1. | Frenie Joan Barkhouse was born in 1934 in Liverpool, Queens, Nova Scotia (daughter of Foster Milton Barkhouse and Olive Thompson); died on 28 Feb 2017 in Greenwich, Kings, Nova Scotia. Notes:
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TURNER, Frenie Joan
A loving and much loved wife, mother, grandmother and friend passed away on February 28th, 2017 in Blomidon Court Care Facility, Greenwich. Frenie was born in Liverpool in 1934 a daughter of the late Foster and Olive (Thompson) Barkhouse. After graduation from Wolfville High School, she was employed as a telephone operator until her marriage to Dick and became a resident of Hantsport for the next 30 years, raising their two sons and two daughters there. Frenie was an active member of the Hantsport Memorial Community Centre, Hantsport Baptist Church and choir, Fidelis House, Kentville and other organizations. For several years she was actively employed in real estate sales throughout Hants County. In retirement, she and Dick resided in Lower Canard spending many happy years there until Frenie was overtaken by the vagaries of Alzheimer Disease. A lady of many talents, Frenie was an accomplished artist, potter, interior decorator, seamstress and business person. Together, she and Dick shared a great love for flower gardening, country and cottage life, wilderness hikes, canoeing, travel and the beauty of the Valley and its nearby mountains and lakes. Besides her parents, she was predeceased by sisters, Rosemary and Yvonne.
Frenie married Richard James Turner in 1952. Richard (son of Thomas Edward Turner and Rita Vivian Palmer) was born in 1931 in Hantsport, Hants, Nova Scotia; died on 24 Jun 2020 in Port Williams, Kings, Nova Scotia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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- Jeffrey Thomas Turner was born on 28 Mar 1958 in Wolfville, Kings, Nova Scotia; died on 29 Aug 2023; was buried in Riverbank Cemetery, Hantsport, Hants, Nova Scotia.
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