LECKEY o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-09-12 published
NESBITT,
Robert
Samuel
Born 26 April 1913, died peacefully 11 September 2003, of complications
following a broken hip, in his ninety-first year. Beloved husband
of Jean (née
BOOTH) and loving father of Catherine (Bob
LECKEY,)
Shelagh (Doug
WHITFIELD) and Robbie (deceased.) Proud grandfather
of Bill (Shelly,) Rob and Aaron (Lynne
DESPRES)
WHITFIELD and
of Amelia BAILEY
(Mark) and Robert
LECKEY (Josý
NAVAS) and great-grandfather
of Amy and Ashley
WHITFIELD and of Corbin
BAILEY.
Predeceased
by sisters Joyce (Clarence
LOCKWOOD,)
Patricia
(Ben
THOMPSON/THOMSON/TOMPSON/TOMSON)
and, in childhood, Eleanor and brother George. Bob's life was
marked by his dedication to his family, Friends, neigbours, church
and community. The family will receive Friends at the Walas Funeral
Home, 130 Main Street, Brighton on Sunday from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m.
Service will be held from St. Paul's Anglican Church, Brighton
on Monday, September 15th at 1 o'clock. Interment Mount Hope
Cemetery Cemetery, Brighton. As an expression of sympathy, donations
to St. Paul's Anglican Church, Belleville Hospital or The Red
Cross, care of Box 96, Brighton, Ontario K0K 1H0, would be appreciated
by the family.
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LECKIE o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-02-24 published
Constance Patricia
YOUNG (née
BOND) Lieut. Nova Scotia, R.C.A.M.C.
Beloved wife of the late Roy
YOUNG.
Born in Worthing, England
August 9, 1911 died in Toronto February 22, 2003.
In between she lived her life with joy, humour, love, and faith. Connie
graduated from St. Michael's Hospital in 1932 as a registered
nurse. She practiced as a Public Health nurse (St. Elizabeth)
after graduation. From 1941-1945 Connie served her country as
a Nursing Sister in the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corp., No.
2 C.C.S. Unit. After the war Connie worked as a Corporate nurse
until her marriage to Roy
YOUNG in 1954 when she began her second
career as a wife and mother. Connie passed away peacefully after
a lengthy battle with cancer. Connie is survived by her son Carl
and Elizabeth
YOUNG,
Claremont,
Ontario, and her daughter Mary
and Keith LECKIE of Toronto and her much loved grandchildren
Toban, Katelyn and Sean
LECKIE.
She was predeceased by siblings
Courtney, Alban, Dorothy and Douglas all of whom together with
Connie survived the Halifax Explosion of 1917. Friends may call
at the Turner and Porter Yorke Chapel, 2357 Bloor Street West,
at Windermere, east of the Jane subway, from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m.
On Tuesday, February 25. Funeral Mass will be celebrated at St.
Gabriel's Church, 650 Sheppard Avenue East, Willowdale at 10
a.m. Wednesday, February 26. Interment will take place at St.
Luke's Cemetery, Downeyville, Ontario. The family wish to thank
their friend Mely and the staff at West Park Long Care Hospital.
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LECKIE o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-05-21 published
Constance Patricia
YOUNG
By Mary Patricia Young
LECKIE
Mary Young
LECKIE is Connie's daughter. Wednesday, May 21, 2003
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Lieutenant, army medical corps; nurse, mother. Born August 9,
1911, in Worthing, England. Died February 22 in Toronto, of cancer,
aged 91.
If a movie were to be made of Connie's life, it would be an epic.
Born
Constance
Patricia
BOND in a sleepy, seaside English town,
her family moved to Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1914. Her father
Charles was a man of great ambition who traversed the Maritimes
vending cash registers, while mother Blanche managed the staff.
On December 6, 1917, their world came apart when the Mont Blanc
collided with the Imo in Halifax Harbour, creating the largest
explosion in pre-atomic history. Connie, in class at the Sacred
Heart Convent, was blown onto the floor. Her brother Courtney
made his way to Citadel Hill to fight the Germans he assumed
had invaded the city. Charles, stranded in Saint John's, waited
five excruciating days until word came that all of his "Victory
Bonds" had survived.
