DONKIN, Mrs. Walter S. - Truro - Feb. 12 - Mrs. Walter S. Donkin, 74, died at her home, yesterday. She had been ill for some months. Her death will be a loss in the work of Saint Andrew's United Church, of which she was a devoted member and worker in the women's organizations. The organization to which she gave most freely of her time was the Women's Missionary Society, to which she belonged for the past 48 years. Born at Mount Denson, Hants County, she was the former Ada A. Shaw, daughter of the late Theodore Shaw. She is survived by her husband and two daughters, Aileen H. at home and Reta S. of the teaching staff of Willow School. The funeral will be held from the home on Friday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock with the Rev. A. A. Rogers conducting the service.

Friday, February 13, 1942
The Daily Star, Halifax, N. S.

JOHNSON, Lewis - Driver Finds Bus Passenger Dead, Windsor, Feb. 15 - Death occurred to Lewis Johnson of Five Mile Plains last night during a bus ride from Halifax, where he had been employed for some months. When the bus pulled into the bus station here the driver found the passenger dead. The man was to have left the bus at Five Mile Plains, but he did not give the signal for the bus to stop, so the driver continued on to Windsor. Mr. Johnson was born Jan. 1, 1885, and was well known in his district. The body was taken to Lohnes Funeral Rooms, and his family informed of his death. Four children and his wife survive. Funeral arrangements have yet to be made.

February 16, 1942
The Daily Star, Halifax, N. S.

MORGAN, William E. - The death occurred on Sunday at Victoria General Hospital of William E. Morgan, at the age of 62 years. Mr. Morgan who was born at Hantsport, Nova Scotia, was a well known marine engineer in Nova Scotia, having served on a ship operating between Halifax and Bridgewater for a number of years and lately on the Fern Field, operating between Halifax and Newfoundland. He was married twice, his first wife having predeceased him several years ago. Surviving are his wife, one daughter, Mrs. M. Amirault, Yarmouth, two brothers, Arthur, of Hantsport, and Roy, of Halifax, and one sister, Mrs. Coffill, Halifax. The services will be held at Snow's Mortuary Chapel on Monday at 4 o'clock, with Rev. F. Smith, officiating. The remains are to be forwarded to Bridgewater for burial.

Monday, February 16, 1942
The Daily Star, Halifax, N. S.

THOMPSON, William Percy - The death of William Percy Thompson, Elmsdale, 52, occurred at his home on Wednesday morning. He is survived by his wife, two sons, Robert and Gordon, and two daughters, Elizabeth and Margaret. The funeral will be held at his home at 2 o'clock Saturday afternoon, with interment at Gay's River cemetery.

Monday, February 26, 1942
The Halifax Herald, Halifax, N. S.

GRAY, Mrs. Bessie Jane - Windsor, April 14 - There died at her home on Burnham's Hill, Windsor, Mrs. Bessie Jane Gray, wife of Hugh Gray, foreman of N. S. Textiles Co. Ltd., formerly of Lorne, Pictou County. Her death occurred after a period of sickness since September, when she suffered a heart attack. She was an ardent worker in the St. John's Presbyterian Church and was noted for her kindness to the aged and sick. The deceased was the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. John MacKenzie of Glengarry Station, Pictou County, N. S., and is survived by two sisters, Miss Jessie MacKenzie, R.N., Windsor; Mrs. Margaret MacLeod, nurse at The Old Ladies' Home, Halifax. A funeral service was held at the Gray home this afternoon with the Rev. D. G. Ross officiating and the body was forwarded by train to Hopewell, Pictou County, where a service will be held from the Presbyterian Church there and burial will be made in Lorne Cemetery.

Thursday, April 16, 1942
The Eastern Chronicle, New Glasgow, N. S.

McELHINEY, Brig. John Alexander - Windsor, Dec. 28 - Throughout Nova Scotia and particularly in this, his native town, there will be sincere sorrow at the news received from Ottawa of the passing on Sunday of Brigadier John Alexander McElhiney, 67, of the Salvation Army. In the past 45 years in which he had been associated with that organization the Brigadier had, with inspiring zeal, undertaken many works of merit for the cause which was so dear to his heart, and had gained recognition as one of the Army’s outstanding social workers. In addition to his wife, he is survived by three daughters, Mrs. Brigadier Herbert Martin of Chicago; Mrs. Reginald Cottle and Lieutenant Elsbeth, of Ottawa, the latter being remembered in Nova Scotia for the period in which she was associated with the Corps at New Glasgow; four sons, Leading Aircraftsman Wilfred, R.C.A.F.; Cyril, Toronto; Gerald of the R.C.O.C., Montreal, and formerly of North Sydney; and Captain John of the R.C.A.S.C. overseas; two brothers, Rev. Charles McElhiney of Boston and William in Toronto.

Monday, December 28, 1942
unknown/ The Eastern Chronicle, New Glasgow, N. S.