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Note: Mabel trained as a nurse at Presque Isle and Fort Fairfield, Maine in the 1930s. The first hospital that she started at closed it training dept. before she finished and she had to start all over again in the other one. She married Arnold Flemming in 1937. (note: Arnold was the brother of Claire Flemming, Margaret's husband) If my memory serves me right he had just returned recently from one of those harvest excursions that they used to run to Alberta and of course met Mabel at Margaret's when he visited Claire. I remember visiting a shipbuilding plant in Saint John some time during WW2 and he was operating some big vertical lathe of some kind. They lived in Saint John for some time after the war and then moved to Vancouver where Arnold worked as a carpenter. Audrey could fill you in on details of there stay in Vancouver as they visited back and forth quite often. They returned to N. B. after Mother fell and broke her hip ( about 1970) and they lived in the old Whorton house in Upper Kent until Arnold died of cancer in 1974. I think it was at the Whorton house that Mabel started to collect information on the family background and she continued to do so when she moved to Woodstock after Arnold died. Most of the background material for my records are from her notes etc. that she left. Mabel was always a very special person in our family and especially to me. As you may have noted our birthdays were both on June 14th and exactly 20 years apart. She always seemed to be around when someone in the family needed her and especially in my case. When I was about 16 yrs old I took very sick with pains in my stomach, a high fever and then started to throw up. Mabel happened to be home at the time and she ordered the men to get me to a doctor as soon as possible. It was the middle of the winter out at the farm at Elmwood and they loaded me onto a long sled and took me into catch the 11:00 o'clock train to Woodstock and I was operated on that afternoon for appendicitis. Apparently if we had waited another day it would have burst and you know how serious that was in those days, Mabel and Arnold are both buried in the Whorton cemetery in Upper Kent.
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