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CROFT o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-06-12 published
Died This Day -- 13 school canoeists, 1978
Thursday, June 12, 2003 - Page R9
Adventure outing by Saint John's School, Claremont, Ontario, struck
by high winds on Lake Temiskaming, single capsize caused panic
and the upset of other canoes, led to deaths of teacher Mark
DEANNY and boys
Todd MICHELL,
Barry NELSON,
Jody O'GORMAN,
Timothy PRYCE,
David GREANEY,
Andy HERMAN,
Simon CROFT,
Tim HOPKINS,
Tom KENNY,
Scott BINDON,
Kevin BLACK,
Fraser BOURCHIER
Autopsies showed all drowned but that some had been in water 12 hours before death occurred.
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CROLL o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-06-11 published
Died
This
Day -- David
CROLL, 1991
Wednesday, June 11, 2003 - Page R5
Lawyer and politician born in Moscow on March 12, 1900; 1905,
emigrated with family to Canada; raised in Windsor, Ontario
in 1925, opened law practice; spent seven years as mayor of Windsor
1934, elected to Ontario legislature; served in Hepburn cabinet
resigned over labour dispute ("My place is marching with the
workers rather than riding with General Motors"); 1945, elected
to Parliament; in 1955, named to Senate.
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CROMBIE o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-12-30 published
Elizabeth
Miriam
Rose
DASHWOOD
The DASHWOOD and
SOUTHGATE families. Tuesday, December 30, 2003 - Page A20
Wife, mother, returning officer, organizer. Born January 12,
1929, in Toronto. Died April 6 in Toronto, of heart failure, aged 74.
Betty was a conservative person. Except about the date of her
birth -- about that she was progressive, insisting it was 1930,
when it was really 1929. There it conservatively remained; no one argued with Betty.
Betty SOUTHGATE spent her early years on Edgewood Crescent in
Rosedale, but left Canada when her stockbroker father decided
to return to England to try his fortune. Her finest times were
spent at her mother's family farm, a place that, 60 years later, still seemed idyllic to her.
The war brought the
SOUTHGATEs back to Canada on one of the last
passenger ships to cross the Atlantic. Betty survived burning
factories, bombers and submarines and shared sandwiches with
bloodied soldiers rescued from Dunkirk to return to Rosedale.
She was schooled at Branksome Hall and Trinity College, University
of Toronto. She left Trinity with an honours B.A. and an engagement
to John DASHWOOD.
After
Trinity came a job at the Canadian Cancer
Society, a wedding in 1957 and then children, Geoffrey and Monica.
The swinging sixties came. Betty did not notice the changing
times. But not to worry: church and schools still stood. Betty intended to make sure they continued.
After a brief sojourn in Scarborough, Ontario, Betty returned
to Edgewood Crescent. There she remained the rest of her life.
The house became an epicentre for a broad range of people and
organizations. Edgewood housed potential immigrants, relatives
and Friends, refugees from house fires and renovations, cats,
dogs, and canoes. Betty put up with model-soldier exhibitions,
a boa constrictor, drunken teenage parties, punk-rock bands, and, ultimately, rambunctious grandchildren.
The life of the house was often hectic, particularly politically.
The DASHWOODs were divided: John was New Democratic Party; Betty
worked tirelessly for the Tories. Every election, opposing campaign
signs went up. The one thing on which they agreed was their strong
dislike of Pierre
TRUDEAU.
Her staunch support paid off when
David CROMBIE became a member of parliament and then a cabinet
minister. Her political work led to her becoming returning officer
for the diverse Rosedale riding. Betty relished, and excelled
at, running an effective election. Several of her elections were
hotly contested, but Betty survived with her dignity and integrity intact.
Compassion went with Betty's conservatism. She was involved with
(to name several) St. Simon's Church, the Architectural Conservancy
of Ontario and St. Peter's food bank. For her beloved Trinity,
she was a major organizer of the annual book sale, which has
raised millions of dollars for the library. Trinity was so important
to her that Betty put off medical treatment in her last year to organize the 50th reunion of her class.
Betty had a gift for Friendship. Twenty summers in Port Hope
extended her already-broad circle. She had Branksome Friends,
Trinity Friends, church Friends, tennis Friends, English Friends
and Edgewood Friends. Her correspondence was huge. She sent and received a massive number of Christmas cards.
Her heart was large. Our own hearts ache when we consider her
stoic insistence on her way of doing things. Betty drank, refused
to stop smoking when she should have, and drove badly: That should
be said, too. She held us all together, until she no longer could.
She died in her sleep, her heart failed, her body beset by a
cancer she defied until the end. She took food to a sick friend, in a snow storm, the day before she died.
Her church was full for her funeral. The church bell tolled her knell. Traditional. Just like Betty.
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CROMPTON,
Peter
Gordon
Peter died tragically early Sunday July 13, 2003 in his 28th
year. Survived by his parents Judy and Ken, older brother Jeff
and grandmother Lillian
YOUNG all of Collingwood, Uncles and
Aunts Gordon and Joan
CROMPTON,
Peter and Sophie
YOUNG and their
families of Thunder Bay, Ontario. Born in Toronto, Peter moved
to Collingwood to attend the National Ski Academy. He was a former
member of the Ontario Ski Team competing nationally and internationally
in the Nor-Am Race Series, the U.S.A. Junior Championships and
the World University Games. Peter graduated from the University
of Guelph Ontario with a Degree in Economics. He was employed
in Toronto with CB. Richard Ellis as a Sales Representative Investment
Properties. Peter was a member of The Osler Bluff Ski Club and
the Blue Mountain Golf and Country Club where he was an accomplished
golfer. Peter had a passion for windsurfing and surfing taking
him to Australia, Hawaii, Oregon and Cape Hatteras. The family
will receive Friends at the Fawcett Funeral Home ''Collingwood
Chapel'', 82 Pine Street from 6: 00-9:00 p.m. Wednesday, July
16, 2003. The funeral service will be held at the Trinity United
Church, 140 Maple Street, Collingwood, July 17, 2003 at 2: 00
p.m. Interment to follow at Trinity United Cemetery, Poplar Sideroad,
Collingwood. If desired, donations may be made to the Smart Risk
Snow Smart Program, 790 Bay Street, Suite 401, Toronto, Ontario
M5E 1N8 or a Charity of Choice.
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Peter Gordon
CROMPTON
Son, brother, friend, athlete, businessman. Born December 5,
1975, in Toronto. Died July 13 as a result of a boating accident,
aged 27.
By Josh DOLAN, Bryce
GIBSON, Blake
HUTCHESON, Adam
LAZIER, Rob
MAGWOOD,
Ian
SULLIVAN
Tuesday, September 30, 2003 - Page A24
In the words of Pete's father Ken, "Pete did not live only 27
years. He lived 9,946 days and every one to the fullest!" Somehow
this number is both more palatable and more appropriate when
speaking of Pete's life.
