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From Nellis England - address Coldwater, Ont The Orillia Packet, & Times, August 4, 1938- TOM LOVERING RIPLEY- Mr. Tom Lovering Ripley passed away at his home here on Friday, July 29, in his seventy-third year. Mr. Ripley had been ill for about six months.
Born in Brooklyn, New York, on February 3, 1866, he was a son of the late Johanna Lovering and Charles James Ripley. When about eighteen years of age he came to Coldwater and entered into the lumbering business and for many years was the foreman for the Georgian Bay Lumber Company. For about twenty-five years he was Superintendent of Roads at Cochrane and Kapuskasing, and the family lived in Orillia for a time at the corner of Jarvis and Peter streets.
He was a staunch supporter of the Conservative party, a member of the United church and a member of Karnak Lodge, A.F. & A.M. and of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
About nineteen years ago he married Miss Hattie May Buchanan, who survives her husband. Two children are also left to mourn the loss of a loving and thoughtful father, Mary Ripley and Donald Ripley. Albert E. Ripley, of Edgerton, Alberta, Harry Ripley, of McLeod, Alberta, Mrs. W.J. Carson, Ottawa, and Mrs. Smith Ballantyne, Kapuskasing, Ontario, survive their brother.
The Masonic funeral was held from his residence, conducted by the Rev. A. Harden. Pallbearers were Charles Millard, Chas. Eplett, J.D. Prior, T. Brown, George Wylie and Smith Ballantyne.
Besides the many personal floral tributes received flowers were sent by the Georgian Bay Lumber Company, Karnak Lodge, and I.O.O.F
Among those from a distance who attended the funeral were Miss Alberta Carson, Reg.N., Miss N. Buchanan, Toronto, Mrs. W.J. Carson, Miss Mabel Carson, Ottawa, Dr. and Mrs. R. Harvey, Midland, and Messrs. Fred Buchanan and Herbert Caswell, Orillia. |