Widely-Known
Carilloneur of Simcoe
and War Veteran Dies in 53rd year
Carilloneur
at the War Memorial Tower in Simcoe for the past 18 years, and a veteran
of the First Great War, Henri Sohier of Simcoe passed away Sunday
evening
in the Norfolk General Hospital in his 53rd year.
Born in St. Helier, Jersey
Channel Islands, he came to Canada in 1913. He enlisted the following
year and served overseas from 1914 to 1918, being seriously wounded in
France in 1917 and invalided home the following year.
He took an active interest in
community life, being a member of Norfolk Lodge, No. 10, A.F. and
A.M.,
Ezra Chapter, No. 23, Royal Arch Masons,
Branch 79 of the Canadian Legion,
the Norfolk Golf and Country Club and
Trinity Anglican Church.
For a number of years he was with
the H. S. Falls Company as an accountant and up until he became sick he
served in similar capacity with the
W. F. Adams Insurance.
He also took a keen interest in
golf and chess.
Besides his
wife, formerly Jessie Johnson, whom he married in 1919, he is survived
by his mother, Mrs. Peter John Sohier of Jersey, one son and three
daughters, Bernard, Madeline, Barbara and Joan, all at home; one
brother, Flying Officers Adolph Sohier of No. 3 Bombing and Gunning
School at Fingal; and three sisters, Misses Madeline and Lucienne Sohier
of Jersey and Mrs. Stanley Hawksley of London, England.
The
funeral will be held on Thursday afternoon at 2.30 o'clock from the
Walsh Funeral Home under the auspices of Norfolk Lodge, No. 10, A.F. and
A.M. with Rev. W. E. V. McMillen of Trinity Anglican Church officiating
and interment in Oakwood Cemetery.
