William Thomas GUMBLETON

William died 6 Dec. 1970 and is buried at Spring Creek Cemetery, 1390 Clarkson Rd, Mississauga, ON, L5J 2W5 along with his wife, Bertha May nee Barker.

The year before William died, he told another relative that he had been married as a young man, to a Lusie Ryan, in Toronto, Ontario, and whom he had turned Catholic to marry. When William signed up on 15 April 1915 at age 26 years 9 months to join the Canada Expeditionary Forces to go overseas to France during WW1 (although he named his sister as his next of kin in his attestation papers), Lusie went out west to Alberta, a province in western Canada, to work as a nurse. When William returned home to Canada, he also went out to Alberta, looking for her and hoping to make a go of their marriage, and, if not, then to secure an annullment. While out west, he did find Lusie, realized their marriage was over, and soon after, met and married Bertha May Barker from Alberta.

Family of William Thomas Gumbleton:

• 20 April 1920 William m Bertha May Baker b Alberta Canada 27 Feb 1893
• daughter Violet Emily Gumbleton b 7 July 1922, d 24 April 1981, and also buried Spring Creek Cemetery, Mississauga, Ontario)
• son William Thomas Clifford Gumbleton b 6 Sept. 1925, d 14 Nov 1925, buried at Spring Creek Cemetery, Mississauga, Ontario
• 7 May 1942 Violet married Walter Boyd Hopton (b. June 10, 1917, Long Branch, Ontario) at her the home of her parents, Wm. and May Gumbleton, Port Credit, Ontario (the village of Port Credit has now been absorbed by the City of Mississauga)
• Boyd Hopton d 25 Feb 1993 and is buried Spring Creek Cemetery, Mississauga, Ontario
• Brian Walter William Hopton b 27 November 1942. m 1973. One child
• Murray Boyd Hopton b 18 Feb. 1944. m 1970. 2 children

Thanks to Marilyn Hopton for biographical information