Elizabeth Margaret "Margaret" Yost

1943 - 2003  (60 years)

• Name	Elizabeth Margaret "Margaret" Yost
  Born	4 Jun 1943
  Gender	Female
  FindAGrave	https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/136528915
  Name	Elizabeth Margaret "Margaret" Kelterborn
  Name	Margaret Yost
  Eby ID Number	Waterloo-491051
  Died	28 Nov 2003
  Buried	Hampstead Cemetery, Hampstead, Perth Co., Ontario
  Person ID	I491051	Generations
  Last Modified	12 May 2025

  
  

  Father	William Yost,   b. 28 Aug 1903, North Easthope Twp., Perth Co., Ontario, Canada ,   d. 3 Jul 1996, Milverton, Mornington Twp., Perth Co., Ontario  (Age 92 years)
  Mother	Edith Irene "Irene" Bast,   b. 31 Jan 1903,   d. 1998  (Age 94 years)
  Family ID	F45708	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mayor Ross William Jacob Kelterborn,   b. 25 Jun 1939, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 21 Mar 2025, Freeport (Kitchener), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 85 years)
  Last Modified	13 May 2025
  Family ID	F300947	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Wife's passing delays mayor's swearing-in ceremony Margaret Kelterborn succumbs to yearlong battle with cancer Richard Vivian Observer Staff Before he tackles the challenges of his new office, Wellesley's mayor-elect has been forced the face a more personal challenge \endash overcoming the loss of his wife of 39 years. Margaret Kelterborn (Yost), 60, passed away in the family home Nov. 28, little more than a year after being diagnosed with cancer. "She was my rudder throughout my entire life. We both felt the same about pretty much everything," Ross Kelterborn said. A card he received sums up his wife quite accurately, he added, "Many have danced this dance called life, but none with her gentle grace." Council's inaugural meeting \endash where Kelterborn will be officially sworn in as mayor \endash was postponed from Dec. 1 to Dec. 9 as a result of the passing. The funeral service was held at Wellesley Mennonite Church Dec. 1. Knowing how important it was to her husband to play a significant role in the community, Margaret always encouraged his participation on township council and his efforts to claim the mayor's chair, noted daughter Kim Banbury. "When he ran for mayor the first time, she was like his campaign manager, but not officially. She fielded calls, answered questions, organized," she recalled. "This time around, we had a family meeting about it and she knew deep in her heart that she may or may not be here when he was mayor. Knowing that, with tears in her eyes said 'You do it, you run for mayor.' "She said she had two conditions," the daughter said with a chuckle. "The conditions were that on any sort of official mayoral business, whether it be campaigning or if he did get elected, he is not to be seen driving his crappy little blue car \endash he is to drive her car, which is a new car. The second condition was he needs to get some new clothes and dress the way she would have wanted him to dress." Along with her sister Natalie Kelterborn, Banbury agreed to look after her mother while her father was attending to the necessary campaign business. And when it came to vote night Nov. 10, Margaret wasn't ready to call it a day before the results were in. "She was very happy," Banbury said of her mother's reaction to the news of her husband's ballot victory. "She was quite ill at the time, but she stayed up until 1 a.m. to see the final results. I'm not quite sure how she did that, but she did." Margaret spent much of her time reading, enjoying her two grand- daughters and sewing, her husband said. She also liked to spend time with her girlfriends, with whom she organized a Canadian Cancer Society fundraiser in the early 1990s \endash after a neighbourhood teenager died of the disease, Margaret and friends decided to do something to help combat the disease. "They set up a fund-raising event here in Wellesley, using my carrousel," Ross Kelterborn said. "They, if I remember correctly, raised about $4,000. It was a very successful operation for a small town like this." Among Banbury's favourite memories of her mother are the times they went to visit her grandparents at a nursing home in their later years. "I would go with her, my sister as well. I remember when she walked in, not only the staff but all the residents knew who she was. When she was there, she didn't just visit her parents, she visited everybody. It just seemed like a second home for her," she remembered. Ross Kelterborn will never forget the girl he met skating one night at the Wellesley Arena. "We used to have skating on Wednesday nights and Saturday nights and everybody went. I used to see this girl down there with beautiful, long, flowing, black hair and always dressed immaculately. When she went skating, she always wore a pair of red slacks," he said. "Those two things, plus her personality gained my attention."

  
  

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  Buried - - Hampstead Cemetery, Hampstead, Perth Co., Ontario  = Link to Google Earth