CHUTE, Myrtle Lucy – 93, Cambridge Station, formerly of South Berwick, Kings, died September 14, 2005, in Valley Regional Hospital, Kentville. Born in Pereau, she was a daughter of the late Giles and Lucy (Burgher) Bennett.
In her early years she was employed in the kitchen at the Nova Scotia Sanatorium. Her exceptional culinary skills served her well throughout her life as kitchen manager at the Berwick Fruit Company (subsequently the Graves/Avon canning factory) where she created the recipe for the first batch of canned baked beans. She was also co-owner and operator of the South Berwick Canteen, as caretaker to numerous house boarders, and as the heart of family feasts and celebrations. In her early years she loved dancing and won a local Charleston dance competition. In 1968 she was crowned the TOPS Queen of Canada following her successful display of will power and subsequently as KOPS Queen in 1969. She was a loving wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother who devoted her life to her family. Her Christmas tradition was to knit unique mittens for her great-grandchildren and other lucky recipients. She nurtured everything around her and besides her family, particularly cherished her roses, African violets and Boxer dogs. That caring and kindness extended beyond her immediate family to include recipients of over 50 blood donations she made throughout her life, and to the families who benefited from proceeds raised at VON auctions that included numerous quilts made by her and her sister, Margaret. She was a member of the Berwick Baptist Church.
She will be sadly missed by her daughter, Madelyn (Harry) Morse, Somerset; son, Edward Chute (Debbie), Springhill; son-in-law, John Morse, Hantsport; 14 grandchildren; 31 great-grandchildren; sisters, Margaret (Roy) Shaw, Port Williams, and Jessie (Lawrence) Brown, Medford.
Besides her parents she was predeceased by her husband, George Edward; daughter, Marilyn; sisters, Laura Brown, Hattie Bennett, Minnie Barkhouse, Daisy Cogswell, and Edith Dunham; brothers, Reginald, Percy, Joe, Amos, Delbert and Charles Bennett.
There will be no visitation. The funeral service will be held Saturday, September 17, at 2:30 p.m. in H.C. Lindsay’s Funeral Home, 192 Commercial St., Berwick (902 538-9900), Rev. Howard McCormick officiating. Burial in Berwick Cemetery. Family flowers only. Donations in memory may be made to the Annapolis Valley Branch of the Victorian Order of Nurses. Condolences may be e-mailed to: lindsayfunerals@ns.aliantzinc.ca
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Halifax Herald, September 16, 2005.
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Source: Nova Scotia Marriages, 1907-1932.
1912 - 2005 (93 years)
. Edward CHUTE, b. Berwick, Kings, Nova Scotia 
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