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KARAKAS o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-02-14 published
KARAKAS,
Krikor
Loving husband, father and grandfather died peacefully at home
in Montreal, at the age of 94 on February 12, 2003 Husband of
Alis (née
SALDJIAN,) father of Anna, wife of Simon
TAVITIAN,
all of Montreal, Quebec, Rita
KARAKAS of Toronto, and beloved
grandfather of Gregory
TAVITIAN of Toronto and Stephanie
TAVITIAN
and her fiance David
GUTHRIE of Barrie, Ontario. Will be sadly
missed by his niece, nephew, godchildren and relatives in Istanbul,
Turkey. Predeceased by his parents, sister and brother in Turkey.
He led a full, rich life dedicated to his family, his Friends
and his Armenian community. Funeral Saturday, February 15 at
11 a.m. at St. Gregory the Illuminator Armenian Apostolic Church,
Montreal. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Hayastan
All Armenia Fund 416-332-0787.
May he rest in eternal peace.
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KARAVOS o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-03-01 published
Ex-pilot aided foreigners who hid soldiers
By Kelly HAGGART
Saturday,
March 1, 2003 - Page F11
Robert ADAM/ADAMS, past president of a society set up to honour and
assist individuals who risked their lives helping Allied airmen
evade capture during the Second World War, died in Toronto this
month of cancer. He was 82.
Mr. ADAM/ADAMS was a 22-year-old Canadian pilot on loan to Britain's
Royal Air Force when his plane was shot down after bombing a
German ship in southern Greece. Stout-hearted people on two small
islands in the Aegean, risking torture or execution for their
actions, sheltered the six-man crew for a month until they were
rescued.
After the war, Mr.
ADAM/ADAMS founded a chain of tool-rental stores
in the Toronto area called
ADAM/ADAMS Rent-All, which he sold when
he retired in 1989.
In 1965, Mr.
ADAM/ADAMS joined the newly formed Canadian branch of
the Royal Air Forces Escaping Society. The group vowed to assist
the citizens who had helped Allied airmen who fell into their
midst escape or evade capture; thanks to their courage, almost
3,000 men had made it back to safety.
"The object of the society is to remember, " the group's literature
says, "and to aid our helpers who may still be suffering the
results of imprisonment and torture at the hands of the enemy,
and to maintain the very strong Friendships that developed during
those years."
(Ernest BEVIN,
Britain's foreign secretary in 1945-51, told the
first chairman of the group's British chapter: "Your society
does a damned sight more good in Europe than all my ambassadors
rolled together.")
John DIX, a fellow member of the Escaping Society's Canadian
branch, said that, "in most cases, we only knew our helpers a
week or less -- we were just passing through. But the nature
of the relationship and the tension of the times were such that
they became lifelong Friends. We never forgot them, we had them
over to Canada every year, we kept in touch. We owed them a debt
of honour."
Flight Lieutenant
ADAM/ADAMS and his crew of four Britons and an Australian
left their base in Benghazi, Libya, on the night of November
6, 1943, scouting for targets to bomb. They spotted a German
ship anchored off Naxos, an island in the Cyclades group south
of Athens.
After dropping 16 bombs, one of the plane's two engines was hit
by German flak. "Luckily, it kept going for 10 minutes, which
gave us time to make a getaway, Mr.
ADAM/ADAMS told his daughter,
Patricia ADAM/ADAMS. "
Then it conked out and we had to slowly descend."
He ditched his disabled Wellington bomber flawlessly into the
sea. The crew escaped through hatches, and a dinghy and a parachute
popped out of the aircraft before it sank within 30 seconds of
hitting the water. The men paddled ashore to the island of Sifnos,
half a kilometre away.
"After complaining about our cigarettes being wet, we slept in
the parachute under an olive tree, Mr.
ADAM/ADAMS recalled. "In
the morning, we were discovered by a girl riding by on a donkey.
She went to fetch her father [George
KARAVOS], and he went and
got someone who could understand English and who decided we weren't
German."
The initial suspicion was mutual. When Mr.
KARAVOS took the men
to his home and offered them water, they were afraid to drink
it, until the farmer reassured them by taking a first sip.
The six men were hidden first in a mountaintop monastery on Sifnos,
and then in a cave used as a goat pen on the neighbouring island
of Serifos. Their presence was kept from local children, in case
they unwittingly tipped off the German patrol that visited the
islands several times a week from the nearby occupied island
of Milos.
