Saskatchewan Cemeteries Project - Griffin Cemetery - Griffin, Saskatchewan





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Griffin Cemetery



R.M. of Griffin # 66   SW 29-8-11 W2
GPS   49.668653�N   103.473331�W
First burial in 1911, 280 burials by 1994

Photographed by Juliann Parsons
(Click on coloured names to view the gravestone photo)

Adderley, (unnamed male)  Sep 1916 - Sep 10, 1916  
Algren, Ada  1888 - Feb 25, 1949  
Algren, Charles  1876 - 1938
Algren, Gustava Matilda  Sep 9, 1834 � Nov 11, 1914
Allin, (infant)  Feb 12, 1915 child of T. E.  
Alton, Sharon Olive  Jan 8, 1950 age 11 mos 
Anderson, Albert L.  1884 - Jan 9, 1950 
Anderson, Andrew  1891 - Feb 6, 1957 
Anderson, Ann  1886 - 1973
Anderson, Anna (nee Scott)  1879 - May 7, 1952 age 73 yrs 1 mon 27 dys  
Anderson, Freda Margaret (nee Mutton)  May 19, 1930 - Jun 1, 2003 dau of Reginald
Anderson, Gustov  1890 - Mar 16, 1969 age 79 yrs 1 mon 15 days
Anderson, John  1885 - May 24, 1955
Anderson, Mary  1843 - Jan 25, 1924 age 80 yrs 2 mos 6 days, wife of John
Anderson, Roy N.  Jan 20, 1930 -
Aukney, (unknown)  

Bagnell, Albert W.  1877 - 1920
Bagnell, George Clinton  Aug 188? - Jun 13, 1914 age 27 yrs 10 mos 10 dys
Bahnuick, Annie Jean (nee Novenski) 2 Mar 1930 - Nov 19, 2000 
Bahnuick, Frederick  Nov 9, 1920 - Jul 9, 2000 son of John & Kate
Bakken, Melvin Charles  Feb 16, 1921 - Oct 9, 1996
Bakken, Muriel R.  Aug 12, 1919 - Dec 7, 2007
Ball, Ransom Lawrence  Aug 18, 1885 - Jun 9, 1925 son of Franklin & Sarah 
Beaton, John Fraser  1923 - Jun 14, 1965 age 41 yrs 7 mos 6 days, hus of Virginia
Beaton, Virginia May (nee Dillen)  16 Jun 1930 - 10 Oct 2012 dau of Richard & Christina
Birrell, Violet  Jul 24, 1931 age 1 mon 9 days
Blount, Clarence Rollin  Nov 11, 1858 - Sep 21, 1940
Blount, Charlotte  Oct 6, 1858 - Jul 3, 1950 age 91 yrs 8 mos 23 dys
Blount, Vern I.  1888 - 1918 son of Rollin & Charlotte 
Blow, Cooper J.   Dec 17, 1944 
Blow, Earl W.  died age 22 yrs 8 mos 24 dys  
Blow, Minnie  Mar 12, 1911 age 40 yrs 7 mos 7 dys  
Boulton, Thomas    
Brooker, (unnamed male)  Oct 1917 - Oct 18, 1917
Brooker, Claude  Jun 16, 1913 - Oct 16, 1988  
Brooker, Emily Mae  Mar 5, 1907 - Mar 21, 1944 wife of W. W.
Brooker, Howard  Aug 18, 1974 age 66 yrs 11 mos 7 dys 
Brooker, Jessie Edna  Sep 28, 1891 - Jun 26, 1990
Brooker, Katherine A.  1914 - 2006 
Brooker, William  Feb 27, 1953 age 69
Brown, A.  
Brown, James  Jan 21, 1916 age 7 yrs 8 mos, son of A. & E.  
Buffam, Jennie (nee Mitchell)  Jul 7, 1934 age 72
Buffam, Samuel George  Oct 25, 1918 age 64 yrs 6 mos   
Bull, Alfred C.   Jun 25, 1938 age 64
Bumstead, Frank Elwood  1929 - Jun 21, 2011 son of Lorne & Ila
Bumstead, M. Elaine  1935 -
Burner, Frank  
Butenscheon, Hans Henry  Mar 31, 1921 age 49 yrs 6 mos 6 dys 
 
