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Maryann Catherine
VERNER
In loving memory of Mary Ann Catherine
VERNER,
June 9, 1939 to January 6, 2003.
Maryann VERNER, a resident of R. R. #1, Evansville, passed away at
the Manitoulin Health Centre, Mindemoya, on Monday, January 6, 2003
at the age of 63 years. She was born in Toronto, daughter of the
late Wesley and Catherine
DAY.
Mary
Ann was a graduate of the Royal
Conservatory of Music, and through her talents as a musician, had a
wide range of experience, having played for the Billy Graham Crusade,
the People's Church in Toronto, organist at Centennial Rouge Church
in Toronto for 10 years, and organist at Lyon's Memorial United
Church in Gore Bay for about 12 years. Before her marriage to Harry
on December 19, 1959, she had worked as an assistant at CBC, working
with Norman
JEWISON in Toronto and New York. She had also worked as
a secretary for Eaton's and Capitol Records. She also enjoyed
handcrafts, but her greatest enjoyment was her music and family.
Dearly loved wife of Harry
VERNER of Evansville loved mother of
Catherine and husband Doug
REIMER of Scarborough Gregory and wife
Sherry of Sault Ste. Marie James and wife Terry of Burnt River and
Amy, friend Paul
MILLER of Hamilton. Proud grandmother of Stephen,
Jacob, Kari, Justin, Silken, Nathan and Sarah and three great grandchildren.
The funeral service was conducted at the Burpee Mills Complex on
Thursday, January 9, 2003 with Reverend Mary Jo Eckert Tracy and Mr.
Erwin Thompson officiating. Spring interment in Mills Cemetery.
Culgin Funeral Home
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Donald Alexander
DAY
In loving memory of Donald Alexander
DAY who passed away peacefully on
Tuesday, October 7, 2003 at Manitoulin Health Centre at the age of 86 years.
Born to William and Ethel
(TRIMMER)
DAY on July 18, 1917. Donald fought in
WW2. He was a Gunner for the 10th Corp. of the Dragoons. Survived by
brother Floyd in Hamilton, predeceased by Florence, Pauline, Harold,
Kenneth, Mary. Visitation was held on Thursday, October 9, 2003 with Funeral
Service following at Knox United Church, Manitowaning. Burial in Hilly
Grove Cemetery. Arrangements in care of Island Funeral Home.
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MILLMAN,
Doris
A.
(NEWMAN) (née
ARNETT)
Always to be lovingly remembered by her large extended family,
Doris Angelina (née
ARNETT)
(NEWMAN)
MILLMAN died Sunday, March
9, 2003, at Lindenwood Manor, Winnipeg, at the age of 96. The
second oldest of the four children of the late T.L. and Leila
ARNETT (née
GRANT,)
Doris
Angelina was born December 1, 1906
in Souris, Manitoba. In 1923 her father moved his appliance manufacturing
business to Winnipeg. Doris attended Wesley College, then part
of the University of Manitoba, graduating with a Bachelor of
Arts degree in 1927. She played competitive ice hockey for the
university women's team, and was an avid tennis player. After
university, Doris worked for the Royal Bank of Canada where she
met Lincoln R.
NEWMAN, also of Winnipeg. They married in 1934.
During the Second World War, his career took them, and their
two sons, to Calgary and Toronto, and, at the end of the war,
to England where Linc ran Royal Bank of Canada's London office
and Doris re-established the family. In 1950 they returned to
Canada to live in Montreal. After her husband's death in 1955,
Doris returned to Winnipeg with family. She became an active
member of the University Women's Club. In 1963, Doris married
H.T. (Ted)
MILLMAN, a widower, engineer, and builder of Canada
Safeway stores across Western Canada. After their marriage, his
three children became an important part of her life. Doris maintained
her home for nearly two decades after Ted's death in 1984. Just
three months ago, she moved successfully to an apartment at Lindenwood
Manor, where she was happy. While highly capable and independent,
Doris always appreciated the care and support of her sister,
Frances BOWLES, and her brother-in-law, the late Richard S.
