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A trailblazer in women's hockey
As a coach, he saw people first, athletes second and so took
Canadian women's hockey to the pinnacle of the sport
By Ron CSILLAG
Special to The Globe and Mail Wednesday, March
12, 2003 - Page R7
Toronto -- Think "hockey coach, " and you may be forgiven for
conjuring images of a bug-eyed, borderline rage-oholic working
a small wad of gum while berating his bench and screaming instructions
to the ice.
That wasn't Dave
McMASTER.
A fixture in Canadian women's hockey for 35 years, Mr.
McMASTER
was the polar opposite: A calm and calming influence who taught
his players respect for their abilities and those of their opponents
who saw people first and athletes second; who radiated a sheer
love of the game; who hugged his players and meant it.
A trailblazer who boosted woman's hockey in this country before
it was popular, or even seemly, Mr.
McMASTER guided the Canadian
women's team to a gold medal at the first women's world hockey
championship in 1990 in Ottawa. Over one-million television viewers
watched as Canada beat the U.S. 5-2 in the final. He also coached
Team Canada at the first unofficial women's world tournament
in 1987.
Through 22 seasons coaching the University of Toronto's Varsity
(Lady)
Blues,
Mr.
McMASTER won 12 Ontario university titles and
compiled a record of 212-38-22.
"Everywhere there was hockey, Dave was there, said Fran
RIDER,
executive director of the Ontario Women's Hockey Association.
"He was the lifeblood of women's hockey, very dedicated, not
only to the game but to life skills. He cared about every player
on every team. His enthusiasm and love of the game was catching."
At the time of his unexpected death of a heart attack this month
in Toronto at the age of 62, he was still coaching three girls'
teams, despite being officially retired as a schoolteacher and
coach. One of them, the squad at Bishop Strachan School, had
to leave for a tournament in Newfoundland just days after Mr.
McMASTER died. Their coach's influence obviously sunk in: Despite
being distraught at the news of his death, which sent shock waves
through the world of women's hockey, the team won all seven of
its games. That was after Bishop Strachan captured the Foster
Hewitt Memorial Cup for the fifth consecutive year at the Air
Canada
Centre just three weeks before Mr.
McMASTER's death.
"He gave players a sense of responsibility for their actions.
He taught us to respect ourselves and others, but most important,
he let us have fun, recalled Team Canada head coach Karen
HUGHES,
who also took over from Mr.
McMASTER as coach at U of T, where
she had played for him. "With Dave, it wasn't about winning and
losing, but a love of the game and sharing and Friends. He encouraged
players to go beyond their limits."
Some 800 Friends, loved ones and jersey-clad players crowded
Grace Church-on-the-Hill in Toronto on Valentine's Day to celebrate
a life that touched so many others.
David Carson
McMASTER was born in Toronto to a homemaker and
a lawyer who wanted a legal career for his son. At St. Andrew's
College, the young Mr.
McMASTER played football, cricket and
hockey, and later, at Dalhousie University, "he was a born goaltender,
remembered his lifelong best friend, Douglas
ROWAN. "
Mix,
as he came to be called (as in Mixmaster), was not known as a
particularly graceful player, as his many stitches and at least
seven broken noses attested. He was an early proponent of face
masks for goalies and after donning one, he ducked out of the
way of a puck, only to be hit in the head. More stitches followed.
It was at Dalhousie that he coached his first women's team, in
1965. "He acquired a girlfriend he could yell at on the ice,
Mr. ROWAN quipped. "It didn't last." But the coaching bug did.
Armed with a history degree, Mr.
McMASTER returned to Toronto
to study law. That lasted less than a year, and he graduated
from the University of Toronto's teachers' college instead. He
joined the small staff of Toronto's Royal St. George's College
in 1969 and spent nearly 30 years teaching geography, history
and guidance.
Mr. McMASTER began coaching the women's hockey team at University
of Toronto while still a student there. In 22 seasons (1967-69
and 1975-93), he won an enviable 82 per cent of games. There,
as with Team Canada, he would don his trademark track suit and
black bike helmet to preside over practices, with cries of "Regroup!"
