EADIE o@ca.on.manitoulin.howland.little_current.manitoulin_expositor 2003-01-22 published
Captain
Lynn
Gerald
FREEMAN, 1930-2003
"We all must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it,
but we must sail and not drift nor lie at anchor"
It is with sadness and regret that we announce the passing of our
dad, Lynn Gerald
FREEMAN, after a lengthy illness, on Saturday,
January 11, 2003, with his family at his side, at the Hotel Dieu
hospital in St. Catharines. Lynn was born in Tehkummah, the son of
the late Mildred
(RUSSELL) and Ernest
FREEMAN.
Lynn is survived by: the mother of his children, Sandra
FREEMAN and
his kids, Jerry, Cindy, Mark, Angela and Kim, his grandchildren who
he loved very much: Sandra, Christa, Natacha, Mark Jr. and Jake, his
brothers and sisters: Earl (Effie,) Gelena
HOPKIN,
Lorraine
EADIE
(Ted), Marion
CASE (Harold), Dick (Lois), Betty
LAWSON, Margaret
DIBONAVENTURA, Conrad (Judy), Myrna
BEATON (Ken) and Brenda
ROBINSON.
Lynn was predeceased by his brother Larry.
Besides his family, Lynn's passion in life was sailing on the Great
Lakes. He was at home on the water and took great pride in the ships
he sailed for some 45 years. He will be remembered and missed by
those who sailed with him during those years. Until Lynn became ill
he was current with all traffic in the Welland Canal.
At Lynn's request, cremation will take place with a private family
service. A memorial service will take place on Manitoulin Island at
a later date.
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EADIE o@ca.on.manitoulin.howland.little_current.manitoulin_expositor 2003-01-22 published
EADIE
-In loving memory of a Husband, Dad, and Grandpa, Andrew L., who passed away January 25, 1993.
Never more than a thought away,
Quietly remembered every day,
No need for words except to say,
Loved and still missed, everyday.
-Always remembered by Heather, Susan, Larry, Lindsay, Ben and Lloyd.
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EADIE o@ca.on.manitoulin.howland.little_current.manitoulin_expositor 2003-02-05 published
COLLINS
-In fond and loving memory of my grand_son
Brent COLLINS
January 20, 1989
Jane DURDLE
August 12, 1989
and John G.
EADIE
April 23, 1990.
Gone but not forgotten.
Dear loved ones:
I believe that God reaches out
in love to each and every one of us.
Heaven is invisible
But it waits nearby.
Almost as close
As a river is to its bank.
Our loved ones abide there in perfect peace
awaiting a reunion
at Journey's end.
look around your garden Lord
they won't be hard to find.
Their faces are so full of love
and hearts that are good and kind
tell them that we love them
and when they turn and smile
Place your arms around them Lord
and hold them for a while.
We talk about them often
I think about them still
they haven't been forgotten Lord
and they never, ever will.
-Forever loved and remembered by Grandma
TAILOR/TAYLOR,
Justin
DURDLE and the rest of the members of the family
Doreen TAILOR/TAYLOR
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EADIE o@ca.on.manitoulin.howland.little_current.manitoulin_expositor 2003-06-11 published
Margaret Ann
(FREEMAN)
DI_BONAVERNTURA
Peacefully at Mindemoya Hospital on Tuesday, June 3, 2003 at the age of 67 years.
Margaret was born in Tehkummah to Ernest and Mildred
FREEMAN (both
predeceased). She moved to Toronto in 1955. She owned her own
flower shop on Eglington Avenue in Toronto for several years. In
1973 she started working at the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce
and retired from there in 2001. Margaret enjoyed traveling, shopping
for bargains, good food and her family and Friends.
Dear sister of Gelena (husband Morley predeceased)
HOPKIN of
Tehkummah, Earl and wife
Effie
FREEMAN of Little Current, Marion
and husband Harold
CASE of The Slash, Lorraine and husband Ted
EADIE
of Little Current, Dick and wife
Lois
FREEMAN of Goderich, Conrad and
wife Judy
FREEMAN of Merickville. Betty (husband Ed predeceased)
LAWSON of Deseronto. Myrna and husband Ken
BEATON of Toronto, Brenda
(husband Randy predeceased)
ROBINSON of Tehkummah. Predeceased by two
brothers Larry and Lynn
FREEMAN.
Will be missed by many nieces and
nephews and great great nieces and nephews. Memorial Funeral Mass
will be held on Saturday June 14, 2003 at 3: 00 p.m. in the Mindemoya
Catholic Church. Burial of ashes in Hilly Grove Cemetery.
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EADIE o@ca.on.manitoulin.howland.little_current.manitoulin_expositor 2003-12-17 published
Deacon
David
Roland
COLEMAN
TRUDEAU
In loving memory of Deacon David Roland
COLEMAN
TRUDEAU at the age of 78 years
Thirty years of sobriety. Died peacefully surrounded by his wife and family at the
Manitoulin Health Centre on Wednesday evening December 10, 2003.