Pete was born at Toronto General Hospital, weighing in at a larger-than-life
11 pounds, 10 ounces. From that day forward, "larger-than-life"
was an apt description -- physically and otherwise. Pete grew
up, along with brother Jeff, in a household that loved competition,
outdoor activity, a good challenge, the odd healthy debate and,
most of all, each other. The family went back and forth from
Toronto to Collingwood, Ontario, to enjoy the best of both areas,
depending on the season and the opportunity. His parents, Ken
and Judy, loved watching their sons excel and gave them every
opportunity to do so.
Pete was on skis at the age of 3 at Osler Bluff Ski Club, had
a golf club in his hand by 5, and was windsurfing by 6. He took
all three sports to incredible heights. He enjoyed and excelled
at so much in life, yet did not seem to need or seek recognition.
His low-key manner and his quiet confidence kept everyone at
ease and drew people to him.
In skiing, Pete was a member of the Ontario Ski Team, competing
nationally and internationally in the NorAm Race Series, the
U.S.A. Junior Championships and the World University Games. He
won several championships and had a natural gift on snow. He
also became a scratch golfer and loved to take on Friends and
family.
Perhaps his greatest passion, however, was windsurfing. He found
every excuse he could to hit the surf on Georgian Bay, but his
sense of adventure took him to beaches all over the world, including
the southwest coast of Australia, Maui, the Colombian River Gorge
in Oregon and Cape Hatteras in North Carolina. In the words of
one of his lifelong Friends, "Pete loved life and life loved
him right back!"
Pete was a generous, loyal and reliable friend who developed
strong and lasting relationships at every phase of life: his
youthful years of sports, competition and family; his fun and
challenges at the National Ski Academy; his university years
at Laurentian University and the University of Guelph (B.A. in
Economics); his career launch at Nesbitt Burns; and his last
several years at C.B. Richard Ellis where he was in commercial
real-estate investment sales. At every turn he met with success
with his long graceful stride and disarming smile.
It was going to be fun just to sit back and watch him perform
in the decades ahead.
Looking through the family photo albums Pete had a mischievous
smile and a sense of adventure in every picture. In virtually
every snapshot either something spectacular had just happened,
or it was about to happen. He was always surrounded by Friends
and family as his easygoing style and sense of fun were infectious.
His determination to improve and grow were never overt but always
present. The results speak for themselves. As one good friend
suggested: "Men wanted to be like Pete. Women wanted to be with
him." More than 1,500 people attended his funeral.
Pete was quite simply a great human being who would have continued
to win in his unpretentious manner and contribute on a kind-spirited
and decent level to any situation. We are among his many Friends
who have been brought together because of this fine person and
who have had the good fortune of sharing a small piece of Pete's
life -- all 9,946 days of it.
Josh, Bryce, Blake, Adam, Rob and Ian are Friends of Pete's.
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CRONIN o@ca.on.manitoulin.howland.little_current.manitoulin_expositor 2003-09-03 published
Charles "Rodney"
SALLOWS
In loving memory of Charles "Rodney"
SALLOWS at his residence in
Tehkummah on Thursday, August 14, 2003 at the age of 55 years.
Loving husband of Dianne
SALLOWS. Cherished son of Rene and Charlie
(predeceased)
SALLOWS.
Will be missed by siblings, Sharon (Carl)
WOODS, Karen (Ollie)
RIPLEY, Jamie (Shirley)
SALLOWS, Heather
(Robert) MARION, Holly
SALLOWS, Cindy
SALLOWS, Shane
SALLOWS.
Remembered by many nieces and nephews. Will be missed also by cousins
of the CRONIN
Family in Sudbury. Arrangements in care of Island Funeral Home
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CRONIN o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-09-30 published
ORR,
Rosemary
Margaret
(STINSON) 75 of Fonthill, Ontario died
September 27, 2003 at West Lincoln Memorial Hospital, after a
long battle with cancer. She is survived by her husband James
Campbell ORR and by her children; Catherine E.
ORR of Beamsville,
James C. ORR and his wife
Diane of Toronto, Susan Orr
LYNCH of
Salem,
Massachusetts,
Nancy J.
THOMAS and her husband Philip
of Fonthill. She was pre-deceased by her daughter Jane Orr
CRONIN.
She also leaves grandchildren; Carlton
CRONIN,
Katlyn
PECK, Lesley
ORR,
Michael
ORR, Elizabeth
THOMAS, and Cameron
LYNCH; and a
sister Jane
WHITE/WHYTE of Peterborough. Cremation has taken place.
A burial service will be held at St. Andrews Anglican Churchyard
in Grimsby at 11: 00 a.m. on Wednesday, October 1, 2003.
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CRONK o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-12-03 published
Stanley Charles
WIGGINS
By L. Bruce
CRONK,
Wednesday,
December 3, 2003 - Page A26
Family man, band leader, insurer, civic supporter, athlete. Born
August 9, 1925, in Belleville, Ontario Died August 3, in Kingston,
Ontario, of cardiac arrest, aged 77.
Stanley WIGGINS was born in Belleville on the Bay of Quinte in
southern Ontario and lived here all his life -- to the immeasurable
benefit of the Quinte community. His mother, Beulah, was of United
Empire Loyalist background. His father Fred's family was from
County Tyrone, Ireland. Stan loved his parents, and cared for
his mother to the end of her 93 years.
At age 12, Stan was introduced to the trumpet by bandmaster Jack
GREEN of the Salvation Army Citadel Band, a remarkable teacher
who initiated many young people into brass music. Three years
later, at 15, Stan joined the Commodores Orchestra, famed in
Eastern Ontario for its mellow "Big Band" style. He played with
them for 60 years. I recall the dancing slowing almost to a halt
when Stan's silver-toned trumpet would soar into one of the well-known
solos of Bunny Berigan or Harry James, followed by loud applause.
After high school, Stan entered medicine at Queen's University,
until illness forced him to abandon the dream of becoming a doctor.
He studied at the Ontario Business College and then joined the
London Life Insurance Company, first as an underwriter, then
manager. In 1948 he married Margaret
MILLER, a girl from his
own Belleville Collegiate Institute. They and their children,
Joanne, Jim and Carol, formed a close-knit family, camping, cottaging
and skiing together.
Stan was always physically active: a skier, sailor, camper, golfer
and avid swimmer. After he developed cardiac problems, I used
to see him at the Harbour Club in the early morning, swimming
laps. I still look -- but he's no longer there.
Stan had the capacity to listen with complete interest whenever
anyone addressed him. He was, indeed, "Mr. Belleville." His community-caring
spirit was manifested in his service on the board of education
and of the Children's Aid Society, his presidency of the Belleville
Club and the Sales Ad Association.
Stan also gave his musical talents to the Concert Brass and 8
Wing Concert Band, and his own group, the River City Jazz Band.
