Waterford: The death occurred
in Norfolk General Hospital, Simcoe, on Friday, April 13th, of Richard
Wellington Trotter, M.D., in his 86th year, after an illness of several
months.
A son of the late David and Celestia
Trotter, he was born at Springvale, Ont., on May 25th, 1859, and was the
last of a family of four, Amelia, James and Clara having predeceased
him.
As a young man he began a drug
apprenticeship in the store of the late Col. I. E. York at Waterford, on
completion of which he entered the Ontario College of Pharmacy. After
graduating, he managed the Spadina Ave. branch store of Hooper and Co.,
for some time.
He married Leona May Robinson, daughter
of the late Walter Robinson of Townsend, from which union two children,
Dell Walter and Clarence Richard were born, the latter dying in infancy.
Later he moved to Buffalo, N.Y., opening
and operating his own drug store for a few years and then entered
Medical School at the University of Buffalo, from which he graduated in
1897.
Soon after graduating, his wife passed on
and he remarried Mary Jane Mitchell of Scotland, Ontario.
After practicing medicine for a number of
years in Buffalo, he returned to Waterford where he has resided for the
past 34 years. Dr. Trotter served one year as reeve of the village, was
an active member and honorary deacon of the Waterford Baptist Church and
a life member of Wilson Lodge No. 112, A.F. and A.M., from which he
received the 50-year Masonic Medal in November, 1937.
His passing removes from our midst one
who will be keenly missed by remaining members of the family and his
large circle of friends.
The funeral service is being held on
Monday, April 16th, at 2;30 p.m. from his late residence, St. James St.,
with interment in Greenwood Cemetery, Waterford.
