Person Record

Metadata

Name

Matches, Audrey Isabell

Born

Nov. 5, 1929

Birthplace

Parkhead

Places of residence

Keppel Township, Grey County (RR#1 Shallow Lake)
Owen Sound, Grey County
British Columbia (1950s?)
Owen Sound, Grey County

Titles & honors

Registered Nurse (Reg. N / R.N.)

Father

James E. Matches

Mother

Eliza Matches (neé Rusk)

Nationality

Canadian

Education

Owen Sound General & Marine Hospital School of Nursing (Class of 1951)

Notes

The Matches family came to Canada from the Orkney Islands, and a James S. Matches originally settled in Middlesex County. He was married to Eliza Rusk. One of their sons, John Matches, was killed in the First World War. James E. Matches was also one of their sons, and was born in July of 1895, in Amabel Township. He married Zelpha L. Cox in 1918, in Shallow Lake. They operated a general store for approximately two years, before farming Lot 3, on Concession 5, Keppel Township for more than forty years. James Matches was elected to Keppel's Council in 1939, served as Deputy-Reeve from 1944-1947, as Reeve from 1948-1958, and was elected Warden in 1958. He belonged to the Burns Masonic Lodge, and served as a Director of the Federation of Agriculture.

Audrey Isabell Matches was born on November 5, 1929 at Park Head. She trained as a nurse at the Owen Sound General and Marine Hospital, and graduated in 1951. She did post-graduate work in British Columbia. She worked for a long time at the Owen Sound General and Marine Hospital, and subsequently at the Grey Bruce Regional Health Centre. Her brother, F/S Alvin J. Matches, was killed during the Second World War, on August 8, 1942, when he was with the R.C.A.F. and his aircraft was lost over the North Sea. He was twenty years old. Their father died in July of 1963. Audrey Matches was an Operating Room nurse, and retired in 1988. She died on August 15, 2010. The Matches family burials are in Hillcrest Cemetery, in Tara, Bruce County.

Occupation

Nursing
Owen Sound General & Marine Hospital (Operating Room Nurse)
Grey Bruce Regional Health Centre

Publications

Ebel, Wilma, OWEN SOUND HOSPITAL SCHOOLS OF NURSING, pp. 79 (Class of 1951), image of Head Nurse Audrey Matches in the Operating Room p.149, another one of her in her nursing uniform, p.144, 1957 teaching & supervising staff image includes Audrey, p. 105