BOWLES,
former Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba; and since Ted
MILLMAN's
death, the continued devotion of his youngest child, Alison
KENNEDY,
whom Doris raised as her own daughter. Doris is also survived
by her sons, print journalist Roger
NEWMAN
(Janice,)
Gimli,
Manitoba
journalist and Canadian Broadcasting Corporation television broadcaster,
Don NEWMAN,
(Shannon
DAY,) Ottawa,
Ontario; stepsons, architect
Hartley Vance
MILLMAN
(Claudia,)
Ottawa, and retired school principal
Bob MILLMAN
(Linda
CHERNENKOFF,) Winnipeg; sisters-in- law Joyce
NEWMAN and Bernie
ARNETT,
Winnipeg; ten grandchildren; ten great-grandchildren
and numerous also treasured nieces and nephews. Her memorial
service was held in Winnipeg, Wednesday, March 19th, at Westminster
United Church where Doris was a member for nearly 40 years. She
died on her way to a church service. Doris was cremated and buried
at Brookfield Cemetery between her beloved husbands. She was
also predeceased by her cherished parents and brothers Tom and
Sheldon ARNETT; brothers- and sisters-in-law; daughter-in-law
Audrey-Ann
NEWMAN and grand_son Lincoln Taylor
NEWMAN.
Doris
Angelina
Arnett Newman
MILLMAN will be remembered by her family as a cheerful,
positive, intelligent, independent and nurturing person. She
was caring and compassionate no matter what the circumstances.
In lieu of flowers, donations in Doris Millman's memory may be
made to the Lincoln Taylor Newman Bursary Fund to assist promising
students in need; cheques payable to Queen's University, and
sent to the attention of the L.T. Newman Fund, Queen's Office
of Advancement, Kingston, Ontario, K7L 3N6.
''Love never ends.'' (1 Corinthians 13: 8)
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Kassie (Katharine)
TEMPLE
By Colin LEYS
Friday,
April 4, 2003 - Page A18
A Canadian who served God and defended the poor of New York.
Born June 8, 1944, in Port Hope, Ontario Died November 22, 2002,
in New York City, from cancer, aged 58.
No one who talked with Kassie
TEMPLE for more than 10 minutes
could fail to realize that she was one of the more remarkable
people they were ever likely to meet.
Kassie was an Anglican who worked in a Catholic organization
and wrote regularly for its newspaper. She was a radical social
critic, but opposed to all political parties. A passionate seeker
after religious truth, she spent long hours studying the Bible
in Hebrew. She was a gifted teacher and powerful debater (woe
betide anyone who rashly assumed this religious social worker
would be easy to outsmart); above all a fearless, tireless worker
with the homeless, sick and abandoned people of her quarter of
Manhattan.
She was born in Port Hope, Ontario, where her father was bursar
of Trinity College School. After high school, Kassie studied
religion at McMaster University. From there she went in the mid-1960s
to work for the Canadian International Development Agency in
Ottawa and then headed off for two years to Sierra Leone in West
Africa, looking after Canadian teachers with the Canadian University
Students Overseas. She retained several close Friends from the
Canadian University Students Overseas contingent.
She returned to Canada, and McMaster, in 1970 to work with the
eminent Canadian philosopher George
GRANT, writing a doctoral
thesis on the French theologian and sociologist Jacques Ellul.
In 1975, she began teaching at the University of Manitoba at
Brandon.
One day in 1977 she travelled to New York to see Dorothy
DAY,
who with Peter
MAURIN had founded the Catholic Worker, a group
dedicated to nonviolence and solidarity with the poor and other
victims of capitalist society. Kassie had been introduced to
them some years earlier through a friend at McMaster, but this
visit proved a turning point.
From New York she called a friend in Brandon and asked her to
get rid of all her belongings, and from then until her death
she lived in Mary House, one of two Catholic Worker homes in
Manhattan's Lower East Side (she remained an Anglican, however
one with a lifelong interest in developing closer understanding
between beliefs, including between Christians and Jews). She
took to wearing cast-off clothes donated by well-wishers, making
her famous soups and stews, caring and fighting for anyone and
everyone who was underprivileged, poor, sick, or neglected: prisoners
in jail, patients in hospital, elderly people trapped in dingy
nursing homes. She took time out only to look after her father
in Port Hope for his last three years, saying "it's too bad if
you can't look after your own father."
Kassie's religious faith was intense, but she had no trace of
religiosity. Last year a visitor asked her why she was wearing
a Yankees hat back to front. Oh, she explained, it was just a
hat that had been donated, "and we're all Mets fans here."
She could have been a professor, a civil servant, or a diplomat.
