CKOX o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-01-02 published
Hockey commentator made switch to print
Thursday, January 2, 2003, Page R9
Woodstock, Ontario -- Bill
TONNER, a hockey commentator and former
news editor of the daily Woodstock Sentinel-Review, has died.
He was 86.
Mr. TONNER was the live commentator for
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hockey games in the 1950s and 1960s and covered some memorable
moments, including the Woodstock Athletics' trip to Winnipeg
for the 1964 Allan Cup senior hockey championship. He eventually
made the switch to print as a reporter with the Sentinel-Review
and rose to become news editor.
TONNER moved to Saint
John, New Brunswick, in 1924 and later spent 11 years as a sailor.
During the Second World War, he was a gunnery officer on merchant
ships. After the war, he went to work with a radio station in
New Brunswick.
Mr. TONNER, who retired in 1981, was also a family man, with
eight sons. "It was pretty busy around Christmas time," Mark
TONNER said. "There was so many of us . . . He was always proud
of his boys."
Mr. TONNER died at his home on Saturday. C.P.
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