Helen Smallman

Helen’s accomplishments did not go unnoticed. In 1967, she was chosen Mrs. Chatelaine for Prince Edward Island.

From her first marriage, Helen had two children - Douglas and Harriet Uenereaux). Two sons were born of her second marriage to Milton Smallman (Sr.) - Peardon in Summerside, and Randy who now resides in Edmonton, Alberta.

Helen died October 14, 1974, at the age of fifty-four years.

ALICE MAUDE TURNER

Rarely has there been such an individual who has devoted her life to the care of the sick and dying. Alice Maude Rayner, later Mrs William Turner, had studied nursing in Boston at the turn of the cen- tury. She returned to her native RBI. and practised as a mid-wife and ran a nursing home for 50 years, until a hospital was built in O’Leary in 1957.

Alice Maude was born in Knutsford on December 1, 1884. She was the daughter ofJoseph Rayner and his wife Jane Ann Miller - one of a family of twelve children. At an early age she manifested an interest in a nursing career. After attending the local school in Knutsford, she went to Boston, as many Islanders did in those days, and entered the Taunton Hospital Co. Training School for nurses at the Morton Hospital from which she graduated in 1904.

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