"During the war, 180 people on Sifnos died because they didn't
have enough to eat, Mr.
ADAM/ADAMS said. "But the locals made a
big fuss over us, bringing food and cigarettes."
The men spent 10 days in the monastery, with a stream of hungry
people climbing the steep path to bring them bread and cheese,
oranges, figs, retsina and handfuls of precious, rationed cigarettes.
Then the Sifnos chief of police, Demetrius
BAKEAS, who was determined
the men should not be captured, arranged for them to go to Serifos,
because "there are people there who can help you."
A fisherman took them under cover of darkness to Serifos. There,
housed in the goat pen, they found five British commandos spying
on German troop movements. Conditions were primitive in that
cave for the next 20 days, but the spies had a wireless and were
able to arrange the air crew's rescue. A Royal Navy gunboat disguised
as a Greek fishing vessel picked them up and, moving by night,
took them to safety in Cyprus.
All six men survived the war, and later learned they had succeeded
in sinking that ship in Naxos harbour.
Mr. ADAM/ADAMS kept in touch with his helpers after the war, with
his letters translated for him by a Greek neighbour in Toronto.
"I remember being taken to Greek community functions, " Patricia
ADAM/ADAMS recalled. "And every Christmas Dad would send a parcel
to the school on Sifnos, with paper and pencils, and little dime-store
gifts for the children. Putting that package together every year
was very emotional."
"Bob was a very great guy, with a great sense of humour, " said
Roy BROWN, secretary of the Escaping Society. Mr.
ADAM/ADAMS was treasurer
of the society at his death, and served as president in 1995-96.
"We have about 100 members now across the country, who are in
their 80s and beyond, Mr.
BROWN said. "Most of our helpers
are in the same or worse shape, so we're not bringing them over
as we did up until five or six years ago. But we still help out
when we see a helper in need."
Robert Watson
ADAM/ADAMS was born on January 22, 1921, in Windsor,
Ontario, where his father, Dr. Frederick
ADAM/ADAMS, was the medical
officer of health for more than 20 years. If he had returned
to base that night after the raid on Naxos harbour, he would
have received the cable informing him of his father's death back
home.
After graduating from Windsor's Kennedy Collegiate in 1939, Mr.
ADAM/ADAMS worked in a bank before enlisting in June, 1941. A few
weeks later his older brother, Coulson, was killed during training
in England, shot down by a German night fighter that had sneaked
across the Channel. His other brother, John, was also a bomber
pilot killed in action, shot down during a raid on Hanover, Germany,
just a few months before the war in Europe ended.
Robert ADAM/ADAMS's story was featured in a Canadian Broadcasting
Corporation-Television documentary
in 1966, when a Telescope camera crew followed him and his wife,
Joan, back to Sifnos, where they received a hero's welcome.
"Those Greeks had nothing to gain and everything to lose, " Mr.
ADAM/ADAMS told the show's associate producer, George Ronald. "They
were starving, and yet they gave us everything. They were superb....
I don't think they know just how kind and generous and how brave
they were."
Mr. BAKEAS, who had moved to Athens after retiring from the police
force, returned to Sifnos for the emotional reunion held 23 years
after he helped save Mr.
ADAM/ADAMS's life. Earlier, he had written
to "my dear friend" in Canada: "It is not possible for me to
forget the danger which connected us in those terrible war days.
We shall be always waiting you."
In addition to his wife, Mr.
ADAM/ADAMS leaves his children John,
Patricia and Mary, sons-in-law Lawrence
SOLOMON and Steve
DOUGLAS/DOUGLASS,
and granddaughters Essie and Catharine.
Robert Watson
ADAM/ADAMS, chain-store founder and past president of
the Canadian branch of the Royal Air Force Escaping Society
born in Windsor, Ontario, on January 22, 1921; died in Toronto
on February 10, 2003.
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KARETAK o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-03-07 published
Willard Adrian
JACKSON
By Andrew LINDELL,
Donna
MORRISON Friday,
March 7, 2003 - Page
A18
Engineer, adventurer, grandfather. Born July 19, 1912, in Sudbury,
Ontario Died February 8, in Toronto, of congestive heart failure,
aged 90.
