A Good Family

About the Book

Yesterday’s beginnings starts with John born in 1809 in Alloway, Scotland who married his wife Margaret on August 30, 1831 in Lanark County, Ontario. Both families had migrated to Canada and met and married having eleven living of fourteen children. Both John and Margaret were buried in the Greenwood Centre, Middleville, Ontario. My father, John, was the son of Allan and Bette and he had three children: Al, my eldest brother; Tricia, myself and Lew, my youngest brother. It also started in the U.S.A. in a little town of St. Ignace of Michigan where my grandmother Hattie was born of two Yankees. Very strong stock. As a small child, I travelled often to see Great Grandpa, father of my grandmother, who married a Clay. It is said that he was related to the great General Clay, U.S.A.

About the Author

In this candid autobiography, the author, a registered nurse, attempts to tell her story in a grateful way but emphasizing reality. She reveals how important trust is and how indifferent life can be without it. She loved her profession as a Registered Nurse and all her comrades she gained along the way and to this day as a 70-year-old lady. She saw parenting as the most important job of her life and had great results. Family was imperative to her because of her nursing. Divorce was a shock but she carried on as a volunteer caring for people in need and enjoying her great friendships and classmates. She empowered many other women by her excelled skill of empathy and enjoyed her kids and grandkids and her many friends and held on tightly to her sense of humour. She had many awards for Community Work including the Queens Majesty II and Queen of