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Roseline Sargeant Richardson

Roseline Sargeant (daughter of William Sargeant and Martha Milda Robinson)288 was born 20 Dec 1905 in Owen Sound, On288, and died date unknown in Three Hills Alta. She married Ernest Richardson on 16 Oct 1948 in Kitchener, Ontario288.

 Includes NotesNotes for Roseline Sargeant:
Roseline was born the youngest daughter of William Sargeant and Millie Robinson on the 20th December 1904 at Derby Twp near Owen Sound Ontario.

If one refers to the family picture of the William Sargeant family, there is a little girl with blond ringlets in the bottom right hand corner. The eyes sparkle with mischief. One wonders.

Roseline is known for her tender heart. Dow tells of the time she interviened into a situation where his father was going to strap him for some misdemeanor and she stepped between her father and her little brother saying " Don't hit Dow, hit me."

She also was one who seemed to be the one to whom Dow could talk.
When he was young, and had decided to become a Christian, he did so at his sister's knees. He often talks of his sister's prayers for him.

Mildred-- She is still always on the go. She is my special sister. She was quite a bit younger than I. She was born in 1905. I was 14 years older than her. I left home when she was only 6. Roseline got under the drop leaf table and shed a few tears the day I left. While under there she played with the support for the table and the leaf eventually collapsed, breaking a number of mother's good dishes.

Educated at Toronto Bible College, Roseline was called to be a city mission worker. This entailed living in various towns around Ontario and holding services, when there were no pastors to do so. I can recall visiting with her and a helper one Sunday and being upset that we didn't have "meat and potatoes" for lunch like at home. From what we've been able to read, I don't think city mission workers were in it for the money. She served in 1930 Vineland or St Catherines, St Thomas in the early 1930's, , Wingham, in the mid to late 30's , Stratford in the late 30's, Port Hope in the early 40's, Petrolia and Sarnia in teh mid 40's and Wainwright Alberta.

She met a teacher from Prairie Bible Institute in Three Hills Alberta and they were married at Bethany United Missionary Church in Kitchener on the 17th of August 1949. Ernest Richardson was from Grand Valley Ontario but had become a teacher at the Prairie Bible Insititute. (Prairie-as it is known). The pastor was her brother Dow and the pianist was Helen Stratton. She was given in marriage by her brother Cliff. The maid of honour was Mildred Spees (Now Mrs Mildred Gray, who when her husband passed away came to live with Roseline and has for many years). Bridesmaid was Alice Cheese of St Thomas. The best man was Rev A H Muddle of Kitchener and Grand Sloss of Stratford and Paul Storms of St Thomas were ushers. Rev L E Maxwell principal of Prairie, preached a sermon. The Prairie quartet provided music. Reception was held at the Royal Hotel Guelph.

Aunt Roseline never had any children. However, that has not stopped her from adopting every neice and nephew and remembering their birthdays and weddings and sending little reminders of affection at Christmas. She also has reminded each of us over the years that Prairie is a very good school for young people starting off in life.

One of the most remarkable things about her is her long time correspondence with her sister Mildred. For over 40 years, they exchanged almost weekly letters and these have been kept by Roseline. They, I am sure, would provide a most interesting history of Canada, Alberta and Ontario, family life in the mid 20th century. I can only hope they are not thrown away.

Roseline and Ernest both worked at Prairie until Ernest retired. They then helped part time with the mail room and also provided room and board for students attending Prairie. They have a most beautiful cottage garden, which draws comments from all the Three Hills folks and which provided, up until they were no longer able to, fresh garden vegetables in the summer and root crops for winter storage.

One time Aunt Roseline and Uncle Ernest came to visit us when we lived in Chilliwack B. C. We had a yellow cherry tree that had not been pruned down and Uncle Ernest, in attempts to reach the best cherries at the top, had constructed a pile of boxes and barrels and boards, on which he climbed, to reach these cherries. We all waited with bated breath until he got safely down again.

When visiting brother Dow and it was nearing time to leave for the airport, Aunt Roseline became very eager to get going. Uncle Ernest looked at her out of the corner of his eye and said " You go ahead Roseline, we'll try to catch up".

Although one might think that a teacher at a Bible College would always conduct himself with the utmost of decorum, that did not detract from Uncle Ernest having a zanny sense of humour. One time he was visiting with us in British Columbia and got silly. He looked at my wife and popped both his upper and lower false teeth plates forward at the same time, looking like a dopey sort of rabbit. I have never seen Louise laugh so hard.

John P Sargeant 29 Sept 2006


More About Roseline Sargeant:
Children: none.288

More About Roseline Sargeant and Ernest Richardson:
Marriage: Married at Bethany UM Church Kitchener by Rev Dow Sargeant(brother) and Rev C Walsh.
Single: 16 Oct 1948, Kitchener, Ontario.288
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