Dr. Albert John Fyfe

1916 - 2001  (85 years)

• Name	Albert John Fyfe
  Prefix	Dr.
  Born	18 Jan 1916	Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Eby ID Number	Waterloo-219864
  Died	28 Dec 2001	Terre Haute, Vigo, Indiana, USA   [1]
  Buried	New Hope Cemetery, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [1]
  Person ID	I219864	Generations
  Last Modified	7 Nov 2024

  
  

  Father	John Fyfe,   b. 16 Nov 1863, Puslinch Twp., Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada ,   d. 16 Nov 1926, Puslinch Twp., Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada  (Age 63 years)
  Mother	Ruth Etta Bond,   b. 28 Mar 1874, Puslinch Twp., Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada ,   d. 6 Mar 1962  (Age 87 years)
  Married	10 Jan 1912	Toronto, York Co., Ontario, Canada   [2]
  Family ID	F42368	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Edith Molly Brazier,   b. 19 Sep 1916, London, Middlesex, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 3 Oct 2003, Terre Haute, Vigo, Indiana, USA  (Age 87 years)
  Last Modified	12 Nov 2024
  Family ID	F59918	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  FYFE, ALBERT JOHN "AL" A native of Galt and a professor of English at Indiana State University in Terre Haute, Indiana passed away peacefully, in his home, on December 28, 2001. He was 86 years old. Mr. Fyfe was born to Scottish-Canadian parents on a farm near Hespeler on Jan. 18, 1915. He attended primary school nearby in a one-room schoolhouse. He joked that he was third in his class, adding after a pause, that his class had only four students. He and his family were congregants at St. Andrew's Hespeler Presbyterian Church. His father, John Fyfe, died in 1926, when he was 11 and he, his younger sister, Eleanor and mother, Ruth Bond Fyfe moved into Galt, where his mother ran a boarding house located on the grounds of the Galt Collegiate Institute. The boarding house, a large red Victorian structure, was demolished in the early 1950's. Having completed his secondary education at Galt Collegiate Institute, Mr. Fyfe earned his bachelors and masters degrees at the University of Toronto, finishing in 1939. During the Second World War, Mr. Fyfe served in Europe in the Canadian Army. He was a secretary to a general. In England, he met and married, in 1945, Edith Maud "Molly" Brazier, who survives him. He studied at Oxford. Returning to Canada with his new wife, he taught at the University of British Columbia until 1948. His son, John was born in Galt in 1946. Having earned a Ph. D. in Victorian literature at the University of Chicago in 1951, he taught at a number of colleges and universities in Montana, New Mexico and Iowa before settling in Terre Haute at Indiana State University in 1957. His daughter, Gwendolyn, was born in Montana. He was a professor of English at Indiana State University for twenty-four years, before retiring in 1981. His major research interests centred on the history of England leading up to and during the First World War. Always bookish, Mr. Fyfe spent his life reading and writing. When reading for pleasure, he rarely strayed into nonfiction. He loved opera. A lifelong Presbyterian, he was active in the church his whole life, serving as an elder and singing in the choir. He was an enthusiastic weekend golfer. He enjoyed visiting with his friends from the English Department, often over a beer at a local pub. He smoked a pipe. Always personally conservative, he was politically liberal early in life and more conservative later. He possessed teacher of the primary class for a period of twenty-five years. She was also a member of Women's Christian Temperance Union. Surviving is one sister, Fanny Sophia Galbraith of Guelph and one brother, Robert Galbraith of Mount Forest. Interment at Woodlawn Cemetery. A Celebration of Lives Obituaries of Puslinch Township, Wellington Co., Ontario Vol 1, Anna Jackson & Marjorie Clark Used with kind permission of Marjorie Clark

  
  

• Sources

  [S3231] Find A Grave, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/208843667/albert-fyfe. [S4] Vit - ON - Marriage Registration. Name: John Fyfe Event Type: Marriage Event Date: 10 Jan 1912 Event Place: Toronto, York, Ontario, Canada Gender: Male Age: 48 Birth Year (Estimated): 1864 Father's Name: Thos Fyfe Mother's Name: Eliza Oak Spouse's Name: Ruth E Bond Spouse's Gender: Female Spouse's Age: 37 Spouse's Birth Year (Estimated): 1875 Spouse's Father's Name: Jno Bond Spouse's Mother's Name: Elizabeth Ricker

  
  

• Event Map

  Born - 18 Jan 1916 - Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Died - 28 Dec 2001 - Terre Haute, Vigo, Indiana, USA Buried - - New Hope Cemetery, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  = Link to Google Earth