FLEGEL
FLEMING/FLEMMING
FLETCHER
FLEXMAN
FLEGEL o@ca.on.manitoulin.howland.little_current.manitoulin_expositor 2003-08-06 published
Margaret "Maggie"
BOND
In Ottawa, Wednesday, July 20, 2003. Maggie
BOND age 41. Beloved wife of Brian
FLEGEL.
Dear daughter of Shirley
BOND and the late Albert
BOND.
Sister of Douglas
BOND
(friend Diane) and Diane (Charles
COSBY.)
Maggie will be fondly remembered by
many nieces and nephews, family and Friends. A service of memory of Maggie
was held in the Chapel of the Kelly Funeral Home, 1255 Walkley Road (Ottawa)
Sunday, August 3rd at 11 am. Kelly Funeral Home (613) 235-6712.
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FLEGEL o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-09-20 published
RUHR, Sister Teresita (Mary), Institute of the Blessed Virgin
Mary
Died peacefully on Thursday September 18, 2003 at Loretto Infirmary
after a lengthy illness. Sister was in her 65th year as a member
of the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Loretto Sisters).
Daughter of the late Christian
RUHR and Magdelena
EXNER of Grayson,
Saskatchewan. Predeceased by brothers John (Anne), Anthony (Anne),
Frank
(Isabel,)
Brother-in-law Phil
FLEGEL, and sisters Johanna
(George) RIEGER and Eva (Joseph)
DUCZEK. Survived by sisters
Sister Rose
RUHR, I.B.V.M. of Toronto, Sophie (Edward)
MATERI
of Grayson, Betty
FLEGEL of Regina and numerous nieces and nephews.
In addition to teaching at Loretto Abbey in Toronto, Sister Teresita
also taught in Sedley, Saskatoon and Weyburn, Saskatchewan. Sister
Teresita also served as Local Superior for fifteen years as a
General Councillor for fourteen years and as a Regional Councillor
for four years. Friends may call at the Loretto Abbey, 101 Mason
Blvd. on Sunday from 2: 00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. to
9: 00 p.m. Prayers will be at 7:30 p.m. Sunday. A Mass of Christian
Burial will be celebrated at Loretto Abbey Chapel on Monday September
22 at 10: 00 a.m. Interment at Mount Hope Cemetery following the
Mass.
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FLEMING/FLEMMING o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-02-13 published
Gordon Kenneth
FLEMING/FLEMMING
By Jack FORTIN
Thursday,
February 13, 2003, Page A30
Musician, husband, father. Born August 3, 1931, in Winnipeg.
Died August 31, 2002, in Scarborough, Ontario, following a stroke,
aged 71.
Gordie FLEMING/FLEMMING was a remarkable music talent, known internationally
as a master of the accordion, especially in the jazz idiom. He
was a life member of Local 149 of the Toronto Musicians' Association.
In show-business vernacular, Gordie was "born in a trunk." He
began playing accordion when his older brother gave him lessons.
His musical ability was such that he began performing publicly
at the age of five. His schoolteachers often saw him being whisked
away in a taxi to perform at theatres and radio stations in Winnipeg.
By the age of 10, he was a working member of various bands in
that city.
In 1949, Gordie lost his accordion in a fire at a Winnipeg hotel.
With the insurance money, he headed for the bright lights of
Montreal where he soon became an important part of that city's
musical life. His accordion ability was complemented by the fact
that he was also a gifted arranger and composer.
He had a marvellous ability to improvise and could string out
complex bebop lines, leaving his listeners in awe. He often slipped
a jazz phrase into ballads or commercial tunes, confirming that
jazz was indeed his first love.
One of Montreal's busiest musicians, he wrote for local orchestras,
shows, radio and television. He had perfect pitch and often wrote
without reference to a keyboard. He was at home in every type
of music from classics to jazz. For several years, he worked
at the National Film Board as a composer and musician.
In Montreal, Gordie performed with many show business headliners:
there was a wealth of home-grown talent in Montreal, such as
Oscar PETERSON and Maynard
FERGUSON, as well as other jazz musicians
who were beginning to be noticed.
Gordie had said that when when he first heard bebop it was like
entering another world. As his career indicates, he had no trouble
in that world. He worked with many personalities including: Charlie
PARKER, Mel
TORMÉ, Hank
SNOW, Lena
HORNE, Englebert
HUMPERDINCK,
Dennis DAY, Gordon
MacRAE, Cab
CALLOWAY, Nat King
COLE, Cat
STEVENS,
Rich LITTLE, Billy
ECKSTEIN, Pee Wee
HUNT, Arthur
GODFREY and
Buddy DEFRANCO.
He also performed with Tommy
AMBROSE,
Allan
MILLS, Wally
KOSTER,
Tommy HUNTER,
Bert
NIOSI, Wayne and Shuster, Canadian Broadcasting
Corporation jazz shows with Al
BACULIS, and many other Canadian
jazz musicians.
On Montreal's French music scene, Gordie performed on radio and
television with Emile
GENEST, Ti-Jean
CARIGNAN,
André
GAGNON
and Ginette
RENO. He was a featured soloist with the Montreal
Symphony Orchestra on several occasions.
