Edna Marie (Winter) Tookey (1907 - 1988)

Born May 1907 in Alberta, Canada [uncertain]

Ancestors

Wife of Kenneth William R. Tookey — married 2 Jul 1930 in Hughenden, Provost No. 52, Alberta, Canada

Died 12 Sep 1988 at age 81 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

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Biography

Edna was born in 1907. She was the daughter of Ernest Winter and Hilda Loney. She lived with her parents in Camrose as of the 1926 Census.

She married Kenneth Tookey in 1930 in Hughenden, Alberta.

She passed away in 1988, and was predeceased by her husband, Kenneth Tookey in 1983. At her death, she was survived by one son, Gerald Mark and wife Olive; one grandson, Darrell Ross and wife Marilyn Tookey; three great-grandsons, Colan, Ryan and Braydan; one granddaughter, Norah Jean Marie and her husband Kevin Cook and great-granddaughter Charlene; four brothers, Cecil and wife Lola, James and wife Lois, Earl and Harvey.

Note: 1911 Canadian census lists birthplace as USA; 1916 census lists it as Ontario, and 1926 census lists it as Alberta. Quarve Genealogy book lists it as Enderlin, ND, and the date of May 22, 2907.

Sources

• Personal records of Jennifer Winter, Harvey Winter Memorial Service eulogy, prepared by Gerry Tookey, June 12, 1999.

• Personal records of Jennifer Winter, Edna Tookey Obituary Notice, unknown newspaper, September, 1988.

• Personal records of Jennifer Winter, The Quarve Genealogy, book written by D. M. Quarve, Edith Quarve and Alma Quarve, Mid-Cal Publishers, Fresno, California, 1969.

• "Recensement du Canada de 1911," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVB8-T8HT : 16 March 2018), Edna Winter in entry for Ernest Winter, 1911; citing Census, Red Deer Sub-Districts 1-78, Alberta, Canada, Library and Archives of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario; FHL microfilm 2,417,655.

• Library and Archives Canada, Census of the Prairie Provinces, 1916, "Item: Edna Winters", https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/census/1916/Pages/item.aspx?itemid=445066

• Library and Archives Canada, Census of the Prairie Provinces, 1926, "Item: Edna Winters", https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/census/1926/Pages/item.aspx?itemid=1650937

• Provincial Archives of Alberta, "Marriage Indexes - Brides, Wi 1930-1939", Marriage licence #992, https://provincialarchives.alberta.ca/sites/default/files/2018-10/brides-wi-1930-1939.pdf

• Provincial Archives of Alberta, "Marriage Indexes - Grooms, To 1919-1945", Marriage licence #992,

https://provincialarchives.alberta.ca/sites/default/files/2021-02/grooms-to-1919-1945%28op%29.pdf