Creston Review March 24, 1933
Antoine Methieu, a resident of Creston, who was taken to Essondale for treatment at the middle of last week, died there on Monday, according to word reaching Creston on Wednesday. He had been at Creston for the past two or three years, and with his brother was employed as house painter and decorator.
[ Real name: Antoine Maheu passed away on the 20th of March 1933 at the age of 69 years, he is buried at Woodlands Cemetery, New Westminster, B.C. in Cemetery block: 5 Cemetery plot: 39.
He was born in 1863 in Ontario ]
Not long after the death of his brother another sad turn of events
Creston Review August 3, 1934
Missing since Sunday, July 22nd, the body of Jack Mathieu was taken from the Goat River near the first bridge on the Kettle Valley Highway on Monday afternoon. Deceased, who lived alone, was not missed until late in the week, and when the police were notified and on forcing an entrance to his shack discovered a note that indicated suicide was the motive. Deceased was a painter by trade and had long been unemployed, and those intimately acquainted with him state he was of late taking a morbid view of life. The dead man was 50 years of age. The funeral took place on Tuesday to Creston Cemetery. ( must be an unmarked grave, and he is not noted in the list in the link. )
John "Jack" Maheu is listed at B.C. Archives as being 58 years old, and date of death as 22nd of July 1934. Possibly an anglicized first name?
My vain attempt to find out more of these two souls proved futile, the miss-spelled names make it difficult to trace them, not in directories, census...
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