John Warren

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-83663P
• Immigration: 1852, , Ontario, Canada
• Immigration: 1852, , Canada
• Occupation: 1891, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Gentleman
• Residence: 1891, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Anglican
• Residence: 1911, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Anglican

John — Rachel Unsworth. Rachel was born 18 Mar 1837, , England; died 23 Mar 1926; was buried , New Hope Cemetery, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-83671
• Occupation: 1891, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Woolen Mill Worker
• Residence: 1891, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Anglican
• Occupation: 1901, New Hope Cemetery, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Marker
• Occupation: 1911, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; ?, Woolen Mill
• Residence: 1911, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist

John — Frances "Fanny" Strycker. Frances (daughter of John Strycker and Caroline Quirmbach) was born 6 Sep 1866, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-106405
• Residence: 1871, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian
• Occupation: 1890, Guelph City, Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada; Spinner

Thomas married Maggie Wilson 1 Jan 1890, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Maggie (daughter of John Wilson and Mary Haddow, daughter of John Wilson and Mary Haddow) was born 15 Oct 1863, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 27 Aug 1911, Dunnville, Haldimand Co., Ontario. [Group Sheet]

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-83665
• Occupation: 1891, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Woolen Mill Weaver
• Residence: 1891, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Anglican
• Occupation: 1901, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Weaver
• Occupation: 1911, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Weaver, Woolen Mill
• Residence: 1911, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Anglican

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• Name: Ellen Priscilla "Ella" Keffer
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-82019
• Residence: 1891, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Anglican
• Residence: 1911, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist

Ellen married Wellington Keffer Apr 1890. Wellington (son of Solomon Keffer and Elizabeth Mager) was born 16 Jan 1862, Vaughan Twp., York Co., Ontario; died 17 Mar 1940; was buried , New Hope Cemetery, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-83666P
• Occupation: 1891, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Woolen Mill Weaver
• Residence: 1891, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Anglican
• Occupation: 1901, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Weaver
• Occupation: 1911, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Weaver, Woolen Mill
• Residence: 1911, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Anglican

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-311150
• Occupation: 1891, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Woolen Mill Weaver
• Residence: 1891, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Anglican

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• Name: Edith Agnes Garland
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-83690
• Residence: 1911, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Anglican

Edith married Edgar Garland 1 Jun 1897. Edgar was born 25 Aug 1867, Backwell, Somerset, England; died 7 Jan 1940, Victoria, British Columbia; was buried , Hatley Memorial Gardens, Colwood, British Columbia. [Group Sheet]

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-83667
• Occupation: 1901, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Dress Maker

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• Name: Lilly Unsworth Simpson
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-311151
• Occupation: 1891, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Woolen Mill Weaver
• Occupation: 1901, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Woolen Mill
• Occupation: 1911, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Domestic, House
• Residence: 1911, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Anglican

Lilly married John E. Simpson 18 Nov 1913, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. John was born 1859, , Canada; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

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• Residence: Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-83673
• Residence: 1911, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist
• Military: 1914, WW1; WW1, Gunner / 5th Cabadian Siege Battery
• Military: 1914, WW1; WW1, Service #348682

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• Residence: Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-83674
• Residence: 1911, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist
• Military: 1914, WW1; WW1, Lance Sergeant, 111th Battalion
• Military: 1914, WW1; WW1, Service #730359

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-83675
• Residence: 1911, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist
• Occupation: 1925, Hamilton, Wentworth Co., Ontario, Canada; Foreman

Albert married Neva Simpson 16 Dec 1925, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Neva (daughter of Hugh Simpson and Clara Richardson Jackson) was born 1902, , England; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-224229
• Residence: 1911, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-224230
• Residence: 1911, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-82020
• Residence: 1891, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Anglican
• Occupation: 1911, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Designer, Woolen Mill
• Residence: 1911, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-82021
• Residence: 1911, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist

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• Military: WW1
• Residence: Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-82022
• Military: 1914, WW1; WW1, Private, 36th Battalion

Notes:

Son of Mr. and Mrs. Wellington Keffer, of Hespeler, Ontario.

