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CHOCIEJ,
Malgorzata
(Margaret)
Margaret was born in Krakow, Poland in 1956. There she met her
husband Jacek when they were both students. In 1990, together
with their two children, they emigrated to Canada. Margaret obtained
a law degree in Poland and applied this training to a related
career with Singer Kwinter. Margaret passed away on May 20, 2003
at Princess Margaret Hospital. She leaves behind her loving children
Greg and Zuzanna, mother Stanislawa
ZWOLINSKA, sisters Anna
SKALSKA
and Wisia HUBERT, brothers-in-law Sidney
FIREMAN and Tadek
HUBERT,
niece and nephew Anna and Tom
HUBERT and dear friend David
HEGGIE.
She is predeceased by her husband Jacek who died in 1998. Margaret
loved life. In her 47 years she did so much and there was so
much she wanted to do and experience. Her favourite pastime was
singing. She was an ardent reader and enjoyed debating. She was
a supportive and loving mother. She brought smiles on rainy days
and was never far away from a friend in need. Margaret will always
be missed by the many people who loved her. Visitation will be
at the Turner and Porter Funeral Home, 436 Roncesvalles Avenue,
Toronto, Thursday, May 22, 5-8 p.m. with Rosary at 6 p.m. Funeral
Mass will be at St. Casimir's Church, 156 Roncesvalles Avenue,
Friday, May 23 at 10 a.m. Interment Park Lawn Cemetery. In lieu
of flowers, donations to the Princess Margaret Foundation (416-946-6560)
or Wellspring (416-961-1928) would be appreciated.
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FIRMAN o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-08-09 published
Bishop served Ukrainian Catholics
Priest confronted the Vatican over mandatory retirement and ordination
of married ministers
By Jordan HEATH-
RAWLINGS
Saturday,
August 9, 2003 - Page F10
Toronto -- Isidore
BORECKY, who served as Ukrainian Eparch for
Toronto and Eastern Canada for more than half a century, died
in his sleep on July 23 at Toronto Western Hospital after a long
illness. He was 92.
His death came mere hours before Reverend Stephen
CHMILAR was installed
as Ukrainian Catholic bishop of Toronto and Eastern Canada, the
post Father
BORECKY fought long and hard to keep.
Born in Ostrivets, Ukraine, on October 1, 1911, Father
BORECKY
dedicated more than 60 years of his life to the priesthood, and
spent his time fostering religious vocations, establishing lay
organizations, churches and senior citizens homes for Ukrainian
Catholics.
Father BORECKY,
Canada's last bishop ordained by Pope Pius Twelfth,
entered the priesthood in Munich in July of 1938. He then left
Germany for Canada in November of the same year.
From 1938 to 1941, he worked in several churches in Saskatchewan
and Manitoba. In 1941, he was appointed pastor at Saint John the
Baptist Church in Brantford, Ontario, where he would work for
seven years, serving his faithful as well as mission parishes
in nearby Grimsby, Niagara Falls, St. Catharines, Thorold and
Welland.
On March 3, 1948, Father
BORECKY was named by Pope Pius Twelfth to
the post of Apostolic Exarch of Eastern Canada. He was consecrated
in St. Michael's Cathedral on May 27, and began to organize the
new exarchate. During the next eight years, he would achieve
his most memorable goal, as the exarchate was raised to the status
of eparchy, or diocese, in 1956.
Some of Father
BORECKY's most notable work came in Toronto during
this period, when he oversaw the rise of many Catholic church
institutions -- he encouraged parishioners to erect St. Michael's
Roman Catholic Church -- and helped to integrate Eastern Rite
Catholic schools into the framework of what would eventually
become the Toronto Catholic District School Board.
On February 24, 1952, Father
BORECKY celebrated a divine liturgy
at St. Teresa's Church, and during the service he encouraged
the faithful to begin the construction of their own church building.
A church property was purchased for $1,500 and
on March 22, 1954,
Father BORECKY blessed it. Parishioners donated their time and
labour and
on September 6, 1954, the parish hall was opened.
The consecration of the church was celebrated on October 16,
1954, and Reverend
Walter
FIRMAN was appointed the first parish priest.
