- Parr Family Genealogy 2005 - (FREDERICK) NORMAN GEORGE PARR

Norman and Lenna Parr

Norman George, son of Robert Parr and Susan Amelia Colborne, was born 17 May 1893 at Brigden, Ontario.

Norman married Lenna McFarlan(e?) 16 September 1914 at Inwood, Ontario; they had no children. Lenna B____________, daughter of Neil McFarlane and Martha A. Ladell, was born _____________ 1892 at ________________. (city)

Norman had a bit of a speech impediment, though that didn't stop him from operating a general store for 30 years at Oil City, Ontario. At the same time, he was a tinsmith, installing furnaces and putting eaves on homes. The speech impediment was caused when he had diphtheria as a child. He was a member of the Inwood Lodge AF & AM.

Lenna died from _______________ (cause) on 17 February 1959 at her residence at 1057 Chilver Road of Walkerville, Ontario. She was buried at the McFarlene family plot at Alvinston, Ontario cemetery.

Norman remarried Emma Elizabeth Read 14 April 1961 at Temple Baptist Church in Windsor, Ontario. Emma was the daughter of James Argyle Read and Katherine Jane Hubbell, and she was born 23 September 1905 at Northwood, Ontario.

Emma was listed in the "Loyalist Lineages of Ontario" book published by Generation Press. Norman died at Metropolitan Hospital in Windsor from ____________ (cause) on 5 April 1976 and was buried with Lenna in the cemetery near Alvinston.

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