His daughter told me that as a young man he'd stayed with a relative
in New Jersey, commuting to New York for special trumpet lessons,
and had been offered jobs with several popular bands -- but decided
that the constant on-the-road life of a jazz musician was not
for him. He was more interested in family life, work, and civic
activities. In 1997, Stan received the Quinte Arts Council Recognition
Award "in recognition of outstanding contribution to the arts
in Quinte."
On Saturday, August 2, he led the Commodores for three hours
at the Wellington Waterfront Festival. A close friend and fellow
member of the Commodores, trumpeter Bruce
PARSONS, later said:
"Stan was bound and determined to play that horn up to the day
he died, and
by God, he did."
On Sunday morning, he and Margaret received Holy Communion, and
then, in the afternoon, went with Friends on a Thousand Islands
cruise followed by a massed bands tattoo at Fort Henry in Kingston.
While the bands played Stan's own arrangement of the New Maple
Leaf Forever, a vicious electrical storm broke. Stan hurried
off to the bus to get umbrellas for the ladies. Then he collapsed.
At Stan's packed funeral service, Reverend Peter
JOYCE gave thanks
for Stan's life, and then quoted the song The Commodores always
play at the evening's close -- "We'll meet again, /Don't know
where, /Don't know when, /But I know we'll meet again/Some sunny
day." Amen to that.
L. Bruce CRONK has been a friend of Stan's since their boyhood.
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CRONYN o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-05-21 published
A character in life and work
Toronto-born actor played supporting roles in hundreds of films
and television shows, including the cult-hit sitcom Mary Hartman
By Bill GLADSTONE
Special to The Globe and Mail Wednesday, May
21, 2003 - Page R5
As a genial, six-foot, balding performer who wore a trademark
mustache and glasses, Graham
JARVIS was not the leading-man type.
The Toronto-born actor from a privileged background, who died
last month in California at 72, courted but never achieved stardom
and instead gained a kind of small-roles fame by appearing in
hundreds of supporting parts in film and television productions.
Mr. JARVIS took character parts in films as diverse as Alice's
Restaurant, Cold Turkey, Middle Age Crazy, Silkwood and Misery,
and a similar assortment of television shows including Star Trek,
ER, Murder She Wrote, Gunsmoke, The X-Files and Six Feet Under.
His first role was as an understudy in a mid-1950s Broadway production
of Tennessee Williams's Orpheus Descending, and his last was
as the grandfather in an episode of the television series Seventh
Heaven, which aired four days after his death in April.
He is perhaps best known for his portrayal of Charlie Haggers,
the devoted husband of a country singer in the 1970s television
sitcom Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman. "Nobody outside the business
knows my name, but it doesn't bother me," he told an interviewer
in 1982. "Fans still know me as Charlie, years after we went
off the air. Fans went nuts over that character for some reason
and I love the guy myself."
A scion of the historic Toronto family for whom
JARVIS
Street
is named, Graham Powely
JARVIS was also the grand_son of John
LABATT
Jr., who built up the famous Labatt brewery. A strain
of theatrical talent obviously runs in the Labatt blood: His
cousins include two legendary theatre personalities -- nonagenarian
actor Hume
CRONYN and Broadway producer Robert
WHITEHEAD, who
died last year.
It was Mr.
WHITEHEAD who helped Mr.
JARVIS attain the gig in
Orpheus Descending and an audition at the Barter Theatre in Abbingdon,
Va., where he trained for three seasons. Mr.
CRONYN also helped
him land a Broadway role, Mr.
JARVIS said in 1982, adding that
he rarely liked to mention the celebrated theatrical connections
within his own family.
"This is the first time I've let this information out because
I've tried not to trade on it," he said. "But I guess I've been
around long enough now not to worry about it."
His father, an investment banker who was instrumental in founding
what is today known as Scotia McLeod and was later president
of Labatt, moved the family to New York when Graham was 5. He
was sent to Bishop Ridley College, a prep school in St. Catharines,
Ontario, and later to Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts.
A confused dropout at 23, he found work on the midnight shift
in a penny arcade on 42nd Street in Manhattan. Then a friend
invited him to watch an off-Broadway troupe in rehearsal and
a light went on in his head. "I can do that!" he told himself,
and he never looked back.
"Graham was such a great character actor because he could just
go into character," said his niece, Sandra
JARVIS of Toronto.
"He was just brilliant that way. You'd be having a conversation
with him and he'd just don a role, and it would take you a second
to realize that Graham was now acting. Anyone who knew him well
could just see this glow in his eyes -- this glint that told
you he knew he was having fun with you."
"He loved acting," said his friend, actor Wil
ALBERT. "
When
he was acting he was like a little boy going to the candy store."
Mr. JARVIS was a graduate of the American Theatre Wing acting
school as well as of the Barter Theatre. He was an original member
of the Lincoln Center Repertory Theater and a veteran of many
Broadway and off-Broadway productions.
His first film role (in Bye Bye Braverman, 1968) enticed him
to move to Hollywood, and he soon landed the part of the narrator
in the stage production of The Rocky Horror Show at the Roxy
Theatre on Sunset Boulevard.
Television producer Norman
LEAR spotted him there and eventually
recommended him for Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman. Mr.
JARVIS also
appeared in the show's sequel, Forever Fernwood. Another memorable
role was of John Erlichman in Blind Ambition, a well-received
1979 television miniseries about the Watergate political scandal.
Relishing the idea of free airfare to Toronto where he had family
and Friends, Mr.
JARVIS took occasional work from the Canadian
Broadcasting Corporation. Former Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
producer Ross
McLEAN once told of auditioning him as a talk-show
host, but felt his bald dome would need to be covered. Mr.
JARVIS
owned a hairpiece but had left it in California.
"Makeup pulled 20-odd rugs out of storage," Mr.
McLEAN wrote.
"Everything he tried on looked absurdly out of place." Ultimately,
Mr. JARVIS arranged for his L.A. agent to go to his house, find
the hairpiece and rush it to Toronto.
"The rug made it on time," Mr.
McLEAN noted, adding that "I
have rarely seen a less convincing thatch of regrouped Hong Kong
hair." In short, Graham
JARVIS looked best -- and did the Canadian
Broadcasting Corporation audition -- as himself.
In a 1980s television series called Making the Grade, Mr.
JARVIS
played a buck-passing inner-city high-school principal who didn't
care that a student couldn't read. In real life, however, he
worked as a volunteer to teach literacy skills to young offenders.
"It was really fascinating to hear him talk about it," said
his wife, JoAnna. "He felt they couldn't read because they couldn't
speak -- they were speaking a street patois. He went back to
college to get his teaching certificate so he could do this on
a regular basis." Active in civic politics, he pushed for handgun
control and helped voters get to the polls on election day. He
also sang in his church choir and worked in its Sunday school.