As leader of Canada's largest Ukrainian Catholic diocese, Father
BORECKY was very approachable, said Reverend Taras
DUSANOWSKYJ, who
is currently pastor at St. Peter and Paul Ukrainian Catholic
Church in Toronto.
"He was very much oriented towards his people," he said. "He
was very welcoming, open and certainly ecumenical.
"He had a relationship with everyone. He knew all his clergy
by name, he knew a lot of the parishioners. He was a very warm
person."
He was also a man who stood devoutly for his eparchy's right
to practise the Eastern Rites.
Serving as bishop at a time after the Vatican decreed in 1929
that no married men could be ordained into the priesthood, he
would arrange for his priests who had wives or wished to marry
to be transported to Yugoslavia or Ukraine, where they could
be ordained in the traditional Eastern rites, which does not
require celibacy.
Father DUSANOWSKYJ, who is one of 40 married priests out of about
75 in the eparchy, said the Vatican did not take well to his
plans, but couldn't stop a man who was so strong-minded.
"Certainly there were times when he got his wrist slapped, or
he would be called in so they could complain," he said. "But
for the most part he simply ignored it because he knew that this
was part of our tradition, and without married clergy our eparchy
would have been in a tremendous shortage."
Father BORECKY kept the title of bishop until 1998, at the age
of 86, 11 years past his required retirement age, when he relinquished
it after five years of sparring with the Vatican over the naming
of bishop Roman
DANYLAK as apostolic administrator for the Toronto
eparchy.
Father BORECKY confronted the Vatican over the rule, which states
that bishops must retire at the age of 75. He contended that
the rule did not apply to him, as he was leader of an Eastern
Rite church.
One last accolade came in December of last year, when Ukrainian
President Leonid
KUCHMA gave him, along with Archbishop Vsevolod
MAJDANSKI of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in the United States,
special commendation orders for service to Ukraine.
Father BORECKY's funeral was held on July 26 at the Ukrainian
Catholic Church of the Holy Dormition, his funeral mass led by
Ukraine's
Cardinal
Lubomyr
HUSAR, the Major Archbishop of Lviv
and spiritual leader to more than five million Ukrainian Catholics
worldwide. He has been buried in the family plot at Mount Peace
Cemetery.
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FIRTH o@ca.on.manitoulin.howland.little_current.manitoulin_expositor 2003-11-26 published
Engelina Johanna
(TRYSSENAAR)
VELDHUYZEN
On Tuesday, November 4, 2003 at the Coleman Care Centre, Barrie, in her 93rd year.
Beloved wife of the late Benjamin, formerly of Corunna and Stayner.
Loving mother of Hendrika
VAN
KOOTEN
(Jerry) of
Minesing,
Benjamin (the late Elsie) of Evansville, Trudy
MARSHALL
(Bruce) of Bethany and Hendrik (Carol
GOVER) of Pt. Claire. Dear
sister of Laurens (Christina) of Listowel, Johanna
BOS
(John) of
Elmira and the late Theodorus
JACOBUS,
Hendrika
VAN
DELFT and Pieter.
Grandmother of Michele and Jerry
VAN
KOOTEN, Frederick, Allen, and
Janet VELDHUYZEN,
Krystina and Scott
FIRTH. Great-grandmother of
Angelina Nicole and Michael
VAN
KOOTEN. A Service to celebrate
Engelina's life will be held on Saturday, November 29 at 1 p.m. in
the Anten Mills Community Centre, 3985 Horseshoe Valley Road, Anten
Mills. Arrangements and cremation entrusted to Peaceful Transition, Barrie.
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FIRTH o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-05-14 published
Glenna (FIRTH)
CICCONE
By Patrick
CICCONE and Antonio
CICCONE
Wednesday,
May 14, 2003
- Page A18
Mother, iconoclast, farm worker, sportswoman, world traveller.
Born April 3, 1944, in Timmins, Ontario Died March 13, in Parry
Sound, Ontario, of cancer, aged 58.
Glenna was a small-framed woman, yet she always appeared much
taller than her actual size. Not endowed with conventional beauty,
her darting blue eyes, sharp tanned features and thick, white,
shoulder-length hair always made her stand out in a crowd.