Franklin Mager Keffer - The Canadian Virtual War Memorial - Veterans Affairs Canada. (2016). Veterans.gc.ca. Retrieved 21 May 2016, from https://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/memorials/canadian-virtual-war-memorial/detail/1593518?Franklin%20Mager%20Keffer

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Remembering brothers-in-arms: 'No nobler, grander death than this'

CAMBRIDGE - Crowds swarmed downtown Hespeler in November, 1918. They came to celebrate, spontaneously, to mill about and absorb the shocking news: The Great War was over.

Nellie Keffer stayed home, in no mood to embrace strangers. She kept at her household chores. Daughter Mary found Nellie washing the floors.

"Aren't you coming downtown?" Mary asked her mother. "Everybody's there."

"It's all right for them," Nellie replied. "They've got somebody coming home."

Nellie Keffer had two sons who answered Canada's call to arms. Both died in battle on the Western Front. Both were denied known graves.

Ernest Keffer enlisted first. He was a fun teen. His family called him Punch. Frank Keffer followed his younger brother to war two months later. He was more studious. They were killed in 1916, four months apart....

Ernest enlisted in January 1915 when he was 18. The war was five months old and it was still generating more excitement than dread. Few Canadian soldiers had reached European battlefields. Nobody from this region had been reported killed in action. Ernest volunteered in Guelph, leaving his job as a weaver in a Hespeler factory. Canada assigned him to the 4th infantry battalion.

Frank enlisted in March 1915 when he was 21. He had moved to Western Canada to teach and was attending university in Saskatoon when Canada's call to arms persuaded him to interrupt his studies. He volunteered in Saskatoon and was assigned to help reinforce an elite regiment, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry. The regiment, the first Canadian unit to see action overseas, recruited 1,300 men directly from universities....

Both brothers held the rank of private. Sent overseas, they settled into the misery of trench warfare, battling poison gas, enemy shells and bullets, as well as lice, rats, mud and even army discipline. In 1915 Frank was sentenced to 10 days of field punishment after being insolent to a superior. He was likely placed in fetters or handcuffed for up to two hours per day but was still allowed to move freely....

Frank, 22, was killed in action in trenches at Maple Copse, a wooded area where combat uprooted trees, showering the battlefield with deadly slivers and stakes. The chaos of battle rendered the exact date of his death unknown; he was killed some time between June 2 and 4.

After overrunning most trenches at Mount Sorrel, the Germans halted to consolidate. Their failure to exploit their momentum gave Canada time to regroup and to counterattack the next day, effectively stopping the German advance.

Hespeler learned of Frank Keffer's death within two weeks. The Hespeler Herald newspaper consoled his parents Nellie and Wellington, a textile designer. The couple had five other children. "Frank was an exceptionally fine boy and a splendid type of Canadian manhood and had a most promising future ahead of him. He died the death of a hero, fighting for his country and worldwide freedom, and after all, there could have been no nobler, grander death than this."

A casualty record suggests Frank was buried on the battlefield beneath a board bearing his name. The location of his grave was later lost, his remains never recovered.

Four months later, Ernest Keffer was helping to hold the front line at the Somme battlefield in France. Cook describes it as a "wasteland of ruined farmers' fields; scummy, water-filled shell holes, and acres of unburied corpses."

The Somme battle began in July 1916. It was largely a stalemate. But in September 1916, Canadian troops captured the village of Courcelette. It was a well-regarded victory and the Germans wanted the village back. On Sept. 19, 1916, Ernest's 4th battalion twice defended Courcelette, fending off German counterattacks in heavy rain.

Canada began the day with its own plans to attack, but cancelled them after bombarding the Germans. At 7: 30 p.m. the enemy attacked and "succeeded in obtaining a footing in one trench," capturing a Canadian machine gun and overcoming its crew, the battalion's war diary states.

Canadian soldiers held in reserve counterattacked right away. They reached the captured trench, found the Germans gone, and took back the trench. Both sides fired shells at each other for the rest of the night.

It was a minor skirmish. Ernest Keffer did not survive it. Casualty records reveal he was killed in action near Courcelette. There's no record that he was ever buried.....

