St. John the Evangelist Anglican Church Cemetery
She is married to Charles Edward "Ned" MacKinnon Sherren.
They got married in the year 1936 at Prince Co., Prince Edward Island, Canada, she was 17 years old.
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Prior to ella's marriage, she was employed at the Protestant Orphanage then located in Mount Herbert.
In the late 1950s, she furthered her education by taking a business course in typing & bookkeeping. After completing this she went to work for Boyd MacDonald Produce Ltd., a potato dealer where she stayed for over twelve years. She retired in 1980 so she could spend more time at home with charles (Ned), who was in failing health. Ella has been a active participant in the church. She has been a member of the choir and various women´s organizations. She served as President of the PEI Diocesan Board of the ACW for a period of three years representing it at national conferences.
Ella remained in at their homestead after Ned's death and developed a tourist business known as "Frog Country Crafts". She makes and sells P.E.I. souvenirs to tourists from her shop which Ned built on the home property where she has remained.
Although she does much of the knitting herself, she takes goods on consignment from her many fiends, relatives and neighbors, she enjoys her clientele and has customers who visit, and return from Europe and Australia.
Obituary for SHERREN,
Ella Mae
The death occurred at the South Shore Villa, Crapaud, on Saturday, September 27, 2008, of Ella Mae Sherren, Crapaud, age 90 years. Mother of Hazel (Troy) McDonald, Stony Plain, Alta.; Bob (Wanda), Gordon (Brenda), Irene, Jim (Sandra) and Charlie (Noreen), all of P.E.I. Survived by several grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Sister of Margaret Compton, Summerside; Hazel Frizzell, North Granville, and Thelma Fookes, Cochrane, Alta. Predeceased by her husband, Edward; parents James and Christena Todd; sisters Annie Frizzell, Kay Edwards, Violet Mayne, Olive Todd; brothers Ewen, Earl and Samuel Todd. Resting at Dawson Funeral Home, Crapaud. Funeral service Wednesday, October 1, 2008, at 11 a.m. at St. John's Anglican Church, Crapaud. Interment to follow in the church cemetery.
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