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LOCKHARD
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LOCKREM
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Marguerite Esther
LOCHEAD
In loving memory of Marguerite Esther
LOCHEAD,
July▼ 11, 1919 - September 2, 2003.
Marguerite Esther
LOCHEAD, a resident of Mindemoya, passed away at
the Mindemoya Hospital, Mindemoya on Tuesday, September 2, 2003 at
the age of 84 years. She was born in Dalhousie Township daughter of
the late Hugh and Marion
(PARK)
LOCHEAD.
Marguerite▼ was a teacher
for 35 years, teaching in such places as Copper Cliff, Gatchell and
Little Current before retiring to Mindemoya. She became very active
in the Mindemoya United Church. She had many hobbies, including
gardening, knitting and art especially painting with oils.
Well-known and respected in her community, she will be sadly missed
by all who knew her. A loving sister, aunt, great aunt and friend,
many fond memories will be cherished.
Marguerite▼ is survived by her sister Marion "Betty"
SLOSS of Spring
Bay and brother Alex
LOCHEAD and wife
Mary▼ of London. Predeceased by
a brother Alex
LOCHEAD and wife
Mary▼ of London. Predeceased by a
brother Charles and brother-in-law Elwood
SLOSS. Dear and loving
aunt of Jim
SLOSS, Susan
GRENON, Mary Lynn
McQUARRIE, Bill
LOCHEAD,
Charles LOCHEAD, Marian
LOCHEAD, James
LOCHEAD and Phyllis
SPARKS.
Also survived by 11 great nieces and nephews.
Friends called at the Mindemoya United Church, Mindemoya on Friday,
September 5, 2003 from 2 - 4 pm and 7 - 9 pm. The funeral service
was conducted at the Church on Saturday September 6, 2003 at 11 am
with Reverend Mary Jo
ECKERT
TRACY officiating. Interment in Mindemoya Cemetery.
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LOCKHARD o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-07-18 published
D-Day vet one of the 'Two Jacks'
Story of two soldiers'daring escape from a German PoW camp inspired
a book of 'amazing adventures'
By Allison
LAWLOR
Friday,
July 18, 2003 - Page R13
Jack VENESS, a D-Day veteran whose dramatic account of capture
and escape during the Second World War was chronicled in the
book The Two Jacks, has died at his home in Fredericton. He was
Maritime writer Will R.
BIRD recounted Mr.
VENESS's wartime heroism
in his 1954 book The Two Jacks: The Amazing Adventures of Major
Jack M. VENESS and Major Jack L.
FAIRWEATHER.
When Canadians landed on the Normandy coast of France on D-Day,
Mr. VENESS and Dr.
FAIRWEATHER were there with the North Nova
Scotia Highlanders. By June 7, the North Novas (as they were
known) battled their way inland -- about 13 kilometres -- and
had occupied the villages of Buron and Authie when they were
met by German tanks and gunfire, led by the 12th SS Panzer Division.
A raging battle ensued that left dozens of North Novas dead and
injured and led to the capture of both Mr.
VENESS and Dr.
FAIRWEATHER.
They were among close to 100 who were taken prisoner by the Germans
at the time.
"We thought it was bad luck that we were captured but on the
other hand there were a lot of people who didn't survive," said
Dr. FAIRWEATHER, a retired doctor living in Lewisburg, Pa.
After being forced to walk for close to a week with little food
or rest, the two officers, along with the other prisoners, reached
the gates of "Front Stalag." The German prison was a collection
of worn-out army huts surrounded by three barbed wire fences.
Included in the book The Two Jacks is a card Mr.
VENESS wrote
dated June 16, 1944. "Dear Mother, I am in a German PoW camp.
I am in good health and will write more later. Love, Jack."
The two Jacks would then spend the next six weeks in the prison
camp before being loaded onto a railway boxcar. After spending
at least five days jammed into the crowded car, with bombs dropping
all around them, the two men decided if they were going to escape,
now was the time.