Beloved husband of Clara
(FOX)
TRUDEAU of Wikwemikong and first wife
the late Tillie
KUBUNT of Newberry, Michigan. Dear son of the late
Dominic and Angeline
(WASSEGIJIG)
TRUDEAU of Wikwemikong. Dear
step-father to Bill
TUCKER,
Sharon (husband Ray) Wynn and Bob
TUCKER
of Newberry, Michigan, Lindell
MATHEWS of Wikwemikong, Annie
KAY
(friend Eric
EADIE,)
Mathew and Linda
MATHEWS (predeceased.) Loving
grandfather to Billy, Karen, Jimmy, Linda (friend Wayne), Ronald
(friend Tracy), Maxwell, Lindsay, Michael, Darla and a few more from
Newberry, Michigan (names unknown at time of printing). Predeceased
by two grandchildren Linda Marie and Lucy Marie. One great
granddaughter Deanna
MATHEWS.
Loving brother of Stella (Jim
predeceased)
PAVLOT of Sault, Michigan, Ursula (Bob)
SCHUPP of Meza,
Arizona,
Elsie
(John predeceased)
BOWES of Shorter, Alabama.
Predeceased by brothers and sisters and in-laws Tony (Margaret)
TRUDEAU, Isadore (Marge)
WEMIGWANS, Lena (Bova)
GRENIER, and Francis
(Nestor) KARMINSKI.
Will be sadly missed by Godchildren Jonathon
DEBASSIGE,
Alison
RECOLLET, Darcy
SPANISH, and many nieces, nephews and cousins.
Rested at St. Ignatius Church, Buzwah. Funeral Mass was held at Holy
Cross Mission, Wikwemikong on Monday, December 15, 2003 at 11: 00 a.m.
with Father Doug McCarthy s.j. officiating. Cremation at the Sagamok
Anishnawbek First Nations Crematorium. Lougheed Funeral Home.
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EADIE o@ca.on.manitoulin.howland.little_current.manitoulin_expositor 2003-12-22 published
EADIE
-In loving memory of our dear son and brother, Barry Lynn, who left us suddenly December 28, 1971.
Forever missed,
Forever loved,
Forever in our hearts.
-Dearly loved and sadly missed by Mom and Dad and family.
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EADIE o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-07-05 published
EADIE,
Laura ''Ruth'' (née
CUNNINGHAM)
Died peacefully, on Thursday, July 3rd, 2003, at Trillium Health
Centre in Mississauga. Born January 19th, 1922. Predeceased by
her first husband Lt. Eric
SUTHERLAND, she then became the wonderful
and devoted wife to her beloved husband ''Al'' (Allan W.)
EADIE.
Brilliant and loving mother of Sandra Jean
STURDY and her husband
Giles.
Dearly loved grandmother ''Nan'' of Anna
MacLEAN and her
husband Malcolm, Catherine
HACKNEY and Robert and Michael
STURDY
(all residing in England.) Much loved ''Greatnan'' of Oscar
MacLEAN.
Ruth was a woman hugely loved and respected by a multitude of
wonderful Friends and a woman of many talents
porcelain painter, artist, calligrapher, golfer and long term
Imperial Order of the Daughters of the Empire member. A Funeral
Service will be held at Humber Valley United Church, 76 Anglesey
Blvd. in Etobicoke, on Tuesday, July 8th, 2003 at 2 o'clock.
Private family interment. Floral tributes to Turner and Porter
Yorke Chapel. Remembrances to Famous People Players, 33 Lisgar
Street, Toronto, Ontario M6J 3T3.
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EADIE o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-08-13 published
EADIE, Lt. Colonel G. Fraser,
DSO, CD of the 1st Canadian Parachute
Battalion
Died peacefully at home in Oakville on August 11, 2003. Fraser
was born July 20, 1917 in Winnipeg. He worked with the Ford Motor
Company in assignments across Canada and Abroad. He retired from
Ford with 46 years of service having made many Friends and satisfied
many customers. Fraser served overseas during World War 2 earning
many decorations including: Distinguished Service Order, 39-45
Star, France and Gemany Star, Defence Medal, Canadian Volunteer
Service Medal and Class, War Medal 39-45 and the American Silver
Star.
Fraser is predeceased by his wife Lu (Kathleen
HALLILEY)
and son David. He is survived by his wife Eileen, sons Jim and
Rob, step daughter Kathy
NICKLIN, nieces Jane and Charlotte,
grandchildren Cayre, Steve, Diane, James, Sarah, Christopher,
Brant NICKLIN,
Lisa
NICKLIN and great grandchildren Ryan, Reese
and MacKenzie. Services will be held Friday August 15 at 2: 30
pm at St. Jude's Anglican Church, 160 William Street, Oakville,
Ontario with interment following at Trafalgar Lawn Cemetery.
