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MEAD o@ca.on.manitoulin.howland.little_current.manitoulin_expositor 2003-03-12 published
Richard Nellis
BOWERMAN
In loving memory of Richard Nellis
BOWERMAN who passed away peacefully at Manitoulin
Health Centre on Thursday, March 6, 2003 at the age of 86 years.
Predeceased by dear wife Ethel
BOWERMAN
(JOHNSON) (December 12, 1975).
Predeceased by parents Herman and Bertha
(SISSON)
BOWERMAN.
Loved brother of Susie (1989) and husband Harry
LEESON, both predeceased.
Stanley (predeceased in 1997,) Hazel (1984) and husband Norman
BRANDOW, both predeceased.
Harold (1984) and wife
Beatrice
MEAD, both predeceased. Lila (1988) and husband Thomas
SIMPSON, both predeceased. Burton (predeceased in 1951.) Melvin and (wife
Dorothy
FRASER predeceased,)
Clinton and wife Betty
DOAN, Stella and husband Ron
MacDOUGALL, Pearl and husband Jack
ABRAHALL,
and Evelyn (husband Ted
WHALEN predeceased.)
Visitation was held on Friday, March 7, 2003. Funeral Service was
held on Saturday, March 8, 2003 at Manitowaning United Church.
Burial in Hilly Grove Cemetery in the spring.
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MEAD o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-04-09 published
Mary Ellen
GLOVER
By Jane DUBROY
Wednesday,
April 9, 2003 - Page A18
Wife, mother, gymnastics judge, tenacious advocate for the elderly.
Born May 19, 1944, in Ottawa. Died of cancer November 26, 2002,
in Toronto, aged 58.
Although Mary Ellen's own life ended prematurely, part of her
legacy is the work she did on behalf of those who are long-lived.
She served as executive director of the Ontario Association of
Residents' Councils for 17 years, and was instrumental in winning
legislative support for long-term care residents to have input
into their own care and activities. "She was a true advocate
for seniors throughout the province," wrote the Residents' Council
of Hillsdale Manor. "She worked very hard and often presented
the views, feelings and wishes of the elderly population... at
Queen's Park and other places... Mary Ellen
GLOVER will be really
missed and not forgotten..."
She was the oldest of three sisters. Adele was born next, and
then I came along three years later. Adele died at age 9, so
that left just we two. The anthropologist Margaret
MEAD has observed
that sisters have "probably the most competitive relationship
within the family." Mary Ellen and I were no exception. However,
Ms. MEAD added, "once sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest
relationship," and I like to think that's how we finished too.
Our west-end Ottawa neighbours were like our extended family.
Unfortunately for Mary Ellen, she was one of the first members
of the younger generation to date. Every time a beau came to
pick her up, he would be scrutinized by all the dads who happened
to be out tending their lawns. They sometimes showed their support
by applauding. Mary Ellen kept her cool, but this may help explain
why she took off on an extended trip to England in her early
20s.
Back in Ottawa, she took a job at the Canadian Wood Council,
where she met Bill
GLOVER.
They married almost 27 years ago.
Their daughter Margot was born in 1980, the same year they moved
to Williams Lake, British Columbia where Bill worked with the
Wood Industry Association. They returned to Toronto in 1984.
After our mother moved into long-term care, there were many Christmases
and Thanksgivings when Mary Ellen, Bill and Margot drove to Ottawa
with the turkey in the back of the car, and treated Mother and
several other elderly relatives to a home-cooked holiday dinner
with all the trimmings in the Glovers' hotel suite. When I told
Mary Ellen she was the only person I knew who could cook Christmas
dinner in a hotel room, her response was always, "No big deal."
Pretty much the only time she ever broke her no-bragging rule
was when it came to Margot. Her daughter trained for many years
as a competitive gymnast, and Mary Ellen and Bill put in countless
hours of volunteer time at the club; Mary Ellen eventually qualified
and served as a judge. In her memory, the Toronto gymnastics
community has created "The Mary Ellen Glover Award" to be given
annually to a west-end club achieving excellence in balance-beam
choreography.
I always thought Mary Ellen would go on forever, she was such
a determined person. She had to be -- she suffered from severe
rheumatoid arthritis for 22 years, and endured many operations.
Her determination also showed in her brief but intense battle
with cancer. Last August, in spite of being diagnosed with two
brain tumours on the same day that our mother died, she insisted
that the doctors let her out of the hospital so that she could
go to Ottawa for our mother's funeral. Battling her own cancer,
she conducted herself with grace, dignity and courage. "Mother
would have been so proud of you," I told her. Mary Ellen replied
"I hope so."
I know so. We all were, and are.
Jane DUBROY is Mary Ellen
GLOVER's sister.
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MEADOWS o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-01-09 published
Last fighter pilot of the Great War
Canadian aviator, a bankteller in peacetime, was 'just doing
his duty'
By Allison
LAWLOR
Thursday,
January 9, 2003, Page R7
Henry BOTTERELL, the last of the fighter pilots that fought in
the First World War, has died in Toronto. He was 106.
