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Ruby WILLSON
In loving memory of Ruby
WILLSON,
May 15, 1937 to April 30, 2003.
Ruby WILLSON, a resident of Ice Lake, died at the Mindemoya Hospital
on Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at the age of 65 years. She was born in
Kagawong, daughter of the late Nelson and Lillian
(TRUDEAU)
PIERCE.
Ruby was an "Adventuress" and enjoyed life to its fullest. She had
worked as a hostess at Harbour Island as well as being a navigator on
sail boats, and had sailed many places, including the open seas. She
enjoyed many things, such as needlework, baking, reading and
especially loved to entertain and host people. Her favourite place
was Harbour Island. A loving wife, mother and grandmother, she will
be sadly missed, but many happy memories will be cherished.
Dearly loved wife and best friend of Chuc
WILLSON.
Loving and loved
mother of Dennis
BECKETT and Deanna
BENOIT both of Kagawong, Rob
BECKETT of Pefferlaw and Juanda
GEORGE of Espanola. Proud
grandmother of James, Charles, Kevin, Crestienne, Aaron, Brandon and
Sheldon.
Also survived by Lake
WILSON and his daughter Jasmine.
Dear sister of Sandra
JAMES.
Predeceased by husbands Robert
BECKETT,
Carl REINGUETTE and John
PETRIE and brother Reynold
PIERCE.
A private family funeral service will be conducted at the Culgin
Funeral Home, followed by cremation. A public memorial service will
be conducted at Lyons Memorial United Church on Thursday, May 15,
2003 at 11: 00 a.m. with Pastor Maxine
McVEY officiating. If so
desired, donations may be made to Strawberry Point Christian Camp or
the Mindemoya Hospital Auxiliary. Culgin Funeral Home 282-2270.
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JAMES o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-01-16 published
Bluesman made his mark
Canadian harpist's brush with greatness was frustrated by his
battle with the bottle
By Bruce Farley
MOWAT
Special to The Globe and Mail Thursday,
January 16, 2003, Page R9
He will be remembered for creating some of the high water marks
in the history of popular music in Canada. Blues harpist Richard
NEWELL, also known as King Biscuit Boy, has died. He was found
dead at his house in Hamilton on January 5.
Richard NEWELL's story is the stuff of legend, but not legendary.
The Oxford Canadian Dictionary defines legend as "a traditional
story sometimes popularly regarded as historical, but unauthenticated."
Nearly all the career anecdotes surrounding King Biscuit Boy
have been verified. Yes, he really was recruited for the Allman
Brothers in 1969, for Janis
JOPLIN's Full Tilt Boogie Band in
1970 and for a mid-seventies session with Aretha
FRANKLIN.
The
stellar Houston blues guitarist, Albert
COLLINS was recording
a version of Mr.
NEWELL's
Mean
Old
Lady, before he died in 1994.
Mr. NEWELL, though, would rarely volunteer to offer up such information,
unless you prodded him for it. He didn't think it was important.
He was born the
son of Lily and Walter (Dick)
NEWELL, an Royal
Air Force airman stationed in Canada during the Second World
War. Richard
NEWELL developed an early interest in music, from
the country of Hank
WILLIAMS
Sr. to the jump blues of Louis
JORDAN,
to the frenetic sounds of such original rock 'n' rollers as Little
Richard. At age 12, he purchased his first harmonica after discovering
the blues via late-night AM radio.
Mr. NEWELL spent seven years rehearsing his ever-expanding collection
of blues 45s, which he purchased on regular hitchhiking forays
to Buffalo. Few of his Friends at the time were even aware that
he played harmonica and guitar.
In 1963, Ronnie
COPPLE's sock-hop rock 'n' roll group, the Barons,
recruited Mr.
NEWELL as its lead singer. Mr.
NEWELL had heard
a recording of their instrumental original, Bottleneck, and came
by with an record by the prototypical American electric blues
slide guitarist, Elmore
JAMES.
Within weeks of his joining, the group was transfigured into
the flat-out, deep blues band, The Chessmen Featuring son Richard.
The sound was guitar driven and harmonica-heavy, certainly not
the type of thing you'd find at the average mid-sixties Southern
Ontario teen dance. The band made it to Europe the following
summer, playing successful shows at U.S. Army bases to predominantly
black audiences.
Back in Canada, Mr.