"It was made pretty clear in training... an officer's first duty
when captured is to escape," Dr.
FAIRWEATHER said. "We had that
in the back of our minds."
In the dark of the night, just outside the French city of Tours,
the two terrified men escaped their imprisonment by jumping from
a moving train through a hole in the boxcar.
"Jack said, 'This is our chance, we have to take it,' Dr.
FAIRWEATHER
recalled. "He said, 'Come on, we can do this.' " The two officers
were hidden by a French priest in the belfry of a church (which
Mr. VENESS would later visit in the 1970s with his son and first
wife), and were soon after linked up with the French underground.
"I'm sure we wouldn't have survived without the underground,"
Dr. FAIRWEATHER said. "They hid us and protected us."
The two officers served with the French underground in the German-occupied
Loire district of France for less than two months before they
were able to make a safe return to their regiment in England.
After declining an offer to be re-posted to Canada, both Jacks
rejoined their North Nova units in Europe. This next period would
mark some of the most intense fighting Mr.
VENESS took part in
during the war.
"He was a very courageous and a very brave man," said his friend
and fellow veteran, retired judge David
DICKSON/DIXON of the New Brunswick
Court of Queen's Bench. "He never lacked valour."
John
(Jack)
Mersereau
VENESS was born on November 11, 1922, in
Ottawa to John and Annie
VENESS.
After moving with his family
to Fredericton in 1933, he attended Fredericton High School.
He went on to complete one year at the University of New Brunswick
before joining the Canadian Infantry Corps (North Nova Scotia
Highlanders) in May, 1942, at the age of 19. A year later, he
went overseas and not long after met Dr.
FAIRWEATHER while in
England with the North Novas.
Dr. FAIRWEATHER said he immediately liked his fellow Maritimer's
directness. "He called a spade a spade."
Over the course of his storied military career, Mr.
VENESS would
go on to serve in England, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany
and France. After returning to his unit after his capture and
escape, Mr.
VENESS was engaged in fighting in the flooded Scheldt
Estuary in Holland and Belgium, during which time he captured
a German major-general at gunpoint.
In March, 1945, while leading his company in Germany, Mr.
VENESS
was seriously wounded by shrapnel from an exploding shell. After
more than a month in hospital he recovered.
Mr. VENESS retired from the army in 1946 as a major with many
medals, including the War Medal, being mentioned in dispatches,
Croix de Guerre 1940 with Palm, Chevalier of the Order of Leopold
II with Palm (Belgium), The Defence Medal and the 1939-45 Star.
"He had a high respect for the veterans all his life," Mr. Dickson
said. "I really [think] he felt he owed a debt to his fellow
soldiers."
After returning home to New Brunswick after the war, Mr.
VENESS
returned to the University of New Brunswick and graduated in
1950 with a degree in civil engineering. He spent four years
working in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, and Banff, Alberta., then
returned to New Brunswick to work for the Department of Highways.
He retired in 1983 as director of traffic engineering.
In 1948, Mr.
VENESS married Jere
WOOD from Saint Martin's, New
Brunswick They had one son. In 1976, after almost 30 years of
marriage, Mr.
VENESS lost both his wife and mother in a tragic
car accident, while the two women were driving home to Fredericton
from St. Andrews, New Brunswick Two years later, Mr.
VENESS married
Freda LOCKHARD.
The couple enjoyed travelling and visited Europe
to pay homage to fallen soldiers at military cemeteries and to
attend commemorative services.
In addition to travelling, Mr.
VENESS was also an active member
of the community. He volunteered with a number of organizations,
including the Young Men's Christian Association, where he served
on the board of directors; the Masons; the Canadian Legion; and
the Fredericton Garrison Club, where he was president.
Mr. VENESS's strict, early military training stuck with him throughout
his life. Mr.
DICKSON/DIXON remembers that a telephone call to his
friend meant a brisk talk to convey a message and no idle chitchat.
