Commemorated on a shared memorial; interment not independently established
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John Thomas Munro
7 Feb 1919–3 Sep 2009
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John Thomas Munro was born in Stellarton in 1919, the son of John “Tom” Munro and Dolina “Dolly” Cunningham. He married Eva Harriet Campbell in 1943, and their children included Tom, Kirk and Ishbel. His obituary records an engineering career, wartime naval service and later volunteer work, while his continuing connection to Pictou Island included lobster fishing with his sons into later life. That combination of professional work away from the Island and repeated return to Island life reflects an important twentieth-century pattern in the community. John and Eva share a memorial in the Church Cemetery at C-009; the memorial itself does not independently prove interment.
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John Thomas Munro & Eva Harriet Campbell Munro
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- John Thomas Munro ↔ spouse of Eva Harriet Campbell Munro