Internationally, Gordie toured France in 1952 and performed with
Edith PIAF and Tino
ROSSI. He had the honour to perform for former
prime minister Pierre Elliot
TRUDEAU at a Commonwealth Conference.
He participated with other top Canadian musicians in a Canadian
Broadcasting Corporation tour to entertain Canadian and the North
Atlantic Treaty Organization troops in Europe in 1952 and 1968.
For me, a memorable experience was playing in a group with Gordie
for several winters in Florida. A popular member of the Panama
City Beach family of musicians, Gordie looked forward to his
winter trek south. Many of the American musicians will miss him,
as will the many snowbirds who looked forward to hearing him
each year.
His extensive repertoire allowed Gordie to author a book called
Music of the World, in which he wrote the music to 280 songs
from more than 30 countries.
Gordie leaves his wife of 47 years, Joanne, and seven children.
Jack FORTIN is Gordie's friend.
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FLEMING/FLEMMING o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-05-26 published
WEDLOCK,
Walter
Bertram
We announce the sudden passing of Walter Bertram
WEDLOCK of Scarborough
at the age of 72 years. Born at London, Ontario, Walter moved
to Toronto in 1949. He was the
son of Walter
WEDLOCK (died 1980)
and Helen WEDLOCK (died 1986.) Walter will be sadly missed and
fondly remembered by his life-long Friends: Marion
FLEMING/FLEMMING of
Manotick and Elizabeth
FLEMING/FLEMMING of Mississauga and her children
Nancy CRAWFORD of Acton and Derek
FLEMING/FLEMMING of Mississauga. A funeral
service in commemoration of Walter's life will be held in St.
George's Anglican Church, 3765 St. Clair Ave. E., on Wednesday,
May 28, 2003 at 1 p.m. with the Reverend Gord
KING officiating.
Walter was interred with his parents in Resthaven Memorial Gardens.
Arrangements entrusted to McDougall and Brown Funeral Home.
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FLETCHER o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-07-21 published
Deborah FLETCHER
By Blaine MARCHAND,
Monday,
July 21, 2003 - Page A14
Sister, daughter, friend. Born December 31, 1948, in Ottawa.
Died February 11, of cancer, aged 54.
Dear friends," the e-mails began, although most had never met
one another. Their common element was Friendship with Deborah
FLETCHER.
The intimacy of e-mail brought testimonials of Friendship across
decades, articulations of grief that someone so filled with the
spirit of the world should pass away. One e-mail thanked her
family: "You nurtured and encouraged and polished a wonderful
spirit, and then generously gave her to the world. You helped
make her an idealist with feet planted firmly on the ground."
Deborah was the eldest child, born to Jack and Doris. Two brothers,
Randy and Dennis, followed her. The
FLETCHERs instilled in their
children wit, kind-heartedness, and fidelity to family. The extended
FLETCHER clan reached from the Ottawa Valley down into the United
States.
Following high-school, Deborah, interested in journalism, went
to Algonquin College. Upon graduation in 1971, encouraged by
her Aunt Elsie to go to Europe and "get it out of your system,"
Deborah marshalled Friends in the course to go along. The power
of that visit stayed with her. She returned repeatedly, often
with those Friends, to Provence and Tuscany.
After the first trip, she headed to the West Kootenays. Drawn
to the beauty of British Columbia, yet also back to her childhood
city, she shaped a career in Vancouver and Ottawa, maintaining
apartments in both cities. These she filled with objets d'art:
she was the one who searched for beauty and bought the best,
the one who made every moment a celebration.
Always self-employed, Deborah was a prototypical "new age" worker.
An e-mail read: "I try to recap her careers in my mind: journalist,
food critic, teen drop-in-centre co-ordinator, children's bookstore
owner, events promoter, media co-ordinator, video writer and
producer." Underlying these choices were her curiosity, creativity
and a commitment to challenge and change the world. A global
villager, she worked for (to name a few): Canadian International
Development Agency, Foreign Affairs, the Aga Khan Foundation.
Personal travel took her all across Canada. No matter where she
was, she nourished Friendships. As one e-mail stated: "There
was that magical spark of Friendships among her Friends, many
of whom moved in separate orbits around Deb and didn't know each
other."
Her reach extended to the younger generation. When in Ottawa,
she frequently had her two nieces over for sleepovers. The daughter
of longtime Friends wrote "I knew I was on the right track to
womanhood when Deborah was so taken with the colour of my lipstick,
she directed us straight to the nearest drugstore and bought
it." More recently, she had received a note praising a childhood
drawing Deb had come across. "She wrote that I was unconcerned
with neat printing and careful outlines, I was just caught up
in creating and it showed. It is with the spirit of Deborah that
I hope to continue to use bold colour to paint the experience
of this life..."
In February, 2002, Deb was diagnosed with cancer. Determined
to defeat the disease, family and Friends encouraged and assisted
her. Six years earlier, she had met Paul
WALSKE, who became the
love of her life. "In the beginning it was probably the sound
of her laugh... we all know that sound. I think I knew at the
very start that I could love her just for that alone." In January
of this year, they married in her hospital room decorated with
giant peach-coloured roses Paul had bought.
