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Marriage: Children:
  1. Robert Norman WAGNER: Birth: 12 MAR 1930 in Kitchener, Waterloo County, Ontario, Canada. Death: 18 DEC 2013 in Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada

  2. Paul Jerome WAGNER: Birth: 12 JUN 1935 in Kitchener, Waterloo County, Ontario, Canada. Death: 04 MAY 2014 in Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada


Sources
1. Title:   Ontario, Canada Births, 1869-1907
Author:   Ancestry.com
Publication:   Name: Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2005;
2. Title:   1901 Census of Canada
Author:   Ancestry.com
Publication:   Name: Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006;
3. Title:   1911 Census of Canada
Author:   Ancestry.com
Publication:   Name: Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006;
4. Title:   Canada, Voters Lists, 1935-1980
Author:   Ancestry.com
Publication:   Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2012;
5. Title:   Marriage Certificate

Notes
a. Note:   YESTERDAY REVISITED by BILL MOYER A piano player for the silent movies, a teacher of Hawaiian guitar, and now a capable organist. The accomplishments of his musical hobby parallel, to an extent, the career of former Waterloo alderman Harold Wagner. Still very active at 86 years of age, Mr. Wagner, also known to many as "Mr. Waterloo,'" spent 48 years at Mutual Life working up from "go-for" boy to department head. He also gave 40 years of volunteer service to the city of Waterloo on city council, school board and chairman of the board of Sunnyside Home. Harold Wagner seems to have found something to be excited and enthusiastic about for most of those 86 years. But he feels there have been' some great changes in public reaction through the years. In fact, Mr. Wagner says he is surprised at the lack of public reaction to many things concerning the city and schools. He feels we are paying the price of the 1960s when "everything was rosy" and there was all kinds of money available. "There were grants galore. Now municipalities and schools have to cut back and it's beginning to hurt." An acclamation to the school board in 1935 started a 26-year service record on the Waterloo school board for Mr. Wagner. He was also chosen as chairman of the Ontario school trustees' council in 1954 and '55. Schools are still a major interest to him and he is proud to make occasional visits to the school on Bridgeport Road, which was built and named after him in 1957. Fourteen years on Waterloo city council taught Harold Wagner many things and introduced him to many people. He decided to retire a few years ago although he was still well up on the voters' list of preferred candidates. He is proud of the fact that while he's served on Waterloo council, his son. Bob Wagner, was on Kitchener council for more than ten years. Both were charter members of regional council. Bob was a prime mover, for Kitchener's Centre in the Square. Mackenzie King was considered a personal friend and Mr. Wagner helped set up the King Trust in 1953, which allowed for the purchase of Woodside (King's boyhood home) and its rebuilding with original materials. He worked with Louis O. Breithaupt (then an MP), and Harper Schofield on the project. Treasurer of the board of Victoria Order of Nurses was one of Harold Wagner's services and he was also president of the provincial lawn bowling association. He has a den full of trophies and medals earned in lawn bowling. Starting in 1914 as an errand boy at Mutual Life, Mr. Wagner worked later in the mortgage department; the accounting department; the premium department; and finally was the supervisor of policy loans' department. Mutual Life then encouraged community service and Wagner followed through. He was also official Receiver in Bankruptcy for Waterloo and Wellington counties for 28 years and heard thousands of cases. Married to Nina (Honsberger) since 1926, the former alderman remembers the recognition of their 50th anniversary from Premier William Davis in 1976. There 's one other memory Harold Wagner talks about. It was receiving a goldpiece worth $10 (when gold was $18 an ounce) as a Christmas bonus at Mutual in 1918. And, he prizes the Canada Medal he received in 1967for his service to the community" and his country. But that’s not the end of the story by any means. Mr. Wagner is retired now and living comfortably in Waterloo with his good wife, Nina. However, not able to sit still for too long, Harold is now the program chairman for the Friday-afternoon program at the Waterloo Adult Recreation centre. And, as might be expected, he's "packing them in" every week. And, finally, he thinks a lot about schools. He says that trustees should be competent financial managers, not educators, and leave the teaching and education to those trained for the job. Watching progress in Waterloo for more than 80 years, Harold Wagner feels a sense of real community pride. He says he wouldn't want to live anywhere else. "Waterloo is about as nice a place and as well-run a town as you could find anywhere," (1983) Kitchener-Waterloo Record January 23, 1991 p.B2 Longtime Trustee, Harold Wagner dies Harold W. Wagner, a former Waterloo public school board trustee and city alderman for 41 years, died Tuesday at K-W Hospital. He was 93. Wagner, whose middle name was Wellington, was first elected to the former Waterloo school board in 1935 and won an acclamation each year except one. He was chairman in 1952, 1960 and 1961. In 1953, he was president of the Urban and Rural Trustees Association of Ontario and in 1955, he served as vice-president of the Canadian School Trustees Association. From 1954 to 1956, he was chairman of the Ontario School Trustees Council. In 1956, the Waterloo school board named a school on Bridgeport Road East after him. The move prompted Wagner in later years to comment that most of the students found it hard to believe that there actually was a Harold Wagner. They thought the school was named after a fictitious person or someone long dead. "The kids thought I was Santa Claus when I went to the school. They called me Saint Wagner. That's pretty good, being a saint while I'm still alive," he quipped in a 1976 interview. In October 1982, he was the guest of honor at the school's 25th anniversary celebrations. Earlier the same year, Wagner and his wife, Nina, were chosen grand marshals of a big parade marking Waterloo's 125th anniversary. Wagner joined the Mutual Life Assurance Co. of Canada in Waterloo in 1920 and at the time of his retirement in 1968, he was supervisor in the premium department. For 28 years he was also receiver in bankruptcy for Waterloo and Wellington counties, retiring in 1973. He officiated at 2,050 bancruptcy proceedings. For many years, Wagner and his son, Robert, served on city councils, but in different cities. While Harold was a Waterloo alderman, son Robert was serving on Kitchener council. Robert Wagner was also a driving force behind the building of Kitchener's Centre in the Square and is currently chairman of the theatre board. Harold Wagner's wife, Nina, predeceased him in 1988. Another son, Paul lives in Kitchener. The funeral service will be conducted on Friday at 2 p.m. at the Edward R. Good Funeral Home in Waterloo. Served as Waterloo Alderman 1962 through 1976.


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