Campbell, Edith M. L. (nee Taylor)  Sep 18, 1876 - Feb 26, 1944 wife of John H.
Carins, Rena Elizabeth (nee Symes)  Apr 16, 1904 - Aug 3, 1987
Charlton, (unnamed female)  Sep 7, 1917 - Sep 7, 1917
Charlton, James Hutchinson  Feb 23, 1998 age 78 yrs 6 mos
Charlton, John  1877 - Apr 3, 1967 age 89 yrs 11 mos 20 days
Charlton, Mary  1883 - Mar 30, 1959
Charlton, Mary Jane  1847 - Apr 29, 1924 age 77 yrs 3 mos 26 days, wife of R. B.
Charlton, Robert  1912 - Jul 26, 1971 age 58   
Charlton, Robert B. Sr.  1880 - Aug 24, 1951
Chipman, James Clifford  May 5, 1913 age 34 yrs 6 mos 27 days
Clarke, O. C.  
Clarke, Stanley  died 1926
Connor, F. G.  Jan 1915 - Jan 28, 1915
Cormar, Edward  Mar 15, 1925 age 42
Cross, Alvin Clare  1918 - Mar 9, 1970
Cross, Harvey J.  May 9, 1952 - Nov 15, 1991 son of Alvin & Lois
Cross, Lena A.  1895 - Mar 1984
Cross, Lois Theresa (nee Eddy)  Apr 30, 1922 - Jan 28, 2001 dau of Charles & Shara 
Cross, Norman R.  1890 - Jul 8, 1949 age 58 yrs 13 dys
Cupp, Joyce  died 1929   
Cupp, (female baby)  May 12, 1918 

Danforth, Annie C.  1884 - Nov 29, 1977 
Danforth, Archer  Mar 10, 1940 age 52 
Daniels, Kenneth D.  Jan 1937 - Feb 5, 1937  
Dashney, (baby)  died Sep 19, 1956   
Dean, George  1850 - Nov 8, 1931 age 81 yrs 5 mos 24 dys
Dean, Jessie M.  1880 - May 2, 1974    
Dean, William J.  1875 - Dec 8, 1957  
Dillen, (baby)  Feb 26, 1978 
Dillen, Christina M.  1911 - 2001 
Dillen, Matthew Peter  Aug 15, 1985 - Aug 17, 1985
Dillen, Richard H.  1908 - Apr 24, 1993
Dillen, Thomas William  Feb 26, 1978 
Doyle, Gerald Leslie  1925 - Aug 25, 1963
Doyle, James Louis   1898 - Jan 8, 1986 age 87 yrs 8 mos
Doyle, Vera M.  1903 - Aug 8, 1986 

Eckenrode, M. L. Mrs.  1858 - 1929
Evans, (unnamed)  Nov 4, 1918 - Nov 4, 1918 
Evans, Elizabeth Jean  Dec 11, 1920 age 3 yrs 9 mos 24 dys  
Everden, Hazel Ruth  1898 - May 23, 1932 age 33 yrs 6 mos 12 dys, wife of Paul 
 
Fatheringham, Shirley  Nov 4, 1938 - Nov 4, 1938 
Forma, (unnamed)  Jun 30, 1937 - Jun 30, 1937 
Foster, Elmer Ernest  Oct 13, 1921 age 27 yrs 9 mos
 
Garrett, James  Apr 12, 1952 - May 13, 1952 
Geddes, James William  Jul 22, 1922 age 51 yrs 7 mos 
Goodwin, John W.  1872 - Nov 3, 1927 
Graham, Luverne James  1929 - 1945 son of Robert & Mabel
Grimes, Delmar Laverne    
Grimes, Annis L.  1870 - May 26, 1948
Grimes, William W.  1870 - 1952 
Grohn, A. Lydia  Feb 21, 1920 age 28
Grohn, Ruth Irene (nee McGowan)  1914 - Sep 27, 2003 wife of William
Grohn, William Brian  1957 - Jan 8, 1995
Grohn, William Edward  11 Oct 1914 - Mar 9, 2016 son of William & Daly (nee Schwartz) 