Outhit, J. (2015). Remembering brothers-in-arms: 'No nobler, grander death than this' | TheRecord.com. TheRecord.com. Retrieved 9 October 2017, from https://www.therecord.com/news-story/6085655-remembering-brothers-in-arms-no-nobler-grander-death-than-this-/

Military:
Keffer, Franklin Mager Private. Enlisted at Saskatoon, Sask. On March 18, 1915 with 38th Battalion. Transferred to Princess Pat's Canadian Light Infantry. Methodist. Born at Hespeler, Oct. 17, 1893; educated at Hespeler School and Galt Collegiate Institute, and at the University of Saskatchewan at Saskatoon. He taught school in Saskatchewan for nearly a year before enlisting. He was killed in action at Hooge, Belgium on June 2, 1916 in the Ypres salient. He was killed by a shell after having served eleven months in the trenches. Mr. Wellington Keffer, Hespeler, Ontario is his father. Fred Keffer, Hespeler, Ontario.<sup>1a

1a</sup>Keffer, Franklin Mager: Grace Schmidt Room Digital Collection. (2016). Vitacollections.ca. Retrieved 21 May 2016, from https://vitacollections.ca/kpl-gsr/2843394/data?n=1

Buried:
A casualty record suggests Frank was buried on the battlefield beneath a board bearing his name. The location of his grave was later lost, his remains never recovered.

Other Events:

• Interesting: war, misfortune, military, story
• Military: WW1
• Residence: Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-82023
• Residence: 1911, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist
• Military: 1914, WW1; WW1, Private, 34th Battalion / 9th / 4th / 1st Battalion
• Misfortune: 1916; killed in War
• Occupation: 1916, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; weaver

Notes:

Remembering brothers-in-arms: 'No nobler, grander death than this'

CAMBRIDGE - Crowds swarmed downtown Hespeler in November, 1918. They came to celebrate, spontaneously, to mill about and absorb the shocking news: The Great War was over.

Nellie Keffer stayed home, in no mood to embrace strangers. She kept at her household chores. Daughter Mary found Nellie washing the floors.

"Aren't you coming downtown?" Mary asked her mother. "Everybody's there."

"It's all right for them," Nellie replied. "They've got somebody coming home."

Nellie Keffer had two sons who answered Canada's call to arms. Both died in battle on the Western Front. Both were denied known graves.

Ernest Keffer enlisted first. He was a fun teen. His family called him Punch. Frank Keffer followed his younger brother to war two months later. He was more studious. They were killed in 1916, four months apart....

Ernest enlisted in January 1915 when he was 18. The war was five months old and it was still generating more excitement than dread. Few Canadian soldiers had reached European battlefields. Nobody from this region had been reported killed in action. Ernest volunteered in Guelph, leaving his job as a weaver in a Hespeler factory. Canada assigned him to the 4th infantry battalion.

Frank enlisted in March 1915 when he was 21. He had moved to Western Canada to teach and was attending university in Saskatoon when Canada's call to arms persuaded him to interrupt his studies. He volunteered in Saskatoon and was assigned to help reinforce an elite regiment, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry. The regiment, the first Canadian unit to see action overseas, recruited 1,300 men directly from universities....

Both brothers held the rank of private. Sent overseas, they settled into the misery of trench warfare, battling poison gas, enemy shells and bullets, as well as lice, rats, mud and even army discipline. In 1915 Frank was sentenced to 10 days of field punishment after being insolent to a superior. He was likely placed in fetters or handcuffed for up to two hours per day but was still allowed to move freely....

Frank, 22, was killed in action in trenches at Maple Copse, a wooded area where combat uprooted trees, showering the battlefield with deadly slivers and stakes. The chaos of battle rendered the exact date of his death unknown; he was killed some time between June 2 and 4.

After overrunning most trenches at Mount Sorrel, the Germans halted to consolidate. Their failure to exploit their momentum gave Canada time to regroup and to counterattack the next day, effectively stopping the German advance.

Hespeler learned of Frank Keffer's death within two weeks. The Hespeler Herald newspaper consoled his parents Nellie and Wellington, a textile designer. The couple had five other children. "Frank was an exceptionally fine boy and a splendid type of Canadian manhood and had a most promising future ahead of him. He died the death of a hero, fighting for his country and worldwide freedom, and after all, there could have been no nobler, grander death than this."

A casualty record suggests Frank was buried on the battlefield beneath a board bearing his name. The location of his grave was later lost, his remains never recovered.

