ORR 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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ORR o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-03-05 published
ORR,
Edith
Hilda
On Sunday, March 2, 2003, at St. Catharines General Hospital,
Edith ORR, in her 80th year. Beloved wife of Dr. William J.
ORR
for 58 years. Daughter of the late Archbishop and Mrs. George
Frederick KINGSTON, former Primate of the Anglican Church of
Canada. Loving mother of James (Sally), William (Manon), Donald
and Robert (Judith), loving grandmother of James, Sarah, Kate,
Heather, Graham, David and Anne. Born in Nova Scotia, graduate
of Bishop Strachan School and Trinity College, University of
Toronto. Will be remembered for her active contribution to the
Niagara community. Cremation has taken place. Family will receive
Friends at George Darte Funeral Chapel, 585 Carlton Street, St.
Catharines, on Wednesday from 7-9 p.m. Memorial Service to celebrate
her life will be held at St. George's Anglican Church, 83 Church
Street, St. Catharines, Ontario, L2R 3C7, on Thursday at 2 p.m.
If desired, family would appreciate donations to Dr. William
J. Orr Fund of the Niagara Peninsula Children's Centre, 567 Glenridge
Avenue, St. Catharines, Ontario, L2T 4C2 or St. George's Anglican
Church.
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ORR o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-06-23 published
Hockey coach who changed the game
'Captain Video' introduced new teaching tools in more than 25
years with the National Hockey League
By William
HOUSTON
Monday,
June 23, 2003 - Page R5
The morning after Roger
NEILSON was fired from his first of seven
head coaching jobs in the National Hockey League, he returned
to his office at Maple Leaf Gardens.
He viewed and edited the videotape of the Toronto Maple Leafs'
loss to the Montreal Canadiens the night before. When a replacement
didn't show up, he put the Leafs through a practice. Later, he
was asked by a reporter why he was still hanging around.
"Somebody had to run the practice," he said. "Whoever comes in
will have to look at the tapes."
The next day, Mr.
NEILSON was reinstated when the club could
not find a replacement, but Maple Leafs owner Harold
BALLARD,
always looking for publicity, wanted to make his return behind
the bench a surprise. Mr.
BALLARD tried to talk him into wearing
a ski mask or bag over his head, and then dramatically throwing
it off at the start of the game. Numbed by the three-day ordeal
of not knowing his status in the organization, Mr.
NEILSON almost
agreed, but ultimately declined.
"He hated that story," said Jim
GREGORY, who hired Mr.
NEILSON
to coach the Leafs in 1977 and was fired along with the coach
at the end of the 1978-79 season. "I hated that story."
The incident reflected poorly on Mr.
BALLARD, but in a smaller
way it helped create the image of Mr.
NEILSON we have today,
that of a coach who put the team ahead of his ego, who was loyal
to his players and dedicated to his job.
Mr. NEILSON, who died Saturday after a long battle with cancer,
will be remembered not just as a man who loved hockey, but also
as a skilled strategist and innovator. He stressed defensive
play and systems, and also physical fitness. In Toronto, he was
given the nickname "Captain Video," because he was among the
first to use videotape to instruct his players and prepare for
games.
When Mr. NEILSON, a soft-spoken man famous for his dry sense
of humour, was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame last year,
he was asked about the late, controversial Leafs owner.
"I'm sure he's looking up rather than down," he said, with a
smile, before saying Mr.
BALLARD did some "good things for hockey."
Mr. NEILSON was also named to the Order of Canada in January.
Roger Paul
NEILSON was born in Toronto on June 16, 1934, and
went as far as Junior B hockey as a player. While earning a degree
at McMaster University in Hamilton, he started coaching kids
baseball and hockey.
After graduating, he taught high school in Toronto and his passion
by then was coaching. In hockey, he won Toronto and provincial
titles at different levels. In 10 years, his Metro Toronto midget
baseball teams won nine championships, once defeating a team
that included pitcher Ken
DRYDEN, who would later become a Hall
of Fame goaltender with the Montreal Canadiens.
Mr. NEILSON scouted for the Peterborough Petes of the Ontario
Major Junior Hockey League before moving to Peterborough in 1966
to coach the team. During his 10 years behind the bench, the
Petes never finished below third place and won the league championship
once.
By the time Mr.
NEILSON moved to the National Hockey League to
coach the Leafs in 1977, his reputation for creativity and also
mischief was firmly established. In baseball, he used, at least
once, a routine involving a peeled apple, in which the catcher
threw what appeared to be the ball wildly over the third baseman,
prompting the runner to race home. As the apple lay in the outfield,
the catcher met the runner at home plate with the real baseball
in his glove.
Always looking for a loophole in the rules, Mr.