Family and Friends are invited back to a reception at the Oakville
Conference and Banquet Centre (Holiday Inn, south east corner
Bronte Rd and Queen Elizabeth Way Oakville) at 4 p.m. In lieu
of flowers donations to the M.S. Society would be gratefully
appreciated.
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EADIE o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-08-15 published
Godfather of Canadian paratroops
'Superb combat leader' led a courageous allied rush to the Baltic
in the closing days of Second World War
By John WARD,
Ottawa
Fraser EADIE, a legendary soldier who commanded the 1st Canadian
Parachute Battalion in the waning days of the Second World War
and went on to be the godfather to generations of post-war paratroopers,
has died at age 86.
During the war, Mr.
EADIE fought through northern Europe and
led his battalion to Wismar, on Germany's Baltic coast, as the
fighting ended.
His men remembered him as a disciplinarian who would nod at unorthodox
tactics that worked. In the postwar period, he was patron of
Canada's paratroop association. He served as honorary colonel
of the Canadian Airborne Regiment from 1989 until it was disbanded
in disgrace in 1994 after the Somalia affair.
In 1993, at the age of 76, he marked the Airborne's 25th anniversary
by making a parachute jump with the outfit.
"He was a natural leader, a superb combat leader," said Bob
LOCKHART,
a retired paratroop officer who knew Mr.
EADIE well after the
war.
Mr. EADIE began his military career as a militia soldier in the
1930s, serving as a private in both the Calgary Highlanders and
the Royal Winnipeg Rifles.
After the war broke out, he left his job with the Ford Motor
Co. for the army and went overseas as a lieutenant with the Rifles.
He was promoted to captain and then major, and took a parachute
course before joining the fledgling parachute battalion. As a
hockey player before the war, he was in top physical shape. He
breezed through gruelling training which left many gasping by
the wayside.
In March, 1944, the battalion took part in Operation Varsity,
leapfrogging the Rhine River into Germany.
The jump zone was heavily defended and the battalion commander,
Lieutenant-Colonel Jeff
NICKLIN, was killed. One story says he
died when he landed in a clump of trees directly above a German
machine-gun nest, but Jan
DEVRIES, who was a private at the time,
doubts that.
"NICKLIN was actually probably dead before he came into the trees
because he sailed right over a German machine-gun," Mr.
DEVRIES
said.
With the commander dead and the landing under heavy fire, the
Canadians were in a crisis.
"Fraser immediately assumed command," said Mr.
DEVRIES.
He rallied the men and despite heavy casualties -- 25 killed,
about 50 wounded and 20 missing out of 475 -- he led them to
seize their objectives.
The battalion jumped into Normandy on D-Day, June 6, 1944, as
part of a larger British unit. The Canadians fought in Normandy
for weeks and helped break the German army in France.
Mr. DEVRIES said Mr.
EADIE showed a sense of humour even in combat.
He recalled an incident in Normandy when Mr.
EADIE spotted a
German tank and called for artillery support, telling the gunners
he faced a Tiger tank, a formidable piece of armour. When a corporal
pointed out that the tank was, in fact, a smaller though still
potent Mark IV, Mr.
EADIE smiled at him: "Don't spoil a good
story."
Mr. EADIE was awarded the Distinguished Service Order, promoted
to lieutenant-colonel and confirmed as battalion commander.
In the final weeks of the war, the battalion was paired with
a British armoured unit, driving into northern Germany. The Canadians
commandeered cars, trucks and other vehicles and outran the British,
Mr. Lockhart said.
"They were moving so fast with their captured cars and such that
the armoured battalion ran out of gas."
At one point, a British general arrived to inspect the regiment
and was shocked to find some soldiers decked out in German parachute
smocks, others sporting looted bowler hats.
Mr. EADIE was driving a big German staff car at the time and
was hardly in a position to complain. He remembered later that
the general was taken aback by the scorn for dress regulations.
He told Mr.
EADIE: "I saw one fellow wearing what looked like
a rugby sweater embossed with the words, Flin Flon."
Mr. EADIE said the general never did figure out what that meant
and no one enlightened him.
Mr. DEVRIES said the Canadians, in company with the Royal Scots
Greys, an armoured outfit, eventually ran into the Russians on
the Baltic.
"Their orders were to go to Denmark," Mr.
DEVRIES said. Mr.
EADIE
would have none of that and confronted the Russians, telling
his men "Get ready lads."
"He told the Russian officer, 'you better have 10 men for my
one.'"
The Russians backed down.
The official history of the Canadian Army notes: "Wismar, taken
by Lt.-Col.
EADIE's men and the Royal Scots Greys was in fact
the most easterly point reached by any Commonwealth troops in
this campaign and the first point where any Commonwealth troops
serving in it made contact with the Russian ally.
"It is satisfactory that a Canadian battalion was there."
The battalion went home in September, 1945, and was disbanded.
Mr. EADIE went back to Ford, where he spent 46 years in all.
Canadian Press
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