Joseph Bernard Seeley
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Gender: Male
Date of Death: December 27, 1963
Birth Place: Regina, Saskatchewan
Death Place: Montreal, Quebec
Joseph Bernard Seeley
Former footballer dies at 47
A former Regina football player, Staff Sergeant Joseph Bernard Seeley, 47, with the Royal Canadian Army in Montreal, died Friday in Montreal.
Funeral service was held in Speers funeral chapel, Regina, Thursday with Rev. A.E. Sheppard and Rev. E.L. McRae officiating. Burial was in Riverside Memorial Park.
S.Sgt. Seeley was born and educated in Regina. He played with the Regina Dales junior football team between 1934 and 1938. He was tackle in 1937 and 1938 when the Dales won the Dominion junior football championship. In 1939 he played with the Saskatchewan Roughriders but an injury that year ended his football career.
A Palm Dairies route salesman from 1939, he joined the Canadian Army in 1942. He was wounded in Belgium.
Still with the army, he returned to Regina in 1945. In 1954 he moved to Winnipeg and to Churchill, Man., in 1957. He went to Montreal in 1959.
S.Sgt Seeley is survived by his wife, Mildred; two sons, Leonard, at home, and Cpl. Leroy of Kingston, Ont.; two daughters, Jaelynne, of 110 Davin Blk., and Mrs. Donna Reddin of Spruce Lake; his mother, Mrs. Isabelle Seeley of 110 Davin Blk; two sisters, Mrs. E. Wirth of 425 Seventeenth and Mrs. Molly Thompson of Campbell River, B.C.; two brothers, Stewart, of Windsor, and Douglas, of Edmonton and two grandchildren.
Published in The Leader-Post (Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada) Thursday January 2, 1964
