Thomas and Mary `Babe' Donnelly

By Ted Donnelly

Thomas Donnelly was born September 21, 1899, the fifth child of Roger and Margaret Donnelly. Tom came up to Canada with the rest of the family in 1906 from Holton, Kansas, stopping in Edmonton for a year before settling in the Clyde area. Tom grew up, went to school and worked before going prospecting and trapping in the Yukon and Alaska for five years, returning and marrying Mary `Babe' Emma Gaughen on September 29, 1930.

Babe was the daughter of James and Rebecca Gaughen, who were also pioneers of the area, arriving in 1913 from Bonesteel, South Dakota. Babe was born June 22, 1909.

Donnelly family: Evelyn, Babe, Tom, Ted and Harvey.

Tom and Babe resided in the Clyde area where Ted was born June 12, 1931 on his grandparents' farm. Tom and Babe moved to Edmonton in the spring of 1933 where Evelyn was born January 1, 1934 and Harvey was born February 15, 1936.

Tom retired in 1964 from the C.P.R. where he had worked for 21 years. Tom died on August 10, 1975. Babe died November 9, 1993. She had resided in Pleasantview senior's high‑rise and lodge in Edmonton for the previous four years.