Hallberg, James  1951 -
Hallberg, Kimberlee  1964 -
Hallberg, Tyler John  May 14, 1985 - Oct 14, 2003 son of James & Kim
Halbert, Erla Charlotte  Mar 20, 1936 - Mar 17, 1943 dau of R. I. & M. M.
Halbert, Matilda Margaret 'Tillie' (nee Hofmeister)  Mar 29, 1895 - Jul 19, 1992
Halbert, Richard Irwin 'Earl'  Mar 28, 1894 - Jan 23, 1984
Hamrell, John  1881 - Dec 30, 1937 age 46 yrs 1 mon 30 dys
Hannah, James  Jan 29, 1915 age 102
Heenan, Thomas  Oct 19, 1942  
Hein, Brenda (nee Vestby)  Apr 6, 1991 
Henderson, Alice C. (nee Algren)  Mar 28, 1917 - Apr 11, 1999 dau of Charles & Ada
Henderson, Lawrence E.  1905 - Mar 23, 1980
Hennessy, Terrance Patrick  Jun 10, 1944 - Mar 21, 2008 
Hesby, Arne E.  1901 - Jul 1, 1959 
Hesby, Elmer  1928 - Jun 27, 1939 age 10 yrs 6 mos 24 dys  
Hesby, Johanna Margaret  1900 - Jun 24, 1988
Hesby, Peder 'Peter'  1893 - Feb 25, 1969 age 75 yrs 5 mos 22 dys 
Hewlett, Viola G.  1902 - Oct 4, 1975
Hewlett, Walter F.  1887 - Nov 11, 1980
Hummon, M. L. Mrs.  1896 - 1920 
Hunter, Freeman A.  1974 - 1911 

Ingram, Ventura Vivian  1908 - 1979 

Joblonski, Rose Marie  Mar 4, 1941 age 1 yr 2 mos 2 days
Johnsrude, C.  Feb 19, 1920 age 8 mos 28 days
 
Keefe, Lyle Bernard  Apr 1913 - Feb 2003
Keefe, Margaret Beryl  Mar 1915 - Aug 12, 1994 age 79 yrs 5 mos 10 dys
Knoblauch, Andy D.  Apr 16, 1959 - Nov 6, 1988   
Knoblauch, Bruce Wayne  Aug 8, 1953 - Aug 11, 1953  
Knoblauch, Magdalene   Sep 18, 1909 - Aug 3, 1997 
Knoblauch, Reinhold  Jul 24, 1905 - Jul 9, 1991  
Korlak, Mrs. 
Kowalski, Dianne  Jun 12, 1966 age 15 yrs 9 mos  
Krainyk, (unnamed)  Jan 14, 1952
Kunard, Donald  hus of Fern
Kunard, Fern Lois (nee Powell)  Jun 30, 1918 - Jul 20, 2013 dau of Charles & Fern

Langman, Lloyd Fredrick  1937 - Oct 14, 1954 age 16 yrs 9 mos 17 dys 
Learn, (unnamed)  Apr 15, 1918
Lebbert, Clause Henry  May 27, 1938 age 79 yrs 9 mos 18 dys  
Lebbert, Lawrence  Sep 24, 1981
Lebbert, Mary D.  Oct 4, 1955  
Leonard, Blaine  1887 - Jun 11, 1939 age 51 yrs 10 mos 2 dys
Leonard, Harold  died May 23, 1932 
Lindblom, Charles  Jun 21, 1967 age 76 yrs 10 mos  
Lindblom, Hilmer E.  1895 - 1970
Lindblom, Iris (infant)  died Jul 29, 1920 dau of Hilmer & Mildred
Lindblom, Mildred E.  1896 - 1967
Lindstrom, (unknown)   
Lindstrom, Gus  May 6, 1934 age 74 yrs 9 mos 8 days
Lockhart, Howard Edwin  Oct 17, 1921 - Mar 6, 2009 son of Lewis & Ida (nee Woodbury)
Lockhart, L. M.   Apr 10, 1944 age 55
Lockhart, Linda May  1951 - 2001 dau of Howard
Lowrie, John
Lucksinger, Jerry Lloyd  1938 - 2007  
Lund, Axel E.  1871 - 1957  
Lund, Mary E.  1882 - Mar 5, 1968 age 85 yrs 8 mos 22 dys

