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 Messcrs Alban Farmer , Thomas McAvinn , J. Agustus MacDonald , John R. Munn , Leo MacDonald , and William MacEachern . Doyles Point was farmed by my Grandfather, John Doyle , from 1914 until 934. At that time his brotherjoscph purchased the farm from him. I remember ny Grandfather as a kind, soft-spoken, quite bald, man with hairy cars and a icaring aid. He wore wire-rimmed glasses, smoked Picobac pipe tobacco, and >ftcn began his sentences with "There", or "Here there". His deafness appar- ntly resulted from a childhood bout with scarlet fever. The only time I can :mcmbcr 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 nd tied to his ear by the wire. He was listening to a speech by John Dcifenbaker . I started wrestling with my brother John on the floor of the same loom. Granddaddy put up with it only for so long and then let a roar out of him. There, you youngsters get out of here!" We were so flabbergasted that he uld yell that we crept away without a word. I remember walking the shore at Doyles Point with him carrying a shotgun iping for a "crack at" a duck. Another time it was to get him a feed of oysters. The years that John Doyle and his family lived on the farm are described st by my mother Isabelle (Doyle) Daley, John's daughter. For that reason, I prill now insert an essay which she wrote for Father F.W.P. Bolger the famous Island historian. This story was published, in part, in The Island Magazine #30 Fall/Winter 1991. The reader may expect that previous generations lived in much the same way although much more primitively. 63