 1955 - 2003 (48 years)
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| Name |
Bruce Cecil Armstrong |
| Born |
1955 |
| Gender |
Male |
| Died |
17 Aug 2003 |
Port Colborne, Ontario, Canada  |
- Motor vehicle accident on Clarence Street, Port Colborne, Ontario.
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| Person ID |
I8126 |
Family Tree |
| Last Modified |
23 Mar 2025 |
| Father |
Cecil Henry Armstrong, b. 24 Mar 1917, Lucknow, Ontario, Canada , d. 1982 (Age 64 years) |
| Mother |
Charlotte Mary Reeb, b. 1922, Port Colborne, Ontario, Canada , d. 24 Dec 2014, Port Colborne, Ontario, Canada (Age 92 years) |
| Married |
11 Nov 1939 |
Port Colborne, Ontario, Canada |
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| Family ID |
F17649 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Obituary & Death Notice |
 | Funeral director in car accident
Funeral director in car accident
Businessman involved in Port Colborne charities
By ALLAN WOODS The Hamilton Spectator
A prominent Port Colborne mortician was killed in a dramatic car crash early yesterday in which the man's car came to rest just metres from his recently sold funeral parlour.
A police officer spotted Bruce Cecil Armstrong's black Honda Civic on Fielden Avenue travelling well over the posted speed limit of 50 kilometres an hour just moments before the 3:40 a.m. crash.
Sergeant Tim Carter of Niagara Regional Police said the officer got into his car to chase the vehicle, but Armstrong, 48, had already a railway track, gone airborne, spun through the Clarence Street intersection and struck a tree.
The mangled car stopped about 100 metres from Armstrong Funeral Home, at 179 Clarence St., which he sold on June 7, said his brother, Bill Armstrong. An investigation is being conducted to find out if Armstrong been drinking.
Carter said Armstrong's car in the direction of his home.
Armstrong was well known to many in Port Colborne.
He bought the funeral home from his brother, Bill, in 1987, wrote articles on appeared on Discovery Channel's Forbidden Places and founded a grief therapy group in Welland.
"People in the community just loved him and I don't know if I can put my finger on the qualities," said Bill Armstrong, 60.
"He seemed to be able to take care of their needs."
Port Colborne Mayor Vance Badawey received a telephone call yesterday morning from the city's fire chief telling him about the accident.
He said that Armstrong had been involved in a number of community initiatives, including the Special Olympics, the Rotary Club and the Lion's Club.
"Any time you lose a member of this community, whether it's an upstanding business person or a person next door, it's devastating," Badawey said.
Armstrong is survived by three children, a son and two daughters and two grandchildren.
--The Hamilton Spectator, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, August 18, 2003 Page 2 |
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