Mary Ann Delena Uttley -- 1886-1941

Lena Uttley Wilfong -- 1886-1941

The second last child in Nathan's second family with his wife Mary Ann was known as Lena:

Birth
Reference #036354 in 1886 of the Ontario Birth Archive records the birth of a daughter. She was named after her mother.
     Name:       Mary Ann Delina
     When:       14 July 1886
     Where:      Waterloo
     Sex:        Female
     Father:     Nathan Uttley,
                 Night Watchman, Waterloo
     Mother:     Mary Ann Sanborn
     When Reg:   29 July 1886
     Doctor:     Dr. Webb
"Delina", age 4, is included in the family of Nathan and Mary in the 1891 Census (Waterloo), and as "Mary M." at age 14 in the 1901 Census (Waterloo).
Her father's obituary in October 1903 tells us that "Mary" was living at home with her parents and two older siblings, Jonathan and Carrie (Caroline).

Marriage
Lena married Archie Wildfong in Niagara Falls in 1907. From the Ontario Marriage Archive of 1907, reference #021044:
     Groom:     Archibald Wilfong
     Age:       22
     Residence: Berlin, Ont
     Born:      Doone, Ont
                bachelor
     Occ:       Laborer
     Parents:   Michael Wilfong, Mary Krong
     Religion:  Presbyterian
     Bride:     Lena Uttley
     Age:       21
     Residence: Waterloo, Ont
     Born:      Waterloo, Ont
                spinster
     Occ:       ----
     Parents:   Nathan Uttley, Mary Ann Semburn
     Religion:  Episcopal
     Witnesses: Lizette Magwood, Niagara Falls, Ont
                Maud Henderson, Niagara Falls, Ont
     By:        Rev. J.N. Magwood
     When:      July 3, 1907, Niagara Falls
From information in the City Directory of 1912, the couple is living on Duke Street in Waterloo at the home of Lena's mother and Archie is employed as a labourer. By 1919 the Wilfong's own a house at 40 Bridgeport Road, Archie is employed at Doering Trunk Company and Lena's older brother Jonathan lives with them as a border. Archie then works in the rubber industry in town -- the Dominion Tire Company in 1923 and Canadian Goodrich in 1925 as a tire pressman. In 1927 Archie has left Waterloo for Michigan leaving Lena in the house on Bridgeport Road and Jonathan as a border. The next year Lena leaves as well to join Archie in Michigan.

Obituary
From the K-W Record, Kitchener, ON, on Friday August 29, 1941, page 19:

MRS. ARCHIBALD WILDFONG
Mrs. Archibald Wildfong, 54, died at her residence in Flint, Mich., yesterday following an illness of eight weeks. Mrs. Wildfong was formerly Miss Marian Delena Uttley of Waterloo. In 1907 she was married to Archibald Wildfong in Waterloo and moved to Flint in 1927. She was a member of the First Presbyterian church.
Surviving are her husband, three sons, Carl of Detroit, Frederick and Lloyd of Flint, one daughter, Mrs. Gerald Taft of Flint, three brothers, Abraham, Peter and John Uttley of Kitchener, three sisters, Mrs. Caroline Kalbfleisch of Toronto, Mrs. Isobella Hohner of Stratford and Mrs. Albert Wolfe of Flint. Two grandchildren also survive.
Funeral service will be held Saturday at 4 p.m. from the Reigle Funeral Home, Flint. Burial will be made in Sunset Hills cemetery, Flint.

Of the three sisters named, only Lena's older sister Caroline was a full sister. Bella was a half-sister that was brought into the family when Nathan remarried. Henrietta Warele (Mrs. Albert Wolfe) was Lena's niece who had been adopted by Nathan after her mother Mary Jane died in 1901.
No half-siblings from Nathan's first family are mentioned.

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