This is
student: Hazel Russell
Identified by Blanche Russell
From John Tomlinson:
Hazel and her sister Blanche Russell, were
daughters of W. B. Russell and Martha Norris, and cousins of Viola
and Audrey Russell. Hazel was born 1906, died
1979. She married D. W. Macdonald in 1939.
Also from John Tomlinson:
"Hazel Irene Russell, 1906 - 1979.
Hazel Russell was born in Hamilton, Ontario. She was the eldest of three daughters born to Martha Jane Norris and Wilfred Bruce Russell. The Norris and Russell lines have extensive roots in Brant and Norfolk Counties respectively. Hazel’s younger sisters were Blanche (Tomlinson) and Doris (Robinson). Hazel spent much of her early childhood on a farm at Round Plains near Waterford in Norfolk County. Her father, Wilfred, farmed and also owned a butcher shop on Alice Street in Waterford. His shop was next door to the town’s jewellery store owned by R. K. Robinson whose son, William, would later wed Hazel’s youngest sister, Doris. At age eighteen Hazel lost her thirty-eight-year-old father to a burst appendix, and shortly thereafter Martha Russell sold the farm and moved with her three girls into a house on Church Street in Waterford. In 1939 Hazel married
Fisheries Worker Donald Wilfred MacDonald and moved to Port Dover, Ontario, where she spent the rest of her life. The couple had two daughters, Shirley Jean (Nunn) and Donna Irene (Swarts). There are five grandchildren and, to date, seven great grandchildren. Hazel was employed in Port Dover at the Fishermen’s Co-operative, SYS Shoe Store, and Lewis’ Supermarket. Donald predeceased Hazel by one year (1978). Both Hazel and Donald are buried at Waterford’s Greenwood Cemetery."
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