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Hannah and Arya with LuLu
Thursday, December 07, 2006
Sunday, September 17, 2006
Monday, August 28, 2006
In Memory of Anne Marie Baird
Anne Marie Baird passed away on August 27, 2006 at the age of 83. She will be dearly missed by her youngest son,Roderick, his wife, Roseanne, their children, Nicholas, his fiance Jess Stenabaugh, and Jessica Violet Anne Baird, as well as the many other members of her family. Anne was the proud mother of four sons, six grandchildren, and two great grandchildren. She was predeceased by her husband Don in 1977. In 2005, Anne enjoyed Roseanne's retirement party and the 2005 Nora Sargeant Family Picnic. She danced at her granddaughter Amanda's wedding in September. By November she was hospitalized with the start of a creeping paralysis that she valiantly fought for the next ten months. For all that knew her, they will miss her outgoing personality and her interest in all whom she met. Anne was a charming, stylish lady who loved her family beyond all else and helped to instill many wonderful family values in her children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren.
Fifty Year Span of Nora Sargeant Family Picnics
Celebrating A Fifty Year Span of Family Picnics 1956 - 2006
In 1956, Stan and Nye Neil and their three daughters moved to Oakhill Drive. Although there are no pictures in our possession that record the first picnics, my mother, Nye Neil, often talked about them because her mother, our Grandmother, Nora Sargeant, suggested the first family picnic. Food had to be carried all the way up the hill to the back of the two acre property, as Grandma liked the view from there. Picnics continued until 1959.
In the scrapbook I’ve made to honour my mother, Nye Neil, I’ve put in the black and white picnic pictures from 1966. In 1967, coloured pictures began to record the family fun. I also have pictures from 1970 and 1971. In 1975 the pictures show the family picnic Mom and Dad hosted to celebrate the upcoming weddings of David and Narissa and Nora and Jim. I have no pictures of the final picnic at Oakhill Drive in 1976. Mom and Dad moved to the city of Brantford in 1977.
Rod, Nick, Jess, and I have hosted the family picnic from 1991 until now in 2006, as we prepare to leave our home at R.R.#1 Springfield to move into London. We’ve enjoyed having the opportunity to bring the family – second, third, and now fourth generation in Olivia Summerhays, together again to catch up on the “Sargeant” family news and celebrate family occasions.
I know each of us keeps within us those special memories of these family picnics. Whether it be the infamous horse memories, first of Jane at Oakhill Drive, “Is Jane’s arm broken, here let me move it…..” then of Nora at R.R.#1 Springfield, who kept quiet about her injuries falling from the horse to avoid everyone poking and prodding at her. Remember Uncle Norm using the ladder to get on the horse so he could be part of the horsing around? We’ve shared family moments right from a meeting with royalty to wedding showers, baby showers, and anniversary celebrations. Maybe your favourite memory is simply the traditional sucker hunt and water balloon toss. Definitely everyone remembers and enjoys the food, something the Sargeant Family is famous for. So much so, that a family cookbook had to be created. The wonderful Sargeant Newsletter and now Sargeant’s Post help us all to stay connected and keep forever the memories of the Sargeant Family.
As fifty years of family picnics from the Neil and Baird Families draw to a close, I want to thank all of you for your part in making our Sargeant Family picnics so memorable and allowing our families to enjoy something so very special and unique. All the best as your families grow. May these years of memory making help to give them the anchor of family love that we all wish for future generations.
Roseanne Baird
August 2006
Family Picnic - August 26, 2006
Our entertainment for this final family picnic is to honour Nick Baird and his fiancé Jess Stenabaugh. Although Nick and Jess were raised to understand that money doesn’t grow on trees, the Sargeant family can make anything happen!
I believe that to build a better future, you need to understand your past. To help with that understanding, we’ve got wedding pictures for the various decades beginning with the 1940’s and slides that my Dad took of the many 3rd generation wedding showers and marriages. And to add to the fun, we’ll also have a fashion show of some of the wedding dresses worn by the women of the Sargeant family. Now, please be kind, once we start into the fashion show, as you can well appreciate how changes happen after 30 and 50 years. I like to think of these changes as there’s just more of me to love.
Thanks to Uncle Norm’s binder of information, the following history of marriages for the Sargeant family unfolds:
First Generation Wedding
Nora Mothersell and Jesse Sargeant wed July 13, 1915 and for the next 21 years, Nora was busy giving birth to her eight children – five girls and 3 boys; the last birth was Uncle Digby in 1936.