"Shoot your passes!" and "Two laps." Coughing up the puck in
the neutral zone was "a never."
In 1972, he married Norma
McCLURE, who'd been his waitress at
the Muskoka Golf and Country Club. The couple had a son, Scott,
and a daughter, Anne, before divorcing in 1991. Mr.
McMASTER
never remarried.
He was a focused, demanding coach, but not obsessive, said his
daughter. "I don't even have any idea how to skate. But Dad never
pushed me. That was testament to his patience and love. He never
raised his voice." At Toronto Maple Leaf games, "he was always
coaching. He would cheer a good play by the other team."
He displayed his gold medal, said Anne, but not as prominently
as a letter from a young girl saying Mr.
McMASTER had changed
her perspective on life.
He wasn't without a mischievous sense of humour. Vicki
SUNOHARA,
who played for Mr.
McMASTER for two years, recalled how Team
Canada once thrashed Japan 13-0. Ms.
SUNOHARA, who is of Japanese
extraction, scored several goals and was named player of the
game. She recalled how Mr.
McMASTER told her after the game,
in mock horror, "These Japanese girls love you and look up to
you. How could you do this to them?"
Mr. McMASTER went on to Bishop Strachan School in 1998 to coach
hockey and teach geography and history. He was inducted into
the University of Toronto's Sports Hall of Fame in 2000. He retired
in 2001, but couldn't stop a simple desire to expose young people
to Canada's game.
Asked whether it was the passion, cleaner play or some other
mysterious quality that drew Mr.
McMASTER to women's hockey as
opposed to men's, his daughter smiled. "He used to say girls
asked a lot more questions. I think he liked that."
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HUGHES o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-04-24 published
MURRAY,
Marjorie
Eleanor (née
HUGHES)
Died peacefully at Toronto on April 23, 2003. Beloved wife of
R. Gordon for 61 years. Loving mother to John (Elizabeth), Scott
(Janice), Janet (John
DILL), Sheila (David
DICKINSON) and Cameron
(Marie) and proud grandmother of 12. Survived by her sister Janet
(John FOREMAN) and her sister-in-law Inez
HUGHES.
Marjorie was
a graduate of University College, U of T, a member of Gamma Phi
Beta, and a longtime member of the Toronto Cricket, Skating and
Curling Club and the Garden Club of Toronto. Friends may call
at the Morley Bedford Funeral Home, 159 Eglinton Avenue West
(two lights west of Yonge) on Saturday, April 26 from 2-4 p.m.
Funeral Service on Sunday at 4 p.m. from The Church of St. Timothy,
100 Old Orchard Grove, Toronto. In lieu of flowers, donations
may be made to the charity of your choice.
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HUGHES o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-05-28 published
TRUSCOTT,
Peggy (née
SAULT)
Peggy lived her life as a beautiful, special person who brought
joy, love and light to everyone she touched. Her kindness, compassion
and overwhelming energy to help others was ever present from
her days as a nurse at St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto Western
Hospital and the Victorian Order of Nurses, to her work as a
nursing instructor at Centennial College and as a public health
nurse for the City of Toronto. A wife, a mother, a daughter,
a sister and a wonderful friend. Peggy lived courageously with
ovarian cancer for the last four years, her strength, positive
outlook and love of life never wavering. Peggy died peacefully
at home, on May 25th, 2003, wrapped in the love of her husband
and best friend Bruce and her daughters - Sarah, Rebecca and
Martha and son-in-law Josh
KESTER.
Peggy will be dearly missed
by all who knew her including her parents John and Beth
SAULT,
her in-laws Marg and
Os TRUSCOTT, her siblings Mary
McKELVEY
(Max,) Cathie
HUGHES
(Wayne,)
John
SAULT (Linda,) Barb
SAULT
(Liz THOMAS,)
Patty▼
BONTJE (Michael) as well as by her many Friends,
cousins, nieces and nephews. We wish to thank Dr. J.
STURGEON
and Dr. D.
DEPETRILLO (Princess Margaret Hospital), Dr. J.
MEHARCHAND
(Toronto East General Hospital), Dr. J.