Instead she identified herself with the poor. However unhappy,
sick or difficult they might be, they were never people she worked
for or did good to; they were family and Friends.
Kassie was diagnosed with cancer early in 2002. After bearing
intense pain very bravely she died peacefully at Mary House,
surrounded by her Friends. During the three years she had devoted
to looking after her father in Port Hope she made the same sort
of impact on that small community as she did in New York. A huge
congregation attended her funeral service in Port Hope.
She leaves a painful gap but also an inspiring example, for Canadians
as well as her much-loved New Yorkers.
Colin LEYS is Kassie
TEMPLE's cousin.
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O'GRADY,
Dr.
Walter
Walter died at home of prostate cancer on April 30th, 2003. His
love and humour will be sadly missed by wife Jean, daughters
Elizabeth, Jennifer and Carrie, sons-in-law Jonathan
KEAN and
Steven PROBST, grand_son Zachary, sister Patricia
DAY and husband
Harry, brother Paul and wife
Frances, mother-in-law Floss
REILLY
and all his loving extended family. Born in Hamilton in 1933
and educated at St. Michael's College, Walter held a variety
of jobs in Hamilton and Southern Ontario before returning to
graduate school in Toronto. Thereafter he was a professor of
English at the University of Toronto, serving as assistant chair
of the English department for nine years, and becoming known
both for his stimulating lectures and for his aplomb in managing
a large and turbulent department. The family extends thanks to
the palliative care team, nurses, and personal support workers
who helped to ease his difficult last months. As Walter is donating
his body to medical science there will be no funeral, but Friends
may call at 487 Briar Hill Avenue, Toronto, on Sunday May 4th
from 3 to 5 p.m. The Department of English will arrange a gathering
later. Donations in Walter's name to a charity of your choice
would be appreciated in lieu of flowers.
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THOMPSON/THOMSON/TOMPSON/TOMSON,
Katherine
(Kae)
PLAUNT
Died peacefully at York Extendicare, Sudbury, on May 9, 2003
in her 90th year, with her children at her side. Cherished daughter
of the late Mildred and W.B.
PLAUNT.
Predeceased by her loving
husband, Dr. R. MacKay
THOMPSON/THOMSON/TOMPSON/TOMSON in 1981. Dearly remembered by
her children: Andy (Mandy
TAILOR/TAYLOR) of Toronto, Kathie
THOMAS
(Richard,)
Judy MAKI (Tom) and Robin (Mary Lou
McKINLEY) of Sudbury. Adored
Nana to Allen
DAY (Erin
CAMERON), Andy
DAY (Carla
GIUSTO), Kathy,
Jodi, Alex, Nikki, Fraser, Michael, Jamie, Scott and great-grandmother
to Alexander. Beloved sister of Marian
MAHAFFY
(Guy, predeceased,)
Bill PLAUNT, predeceased (Agnes,) Helen
VOLLANS
(Maurice, predeceased,)
Donald PLAUNT, predeceased, Royal Canadian Air Force, World War
2 and Jean
BENNESS, predeceased (Barry, predeceased.) Loving
sister-in-law to George
WRIGHT of Hanover, Ruth
LAWS of Almonte,
Murray THOMPSON/THOMSON/TOMPSON/TOMSON of Ottawa and Muriel
VALENTIN of Stuttgart, Germany.
Auntie Kae will be fondly remembered by many nieces and nephews
and their families in the
PLAUNT and
THOMPSON/THOMSON/TOMPSON/TOMSON clans.
Born in Renfrew on April 29, 1914, she moved to Sudbury in 1924
where her father established his lumber business. She attended
Central Public and Sudbury High School, Branksome Hall and graduated
from the School of Nursing, University of Toronto, in 1937. After
working in Toronto in public health, she returned to Sudbury
the following year where she met and married Mac.
Kae loved to golf and curl, and took an avid interest in her
family's history. She was very talented in the traditional arts,
enjoying knitting, quilting and cooking. As an active community
volunteer, she belonged to the Imperial Order of the Daughters
of the Empire where she was Regent and to the Salvation Army
as an organizer for the annual fund raising drive and board member.
