Buttons and Quilts by Sherri Iona (Lashley)

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lashley1shari—-Today’s guest author is Sherri Iona (Lashley) –Thanks Sherri! If you have family stories please send them to me so we can share with the world!

Shirley Montgomery And DONALD LASHLEY on their wedding day In September 1950 on grounds of Zion Memorial. Mom had recently graduated from Ottawa Civic in nursing and Dad was entering his last year in B. Sc Agriculture at U of Guelph.
They spent about one year in Bowmanville before settling on the farm at Montgomery shores and Dad became a biology and environment teacher and eventual VP at PDCI. When I was ten we moved to 214 High Street in CP. Dad finished his career as VP at SFCDI.
Local farmers, like his brother-in-law Wesley Craig and my mom’s cousin’s husband Murray MacCrae , would help during the harvest. My mom who couldn’t cook when they married, made the most amazing pies.
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About lindaseccaspina

Before she laid her fingers to a keyboard, Linda was a fashion designer, and then owned the eclectic store Flash Cadilac and Savannah Devilles in Ottawa on Rideau Street from 1976-1996. She also did clothing for various media and worked on “You Can’t do that on Television”. After writing for years about things that she cared about or pissed her off on American media she finally found her calling. She is a weekly columnist for the Sherbrooke Record and documents history every single day and has over 6500 blogs about Lanark County and Ottawa and an enormous weekly readership. Linda has published six books and is in her 4th year as a town councillor for Carleton Place. She believes in community and promoting business owners because she believes she can, so she does.

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