PROBST o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-05-02 published
O'GRADY,
Dr.
Walter
Walter died at home of prostate cancer on April 30th, 2003. His
love and humour will be sadly missed by wife Jean, daughters
Elizabeth, Jennifer and Carrie, sons-in-law Jonathan
KEAN and
Steven PROBST, grand_son Zachary, sister Patricia
DAY and husband
Harry, brother Paul and wife
Frances, mother-in-law Floss
REILLY
and all his loving extended family. Born in Hamilton in 1933
and educated at St. Michael's College, Walter held a variety
of jobs in Hamilton and Southern Ontario before returning to
graduate school in Toronto. Thereafter he was a professor of
English at the University of Toronto, serving as assistant chair
of the English department for nine years, and becoming known
both for his stimulating lectures and for his aplomb in managing
a large and turbulent department. The family extends thanks to
the palliative care team, nurses, and personal support workers
who helped to ease his difficult last months. As Walter is donating
his body to medical science there will be no funeral, but Friends
may call at 487 Briar Hill Avenue, Toronto, on Sunday May 4th
from 3 to 5 p.m. The Department of English will arrange a gathering
later. Donations in Walter's name to a charity of your choice
would be appreciated in lieu of flowers.
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PROBST o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-07-31 published
LAIDLAW,
Vibeke
I have lost my Danish treasure of 58 years to an awful disease.
Vips (for Very Important Persons) actually died at year-end and
has lived in a virtual hell of discomfort and pain until this
week when her life ended in the Palliative unit of Parkwood Hospital
in London.
She was my loving wife, soul-mate, house manager and garden architect,
advisor, companion, often a sensible crutch and most of all matriarch
mother. And oh how clever, perceptive and insightful she was!
Our children and theirs, adored her. Christian and Jane in Copenhagen
and their Vibe and Johan; Lillemor also in Denmark and her Anders
and Maja; Peter and Sharon (deceased) and Hanna and Ulla of Toronto.
Her brother Carl Johan
PROBST and Inger too. They live in Copenhagen.
Her wonderful young sister, Bitten, died earlier. Vips' mother,
Astrid, was a fiery Norwegian and her father, Ivan - a kind and
gentle Dane. We met on VE-Day 1945. She leaves nieces, nephews
and Friends on two continents, many in the broadcasting, newspaper
and photographic fields.
Vibeke definitely did not like funerals. So there is not one.
I hope you will remember her from her more vibrant times. That
memory is, I'm sure, what she would like of you now.
If you knew her, be it as Vibeke or Vips, I'm sure you too have
lost a special person in your lives. A public thanks to the kind
people of the Cancer Clinic and especially those most special
Palliative
Care nurses led by Dr. John
SWIFT.
Ron, July 30.
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PROFUMO o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-07-04 published
Patricia BLYTH
By Sam BLYTH
Friday,
July 4, 2003 - Page A18
Wife, mother, teacher, headmistress, priest. Born January 10,
1916, in Reigate, Surrey. Died May 20 in Ottawa, of cancer, aged
In the middle of the night, in the middle of February 1953, in
a blinding snowstorm, mother disembarked from the Canadian in
Brandon, Manitoba, with her five young daughters in hand. Dressed
in a full-length mink coat and direct from London via Halifax,
she watched as the porter hurled her trunks onto the platform
and told her: "If this is where you are going to live -- God
help you." Fifty years later she dryly observed that He certainly
did.
Mother was born Patricia
WILLIAMS to a gentler life in England.
Educated at Cheltenham Ladies College and Lady Margaret Hall,
Oxford, she read English and was tutored by C.S.
LEWIS and J.R.R.
TOLKIEN.
Oxford life between the wars was both elegant and edgy,
with the likes of John
PROFUMO and Harold
WILSON in her year.
While mom inherited a strong Christian work ethic from her great-grandfather,
Sir George
WILLIAMS, she was not above enjoying some of the better
things in life.
The war brought both drama and excitement and then devastating
loss as her only sibling Graham was killed in action.