Four months later, Ernest Keffer was helping to hold the front line at the Somme battlefield in France. Cook describes it as a "wasteland of ruined farmers' fields; scummy, water-filled shell holes, and acres of unburied corpses."

The Somme battle began in July 1916. It was largely a stalemate. But in September 1916, Canadian troops captured the village of Courcelette. It was a well-regarded victory and the Germans wanted the village back. On Sept. 19, 1916, Ernest's 4th battalion twice defended Courcelette, fending off German counterattacks in heavy rain.

Canada began the day with its own plans to attack, but cancelled them after bombarding the Germans. At 7: 30 p.m. the enemy attacked and "succeeded in obtaining a footing in one trench," capturing a Canadian machine gun and overcoming its crew, the battalion's war diary states.

Canadian soldiers held in reserve counterattacked right away. They reached the captured trench, found the Germans gone, and took back the trench. Both sides fired shells at each other for the rest of the night.

It was a minor skirmish. Ernest Keffer did not survive it. Casualty records reveal he was killed in action near Courcelette. There's no record that he was ever buried.....

Outhit, J. (2015). Remembering brothers-in-arms: 'No nobler, grander death than this' | TheRecord.com. TheRecord.com. Retrieved 9 October 2017, from https://www.therecord.com/news-story/6085655-remembering-brothers-in-arms-no-nobler-grander-death-than-this-/

Military:
Keffer, Ernest Ralph. Private. Enlisted January 7, 1915 at Guelph with 34th Infantry Battalion. Transferred to the 9th Reserves in England, to 4th Battalion to 1st Battalion in France. Methodist. Born July 29, 1896 at Hespeler, educated at Hespeler Public School and Galt Collegiate Institute. He was killed September 19, 1916 at Courcelette in the Battle of the Somme after serving in the trenches from February to September. Mr. Wellington Keffer, Hespeler, Ontario is his father.Fred Keffer, Hespeler, Ontario.<sup>1a

1a</sup>Keffer, Ernest Ralph: Grace Schmidt Room Digital Collection. (2016). Vitacollections.ca. Retrieved 15 May 2016, from https://vitacollections.ca/kpl-gsr/2913269/data?n=1

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-82024
• Residence: 1911, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist

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• FindAGrave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/87196785
• Name: Mary Elizabeth Stager
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-166879
• Residence: 1911, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist
• Occupation: 1926, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; School Teacher
• Residence: 1987, 114 Highland Park, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada

Notes:

STAGER, Mary Elizabeth(Keffer) - On April 22, 2002„ at Cambridge Memorial Hospital, in her 101st year.

Married in 1928 to Harry Stager (1987). They had over 60 glorious years together. Mary is survived by her loved and loving children, Johr (Joan) of Vancouver, B.C., Charles (Anne) and Elizabeth (Darrell) Ackford of Cambridge. Ont. and William (Marjorie) of Kamloops, B.C. She was the quintessential and perfectly adored grandmother for Andrew Stager, Christine Stager. William Ackford. Daniel (Lenny) Ackford and Thomas (Joanne) Ackford, Mary Stager and Geoffrey Stager. And she was the wonderful G-G (great-grandmother) for Arielle and Max Ackford. There are many nieces and nephews for whom Aunt Mary was a special person.

Born in Hespeler. the daughter of Wellington and Ellen Keffer, she became a kindergarten teacher in Uxbridge. St. Catherines and Hespeler before she married and moved to Preston. She took up family life. supported Harry in his business and was active in her Quill Club, the IODE, the Eastern Star, Rotary-Anns and especially in the Sunday School and other activities of St Paul's United Church. Mary joined the Galt Country Club in 1946 and quickly endeared herself to countless friends in that great recreation of golf which she played until she was 93. For the past 21 years there has been an annual Mary Stager Field Day at the Club in honour of her sparkling and winsome personality. She spanned the century past, losing two brothers in the First World War, that began with electricity and automobiles and ended with travels in space. During the whole of that time, she was alert to each new change and lived her life with optimism, good humour and abiding faith. Since 1994 Mary was a resident of Saint Luke's Place where she was the object of much affection which she shared with the nurses and staff, all of whom gave such loving care. Wherever she went her bright wit, wisdom and friendship touched many lives. The family and friends who survive have wonderful memories that will not fade.

