John W. Childs Sr. ¹⁰³²¹

Lewiston Daily Sun
Lewiston, Maine
Sunday, November 5, 1987
p. 2

John W. Childs

LEWISTON - John W. "Jack" Childs, 82, of 729 Main St., Lewiston, died Tuesday evening shortly after arrival at Central Maine Medical Center.

He was born in Moncton, N.B., Canada, Nov. 3, 1905, the son of Christopher and Alma Blake Childs. He was a resident of Lewiston-Auburn since 1920 and was educated in New Brunswick schools.

Mr. Childs also served in the U.S. Coast Guard. He was a steel construction worker and in recent years worked as a horse trainer at Lewiston Raceways and was also well known at Scarborough Downs.

He was a member of the U.S. Trotters Association, the Brotherhood of Shoe and Allied Workers Union of Gardiner and in his younger years played hockey for the Buffalo Sabres farm team.

Survivors include his wife, the former Thelma McKenzie of Lewiston, whom he married in June of 1949; one daughters, Mrs. Sonny (Jacqueline) Kane of Scarborough; four sons, John Jr. of Lewiston, Ernest of Norfolk, Va., Joseph of Buckfield and William of Litchfield; two sisters, Edith Sprague and Sadie McKenzie, both of St. Petersburg, Fla.; one brother, Joseph of Orlando, Fla.; 11 grandchildren and two great-granddaughters.

Private graveside services will be held at Manchester Cemetery, Manchester, Arrangements by Fortin Funeral Home.

John married Thelma Adelaide McKenzie, daughter of Wilton C. McKenzie and Jessie Elnora Fish, in June 1949.¹⁰³¹⁹ (Thelma Adelaide McKenzie was born 14 July 1911 in Brighton, Suffolk County, Massachusetts,^10320,10321 died 6 June 1999 in Lewiston, Androscoggin County, Maine ^10321,10322 and was buried after 6 June 1999 in Manchester, Kennebec County, Maine at Manchester Cemetery ¹⁰³²¹.)