RIEGER (Temmy Latner
Centre for Palliative Care,) and nurses Barb
MOFFAT and Ann Marie
HOGAN (St. Elizabeth Health Care) for their compassionate and
supportive care. At Peggy's request, a private cremation has
occurred, arranged by The Simple Alternative Funeral Centre.
A service celebrating her life will be held for family and Friends
at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, 10365 Islington Ave,
Kleinburg, Ontario (905-893-1121) on Monday, June 2nd, 2003 at
5: 30 p.m. The family extends a warm welcome to all who wish to
join them. In lieu of flowers, we encourage donations to the
National Ovarian Cancer Association, 27 Park Road, Toronto M4W
2N2 (416-962-2700). In September 2002 Peggy founded the first
annual ''Walk of Hope'' to raise awareness about ovarian cancer.
Please join us on September 7th, 2003 at the second annual National
Ovarian Cancer Association ''Walk of Hope'' and remember Peggy.
Further details will be available at: www.ovariancanada.org
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HUGHES o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-07-10 published
Notice To Creditors And Others
All claims against the estate of Mark
ALLEN, late of the Town
of Markham, in the Regional Municipality of York, Province of
Ontario, who died on or about the 6th day of March, 2003, must
be filed with the personal representative (the "Estate Trustee"),
named below, on or before the 15th day of August, 2003, after
which date the estate wil be distributed having regard only to
the claims of which the Estate Trustee then shall have notice.
Dated at Toronto, this 30th day of June, 2003.
Estate
Trustee:
Patricia Joyce
HUGHES
by her solicitors:
Smith and Werker
Barristers, Solicitors, Notaries
Attention:
John
Osgoode
SMITH
4950 Yonge Street, Suite 1800
Toronto, Ontario
M2N 6K1
Telephone: 416-224-0200
Fax: 416-224-0758
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HUGHES o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-08-21 published
HUGHES,
William
Henry
Bill died of lymphoma on August 19th, 2003 at his home in New
Denver, British Columbia. He was a faculty member in the Philosophy
Department at the University of Guelph from its inception in
1965 until his retirement in 1997. Bill was above all an educator.
At the family dinner table, in the University classroom, in his
writings, and in his service to youth music and community arts
organizations he took great pleasure in helping young people
to think with clarity and to make informed and moral choices
in their daily lives. His essential goodness, and his tolerance
and respect for others shone through his relationships with his
family, Friends and colleagues. He will be remembered with love
by his wife Daphne, daughters Miranda and Anna, sons Jeremy and
Jonathan, son-in-law Charles
BURKHOLDER, daughters-in-law Emma
and Robin, his brothers Barry and Richard, sisters-in-law Margaret
HUGHES and Dawn
CAVE, his nieces and nephews, and his eight beloved
grandchildren (Erin, Noah, Sophie, Fiona, Oliver, Jessica, Alexander
and Paige). A celebration of Bill's life will be held in Guelph
Ontario at a later date. If desired, donations may be made to
the Philosophy Department, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario,
N1G 2W1, where a memorial scholarship fund is being organized.
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HUGHES o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-10-23 published
William Henry
HUGHES
By Michael
RUSE,
Thursday,
October 23, 2003 - Page A24
Husband, father, singer, instrument repair expert, teacher, philosopher.
Born October 22, 1936, in Sarnia, Ontario Died August 19, in
New Denver, British Columbia, of cancer, aged 66.
Bill HUGHES was a student at Victoria College, University of
Toronto, and then did graduate work in England, receiving a master's
degree from the London School of Economics, and a doctorate from
University College London. On returning to Canada in 1965, Bill
got a job at the brand new University of Guelph, and he was one
of the founding members of its philosophy department. He taught
there until he retired in 1997.
Bill and Daphne (his wife of 42 years) have four children, and
the family has always been united around a deep love of music.
Bill sang in various choirs, including the Guelph Chamber Choir
and, most recently in his new home in New Denver, British Columbia,
as a member of the Valhalla Choral Society.
