The Chronicle Herald -
Wednesday March 29, 1950
LARRY'S RIVER, March 28 - Funeral services were held here recently for Leonard Avery who was killed in Vancouver B.C., he was engaged in the lumbering woods. He was 23 years of age.
Besides his young bride of seven months he is survived by his mother and father, Mr. and Mrs. Peter H. Avery; five sisters, Mrs. Howard Richard, Mrs. Francis Fanessey, Anita and Anna of Halifax, and Gehina at home; four brothers, Joseph in U.S.A, Calise in the Merchant Navy, Johnnie and Robert at home. Interment was in the parish cemetery, with Rev. C.J. Forest officiating at both church and grave.