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Olive Genovese (nee Prytherch) was born in Langley Prairie B.C on February 9th,1924 to Peter and Annie Prytherch. Olive was the youngest of her four siblings, Annie, Ernest, Dorothy and Sam. Olive went to school at the Langley Prairie Public School, and attended Sunday School at St. Andrew's Anglican Church. She married Antonio Genovese on the 26th of July 1958, and the couple moved to 1471 Rupert St., Vancouver. Olive did not have any children. Olive passed away on March 18th, 2014 at Eagle Ridge Hospital in Coquitlam.

Peter Prytherch returned to his Langley farm after the First World War, but left it in the late 1920s to start a shoe repair business in Langley Prairie. His son Sam joined the business in 1946, and Peter retired the next year. Sam operated the business as Langley Boot and Shoe Repair, and later as Sam's Shoe Repairs, until he retired in 1982.

Source: "From Prairie to City" by Warren Sommer, p.72-73

Peter Prytherch was born on November 9, 1876, in Tunshill, Staffordshire, England. He had a cab proprietorship business at 10 Poplar Rd., Wrexham. He worked as a ship steward and waiter from about 1905 until 1909. He came to Canada from England in 1904, settling in Langley in about 1910. He married a woman named Annie Penningrath on June 19th, 1916. He had served in the Boer War, and served with the Canadian Engineers in the First World War. He returned to Langley in 1919, but decided in the late 1920s to stop farming; at this time he established a shoe repair business in Langley Prairie. He retired from this work in 1947, leaving it to his son Samuel to run. He was active in Langley's May Day, celebrations, Fall Fair celebrations, organizing many municipal picnics, the Canadian Veterans Association, and the Royal Canadian Legion. He died on September 18, 1955.