He was also an enthusiastic amateur on the double bass, and for
several years ran a string instrument repair shop to serve students
of the Suzuki String School of Guelph. One of his proudest memories,
however, was singing in a barbershop quartet, along with Gordon
LIGHTFOOT, when in high school.
Bill HUGHES's philosophical interest and expertise were in social
and ethical philosophy. In more recent years, he had become interested
in techniques for teaching informal logic, and wrote course material,
especially for distance education, turning his work eventually
into a textbook. This is now going into its fourth edition. Bill
served as department chair, and if there was a university committee
on which Bill did not at some time sit, it has not yet been discovered.
He was one of those people known to everyone on campus, and to
whom all had at one point or another turned for advice or help.
For this was the main point about Bill
HUGHES. At one level,
he was a rather ordinary man. At another level, he was a most
extraordinary man, the rare example of someone who is truly good.
His whole life was given to others -- to his family, to his students,
to his colleagues, and to anyone else whom he met. Quakers speak
of the "inner light," or "that of God in every person."
Although he had no religious beliefs, Bill saw worth in everyone
he knew, and gave unstintingly of his time and effort to all,
whether this was a student late in the afternoon who needed some
guidance on a project, or a colleague who needed help with an
idea or a class, or a child whose cello was not sounding quite
right and perhaps needed a new string or bridge.
Bill was not perfect. He made mistakes. But, although Bill may
not have believed in heaven, if such there be, he has certainly
earned his place. I am sure that God has already nabbed Bill
for several important committees. ("Criteria for promotion up
the order of angels.") At the end of the day, Bill will be sitting
in the divine faculty club, Jeremy Bentham, Doubting Thomas (the
patron saint of philosophers), and one or two other slightly
non-respectable folk around him, pints of Wellington County --
the nectar of the gods -- in hand.
And now for a good natter: "Tell me, is the ontological argument
really valid?"
Michael RUSE was Bill's colleague for nearly 40 years.
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HUGHES o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-10-27 published
SAULT,
John
Henry (1918 - 2003)
Died peacefully in Toronto on Friday, October 24, 2003 surrounded
by his wife and family. Loving husband of Beth
(HARRISON) for
over 60 years. Great Dad to Mary (Max
McKELVEY,) the late Peggy
(Bruce TRUSCOTT), Cathie (Wayne
HUGHES), John (Linda), Barb (Liz
THOMAS,)
Patty▲
(Michael
BONTJE.) Wonderful Grampa who will be
missed particularly at Boshkung Lake by his grandchildren Keith,
Andrew and Heather
McKELVEY; Sarah, Rebecca (Josh
KESTER), and
Martha TRUSCOTT;
Alison,
Calum and Jeremy
HUGHES; Harrison and
Alex BONTJE.
Predeceased by sister Helen
(SAULT)
LINDSAY whose
children looked to him as a mentor and guide. Special Uncle to
his many nieces and nephews. Jock, affectionately known as ''Saltie''
was a long-time salesman for the Canadian Salt Company. Along
with a busy career and active family life, Jock coached hockey,
golfed and drove the water-ski-boat. He was a dedicated Big Brother,
Boy Scout Leader and Elder at Forest Hill United Church. Later
in life he volunteered with North Toronto Meals on Wheels. He
served a term as Mayor of Donarvon Park, Boshkung Lake and spent
a cherished year as President of the Boshkung Lake Cottagers
Association ending the summer by holding the First Annual Presidents
Ball. A large man who loved life, he will be missed by his family,
many relatives, Friends and co-workers. Jock was well known for
his favourite saying, ''It's great to be alive''.The family extends
sincere gratitude to the staff at Kingsway Retirement Home and
the Trillium Health Centre (Mississauga) for their devoted and
professional care. Friends may call at the Turner and Porter Yorke
Chapel, 2357 Bloor St. West at Windermere, east of the Jane subway
from 2-4 pm and 7-9 pm, Monday; Memorial Service in the Chapel
on Tuesday October 28, 2003 at 3: 00 pm. If desired a donation
may be made to National Ovarian Cancer Association, 27 Park Road,
Toronto, Ontario Canada, M4W 2N2.