NEILSON's ploys
instigated rule changes in hockey. On penalty shots against his
team, he used Ron
STACKHOUSE, a big defenceman, instead of a
goalie. Mr.
STACKHOUSE would charge out of the net and cause
the shooter to flub his shot. The rule was subsequently changed
to require the goalie to stay in his crease.
Over an National Hockey League career that lasted more than 25
years, Mr.
NEILSON holds the record for most teams coached (seven.)
He also held four assistant coaching positions. But he never
won the Stanley Cup. He didn't coach great teams. He seemed to
enjoy the challenge of taking an average group of players, making
them into a solid, defensive unit, and seeing them succeed.
In his first year with the Leafs, he moulded a previously undisciplined
group of players into a strong unit that upset the New York Islanders
in the 1978 playoffs.
In 1982, Mr.
NEILSON's playoff success with the Vancouver Canucks
underscored his skill as a tactician and manipulator.
When
Canuck head coach Harry
NEALE was suspended late in the
season, Mr.
NEILSON, his assistant, took over. The Canucks weren't
expected to advance past the first round of the playoffs. But
backed by strong goaltending from Richard
BRODEUR, they defeated
the Calgary Flames and then the Los Angeles Kings to advance
to the semi-finals against Chicago.
The Canucks won the first game, but with Chicago leading 4-1
late in the second game, Mr.
NEILSON, unhappy with the officiating,
waved a white towel from the bench, as if to surrender to the
referee. He was fined for the demonstration, but the white towel
became a symbol of home-fan solidarity. In the Stanley Cup final,
the Canucks were swept by the powerhouse Islanders.
In addition to Toronto and Vancouver, Mr.
NEILSON's journey through
the National Hockey League consisted of head coaching jobs with
the Buffalo Sabres, the Kings, New York Rangers, Florida Panthers
and Philadelphia Flyers. He worked as a co-coach in Chicago,
and as an assistant coach with the Sabres, St. Louis Blues and
Ottawa Senators.
Ottawa, where he was hired in 2000, was his final destination.
In the 2001-02 season, head coach Jacques
MARTIN stepped down
for the final two games of the regular season to allow Mr.
NEILSON
to coach his 1,000th regular-season game.
Frank ORR, who covered hockey for The Toronto Star for more than
30 years, said, in 2002, "Roger is one of the few people I've
met in any line of work who never had a bad word to say about
anybody."
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ORR o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-09-30 published
ORR,
Rosemary
Margaret
(STINSON) 75 of Fonthill, Ontario died
September 27, 2003 at West Lincoln Memorial Hospital, after a
long battle with cancer. She is survived by her husband James
Campbell ORR and by her children; Catherine E.
ORR of Beamsville,
James C. ORR and his wife
Diane of Toronto, Susan Orr
LYNCH of
Salem,
Massachusetts,
Nancy J.
THOMAS and her husband Philip
of Fonthill. She was pre-deceased by her daughter Jane Orr
CRONIN.
She also leaves grandchildren; Carlton
CRONIN,
Katlyn
PECK, Lesley
ORR,
Michael
ORR, Elizabeth
THOMAS, and Cameron
LYNCH; and a
sister Jane
WHITE/WHYTE of Peterborough. Cremation has taken place.
A burial service will be held at St. Andrews Anglican Churchyard
in Grimsby at 11: 00 a.m. on Wednesday, October 1, 2003.
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ORR o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-12-30 published
WINTERMEYER,
Elizabeth ''Betty'' (formerly
GREENE, née
LANG)
Peacefully, at K-W Health Centre of Grand River Hospital, Betty died on Monday, December 29, 2003. She was 87.
Dear sister of Kelly
NASH of London, Sandra
ORR of Waterloo and
Peggy O'BRIEN of Peterborough. She will also be remembered by
members of the
WINTERMEYER family, brother-in-law Bryson ''Spike''
KEARNS of Kitchener and her very special nieces, nephews and their families.
She was predeceased by her husbands, Robert L.
GREENE and John
J. WINTERMEYER, parents Angela (KELLY) and Reinhold
LANG and sisters Ann
KEARNS and Patsy
BEAN.
Friends are invited to share their memories of Betty with her
family at the Edward R. Good Funeral Home, 171 King Street South,
Waterloo, from 2 to 4 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m., Friday, January 2,
2004. Prayers will be said at the funeral home on Saturday, January
3, 2004 at 10 a.m., followed by the funeral mass at St. Louis
Roman Catholic Church, Waterloo, at 10: 30 a.m., Saturday, with
Rev. Robert
LIDDY, C.R. as celebrant. The parish prayer will
be held at the funeral home on Friday evening at 8: 45 p.m. Following
cremation, interment will take place in the
WINTERMEYER family plot in Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener.
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