Cora Smallman 
     
     1934 
     
     Cora was born January 9, 1912, to parents 
     
     Locksbie Dennis and Harriet (Wedlock) Dennis 
     
     of Knutsford, P.E.I. She had two brothers and 
     
     two sisters: Edwin, Wilbert, Elva and Blanche. 
     
     She met and married Albert Horne Smallman of 
     
    
   
   
    
     Knutsford on August 20, 1930. 
     
    
   
   
    
     She worked side-by-side with her husband on the 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     mixed farm, milking cows and growing potatoes. 
     
     She grew a large garden and kept hens, selling the eggs in O’Leary to buy 
     
     groceries. They were blessed with six children: Leila, Freda, Anita, Ken, Gwen and 
     
    
   
   
    
     Garth. Cora was also a loving grandmother to 17 grandchildren. 
     
    
   
   
    
     She was a hard worker with outside chores, her housework and looking after the 
     
     children. However, she managed time for the Knutsford Women’s Institute, which 
     
     she loved. The men would be in the kitchen talking and waiting for lunch to be 
     
     served, while the women met in the parlor. Cora was always willing to serve on 
     
     committees and help with projects. She served as president in 1934. The WI would 
     
     do mending for the hospital, quilt for fundraisers, pack boxes for the War veterans, 
     
     and participate in convener programs. Institute members were very dear to Cora 
     
     and she happily worked for The Home and Country with the Knutsford Women’s 
     
     Institute. She was a faithful member of the Springfield West O’Leary Baptist 
     
     Church and took loving care of her husband in later years when his health was 
     
     failing. Cora died May 1, 2001 at the age of 89 years. I don’t think she ever said an 
     
    
   
   
    
     unkind word to or about anyone. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Written by her daughter-in-law, Verna Smallman 
     
    
   
   
    
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