"I think the consensus among almost everyone who knew Graham
is that he was a very warm, enjoyable man," said actor Jerry
HARDIN, a friend for almost 50 years.
"You came away feeling he was a good human being if you had any
contact with him. He was very empathetic. He had compassion for
people's difficulties and problems, and he would help them if
he could."
Friends and family also recall his storytelling skills and his
joy at giving visitors detailed historic tours of New York and
later Hollywood. By all accounts, he was a humble man.
"He didn't think he was nearly as successful as he was," said
Barbara WARREN, a niece. "He was always extremely surprised and
delighted when people would stop him on the street and ask him
for his autograph.
"He loved to deliver the lines and get the shock on your face,"
Ms. WARREN said. "You never saw him poise himself, he just
walked right in as if he was that person."
Mr. JARVIS died at his home in the Pacific Palisades area of
Los Angeles on April 16. Besides his wife, JoAnna, he leaves
sons Matthew and Alex in California and sister Kitty Blair in
Toronto.
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CRONYN o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-07-08 published
BOSWELL,
Patrick
Arthur
Died peacefully in Victoria, British Columbia, after a long illness,
on July 7, 2003.
son of the late W. H. and Nan
BOSWELL (née
CRONYN.)
He is survived by his wife
Stephanie
BOSWELL (née
HAAS,) his
sister Ann and her husband Henry
BENATTAR, and his nephews Peter
BOSWELL,
Tony and Patrick
BENATTAR, and his nieces Edie and Sue
(VIBERT) and Samantha
BENATTAR. He was predeceased by his brother
Bill BOSWELL.
Born in Toronto in 1924, he attended Ridley College
School and served overseas in the Royal Canadian Air Force After
25 years, Pat left his position at the Canadian Broadcasting
Corporation in Toronto and moved to Banff, Alberta where he managed
the Alpine Club of Canada. Skiing and mountain climbing were
his great loves. He and Stephanie became owners, editors and
managers of the Banff Crag and Canyon. They retired in 1988,
moving to Sidney, British Columbia and finally to Victoria. He
will be sadly missed for his humour, kindness, generosity and
affinity with words. No funeral services by request. Private
cremation. Flowers are gratefully declined.
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CRONYN o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-10-31 published
CRONYN,
Jean
Of London, England. Died unexpectedly on 23rd October aged 84.
Much loved wife of the late Hugh
CRONYN, G.M., artist, born Vancouver,
died London, England in 1996 aged 91. Treasured mother of Anna
and Janey, and adored grandmother of Ed and Will. She will be
much missed by her many Friends and family. Funeral service at
St. Nicholas Church, Chiswick Mall, London W4, England, at 11: 30
a.m. on Tuesday 4th November.
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CROSBY o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-09-13 published
Singer was hit on Hit Parade
Canadian-born performer played violin with Jack Benny and posed
as wife of Sid Caesar
By James McCREADY
Special▼ to The Globe and Mail Saturday, September
13, 2003 - Page F11
She was called "Canada's First Lady of Song." In the late 1940s,
singer Gisele
MacKENZIE was so popular on Canadian Broadcasting
Corporation radio that she was known just by her first name.
When she was 23, she headed off to Hollywood, where she became
one of the main singers on Your Hit Parade, a popular American
network television show in the 1950s. By the time television
started in Canada in 1952, she was already a star in the United
States, appearing on programs with Jack Benny and later with
Sid Caesar, the hottest comedian of his day.
Gisele MacKENZIE, who has died at the age of 76, was not always
known by that name. On the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation,
she was known simply as Gisele, though a 1950 Canadian Broadcasting
Corporation press release did call her by her proper name --
Gisele LAFLECHE. As soon as she moved to CBS in 1951, she adopted
the stage name Gisele
MacKENZIE.
The reason, she told a New York
reporter in 1955, was that the name Gisele
LAFLECHE "sounded
too much like a striptease artist's." The real explanation was
an American audience would have trouble with so French a name.
It was the television network that ordered the name change.
Marie
Marguerite
Louise Gisele
LAFLECHE was born on January 10,
1927, in Winnipeg. The name
MacKENZIE was from her paternal grandmother.
Her father, Georges, was a doctor, who played the violin, and
her mother, Marietta
MANSEAU, was a concert pianist and singer
as a young woman. Ms.
MacKENZIE started playing the violin seriously
when she was 7. She made her first public performance at the
Royal Alexandra Hotel in Winnipeg at the age of 12.
When she was 14, her family sent her to the Royal Conservatory
of Music in Toronto. She studied the violin and the piano, and
planned on being a concert violinist. Later in life, a story
circulated that she never took voice lessons, but Jim
GUTHRO,
who was at the conservatory at the same time, remembered a voice
teacher who took an interest in her. He also remembered that
she attended at the same time as Robert
GOULET and they would
sing together.
When she first came to Toronto, she stayed at Rosary Hall, a
residence for Catholic girls on Bloor Street at the top of Jarvis
Street. Tess
MALLOY, who was there at the same time, remembered
her. "She lived right across the hall from me. She and her girlfriend
used to drive us nuts practising the violin."
Ms. MALLOY didn't remember her singing at the residence, but
somewhere along the way someone discovered Ms.
MacKENZIE could
sing. It was close to the end of the war and she started to perform
for groups of servicemen. It was then that she was discovered
by musician Bob
SHUTTLEWORTH, a lieutenant who led a band for
the Royal Canadian Navy.
Right after the war, she started singing with Mr.
SHUTTLEWORTH's
band at the Glenmount Hotel on the Lake of Bays, north of Toronto.
Mr. SHUTTLEWORTH, who later became her manager and her husband,
took her to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, which then
broadcast live popular music over the radio.
"Bob SHUTTLEWORTH called me at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
and said, 'Get a studio, a piano and a vocal mike. I have someone
I want you to hear,' recalled Jackie
RAE, then a music producer
at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, later leader of his
own band (and, incidentally, the uncle of former Ontario premier
Bob RAE.) "I remember her wonderful voice and how fresh she was.
We hired her straight away to do three programs a week."
The program was Meet Gisele, and it ran for 15 minutes on Monday,
Wednesday and Friday. The program started on October 8, 1946,
and lasted for four years. She was so popular the Canadian Broadcasting
Corporation used her in other programs with names such as The
Girl Next Door or The Song Pluggers.
In 1951, Ms.
MacKENZIE was spotted by Bing
CROSBY's son, and
went to work in the United States for Bob
CROSBY's
Club 15, bumping
the Andrews Sisters from their regular slot. The pay was $20,000
(U.S.) a year, worth $150,000 in today's money. She was 23.
The money was something Canada could never match. Mr.
GUTHRO,
later head of Variety at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation,
guesses she was making $200 a week for her radio programs.
"Gisele Leaves for Hollywood. Canada's Loss," read a headline
in one Toronto paper. The article guessed at the pay package,
and it was right.
