PECARARO o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-10-22 published
ARDIEL,
Ruth
Winnifred (née
FRANCIS) 89 years.
Died peacefully at Windsor Regional Hospital-Western Campus on
Tuesday,
October 21, 2003. Dearest wife of the late J.R.
ARDIEL
(1973.) Beloved mother of Joan
DUFF,
Karen
MEYERS and Susan and
David RUCH.
Dearest sister of June and Fred
ROEMMELE. Loving
grandmother of Melissa
MEYERS and Jim
DONOHUE,
Jay
MEYERS and
Tina ROBBINS, Allison
RUCH and Ryan
SMITH, Dave
RUCH and Anne
Marie PETTINATO,
Julie
SANDO, and John
PECARARO, Jackie and Frank
HAMILTON,
Michelle and Joe
GRECO and Natalie
DUFF. Great grandmother
of Max and Miranda
PECARARO,
Scott and Mathew
HAMILTON and Kaity
and Nicholas
GRECO. Dear Aunt to her special nieces, nephews,
great nieces and nephews. Remembered by several cousins in London
and Toronto. Born on a homestead in Marengo, Saskatchewan to
the late Anne and Alfred
FRANCIS; pre-deceased by brothers Lloyd
(1912), Bruce (Royal Canadian Air Force, 1943) and her sister
Dorothy HENDERSON (1964.) Ruth was a long-standing member of
Beach Grove Golf and Country Club, Windsor and Tamarac Golf and
Country Club, Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Visiting in the Walter
D. Kelly Funeral Home and Cremation Centre, 1969 Wyandotte St.
East, Windsor, Ontario on Thursday 3-5 and 7-9 p.m. The complete
funeral service will be held in the chapel on Friday, October
24, 2003 at 11: 00 a.m. Reverend William
GALLAGHER officiating. Cremation
with interment later in Greenlawn Memorial Cemetery. In kindness
memorial tributes to the charity of you choice, Heart and Stroke
Foundation or the Canadian Cancer Society would be appreciated.
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PECK o@ca.on.manitoulin.howland.little_current.manitoulin_expositor 2003-05-14 published
Gerald
(Jerry)
Norbert
LOOSEMORE, (C.D. with Bar)
The family announces with sorrow his passing on May 1, 2003 in his
64th year. He was born in Killarney to the late Norbert and Ruby
(PATTERSON)
LOOSEMORE and attended Saint John de Brebeuf School and
Little Current High School prior to joining the Royal Canadian Signal
Corps in 1959. After a 25 year career, he retired from the Canadian
Armed Forces Communications Command with the rank of Master Warrant
Officer and subsequently joined the Communications Security
Establishment for an additional thirteen years during which he was
instrumental in the modernization of the
NORAD communications system.
Jerry was made Scouter in 1978, a member of Royal Canadian Legion
Branch #177, and he had an extensive repertoire of Newfoundland folk
music. He returned to Manitoulin Island to pursue his interest in
genealogy. He is survived by his wife, the former Evelyn
PECK, his
son Christopher (Gayelene,) and daughter Melissa (Donnie)
CLARK. He
will be dearly missed by his sister Patricia and brothers Peter
(Vivian), Harold (Laurine), Michael (Ann), and James (Bernice). He
will be lovingly remembered by his mother-in-law Erma
PECK,
sisters-in-law Phyllis
MARSHALL,
Beverly
(Everett)
MORPHET, and
brothers-in-law Iliff (Jane)
PECK and Warren (Gail)
PECK. He is also
survived by nieces, nephews, great nieces and great nephews. Jerry
will be remembered by his family and Friends for his generosity, his
storytelling, and his sense of humor. A memorial service celebrating
his life will be officiated by Mr. D. J.
LAROUCHE at the graveside at
the St. Bernard's Catholic Cemetery, North Channel Drive, on
Saturday, May 17, 2003 at 3 p.m. with Interment.
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PECK o@ca.on.manitoulin.howland.little_current.manitoulin_expositor 2003-11-05 published
Patricia Marilyn
THORPE (née
THOMAS)
Passed away suddenly on August 28, 2003 in London, Ontario, at the age of 70 years.
Patricia was born October 7, 1932 in Saint Thomas, Elgin County,
Ontario. Daughter of the late Hon. F. S. (Tommy) Thomas (1957) and
Myrtle (SYMES)
THOMAS (1982.) Wife of the late Cameron George
THORPE
(1969,) partner of William Henry
WADDELL.
Beloved mother of James
(Suzanne) THORPE,
Burbank,
California and Jane
THORPE, Ottawa.