Mr. BOTTERELL, who up until in his late 90s was swimming almost
every day, died peacefully at the Sunnybrook Veterans Hospital,
now part of Sunnybrook and Women's College Health Sciences Centre,
on Friday, less than two months after celebrating his 106th birthday.
One of 16 surviving Canadian veterans of the First World War
profiled in a Globe and Mail series in November, Henry
BOTTERELL
was believed to be the last fighter pilot from the 1914-1918
conflict, according to the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Mr. BOTTERELL declined to take part in the series of interviews,
but at a special air-force celebration four years earlier he
recalled his days as a fighter pilot.
"I had good hands," he said then. "I didn't have the fighting
acumen of some, like Billy
BISHOP. I was just a bank clerk. I
wasn't one of the very best, but I had my share of action."
On August 29, 1918, Flight Lieutenant
BOTTERELL flew his Sopwith
Camel over Vitry, France. After dropping four bombs on a railway
station, he was heading back to his airfield when he encountered
a German observation balloon. He fired 400 rounds into the balloon
with his aircraft machine gun.
With the balloon ablaze, the soldier leaped from the basket and
opened his parachute. As the flaming remains of the balloon fell
to the ground, Mr.
BOTTERELL had enough time to swing around
and shoot his enemy, but didn't. Instead, he snapped him a chivalrous
salute before heading back to base. The moment was captured by
aviation artist Robert
TAILOR/TAYLOR, in his painting Balloon Buster.
"He was an adventurer," said Jon
STRAW, a friend and former director
of the Great War Flying Museum in Brampton, Ontario Mr.
STRAW
is also working on a book on Canadian pilots who served in the
First
World
War with Allan
SNOWIE, a retired naval aviator who
is now a pilot with Air Canada.
Like many of the veterans from the First World War, Mr.
BOTTERELL
didn't consider his war efforts to be heroic.
"He didn't think it was any big deal, he thought he was just
doing his duty," Mr.
STRAW said.
In 1916, Mr.
BOTTERELL was working for the Bank of North America
(now the Bank of Montreal) when his older brother Edward, who
played football for the Toronto Argonauts, was killed overseas
by a sniper. A few months later, Henry, then 20, enlisted with
the Royal Naval Air Service and was sent to England to train
as a fighter pilot.
His sister, Edith, who worked as a secretary for an admiral at
the time, had helped him get what she thought would be a safer
assignment in the war. But that didn't prove to be true. At one
point in the war, new pilots had a life expectancy of three weeks.
Mr. BOTTERELL's flying career got off to a difficult start. Engine
failure caused him to crash on only his second takeoff in September,
1917, at Dunkirk, France. He suffered head injuries, a fractured
leg, and broken teeth and spent six months in hospital. He was
eventually demobilized as disabled and discharged. But he later
re-enlisted and qualified as a fighter pilot again and returned
to France in early 1918.
His flight log reveals that he was attached to the 208th Squadron
serving in France from May 11 to November 27, 1918. His records
show that during that time, he flew patrols and fought over places
including Serny, Estrées and Arras. He then transferred to Belgium,
according to the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Wing
Commander
Neil
MEADOWS, the commanding officer of Royal
Air
Force 208 Squadron, said in his condolences to Mr.
BOTTERELL's
family that Henry "remains, an inspiration to our trainee pilots.
I do feel that we have lost a tangible part of what we are, and
what we aspire to be.
"Undoubtedly, he did not view his actions as out of the ordinary,
but his courage and dedication to duty are an example that I
hope our trainees will emulate in their own flying careers,"
he wrote on behalf of the squadron. "I am sure, therefore, that
his spirit will live on with the young pilots that continue to
serve on 208 Squadron."
During his war service, Mr.
BOTTERELL flew a variety of planes,
but the Camel, which got its name from the hump created by two
machine guns imbedded under its cowling, was his favourite. He
had one particular close call, when on a flight a bullet ripped
through his ear and smashed his goggles.
"I went out like a light for a few minutes, and I recovered just
before I crashed," he once said.
Henry
John
Lawrence
BOTTERELL was born in 1896 in Ottawa to Henry
and Annie BOTTERELL.
His mother raised him after his father died
of pneumonia when Henry was a young boy. Henry attended Lisgar
Collegiate Institute in Ottawa. An athletic young man, he played
football like his older brother and remained physically active
throughout his life.
"He was a loner," said his son Edward
BOTTERELL, adding that
his father enjoyed sports he would do alone such as swimming,
cross-country skiing and sailing. In 1919, he returned to Canada
and to banking as an assistant chief accountant. He remained
with the Bank of Montreal until his retirement in the 1960s.
As a souvenir from the war he brought back a Belgian fence post
that had snagged the wing of his Camel on a low-level flights.
It is now in the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa.
In 1929 he married and moved with his wife Maud to Montreal.
They raised two children before his wife died in 1983 after suffering
several strokes. During the Second World War, Mr.