As someone wrote: "In the end, family and Friends are everything.
Family can be Friends and Friends can be family." No one exemplified
this more than Deb.
Blaine is Deborah
FLETCHER's friend.
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FLETCHER o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-10-23 published
COLLINS, Joyce Amanda (formerly
WHITING, née
JOHNSON)
Died October 21, 2003 at St. Joseph's Villa, Dundas in her 83rd
year. She was born on February 1, 1921 in Maidstone, Saskatchewan
to Frank and Amanda
JOHNSON, the youngest of 6 children. She
is predeceased by her brothers Fred and Enos, sisters Ruth, Elma
and Hilda. Joyce is also predeceased by her first husband Frank
WHITING. Survived by her husband William and her sons Robert
WHITING (Lan Wei), Kenneth
WHITING (Jane), Douglas
WHITING (Darlene)
and daughters Margaret (Fraser
FLETCHER,)
Susan
WHITING (Alan
DESCHNER) and step-daughter Patti (Randy
SKINNER.)
Also survived
by 11 grandchildren and a great-grand_son. Special thanks to Bonnie
Bon for her special care and love during the past few years.
Joyce was a graduate from the College of Household Sciences (1941),
University of Saskatchewan and practiced as a hospital dietitian
in Ottawa and Fredericton. Cremation. A Celebration of Joyce's
Life will be held on Saturday, October 25 at Binkley United Church,
1570 Main Street West, Hamilton at 2 o'clock. Private inurnment
White Chapel Memorial Gardens. In lieu of flowers, donations
may be sent to Joyce Collins Bursary c/o University of Saskatchewan,
Sasktoon S7N 5C9.
catteleatonandchambers.ca
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FLEXMAN o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-02-24 published
Muriel (ADAM/ADAMS)
FLEXMAN
By Bruce FLEXMAN
Monday,
February 24, 2003 - Page A14
Mother, grandmother, journalist, woman's editor. Born August
25, 1912, in Toronto. Died November 30, 2002 in Collingwood,
Ontario, of natural causes, aged 90.
Amid a family of high achievers, Muriel was often heard to proclaim
that she had a PhD in Life. And that is what she imparted to
her family and grand-families. She had an interesting life with
an extraordinary blend of experiences that contributed to her
"doctorate."
While most of her life was spent in Ontario, she spent her youth
and formative years in Calgary and never lost her western roots.
Deprived of a strong family unit by the departure of her father
and early death of her mother, she worked tirelessly to create
a strong bond for her own family.
After graduation from high school, Muriel developed her self-confidence
by taking a job as a bank teller before moving to her real vocation
observing people and events with insight, a critical eye,
a strong sense of humour and a splash of colour. This was her
gift as a reporter.
A defining moment in her life occurred when Canadian Press Newswire
Services selected Muriel, a female news reporter, to cover the
historic Royal Visit of King George 6th and the Queen Mother
in 1939. As the youngest member of the media entourage, she travelled
on the royal train across Canada, filing stories and developing
a tremendous admiration and lifelong bond with the Queen Mother.
Muriel's keen interest in the Queen Mother endured. She attended
a reunion with the Queen Mother in 1989 on the 50th anniversary
of the Royal Tour. On the Queen Mother's death last year, Canadian
Broadcasting Corporation-Television
featured Muriel as one of the few living persons who could still
relate (at the age of 89) the magic of the 1939 Royal Tour and
bring it alive for all of us.
After the Royal Tour, a young Major Kenneth
FLEXMAN (her devoted
husband) and Muriel put newspaper aspirations on hold as they
proceeded to create a family of five children: Bruce, Nora, Nancy,
Barbara and Keith. Few of us today can appreciate the challenges
of raising a young family during the war years. My father was
away at war for five years and returned for only one brief visit
to augment the family. During the war, my mother moved the
family from coast to coast -- a common experience of the day
as women sought out family and scarce support systems.
With war's end came stability as my father's military career
played out in Ottawa; the children flourished in the stimulating
atmosphere of the nation's capital. Muriel was active in the
Mothercare Society, Girl Guides and was an ardent supporter of
Charlotte WHITTON, the first woman to be elected mayor of Ottawa.
When my father retired, my mother returned to her love of the
newspaper world and launched her second career as the woman's
editor of the Ottawa Citizen. She continued to bring her keen
instincts and life observations to an even wider audience through
her writing.
Retirement allowed my mother and father to travel and expand
their life experiences. In many cases, travel was an excuse to
keep an eye on one or another child who had sojourned to some
far-off place. My father in 1988 died while they were in Majorca
and the Canary Islands, celebrating their 49th wedding anniversary.
Like the Queen Mother, my mother brought a zest to life that
she shared in abundance with her readers, her children and her
grandchildren. In later years, as her body and mind slowed, she
never stopped the life-lectures that helped guide the course of our lives.
While professor Muriel
FLEXMAN, self-proclaimed PhD (Life) will
not be delivering any more formal lectures on her favourite topics
of character, integrity and family, we are all blessed to have
been touched by her life.
Bruce is Muriel's son.
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