One of best known residents of Osgoode, Ont., Charles Blanchfield, in business as a blacksmith for many years, died at an Ottawa hospital on Friday, after a lengthy illness.
Mr. Blanchfield was a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. John Blanchfield, and was born at Osgoode 74 years ago. He had spent his entire life in the community, and was known all over the district. Until obliged to retire on account of ill health about two years ago, Mr. Blanchfield had been active in his blacksmith business.
He was a devout member of St. John’s Church, Osgoode.
Mr. Blanchfield was predeceased in 1917 by his wife, formerly Miss Theresa Dolan. There survive four sons, Gordon, of Burbidge, Que., Thomas and Wilfred, in Timmins, and Austin, at Windsor, and a daughter, Mrs. Edward McEvoy, of Osgoode, as well as a brother, Patrick Blanchfield, of Windsor.
The funeral is to be held from the parlours of McEvoy Brothers, 471 MacLaren street, at one o’clock on Sunday afternoon for Libera service at St. John’s, Osgoode, at two o’clock. Interment will be in the parish cemetery.
Requiem high mass for the repose of his soul is to be chanted in the same church at eight o’clock on Monday morning.
