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GERHART
GERMAN
GERRY
GERSHENOVITZ
GERARD o@ca.on.manitoulin.howland.little_current.manitoulin_expositor 2003-01-29 published
Lawrence Stephen
MIGWANS
In loving memory of Lawrence Stephen
MIGWANS,
September 26, 1925 to January 13, 2003.
Larry MIGWANS, a resident of the Wellness Centre, M'Chigeeng, passed
away at the Manitoulin Health Centre, Mindemoya on Monday, January
13, 2003 at the age of 77 years. He was born at M'Chigeeng, son of
the late David and Madelene
(DEBASSIGE)
MIGWANS.
Larry joined the
army at the age of 16 and served overseas in World War 2, and was a
member of Branch #177 Royal Canadian Legion, Little Current. He also
enjoyed playing the violin and guitar, and working in his garden.
Predeceased by his wife Desira
(BEBONING)
MIGWANS. Loving father of
Mabel NOLAND, Caroline
BEBONING, Patrick
BEBONING, Martina
MIGWANS,
Lorraine, Patsy, Carol, Kerry and Brenda
WEMIGWANS. Loved
grandfather of several grandchildren and great grandchildren. Dear
brother of Agnes (predeceased,) Annie
BISSON,
Regina,
Raymond
(predeceased,) Pauline
CORBIERE (predeceased,) Melvina
GERARD
(predeceased,) Christine
PAGE,
Nora
MIGWANS, Maurice,
Kenneth and
Francis MIGWANS.
Also survived by many nieces and nephews.
Friends called at the M'Chigeeng Complex. The funeral mass was
celebrated at Immaculate Conception Church, M'Chigeeng, on Friday,
January 17, 2003 with Father Robert
FOLIOT as celebrant. Interment
in M'Chigeeng Cemetery. Culgin Funeral Home
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GERHART o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-11-08 published
'There are too many ruined boys'
By Erin ANDERSSEN,
Saturday,
November 8, 2003 - Page F6
Parry
Sound,
Ontario -- Clara
WHITE/WHYTE began her voyage into war
by losing her purse on the way to the train. It was September
15, 1915. Her diary names it "a bright sunshiny day" and notes
the crowd's "rousing send off." The soldiers and nurses, Ms.
WHITE/WHYTE among them, left Toronto for a Montreal military ship and
a voyage, beyond Wales and icebergs, to a continent of falling
bombs and death.
She landed in London first, with time on her hands, as she wrote
in her red, leather-bound diary, to shop, sip tea and tour the
galleries.
Clara WHITE/WHYTE was not one to sit idly by. At times, her account
of the First World War -- enlivened by daily weather reports,
notes on the cost of things (60 cents then for a pie) and the
"peculiar" fashion of the day -- reads more like a Grand Tour
than a Great War. She wanders the Zoological Gardens in London,
dines at the Grand Hotel du Louvre in Boulogne and climbs the
1,224 steps of the cathedral in Rouen, making it to the top even
when "the other girls gave up the ascent."
Nursing the sick and wounded in camps at Rouen and Solonika,
Ms. WHITE/WHYTE surely would have seen the cost of war, but her diary
focuses instead on the bits of life she could find in the midst
of it.
"There are," she writes in one letter home, "too many ruined
boys around now." But she barely details in her diary what has
ruined them. She tells in spare sentences of working in the German
measles tent or waiting for the typhoid patients to arrive; she
makes antiseptic note of bombs overhead. Two stitches in her
own cheek merit a single line and no explanation.
Maybe you didn't talk of such things then, her great-niece, Phyllis
GERHART, speculated. And perhaps this is what Ms.
WHITE/WHYTE wanted
to remember: the cherry-strawberry supper in her tent on Dominion
Day, "the boys" caroling on Christmas Eve, tea with the other
nurses to plan for a "grand masquerade to celebrate the closing
of 1915" -- even as bombs fell nearby, injuring some men and
killing a shepherd and six sheep.
Her descendants don't know much about her, beyond the small diary.
It sat for decades in a dresser drawer in the bedroom of her
niece, Laura
BAKER, and was eventually passed to her daughter,
Ms. GERHART, who lives now in Parry Sound.
Ms. WHITE/WHYTE's mother is believed to have died when she was young,
and her father to have been connected to the silk trade. The
family lived in Toronto, near the Danforth, and Clara and her
sister, Alice, were raised in a proper, middle-class Victorian
household.
The sisters were close, but took separate paths: Alice helped
at home and eventually married and had a family, while Clara
escaped to school and nursing.
On April 7, 1915, she volunteered to go to war. According to
military records at the National Archives, she was 41. She was
paid $50 a month.
In a faded picture from that time, Ms.
WHITE/WHYTE stares back with
a half-smile, standing near woods in her nurse's uniform, the
belt cinched tight around her thin waist, dark bangs poking out
beneath her veil.
