Munro, John

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Birth: September  01 1901 – Loch Ussie near Dingwall

Death:  November 15  1988 – Maryburgh by Dingwall

Short Life Summary

John (Johnny or Jock) Munro was born at Loch Ussie in1901, to Roderick and Isabella Munro. After schooling in Strathpeffer, Johnny was apprenticed to a local joiner. On turning 18 he joined the 4^th Seaforths. He competed in athletics, winning medals at the Strathpeffer Games in the early 1920s.

Through the interwar years he worked for a Dingwall-based joinery firm – and by 1936-7 was its foreman on work on the Nethybridge Hotel. There he met and married Elizabeth (Betty) Stables. They set up home in Dingwall and raised three sons.

Johnny worked on military construction in northern Scotland during World War II, then helped build council housing in Dingwall, becoming Clerk of Works for the burgh in 1949. In 1955 he retrained as a technical teacher for Ross-shire schools.

A quiet, reserved man known mainly to a small circle of family and friends, he took his pleasures modestly – beekeeping, gardening, and a Friday night pint at the Legion followed by a Ross County game on Saturday.  He was Secretary of the British Legion Pipe Band for some years.

He and Betty retired to Maryburgh – where Betty died in 1986 and he followed her in 1988.  They are buried at Fodderty.

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