mother made some remark about the race to her father. John, then about seventy-eight, said 'I could have beat the bugger if I'd had my other boots on!’ The next day, Mom called Bill's daughter Margret and, amng other things. mentioned what John had said. After hanging up the phone Margret told Bill, who was lying on the kitchen couch, " Uncle John said he could beat you if he had his other boots on.'Jumping up from his place of repose, Bill hit the table with his fist. ‘Like hell he oould!’ was the reply

of Margaret’s seventy-year-old father.

. Loo came to town at an early age and worked as a carpenter. Alter some

time he became a very successful contractor building many houses in Charlottetown and doing much construction at both St. Dunstan's Univer- sity and at Central Creameries.

Leo and Ethel had four children. They were Leo, Mary Katherine (Kay), Winnifred Margret (Sister Mary Ethel), and Stella May.

Leo Or.) had his arm badly wounded during the second war. He worked with his father for a while but found the work too hard and took a job as manager of the Charlottetown Branch of the Royal Canadian Legion. Winnifred joined the Sisters of Saint Martha of P.E.I., worked as adminis- trator at the hospital in Alberton, and hter, administrator of the Sacred Heart Home in Charlottetown. Kay worked as a secretary forAsamera Oil Co. in Calgry. May married John A. Williams and lives in Ottawa.

'Stella' worked in Charlottetown at Prowse Brothers and went to British Columbia an two different occasions to join the Sisters of Saint Ann, the order of which her sister Kathleen was a member. Stella wanted very much to become a sister but was unable to do so because of failing health. She returned home to P.E.I., where she eventually died.

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