- Article in the Evening Post Sat, Oct 15, 1927
To reach the honorable and remarkable age of four score years and ten, plus five, and be in good health with an active mind and body is the good fortune of Mrs. John H. Marsters, a native of Cheveries, Hants County, and who has made her home in Windsor for many years. From the Baptist Church was presented a real poem of congratulation and good wishes signed by over seventy-five members of the Church in which Mrs. Marsters was for many years an active member. Then there were flowers in abundance, some from friends in Vancouver and other points out of the Province. In the afternoon several friends enjoyed a cup of tea with this aged lady, - but her friends never think of her as old - and many were the congratulations tendered on this occasion.
Obituary July 1930
There passed away at an early hour on Saturday morning Mrs. John H. Marsters, in her 98th year. She was born at Kempt, Hants County, where her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Smith resided. In her home locality she had year in and year out, for many years, taught in the Sunday School of the Baptist Church, never missing a day, and the same love of her church and its work was outstanding in her long life, many years of which were spent in Windsor. The marvelous changes which have taken place within her life time had always interested this aged lady, and being a very keen reader and very active up to a few years ago life has held much of interest fdor her. Her love of flowers called her to work among them up to a few years ago. For the past five weeks Mrs. Marster's condition became very serious and on Sunday she passed peacefully away at the home of her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Howorth, where she resided. Mrs. Marsters was predeceased by her husband and a son and daughter, and surviving her are a brother in New York and a sister, Mrs. Michael Skaling in Kempt. The remains were laid to rest in Maplewood cemetery, Rev. H.W. Mollins, officiating.
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1832 - 1930 (97 years)