99 The Royal Canadian Legion www.mbnwo.legion.ca GRAHAM, Robert “Bob” WWI Bob was born in 1897 to Richard and Agnes Graham of the Plumas District. In boyhood, Bob walked many miles to play baseball. He loved hunting and these two sports were lifetime interests. In 1917, Bob enlisted and was a Cameron Highlander in World War I. When he returned from overseas, he began farming on a Soldiers Settlement – the NE ¼ of 31-15-11, and in time purchased this whole section. In 1930, Bob married Annie Paynter of the Ogilvie District. While raising their family of three boys and three girls, they took part in community activities from Bob’s part on the Pembroke school board to Annie’s quilting bees and card games. They mixed farmed for thirty years surviving The Great Depression to enjoy more prosperous times and were always proud of their Aberdeen Angus cattle. They moved with the changing times, from threshing machine (now in Gladstone Museum) to a self-propelled combine in 1950, a new Case propane tractor in 1950 (now in Austin Museum), and a generator in 1945 before hydro hookup in 1947. In 1960, Bob and Annie moved to Gladstone where they had built a new house on Dennis Street East, near the hospital. Bob helped out on the farm for a few years before accepting retirement. They were kept busy with garden, flowers, and the yard, yet they always had time for family and friends. Coffee was quickly made and the card table set up when company dropped by. In 1983, they moved into the newly built Centennial Apartments, and it was there that they celebrated their sixtieth wedding anniversary on July 29, 1990. They participated in activities of the center and always enjoyed their many automobile trips with Alice and Richard Hogarth as they toured the countryside looking at the crops and seeing the changes in agricultural history. Bob was an avid Toronto Blue Jays fan and Annie loved playing games with their grandchildren and writing songs and poetry. In December 1990, Bob passed away. Annie lived in their apartment until the summer of 1992 when she moved into Third Crossing Manor, she passed away in October 1992 at the age of 87. GRAHAM, Samuel James WWI Samuel was born on October 16, 1894, to James and Mary Graham in Neepawa. He was sent overseas where he became seriously ill. On March 29, 1917, after testing positive for tuberculosis, he was invalided home to Neepawa and buried in the family plot at Rosedale Cemetery just north of Neepawa.
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