Willard Adrian
JACKSON was cremated in a pine box, with no funeral,
arrangements you might think were for a man without family or
Friends. Yet, Willard was one of most loved men I've ever known,
deeply loved by his wife of 68 years, three daughters, eight
grandchildren and 17 great grandchildren.
Born the son of a funeral director, he did not believe in excess
or unnecessary extravagances and rituals, including funerals.
He called cars "necessary evils" and did not pretend to understand
the generation controlled by computers. His strong attitudes
were often offensively opinionated and even politically incorrect.
Still, what most warmed to in him was his belief in the simple
joys of life: family, love, and good old-fashioned hard work.
Willard lived a good life and a long one -- one longer than you
might expect after a life of work-related injuries and mishaps.
A plane crash in 1954 during Hurricane Hazel left him with a
torn ear, crushed left forearm and broken neck (he broke it twice
in his lifetime; his back once, in another incident), that put
him in a plaster cast from head to waist for six months. The
doctors told him he would likely be paralyzed. Helped by his
wife Jane by playing Scrabble for hours, forced to pick up the
tiny letter pieces with his mangled hand, he fully recovered.
A graduate of Queen's University science class of 1939, as a
civil engineer, Willard began his career working in the underground
mines, first with Inco and then at Falconbridge, both in Sudbury.
In 1940, he tried to join the war effort overseas, but wasn't
accepted because, as an engineer, he was needed in his own country
to help build airstrips in Goose Bay, Labrador. After the war,
he worked at Canadian Pacific Railway in Sudbury for five years.
He joined Clarke Steamship Co. of Montreal in the construction
department and was later lured to join Caswell Construction where
he helped build Highway 401. He left to set up his own business
in Toronto, Consul Consultants, where, as crane specialist, he
travelled all over North America investigating large construction
and mining accidents for insurance companies.
Willard was a master storyteller, and loved to tell tales of
his adventures hunting, building or travelling. He once had to
eat raw porcupine after his food and dry-match supply ran out
on a moose-hunting trip. He had a special place in his heart
for Canada's Arctic, where in 1978 he befriended many of the
local residents at his (now late) grand_son's wedding to (now)
federal Member of Parliament for Nunavut, Nancy
KARETAK-
LINDELL.
A week before Willard died, he was paid a visit by his longtime
friend from Iqaluit, Abraham. It was one of the final highlights
of his life.
My grandfather was an extraordinary male role model for seven
boys growing up in divorced marriages. He taught us to work hard
at everything we do. When we were teenagers, he had us blasting
rocks and felling trees to build roads at his farm in Lafontaine,
Ontario He was always our biggest fan, praising our accomplishments
and encouraging us to take risks into fields that filled our
hearts, not necessarily our wallets.
When he turned 90 last July, it became obvious that Willard himself
thought he was done. Living became a necessary evil. He became
crippled with arthritis and his breathing became very laboured.
In November, he called the entire family together for Christmas
day, knowing -- he told us -- it would be his last. With my video
camera rolling, I asked him what advice he could pass on. "Be
true to your values, " he said.
Andrew is Willard's grand_son. Andrew and his fiancée Donna collaborated
on this essay.
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KARGER o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-10-06 published
KARGER,
John
Paul, B.A.Sc., M.B.A.
35 years employed with Atomic Energy of Canada with postings
in Russia, Romania, Argentina, India and other foreign lands,
preceded by 3 years as a pilot with the Canadian Air Force; graduating
from University of Toronto '58
He died suddenly, on Friday, October 3, 2003 of a heart attack
at the age of 68, in Mississauga. John will be sadly missed by
his most beloved Pearl, his loving children Paula, Tomas and
Lisa, stepsons Neil and Adrian, brother George and wife Jana,
sister Vera and husband Igor
HOLUBEC and brother and sister-in-law,
the late Paul and Dorothy
KARGER.
The family will receive Friends
at the Turner and Porter ''Peel'' Chapel, 2180 Hurontario Street,
Mississauga, (Hwy. 10 north of Queen Elizabeth Way), on Monday
from 7-9 p.m. A Funeral Mass will be held on Tuesday, October
7, 2003 at 10: 30 a.m. at Saint Mary Star of the Sea, 11 Peter Street
South, Port Credit (Lakeshore Road, east of Mississauga Road).
Cremation. As an expression of sympathy, a donation to the Heart
and Stroke Foundation of Ontario would be greatly appreciated.