Ms. MacKENZIE was about to have her best decade ever in show
business. After a short stint on Club 15, she worked on the Mario
Lanza Show, before landing her full-time job at Your Hit Parade.
The idea behind the NBC program was to take the top seven songs
on the hit parade that week and have them done by the regular
singers in the Your Hit Parade troupe. The half-hour program
was a huge success in the United States and in late 1953 the
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation picked it up for a while.
Ms. MacKENZIE was the only regular singer on the program to have
her own hit record, Hard to Get, in 1955.
Though none of her family shared her success, all were musical.
There were her parents, both of whom were serious amateur musicians
two of her sisters sang and played, and a brother played the
cello. Along with Gisele, two of them had what is called perfect
pitch.
"It's rare and she had it," Mr.
RAE said. "You would play four
notes on the piano and she could match them. Perfect pitch isn't
always a great thing, but in her case it was."
Ms. MacKENZIE's training as a classical violinist came in handy
on the Jack Benny program, on which she first appeared in 1955.
The droll comedian always made a thing of how he couldn't play
the violin. One vaudeville-type act they would do on his show
involved her patiently showing him what to do with a violin after
he made some awful screeching noise with his bow.
She was Jack Benny's protégé, and he helped land her own television
program in 1958. Called the Gisele
MacKENZIE
Show, it lasted
only six months.
But she remained famous. At one stage, she was the subject of
This is Your Life, which involved linking up with old Friends
and relatives. She was a regular on game shows that featured
minor celebrities, such as Hollywood Squares.
In 1963, she was cast as Sid Caesar's television wife and made
regular trips to New York City, where the program was done. Like
other television programs of that era, it was live, since videotape
was only just being introduced.
Ms. MacKENZIE also acted and sang in live musicals in the United
States, things such as Annie Get Your Gun and South Pacific.
Over the years, she also worked in Las Vegas, performing in night
clubs there. She returned to Canada for the occasional concert
and television special, including one on the Canadian Broadcasting
Corporation in late 1960. It was about "her story book career"
and included the yarn, always told by her publicists, of how
she decided to take up singing after she lost her $3,000 violin.
By the end of the 1960s, the big work started to dry up and Canadian
newspapers were running the occasional "Where Are They Now" articles.
She was in a sprawling ranch house in suburban Encino, Calif.
She also owned property in Palmdale and Marin County, Calif.,
as well as a house on Lake Manitoba back home.
All that detail came up in a nasty divorce from Mr.
SHUTTLEWORTH
in 1968. Because he was also her manager, he kept 10 per cent
of her gross income for the next three years. She later married
a banker, Robert
KLEIN, but that also ended in divorce.
During the rest of her career, Ms.
MacKENZIE kept working in
regional theatre and made guest appearances on television series,
including MacGyver and Murder, She Wrote, as well as singing
stints on programs such as the Dean Martin Show. She also did
television commercials in the United States and Canada.
Ms. MacKENZIE had some odd hobbies. She collected and mixed exotic
perfumes and in the 1950s she took up target shooting, becoming
an expert shot. She and her first husband had a large collection
of pistols, rifles and shotguns. In her later years, like many
Hollywood stars, she was involved with Scientology.
Ms. MacKENZIE, who died in Burbank, Calif., on September 5, had
two children with Mr.
SHUTTLEWORTH, a son Mac and a daughter
Gigi (short for Gisele)
DOWNS.
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'Nobody beats Arthur'
Victoria native left mark on Ottawa's business scene, while setting
swimming records when he was over 70
By Randy RAY,
Special to The Globe and Mail Wednesday, November
5, 2003 - Page R7
Ottawa -- When Arthur
INGLIS moved to Ottawa from Victoria in
the late 1960s, his goal was to leave his mark on the nation's
capital. By all accounts, he succeeded, both in the world of
business and in the swimming pool.
"When he arrived he thought he could make a difference," said
his partner of 20 years Kimberly
CROSS. "
The place was a wasteland
back then, but he did manage to leave an imprint."
Mr. INGLIS, who as recently as May set a world swimming record,
died on September 1. He as 71.
After moving to Ottawa, Mr.
INGLIS, who was born in Victoria
on March 28, 1932, worked as director of store design for Hudson's
Bay Co. and redesigned a handful of department stores purchased
from their local owner by the Bay.
In 1976, he started two Vanilla Boutique clothing stores and
later operated the Ecco Restaurant in downtown Ottawa. He founded
the Mags and Fags newsstand that same year after he realized Ottawa
didn't have an outlet with the variety of magazines and newspapers
available in New York or London. The business also included Immigration
and Naturalization Service News Service, which distributes newspapers
and magazines to Ottawa's business and government sectors.
With a reputation as an innovative member of Ottawa's business
community, Mr.
INGLIS and a partner built Mags and Fags into one
of the biggest newsstands in Canada, said Mr.
CROSS, who added
that local media individuals often visited the Elgin Street shop.
During the early 1980s, Mr.
INGLIS and a business partner designed
a bar named Shannon's in honour of Shannon
TWEED,
Miss
Ottawa
Valley of 1977 and Playboy Magazine's 1982 Playmate of the Year.
TWEED, partner of Gene
SIMMONS, bassist for rock band
KISS, named
her dog Vanilla after Mr.
INGLIS's women's fashion shops.
His boutiques carried innovative lines of clothing from France
and Italy that couldn't be found elsewhere in Ottawa. His Ecco
restaurant and club was a downtown hotspot known for its elegant
yet homey setting.
"It was hot, hot, hot with a library and outdoor terrace on the
second floor, like something you'd find on 3rd Avenue in New
York," Mr.
CROSS said. "It was the place where all of the city's
movers and shakers went, real estate people, fashion people --
you name it."
Mr. INGLIS and a partner also designed and introduced several
Ottawa shopping centres to the sales kiosks that are now commonplace
in most malls.
In 2000, when Mr.
INGLIS was 68 and still operating the newsstand,
his life took a dramatic turn because of cholesterol and blood-pressure
problems. His doctors placed him on medication but instead of
relying on pills, he quit drinking, adopted a healthier diet
and started swimming and weight-training.
In 2002, he sold his share in Mags and Fags to concentrate on travel
and competitive swimming, which he had excelled at as youngster
and into his teens.
Mr. INGLIS's athletic prowess in his younger days also included
skating with the Ice Capades, touring North America with his
sister May in the 1950s.
To pursue his interest in swimming and to improve his fitness,
Mr. INGLIS joined the Technosport masters swim and triathlon
team in Ottawa and was soon setting Canadian and world swimming
records in the 70-and-over age group. As his health problems
eased, he challenged the best in the world in masters swimming
in various locales, including New Zealand and Hawaii.
When he died, he held 17 Canadian or Ontario records in backstroke,
breaststroke, freestyle and individual medley, including all
Canadian backstroke records in all distances in the 70 to 74
age group, said teammate Pat
NIBLETT, who keeps track of records
set by members of the Technosport team. Mr.
