Swift Current Librarian c.1950s/1960s

An obituary for Norman McConnachie of Swift Current can be found at: http://www.inmemoriam.ca/view-announcement-481307-norman-mcconnachie.html

William Norman Lunan grew up in the Swift Current area in the early 1900s. He was a resident of Heritage Tower Seniors Home later in life. He is buried at the Mount Pleasant Burial Park in Swift Current, SK

Anthea Loran grew up in Hampshire, England, during the Second World War and she followed her sister Anne Szumigalski to Canada in 1955. A nurse by trade, she lived in Regina and Saskatoon before moving to Swift Current with her husband, Ralph where they raised six children.

She passed away in Swift Current on March 23, 2018. For a more detailed account of her lifetime of volunteerism, see:

https://leaderpost.com/news/local-news/volunteering-is-a-way-of-life-for-85-year-old-anthea-loran

Aldeo Lalonde married Clara May Beeching in 1953 and farmed near Bjorkdale, Saskatchewan from 1954 to 1974 raising a family of four children.

Dr. Arthur Kelly, a physician in Swift Current ca. 1910s to his death in 1936, was the first medical officer for the town of Swift Current, Saskatchewan.

A short obituary for Dr. J.D. Keene can be found at: https://leaderpost.remembering.ca/obituary/j-keene-1066566229

Helmina Hansina Aline Moen, known as Aline, was born the third of nine children on January 28, 1917, in Beaver Flat, Saskatchewan. Aline trained at the Calgary General Hospital to become a nurse, completing her program in April 1943. Her nursing career started in Calgary but soon moved to a doctor's office in Olds, Alberta. After eight years there, she became a practical nurse in Whitehorse, Yukon, for three years, where she mainly attended to the health of the Indigenous people. When her contract in the north was over, she worked as a nursing supervisor at Ridley College in St. Catharines, Ontario, for a few years and then as a placement officer at Kawartha Lakes Girls Training School in Lindsay, Ontario. She retired in January 1982. She married Bertram (Bert) Vincent James on December 13, 1969. Aline died on July 28, 2008, in Lindsay, Ontario.