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BRANSCOMBE, Daisy Marie (39293)

Birth

  • Born on June 04, 1896 in Cornhill, Kings Co., NB

Death

  • Died on January 28, 1979 in Penobsquis, Kings Co., NB
  • Buried in Cardwell Baptist Cemetery in Penobsquis, Kings Co., NB

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Notes

  • Occupation: Teacher/ Post Mistress
  • Historical Information: "Good, better, best. Never let it rest. Until your good is better and your better is best!" "You are the master of the unspoken word but the spoken word is master of you." These were just two of Marie's truisms as she guided the development of her children, grandchildren, and pupils. After Provincial Normal School Marie taught in New Brunswick and Manitoba. She married Heber McQuinn and family life began in Penobsquis then continued in South Branch where as a busy young mother she was also post mistress. Those first two homes did not have running water. Returning to Penobsquis in 1932 they took over her parents' farm. Marie cared for her parents through their senior years while somehow cooking and baking for family and crew, doing the household chores, tending the garden, and working at the barn and in the fields at peak periods. She fed the foxes and chickens and milked cows. Memories shared by Marie's family include times spent with her in the vegetable garden (which also had a row of delicate and colourful sweet peas); her porch rockers were for snapping beans and shelling peas. The open porch was a wonderful haven in the rain ... coffee cans were brought out to collect musical raindrops and wooden spools for blowing bubbles. Her attic of ancestral treasures included a special trunk with a story about the maker of each carefully crafted item. Ever industrious Marie will be long remembered for her own intricate crocheted items and beautiful quilts with "love stitched right in". We can all picture her in her iconic apron! Her pantry shelves were well stocked with family favourites like molasses cookies, doughnuts, war cake, bread and biscuits. Her wood stove and iron frying pan produced the best baked beans and hashed potatoes. Christmas was made extra special with her currant tarts, butterscotch pies, and press cookies. Marie's integrity and values were passed on lovingly to her family. She led others through her shining example of strength and faith. During the hungry thirties, the always charitable Marie was well known for having provided a great many lunches to the men passing by along the tracks. A dedicated member of the Baptist Church for 65 years, she contributed as church treasurer and as a regular choir member. She served several times as President of the Women's Missionary Society and they chose her as their first recipient of a WMS Dominion Life Membership.

Sources

  • Mormons: "Pedigree Resource File," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:2:39QV-H1W

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