Florence Fallis

1910 - 1993  (83 years)

• Name	Florence Fallis
  Born	1910	Minto Twp., Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada
  Gender	Female
  Died	17 Nov 1993	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
  Hall of Fame - Waterloo Region	Bef 2012	, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [1]
  Name	Florence Bean
  Name	Florence Diamond
  Eby ID Number	Waterloo-55063
  Buried	Bethel United Cemetery, Wilmot Township, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
  Person ID	I55063	Generations
  Last Modified	28 Jan 2025

  
  

  Family 1	Warden/Reeve/Mayor Clarence Douglas Diamond,   b. 30 Jul 1907, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 4 Aug 1969, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 62 years)
  Children	1. Douglas Diamond   2. Beverly Diamond
  Last Modified	29 Jan 2025
  Family ID	F41690	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	Ellworth Hallman Bean,   b. 19 May 1911, New Hamburg, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 16 Sep 1999, New Hamburg, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 88 years)
  Last Modified	29 Jan 2025
  Family ID	F41691	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

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  Florence Fallis

  
  

• Notes

  Florence Fallis was born in 1910 in Minto Township, Wellington County. After taking a secretarial course in Toronto, she moved to Wilmot Township, where she married Clarence Diamond. Bean rose to executive positions on the provincial and national level of the Women's Institute. She served as provincial public relations officer and was president of the Federated Women's Institutes of Ontario from 1977 to 1980. She took a leadership role in conferences of the Associated Country Women of the World. She was active in the Waterloo Farm and Home Safety Council, the Wilmot Agricultural Society, the Wilmot Horticultural Society, the Waterloo Historical Society, the Haysville Sunshine Club and was clerk of session for Zion United Church, New Hamburg. Bean was Haysville correspondent for the K-W Record for thirty years, having commenced her media career at radio station CFRB, Toronto. Honours include the Jubilee Medal and Wilmot Citizen of the Year 1990. She was widely known as "a good neighbour." She was married to Ellworth Bean. Waterloo Region Hall of Fame ______________________ "Florence Bean, 81, of the Nithview Seniors Village, New Hamburg, formerly of Fairview St., and R.R.#1 New Hamburg, died Wednesday at St. Mary's Hospital, Kitchener. Born in Minto Tp., she was a daughter of the lateWilliam Fallis and the former Melissa Millen. Her first husband, Clarence Diamond, died in 1969. She was a member of Zion United Church in New Hamburg and a member of the UCS of the church. She had also served in other capacities within the church. She was a member of Haysville Women's Institute, serving in various offices of the branch, and had also been the provincial president and public relations officer of the Federated Women's Institutes of Ontario. She was very interested in municipal affairs and was named Citizen of the Year in 1990. She had also served as a correspondent forthe KW Record and the New Hamburg Independent. Surviving are her husband, Ellworth Bean....a son, Douglas Diamond and wife Rosemary of Toronto; a daughter Beverly Diamond and husband Clifford Crawley of Toronto;stepdaughter Marilyn and husband Lynn Sararus of R.R.#1 New Dundee; stepson Wilfred Bean and wife Kathryn of Antigonish, N.S.; grandchildren, Douglas and Terry Diamond; step-grandchildren Jane Anne and David Sararus; brothers Murray Fallis and wife Ruth of Caledon East; Alan Fallis and wife Hazel of Brantford; sisters-in-law, Isabel Fallis of Harriston and Margaret Facey, of the Nithview Home, New Hamburg; also nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by her brothers, Graham Fallis and his wife Winnie, and James Fallis." Stratford Beacon Herald obit, Nov. 1993

  
  

• Sources

  [S220] Waterloo Region Hall of Fame Waterloo Region Hall of Fame.

  
  

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  Born - 1910 - Minto Twp., Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada Died - 17 Nov 1993 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Hall of Fame - Waterloo Region - Bef 2012 - , Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Buried - - Bethel United Cemetery, Wilmot Township, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  = Link to Google Earth