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_ | Oshawa‘s | -' oldest | <C ; | _ Obituary %, 1 | fz + A* | Oshawa‘s oldest citizen fire TicietMoen ci ’ lz e” n w l"fls in 108th year Mrs. Violet Moon of Oshawa died Jan. 30, 1992, in her 108th year. | ' | ~> ¢ 3 | 8 ie Cietrwige . Oshawa‘s Born in a log cabin at Chalk Lake, Ashburn, Ont., she was the youngest & , | Petran‘? i( esd e n oldest resident, . | of nine children and daughter of the late Loren and Lucy Stanton. | ’ s 9 c ( uns 3 (‘1’.“’;“'“ I\:Iioon On Feb. 7, 1923, she married the late Roy Moon, From the age of five and | | _ x § J 4e > o8 o. ... l. ... ‘ throughout her life, music was important to Mrs. Moon. She began by playâ€" zzoiila l _ M { s se 10§thwas in ET: | jng the autoharp and then went on to play the piano. She was invited to sing By John Goodwin * L« i 8 *A _ m § yEar at strawberry socials, garden parties, church socials, funerals, and wedâ€" Ochawa Timessia® i e o is c c .n Wg‘rgfil’? dings. In her teens, she studied music at the Ontario Ladies College in | For the vast majority of us, the | S t 4 " e . PR csined that she Whitby and she attendgd schools.at Rgg,lan and Cedar Cr_eek. & _ history of Canada is something we |@f # CA n es ie "didn‘t really In 1979, she moved into a senior citizens apartment in Oshawa, where learned from a book. pam s "2fâ€" <â€" oR sA SRA have time to â€" She made many new friends and where shegamtamed her own apartment surtorvi F4 1200 4 old Violet MoOn ‘fhink about her â€" until two months beforeher death. 3 & ; St‘:e ’;emz;gggtggn-t » ons o s ie +t age," Mrs. Moon said she "took Mrs. Moon belonged to the Raglan United‘Church Women and was a life tire history of this comay tc. | l es esd one day at a time." member of Raglan United Church. cause â€" eQ;e t f sls y â€" . Ni. mt =C K0 A longtime resident of 155 King She is survived by her daughter, Dorothy Bridger, and sonâ€"inâ€"law, Jack * pt for 22 years â€"she | su l o ols St. E.. sh ul ident. 9 s es ie + ’ f has lived through it. $ oo fle m e ie â€" 4 . E., she was a popular resident, â€" of Apsley; a son, Bill, and his wife, Charlotte, of Havelock; and a stepâ€" On Tuesday night, family mem i <So 5eR ;f& 5e g:o l?edr I?Pliitl‘!mefllt Pflf{ltPhIEX jand. | daughter, Mrs. Ferne Tobin of Seagrave. | bers, friends, and néighbors at 155 '-"-*:'."" 2. 9 . > ::?:;: fi; for soc(ieallggalfizgna'g};ng s uoo She is also sun;ivw_tigr by many grandchildren, great grandchildren and King ‘Street East® (The King _ = OO BornJan. 15, 1885, ina log cabin, _SCeatEreatgrandchildren. Charles Apartments) honored the HAPPY_ 106th â€" _ Violet on Chalk Lake, she was the youngâ€" woman who was born Jan. 15, 1885 Moon, Oshawa‘s oldest citiâ€" est of eight children. Her family # â€" 106 years ago yesterday â€" in a . zen, cuts a cake to mark her moved to Ashton, where they log cabin near Chalk Lake, about 106th birthday yesterday. worked a 600â€"acre farm. In 1923 ‘ 25 miles northwest of Oshawa. When Mrs. Moon was born, she married Roy Moon and they Also at the party were her son gir john A. Macdonald was bought the old homestead. She reâ€" Bill and his wife Charlotte, of grif| prime minister. mained there until she moved to Havelock, and her daughter Doreâ€" (Oshawa Times photo) 155 King in 1980. . thy Bridger, and her husband, Louis Riel (hanged later in the‘ Mrs. Moon was the mother of Jack, of Lakefield, Ont. . _ year for treason). . Dorothy and her husband Jack | It‘s difficult for young Canadiâ€" It was also the year that the last Bridger of Apsley; Bill and his I ans to comprehend, but when she _ spike was driven in the transâ€"conâ€" wife Charlotte Moon of Havelock; was born, Queen Victoria had . tinental Canadian Pacific Railâ€" and stepmother of Fern Tobin of reigned for 48 years and would way, which spanned the country Seag?ave. She had eight grandâ€" continue on the throne for another _ from the Atlantic to the Pacific. children and nine greatâ€"grandâ€" | â€" 16 years. : South of the border wide areas children. , I The redoubtable Sit John A. _ of the United States were still sufâ€" Funcral sgtrvmes were held toâ€" Macdonald, our first prime minâ€" _ fering the effects of the Civil War, day at Armstrong Funcral Home, ister, was still the political head of _ which had ended just 20 years beâ€" Oshawa. Interment will\be in Pine | a struggling Dominion of Canada _ fore. ! Grove.Cemetery in the spring. | that had six provinces and fewer _ When she was three months old, â€" | than five million people. ; Mrs. Moon‘s family moved from And he would soon be sending Chalk Lake to Ashburn. A few | troops to the Northwest (now Sasâ€". years later, another move was 1‘ katchewan) to put down a rebelâ€" _ made. this time to a 600â€"acre farm . _ ______ â€" | Tion led by the great Metis