan (born February 1942, married Brian Shoesmith (1931-2012), had two sons, Kevin and Mark)

She lived in Winnipeg all her life until moving to North Vancouver in early 1969.

On 5 July 1973 she died of breast cancer.

Obituary

Winnipeg Free Press, 12 July 1973

Sources

Winnipeg Free Press, 12 July 1973.

Marilyn Hermiston's personal notes.