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KARMINSKI o@ca.on.manitoulin.howland.little_current.manitoulin_expositor 2003-12-17 published
Deacon
David
Roland
COLEMAN
TRUDEAU
In loving memory of Deacon David Roland
COLEMAN
TRUDEAU at the age of 78 years
Thirty years of sobriety. Died peacefully surrounded by his wife and family at the
Manitoulin Health Centre on Wednesday evening December 10, 2003.
Beloved husband of Clara
(FOX)
TRUDEAU of Wikwemikong and first wife
the late Tillie
KUBUNT of Newberry, Michigan. Dear son of the late
Dominic and Angeline
(WASSEGIJIG)
TRUDEAU of Wikwemikong. Dear
step-father to Bill
TUCKER,
Sharon (husband Ray) Wynn and Bob
TUCKER
of Newberry, Michigan, Lindell
MATHEWS of Wikwemikong, Annie
KAY
(friend Eric
EADIE,)
Mathew and Linda
MATHEWS (predeceased.) Loving
grandfather to Billy, Karen, Jimmy, Linda (friend Wayne), Ronald
(friend Tracy), Maxwell, Lindsay, Michael, Darla and a few more from
Newberry, Michigan (names unknown at time of printing). Predeceased
by two grandchildren Linda Marie and Lucy Marie. One great
granddaughter Deanna
MATHEWS.
Loving brother of Stella (Jim
predeceased)
PAVLOT of Sault, Michigan, Ursula (Bob)
SCHUPP of Meza,
Arizona,
Elsie
(John predeceased)
BOWES of Shorter, Alabama.
Predeceased by brothers and sisters and in-laws Tony (Margaret)
TRUDEAU, Isadore (Marge)
WEMIGWANS, Lena (Bova)
GRENIER, and Francis
(Nestor) KARMINSKI.
Will be sadly missed by Godchildren Jonathon
DEBASSIGE,
Alison
RECOLLET, Darcy
SPANISH, and many nieces, nephews and cousins.
Rested at St. Ignatius Church, Buzwah. Funeral Mass was held at Holy
Cross Mission, Wikwemikong on Monday, December 15, 2003 at 11: 00 a.m.
with Father Doug McCarthy s.j. officiating. Cremation at the Sagamok
Anishnawbek First Nations Crematorium. Lougheed Funeral Home.
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KARN o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-11-04 published
KRAFCHIK,
Terrie
(Theresa)
Died at Saint Mary's Hospital on Monday, November 3, 2003, at 90
years of age. Beloved wife of the late Paul Peter
KRAFCHIK
(February
1989.) Mother of Gail and her husband Bob
HASLER of Ottawa, and
Jim and his wife
Lillian
KRAFCHIK of Toronto. Grandmother of
Michael KRAFCHIK,
David
KRAFCHIK, both of Toronto, and Laurel
Anne HASLER of Saint John's, Newfoundland. Sister of Dorothy
WEILER
of Kitchener, Marie
KARN of Puslinch, Loretta
McCASKILL of Barrie,
and Helen HIPEL of Waterloo. Sister-in-law of Gladys
HERGOTT
of Kitchener. Predeceased by her brothers, Irvin, Elmer and Jerome
HERGOTT.
Terrie was an active member of Saint Mark's R.C. Parish
where she was also a member of the Catholic Women's League. She
taught bridge to the blind from 1973-1975, and was very involved
in parish bridge marathons from 1954-2003. The
KRAFCHIK family
will receive Friends at the Henry Walser Funeral Home, 507 Frederick
Street, Kitchener (519-749-8467) Tuesday and Wednesday from 2-4
p.m. and 7-9 p.m., with parish prayers on Wednesday at 8: 30 p.m.
Prayers will be offered at the Funeral Home on Thursday, November
6, 2003 at 10: 15 a.m., then followed by Terrie's Funeral Mass
at Saint Mark's R.C. Parish, 55 Driftwood Drive, Kitchener, at
11 a.m. Fr. Bill
TRUSZ officiating. Interment Woodland Cemetery.
As expressions of sympathy, donations to Saint Mark's R.C. Parish
Mortgage Fund or to Saint Mary's Hospital Foundation would be appreciated
by the family. Visit www.obit411.com/1135 for Theresa's memorial.
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