Person Page - 2023

Survivor(s): Nora Dybvig, Mrs. E. Cowley, Thora Wolosch, Louis Johnson and Elmer Johnson.²

Survivor(s): Norman Dybvig, Gordon Dybvig, Walter Dybvig, Leonard Dybvig and Clinton Dybvig. Predeceased: Alfred Dybvig, Ida, Thelma and Gerald Dybvig.³

Survivor(s): Emma M. A. Cowley.³

BREVIG
     THE DEATH OF Peter Brevig, age 69 years, occurred at his home, 826 Avenue K, north, on April 2. Surviving are his widow and four daughters, Mrs. Walter Finan, 900 Avenue K, north, Mrs. J. C. Peckinpaugh, Kinley, Mrs. Roy MacTavish, Asquith, and Mrs. Vernon Long, Big Beaver, Sask. Funeral service will be held Tuesday, April 6, at 2 oclock, from McKague's Funeral Home. Interment will be made in Woodlawn Cemetery.¹

Survivor(s): H. B. King.¹

JAMES B. KING
     JUNIATA.-- James Brock King, a beloved resident and pioneer of Juniata district, died on Sunday, January 13, in a Saskatoon hospital, after a brief illness. The late Mr. King was visiting at the home of his son, Broder, at Clark's Crossing, in order to witness the school children's Christmas concert, when the illness occurred on December 25.
     Ha was taken to hospital on December 25. Mr. King was born in 1868 in Leeds County, Ontario. In November, 1895, he married Mary Isobel Broder of St. Catharines, who died in 1937. From 1890 to 1900 Mr. King was employed by the Canadian Pacific Railway in Ontario. His business as station agent, billing cars of settlers' effects to different into contact with enthusiastic mi-(sic - line is repeated)into contact with enthusiastic migrants and influenced him in the making of a trip West. In May, 1903, Mr. and Mrs. King, in company with the late Mr. Angus, and Mrs. Angus of Wheatfields, Sask., visited West Coast cities and returned to Saskatoon at the time of the Barr Colony settlement As a speculative venture Mr. King bought land on section 15-36-10 in what is now the Juniata district Mr. and Mrs King returned to the East and remained there until 1908, The family moved to the then new townsite of Juniata, on the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway, starting the first general store and post office there. In the following year, 1909, the first passenger train came over the G.T.P. In 1912 Mr. King sold his business and moved with his family to his farm a half-mile west of Juniata, where ha resided until his death,
     Mr. King (he was known to all aa "J. B.") was keenly interested in the community, particularly in matters relating to the school, and took an able part in its public life. He was an elder of the United Church, a member of the early Grain Growers Association and was serving at the time of his death as secretary to tho local Wheat Pool committee. The late Mr. King supported all local community efforts. Although living alone, he was a host on frequent occasions at his home to various organizational and social gatherings. The most recent of these was when, on his return from spending the winter of 1933-34 with his two daughters, Helen and Keitha, at the West Coast, the Juniata Homemakers gave him a party celebrating his 78th birthday anniversary.
     Surviving are his two sons, H. Broder, who is engaged in farming at Clark's Crossing, and W. Gordon, a garage proprietor at Kerrobert, who until recently was for a number of years a superintendent for the Saskatchewan Wheat Pool, and two daughters, Mrs. J. W. Rhodes (Helen), who is chief dietitian at Royal Columbian Hospital, New Westminster, B.C., and Mrs. Clair Johnson (Keitha), of Hermosa Beach, Calif. Mr. Johnson holds a Bachelor of Art degree from Saskatchewan University, His four grandsons and four granddaughters are Kenneth, Douglas, Keith and Gordon King of Clark's Crossing, and Shirley, Wilda, Verna and Marygordon King of Kerrobert.
     The funeral service will be conducted from the Saskatoon Funeral Home Thursday, January 17, at 2 p .m.¹