NEWELL would go on to become the lead singer
of Richie Knight and The Mid Knights in 1966. He also made his
debut professional recording at this time, as a session harmonica
player on a recording by country singer, Dallas
HARMS, best known
for writing such hits as Paper Rosie for American country singer
Gene WATSON.
When ex-Mid Knight and future Full Tilt Boogie band member Rick
BELL was recruited for the Ronnie
HAWKINS band in 1968, Mr.
NEWELL's
name came up. After one audition, he was hired on the spot and
rechristened with the royal King Biscuit Boy moniker, a title
he was never totally comfortable with.
Back in his native Arkansas,
HAWKINS had rehearsed in the basement
of the old
KFFA radio station where blues harpist, Sonny Boy
Williamson 2nd (Rice
MILLER,) did his King Biscuit Flour Hour
broadcasts. To
HAWKINS,
Mr.
NEWELL must have sounded like a letter
from home.
When JOPLIN scooped
BELL and guitarist John
TILL from
HAWKINS's
band early in 1970, Mr.
NEWELL and drummer Larry
ATAMANUIK were
left with the task of re-assembling the band. That group would
become the first King Biscuit Boy-led outfit, Crowbar. In a fit
of pique, HAWKINS had inadvertently given the band its name in
an exchange of parting shots at the Grange Tavern in Hamilton.
"You guys are so dumb," he yelled, "you could fuck up the moving
parts of a crowbar."
As the bandleader, singer, harmonica player and guitarist on
Official
Music,
Mr.
NEWELL was responsible for building a razor-sharp
and singularly intense sound. The rehearsals for these sessions
were apparently tension-laden affairs, but the payoff came when
the album muscled its way on to the Canadian charts, (without
the benefit of Canadian-content regulations), the fastest-selling
domestic release to date.
Mr. NEWELL and the band would part ways after King Biscuit Boy
and Crowbar had scored on the singles chart with the traditional
piece, Corrina, Corrina. In 1971, Crowbar (without King Biscuit
Boy) earned a place on the bestseller charts with a song that
was to become a perennial Canuck rock anthem. Oh, What a Feeling
was the first domestic single to take advantage of the newly
legislated Canadian-content rules for broadcasting.
Fate intervened throughout the following years to rob Mr.
NEWELL
of his career momentum. The backing band he assembled to promote
Good 'Uns, the 1971 followup to Official Music, was beginning
to work on a third album, when the funding for it ran out.
With the momentum lost, that unit disintegrated, with guitarist
Earl JOHNSON leaving to form the hard-rock outfit, Moxy.
In 1974, sessions produced by Allen
TOUSSAINT, the architect
of many a New Orleans Rhythm and Blues classic, would culminate
in the Epic label release of a self-titled recording. Mr.
NEWELL
would tour the United States the following year with The Meters
(featuring future members of the Neville Brothers) as his backup
band. When the Epic label cleaned house later that year, though,
he was one of the acts dropped.
In 1972, Mr.
NEWELL wed Jacqueline
WILLETTS but found that married
life did not curb his increasingly frequent drinking binges.
The couple divorced in 1979. Alcoholism was also the source of
most of his professional woes for the better part of his life,
as key shows were either cancelled, or worse, rendered into shambles.
Musicians who worked with him tended to admire him, but found
it incredibly frustrating that such an enormous talent was being
squandered.
At several junctures in his career, Mr.
NEWELL managed to quit
drinking. Of the three albums he recorded and released in the
eighties and nineties, two were the direct dividends of his abstinence.
Those recordings earned him Juno nominations, in 1988 for Richard
NEWELL aka King Biscuit Boy,and in 1996 for Urban Blues Re:
NEWELL.
The latter is still in print on Holger Peterson's Stony Plain
label. Official Music, along with Good'Uns and Badly Bent, a
best-of compilation, are available on the Unidisc label (http://www.unidisc.com).
The rest of the King Biscuit Boy catalogue, including the 1980
Mouth of Steel album, is out of print.
In 2000, Mr.
NEWELL's mother died and he left regular stage work,
preferring the seclusion of his home in the central Mountain
neighbourhood of Hamilton. His last recordings include a version
of Blue Christmas, available on the Hamilton Hometown Christmas
Compact Disk compilation assembled by saxophonist and long-time
friend, Sonny
DEL
RIO. An original composition, Two Hound Blues,
along with material recorded by
DEL
RIO and Mr.
