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A family birthday drew 50 to a dinner 1n Ee e Pn L. L. onl n n io oL Warkworth. More than 200 attended a separate ' party for Stewart in Marmora. n 4 A Stewart says God isn‘t finished with hl_m yet: "He must find that I‘m still a help in the nrmmninifitittiien oafrertonsmms uons actneen n e ns an +1 community. I like to encourage other folks. Ewart and his wife of 54 years, Florence, farmed the family farm near Dartford north of Warkworth | for most of those years, milking cows then later e a keeping beef cattle. Florence diedâ€"nine years ago. Just this past fall, Ewart gave Up driving, his home f in Warkworth. and moved to the Community ‘ Nursing Home in the hamlet. : s | O S He confesses he wasn‘t sure he‘d like the nursing home. â€" However, "There‘s no use Deing | downhearted," he says, listening for a moment as l F volunteers and staff joke and laugh. "I like it. The " } ‘ girls out here in the hall sing and have a good time ‘ e ars O and laugh. To me, that‘s better than medicine." | Stewart, who married the former Helen Wells, farmed north of Highway 7 until 1973, then moved Emt to nearby Marmora where, on a cold, snowy Cledn llUl?’lg, /jfl}f'fl’ ZU()?fk winter‘s day, he still cheerfully picks up the mail . a and helps at the local nursing home worship él?’ldféllfl] CTEdZZ'Ed services when calle;i1 upon. y 5 ; * At a family birthday party in Warkworth last By SUzANNE ATKINSON Courborm®& jm‘-" B’/i“f ; weekend, two of Ewart‘s daughters read excerpts Special CypP.orgitLl & from the twins‘ baby books. Some of the excerpts January 7, twins Ewart Boyce Hardy and from Ewart‘s book include catching his first fish on Stewart Albert Hardy of Dartford are celebrating May 24, 1919. In October of that year, he saw his ( their 90th birthdays. Last weekend, they were first caterpillar tractor at Warkworth Fair. joined by older brother Leslie, 92, for a family "Mom wrote a letter before she died," Ewart celebration in Warkworth, just a few kilometres says; it wasn‘t to be opened for at least two years from their Dartford birthplace. after she died. . When the twins were just two years in 1916, their "It was an exhortation of the world," Ewart says. mother Eleanor Jane Hardy was diagnosed with His mother cautioned God destroyed Sodom and breast cancer. Determined to beat the disease, she Gomorrah not because of righteous people, but for travelled by horseâ€"drawn cutter 20 miles from the evil. "She said Evil would be after us. Dartford to Keene across the frozen Rice Lake. It "I still have it (the letter). She said she‘d be was an extreme treatment, before the days of praying for us when she got to Heaven," he says. penicillin, specialized surgical utensils and "I realized that whatever happens, God is at the procedures: both breasts were removed. Not £ centre of it. I didn‘t want my faith to wander," says | expected to live, Eleanor Hardy prayed God give Ewart who still remembers the sweater he was her enough time to raise the twins and their fourâ€" wearing the day his minister in Dartford asked yearâ€"old brother. If she survived, Eleanor who wanted to give their life to the Lord and he promised God she would handle all the Sunday responded at the age of nine. school duties at her church. "I did a lot of stumbling and falling down. But I Twelve years later, at the age of 57, liver cancer didn‘t give up." did claim her life â€" but not before she had instilled Today, Ewart says he prays almost nightly that her family with an abiding love of God. the Lord, his Lord, will come back. Today, the twins credit clean living, hard work "He‘ll come back in his own time. Even though I and their faith with keeping them going. have a family and loved ones, I‘m getting lonely to "When we would go to bed at night, she would see my parents and my loved ones that I know have stand in the bedroom doorway and sing a verse or made it to heaven." two of a hymn. She would recite a scripture and But neither Ewart nor Stewart will be giving.up have us memorize it," recalls Ewart, now of the ghost anytime soon. Warkworth, remembering, too, the family \ "I asked them to come back 44 c devotions each morning after breakfast. chuckles. it Ewart remembers his mother lost most of the | use of her right arm with the cancer surgery. His ( ; father would stay in the house on Monday a | mornings and help her with the laundry. | With this hardship, it was Ewart who spent the a te" next few years living with his grandparents, seeing tet his parents often, but not returning home until he ‘ was old enough to attend school. And he never once _ regretted it. "My grandmother .... I thought she was the essence of perfection,". he says. â€" "God has been good to us. All our lives are in God‘s hands. m So many are T taken before 5 i they get this he girls out here in the _ g1g;»" _ says j $ te w art, ha_H sing and have a good 2.48;tM/ i/ ing f time and laugh. To me, geos hg iz as enjoye that‘s better than medicine. in fife . as § "chiefly due â€" CEmarl T /flm/y to the Lord." "It seems c to me that it‘S unusual for twins to reach our age. I don‘t know of any others," Ewart remarked after a weekend of merriment. "Maybe it was our clean living. Any one. that‘s ever farmed, if they succeeded, they pasic worked hard." § t [ {/ s