She loved to travel with her husband and Friends, but her favourite
place in the world was Lake Pogamasing where her parents established
a family camp in 1941 and where she spent every summer with her
family. She loved to entertain her Friends and her children's
Friends, especially at Pog. We were blessed to have a mother
and grandmother who stressed the importance of family, community
and responsibility. She loved to bring people together and do
things for them, to share her interests and her talents, she
was kind and considerate to all she met, and along with Dad taught
us how to dance and have fun.
Special thanks from the family to Dr. Reg
KUSNIERCZYK and his
staff, the Walford staff and Dr.
ROCH and staff on the fifth
floor of York Extendicare for their devoted and caring attention
to Mother.
In lieu of flowers, the family would appreciate donations to
Young Men's Christian Association Sudbury.
Memorial service in the R.J. Barnard Chapel, Jackson and Barnard
Funeral Home, 233 Larch Street, Sudbury, Tuesday, May 13th, 2003
at 11: 30 a.m. Cremation followed by interment at Lake Pogamasing.
Friends may call 6-9 p.m. Monday, or gather in the chapel after
11 a.m. Tuesday.
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Haldane Ellis
McCLARY
By Glenda DAY
Tuesday,
May 27, 2003 - Page A22
Veteran, wood carver, husband, father, stepfather, grandfather.
Born April 18, 1924, in Tracey, New Brunswick Died March 27 in
London, Ontario, of esophageal cancer, aged 79.
'I know where I am, and I know who you are. But, I prefer the
quiet." These were the last words Hal uttered to me before falling
into unconsciousness. While his body slowly collapsed under myriad
stresses, his mind had remained lucid.
Born on a farm, Hal was the youngest of eight children. His father
was a surveyor who travelled extensively and this left Hal, the
only remaining male, responsible for the farm.
At 17, Hal lied about his age and enlisted in the Canadian army.
He was a proud soldier and the recipient of four medals. Normally
a spirited storyteller, Hal was reluctant to talk about the war,
saying the horrors of war were too much to bear and that a civilian
would neither understand, nor be able to cope with, hearing about
such atrocities. Near the end of his life, however, Hal opened
up slightly and told of a particularly brutal battle where he
and two other privates were the only ones to survive. After the
war, Hal visited some of the families of the lost soldiers.
Upon returning to civilian life, Hal relocated to London, Ontario,
where he met Mae. They married in 1946 and had two daughters,
Sharon and Lynn.
Hal was employed for 20 years at Eaton Automotive, and then at
Proto Tools for 11 years. He took early leave, but finding retirement
too quiescent, Hal became a security guard at Fanshawe College.
A member of the Canadian Auto Workers for more than 30 years,
Hal was a staunch union supporter and often visited the union
hall to share stories over beer.
Following Mae's death, Hal met Vera in 1984. They married and
purchased a house together, where Hal spent the balance of his
years.
The fighting instinct that helped Hal survive the Second World
War was the same force that carried him through life. Upon returning
from holiday in Puerto Vallarta in 1985, he told of a monkey
that had been trained to entertain tourists. It soon became apparent
the monkey had also been trained to steal wallets; when it took
Hal's wallet, Hal chased it along the beach. Grabbing its tail,
Hal retrieved his wallet and dragged the monkey back down the
beach where he apprehended the trainer and told him off in a
most threatening manner. Hal went on to enjoy his holiday (with
the exception of Montezuma's revenge!)
Hal was a voracious reader and a passionately opinionated man.
His interests included Native peoples, and Canadian and American
history. He was a self-professed war-trivia expert, and he loved
hunting, fishing, and playing cards. His annual hunting and fishing
expedition lasted a month, but Hal would spend the ensuing 11
months discussing the ones that got away. While family members
knew of his adventures almost well enough to tell the stories
themselves, Hal always found a receptive ear in his grandchildren.
His most memorable vacation was the one that he and Vera spent
driving through the mountain passes and pristine wilderness of
Yukon and Alaska.
Hal was also an avid wood carver. Decked out in a plaid shirt,
work pants, suspenders, and a baseball cap (his lifelong uniform),
he whittled away in the garage on his latest creation. Everyone
who knew him was the recipient of a birdhouse, wishing well,
animal carving or garden cart, cut from fir or poplar.
He kept a fire going in the garage wood stove almost year-round,
and this became Hal's haven from the rest of the world. I came
to realize that, like the rest of us, Hal was searching for a
personal world of peace as he travelled the journey of life.
Glenda DAY is Hal's stepdaughter.
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