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eight years, served on the boards of Hamiota District Hospital and
Oak River United Church for a number of years. He was a Past
Noble Grand and Past District Deputy of I.0.0.F. Lodge No. 72 at
Oak River. He often took part in plays, both at Marland and at
Oak River, always willing to Emcee a program and could come forth
with a comic song or Stanley Holloway reading to help with enter-
tainment when needed. He was fond of music and was a member
of_ the Oak River United Church Choir.

"The Gunner” as Harry was often referred to following the
First World War, was fond of travel, he took several trips overseas
also managed to see most of the North American continent. The
evening of the day he died he was planning to show slides of a
trip he had taken to the British Isles and Europe earlier in the
summer of 1965.

JOSHUA BEAUMONT THOMPSON

Joshua Beaumont Thompson was born in 1900. He finished his
elementary education at Bankburn and Marland schools. He worked
on the farm at Oak River until 1922, at which time he enrolled at
Brandon College, where he completed his high school grades, con-
tinued his studies and graduated with a BA. Degree in 1928. He
took summer employment surveying in British Columbia prior to
his graduation from College.

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