[The Sumara Family in Canada: 100 Years, 1904-2004]


[Helena Sumara]

Helena Mildred Sumara

Helen Samara, 18, Wades Beyond Depth in Pugwash River: Was With Picnic Party Spending Afternoon Near Pugwash - Body Was Recovered.

Pugwash, July 27 -- Helen Samara, an 18-year old Polish girl, whose parents reside at Gray's Road, near Oxford, lost her life by drowning in the Pugwash River six miles from Pugwash this evening.
   The girl was spending the afternoon with Mr. and Mrs. George Stevens, of Oxford, who with Miss Samara and their children composed a picnic party.

WENT IN BATHING

Following supper, Miss Samara decided to go in bathing in the river. The tide was low at the time and the girl waded out well toward the center getting beyond her depth in the channel.
   Her cries for help were heard by Mr. and Mrs. Stevens who rushed to her assistance, but the girl sank before they could do anything. Her body was afterwards recovered.
   Besides her parents she is survived by two sisters, Mrs. Oliver King and Mrs. Douglas Rushton, both of Oxford. A brother was killed a few months ago in a sawmill accident.

NOTE: There are a couple of errors in the text of this article, which was printed in (probably) either the Oxford Journal or the Springhill Record newspapers. The surname is misspelled as "Samara" rather than "Sumara". Brother Vencel was killed four years earlier, rather than "a few months earlier, and the accident was with a thrashing machine, not a sawmill (as far as we have been able to determine).