HomeMy WebLinkAbout1332Article copied from the Pickering News, September 29, 1950, page 1, column 5.Thomas G.
MansfieldFuneral services were held on Saturday afternoon last for the late Thomas G.
Mansfield, who passed away in Oshawa General Hospital, on Thursday morning last. He was
71. Mr. Mansfield was widely known in the Pickering area.In his early days he sailed as a
member of the crew of G.H. Gooderham's racing yachts. Keenly interested in sports and sailing,
he donated the first cup presented to the Frenchman's Bay Yacht Club.A son of the late Thomas
Mansfield, who operated the store at the Bay, he also ran a store there until his retirement four
years ago, when he moved to Dunbarton.He was a member of the Doric Lodge A.F. and A.M.
and of St. George's Anglican Church. During his years of retired life he took a great deal of
interest in his home and gardens.Surviving are: his widow the former Sadie Nicholson; two
daughters, Mrs. Fred Platt and Mrs. Arthur G. Simpson of Toronto.Services were held from the
home with Rev. E.G. Robinson officiating. Interment at Erskine Cemetery.