The family will receive Mends at the Barthel Funeral Home, 566 Queenston Rd.. Cambridge on Wednesday from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. The funeral service will be held at the funeral home on Thursday, April 25, 2002 at 2 p.m. Interment in New Hope Cemetery, Cambridge.

Flowers are gratefully declined, but if you wish, a donation in memory may be made to Saint Luke's Place. 162A Franklin Blvd., Cambridge, Ont., N3C 3P4 or St. Paul's United Church, 450 King St. E., Cambridge, Ont., N3H 3M9 or the 'Memorial Tree end' at the Galt Country Club, Box 22010, Cambridge, Ont.. N1P 8E3.

Mary married Harold Kimberley "Harry" Stager 7 Jul 1926, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Harold (son of Aaron F. Stager and Blanche Ella Wilkins) was born 16 Jan 1900, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 29 Mar 1987, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , New Hope Cemetery, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-223734
• Residence: 1911, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist

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• Residence: Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-83692
• Residence: 1911, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Anglican
• Military: 1914, WW1; WW1, Second Lieutenant, Royal Air Force

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-224217
• Residence: 1911, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Anglican

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-166884
• Residence: 1987, Vancouver, , British Columbia, Canada

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• FindAGrave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/174082842
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-166888
• Residence: 1987, Kamloops, , British Columbia, Canada

Notes:

William Harold (Bill) Stager passed away peacefully in the loving presence of his family on November 13, 2016 after a short illness. He is survived by Marjorie his wife of 51 years, and his children Mary (Andrew) and Geoffrey (Tracey).

Bill was born to Harold Kimberley and Mary Elizabeth Stager on December 11, 1937 in Preston (Cambridge, Ontario. The youngest of four children, he is survived by older siblings John Stager (Joan), Charles Stager and Elizabeth Acford (Darrell). Bill grew up over the funeral home that his family owned and operated on Queen Street, Preston. The Stager family enjoyed summer vacations at cottages on Lake Couchiching and the Severn River where Bill developed his love of fishing and the outdoors. At a young age, Bill followed the family's passion for golf and went on to win the Ontario Juvenile Boys Championship twice, in 1953 and 1954. He eventually followed older brother John out to Vancouver B.C. in 1958 where he studied sciences at UBC. Bill worked in various nightclubs most notably The Cave, where he developed his love of jazz. Eventually he embarked on his career in sales working at Lance Bissett where Bill learned the construction trade and met Marjorie Camm; the two married on August 28th, 1965. The newly married couple settled in Kamloops where they happily raised both children Mary and Geoff.

Bill trained to be a designer and worked at MacDonald Supply where he was the first to offer microwave cooking classes to anyone who purchased a microwave oven (the new technology of the time). Bill then went into a successful partnership with his friend Werner Windbiel opening the doors to Designer Kitchens and Interiors in 1983. For over thirty years, Bill's talents as a salesman and designer earned him the respect of the Kamloops business community. Bill's passion for golf stayed strong as Bill joined the Kamloops Golf and Country Club in 1971, serving as club president twice; he played his beloved game three times a week until his illness. In 1997, Bill was excited to attend the Masters Golf Tournament in Augusta, Georgia with his good friend Bill Wright. In his retirement, Bill enjoyed fishing, cooking, reading and his weekly football pools at the Fox and Hounds pub. He and Marjorie made two trips to Europe where they enjoyed sightseeing with a group of friends and family. Bill's trip to St. Andrews Golf Club in Scotland was a personal highlight. Throughout his life, Bill was known for his honesty, his sense of humour, his generosity and his kindness. His beautiful heart will be greatly missed by many.

The family would like to say thank-you to all the doctors and nurses in the ICU at Royal Inland Hospital for their exceptional care of Bill in his final days.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations to the Heart and Stroke Foundation of BC in Bill's honour.

A Celebration of Bill's Life will be held at the Kamloops Golf and Country Club on Sunday,

December 4th, 2016 at 2:00 pm. Please join us to tell stories of Bill's life and to celebrate this wonderful man.

"Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes

Because for those who love with their heart and soul

There is no such thing as separation." -- Rumi

Published by Kamloops This Week on Nov. 23, 2016.

https://www.legacy.com/ca/obituaries/kamloopsthisweek/name/william-stager-obituary?id=42003323