The impression left by her diary is of an energetic woman, keen
for an adventure. At the masquerade party on New Year's Eve,
1915, she reports that she took first prize, dressed as John
Bull (the British version of Uncle Sam). She makes note of having
a hearty laugh at the sight of a Frenchman hoisting his wife
up on a cart by her backside.
Many of her days were spent walking into the village to do laundry,
and writing letters; at home, they received postcards, rose bulbs
and a box of soldier's buttons. She took pictures too, touristy
shots collected into an old album her relatives still own, of
the ship that took her across the ocean, of the camp in France
and of the scenery.
In one picture, she is sitting on stone steps, the only woman
with a dozen soldiers. One of her wartime possessions was a bullet
with a cross carved into its tip. The story behind it has been
lost, though Ms.
GERHART likes to imagine it was a gift from
a grateful patient.
Ms. WHITE/WHYTE's last entry is dated May 8, 1916. But the military
records say she was still in Europe in 1918, when she contracted
influenza. She didn't sail home until the summer of 1919. A year
later, with the war over, she was discharged from service. She
never married.
Her fate is the subject of some confusion: Ms.
GERHART had always
understood that her great aunt died of influenza, after contracting
the illness while nursing patients. But a handwritten note on
one of the folders in the archives says she passed away in 1930.
The diary of an independent woman, spirited in the midst of hardship,
is the only trace she left behind.
Erin ANDERSSEN is a reporter in The Globe and Mail's Ottawa bureau.
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GERMAN o@ca.on.manitoulin.howland.little_current.manitoulin_expositor 2003-11-26 published
Howard Kenneth
HOLMES
In loving memory of Howard Kenneth
HOLMES who died unexpectedly at
home on Tuesday, November 18, 2003 at the age 72 years.
Beloved husband of Joyce (née
VINEY.)
Loved father of Bonny and
husband Douglas
KILGOUR of Fort McMurray, Kenneth and wife
Evelina of
Longlac, Joe and wife Joyce of Bidwell Rd., Manitowaning, Diana
HOLMES and friend Williard
PYETTE of Tehkummah, Sharon and Robert
Case of the Slash, and predeceased by son Douglas (1957). Cherished
grandfather of Allison
KILGOUR and friend Jason, Heather and husband
Gopal BRUGALETTE,
Kenny
HOLMES and friend Sarah, Crystal and husband
Rob PERIGO, Nick
HOLMES and friend Melanie, Pam
SHEAN, Pat
SHEAN,
Scott CASE,
Brock
CASE. Forever remembered by four great
grandchildren Jazzlynn, Taylor, Faith and Nikaila. Will be missed
by brother Clarence and wife Guelda of Mitchell and sister Dorothy
and husband Gordon
GERMAN of Crossfield, Alberta and in-laws Harry
VINEY of Gore Bay, Charlie (wife
Lillian predeceased)
VINEY of
Wikwemikong Manor, Glenn and wife Margaret
VINEY of Kinmount, Gladys
(predeceased) and husband Harry
JAGGARD of Manitowaning. Predeceased
by Grace and husband Carmen
HUNTER,
Ruth and husband Bill and Loretta
and husband Neil
McGILLIS.
Visitation was held on Thursday, November
20. Funeral service was held on Friday, November 21, 2003 all at
Island Funeral Home. Burial in Hilly Grove Cemetery.
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GERRY o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-09-04 published
Artist and portraitist refused to compromise
Works in his trademark use of colour hang in the Art Gallery
of Ontario, Toronto's Mount Sinai Hospital and in private collections
By Carol COOPER
Special to The Globe and Mail Thursday, September
4, 2003 - Page R9
When the director of the University of Toronto's Hart House Gallery
needed a portrait of Hart House warden Dr. Jean
LENGELLÉ, she
called artist Gerald
SCOTT.
"In this case, Gerry was a perfect fit for Jean, because Jean
wanted something that was not staid and traditional, which is
certainly Gerry," said the director, Judi
SCHWARTZ.
"He [Dr. LENGELLÉ] liked the patterning approach that Gerry took,
and the two of them got along very well."
Mr. SCOTT painted the 1977
LENGELLÉ portrait and countless others
in the manner of his friend and mentor, Group of Seven artist Fred
VARLEY.
"Gerry placed colours together that you wouldn't think of, and
when you stand back from the painting, you get the effect of
the work, and when you get closer to it, you start to notice
the colours," Ms.
SCHWARTZ said of the
LENGELLÉ portrait.
One of the foremost Canadian portrait painters, whose works hung
in the inaugural exhibition of Toronto's prominent Greenwich
Gallery along with those of Michael Snow, Graham Coughtry and
William Ronald and are found in the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto's
Mount
Sinai
Hospital and numerous private collections, Mr.
SCOTT
died of cancer at the age of 76. Along with Dr.
LENGELLÉ,
Mr.
SCOTT's subjects included a Bermudan prime minister and a Baroness
Rothschild. One of six children, whose father worked as a building
engineer and car salesman, Gerald William
SCOTT was born in Saint
John. Although his birth certificate reads September 30, 1926,
Mr. SCOTT always said it was wrong and he was born in 1925. To
help support his family during the Depression, Mr.