Sister of Carolyn
THOMAS, Saint Thomas, Shirley (Harry)
FOSTER and
Robert (Margery)
THOMAS and aunt of Brien, Bruce, Kate and Mark
THOMAS,
all of Union, Ontario. Dear friend of the late John M.
PECK (1994,)
Grand
Bend,
Ontario (son Jeffrey, daughter Sandra,) and the
NITSCHE
family, London, Ontario. Adoptive "grandmother" to Emily, Valerie, and Jamie.
A dedicated teacher, Patricia touched the lives of thousands of
children. She began her educational career in 1951 in Ottawa and
subsequently taught for various Ontario school boards including
Windsor, Toronto, Welland, Port Stanley, Lynhurst and ending with her
retirement from the London Board of Education in 1986.
Patricia was also a talented musician and composer who played the
piano and accordion, as well as a published poet, author and
photographer. Her passion for learning continued on into her
retirement years where she continued to pursue higher education in
the arts and foreign languages.
Once met, never forgotten -- Patricia was a vibrant spirit whose
gifts of love, courage, laughter and song will continue to bring joy
and inspiration to her family and Friends for many years to come. Cremation, no service.
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PECK 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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PECK o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-10-31 published
Robert Herdman
PECK
By Lyn PINNINGTON,
Friday,
October 31, 2003 - Page A20
Innovator, agricultural pioneer, conservationist, husband, father.
Born October 17, 1914, in Sandwich West, Ontario Died June 10,
in Blyth, Ontario, of natural causes, aged 88.
Robert PECK was born at his parents' farm, outside of Windsor,
Ontario, the eldest of three children, into a world where farming
meant horse-drawn implements, threshing bees and self-sufficiency.
He attended a one-room country school and the three
PECK children
(Robert, his sister Evelyn and his younger brother Donald), must
have set some kind of record for whizzing through grade school.
They were all in high school by the age of 11. And it was in
high school, at the age of 11, that Robert participated in a
science project that determined the course of his life. He was
given some soybean seeds and asked if he thought he could grow
them. At the time, it was generally thought that Canadian summers
were too short and too cool to grow soybeans. His half-acre test
plot succeeded, thus began a long and distinguished career in
which he is credited with being one of the first to grow soybeans
commercially in Canada.
After graduating from high school at the age of 16, he began
his farming career in earnest. He wanted to grow the best soybeans
in all of North America. In 1936, at the age of 22, he took second
prize for soybeans at the Royal Winter Fair and the next year,
he won first prize at the Chicago Grain and Hay Show. Other prizes
followed, including the World Championship at the Royal and the
first winner of the Victory Mills Trophy, both in 1947. In the
same year, he became the only Canadian director of the American
Soybean Association board.
In 1948, he married Lilah June
QUILTER and they had three children:
Brenda, Jim and Ruth. He continued his career as a registered
seed grower. This is different from raising regular crops. It
meant continuous collaboration with the Federal Department of
Agriculture through its research station at Harrow, regular inspections
of the fields, which had to be pristine (no weeds at all, which
meant lots of hoeing), and cleaning and bagging seed by hand.
In all, he had 45 years of active service with the Canadian Seed
Growers' Association and in recognition of his accomplishments,
he was inducted into the Essex County Agricultural Hall of Fame
in 1995.
In the 1970s, Robert decided to retire to a new life and a new
type of farming. Having changed farming in Essex County, he decided
to change the landscape of Huron County. He purchased 100 acres
near Blyth, Ontario, and planted 30,000 white pine, plus walnut
and spruce trees, which he lovingly tended and pruned for almost
three decades.
He became involved in the Blyth community with the same enthusiasm
that he put into his first career. He was a board member and
treasurer of the Blyth Centre for the Arts, and treasurer of
the "Wilderness to Wawanosh" project for the 125th anniversary
of East Wawanosh township. He served as an elder at the United
Church in Blyth. In 1997, he was awarded a Landscape Naturalization
Award by the Huron Stewardship Council.
He was a hard worker all his life. He started early in the morning
and worked until dusk or later. But he also firmly believed that
Sunday was a day of rest.
He was very generous and quietly supported several charitable
organizations, and gave helping hands to those in need. When
his daughter Ruth died of lupus at the age of 26, he donated
a sizable sum to Lupus Research.
He was a quiet, unassuming man who let his work speak for him
in many ways. Whenever we drive down a country road and see a
field of soybeans, we will remember an 11-year-old boy who changed
Canadian farming forever.
Lyn PINNINGTON is Robert
PECK's niece.
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