INGLIS was also a
member of an Ontario swim relay team that set a world record
in New Zealand in 2002.
Ms. NIBLETT, who often travelled to swim meets with Mr.
INGLIS,
remembers her teammate as a "tall slim man with the twinkling
eyes and wonderful sense of humour. I only had the privilege
of knowing Arthur for three short years. I felt as if I had known
him for a lifetime. There is a saying in our house that 'nobody
beats Arthur.' This is true of everything that Arthur did."
At the Canadian National Masters Swim Championships in Montreal
in May, Mr.
INGLIS broke his own 200-metre backstroke record
and set Canadian records in the 100 and 200 individual medley
events.
Technosport coach Duane
JONES, who was among those shocked by
the incredibly fit Mr.
INGLIS's death, said the swimmer worked
out about five times a week.
"When we first met, he was 30 pounds overweight, he was not a
healthy eater and he was lethargic. But soon after, he was setting
records; when he was 71-years-old he had the body of a 35-year-old.
He paid attention to detail and did his workouts, swimming, biking
and weight-training consistently.
"The first time he dove into the water I could not believe how
beautiful his strokes cut the water. I've coached more than 6,000
athletes during the past 35 years and have never seen a guy like
Arthur INGLIS."
Ramona FIEBIG, manager of Mags and Fags for more than 14 years,
said Mr. INGLIS was a dedicated businessman who did his best
to ensure the newsstand had the best selection of titles in the
city. He often showed up for work on weekends as early as 3 a.m.
"There are thousands of titles in the store. It was no small
chore to keep on top of what was new, to find new magazines and
locate suppliers."
To the day he died, Mr.
INGLIS was an innovator, Mr.
CROSS said,
adding that as his health deteriorated, he wanted to try a novel
drug treatment to prolong his life.
"After his stroke, the options were paralysis on his left side
or trying a new drug," Mr.
CROSS said, adding that the side effect
was a 16-per-cent chance he would suffer massive bleeding in
his brain. "His feeling was that if he didn't survive, the next
person who came down the shoot might have a better chance."
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An old-fashioned newsman
Distinguished journalist began humbly as a copy boy at the Hamilton
Spectator and soared to the top of the Canadian Broadcasting
Corporation
By James McCREADY,
Special▲ to The Globe and Mail Thursday, December
11, 2003 - Page R11
During the October Crisis of 1970, there were a lot of editors
who buckled under. They followed the orders of the police and
the Quebec and federal governments about not printing or broadcasting
some details about the kidnapping of British Trade Commissioner
James CROSS and the kidnapping and murder of Quebec cabinet minister
Pierre LAPORTE.
Many editors and broadcast executives took to self-censorship,
anticipating what the authorities wanted and keeping newscasts
and newspapers clean. Denis
HARVEY, who has died at age of 74,
was not one of them.
Then editor of The Gazette of Montreal, the man he faced down
was Jerome
CHOQUETTE,
Quebec's justice minister and the public
face of authority during much of the crisis.
CHOQUETTE did not
want newspapers to publish the full manifesto of the Front de
libération du Québec. Denis
HARVEY ignored the request and published
it.
The paper also broke the news that police had a photograph of
James CROSS sitting on what looked like a box of dynamite. The
justice minister warned The Gazette editor he could be arrested
under the terms of the War Measures Act, but Mr.
HARVEY called
his bluff.
During the crisis, Mr.
HARVEY didn't change his habits. When
the paper was put to bed, he would walk to the Montreal Men's
Press Club in the Mount Royal Hotel carrying the bulldog or first
edition of the paper and sit at the bar and argue statistics
with the sports editor, Brodie
SCHNIEDER/SNIDER/SNYDER.
There would also be political discussions, some of them heated,
since the man who wrote the stamp column at the paper had been
called up from the reserves in the military and took himself,
and the War Measures Act, quite seriously.
Mr. HARVEY was an old-fashioned newsman, a high-school dropout
who rose to edit newspapers and who went on to run the Canadian
Broadcasting Corporation Television news service and then the
entire Canadian Broadcasting Corporation-Television network.
Denis Martin
HARVEY was born on August 15, 1929, in Hamilton,
where his father was a customs inspector. He left school halfway
through Grade 13 and landed a job as a copy boy at The Hamilton
Spectator. This was not uncommon and was the traditional route
for a young person coming into the newspaper business. Journalism
schools were all but unknown and university-educated reporters
and editors were rare.
He went from copy boy, ripping the wire copy off the machines,
to listening in for police tips on radio scanners. He became
a sports writer and in 1952 quit the paper and went to travel
in Europe for six months. He came back to the Spectator as a
general reporter the next year.
He did everything, from labour columnist to business writer.
At 26, he was city editor of the Spectator and then news editor.
In 1961, he was executive editor and held that job for five years.
In 1966, he moved to The Canadian Magazine, a joint venture with
the Toronto Star. It meant leaving Hamilton after 21 years, but
it was the first step to the most important job in his career
editor of The Gazette, which he took over in 1969, the year
he turned 40.
Mr. HARVEY was tough. He scared people with a gruff demeanour,
which at times seemed like something out of The Front Page. When
he arrived at The Gazette, it was losing the newspaper war with
rival Montreal Star. Many editors had cozy sinecures. Almost
right away, Mr.
HARVEY fired the head of every department but
one. When one editor came into his office and said he had found
another job and was giving two weeks' notice.
HARVEY shot back:
"Two hours' notice." The man was gone in less.
However, he inspired loyalty in his staff of reporters and editors.
"He could be tough but he stood up for his staff. And he was
completely honest and honourable. A stand-up guy," said Brian
STEWARD/STEWART/STUART, who covered city hall at The Gazette and was later hired
by Mr. HARVEY at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. "You
always wanted to impress him."
One night at Martin's, a bar next door to The Gazette, there
were complaints about a sports picture in the paper. The photographer
said to Mr.
HARVEY: "
I'd like to see you do better."
Next night he was at the Forum for a Canadiens game. Along with
two regular photographers, he took pictures which, unsigned,
went back to the office for selection. His picture made the paper.
It was a combination of hot news stories and the ability to turn
around a failing newspaper that made his reputation at The Gazette.
The police strike in 1969, the October Crisis, riots and labour
battles made the period one of the most exciting in the paper's
history.
Having secured his reputation as an editor, Mr.
HARVEY was lured
away to television in 1973 to become chief news editor at Canadian
Broadcasting Corporation Television News in Toronto. His colleagues
told him he was crazy.
"My newspaper Friends said: 'How can you make the transition?'
Mr. HARVEY said years later. "But I'm surprised more people
don't. I believe in changing jobs."
Although he didn't know anything about television, he told people:
"I do know pictures." He went to CBS in New York for a crash
course in television news.
