Beatrice Winnifred (Bradley) Neary (1917 - 2006)

Born 5 Aug 1917 in Grimsby, Ontario

Ancestors

Wife of Bernard Francis Neary — married 11 Dec 1943 in Watford, England

Died 10 Oct 2006 at age 89 in Victoria, British Columbia

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Biography

Beatrice was born in Grimsby, Ontario 1917. She was the daughter of Stephen Bradley and Winifred Kempling. Betty, as she preferred to be called, moved with the family to Port Credit and attended grade and high school there. She became a nurse, training at Toronto East General Hospital. She volunteered for service in the Second World War, and met her future husband, Bernard Neary while in training at Camp Borden. She served in hospitals in England during the war, and married Bern in Watford, England in 1943.

After the war, she returned to Canada and lived with Bern in Ottawa while he was employed with the Department of Indian Affairs. While in Ottawa, she bore three sons (Patrick, Michael and Bernard) and a daughter (Sharon.) Bern joined Thomas Nelsons and Sons (publishers) in Toronto and Betty moved to Port Credit with Bern in 1951, where she had Kevin and Mary Ann. The family moved to Toronto in 1961 and stayed there until 1969, when she relocated to Victoria, BC. She passed away in Victoria in 2006. ^[1]

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1. ↑ First-hand information as remembered by Bern Neary, Friday, July 22, 2016.

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