"He was a little gruff at times," Mr.
DICKSON/DIXON said.
Mr. VENESS died of a heart attack on June 30 while playing snooker
at his home in Fredericton.
He leaves his wife Freda, son Randy, daughter-in-law Angela and
two grandchildren.
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LOCKHART o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-03-31 published
Died
This
Day -- Gene
LOCKHART, 1957
Monday, March 31, 2003 - Page R7
Actor born on July 18, 1891, in London, Ontario; born to a musical,
Scottish family; in 1923, starred on Broadway in long-running
Sun Up; moved to Hollywood to appear in more than 100 movies,
including Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940), The Devil and Daniel
Webster (1941), The Desert Song (1944), Miracle on 34th Street
(1947), Joan of Arc (1948), Madame Bovary (1949), The Man in
the Gray Flannel Suit (1956), Carousel (1956); nominated for
Academy Award for Algiers (1938); married to actress Kathleen
LOCKHART; daughter June
LOCKHART a television regular on Lassie
and Lost in Space; died in Santa Monica, Calif.
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LOCKHART o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-08-15 published
Godfather of Canadian paratroops
'Superb combat leader' led a courageous allied rush to the Baltic
in the closing days of Second World War
By John WARD,
Ottawa
Fraser EADIE, a legendary soldier who commanded the 1st Canadian
Parachute Battalion in the waning days of the Second World War
and went on to be the godfather to generations of post-war paratroopers,
has died at age 86.
During the war, Mr.
EADIE fought through northern Europe and
led his battalion to Wismar, on Germany's Baltic coast, as the
fighting ended.
His men remembered him as a disciplinarian who would nod at unorthodox
tactics that worked. In the postwar period, he was patron of
Canada's paratroop association. He served as honorary colonel
of the Canadian Airborne Regiment from 1989 until it was disbanded
in disgrace in 1994 after the Somalia affair.
In 1993, at the age of 76, he marked the Airborne's 25th anniversary
by making a parachute jump with the outfit.
"He was a natural leader, a superb combat leader," said Bob
LOCKHART,
a retired paratroop officer who knew Mr.
EADIE well after the
war.
Mr. EADIE began his military career as a militia soldier in the
1930s, serving as a private in both the Calgary Highlanders and
the Royal Winnipeg Rifles.
After the war broke out, he left his job with the Ford Motor
Co. for the army and went overseas as a lieutenant with the Rifles.
He was promoted to captain and then major, and took a parachute
course before joining the fledgling parachute battalion. As a
hockey player before the war, he was in top physical shape. He
breezed through gruelling training which left many gasping by
the wayside.
In March, 1944, the battalion took part in Operation Varsity,
leapfrogging the Rhine River into Germany.
The jump zone was heavily defended and the battalion commander,
Lieutenant-Colonel Jeff
NICKLIN, was killed. One story says he
died when he landed in a clump of trees directly above a German
machine-gun nest, but Jan
DEVRIES, who was a private at the time,
doubts that.
"NICKLIN was actually probably dead before he came into the trees
because he sailed right over a German machine-gun," Mr.
DEVRIES
said.
With the commander dead and the landing under heavy fire, the
Canadians were in a crisis.
"Fraser immediately assumed command," said Mr.
DEVRIES.
He rallied the men and despite heavy casualties -- 25 killed,
about 50 wounded and 20 missing out of 475 -- he led them to
seize their objectives.
The battalion jumped into Normandy on D-Day, June 6, 1944, as
part of a larger British unit. The Canadians fought in Normandy
for weeks and helped break the German army in France.
Mr. DEVRIES said Mr.
EADIE showed a sense of humour even in combat.
He recalled an incident in Normandy when Mr.
EADIE spotted a
German tank and called for artillery support, telling the gunners
he faced a Tiger tank, a formidable piece of armour. When a corporal
pointed out that the tank was, in fact, a smaller though still
potent Mark IV, Mr.