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HUGHES o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-10-31 published
The dean of Canadian sociology
The first chair of a new University of Toronto department trained
a generation of scholars
By Carol COOPER,
Special to the Globe and Mail Friday, October
31, 2003 - Page R13
In 1938, with a doctorate in political science and anxious to
achieve his dream of becoming a professor, Samuel Delbert
CLARK
reluctantly took the only position available to him at the University
of Toronto, as its first full-time lecturer in sociology.
In doing so, S.D.
CLARK became one of the country's early anglophone
sociologists. During his career, his immense intellect, painstaking
scholarship and prolific writing brought credibility and respect
to the fledgling discipline. At a time when Canadian universities
had few sociology departments, Prof.
CLARK trained a generation
of sociologists who spread out across the country, establishing
sociology departments in other centres. And as an administrator
at U of T, Prof.
CLARK brought leading sociologists to the school.
The first sociologist born, raised and trained here, Prof. S.
D. CLARK has died at the age of 93.
Incorporating the staples theory of his mentor, leading Canadian
political economist Harold
INNIS, the work of American historian
F. J. TURNER, and sociologists Carl
DAWSON and E. C.
HUGHES of
McGill University, among others, Prof.
CLARK developed his own
approach.
He studied social change on Canada's economic frontiers such
as the fur trade, Western wheat farming, and the lumber and mining
industries. He traced the development of those communities as
the residents there, far from the cultural and financial institutions
that controlled their lives and contending with distance and
poverty, took their communities through a period of simultaneous
disorganization and reorganization. From the struggle emerged
new organizations and religious sects, such as the Co-operative
Commonwealth Federation and the Social Credit Party.
Reflecting his university training in history, sociology and
political science, Prof.
CLARK brought a multifaceted approach
to his research.
"He looked at things that were happening in Canada almost uniquely
and tried to understand them and not to reduce it to some simplistic
international generalization," said William
MICHELSON, the S.
D. Clark professor of sociology at the University of Toronto.
"He really wanted to look into a multiplicity of factors."
Not everyone liked Prof.
CLARK's approach to sociology, but nor
did Prof. CLARK favour the Chicago School approach then taught
at McGill University. Although he later altered his research
methods, Prof.
CLARK at first viewed the American approach dimly,
seeing it as one of doorbell-ringing in order to ask stupid questions,
one that scientifically quantified what happened in the present
without exploring the past. Instead, he pored over archival material,
studying the development of Canadian society from a historical
perspective.
Books by Prof.
CLARK, such as The Social Development of Canada,
drew fire from historians, who challenged his theory and said
sociology and history were incompatible. But the publications
brought attention to the new discipline.
Born to a farming family on February 24, 1910, in Lloydminster,
Alberta.,
Samuel
Delbert
CLARK was the second of five children.
The family of Northern Irish descent had been established in
Ontario since 1840 until it moved West in 1905.
Showing an early aptitude for school and a strong interest in
history, Prof.
CLARK graduated from the University of Saskatchewan
with an honours B.A. in history and political science and an
M.A. in history. Brushing aside suggestions that he become a
high-school teacher and politician, Prof.
CLARK aimed instead
for a university position.
He entered University of Toronto in 1931 to do a doctorate in
political science and economic history. While the studies proved
dry and disappointing, it was there that he first met Harold
INNIS, read the works of Marx, Engels and North American left-wingers,
and attended meetings of the radical League for Social Reconstruction.
Disillusioned with his studies and short of funds, Prof.
CLARK
accepted a Saskatchewan Imperial Order of the Daughters of the
Empire scholarship and headed for the London School of Economics
in 1932. At the school, he received his first exposure to sociology,
including the works of Prof.
DAWSON at McGill.
After leaving London in 1933, Prof.
CLARK arrived in Montreal,
again strapped for cash. Hoping to collect a debt from a friend,
who was then studying at McGill, Prof.
CLARK stopped by his house.
With the friend not home, Prof.
CLARK then visited Prof.
DAWSON,
who offered him a research fellowship. After working on a project
studying Canadian-American relations for two years and receiving
an M.A. in sociology, Prof.
CLARK returned to Toronto to continue
his doctorate in political science.