Second Generation Weddings
Weddings in the 1940’s Fashion: High necks, long sleeves, long satin trains.
The first marriage of the second generation of Sargeants began with my parents, your grandparents, Nick: Violet Nye Florence Marguerite and Stanley Hamilton Neil in May of 1945, just 7 weeks after they met (picture).
The Sargeant women’s mother had one year to rest from that first shock to then have three consecutive years where her next three daughters were to marry:
Norma Marie Una Phyllis Joyce Sargeant married Bob Stewart Summerhays in Sept. 1947 (picture. She no longer has her wedding dress as the kids played with it).
Mildred Roseline Grace Sargeant married Stan Ernest Reilly Oct. 1949 (borrowed Norma’s wedding gown).
Joan Nightingale Sargeant married Howard William Cook Oct. 1949 (picture and model dress – it’s been used many times in mock weddings – Uncle Nick gives “bride” away).
Wedding in the 1950’s FASHION: Lace material, jackets, long sleeves
5 years later, her first son, Jesse Alone Sargeant (AKA Nick) married Josie Theresa Cooper in August 1954 (pictures).
Weddings in the 1960’s FASHION: Start of scoop necks, still long sleeves.
10 years later, the youngest son, Digby John Noel Sargeant married Margaret Anne Shuker in August 1964.
Third Generation Weddings
3 years later, in Oct. 1967 the start of the 3rd generation marriages began with the marriage of Carol Anne Neil to Robert Allan King. (Martha Simpson models and slides of wedding).
Weddings in the 1970’s FASHION: There were 6 weddings in the seventies showing high neck collars, but sheer material over scooped necklines, sheer long sleeves.
Joanne Neil married Frank Bucek in July 1971 (slides of Joanne’s shower and wedding).
The last of Nye and Stan’s daughters, Roseanne Marie Neil wed Roderick Ellis Baird July 14, 1973 (slides of Roseanne’s shower and wedding and model dress).
Aunt Norma was busy as her two oldest children married in the fall of the same year. David Harold Summerhays married Narissa Karuna Nursoo in August 1975 (pictures and album of family picnics pictures).
Nora Marie Summerhays married James Alan Hignell in Nov. 1975 (picture).
Jane Elizabeth Summerhays married Robert Stephen Flinders in June 1977.
To finish off the 70’s decade, Susan Margaret Sargeant wed John Donald Simpson.
Weddings in the 1980’s: There were 7 weddings in the 1980’s –consecutively from 1982 to 1986, with three in 1983. FASHION: Similar to the 1970’s with a variation in headpieces.
Aunt Rose saw two of her children married in consecutive years:
Dawn Gladys Reilly married Shaun Albert St. Amand in June of 1982 (picture, slides of wedding).
Jim Ernest Reilly married Pamela Ann VanBiesbrouck in Oct. 1983 (pictures, slides of shower and wedding).
Ruth Elizabeth Sargeant married Roger Hugh Plant in Edmonton, Alberta in May 1983.
Aunt Joan was busy for three years in a row, with the marriages of her three children. Richard Mark Cook married Linda Joyce Burnham in September 1983 (picture, slides of shower and wedding).
Mary Elizabeth Cook married Martin Richard Mason in Oct. 1984 (picture, slides of shower and wedding).
Jeffrey William Cook married Carol Joan Lenore Fletcher in Winnipeg, Manitoba in June 1985 (pictures).
Kathy Roseline Reilly married Steven James Lee in Oct. 1986 (picture).
Weddings in the 1990’s/2000’s:
Christine Louise Sargeant married Farhad Javidi in Tampa, Florida in August 1995.
Nancy Patricia Sargeant married Pete Kinsella in October of 2004 (picture).
Fourth Generation Weddings
Weddings in the 2000’s: Fashions – variety of styles, with many being strapless, sleeveless dresses with extensive beading and long trains
Melanie Anne King married Frank Mansi Jr. in October 2002 (Martha models)
David Cyril Robert Summerhays Jr. married Julie Middleton in December 2004, New Years Eve.
In 1956, Stan and Nye Neil and their three daughters moved to Oakhill Drive. Although there are no pictures in our possession that record the first picnics, my mother, Nye Neil, often talked about them because her mother, our Grandmother, Nora Sargeant, suggested the first family picnic. Food had to be carried all the way up the hill to the back of the two acre property, as Grandma liked the view from there. Picnics continued until 1959.