EADIE smiled at him: "Don't spoil a good
story."
Mr. EADIE was awarded the Distinguished Service Order, promoted
to lieutenant-colonel and confirmed as battalion commander.
In the final weeks of the war, the battalion was paired with
a British armoured unit, driving into northern Germany. The Canadians
commandeered cars, trucks and other vehicles and outran the British,
Mr. Lockhart said.
"They were moving so fast with their captured cars and such that
the armoured battalion ran out of gas."
At one point, a British general arrived to inspect the regiment
and was shocked to find some soldiers decked out in German parachute
smocks, others sporting looted bowler hats.
Mr. EADIE was driving a big German staff car at the time and
was hardly in a position to complain. He remembered later that
the general was taken aback by the scorn for dress regulations.
He told Mr.
EADIE: "I saw one fellow wearing what looked like
a rugby sweater embossed with the words, Flin Flon."
Mr. EADIE said the general never did figure out what that meant
and no one enlightened him.
Mr. DEVRIES said the Canadians, in company with the Royal Scots
Greys, an armoured outfit, eventually ran into the Russians on
the Baltic.
"Their orders were to go to Denmark," Mr.
DEVRIES said. Mr.
EADIE
would have none of that and confronted the Russians, telling
his men "Get ready lads."
"He told the Russian officer, 'you better have 10 men for my
one.'"
The Russians backed down.
The official history of the Canadian Army notes: "Wismar, taken
by Lt.-Col.
EADIE's men and the Royal Scots Greys was in fact
the most easterly point reached by any Commonwealth troops in
this campaign and the first point where any Commonwealth troops
serving in it made contact with the Russian ally.
"It is satisfactory that a Canadian battalion was there."
The battalion went home in September, 1945, and was disbanded.
Mr. EADIE went back to Ford, where he spent 46 years in all.
Canadian Press
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LOCKHEAD o@ca.on.manitoulin.howland.little_current.manitoulin_expositor 2003-09-10 published
Marguerite Esther
LOCHEAD
In loving memory of Marguerite Esther
LOCHEAD,
July▲ 11, 1919 - September 2, 2003.
Marguerite Esther
LOCHEAD, a resident of Mindemoya, passed away at
the Mindemoya Hospital, Mindemoya on Tuesday, September 2, 2003 at
the age of 84 years. She was born in Dalhousie Township daughter of
the late Hugh and Marion
(PARK)
LOCHEAD.
Marguerite▲ was a teacher
for 35 years, teaching in such places as Copper Cliff, Gatchell and
Little Current before retiring to Mindemoya. She became very active
in the Mindemoya United Church. She had many hobbies, including
gardening, knitting and art especially painting with oils.
Well-known and respected in her community, she will be sadly missed
by all who knew her. A loving sister, aunt, great aunt and friend,
many fond memories will be cherished.
Marguerite▲ is survived by her sister Marion "Betty"
SLOSS of Spring
Bay and brother Alex
LOCHEAD and wife
Mary▲ of London. Predeceased by
a brother Alex
LOCHEAD and wife
Mary▲ of London. Predeceased by a
brother Charles and brother-in-law Elwood
SLOSS. Dear and loving
aunt of Jim
SLOSS, Susan
GRENON, Mary Lynn
McQUARRIE, Bill
LOCHEAD,
Charles LOCHEAD, Marian
LOCHEAD, James
LOCHEAD and Phyllis
SPARKS.
Also survived by 11 great nieces and nephews.
Friends called at the Mindemoya United Church, Mindemoya on Friday,
September 5, 2003 from 2 - 4 pm and 7 - 9 pm. The funeral service
was conducted at the Church on Saturday September 6, 2003 at 11 am
with Reverend Mary Jo
ECKERT
TRACY officiating. Interment in Mindemoya Cemetery.
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LOCKREM o@ca.on.manitoulin.howland.little_current.manitoulin_expositor 2003-09-10 published
Frederick CAPPEL
LINXWEILER
Peacefully Tuesday, September 2, 2003 with his daughter at his side in the beautiful McGregor Bay.