Her father, William
FIRTH, was the
son of a stern United Church
minister from New Brunswick. Her mother, Sarah
JUDGE, born into
a staunch French/Irish Catholic family from Buckingham, Quebec,
was a steely, no-nonsense nurse. When the two married in Timmins,
Ontario, none of their family members showed up.
Glenna had a mind of her own: At 3, in one of those obligatory
pony portraits of the day, she sits warily on top of a cute black-and-white
pony. From the girlish scowl on her chubby cheeks, you knew that
she wanted no part of it.
After graduating from teachers' college, while colleagues fretted
over careers and bungalows in the suburbs, she hitchhiked from
Morocco to Oslo, occasionally teaching in various Montessori
schools.
Glenna wasn't just unpredictable, she was outspoken. As a teacher
in Timmins, she was posted to an open-concept school. While her
colleagues complained privately, she would declare at every opportunity:
"It stinks." Unrepentant, she resigned before certain dismissal.
But it was Glenna's childlike enthusiasm that really set her
apart. As a newlywed, she and her husband Tony moved to a three-acre
lot in Timmins. This was her paradise-by-the-lake. Still, even
it could do with an adjustment. Thus, in the early 1970s, Glenna's
vehicle of choice was a heavy duty 4x4 Dodge Extendacab.
"It'll help me with the rocks and trees," she concluded. She
eventually transplanted more than 160 trees, many more than eight
feet tall. And her massive retaining rock wall would have made
any Italian mason proud.
This enthusiasm spilled over to skiing and swimming, her favourite
sports. If she was swimming, she had to swim across the lake.
If she was on the trail, nothing less than a combined 15 and
10 kilometre run would suffice, and if she was on the slopes,
a stop at the chalet was a sacrilege.
As a mother, nothing changed. As soon as her son Patrick started
walking, she strapped a pair of tiny skis to his feet. While
others carted their children to the local pool for lessons, she
urged him to swim across the lake with her.
Even in the face of serious sickness and economic misfortune,
her enthusiasm never wavered. In 1992, she survived surgery and
chemotherapy for breast cancer; in 1993, after devastating economic
losses, she was forced to move with her family to rural Abruzzo,
Italy. Relishing her new role, she relentlessly weeded and pruned
the family olive grove and fruit garden, even if her zeal occasionally
raised an eyebrow with her father-in-law.
In no other case was her enthusiasm more evident than with Nicki,
the family's pet husky. Precisely at 10 a.m., 2 p.m. and 10 p.m.
each day she fed (always in a very clean bowl) and walked Nicki.
The 2 p.m. walk was usually a three-hour trek.
In 2003, on her annual visit to Parry Sound, she discovered that
the cancer had metastasized to her liver. When told that she
could not donate her organs, she immediately bequeathed her body
to the anatomy department at the University of Toronto's Faculty
of Medicine.
Love her or hate her, the people who either knew Glenna or saw
her with Nicki would agree that she was always true to herself
and that she added brilliant colour to the tapestry of human
existence.
Antonio is Glenna's husband, Patrick her son.
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FIRTH o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-09-08 published
FIRTH,
Zena
Died peacefully at her home on Friday, September 5, 2003, at
the age of 86 years. Beloved wife of 66 years to Bill; loving
Mother to Marion, (Sam
TURCHIARO,)
Mark and the late Robert (Bob)
cherished Grandmother to Dean, Neal, Marcel, Sean, Amanda, Matthew
and Mackenzie, and their mother Lynn, and Great-Grandmother to
Ty and Tucker. Dear sister of Tina
WRIGHT of England. Zena and
Bill and their children emigrated to Canada from England in 1957.
Zena pursued a career as a teacher, and was Principal of Bishop
Strachan Junior School from 1970 to 1980. Her gentle humour and
sensitivity brought out the best in everyone. She touched many
lives. The family will receive Friends at the Humphrey Funeral
Home - A.W. Miles Chapel, 1403 Bayview Avenue (South of Eglinton
Avenue East) from 5-8 p.m. on Sunday and Monday. Mass of Christian
Burial at Holy Rosary Church, 354 St. Clair Avenue West, on Tuesday
at 1: 30 o'clock. Interment Mount Pleasant Cemetery. In lieu of
flowers, donations to the Hospital for Sick Children Foundation,
555 University Ave., Toronto, M5G 1X8.
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