Obituary for ~
Rhoda Frances Harpell
Tuesday, August 8, 2000
The Halifax
Herald Limited
HARPELL, Rhoda Frances - 86,
Port Bickerton,
Guysborough Co.,
died
Monday, August 7,
2000,
in St. Mary's Memorial Hospital,
Sherbrooke,
surrounded by her
loving family.
Born in
Port Bickerton, she was the eldest daughter of
the late Everette
Garfield and Amanda Bessie
(Kaiser) Horton.
She was a member of the Port
Bickerton United Baptist
Church.
During her long
life, she was a volunteer for numerous
organizations
and was a
honorary life member of the
Women's Institute of Nova Scotia.
She worked for
15 years as a mail
courier for Canada Post.
Loved and respected by all who knew her,
she was
a devoted mother and
grandmother
and her
wisdom and love will be sadly missed by all.
She
is survived by sons,
Stanley (Anne), Clayton
(Mickey), Douglas (Lottie), all of Port
Bickerton;
Jerry (Janice),
Halifax; Asa (Sandra),
Jordanville;
Charles (Elizabeth), Truro; Isaac
(Sherry), Sonora; John
(Margaret), Port Hilford;
daughters, Hilda (Clifford) Sherman, Halifax;
Florence Baker, Liscomb;
Marjorie (Grant) Yake,
Richmond, B.C.; Carol Whitmore, Bedford;
Wanetta
(Roger) Evans,
Portuguese Cove; Sandra
(Leonard) Archibald, Dartmouth;
Barbara (David)
Croft, Liscomb; Judy
(Gordon) MacDonald,
Port Hilford;
Cindy (Lloyd) MacGrath, Melrose;
brothers, Weldon,
Kenneth and Fred, all of Port
Bickerton;
sisters, Jean (Maurice) Kaiser,
Harpelville; Clare (Roy)
Harpell, Port Bickerton; Leona
Newcombe, Sherbrooke;
39 grandchildren; 37
great-grandchildren; one
great great-grandchild.
She was predeceased by her husband, Asa;
twin
sons, Harold and
Hector;
brother, Maurice;
sister, Etta Lillian Horton;
grandchildren, David
Harpell, Charlene
Harpell, Jennifer Yake, Andrew
and Marc Whitmore;
great grandchildren, Michaela
Baker and Breanna
Kaiser;
sons-in-law,
Melvin Baker, Ian Sherman, John Whitmore.
Visitation will be 2-4,
7-9 p.m. today,
funeral
service will be 3 p.m. Wednesday, both in Port
Bickerton United
Baptist Church,
Pastor Archie
Leach officiating. Burial will be in family plot,
Harpelville. Memorial
donations in Rhoda's memory
may be made to St. Mary's Memorial Hospital,
Sherbrooke,
the Port
Bickerton United Baptist
Church
or to a charity of your choice.
Funeral
arrangements entrusted
to G.W. Giffin Funeral
Home, Country Harbour.
Obituary submitted and typed by George Newbury
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