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• Occupation: a teacher
• Misc: Jul 1997; 11 grandchildren; 16 great-grandchildren
• Obituary: Aft 20 Jul 1997

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Obituary:

Obituary

McCORMACK, Verlie Amelia - 90, Mount Pleasant Lodge, formerly of Mount Pleasant, died July 20, 1997, in Highland View Regional Hospital, Amherst. Born in Upper Nappan, Cumberland Co., she was a daughter of the late Burton T. and Bertha J. (Smith) Read. She received her high school education at Cumberland County Academy in Amherst and attended Provincial Normal College in Truro, graduating in 1926. She taught school in South Mount Pleasant, Fenwick, River Philip and then at Oxford Elementary School until the time of her retirement. She was a member and elder of the Calvary United Church, Mount Pleasant, and in recent years was an adherent of Oxford United Baptist Church. She was the organist; a choir member; served as secretary treasurer and taught Sunday school at Calvary United Church, Mount Pleasant, for a number of years. She also served as president and secretary treasurer of Mount Pleasant Women's Institute for a number of years. Surviving are daughters, Gwendolyn and Willa (Mrs. Charles W. Black), both of Oxford; sons, Donald and wife Marion, Dartmouth; Eldon and wife Jean, Brookdale, Cumberland Co.; Victor, Roger and wife Winnie, Harris and wife Edna, all of Mount Pleasant; sisters, Mrs. Rhoda Whitehead, Cornwall, Ont.; Mrs. Mary Sherriff, Midland, Ont.; Mrs. Luetta Coates, Brookdale; Gladys (Mrs. Merriel Purdy), Oxford; Kathleen (Mrs. Edgar Mitchell), South Pugwash; 11 grandchildren; 16 great-grandchildren; a number of nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by her husband, Earle; sisters, Mrs. Beulah Furlong, Mrs. Vivian Allen, Mrs. Minerva Ripley, Mrs. Merna Fraser; brothers, Price, Charles, Harold, Carlos, Eldon, James. Visitation will be this evening and Tuesday afternoon and evening in Allen's Funeral Home, Oxford. Funeral service will be 2 p.m. Wednesday in Oxford United Baptist Church, Rev. Blair Holden officiating. Burial will take place in Mount Pleasant Cemetery. Donations may be made to the charity of your choice.

Verlie married Earle McCormack 28 Aug 1929, Upper Nappan, Cumberland, Nova Scotia, Canada. Earle (son of Charles Melville McCormick and Emma Jane King) was born 15 Nov 1898, Mount Pleasant, Cumberland, Nova Scotia, Canada; died Nov 1987, Springhill, Cumberland, Nova Scotia, Canada. [Group Sheet]

1. June Gwendolyn McCormack was born Abt 1932, Mount Pleasant, Cumberland, Nova Scotia, Canada; died 21 Oct 2006, Montreal, , Quebec, Canada; was buried , Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Mount Pleasant, , Nova Scotia, Canada.
2. Willa R McCormack
3. Donald Earle McCormack was born 20 Jul 1930, Mount Pleasant, Cumberland, Nova Scotia, Canada; died 21 Feb 2013, Lower Sackville, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
4. Eldon M R McCormack
5. Victor Read McCormack
6. Alton Roger McCormack
7. Harris Maxwell McCormack