She met my father on a golf course in Kent during the darkest
days of the war. He was a clean-cut Canadian from Regina who
went on to command a flight squadron. Their romance played out
in London during the blitz and on their wedding night the fires
burned so brightly that they could read at night without turning
the lights on. Undeterred, they produced three children before
the end of the war and went on to have three more, including
a son born in Camp Shilo, Manitoba, where mom was bound that
February in 1953.
After the family relocated to Ottawa, Mom's career as a mother
and a military wife soon gave way to a second career of teaching
at Elmwood School. Success in the classroom led to her appointment
as headmistress. Mrs.
BLYTH was an imposing figure and not to
be trifled with. But she was also caring of her students and
they returned her devotion.
It must have been with a heavy heart that she gave it all up
to accompany dad to diplomatic posts in England, West Germany
and Greece. In Bonn, she decided to learn to drive and, after
buying an orange Volkswagen, took to the roads and autobahns
with a determination that impressed even the locals. Her third
career as a diplomatic spouse was unfulfilling.
Mom's fourth career was perhaps her calling in life. Following
dad's death in 1985, she started as a lay reader in a small Anglican
parish in the West Country of England. Soon she ran up against
the Church of England's refusal to ordain woman so she relocated
one last time to Ottawa, where she was ordained shortly before
her 70th birthday. Every summer thereafter she returned to Devon,
installed herself at the local inn and met her former parishioners.
For the last 17 years in Ottawa, she spent her life ministering
to the elderly and dying in a large public health facility. In
this grim setting she was superb and much loved by both the patients
and the caregivers. In her last months, she cared for people
who were likely both younger and healthier than Mom as she dealt
with terminal lung cancer. Typically, she refused to see a doctor,
knowing that the diagnosis would be bad and perhaps curtail her
day-to-day life. When she finally agreed to see a doctor she
would have less than a week to live.
Several weeks prior to that she summoned the priest in charge
of her church to discuss her funeral arrangements. She told him
that he should do what he thought was best and then proceeded
to tell him exactly what to do. At the funeral, he told an enormous
congregation that Pat had insisted that there be no eulogies
and then proceeded to deliver one. It was a fitting tribute.
Sam BLYTH is Patricia
BLYTH's son.
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PROULX o@ca.on.manitoulin.howland.little_current.manitoulin_expositor 2003-08-20 published
Urbain Paul
HEBERT
In loving memory of Urbain Paul
HEBERT who passed away Tuesday afternoon, August 12th,
2003 at the Sudbury Regional Hospital-Laurentian Site at the age of 70 years.
Beloved husband of Shirley (née
(TYSON
DUGIT))
HEBERT of Killarney.
Loving father of Sheila (husband Bob
SIMONEAU) of Gogama, Laura
(husband Harold
WARD) of Sudbury, Leslie (wife
Nicole) of Nova Scotia
and Yvette (husband Murray
TESSIER) of Chelmsford. Cherished
grandfather of Michele (partner Mike), Paul, Anthony, Kevin, Peter,
Natalie, Kelly, Taylor, Chris and Steven. Dear son of Joseph and
Mary HEBERT both predeceased. Dear brother of Blanche
McDONALD of
Hamilton, predeceased by Raymond, Robert, Ella
PITFIELD,
Flora
PROULX
(husband Allan of Killarney,) Robina
GRESCO and Elwood (wife
Mandy of
Providence Bay). Sadly missed by many nieces, and nephews.
Born in Killarney where he married Shirley in 1960. He was the
Junior Ranger Subforeman for 24 years as well as a commercial
fisherman. He was an avid outdoorsman who enjoyed trapping, fishing
and hunting. Urbain was an accomplished goalie having played
competitive hockey for many years.
Rested at Veteran's Memorial Hall, Killarney.
Funeral Mass was held in St. Bonaventure Church Killarney on
Saturday, August 16th, 2003 at 11 am. Cremation in the Parklawn
Crematorium. Arrangements entrusted to the Lougheed Funeral Home.
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