Groveville Volunteer Fire Company Ladies Auxiliary ~ 1950's

Standing Left to Right; Unknown ~ Unknown ~ Jenny Miller ~ Emma Lommason ~ Stella "Stell" Sellers ~ Betty Chamberlain Simpson ~ Mildred "Millie" Williams ~ Gertrude "Gert" Inman.

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Seated Left to Right; Helen Bell ~ Noma Bell Eades ~ Vivian "Viv" Heaton ~ Jean Bell Mushinski ~ Mabel Haggerty ~ Katharine "Kate" Rollings Johnson ~ Mary Etta Simpson ~ Verna Rollings.

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The Groveville Volunteer Fire Company Ladies Auxiliary, mid 1950's. The Groveville Firemen were a great bunch of community minded men that did more for the community than fight fires, but these women and the women before them and the women after them were the support of the fire company. No one will ever know how hard they worked to make the fire company a success.

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On a big fire these women would be at the fire making soup or sandwiches, providing Hot coffee and cold drinks. During fund raisers, like our Turkey Dinners, the combined Carnival with the DeCou Fire Company or our annual fund drive, our Halloween parties for the children and of course Santa on Christmas Eve, the ladies of the auxiliary were with out a doubt indispensable.

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Many of the women were wives of the firemen, but some were not, just women of the community that wanted to make a difference. These were all great women.

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The women I have marked "Unknown" are ones I think I know, but want to be positive before I post a name.

Groveville's Boy Preacher - 1899

I received this article from my friend Cheryl, it is a little hard to read, but she asked if I had heard of this, I had not. the article is interesting, but I am not sure of its validity. Before posting this I asked several people if the had ever heard of Charlie Fisher being referred to as the "Boy Preacher", no one had.
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This would be Wendel's father, so I asked Blanche, Wendel's wife,Charlie's daughter-in-law, if she ever heard him referred to in this way and she had not.
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Stories are told over and over, and last for generations in Groveville, but no one recalls this. The other thing questionable is the part where he preached to a flock of sheep, no one recalls anyone in Groveville raising sheep or there being a farm to raise them.
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Why in 1899 did it get published in a New Brunswick Newspaper?
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To bad Wendel is not alive so we could get the facts, but then if Wendel were alive I would have a lot more to write, he had great stories.
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All in all its a good story.