Person:Agness Renwick (1)

Obituary
Miss Agnes Renwick^S2
The death occurred on Monday, December 5, 1960, in hospital in New York City, N.Y. of Miss Agnes Renwick in her 80th year. She had been hospitalized since a fall last September resulted in a broken hip.

Miss Renwick, who was born in Orono, was the daughter of the late Dr. and Mrs. Herbert Renwick, formerly of Orono. Her mother was Christina Wilkinson, one of five daughters of Captain Wilkinson who plied a steamboat on the Lakes called the "Maple Leaf."

The deceased attended the Ottawa Collegiate Institute and taught school briefly in Canada and then joined her family in New York where she pursued a successful business career in the field of advertising. She was one of the first to go overseas with the Quartermasters Corps during World War I with the United States Army and was stationed at Tours, France, during most of the war.

Since retiring Miss Renwick has resided with her sister Miss Elizabeth Renwick, who predeceased her September 25, 1960, and her two brothers, Neil who predeceased her in 1957, and William of New York City, 400 Riverside Drive, who survives.

Surviving besides her brother William are cousins Miss Ethel Lockhart of Newcastle and the Misses Lena and Edna Renwick of Redlands, Cailf., and of Orono.

The funeral service was held at the Cooke Funeral Parlors, New York Ciry on Thursday, December 8, and was conducted by Rev. Richard Niebanck of New York City. Interment was in Bowmanville Cemetery.

Among recent friends and relatives attending the service were three of her old friends of army days.

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Agness Renwick, in Ontario, Canada. Ontario Canada Births 1869-ongoing. (Toronto, Ontario: Archives of Ontario)
   1880.

   Name:Agness Renwick
   Date of Birth:15 Jun 1880
   Gender:Female
   Birth County:Durham
   Father's Name:Herbert Renwick
   Mother's Name:Christiana Wilkinson
   Archives of Ontario Microfilm:MS929_44

2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} Obituary - Miss Agnes Renwick, in Canadian Statesman. (Bowmanville, Ontario)
   Page 13, column 8 & 9, 15 Dec 1960.

   Obituary - Miss Agnes Renwick

3. ↑ ^3.0 3.1 Declaration of Intention, in New York, United States. Petitions for Naturalization from the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, 1897-1944
   23 Sep 1933.

   Name: Agnes Renwick
   Address: 317 West 95 Street, New York, New York, New York
   Occupation: advertising make-up
   Birth Date: 15 Jun 1880
   Birth Place: Orono, Ontario, Canada
   Last foreign Residence: Ottawa, Ontario
   Port of Entry: Reuses Point, New York by train
   Arrival Year: July 1901
   Naturalization Record Type: Petition for Naturalization
   Event Date: 26 Sep 1933
   Event Place: New York, USA
   Court: Southern District, New York

4. ↑ Bowmanville Cemetery, in Smith, Ron et al. CemSearch.

   Given Name(s): Agnes Surname: Renwick
   Maiden Name: Age: Sex: F ID#:364865
   Born: Jun 15, 1880 Died: Dec 5, 1960