Effie ‘Blanche’ (Dyment) Woodside 
     
     1933-35-41-48 
     
    
   
   
    
     Blanche was born, raised, and educated in 
     
     Knutsford, the youngest of the three daughters 
     
     of Margaret Ann (Boulter) Dyment and William 
     
     Scott Dyment. After Blanche married Robert 
     
     Woodside, they settled on their farm on the 
     
    
   
   
    
     Smallwood Road, raising their children, 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     Marguerite and Heath. During the late 1940s, 
     
     the family moved to the present Woodside farm location, now operated by Norman 
     
    
   
   
    
     Woodside, Heath’s son. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Blanche was a major advocate for community service and a promoter of education, 
     
     ensuring that all her family who wished to further their education had the support 
     
     to do so. She was an avid letter writer, taking an interest in people and events both 
     
    
   
   
    
     near and far. 
     
    
   
   
    
     She embodied the principles of her Christian faith with life-long service to her 
     
     church, especially as a member of the United Church Women’s group. Robert and 
     
     Blanche, both loving music, performed in local variety programs and with the 
     
    
   
   
    
     church choir. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Like her mother before her, Blanche was skilled in many forms of needlecraft 
     
     including knitting, crocheting, quilting and rug hooking. Happy hours were also 
     
     spent in her flower garden with its wide selection of plants and trees. In October 
     
     1963, Blanche was presented with a WI lifetime membership and acknowledged as 
     
     one of the Charter members of the Knutsford WI (inaugural meeting November 
     
     1928). 
     
    
   
   
    
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