Lila Geraldine Ferguson

1904 - 1995  (90 years)

• Name	Lila Geraldine Ferguson
  Birth	17 Apr 1904	Montague Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada
  Gender	Female
  FindaGrave Memorial ID	230319554
  	https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/230319554
  Residence-Occupant	1935	Smiths Falls, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada   [1]
  	Role: Occupant
  _UID	425FC7A5F4EC4CD5928EF52E1158D0951F94
  Death	8 Mar 1995	Perth, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada
  	The family, friends and former students of Lila Geraldine (Ferguson) McFarlane were saddened by her sudden passing in the GWM Hospital, Perth on Wednesday March 8th, 1995. She was born in Montague Twp. on Apr 17th 1904, to the late John D. and Blanche Ferguson. A graduate of the Ottawa Normal School, Lila spent over 30 years teaching in one room school houses at Scotch Corners, 9th line of Bathursts, Burritts Rapids, Prestonvale, and one year at Drummond Central School. The one room school house had as many as 31 students in grades one to eight, a challenge that Lila handled admirable. She was a member of St. Andrew's United Church in Lanark and also a member of Presstonvale, Ferguson's Falls WI, Rebekaahs and the Ontario Genealogy Society. Lila had many interest, one of them being the research of the Ferguson and McFarlane family tree, at which she was very successful and of great assistance to others and sharing the information that she had gathered. On September 1936 she was married to Allen McFarlane of Lanark. She is survived by her husband Allan; two sons Grant (Gail) of RR 1 Lanark, Gordon (Ann) of Barrie; three grandchildren, Heather of Alburquerque, New Mexico, Kevin of Oshawa, Michael of Barrie, and one sister, Doris Ferrier of Toronto. She was predeceased by a sister G. Beryl Devlin. Funeral Services were conducted by Rev. Eileen Hepplewhite and Bob Devinney on Friday, March 10th from St Andrews United Church, Lanark. Pall bearers were Dawson Horricks, Thorpe Moulton, Elmer Couch and Gordon McEwen. Interment was in Prestonvale Cemetery.
  Burial	Prestonvale Cemetery, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada
  Person ID	I46011	Lanark County Origins
  Last Modified	24 Nov 2021

  
  

  Father	John Davis "Davis" Ferguson,   b. 1 Sep 1863, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada d. 31 Mar 1939, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada (Age 75 years)
  Mother	Blanche Marrietta Stanley,   b. 1870, Perth, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada d. Mar 1939 (Age 69 years)
  Family ID	F15618	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	William Allan "Allan" McFarlane,   b. 17 Feb 1913, Drummond Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada d. 27 Jan 2008, Ottawa, Carleton County, Ontario, Canada (Age 94 years)
  Marriage	24 Sep 1936	Smiths Falls, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada
  Children	1. Living   2. Living
  Family ID	F15584	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	4 Mar 2024

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 17 Apr 1904 - Montague Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada Residence-Occupant - 1935 - Smiths Falls, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada Marriage - 24 Sep 1936 - Smiths Falls, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada Death - 8 Mar 1995 - Perth, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada Burial - - Prestonvale Cemetery, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S228] Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. Original data: Historic Pennsylvania Church and Town Records. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Historical Society of Pennsylvania. Methodist Church Records. Valley Forge, Pennsylvania: Eastern Pennsylvania United Methodist Church, USA, Pennsylvania and New Jersey, Church and Town Records, 1669-2013, ((ancestry.ca : 2011)), vol. Smiths Falls: 1, Mrs. John D. Ferguson; digital images, "Polling Division #82, Town of Smiths Falls," \i Ancestry\i0 ?(ancestry.ca : accessed 24 Nov 2021) (Reliability: 3).