Maley, Sandra L. D.  1952 - 1996
Mantay, William 'Bill'   
Masson, William Dale  Oct 8, 1927 age 9 wks
McClelland, Richard W.  1867 - Apr 24, 1964
McDowell Family Headstone
McDowell, Idella  1862 - Nov 22, 1948 
McDowell, William  1863 - Nov 18, 1943 age 80 yrs 7 mos  
McGonigal, Annie  1865 - Aug 14, 1948 age 84 yrs 2 mos 3 dys
McGonigal, David  1902 - Jul 9, 1934 age 33 yrs 2 mos 9 dys
McGonigal, Robert  1859 - 1934
McWhinnie, Arthur  1883 - Oct 6, 1958 
McWhinnie, Jane  1861 - Feb 3, 1961
McWhinnie, Leslie  1887 - Apr 10, 1954 
McWhinnie, Mungo  1851 - Nov 6, 1938 age 86 yrs 11 mos 4 dys
Morton, Anna Elizabeth  1884 - Mar 2, 1960 age 75 yrs 9 mos
Morton, Charles Samuel  1881 - Oct 7, 1934 age 53 yrs 7 dys
Morton, David Fox  May 14, 1925 - Jan 26, 1998 
Morton, George Peter  Aug 18, 1914 - May 4, 2000
Morton, Larry  May 13, 1949 - Jan 13, 1950
Morton, Lois Marion  Apr 16, 1929 - Feb 7, 2007 
Morton, Vesta Rosella  died May 13, 1919 age 6 dys, dau of Charles & Anna  

Needham, Hartley  son of Thomas & Kate
Needham, James A. (child)  son of Thomas & Kate
Jean V.  dau of Thomas & Kate
Needham, John  son of Thomas & Kate
Needham, Katherine Isabel   Jan 30, 1934 age 56
Needham, Marvin  Sep 25, 1931 age 18 yrs 1 mon 12 dys  
Needham, Mary  1875 - Jun 11, 1951
Needham, Mary  1874 - Jul 19, 1965 age 90 yrs 11 mos 29 dys
Needham, Reginald  son of Thomas & Kate 
Needham, Thomas  1872 - Apr 9, 1953
Needham, Thomas G.  son of Thomas & Kate
Needham, William G. (child)  son of Thomas & Kate   
Nelson, Gladys  1925 - Nov 26, 1966 age 41 yrs 8 mos 13 dys  
Newton, Louisa Ann  Feb 2, 1921 age 61 yrs 1 mon, wife of William  
Newton, William Henry      
Novenski, Byron Joseph  Feb 17, 1965 - Jul 7, 1981 son of Paul & Philippine
Novenski, Ida  1902 - 1947 
Novenski, Margaret  Dec 27, 1925 - Nov 15, 2006
Novenski, Paul  1894 - Jul 24, 1970 hus of Ida 
Novenski, Paul Jr.  Mar 6, 1938 - May 7, 1975 hus of Philippine Schwab

Pattison, John  Mar 28, 1916 age 62
Paul, Charles Edward   Jun 26, 1948 - Jun 28, 1948
Peterson, Alice Margaret  Sep 16, 1905 - Jul 1, 1992 
Peterson, Paul Harold  Aug 25, 1901 - Oct 25, 1946
Piterson, Howard  Sep 26, 1925 age 2 days 
Powell, Charles Fryer  1873 - Jun 9, 1937 age 63 yrs 10 mos 10 dys  
Powell, Evan  Feb 17, 1995 age 78 son of Charles & Fern
Powell, Fern Irene (nee Blount)  1888 - Feb 12, 1980
Pratt, Charles  Feb 21, 1929 

