Monday, January 14, 2019
Dear Ruth-Ann, Mary, Paul, Thomas, and David It is with deep sadness with the news of the passing of your mother. Rosemary and Ken, I believe, very kindly visited my father, Ted Skinner, when he had Alzheimer�s disease in 2003. That was so appreciated by the family. My husband, Peter Rostern, and I went to visit her in at the Village of St. Clair, about a year ago. We met Paul there. She was such an appreciative person, praising her children and grandchildren of whom she was so fond. I am sad not to have talked to her lately. My grandfather, James Henry Skinner (Harry) was her first cousin. I had contacted Rosemary before going to France and Belgium in 2014, hoping to find information about his WW1 battle places. It was wonderful to hear her stories about my grandparents, Harry and Helen (Eleanor Sarson). She told a story about going on the trolley to visit with cousin Irene (Renee) on Sundays. They would set up a tent on Petite Road. My father (Ted) and she would sing Who�s Sorry Now? while playing the piano. Later, after her Aunt Helen died, Harry moved to Clemenceau. Rosemary said that some of you go to Florida. We have a place at Ft. Myers Beach. A friend looked at Ancestry,ca and found a Thomas Skinner, Sep 1, 1840, Surrey, married to Harriet Burt, 1840 Bristol. That is the farthest they could get. This is probably your lineage as well. It would be nice to keep in touch. Sincerely, Linda Rostern nee Skinner.