For many Canadians, the end of the First World War war was the
beginning of the most difficult time in that century. Charles
moved the family to Toronto to begin anew. But the glory days
of wartime prosperity gave way to a tumbling economy that crushed
the ambitions, will and finally life out of Connie's beloved
father. Connie dreamed of returning to Sacred Heart to take her
vows as a nun but as she was by then a nurse, she was the only
employed member of her family. Connie stayed to support her mother
whose income would never again keep pace with her desires.
As her siblings found employment, Connie began to yearn for adventure.
Once a shrinking violet, she longed to break free. The opportunity
came: the Second World War was declared and Connie enlisted.
In basic training at Camp Borden she met Lily
CLEGG, an irreverent
counterpoint who taught her the fine art of having fun. Combat
field-training came next, then they were bound for England. Also
aboard were the men of Essex Regiment, fellow recruits and Friends.
It was Connie's great sorrow to receive those boys back in England
when a pitiful handful of survivors returned from Dieppe.
General Hospital in Sussex was a safe refuge but Connie wanted
more and in 1944 she got it when she and Lily embarked for France.
In the early hours of D-Day-plus-four, they were among the first
Canadian nurses to set foot on Juno Beach. They followed the
action through France, Belgium and the Netherlands.
Connie celebrated Victory-in-Europe Day in Trafalgar Square.
After decommissioning, she returned to Toronto to discover that
the pay she had sent home had been squandered by her mother.
So once again, she started over, studying Public Health at the
University of Toronto; she practised as a public health nurse
until 1954.
An unexpected whirlwind courtship was followed by marriage to
Roy YOUNG, a widower with a son. Then, at the age of 45, Connie
gave birth to a daughter.
Even in retirement in Omemee, Ontario, Connie continued to touch
lives: administering meds, bandaging sprains and dispensing love
and humour to all. She never lost her zest for life and in her
70s, Connie drove a fishing boat to town for supplies and in
winter, a snowmobile to visit shut-ins. And she tended the ever-present
live-in, Blanche, until her mother died in 1981.
Widowed at 89, Connie was soon after diagnosed with cancer. She
moved to Toronto to be close to her children and was blessed
with another two years. After a fall, Connie, wheelchair bound,
almost gave up. Then the family discovered her old friend Lily
was alive in a Toronto nursing home. The two were reunited and
shared a month of memories. But on Christmas morning, Lily died
and two months later, cancer took Connie.
Constance Patricia was a remarkable woman. For those she touched
she will never die. Her spirit is irrepressible.
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LECKIE o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-07-21 published
CAMPBELL,
Freda
Margaret (née
LECKIE)
Died peacefully in her 93rd year on 19 July 2003 at the wonderful
May Court Hospice in Ottawa. Her son, Edward, sister, Fay and
daughter-in-law Elizabeth were with her until the very end.
Freda was born and raised on a small farm near Unity, Saskatchewan,
and went to Regina for high school and business college and then
to Saskatoon. She was a happy-go-lucky flapper and sometimes
photographer's model in the Roaring Twenties and a hard working
young bookkeeper in the Dirty Thirties when a large share of
her salary had to go to help support parents and younger brothers
and sisters left behind on a dust-bowl farm. In 1939, just as
the war was about to begin, she married Frank
CAMPBELL, also
from Saskatoon, a lieutenant in the Navy; by early 1943 she was
a widow with one young son. Despite offers from some fine men
she remained a widow. From the late fifties until the mid seventies
she looked after her widowed mother and went back to work - in
the taxation department of the city of Richmond, British Columbia
where she lived until the late 1990s. She moved to Ottawa in
1998 to be near her son. Her daughter-in-law Elizabeth saw to
her every need for the past few years, helping her to enjoy life
to the fullest, in her own home and on her own terms until just
a few days before her death.
Freda CAMPBELL was a reserved woman of strong principles, firm
character and high standards. She was generous to all, sharing
whatever good fortune came her way but keeping the slings and
arrows to herself.
She is survived by her son, Edward (Ted) of Ottawa, daughter-in-law
Elizabeth, also of Ottawa, and grand_sons Frank (a lieutenant
in the Navy in Victoria) and Michael Andrew, a graduate student
at the University of Calgary, and brothers and sisters Gordon,
Julia (Morris) (both of Penticton, British Columbia), Armand
(Toronto), Clayton (Texas) and Fay (Carvahlo) (Hawaii). She was
predeceased by brothers Robert and Albert.
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