WATERFORD
On Sunday evening, 10 Oct
1920, death removed from our midst another of our aged and highly
respected citizens in the person of the late Mrs. Lucinda Perkins,
who had she lived until Wednesday, 13 Oct 1920 would have been 78
years of age.
The deceased was born in
Trafalgar Township in 1842, and with her parents, the late Mr. and
Mrs. Wm. Brackinreed [sic], moved first to Toronto,
and when four years old to Decewsville, where she lived until
united in marriage with the late William Perkins, in 1870 in
Jarvis.
The late Mr. and Mrs.
Perkins loved to Villa Nova for a time and over 30 years ago came
to Waterford.
The deceased was always a
woman of comparatively good health until last winter, when she
contracted influenza, from which he apparently recovered, but it
left her in a weakened condition.
Last May double pneumonia
set in and her life hung in the balance for weeks, and though
never fully recovering from its effects she rallied considerably,
only to be confined to her bed again about three weeks ago, and
passed away on Sunday, fully conscious to the last.
The late Mrs. Perkins was
long a member of the Methodist Church, a kind and loving mother, a
friend indeed in time of need, and will be missed very much in the
neighborhood.
The funeral took place on
Tuesday afternoon at two o'clock from her late residence on Leamon
Street. The services were conducted by her pastor, Rev. H.
Wilkins, and interment took place in Greenwood Cemetery.
Many floral offerings bore
testimony to the high esteem in which the deceased was held. The
pall-bearers were Messrs. M. T. Boughner, O. Serles, A.
Beemer,
I. F. McKinnon, G. F. Chapman and C. W. Tuck.
The deceased is survived
by two daughters, the Misses Nellie and Annie Perkins of
Waterford, one step-daughter, Mrs. J. Austin of Niagara Falls,
N.Y., and one sister, Mrs. (Colonel) Coombs of Bonny Heath Farm,
to whom the sympathy of a wide circle of friends is extended.
Among those from a
distance attending the funeral were two nieces, Miss Kindree and
Mrs. J. Meller of Toronto, Mrs. J. Butler of Brantford, Mrs.
Coombs and her son, Capt. H. Coombs of Bonny Heath Farm, and F.
Coombs of Simcoe.