In 1937 he accepted an appointment to teach political science
and sociology at the University of Manitoba and stayed a year
before returning once again to University of Toronto to complete
his thesis and begin his career there.
As a proponent of a more British style of sociology, Prof.
CLARK
was favoured for the job over another Chicago-trained candidate,
setting the academic direction for the school. Sociology was
then run as a section under the department of anthropology, to
be transferred a year later to the department of political economy.
Except for occasional leaves, Prof.
CLARK remained a fixture
on campus, impeccably dressed in a woollen suit and sporting
a pipe, until his retirement in 1976.
Shy and quiet, Prof.
CLARK constantly cleared his throat and
jingled the change in his pocket while lecturing.
"He never cracked a joke.... It was serious scholarship. You
had to ask serious questions," recalled retired York University
sociology professor Edward
MANN, an early undergraduate student
and later a doctoral student of Prof.
CLARK. "
Their [
INNIS and
CLARK] religion was scholarship."
In that vein, Prof.
CLARK never talked to the press about daily
issues, saying it cheapened the discipline. And he practised
rigorous scholarship.
"He had a tremendous amount of integrity," said Lorne
TEPPERMAN,
a University of Toronto sociology professor and former student
of Prof. CLARK. "
This was a guy who knew what he stood for, what
he believed in. He was uncompromising. He had very high standards
for himself and other people."
During the fifties, Prof.
CLARK, an admirer of Lester
PEARSON,
exchanged his membership in the Co-Operative Commonwealth Federation
for that of the Liberal Party, the one endorsed by his wife,
Rosemary. A graduate in economics from Columbia University, she
edited all his works. By the sixties, Prof.
CLARK had begun to
study social change and urbanization, writing The Suburban Society
and later, The New Urban Poor. Despite altering his research
methods, dropping his historical research and adopting the American
style of conducting questionnaires to collect data, he stopped
short of tabulating them, arguing in The Suburban Society that
"to lay claim to scientific precision... would be to falsify
the competence of sociology."
And the man who studied social change became buffeted by it.
While the sociology section had remained small during the forties
and fifties, it ballooned during the sixties, becoming an independent
department in 1963 with Prof.
CLARK as its appointed head.
A capable administrator, Prof.
CLARK brought feistiness to the
job. "He was a very honest man," said Prof.
TEPPERMAN. "He wasn't
afraid on an argument, he wasn't afraid of a fight. If he liked
you, he really liked you and if he didn't like you, he really
didn't like you."
With the huge increase in sociology-department enrolment but
small number of sociology graduates, Prof.
CLARK looked outside
the country to fill teaching positions. Most either came from
the United States, or had been trained there.
While some scholars hailed Prof.
CLARK for having eschewed American-style
sociology and maintaining a Canadian approach, the young and
sometimes radical newcomers with a markedly different approach
regarded him as an oddball and an anachronism. And as an older,
white, staunch Liberal Party-supporting male at the centre of
an old-boy network, he represented everything they were fighting
against. Accustomed to a more democratic academic culture at
other schools, the new staff agitated for a greater say in the
running of the department. When Prof.
CLARK resisted, he was
pushed out, and the chair became an elected position. He remained
at the university until his retirement in 1976.
Outside of the university, throughout his career, Prof.
CLARK
served as an editor of The Canadian Journal of Economics and
Political Science, and as president of the Royal Society of Canada.
In addition, he was appointed an Officer in the Order of Canada.
Despite the recognition he received, Prof.
CLARK always felt
that his older brother who took over the farm was the family
success, according to his son, Edmund. And he enjoyed such simple
pleasures as hockey. Once, while attending a dinner party at
Claude BISSELL's house, then the president of U of T, Prof.
CLARK
asked where the television was and sat down to watch the hockey
game. When questioned later, Prof.
CLARK replied, "Anyone stupid
enough to hold a party on a hockey night deserved to have the
guests watch television in the den."
S.D. CLARK died on September 18. He leaves his wife, Rosemary,
sons Edmund and Samuel, nine grandchildren and a sister, Grace.
His daughter Ellen predeceased him.
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