Sylvia Maria Bingeman: Waterloo Region Generations

Generation: 1

Sylvia Maria Bingeman was born 17 Aug 1873, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 2 Jul 1957, , San Diego Co., California; was buried , Greenwood Cemetery, Georgetown, Halton Co., Ontario, Canada.

Other Events:

Eby ID Number: 00009-1054.2
Residence: 1881, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; E. Mennonite

Notes:

Mrs Bowman Widow of Early GHS Principal.

Cremation followed the funeral service of Mrs. Bowman, recently in San Diego, California. Mrs. Bowman who had since remarried was the widow of the former Georgetown High School principal, R. D. Coutts.

Mr. and Mrs. Coutts and their children, Malcolm and Isabel lived in Georgetown from 1897 til 1904 when Mr Coutts resigned from the principalship and went to Western Canada. Prior to her death Mrs. Coutts suffered from arthritis for many years.

Malcolm is now a doctor, specializing in orthopaedics, in San Diego and Isabel is now Mrs. Van der Linden of Saskatchewan. Ashes will be interred in Greenwood Cemetery, Georgetown, at a later date, in the family plot where Mr. Coutts is buried.

Georgetown Herald, 31 July 1957, Pg. 3,

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An Interment service took place in the Greenwood Cemetery on September 7th when the ashes of Mrs. Richard Coutts were placed in the family plot. Mrs. Coutts died in San Diego on July 2nd. 1907.

Georgetown Herald, 20 Sep. 1962, Pg.12