BX June 16, 1945
C.F.K. Woodyatt
Funeral service is being conducted this afternoon in St. George’s Church, Drummondville, Quebec, for Charles Frederick Kortum Woodyatt, who passed away Thursday at Tadoussac, Quebec in his fifty-seventh year. Mr. Woodyatt, who was familiarly known as “Kort,” was born in Brantford, the son of the late Magistrate Thomas Woodyatt and Mary Woodyatt. Enlisting here for service in the First Great War, he went overseas with the 125th Battalion and later went to France with the Engineers. For the last eight years he had been manager of the Manoir Drummond, in Drummondville. He is mourned by his widow, formerly Miss Pearl Brown, Brantford and one son, John Kortum Woodyatt; one sister in Boston, Mass., and one brother, James B. (Junior) Woodyatt, Montreal.
BX June 18, 1945
Kort Woodyatt Was Laid to Rest at Drummondville
The funeral of Charles Frederick Kortum Woodyatt, who died suddenly Thursday afternoon at Tadoussac, Que., was held Saturday at St. Georg’s Church Drummondville. Born on March 8, 1889, he was the son of Magistrate Woodyatt and Mary Kortum, Brantford, Ontario. After attending public and high schools at Brantford he entered McGill University in Montreal, graduating as a Civil Engineer in 1911. On graduating from McGill he was employed by the Canadian Pacific Railway Company as Location and Construction Engineer and among other jobs was employed on the Halifax Union Station and harbor construction.
In 1915 he enlisted in the 125th Brant Battalion as a lieutenant and on proceeding overseas he transferred to the Canadian Railway Troops and saw active service with them in France and Belgium. On returning to Canada after the war and being demobilized he worked on various construction jobs with the C.P.R. and Secord Construction Company and in 1922 he joined the Ontario Provincial Government as a highway construction engineer, remaining on this work until 1926. In 1926 he joined the staff of Power Corporation of Canada in Montreal as a construction engineer. He worked on many hydroelectric power development jobs and other construction work in many different parts of Canada and in 1929 he was appointed Resident Engineer for Southern Canada Power Company at Drummondville, Que. In 1937 he became Managing Director of the Manoir Drummond, Drummondville, Que., which is controlled by the Southern Canada Power Company and held this position at the time of his death. Mr. Woodyatt was a life member of the Delta Upsilon fraternity and while at college he was prominent in sports and outstanding in hockey and tennis. He was a member of Ozias Lodge, No. 508, A.F. and A.M., G.R.C., Brantford, the Canadian Legion and of many service clubs and sports organizations in Drummondville.
He leaves to mourn his loss besides his wife, formerly Marguerite Pearl Brown a son, John Kortum, an officer candidate in the Canadian Army in training at Brockville, a brother James B. Woodyatt, President and General Manager of Southern Canada Power Company in Montreal, and a sister, Mrs. E.F. Bowman (Doreen), Boston, Mass. The many friends attending this funeral, one of the largest that was ever held in Drummondville, the many beautiful floral tributes, telegrams and messages of sympathy were testimony of the great esteem in which "Kort" Woodyatt was held by all who knew him both in the community of Drummondville and in other parts of the Dominion of Canada. Interment was in St. George’s New Cemetery, Drummondville, Quebec.
