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Predeceased by his parents: George Milne and Margaret Louise Harrison. Predeceased: Ivan Milne, Mervyn Milne and Willard Milne.²

Depression Hobby Now Big Business
     SUMMERLAND, B. C.—(CP)— Mrs. David Livingstone Milne, 65. who started canning for charity on a kitchen little table machine 18 years fastened ago to now her is owner of a profitable business in this Okanagan Valley centre.
     During depression years she canned peaches and sent them to relatives on the prairies and to Summerland Hospital, of which she was a member of the Ladies' Auxilary.
     Soon she was supplying canned peaches, pears, apricots, prunes, carrots, tomatoes and corn and orders came in from all parts of Canada.
     To keep pace with the growing demand, her sons, employed in a packing plant, built her a factory in their spare time. In the first year of its operation, she said, "paid off $1.600 owing on the house and bought a refrigerator, an electric washer and a typewriter."
     The next year the boys quit the packing house and went to work for their mother; so did Mr. Milne, a science teacher.
     Word-of-mouth advertising worked wonders. Soon customers began arriving at the little building with boxes to be filled with Mrs. Milne's preserves and orders came from stores, too. The plant was extended and modernized and at the end of the 1951 packing season Mrs. Milne said she felt she could call herself a success.
     "It's a sort of miracle," she said.
     Mr. Milne died two years ago.⁵

Survivor(s): Eva Milne, Mrs. W. J. Graham, J. G. Milne, D. L. Milne and Rev. R. G. Milne.³

William J. Milne Dies in Kalispell
     William James Milne, 75, died Tuesday afternoon at a local hospital following a short illness.
     Mr. Milne was born in Canada at Fordwich, Ontario. He left Canada 22 years ago and went to Crookston. Minn..
     For the past 21 years he has lived in Kalispell and the Ashley creek district where he operated a grocery store until two years a ago.
     Surviving Mr. Milne are two sisters, Miss Eva Milne and Mrs. W. J. Graham, both of Saskatchewan, Canada, and three brothers, J. G. Milne of Delisle, Saskatchewan, D. L. Milne West Summerland, B. C., and the Rev. R. G. Milne of Vancouver, B. C.
     Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced later by the Waggener & Campbell Funeral home.³

Depression Hobby Now Big Business
     SUMMERLAND, B. C.—(CP)— Mrs. David Livingstone Milne, 65. who started canning for charity on a kitchen little table machine 18 years fastened ago to now her is owner of a profitable business in this Okanagan Valley centre.
     During depression years she canned peaches and sent them to relatives on the prairies and to Summerland Hospital, of which she was a member of the Ladies' Auxilary.
     Soon she was supplying canned peaches, pears, apricots, prunes, carrots, tomatoes and corn and orders came in from all parts of Canada.
     To keep pace with the growing demand, her sons, employed in a packing plant, built her a factory in their spare time. In the first year of its operation, she said, "paid off $1.600 owing on the house and bought a refrigerator, an electric washer and a typewriter."
     The next year the boys quit the packing house and went to work for their mother; so did Mr. Milne, a science teacher.
     Word-of-mouth advertising worked wonders. Soon customers began arriving at the little building with boxes to be filled with Mrs. Milne's preserves and orders came from stores, too. The plant was extended and modernized and at the end of the 1951 packing season Mrs. Milne said she felt she could call herself a success.
     "It's a sort of miracle," she said.
     Mr. Milne died two years ago.²