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- Adelaide Isobel Hyde (1895-1997) Born at 98 Park Avenue, in Montreal on Saturday, February 16th 1895, Isobel was the daughter of John Hyde and Adelaide Hya Gorham. She married Charles Ernest Recki on June 6th 1916, at 340 Wood Avenue, Westmount, Quebec. Following their marriage they lived in Evanston, Illinois where their two sons were born: Charles Ernest and John Hyde. Isobel divorced Charles Recki sometime prior to 1936, and returned to Montreal with her sons. She lived in Montreal until about 1980, when she moved with her son Charles to Toronto. Aunt Isobel had a unique, engaged and engaging personality: she took a deep interest in everyone in her family. She had a remarkable memory and she was a marvelous storyteller. Having outlived all of her Hyde family contemporaries (most of them by decades), she was the Matriarch of the family. She fit right into that role, and I think she took it seriously. In 1977, my sister Laurie interviewed Isobel as part of a family history project that she was doing at school. That interview, and the family tree that Laurie created, is the foundation of this project. Isobel died in Toronto, Ontario on August 10th 1997, aged 102 years. Buried Mount Royal Cemetery
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