Flora Helyar
Flora Helyar (nee Currie) (1917 - 5 July 1973) was a housewife who lived most of her life in Winnipeg until she moved to North Vancouver in early 1969.
Early life
She was born to Alex Currie and Anna Snook in Port Arthur, Ontario.
Later life
She married Charles Helyar (1909 - 1993). They divorced sometime before 1950, when he remarried to Anna Vidal. Nevertheless she seems to have moved to Vancouver at the same time her ex-husband did, around 1967. Actually she moved 2 years after this.
She was mother to a son and two daughters, all of whom moved to North Vancouver:
- Lillias (born 1937, married Harrill Bjornson (1933-1922) on 24 November 1958)
- Neill W. Helyar (1938 - 1997, died of cancer, two children)
- Susan (born February 1942, married Brian Shoesmith (1931-2012), had two sons, Kevin and Mark)
Lillias might have been named after her father Charles' sister, Lillias Taylor (1911-2012) [1].
She lived in Winnipeg all her life until moving to North Vancouver in early 1969.
On 5 July 1973 she died of breast cancer. By the end, the cancer had impacted her second breast, and she became depressed and overdosed.
Obituary
Sources
Winnipeg Free Press, 12 July 1973.
Marilyn Hermiston's personal notes.