Rabbetz, (baby male)  Jun 20, 1922 
Roberts, James Herbert Jr.  1939 - 1958   
Roberts, James W.  1915 - Nov 6, 1989 age 74 yrs 2 mos 11 dys   
Roberts, Violet  1913 - Jan 14, 2000
Robertson, Adam Goodfellow  Jan 1911 - Jan 14, 1911
Robertson, Adam Goodfellow  1912 - 1996  
Robertson, Adam Goodfellow Dr.   1879 - May 22, 1926 age 47 yrs 4 mos 4 dys  
Robertson, Dora Jean  Oct 12, 1915 - Sep 9, 1916
Robertson, Elizabeth (nee Todd)  1890 - Apr 2, 1980 age 89 yrs 8 mos 2 dys  
Robertson, Mary Isabella  1879 - Sep 12, 1919 age 41
Robertson, Mary W.  1913 - 1917 dau of Adam & Mary
Robins, Charles Wesley 'Charlie'  1908 - Nov 28, 1985 age 77 yrs 3 dys 
Robins, Shirley Ann   Sep 1928 - Feb 1929 dau of Frank & Gladys
Robinson, C. H. Mrs.  Apr 15, 1930 age 48
Robinson, Sarah Elizabeth Elliott  1859 - Nov 5, 1919
Rommann, Mary 'Evelyn' (nee Symes)  Nov 24, 1912 - Oct 11, 1980 
Rommann, Paul Swain  Aug 3, 1915 - Mar 26, 1980

Scarrow, Frank  Nov 10, 1982 age 74 
Scarrow, Hugh  died Apr 12, 1939 
Scarrow, Mary  1980
Schwartz Family Headstone  
Schwartz, Archie  Apr 12, 1901 - Dec 26, 1918
Schwartz, Archie  (2nd photo)   
Schwartz, Louis  Nov 22, 1964 age 81
Schwartz, William F.  1885 - Feb 20, 1948 age 61 yrs 1 mon 18 dys
Scott, Clayton Norval  Nov 27, 1911 age 13 mos, son of Robert & Ruby
Scott, Elton Robert  1921 - Jan 29, 1922
Shepperd, Allison  1905 - Jun 30, 1935 age 30 son of Matthew & Catherine
Shepperd, Catherine J. 'Kate'  1869 -  Jun 1956   
Shepperd, Matthew  1857 - Oct 1, 1935 age 77 yrs 11 mos 
Sherwood, Lillian Rose (nee Symes)  Jan 1, 1994 age 88
Shuttleworth, Lennox Arnold  1908 - 1911   
Shuttleworth, Margaret A.  1878 - Jun 18, 1936 age 59 yrs 5 mos 6 dys  
Sorensen, Agnar Thorvald 'Thor'  1905 - May 3, 1954
Sprecken, Eliene C.  1874 - 1948
Sprecken, John A.  1868 - Jan 8, 1933 age 64 yrs 3 mos 2 dys
Sprecken, (unnamed)  Nov 9, 1939 - Nov 9, 1939  
Suckling, Charles Edward  died age 10 mos
Swanson, Inger  1856 - 1942 
Swanson, Sander  1860 - Oct 24, 1928 
Symes, Henry  Dec 9, 1899 - Sep 14, 1965 son of Joseph & Mary  
Symes, John  1876 - Aug 20, 1944
Symes, Joseph Ernest  1869 - 1910 
Symes, Keith  Mar 21, 1920 - Jan 30, 1987 
Symes, Mary  Mar 3, 1971 age 90
Symes, Mary Barbara (nee Symes)  1875 - 1951
Symes, Mary Edith (nee Webb)  1880 - 1951 wife of John 
Symes, Stanley  May 3, 1982 age 74 
Symes, Thomas Alonzo  Jun 20, 1993 age 76 
 