In the scrapbook I’ve made to honour my mother, Nye Neil, I’ve put in the black and white picnic pictures from 1966. In 1967, coloured pictures began to record the family fun. I also have pictures from 1970 and 1971. In 1975 the pictures show the family picnic Mom and Dad hosted to celebrate the upcoming weddings of David and Narissa and Nora and Jim. I have no pictures of the final picnic at Oakhill Drive in 1976. Mom and Dad moved to the city of Brantford in 1977.
Rod, Nick, Jess, and I have hosted the family picnic from 1991 until now in 2006, as we prepare to leave our home at R.R.#1 Springfield to move into London. We’ve enjoyed having the opportunity to bring the family – second, third, and now fourth generation in Olivia Summerhays, together again to catch up on the “Sargeant” family news and celebrate family occasions.
I know each of us keeps within us those special memories of these family picnics. Whether it be the infamous horse memories, first of Jane at Oakhill Drive, “Is Jane’s arm broken, here let me move it…..” then of Nora at R.R.#1 Springfield, who kept quiet about her injuries falling from the horse to avoid everyone poking and prodding at her. Remember Uncle Norm using the ladder to get on the horse so he could be part of the horsing around? We’ve shared family moments right from a meeting with royalty to wedding showers, baby showers, and anniversary celebrations. Maybe your favourite memory is simply the traditional sucker hunt and water balloon toss. Definitely everyone remembers and enjoys the food, something the Sargeant Family is famous for. So much so, that a family cookbook had to be created. The wonderful Sargeant Newsletter and now Sargeant’s Post help us all to stay connected and keep forever the memories of the Sargeant Family.
As fifty years of family picnics from the Neil and Baird Families draw to a close, I want to thank all of you for your part in making our Sargeant Family picnics so memorable and allowing our families to enjoy something so very special and unique. All the best as your families grow. May these years of memory making help to give them the anchor of family love that we all wish for future generations.
Roseanne Baird
August 2006
Family Picnic - August 26, 2006
Our entertainment for this final family picnic is to honour Nick Baird and his fiancé Jess Stenabaugh. Although Nick and Jess were raised to understand that money doesn’t grow on trees, the Sargeant family can make anything happen!
I believe that to build a better future, you need to understand your past. To help with that understanding, we’ve got wedding pictures for the various decades beginning with the 1940’s and slides that my Dad took of the many 3rd generation wedding showers and marriages. And to add to the fun, we’ll also have a fashion show of some of the wedding dresses worn by the women of the Sargeant family. Now, please be kind, once we start into the fashion show, as you can well appreciate how changes happen after 30 and 50 years. I like to think of these changes as there’s just more of me to love.
Thanks to Uncle Norm’s binder of information, the following history of marriages for the Sargeant family unfolds:
First Generation Wedding
Nora Mothersell and Jesse Sargeant wed July 13, 1915 and for the next 21 years, Nora was busy giving birth to her eight children – five girls and 3 boys; the last birth was Uncle Digby in 1936.
Second Generation Weddings
Weddings in the 1940’s Fashion: High necks, long sleeves, long satin trains.
The first marriage of the second generation of Sargeants began with my parents, your grandparents, Nick: Violet Nye Florence Marguerite and Stanley Hamilton Neil in May of 1945, just 7 weeks after they met (picture).
The Sargeant women’s mother had one year to rest from that first shock to then have three consecutive years where her next three daughters were to marry:
Norma Marie Una Phyllis Joyce Sargeant married Bob Stewart Summerhays in Sept. 1947 (picture. She no longer has her wedding dress as the kids played with it).
Mildred Roseline Grace Sargeant married Stan Ernest Reilly Oct. 1949 (borrowed Norma’s wedding gown).
Joan Nightingale Sargeant married Howard William Cook Oct. 1949 (picture and model dress – it’s been used many times in mock weddings – Uncle Nick gives “bride” away).
Wedding in the 1950’s FASHION: Lace material, jackets, long sleeves
5 years later, her first son, Jesse Alone Sargeant (AKA Nick) married Josie Theresa Cooper in August 1954 (pictures).
Weddings in the 1960’s FASHION: Start of scoop necks, still long sleeves.
10 years later, the youngest son, Digby John Noel Sargeant married Margaret Anne Shuker in August 1964.
Third Generation Weddings
3 years later, in Oct. 1967 the start of the 3rd generation marriages began with the marriage of Carol Anne Neil to Robert Allan King. (Martha Simpson models and slides of wedding).
Weddings in the 1970’s FASHION: There were 6 weddings in the seventies showing high neck collars, but sheer material over scooped necklines, sheer long sleeves.
Joanne Neil married Frank Bucek in July 1971 (slides of Joanne’s shower and wedding).