NEWELL in the late
seventies (the Biscuit With Gravy sessions) is planned for release
this year.
Mr. NEWELL, who leaves his father Dick, brother Walter (Randy,)
and son Richard James Oddie, made his last public performance
in a cameo appearance with The Little Red Blues Gang on September
12, 2002, at Mermaids Lounge in Hamilton. The 60 or so audience
members present were treated to a version of his hit, Corrina,
Corrina, which is strange, because he never particularly cared
for that song.
Richard Alfred
NEWELL, musician; born March 9, 1944, in Hamilton
died in Hamilton, January 5, 2003.
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JAMES o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-10-16 published
LAMONT,
Jean
Annette
(ROBINS)
Jean died peacefully, on Tuesday, October 14, 2003 in Toronto,
with her children Doug and Anne at her side; in her 84th year.
Predeceased by her loving husband and friend of 53 years, Bruce
Maitland LAMONT, a former senior international executive with
Royal Bank of Canada. Survived by son, James Douglas and his
wife Kathy, stepchildren Melissa and August and step-great granddaughter,
Elizabeth; and daughter Anne and husband Christopher
JAMES and
their daughter, Kathleen. Cherished sister of Joan
BAILEY and
her children, Robin (Marie,) Joanne (Ken
HOLT,)
John
(Clare)
and Janet (Heino
CLAESSENS) and their families. Remembered by
sisters-in-law Pauline
FLYNN
(Hank) and Meribeth
LAMONT and their
families and the extended
LAMONT clan. Special thanks to cousin
Joanne HOLT for all her support and help over the last few years.
Thank you to the staff and Mom's new Friends at the Kingsway
Retirement Residence, Etobicoke for their Friendship and support
in making the Kingsway her home away from home. A graduate of
MacDonald Hall, Guelph University (1940) and Toronto Western
Hospital School of Nursing (1943) she was always proud of her
accomplishment as one of Canada's first female nursing flight
attendants with Trans Canada Airways. Mom was an avid bridge
player and golfer, a social dynamo who cherished her wide circle
of Friends. A celebration of her life will be held on Saturday,
October 18, 2003 at 11: 00 a.m. at Knox Presbyterian Church, 89
Dunn Street (at Lakeshore Road), Oakville. If desired, in lieu
of flowers, donations in Jean's memory to a charity of your choice
would be appreciated.
Mom, a Grand Slam and a hole-in-one to you. Love always.
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JAMIESON o@ca.on.manitoulin.howland.little_current.manitoulin_expositor 2003-05-14 published
Wilfred Franklin
HEIS
In loving memory of Wilfred Franklin
HEIS who passed away peacefully at
Sault Ste. Marie Area Hospital on Saturday, May 10, 2003 at the age of 92 years.
Beloved husband of Eugenia (née
LAPOINTE.) Cherished father of
Monica McNALLY
(Gerald) of Sault Ste. Marie, Frances
THOMAS (Gary) of
Sydney, BC. Kathryn
HEIS of Prince George, BC, Margaret Elaine
JAMIESON
(Patrick) of Victoria, BC, Ann Marie
PIPPY (Grant) of
Ottawa. Loved grandfather of Laurie, Michael, Christopher, Dawn,
Sarah, Hollie, Gerry, Jennifer, Sean, Karen, Mark, Wilfred, James,
Cathy and Lisa. Will be missed by 17 great grandchildren.
Visitation will be from 9: 30 am on Saturday, at Island Funeral Home
followed by Funeral Mass at 11: 30 am Saturday, May 17, 2003 at Saint
Bernard's Catholic Church. Cremation.
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JAMIESON o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-03-08 published
JAMIESON,
Joseph
Thoburn
Died suddenly, February 25, 2003, in hospital, at Cranbrook,
British Columbia. Beloved and loving husband of Ellen Cameron
(McFARLANE,) his wife of 45 years. Sadly missed by his two sons,
Joseph Alexander (Alec); and Michael Douglas (Laura
SALEM), cherished
''Papa'' of Kathleen all of Calgary. Lovingly remembered by his
sister Norah (wife of the late Don
CARR,)
Manotick,
Ontario
brother, William R. (Pamela
MacDOWELL,)
Rideau
Ferry,
Ontario.
