Mrs. Patrick Dewan, the former Ellen Blanchfleld, aunt of the Hon. P. M. Dewan, Ontario Minister of Agriculture, died at her residence, Osgoode, Ont., on Wednesday. She was in her 80th year.
One of the best known and most beloved Women of the district, Mrs. Dewan had resided there all her life. Her descendants, numbering among them 38 grandchildren, have settled throughout the country.
A daughter of the late Patrick Blanchfleld and his wife, the former Catherine Herbert, she received her education in the district schools. She was a devout attendant of St. John’s Church and was a member of the Tabernacle Society, in which she took great interest in earlier years.
In 1880 she married Patrick Dewan, who predeceased her by four years.
Surviving are five daughters, Theresa Dewan, Mrs. Patrick McEvoy, Mrs. Thomas McEvoy, Mrs. Ambrose Kelly and Mrs. Earl McGuire, all of Ottawa; three sons, Edmund, of Ottawa, and Bernard and William, both of Osgoode; two sisters, Mrs. Thomas Kelly, of Osgoode, and Mrs. F. Gleeson, of Ottawa; two brothers, John Blanchfleld, of Ottawa, and Joseph Blanchfleld, of Detroit and 38 grandchildren.
The funeral will be held from her late residence on Saturday, September 30, at 9.40 a.m., to St John's Church for requiem high mass at 10 o'clock. Interment will be made in the parish cemetery.
