Aileen (Griffin) Murray Remembers Growing Up Near Bury’s Green

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Aileen (Griffin) Murray Remembers Growing Up Near Bury’s Green

KAWARTHA LAKES-Aileen Murray was born in October 1930, just as communities across North America were adjusting to the realities of the Great Depression. Her father, Alvin Griffin, had grown up on a farm near Red Rock (across from what is today Rogers/Cable Cable) and her mother, Myrtle Jones, had been raised near Bury’s Green along with siblings: Doug, Woodrow, Velma, Max, Ted, Joyce and Beulah. Alvin worked in construction as a bulldozer or scr…