Predeceased by his sister Catherine E.
DAVIDSON,
Aberdeen,
Scotland.
''Uncle Joe'' will be forever loved and never forgotten by his
nieces and nephews Susan
WINTER
(Bill;)
Mary
McLAUGHLIN (Peter)
and Shannon; Scott (Joanne), Jacqueline and William; Jane Jamieson
and other nieces and nephews. Predeceased by very special grandniece
Lindsey WINTER.
Born at Almonte, Ontario, January 24, 1927, son
of the late William Algernon and Catherine Isobel
(COCHRAN)
JAMIESON.
Primary and secondary education at Almonte. Graduated, as a Textile
Engineer, from Philadelphia Institute of Technology, 1949. Moved
west to British Columbia upon his retirement, in 1991. Following
a productive 26 year career, with Canadian General Tower Ltd.
of Cambridge Ontario, Joe and Ellen spent many happy years at
Nelson, Marysville and Cranbrook, British Columbia. Traveling
with Ellen he enjoyed frequent trips back to visit their special
Friends in Ontario. Joe seemed to particularly look forward to
his fall hunting excursions to visit the Happy Hopeful Hunt Club
on Pakenham Mountain. Family members and close Friends have been
recipient of the product of his sculpted wood bird carving endeavors
of his retirement years. Joe will live forever within the hearts
of those of us who loved him. Missed by many.
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JAMIESON o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-05-27 published
POWLESS,
Alex
Ross
September 29, 1926 - May 26, 2003.
Peacefully, surrounded by his loving family, at the Willett Hospital,
in Paris, Ontario, at 5: 00 a.m., on Monday, May 26, 2003, Alex
Ross POWLESS, in his 77th year, went to meet his creator after
several months of illness. Ross was born in Ohsweken on the Six
Nations Reserve on September 29, 1926. Ross was a devoted husband
and loving father and was married to Margaret Wilma
POWLESS (nee
BOMBERRY) for 55 years. Together they raised 14 children, 27
grandchildren and 7 great grandchildren. Ross was predeceased
by his sons: Victor in 1955, Gaylord in 2001 and Gregory in 2002,
his parents: Chauncey and Jessie, and his siblings: Mary Ella
and Alice Maracle, Amy and Maude Martin, and Raymond and Jean
Powless.
Ross is survived by his loving wife
Margaret
Wilma
POWLESS (nee
BOMBERRY) and sister Vernice Maizie
JONATHAN, and his children,
including daughter in law Patti, Gail (Mark
AYRES,)
Gary,
Audrey
(Jim BOMBERRY), Harry, Arlene (Dan
MARTIN), Richard (Effie
PANOUSOS),
Darryl (Naansii
JAMIESON,)
Karen
(Jerry
MARTIN,) Tony (Cheryle
GIBSON,)
Jeffery, and Jacqui baby (Ron
LYNES.) Ross is a cherished
uncle to many nieces and nephews.
Ross had a passion for hunting and also loved fishing, pool and
playing cards. He demonstrated his love for his grandchildren
in many ways. He's fondly remembered for making up nicknames
for them. Ross' sense of humour and storytelling was renowned
and he was often asked to speak at public functions because of
it.
Ross POWLESS distinguished himself in lacrosse both as a player
and a coach. He was a member of the Ontario and Canadian Lacrosse
Hall of Fame and won four Mann Cups (Canadian Lacrosse Championships)
with the Peterborough Timbermen from 1951 to 1954, including
an Most Valuable Player award in 1953. Ross coached the Brantford
Warriors to the Canadian Senior B Championship in 1968 and the
Rochester Chiefs to a Can-Am Lacrosse League Championship in
1969. In 1974, Ross coached six of his sons on the Ontario First
Nations Team, which captured the All Indian Nations Championship
Cup.
The family will honour his life with a visitation at Styres Funeral
Home, Ohsweken after 7 p.m. Tuesday, May 27. Evening prayers
7 p.m. Wednesday, May 28 where Funeral Service will be held in
the chapel on Thursday, May 29, 2003 at 2 p.m. Interment: St.
Paul's Anglican Cemetery, Sour Springs Road. Memorial donations
to the Canadian Diabetes Association, the Iroquois Lodge or the
Canadian Cancer Society can be made in lieu of flowers.
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