0.2.10.2. Faye Rutherford with husband Lou Bertrand and
sister Norma as matron of honour. Winnipeg. 1972.

Faye with two other girls spent June to November
roaming the British isles, Scandinavia and western
Europe. “It was great fun with all varieties of people
to meet and places to see. ”

Back in Winnipeg Faye went to work for
Aronovitch and Leipsic where she was still working
in 1972 when she married Lou Bertrand. Since Lou is
often absent in his work with Marv-Eon Signs, Faye
continued in her job until 1980 when she decided
after eighteen office years, to have a while “as ordi-
nary,r housewife”.

Lou and Faye have bought a suburban home and
are raising Lou’s children by a previous marriage.
Maureen, at Gienlawn Collegiate, holds a part-time
job at Smart Set Dress Shop. Kelly is at Pierre Radis-
son Junior High.

0.2.10.3

Gerald Rutherford/Norma Christie

Gerald David Rutherford ~— 1937 -

Norma Christie — i944 - 1935
Married 2 June 1962

G.2.i0.3.1 David Wilber—— i964 -

0.2.10.3.2 Gerald Andrew —-~ 1968 -

Gerald, who was just a baby when Dave died,
remembers nothing of his father but resembles him
~— hard~working, daring and full of fun. If his sisters

 

 

0.2.10.3. Gerald Rutherford with wife Norma Christie, at Bar-
lenark, Scotland. 1962.

had to pay their way to overseas adventures, Gerald
has gone another route. Only to grade nine did
Gerald remain in school. At seventeen he joined the
Canadian Navy and completed training at Cornwallis
and Esquimalt bases where he qualified in sonar
searching, a kind of underwater radar system.

On assignments on board ship for five years
based in the British isles, Gerald saw many foreign
ports and strange feces. Asked how he handled dif-
ferent languages, Gerald admits he has mastered
only Canadian English “but a smile and an invitation
to dance go along way”!

It was while in Glasgow that he met Norma
Christie. They were married in l962 and son David
was born before Gerald was posted back to Canada.
Five years in Victoria near the Esquimalt Base,
where young Gerald was born, and four in Halifax
back at Cornwallis were all the time they had. in
1975, Norma lost out to cancer.

Gerald is raising his family with help from Nor—
ma’s sister lane in their house in Dartmouth. Gerald
is an excellent cook and maker of Icelandic coffee,
and runs a tight ship. His boys are keen sports, good
team players, and do their chores supervised with a