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Wyatt nears 100. years

ROBERT H. WYATT, 100 years old on Dec. 13, attributes
- his long life to good, honest living and a refusal to worry

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WITH THE passing. of longtime
‘West “Vancouver © resident — Cecil
Sharpe, 84, the community has lost -

Mr. Sharpe was one of. West.
Vancouver’s | first real estate
agents, establishing C.M. Sharpe’
_Realty, on Marine Drive in _ West

Le “Vancouver.

about things.

. “*What’s the use,”’ he says, as if
he wouldn’t mind: going ‘round
again with the same vim and vigor.

Wyatt, who came through the
action in World War II ‘‘without a
bump,”” has always followed a
healthy lifestyle.

He never owned a car in his life,
walking .everywhere, © including
from his West Vancouver retire-
ment home on Radcliffe to Horse-
shoe Bay (up until a few years
ago).

When he was younger and lived
in Vancouver, he was known to
take a half hour to swim from Kit-
silano to Dundarave beach, before

. there was little on the North Shore
besides Lonsdale Avenue.

A resident of the West Van-
couver Kiwanis Lodge for the past
five years, Wyatt will be the guest
of honor at a birthday tea, Dec. 11
from 2 to 4 p.m. :

Many friends and relatives are

oe FRIENDS AND family will soon be saluting Robert Wyatt on the occa-- expected to attend, along with a
sion of his 100th birthday. A longtime West Vancouverite, he served with
. es Seaforth Highlanders during the First World War.

piper from the Seaforth
Highlanders, of which Wyatt was a

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Born in Tunbridge Wells,
England, in 1888, Wyatt trained as
a cabinet maker in Liverpool. As a
young man he arrived in Van-
couver in 1911, where he was hired

by Dixon & Murray, a woodwork- ;

ing company.
_ He remembers Vancouver as be-
ing ‘‘a little smaller’’ then, exten-
ding to the west as far as Alma.
Formerly a member of the
Liverpool Rifles, he joined up with
the Seaforth Highlanders in 1914,
going overseas with the 72nd Bat-
tallion to fight early in 1917. This
was shortly after. he married

‘Eleanor Calderhead, originally

from Scotland.

Wyatt’s first battle was at Vimy
Ridge, and he went on to fight at
Passchendaele and Lens, earning
the rank of sergeant before the war

“It was hell...but it was an
adventure,’’ he recalls. “

Returning to Vancouver in 1918,
Wyatt went back to work for Dix-
on & Murray, where he remained
until he was 72 years old. -

He and his wife raised their
children at a house’ in‘ the 2800
block on 1lth .Avenue. Their
daughter Elizabeth Thompson lives
in California, while sons Arthur
and Clifford live in Vancouver and
West Vancouyer, respectively..

Mrs. Wyatt passed away about
30 years ago, and Wyatt bought a
little house in“ West Vancouver,

*. where he lived.until moving into
the Kiwanis Lodge.
-~ Among those attending Wyatt's
:100th birthday. celebration : will ‘be

his six grandchildren and six great .
grandchildren, including “Zachary
Wyatt Polluck, born this
November, nearly 100 years after
his great grandfather.

Wyatt continues to take life easy
and enjoys fairly good health.

‘*l’ve lost a few friends over the

“years, Put Pve made a few new

ones,’”. ays. Wyatt,- adding, . “I
guess Pll ‘stick ‘around . until the -
‘Boss’ tells me to quit. 7

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CECIL. SHARPE“... ” moved to”

West Vancouver in 1931. ~

- He was the oldest “Ticensed reall
~eState salesperson: in| B.C., and’
“- worked right: until the time of his -

death. :

Mr.’ Sharpe moved to West
Vancouver in 1931, and began his
career building houses.

Stephen Peake, °a friend and
godson to Mr. Sharpe, described

‘the deceased as a gentleman-

businessman.
“‘He was known for his integri-
ty. (He was) a very fair and honest

guy who loved his work,” said ©

Peake, adding that his: parent’s
home was built by Mr. Sharpe.
Peake told of an incident when
Mr. Sharpe was commissioned to
build a house and started construc-
ting it on the wrong lot.
“Cecil panicked when he found

out it was the wrong lot,’’ said.

Peake. ‘It turned out that an old
teacher of his owned the lot and
eventually they: solved the pro-
biem.”

A member’ of the West Van-
couver Chamber of Commerce and
the West Vancouver Kinsmen
Society, Mr.-Sharpe was commit-
ted to nis community. ‘‘He was a
wonderful person, very friendly,

honest, always happy and always

willing to help,’* said Peake.

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