Some history about goalie Bob Liddle from Pine River hockey team

To the Editor:
RE: “​Remembering the Pine River hockey team of possibly 1937”

Robert “Bob” Allister Liddle, the goalie on the Pine River hockey team, was born and raised in Ripley, the oldest son of Charles and Florence (McMurchy) Liddle.

He had five younger siblings: Jack (1923-1968), Dinny (1925-1998), Doug (1928-2000), Norm (age 92, Kincardine), and Kathryn (Liddle) Marion, known as Kit (age 90, Round Lake).

Bob worked at the Pine River Cheese Factory and then the Palmerston Cheese Factory before joining the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) in the Second World War.

After the war, he upgraded his studies at schools in Guelph and London and then worked as a cheese-maker primarily in Thamesford and Williamstown, with a brief period as a dairy inspector in Toronto.

In 1973, he accepted a position as a dairy inspector with the Government of Manitoba and moved to Winnipeg. He also taught part-time in the dairy food sciences program at the University of Manitoba.

Bob and his wife, Moya (Towhill Franklin), 1920-2008, moved to Gimli in 1976. Their family includes three sons, Rex (age 82, Cornwall), John (age 77, Guelph) and David (age 75, Brandon, Manitoba).

Bob died in 2015 at the age of 94, in Gimli.

Rob Liddle
Kincardine

P.S. Uncle Bob lost his front teeth while playing for that hockey team. Years later, he used to like to freak out his nieces and nephews by popping the replacement 'false' teeth in and out.