Theakston, W. E.  Jun 16, 1920 age 1 yr 6 mos 5 days
Thompson, Charles  May 5, 1916 age 66   
Thompson, Walton  Jan 2, 1923 age 21 dys 
Tichborne, Mrs. 
Tichborne, Wilbert D.  1895 - Jan 14, 1930 age 34 yrs 5 mos 22 dys  
Todd Ralph,  Nov 22, 1918 age 36
Townshend, Charles  died 1912 son of George & Catherine 
Townshend, Charles William   Feb 4, 1911 - Mar 4, 1911 son of George & Catherine
Townshend, Catherine  1876 - Nov 1937  
Townshend, George  1878 - Jun 4, 1970

unknown 1
unknown 2  (wooden cross)
 
Van Dusen, (baby male)   
Van Dusen, Alida  Oct 5, 1916 age 2 mos 6 days
Van Dusen, Clar (nee Todd)  1916 - 1995
Van Dusen, Christena 'Tena'   1876 - 1912 
Van Dusen, Eliza Jane  1836 - Dec 15, 1915 age 78 
Van Dusen, Pearl  Feb 1922 - Feb 20, 1922 
Van Dusen, Robert George 1857 - Jun 23, 1923 age 66 yrs 3 mos 14 days
Van Dusen, Simon Peter  1824 - Dec 1, 1919 age 96 yrs 6 mos 6 days
Van Dusen, William Miner  1868 - Nov 11, 1939 
Vestby, Alice May  Oct 25, 1991 age 70
Vestby, Dwaine  Jun 1, 1948 age 2 mos 25 days, son of John
Vestby, Sean  Mar 23, 1993
Vilcu, Mary Irene (nee Novenski)   1934 - Jan 4, 1998
Vipond Family Headstone 
Vipond, Joseph Allen  1875 - Apr 28, 1954 age 78 yrs 8 mos 28 dys    
Vipond, Opal Susannah  1929 - Mar 20, 1986 dau of Joseph & Susannah
Vipond, Susannah  Oct 22, 1951 age 72 yrs 2 mos 18 dys 
Vipond, Vivian  died 1999 dau of Joseph & Susannah 

Warholm, Anna S.   1881 - May 9, 1961 
Warholm, Charles  1870 - May 28, 1948 age 77 yrs 10 mos 10 dys
Warholm, Paul  Sep 1, 1911 age 2 mos
Watson, Harry  Aug 27, 1922 age 51 yrs 1 mon
Weber, Clara Mae  1876 - May 18, 1932 age 56 yrs 21 dys
Wedin, Agnes Christina  1916 - May 18, 1932 age 16 yrs 1 mon 16 dys
Wedin, Emma Dale (nee Grohn)   Apr 27, 1911 - Nov 5, 2000   
Wedin, Kenneth A.  1919 - Jan 1, 1951
Wedin, Roland  Nov 7, 1912 - Oct 15, 2003 
Welta, Doris June  Jun 8, 1913 - Apr 17, 1915 
Welta, Betsey  1883 - Nov 29, 1939 age 56 yrs 3 days
Welta, Mauritz H.  1868 - May 30, 1953 
Whewell, Dorothy E.  1916 - 1916 age 4 mos, dau of Lewis & Hannah 
Whewell, Everett  
Whewell, John  
Whewell, Hannah  1877 - 1927 
Whewell, Lewis A.  1882 - 1962
Whyte, Mason   1908 - Jan 16, 1975  
Whyte, Russell  1876 - Nov 19, 1939 age 64 yrs 4 mos   
Whyte, Sophia  1868 - Nov 28, 1935
Wilbrecht Family Headstone
Wilbrecht, Fred J.  Jun 2, 1876 - Mar 8, 1938
Wilbrecht, Josephine 'Josie'  Nov 26, 1911 - May 24, 1928 
Willford, Opal Kay (nee Anderson)  Nov 17, 1991 age 81 yrs 11 mos  
Wilhite, Clark  1877 - Mar 12, 1956
Wilhite, Lottie Rose  1878 - Jul 3, 1934 age 55 yrs 7 mos 28 dys 
Wilkinson, Esther  1886 - Jul 30, 1952 age 66 yrs 3 mos 5 dys  
Wilkinson, James  1877 - 1923
 
Zachow, George C.  1936 - Jul 9, 1996 





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