SCOTT danced
on the city's docks, missing school to do so. After service in
the Canadian army during the Second World War, he returned to
Toronto where his family had settled.
There he met and married the Italian countess Josephine Maria
INVIDIATTA. An
English teacher who recognized her husband's gifts,
she taught Mr.
SCOTT to read. Thereafter, he read incessantly,
devouring all types of material. Countess
INVIDIATTA also encouraged
Mr. SCOTT to attend the Ontario College of Art, now named the
Ontario College of Art and Design.
Graduating from the college in 1949, Mr.
SCOTT won the Reeves
Award for all-round technical proficiency in drawing and painting.
After a short career in advertising and turning down an opportunity
to do a cover for Time magazine, he focused on fine art.
Mr. SCOTT taught at his alma mater part-time from 1952 to 1958
and full-time for a period beginning in 1963. And he participated
in shows at both The Roberts Gallery and The Greenwich Gallery,
later renamed The Isaacs Gallery.
While other artistic styles, such as abstract expressionism came
and went, Mr.
SCOTT continued with portraiture. "He didn't want
to compromise his style," said his son Paul
SCOTT. "He didn't
follow trends."
Lacking the time to develop a body of work for a show, and with
a self-effacing temperament which disliked the gallery scene,
by the mid-eighties Mr.
SCOTT no longer exhibited his work, sticking
to commissions and teaching, and writing plays and poetry.
Teaching took up much of Mr.
SCOTT's time, and he was known as
a good one. For 25 years, he taught at the Three Schools of Art
and later at the Forest Hill Art Club, both in Toronto.
"He was an inspirational teacher," said Michael
GERRY, a student
of Mr. SCOTT for six years and now an instructor at Central Technical
High School in Toronto.
"He was one of the few people around who understands the vocabulary.
He really knew his lessons. Not only was he skillful, he was
thoughtful, unusually thoughtful. Colour and temperature were
his specialty."
Said his friend and fellow artist Telford
FENTON, "He had wonderful
use of colour. It spoke to you."
A deliberate, patient and methodical instructor, popular with
Rosedale matrons, Mr.
SCOTT taught his students to observe colour.
"He could see colour everywhere," said Joan
CONOVER, who served
as a portrait model for Mr.
SCOTT. 'They're [the colours] there,
Joanie,' he would say to me. 'All you have to do is stop looking.
Close your eyes and then open them, very quickly. Close them,
open them again, and you'll get a brief glimpse [of the colours].'"
Mr. SCOTT also demonstrated painting for his students. "Most
teachers would not demonstrate," said another
SCOTT student Roger
BABCOCK. "
His demonstrations were like a Polaroid picture. They
would form before your eyes."
When students complained of lack of subjects, Mr.
SCOTT told
them how he stayed up nights painting works of his hand.
As he taught, Mr.
SCOTT discussed the Bible, religion or politics.
But he would not discuss his war experiences, according to Ms.
CONOVER. "It made his stomach hurt," she said.
Mr. SCOTT used his right thumb for certain strokes, and was highly
critical of his work, only signing it with persuasion.
Good
Friends since the fifties with Mr.
FENTON, the pair was
known as the Laurel and Hardy of the art world.
Once, they sold the same painting to three different clients,
eventually making good to all three. Another time while sailing,
Mr. SCOTT's boat crashed into the dock of the Royal Canadian
Yacht
Club.
Always charming Mr.
SCOTT ended up in the club's
bar, along with those of his party, treated to a round of drinks.
Mr. SCOTT continued working until he suffered a heart attack
three years ago.
He died on July 13 and leaves his partner Joyce, two ex-wives,
children Paul, Sarah, Hannah, Rebecca, Aaron, Amelia Jordan,
Jarod and Dana, and five grandchildren. His first wife, Josephine,
and a son, Simon, predeceased him.
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GERSHENOVITZ o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-04-22 published
GERSHENOVITZ,
Percy
Died peacefully on Sunday, April 20, 2003, age 95. Beloved husband
of the late Lily
GERSHENOVITZ, father of Dr. Ruth
PIKE,
Anita
and Dr. Bernard
FRIEDMAN,
Dr.
David and Janet
GREYSON. Devoted
grandfather of Robert and Ellen
PIKE,
Stephen and Lori
PIKE,
Jeffery and Alyson
PIKE,
Maggie and Matthew
GREYSON. Proud great-grandfather
of Brandon, Harrison, Matthew, Jordan, Daniel, Benjamin and Jonathan
PIKE. He will be greatly missed by many relatives and Friends.
Funeral at Benjamin's Park Memorial Chapel, 2401 Steeles Avenue
West, Tuesday, April 22 at 10 a.m. Due to the Festival of Passover,
shiva will commence Thursday evening, April 24 until Sunday,
April 27, at 25 Whitney Avenue, Toronto. Donations may be made
to the Harold and Grace Baker Centre Foundation (416) 654-2889.
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