Loved by wife
Barbara, daughter Alice and husband Dick
LOCKREM and son
Fred LINXWEILER
Jr.
Forever in the hearts of six grandchildren and
three great-grandchildren. Fred had a great interest in photography,
ham radios and McGregor Bay, coming to the Bay since the age of
eight. At his request direct cremation with a service at a later
date in Dayton, Ohio. Arrangements in care of Island Funeral Home.
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LOCKWOOD o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-03-05 published
McINTYRE, Marion (Monie) Elizabeth Daly Bean
Died on February 28, 2003 at Kipling Acres Nursing Home after
a long and devastating battle with Alzheimers. Monie was born
in Toronto June 18, 1923, the only child of Roland and Marion
Daly. She attended Bishop Strachan School in Toronto and the
University of Toronto where she earned her B.A. and M.A. in sociology.
She leaves behind her children who adored her: Diane (Dennis
LALOR), Martha, Sarah (Peter
LOCKWOOD) and Andrew (Lisa
PEDWELL)
as well as eight grandchildren: Alison and Matthew
SCHWARTZ,
Carolyn,
Michael,
Douglas and Hilary
LOCKWOOD and John and Leslie
BEAN.
She was predeceased by her second husband, Dr. Alex
McINTYRE,
the love of her life. We will always be grateful to him for caring
so much about her. Monie was beautiful and bright, creative and
colourful, tolerant and self-indulgent - and she made every day
more interesting for all of us. She loved gardening, travelling,
bridge, golf and fishing. She was always keen to learn and experience
new things and enjoyed a rich and fulfilling life. We want to
thank Sharmane
SPENCE for her wonderful compassionate, gentle
and considerate care of Mom in her final years, and Sandy
McINTYRE
for his many kindnesses over many years. Funeral arrangements
will be private. For those of you who remember her and loved
her we know you will understand, in truth, she left us many years
ago and we have been mourning her loss ever since.
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LOCKWOOD 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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LOCKYER o@ca.on.manitoulin.howland.little_current.manitoulin_expositor 2003-04-16 published
Lillian Milinda
VINEY
In loving memory of Lillian Milinda
VINEY, who passed away peacefully
at Manitoulin Health Centre on Friday, April 11, 2003 at the age of 82 years.
Beloved wife of Charles
VINEY. Dear mother of Shirley
VINEY of
Little
Current,
George
VINEY of Manitowaning, Sandra and husband
Bruce POPE of Manitowaning, Lyla
VINEY of Orillia. Loved grandmother
of Stephanie and Mark
MacDONALD (fiancée Holly,) Andrew and Katherine
POPE,
Kimberley,
Laura and Marianne
MENARD. Special great
grandmother of Jonathan and Jessica
ORR,
Justin,
Destanie
(BAILEY)
and Liliana
MacDONALD.
Remembered by brother and sisters Violet
HUBBARD-
McALLISTER (predeceased,) Harry
JAGGARD (wife
Gladys
predeceased,) Bessie
LOCKYER (husband James predeceased,) Florence
LENSON (husband Walter predeceased,) Madeleine
CHARLTON (husband John
predeceased), predeceased by sisters Beulah and Iris and parents Guy and
Evalena JAGGARD.
Sister-in-law of Harry
VINEY, Ruth
McCULLIGH
(predeceased,) Lauretta
McGILLIS (predeceased,) Grace
HUNTER
(predeceased,) Joyce and husband Howard
HOLMES,
Glenn and wife
Margaret VINEY, predeceased by Joe, Bob and Edith. Will be missed by
numerous nephews and nieces. Visitation was held Sunday, April 13,
2003. Funeral service was held Monday, April 14, 2003. Both at Knox
United Church, Manitowaning. Burial in Hilly Grove Cemetery at a
later date. Arrangements in care of Island Funeral Home.
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