The funeral was held from the residence of her daughter on Monday morning where a requiem high mass was celebrated by reverend Father Ayres. The pall bearers were Messers Alban Farmer, Thomas McAvinn, J. Agustus MacDonald, John R. Munn, Leo MacDonald, and William MacFachern.

Doyles Point was farmed by my Grandfather, John Doyle, from 1914 until 934.Atthattimehisbrotherjoseph purchased thefarmfrom him. Iremember Grandfather as a kind, soft-spoken, quite bald. man with hairy ears and a ' aid. He wore wire-rimmed glasses, smoked Picobac pipe tobacco, and ften began his sentences with "There', or “Here there'. His deafness appar- tly resulted from a childhood bout with scarlet fever. The only time I can member him raising his voice to us children, was one evening he was uddled up to the T.V., his hearing aid receiver stretched toward the speaker d tied to his w by the wire. He was listening to a speech by John ° enbaker. I started wrestling with my brotherjohn on the floor of the same m. Granddaddy put up with it only for so long and then let a marout of him. ere, you youngsters get out of here!” We were so flabbergasted that he uld yell that we crept away without a word.

I rememberwalking the shore at Doyles Point with him carrying a shotgun ping fora 'crack at' a duck. Anothertime it was to get him a feed ofoysters.

The years thatJohn Doyle and his family lived on the farm are described st by my mother Isabelle (Doyle) Daley, John's daughter. For that reason, I ' now insert an essay which she wrote for Father F.W.P. Bolger the famous d historian. This story was published, in part, in The Island Magazine Fall/W inter I991. The reader may expect that previous generations lived much the same way although much more primitively.

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