Merle Leone (Knowlton) Young (1902 - 1999)

Born 5 Oct 1902 in Knowlton's Landing, Quebec

Ancestors

Wife of Benjamin Douglas Young — married 3 Sep 1924 (to 1980) in Knowlton's Landing, Quebec

Descendants

Died 23 Dec 1999 at age 97 in Oakville, Ontario

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Biography

Merle was born in 1902 on a farm on beautiful Lake Memphremagog in Knowlton’s Landing, Quebec. This was an important tourist area in these years with many summer people vacationing here from Montreal and Boston, and Merle enjoyed working to supply eggs, dairy and ice to them from her family’s farm. She met and married Ben Young from nearby Mansonville and encouraged him to attend college to become a veterinarian. For several years she and her two children stayed with rotating family members, doing a big share of house and farm work, while Ben studied in Guelph at the Ontario Veterinary College. She encouraged him to purchase the Brookville Veterinary Clinic and move to Nassagaweya Township, Ontario in 1931, thus keeping her father from interfering in the business. They could have chosen to set up a practice in Waterloo, Quebec, but she felt that would have been too close. For more than forty years she ran the business office of the veterinary clinic and was an active church and community member in Nassagaweya. In her retirement years she volunteered at the Brookville School, reading to the children and telling stories about the old days. She passed away about 1999. ^[1]

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Grave located in Campeville, Ontario, Canada ^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ First-hand information as remembered by Cliff Young, Friday, January 9, 2015.
2. ↑ https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/174084648/merle-leone-young

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