BOTTERELL commanded
an Air Cadet Squadron, in Quebec, though he himself never took
to the air. After returning home in 1919, he gave up flying.
In 1999, Mr.
BOTTERELL was the guest of honour at a mess dinner
commemorating the 75th anniversary of the Royal Canadian Air
Force. That same year he celebrated his own 102nd birthday at
a hotel in Lille, France, where he and other Canadian veterans
were marking the 80th anniversary of the end of the War.
Despite his failing memory, his son Edward said his father was
"moved by the experience."
Mr. BOTTERELL is survived by daughter Frances
MARQUETTE of Houston,
Texas, and son Edward
BOTTERELL of Mississauga, Ontario
Henry BOTTERELL, aviator and banker; born in Ottawa on November
7, 1896, died in Toronto on January 3, 2003.
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MEAGHER o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-08-26 published
MEAGHER,
John 1935-2003
Died August 25th surrounded by family and Friends at St. Josephs
hospital 10 a.m. He is survived by his mother Eleanor, sister
Anne, his children and grandchildren. Public funeral services
will be held Thursday, August 28 at 5 p.m. in St. Basils basement
Chapel.
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MEAKES o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-12-20 published
MEAKES,
Elizabeth
Joyce ''Betty'' (née
POWELL)
Betty died suddenly at home in the evening on Thursday, December
18th, 2003. Betty was born in Liverpool, England and was the
daughter of Evan and Alice
POWELL.
She was predeceased by her
husband, J.R.
MEAKES, former publisher of the Sudbury Star. She
was also predeceased by her good friend of many years, Michael
DUDOWICH.
Betty was a special Aunt and like a mother to Nephew
Michael MEAKES as well as Great Aunt to Meredith. Dear cousin
of Joyce APPLETON and Elsi
GORDON from England. After graduating
from the Royal Conservatory of Music in her mid teens, Betty
pursued a career in journalism. She was a long-time columnist
at the Sudbury Star. Betty was a great supporter of arts and
culture in the Sudbury area. She keenly followed politics at
all levels of government and attended regular press events over
the years. Many a person can share a story about meeting Betty
and experiencing her clever sense of humour. She was a truly
generous person and assisted many charities. Betty will be missed
by her 'extended family' of Friends inside and outside of the
Sudbury region. Resting at the Jackson and Barnard Funeral Home,
233 Larch Street, Sudbury. Funeral Mass in Christ the King Church,
30 Beech Street, Sudbury, Monday, December 22nd, 2003 at 10 a.m.
Interment in the Parklawn Cemetery. Prayers 3 p.m. Sunday. Donations
to 2nd Floor Acute Care Unit, St. Joseph's Health Centre would
be appreciated. Friends may call 2 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m. Sunday.
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MEANY o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-10-03 published
MEANY,
Patrick
Donal
Anthony
Patrick was born on June 10, 1923 in Stoney Mountain, Manitoba.
He died at age 80 at Trillium Hospital in Mississauga on October
2, 2003, after a determined struggle with illness.
Patrick grew up in Ireland. As a youth he attended the same two-room
school that had been attended by his father, grandfather and
great-grandfather. He served as an officer (rank of Captain)
in the Irish Army Permanent Defence Force from 1944 to 1956.
He was a book editor and director of MacMillan Company of Canada
Ltd., and ran his own scholarly book publishing and distribution
business for over 30 years. He served as a trustee of the Dufferin-Peel
Catholic District School Board for 24 years, beginning in 1971,
and was chairman of the Board for five terms. He was president
of the Ontario School Trustees' Council, Ontario Catholic School
Trustees' Association and Director of the Canadian Catholic School
Trustees' Association. He also served on the boards of the Institute
of Catholic Education and the Ontario Institute for Studies in
Education. In addition, he served as chair of the Peel Drinking
and Driving Committee and vice-chair of the Mississauga Traffic
Safety Council, as well as many other public service committees
and task forces.
Patrick will be greatly missed by his wife, Kathleen
MEANY (nee
QUIRKE;) his sister, Margaret; his children, Mary
PICARD
(Robert,)
John MEANY,
Anne
BERRY (Lionel,)
Daniel
MEANY (Robin,) James
MEANY,
Paul
MEANY (Diana) and William
MEANY; and his grandchildren,
Helen, David, Katharine, Cameron, Michael, Grace, Natalie and
Elizabeth.
Visitations will be at Scott Funeral Home, 420 Dundas Street
East (one block west of Cawthra), Mississauga 905-272-4040, on
Saturday from 6 to 9 p.m.; and
on Sunday from 2 to 4 p.m. and
from 7 to 9 p.m. A funeral mass will be held at Saint Dominic's
Roman Catholic Church, 625 Atwater Avenue (at Cawthra), Mississauga,
at 10 a.m. on Monday, October 6th. In lieu of flowers, donations
can be made to ShareLife, 155 Yonge Street, Toronto, Ontario
M4T 1W2.
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