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation-Television News was as much
of a mess as The Gazette had been. There had been a series of
editors who hadn't managed to get a handle on the place. Mr.
HARVEY took quick action and made it more professional, spending
less time on bureaucracy and more time on the main newscast.
One night, an old-time producer was called into his office and
the new chief news editor asked him why he hadn't gone with a
fresh lead story. The producer replied he couldn't order anyone
to do that -- that was the lineup editor's job. Mr.
HARVEY disagreed
and said: "Put on your coat and go home." The man kept his job,
but worked on the desk and not as a producer.
During his short reign at Canadian Broadcasting Corporation News,
he brought in fresh faces and got television reporters to think
about breaking stories instead of following newspaper headlines.
Audience levels rose and so did Mr.
HARVEY, moving up the ladder
at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. But the promise of
a big paycheque lured him to a three-year stint at The Toronto
Star starting in 1978.
There, he was first in charge of the editorial page and then
became editor in chief and vice-president. He left the Star in
1981 and was replaced by George
RADWANSKI, the future federal
privacy commissioner, who had worked for him at The Gazette.
Mr. HARVEY returned to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation,
taking over sports for the English network. By 1983, he was vice-president
of the entire English network of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
He held that job for seven years. He used to say his favourite
part of the job was the power to do programming. He changed the
face of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and it has stayed
that way. Mr.
HARVEY took the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
all Canadian -- it took several years but he stopped running
American program in prime time.
"We have handed over this most powerful medium to a foreign country,"
he told a broadcasting conference in 1990. "Nowhere else in the
world had one country imported the total television of another
country."
Along with Canadian content, one of his lasting creations was
the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's news and current-affairs
specialty channel Newsworld. He left the Canadian Broadcasting
Corporation in 1991 and worked off and on as a broadcast consultant.
He spent a lot of time travelling and took up some rather un-tough-guy
hobbies, such as bird-watching and going to the ballet.
Mr. HARVEY, who died after a brief struggle with cancer, leaves
his wife Louise
LORE, and Lynn and Brian, his two children from
an earlier marriage.
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PLUM,
Gerald
E., Ph.D.
Dr. Gerald
PLUM, psychologist, died in the early hours of Boxing
Day, 2003. His daughter Terra and partner Penny
LOUBE were with
him. Gerry was born in Detroit in 1934 and raised in Farmington,
Michigan. He was a man of many gifts, both intellectual and physical.
He was the quarterback of his high school football team and a
running back at Wayne State University. He was also a pitcher
of considerable ability, scouted in his teens by the New York
Giants. A scholar, he completed his doctoral studies at the University
of Chicago, where he studied with D.O. Hebb, Carl Rogers and
Bruno Bettelheim. In 1965, he moved with his young family to
British Columbia and taught psychology for a number of years
at the University of British Columbia. Later, he taught at King's
College in London until his retirement seven years ago. At King's,
he served as head of the Social Work Program and Chairman of
the psychology department. He also conducted a private practice
for many years, and was a consultant to Search, a community mental
health project in Strathroy. Gerry was a member of the College
of Psychologists of Ontario and British Columbia. He was a member
of the Michigan Bioenergetics Society and studied at The Gestalt
Institute of Toronto. Following his retirement, Gerry pursued
in earnest his life-long interest in drama. He acted in several
plays in London, including Shakespeare and musical comedies.
For his performance in his final role, he was presented with
an adjudicator's special award. In his spare time, Gerry renovated
a farmhouse near Mt. Brydges, canoed the Nahanni River, and bicycled
from Vancouver to Michigan for his 30th high school reunion.
In addition to Penny and Terra, Gerry is survived by his sons
Dan and Judd, his brother Tom, his father Irving, and nieces
and nephews. His mother Opal died earlier this year, and he lost
his beloved son Randy in 1985. Gerry will be sorely missed by
many close Friends, associates, and those he served over his
long, productive career. Visitation was held Monday, December
29 from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. at Denning Brothers Fuenral Home, 32
Metcalfe Street West, Strathroy. Funeral service at that location
on December 30 at 11 a.m., Reverend Clarence
CROSSMAN officiating.
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ROGAN,
Patricia
L. (née
CROTTY)
Born August 20, 1930 in New York City. Died March 1, 2003 in
Toronto.
Predeceased by her husband, Edward
ROGAN. Survived by
her seven children, Edward, Owen, Daniel, Neal, Patricia, Joseph
and Mary. Also survived by her grandchildren, Patrick, Haven,
Edward, Kathleen and Michael. Patricia will be buried next to
her husband in a private ceremony in Ireland. She will be remembered.
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William Turner
CROWE
By Danielle
BOCHOVE
Wednesday,
June 18, 2003 - Page A24
Father, grandfather, husband and friend. Born September 16, 1911,
in Toronto. Died May 24, 2003, in Toronto of pneumonia, aged
If life were fair, its length would be a function of how well
it was lived. For William Turner
CROWE, 91 years was not nearly
long enough. He embodied the claim that age is a state of mind.
Family often joked that he was "just a big kid," but it was true.
Throughout his life, he somehow managed to hold on to the very
best qualities of childhood. A clear-eyed enthusiasm for the
world, the expectation that each day would hold something to
enjoy, the drive to learn anything: astronomy, history, Formula
One trivia, mechanics, archeology, snooker.
I remember him commenting, as an old man, on the colour of a
stone: how smooth it was, and flat, before skipping it across
the water with a fluid vigour. Tobogganing one perfect Christmas
Day - he was in his 80s -- he took on a giant. When the toboggan
finally flipped, three-quarters of the way down, he was briefly
airborne before landing in a heap of laughter and powder. Later,
while the younger riders moaned over their aches, he crowed that
he hadn't had so much fun in such a long time.
His life seemed to have a disproportionate amount of fun -- and
yet it wasn't easy. The Depression and the Second World War were
among its defining events. His mother, accepting the threat of
disinheritance, had severed all ties with England by marrying
a pub owner and moving to Canada. Money was tight. My grandfather
remembered spending days staring through a shop window as a boy
at a model train he could never afford. Perhaps that's why, as
an adult, he sought out chances to fill the needs of children.
Money was given to all of us for university, college and first
houses.
My grandmother told me another story recently about a lunch with
my grandfather just a few years ago. At a nearby table some young
men were laughing and joking and he watched them with pleasure,
commenting that they seemed like "such nice boys." When it came
time to leave, he quietly paid for their meal and left the restaurant
before they could find out. A small gesture, but typical of hundreds
delivered over 91 years with a generosity of spirit unmatched
by anyone except his wife.
His marriage to Edith Dorothy
MARK was the most important event
of his life. He would pick her up for dates on a motorcycle,
much to the shock of the neighbours, but was always a gentleman.
He proposed on a ski hill one frosty evening; she says she couldn't
wait to get inside to see the ring. In 63 years of marriage,
no one ever saw them treat each other with anything but tenderness
and respect; each always put the other first.
