 1917 - 2003 (86 years)
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| Name |
Marguerite Grace McKenzie |
| Birth |
21 Aug 1917 |
Shiningbank, Alberta, Canada  |
| Gender |
Female |
| Death |
4 Nov 2003 |
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada |
| Notes |
- Marguerite Grace McKenzie Pierce
21 Aug 1917 – 4 Nov 2003
Taken from the book…South of the North Saskatchewan 1984
My parents came from the southern United States where they met at the time of the Oklahoma land rush. The government divided a strip of Cherokee Indian reserve into homesteads and people rushed into that area from all over the United States to settle on this land. My mother’s family and my father's family were among those who came and homesteaded there. My mother and father Grace Graham and Clarence McKenzie met there and were married.
In the early 1900’s they emigrated to Canada and homesteaded in the Edson area, where they traveled by covered wagon. This is where I was born.
Later we moved to Bonn Accord and our family grew up there and went to school.
My husband’s family- the Alfred Pierce family-came from the Parry Sound area of Ontario to the West in 1907, the year Joe was born. They settled at Lamont and raised their family there.
As a young man, Joe moved to Rimby he worked for a number of years, looking after cattle. In approximately 1930 he moved back to the Fort to help his sister, Alice Armstrong, farmer her land in the Yorkville district. He bought a quarter of land joining her’s on the east, previously owned by bird Armstrong.
In 1934 I met Joe in the Thorhild area where he was hunting big game and hauling posts. We were married in Athabasca Landing the following spring and moved here to Fort Saskatchewan. In 1944we bought the Fred Robinson land where I'm still living at the present time.
Farming in those days was difficult. Those were the dry years and even though the land was not as expensive as it is now, it was hard to even pay the interest on our mortgages many times. The crops were literally cut off by the sand or blown out by the roots. We had terrible dust storms regularly and often at that time. Our topsoil drifted so badly that fence posts were covered and later these had to be bulldozed out and leveled off.
We carried on a mixed farming operation the rest of our lives until 1978 we rented our land due to ill health.
Our family, Ted and Denise were born and raised here, went to school in Yorkville and later at the Fort.
Ted moved to Thurso, Québec when he was 20 years old where he lived for six years. There he met his wife, Mavis Lean, where they were married and had their first child. In 1961 they moved back to the Fort where they have remained and brought up their family of three. Denise, our only daughter worked for the government for seven years after leaving school. She married Claudio Caccio, a native of Italy in 1961. They now live in north Edmonton with their family, one son and one daughter.
My husband Joe passed away November 1978.
Death Notes: 7 Nov 2003, Edmonton Journal
PIERCE, Marguerite Grace (McKenzie) - August 21, 1917 -- November 4, 2003 - Marguerite Pierce passed away after a short illness.
Predeceased by her husband Joseph Pierce in 1978, as well as her siblings Roy, Tom, Harold, Mabel and Ester. Son-in-law Claudio Caccia, daughter-in-law Mavis Pierce. She will be sadly missed by one surviving sister Eva Pierce, her children Denise and Ted, grandchildren, Adrian (Christine), Kim (Dwayne), Allan (Laurie), Donna (Brian), Lea (Dale) and great-grandchildren; Brianne, Aislin, Alex and Garett and many nieces and nephews.
Memorial service on November 10 at First United Church, Fort Saskatchewan.
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| Person ID |
I02793 |
McKenzie Genealogy |
| Last Modified |
29 Oct 2021 |
| Father |
Clarence Anthony McKenzie, b. 18 Nov 1878, Granville, Tippicanoe County, Indiana d. 13 Jan 1973, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada (Age 94 years) |
| Relationship |
natural |
| Mother |
Grace Mae Graham, b. 19 Jul 1888, Oklahoma d. 4 Sep 1930, Bon Accord, Alberta, Canada (Age 42 years) |
| Relationship |
natural |
| Marriage |
5 Mar 1907 |
Blaine County, Oklahoma |
| Family ID |
F01624 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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