QUAY 3 "Overend - At Orillia, on Saturday, August 19, 1939, George Joseph Overend, beloved husband of the late Anna M. O'Donnell, aged 80 years. The funeral was held from his residence , John Street, to th e Church of the Guardian Angel on Tuesday morning. Interment was made in St. Michael's Cemetery, Orillia.
Another of Orillia's prominent and well-known citizens, Mr. George Joseph Overend, died on Saturday, at the Soldiers Memorial Hospital, in his eighty-first year. Mr. Overend came to Orillia with his f amily about 46 years ago, and in the intervening years has figured prominently in the affairs of the town.
It is only for the past year that Mr. Overend has ceased to take an active part in business life.In March, his wife died, and since that time Mr. Overend failed noticeably. He had undergone two serio us operations this year from which he did not seem to recover.
Mr. Overend was born at Price's Corner, on July 11, 1859, a son of the late William and Sarah Overend. Following his marriage to Anna Marie O'Donnell, of Brechin, they moved to Burk's Falls, where Mr . Overend was employed as foreman of the Train Lumber Company; five years were spent at Longford Mills and Portage when Mr. Overend was general clerk for the Longford Lumber Company and the Rama Timbe r Transport Company. About forty-six years ago he and his family moved to Orillia, and he built the home on John Street and has resided there ever since. nearly thirty years ago he went into the insu rance and real estate business, which is being carried on to-day by his son, Mr. Harold J. Overend.
Mr. Overend leaves to mourn his loss a family of five sons and three daughters, Harold J. Overend, Orillia; Fred Overend, Peterborough; Clarence Overend, Orillia; Miss Aileen Overend, Toronto; Mrs. Fr ank C. Foy (Edna), Toronto; and Miss Camilla Overend, Orillia, all present for the funeral. Albert A. Overend of Vancouver, and George Overend, of Calgary, his other two sons, were not able to be here ..."
