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- Linus Joseph Trainor was born on January 10th, 1923 in Emyvale, the second of Frank and Mae (Clarkin) Trainor’s seven children. He attended the local school and after leaving, went to work with his father who ran a general mercantile, potato shipping and undertaking business.
After the outbreak of WWII, he joined the RCAF. He spent the war years based in Montreal where he served as an air frame mechanic. After the war he returned to P.E.I., built a home in Emyvale and resumed work with his father and brother, Damien. In 1952, he married Pearle Coady. After the deaths of his father (1952) and brother (1954), he and Pearle moved to Toronto. Linus worked at the Frauheuf trailer factory and Pearle worked as a bank teller.
Although they enjoyed life in Toronto, they moved back to their home in Emyvale in the late 1950s. Linus began sales work with McCormicks foods and Pearle worked in the home raising their daughters Judy (adopted 1958) and Claire (adopted 1960). Linus and Pearle’s busy lives revolved around family and community. In the 1970s Pearle returned to part-time work outside the home at Reitmans clothing store. In 1980 Linus retired from McCormicks. In 1982 he was diagnosed with cancer, after a brief remission the cancer recurred, and he died on December 4, 1983.
Submitted by Claire Trainor, daughter
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McIverPEIAncestry.ca Electronic Family Tree
1923 - 1983 (60 years)