The last of Nye and Stan’s daughters, Roseanne Marie Neil wed Roderick Ellis Baird July 14, 1973 (slides of Roseanne’s shower and wedding and model dress).
Aunt Norma was busy as her two oldest children married in the fall of the same year. David Harold Summerhays married Narissa Karuna Nursoo in August 1975 (pictures and album of family picnics pictures).
Nora Marie Summerhays married James Alan Hignell in Nov. 1975 (picture).
Jane Elizabeth Summerhays married Robert Stephen Flinders in June 1977.
To finish off the 70’s decade, Susan Margaret Sargeant wed John Donald Simpson.
Weddings in the 1980’s: There were 7 weddings in the 1980’s –consecutively from 1982 to 1986, with three in 1983. FASHION: Similar to the 1970’s with a variation in headpieces.
Aunt Rose saw two of her children married in consecutive years:
Dawn Gladys Reilly married Shaun Albert St. Amand in June of 1982 (picture, slides of wedding).
Jim Ernest Reilly married Pamela Ann VanBiesbrouck in Oct. 1983 (pictures, slides of shower and wedding).
Ruth Elizabeth Sargeant married Roger Hugh Plant in Edmonton, Alberta in May 1983.
Aunt Joan was busy for three years in a row, with the marriages of her three children. Richard Mark Cook married Linda Joyce Burnham in September 1983 (picture, slides of shower and wedding).
Mary Elizabeth Cook married Martin Richard Mason in Oct. 1984 (picture, slides of shower and wedding).
Jeffrey William Cook married Carol Joan Lenore Fletcher in Winnipeg, Manitoba in June 1985 (pictures).
Kathy Roseline Reilly married Steven James Lee in Oct. 1986 (picture).
Weddings in the 1990’s/2000’s:
Christine Louise Sargeant married Farhad Javidi in Tampa, Florida in August 1995.
Nancy Patricia Sargeant married Pete Kinsella in October of 2004 (picture).
Fourth Generation Weddings
Weddings in the 2000’s: Fashions – variety of styles, with many being strapless, sleeveless dresses with extensive beading and long trains
Melanie Anne King married Frank Mansi Jr. in October 2002 (Martha models)
David Cyril Robert Summerhays Jr. married Julie Middleton in December 2004, New Years Eve.
Thursday, June 01, 2006
John (Jack) Wesley Passmore
Peacefully at the Brantford General Hospital on Wednesday, May 31, 2006, in his 94th year, Jack Passmore passed away. Beloved husband of Alba and the late Dorothy (nee Edward). Loving father of Roger and his wife Susan of Oakville. Loved grandpa to Kirsten and Michael.
Jack was predeceased by a sister Dorothy, and brothers Howard, William and Edward. Jack was the former owner with his brothers of Passmore Flowers. He was a fifty-year active member of the Rotary Club of Brantford and was honoured with a double Paul Harris Fellowship. He was the recipient of the Governor-General's Caring Canadian award. He was the former chairman of the Brant Children's Aid Society and a proud member of his community.
Friends will be received at the Dennis Toll Funeral Home, 55 Charing Cross Street, Brantford, Friday, June 2, 1-4 p.m., and 6-9 p.m. The funeral service will be held at Wesley United Church, 69 Superior Street, Brantford, on Saturday at 10:30 a.m. Interment Farringdon Burial Grounds. Donations to Wesley United Church appreciated.
www.dennistoll.ca
Wednesday, May 31, 2006
Jack Passmore : In Memoriam
At 11 a.m., Wednesday, May 31, 2006, at the Brantford General Hospital, John Wesley Passmore passed into eternal rest, following a long struggle with cancer.
Visitation will be on Friday, June 2, from 1 to 4 p.m., and from 6 to 9 p.m. at Dennis Toll Funeral Home on Charing Cross Street, Brantford. The funeral will be at 10:30 a.m., Saturday, June 3, at Wesley United Church, Brantford.
The photograph above was taken a week ago at Hardie Terrace in Mt. Pleasant.
Monday, May 08, 2006
Saturday, May 06, 2006
Happy Birthday, Anne!
Anne Sargeant celebrates her 65th birthday on May 12, 2006. She officially becomes a senior citizen!
PICTURES ABOVE: Christine and Anne prepare birthday cake for Arya, July, 2004.
Sunday, April 23, 2006
Monday, March 06, 2006
Rod Baird in York, U.K.
Rod and Roseanne Baird visited their daughter Jessica in York, U.K. This picture, taken from the old wall which usedto surround the city of York, shows some of the charm of York. 
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