Annabell MacLean Hooper

Island story

Annabell MacLean Hooper is commemorated with her husband Lester and son John Ralph at Pioneer Cemetery R2-001. Her marriage to Lester on 23 April 1916 in Pictou identifies her as an Island-born and resident twenty-year-old and names Torquil and Isabell as her parents. Her delayed birth application and supporting records likewise name Torquil McLean and Isabel McLean. The application and certified family Bible entry report 10 February 1896; the school extract and her 1972 death registration report 11 February. The day remains disputed, and the later certifications are not the original Bible or school register. Her death registration records her death at Sutherland Harris Memorial Hospital, Pictou, on 15 August 1972 as Lester’s widow and names Torquil and Isabel as parents. Son Theodore was the informant; Island burial is recorded on 17 August without an exact plot. Veterans Affairs confirms John Ralph’s parents; Sidney Willard’s 1943 marriage, Isabel Louise’s 1944 marriage and Theodore Lester’s delayed birth record also identify Lester and Annabell as their parents. This was a separate household from the James–Dolina Hooper family. John Ralph is commemorated on the Island and buried at Groesbeek in the Netherlands. The obituary of her son Theodore Lester (Ted) Hooper names his parents as Lester and Annabelle (MacLean) Hooper and identifies sisters Isabel Rankin and Hazel MacDonald, brothers Sydney and Howard, and predeceased brother Ralph. Ted was an Island-born welding foreman at Ferguson Industries. His accompanying memorial notice dates his death to 18 February 1982; his obituary gives his age as sixty-one.