Tom Lymbery, who served on the BC Historical Federation board in the 2000s as vice-president, has died at 97.

Lymbery was the longtime proprietor of the Gray Creek Store on Kootenay Lake, which has been in his family for 113 years (and counting). It has always been well stocked with books about Kootenay and BC history and copies of BC History magazine.

Lymbery had also been the president of the Gray Creek Historical Society since its inception in 2002.

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