leader, V e 1 t M *A mem s t 1 O 6 | uit J years young _ | HAPPY 106th ontinued from Page 1 ton it was life on the farm after her by. And it was by tr@in that she travâ€" think that a | BIRTHDAY at Ra(glén, north of the sm%&l col.!nmu- years of schooling. y; ak+ elled, mainly to poinits in the United my age?’t’ss(l)l%e ggié},’eafl(zzghuglgs sfl(xjé [ nity of Oshawa, / _ And there, was lots of help; the States. o k added that she never smoked. "But I \ ~MOM â€" "I think I wq%_l ithree or four when _ Stanton family consisted of parents . , As for Canada, She bar ely rememâ€" | ‘take‘the odd drink," she chuckled ( we moved to Raglan and I‘dorememâ€" . Loren and Lucie, ermott) and â€" bers Sir John A, but d6e§ recall vaâ€" | .> "UntiPsurgery slowed her down a bit | Viotet Moon ber it took 13 wagon loads to move evâ€" â€" nine children, imli‘ét. rious O_ntano_lpren_ug‘rs,flio;;tly on the â€" last year, she also took daily walks i Love Bill and erything because there were no cars _ Life on a farm in the late 19th cenâ€" OÂ¥ Side. ‘‘ rgmgm’t?gr in federal . <argund the block â€" rain, snow, or | ~Charlotte and or paved roads in those days, just tury was far different than today; C!@CtiONs my father saying he was not sun, (The walks now are in good Dorothy and Jack | horses and wagon$ or buggies," she â€" there was no hydro, no indoor plumbâ€" YOUNE for Sir Wilfrid Laurier," she weather). And she continues to mainâ€" and families. said with a smile. ing, no paved roads, no central heatâ€" laughed. 4 tain her own apartment alone & Education for Violet Stanton began ing and everything moved along. . °C Temembers learning that Caâ€") ./ Last night, Violet Moon was one of P in the oneâ€"room Cedar Creek School ¢rudedirtroads byhorseand buggy. Badian troops were being sent to ~nearly 20 residents of the King (still standing) but was interspersed . ‘"Port Perry was our main shopâ€" "0Uth Africa to fight in the Boer War. ~Charles Apartments who were guests with helping on the farm, a common ping town and in the winter, when the And she recalls the death of Vietoria . pf honor at a common birthday party ; occurrence in those days when Canâ€" roads â€"were drifted, we‘d often just 191901: held in the building‘s common room ada was basically a country of farms . drive the cutter over the fences on the _ AMG later, of course, there was the _ But: for Violet Moon,~ 106 years i MOON and small towns. drifts," she recalled. First World: War, the Depression, and young, there were gr certhica yfmm ‘ Violet May In those days, young women were _ The Stanton farm bordered the CP _ the Second World War. Now there‘s â€"prominent people such as Goy.â€"Go G‘ m;: IOSQ:wamG;gg;al not expected to work or to go on to . rightâ€"ofâ€"way, then the main line, and _ talk of still another warâ€" this time in _ rayâ€"â€" Hnatyshyn, Prime N}’ilnistgr.‘ f Jenuary 80, 1992. Violet higher education, so far Violet Stanâ€" she often would watch the trains go thePersian Gulf, lorg is | ~Brian Mulroney, MP Mike Breaugh May Stanton in her 108th "And I certainly remember when â€" former MP Mike Starr, and Mayor | year. Beloved wife of the the Titanic went down," she adds. Shan Mason: Other eonevatostiins late Roy C. Moon, Dear In 1923, she married her husband, hay e also come f o teainl hop | mother of Dorothy and Roy, (he died in 1960) and they set up o nmdten, tenatatnent I hew â€"hustard teck C l y SCt UP _ Rae, and Industry Minister Allen Pilâ€", Erage: of Apsievand 8y their.own farm, also in the Raglan, key the city‘s MPP. 4« s ono. ts . whe soharene area. There they raised a family that _ Now in her 107th year, Violet M Moon of Havelock. Stepâ€" now | includes seven grandchildren | discounts the so:called P erati o) mother of Fern Tobin of .and five greatâ€"granchildren. gan Slved t:"? dgen rationa Sea?&ave.‘sgresde;edas;g "Until I moved to Oshawa and the thep Vtim:s :hgar};:t' lo%k tlgéléfi;e”wsl}tng 0. Si i : : ols mie eR tbu?'/others. Also dsx;‘(\lféved igzréggg?gélgg‘{?ghneqi :ilatlre life â€" said. * ‘Ay= eight . grandchildren ; I f 1 hen i naine reatâ€"grandchil. And if there was one thing that she wgu]tntg:g :1}11: (f't‘;?;’f}},‘;f g_e,z{g#:h 1% dren.. Resting at_ the loved through all those years, it was. _ on thesame d the d cdline ARMSTRONG FUNERAL music, from playing the piano to singâ€" _ Guif, lay as the deadline in the stt yysl ing in choirs. Andâ€"she also taught piâ€" -}‘le\e #onlgracooy e ent _ service M ths Chape! . i _ anolessons to neighborhood children.) , such good sha Qf?hesseeén y Monday February 3. at "I‘ve always loved music and I said nape. e. days,". she 1:30 p.m. Interment Pine ' Grove Cemetery in the â€" spring. . Memorial dora: tions to the V.O.N: would be appreciated. Visitation commencing Saturday 7â€" 9 p.m. and Sunday 2â€"4 {and 7â€"9.p.m.