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Frank PRESTON
1896 - 1940 (43 years)
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Name Frank PRESTON Birth 11 Oct 1896 Napinka, Manitoba Canada 
Gender Male Occupation 1928-1932 ? Thessalon, Algoma District, Ontario, Canada Part Owner S.H. Mills Occupation 1921 Thessalon, Algoma District, Ontario, Canada Chauffeur - As per Marriage Certificate
Occupation 1921-1926 Thessalon, Algoma District, Ontario, Canada Drove bus for John Jackson from Station to Town Occupation 1927 Thessalon, Algoma District, Ontario, Canada Car Salesman for S.H. Mills Occupation 1933-1938 Thessalon, Algoma District, Ontario, Canada Grocery Store Owner/Operator-Thessalon Station _PPEXCLUDE cH _UID 85ABDF3F13FE44D3B730BBEF99AF5C3AE513 Death 23 Aug 1940 Thessalon, Algoma District, Ontario, Canada Burial 26 Aug 1940 Forest Lawn Cemetery (Protestant) Thessalon, ON Person ID I6 My Genealogy Last Modified 14 Nov 2025
Father Francis (Frank) PRESTON, b. 3 Jun 1856, Elgin, Leeds, Ontario, Canada d. 28 Apr 1934, Thessalon, Algoma District, Ontario, Canada (Age 77 years) Mother Mary Ida CUMMINGS, b. 23 Jan 1867, Gananoque, ON Canada d. 24 Sep 1929, Toronto, ON Canada (Age 62 years) Marriage 24 Aug 1906 Sault Sainte Marie, Chippewa, Michigan, USA [1] Family ID F11 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Mabel VERA BRANDON, b. 5 Jul 1901, Thessalon, Algoma District, Ontario, Canada d. 27 Aug 1995, Toronto, ON Canada (Age 94 years) Marriage 24 Aug 1921 Algoma District, Ontario, Canada [2] Children 1. Mabel Calista PRESTON, b. 17 Mar 1922, Thessalon, Algoma District, Ontario, Canada d. 14 Oct 1989, Sault Ste Marie, Algoma District, Ontario, Canada (Age 67 years)2. Frances Ettabelle PRESTON, b. 19 Oct 1925, Thessalon, Algoma District, Ontario, Canada d. 9 Nov 2009, Sault Ste Marie, Algoma District, Ontario, Canada (Age 84 years)3. Geraldine Audrey PRESTON, b. 11 Apr 1931, Ontario, Canada d. 14 Nov 2015, Scarborough, ON (Age 84 years)Family ID F4 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 24 Jul 2017
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Photos Frank Preston
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Notes - 1897 - Moved to Ontario with parents
- OBITUARY FOR FRANK PRESTON:
THESSALON, Sept 7 - The death occurred at Thessalon after a lingering illness, Friday, August 23, of Frank Preston. Frank was born October 11, 1896 at Napinka, Manitoba, and came to Algoma with his parents in 1897 and resided in Thessalon till the time of his death. He was married to Mabel Vera Brandon in 1921. Besides his wife, he is survived by 3 daughters - Mabel (Mrs. G Allen), of Sault Ste Marie, Frances and Geraldine and a foster daughter Margaret Harriet, at home; 2 sisters, Mrs Herbert Spencer and Calista of Benton Harbor [MI]; 1 brother, Herbert of Buffalo.
As a young man Frank drove the local bus for John Jackson, whereby his never failing good humour and readiness to serve one and all, he won a host of friends, among the travelling public as well as at home. On 1927 he was employed with S. H. Mills as a salesman, later buying a share in the business. From 1933 til 1938 he owned and operated a grocery store at Thessalon Station. - NEWSPAPER CLIPPING 1940
DAYTON Aug 26 - It is our sad duty today to tender the sympathy of our community to Mrs. Frank Preston and her daughters in the loss of husband and father. Thessalon, on Friday, lost one of her finest citizens when Frank passed on to receive his Master's "Well done! Good and faithful servant!" We have known him since boyhood, in fact he was an old pupil and we have never known anything but good of him. A genial chap, he was a general favourite in his varied lines of work: work which has always kept him meeting the public. For years he drove bus for John Jackson - to and from station to town. As a storekeeper he was always popular, and he was one car salesman about whom no wisecracks could be made. The car he sold was exactly as he declared it to be. Deer hunting this fall will not be the same to alot of the boys because Frank will not be there. Six of his best friends carried his casket today. Steve Mills, his partner in Mills Motors, Mac Clark, Doug McCrea, N. C. Smith, Tim Coyne and Fred Meyers.
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