He was born in Toronto and lived there his entire life. His elder
brother Clifford married my grandmother's sister Jo and the four
of them were inseparable, traveling together often after their
children were grown. A "methods man," he was forced into early
retirement -- a blow his family feared would kill him -- but
rallied back, focusing his skills on rearranging my grandmother's
kitchen for optimum efficiency, along with most of the other
systems in the house. At the age of 72 he underwent a triple
bypass and amazed the doctors with his determination to recover.
I still remember trotting beside him on his daily walk; he could
do five kilometres in under an hour. The surgery bought him almost
20 more precious years.
I can say unequivocally that he is the most extraordinary man
I've ever known. To have lived 91 years, fully. Participating,
giving, with an enthusiasm and crackling curiosity that defied
even Alzheimer's until the end. When memory failed, he still
commented on his great-granddaughter's blue eyes. In the end,
William was extraordinary in the example he set of how an ordinary
man can live.
Danielle BOCHOVE is William
CROWE's granddaughter.
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CROWE,
Doris
Mary (née
SCANES)
Born in Winnipeg, July 12, 1921, daughter of Richard
SCANES and
Alice PAYNE, sister of Lenore and Jimmy, married Marshall
CROWE,
December 5, 1942. Graduate of United College, Winnipeg (B.A.:
History and English) awarded highest standing in her class. Doris
died on Friday, September 26, 2003, surrounded by family and
Friends, after a long and spirited battle with cancer. Beloved
wife, dear mother of Tom (Allison), Alison, Helen (David), Sheila
(Brian), Abigail, Seumien (Nabo), Le (Ping) and Nick (Irene).
Delighted and indefatigable grandmother of Jessica, Caleb, Innie,
Susan, David, Adam, Cathy, Yuli, Jonathan, Ben, Rebecca and Ariana.
Predeceased by her dear Friends Ann
PHELPS and Starr
SOLOMON.
During World War 2, Doris worked as a reporter for the Vancouver
Sun and taught high school. After the war, she accompanied Marshall
on diplomatic postings, chiefly to New York and Moscow. During
the 60's, she worked for Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Radio
and wrote and narrated a series of documentaries on life in the
Soviet Union. She also worked tirelessly for the Toronto French
School in its early years, helping to establish the first school
library. Doris studied public relations in the early 70's, and
did a variety of work in that field, including shepherding Harold
CARDINAL through the Ottawa launching of ''The Unjust Society''.
She also served as public relations director for the Canadian
Nurses' Association. She was a member of the Committee for an
Independent Canada and campaigned for the provincial and federal
Liberal parties in many elections, beginning with Mitchell
SHARP's
campaign in the Toronto riding of Eglinton in 1963. In her 70's,
Doris returned to university to study English history, Russian
and Chinese. for the last 30 years of her life, Doris focused
on the farm that she and Marshall ran near Portland. Among many
enterprises, Doris was instrumental in introducing the Dexter
cow into Canada. According to Doris' wishes, there will be no
funeral. Arrangements by Scotland Funeral Home, Elgin. The family
will receive Friends on Saturday, October 4, 12 to 8 p.m., at
the farm, 4421 Old Kingston Road, Portland. In lieu of flowers,
donations to the hospice, St. Vincent de Paul Hospital, Brockville
(613) 342-4461, ext. 2271 would be most gratefully received.
Their compassion, skill and generosity of spirit did much to
ease Doris' last days when she could no longer be at her beloved
farm. In memory of Doris: plant a garden, serve paella, learn
a language, read a book to a child, be kind to an animal, support
universal health care, live at peace with nature.
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Kathleen
Innes
Stewart Roland
CROWE
By C.N.R. STEWARD/STEWART/STUART,
Wednesday,
November 5, 2003 - Page A26
Sister, friend, actor, social worker. Born April 9, 1908, in
London, England. Died August 26, 2003 in New York City, aged
Although born in England, Kitty -- or The Doy, as she was called
en famille -- spent her early life in Cleveland, Ohio, where
our father headed the H.K. Cushing Laboratory for Experimental
Medicine at Western Reserve University. Her three brothers (I
am the youngest) were born there. Our father, in 1922, moved
our mother and the four children to Toronto where we were enrolled
in those private schools that met his high standards. My sister
went to Havergal College on Jarvis Street in Toronto and hated
it. She stuck it out, though, and, on graduation, was accepted
into the arts program at University College at the University
of Toronto. After graduation, she and a girlfriend went to Europe
where, among other adventures, they bicycled through Normandy
and Brittany, an unusual escapade for two young women in the
late 1920s. It was a life-enhancing experience as the journals
she so meticulously kept attest.
Hers was indeed a privileged upbringing but throughout her long
life she identified more with the downtrodden. After our father
died in 1930, she returned to the family home in Toronto's Lawrence
Park where, after our mother died in 1933, she, 10 years my elder,
became my surrogate mother.
Next door to us was a family by the name of
CROWE and, in 1935,
she married the boy next door who went by the imposing moniker
of James Fitz-Randolph. Both were aspiring actors and singers
and moved to New York. Under their stage names, Kathleen and
Norman ROLAND, for the next 30 years or so they appeared in theatres
all over the eastern United States and Canada. In 1953, they
appeared together at the first Stratford Festival in the famous
tent. (Kitty understudied Irene
WORTH who was playing Queen Margaret
in Richard III. She told me she was terrified that one day Ms.
WORTH would be unable to appear because she felt she could not
play the part. Ms.
WORTH was in robust good health and Kitty's
fears were never tested.) Brendan Behan's The Hostage was another
vehicle for their talents, as it ran for years off Broadway.
When without a part she augmented her income by writing cookbooks
for a major American publisher. Shamelessly, she cribbed recipes
from other cookbooks to supplement her own creations (she was
a great cook). Proudly she retained her Canadian citizenship
and worked for the National Film Board during the Second World
War.
Sadly, married life became a hell for Kitty. Eventually, she
sued successfully for divorce.
She followed her stage career until well into her 60s, appearing
last in Toronto in 1975 in Noël Coward's Present Laughter, which
starred Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
As parts dried up she started another career as a social worker
for New York City where her ability to speak Spanish (she also
spoke French, German and a smattering of other languages), proved
to be a valuable tool. For many years she was also active in
the West Side Tenants Association. She hated grasping landlords
with a passion and at one time she herself successfully sued
her landlord for wrongful eviction. She was not all sugar candy.
During 2001 and 2002 she suffered a series of falls that resulted
in fractured bones; she was forced to give up her independence.
She moved into the Jewish Home and Hospital which is a fine place
but a place to which she could not adapt. Finally, I think, she
decided that life was no longer worth living. At 3 a.m. on August
26 last, she died, apparently peacefully.
C.N.R. (Jock)
STEWARD/STEWART/STUART is Kathleen
CROWE's kid brother.
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