ROGAN o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-03-04 published
ROGAN,
Patricia
L. (née
CROTTY)
Born August 20, 1930 in New York City. Died March 1, 2003 in
Toronto.
Predeceased by her husband, Edward
ROGAN. Survived by
her seven children, Edward, Owen, Daniel, Neal, Patricia, Joseph
and Mary. Also survived by her grandchildren, Patrick, Haven,
Edward, Kathleen and Michael. Patricia will be buried next to
her husband in a private ceremony in Ireland. She will be remembered.
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ROGAN o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-07-08 published
VILA,
Helen
Jeanette
59, died on Sunday, July 6, 2003, at her home in Scotch Hill,
Pictou Co., Nova Scotia. Born in Hamilton, Ontario, she was a
daughter of the late Alan P.
VILA and Jeanette
(McVICAR)
VILA.
Helen attended schools in Chippawa, Ontario, and Baldwin, New
York, where she excelled in sports and music. She graduated with
Honours in English from McGill University and with a master teacher
certificate from the Ontario College of Education at the University
of Toronto. For several years, Helen taught English at Lawrence
Park Collegiate Institute and film arts at Sheridan College in
Toronto.
Later, she and her late companion Trini
PEREZ had a
home craft business in woodworking and jewelry in Stoney Creek,
Ontario, which they continued in Pictou. In recent years, Helen
sang in the Hosannah Gospel Choir at the United Church of Canada,
Lyons Brook, served as a volunteer at the Maritime Odd Fellows
home, and worked at the job placement center and the library.
She is survived by her sisters and brothers, Mary
SHAW and her
husband Robert of Palo Alto, California; John
VILA and his partner
Terry BISHOP of Guttenberg, New Jersey; James
VILA and his wife
Tanya of Tilton, New Hampshire; Elizabeth
ROGAN and her husband
Edward of Glastonbury, Connecticut; and Anne
VILA and her husband
Steven JACOBS of Needham, Massachusetts; and by five nieces --
Catherine VILA,
Carolyn
ROGAN, Jenny
ROGAN, Julia
JACOBS, and
Anne ROGAN; four nephews -- Mark
SHAW,
Andrew
SHAW, Jonathan
SHAW and Daniel
JACOBS; four grandnieces -- Jessica, Kaeli, Alissa
and Zoë; one grandnephew -- Max; and two stepnieces -- Tracy
MESSINGER and Kerri
PACHOMOW.
Helen will be dearly missed by
her companion, Margaret
MacCULLOCH, who cared for her during
her long illness. Visitation will be held from 7 to 9 p.m. on
Friday, July 11, at the McLaren Funeral Home, 246 Faulkland Street,
Pictou. The funeral will be held at the United Church in Lyons
Brook at 2 p.m. on Saturday, July 12, Mary
MacDERMID officiating.
Interment at the Scotch Hill Cemetery will be followed by a reception
at the church hall. Her family requests that, in lieu of flowers,
memorial donations be made to the Canadian Cancer Society --
Nova Scotia Division, the Humane Society of Canada, or to Palliative
Care of the Aberdeen Hospital.
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ROGAN o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-09-10 published
Mary Boyle
HUDSON
By Mary Jean
McFALL
Wednesday,
September 10, 2003 - Page A24
Wife, mother, grandmother, community leader, cattlewoman, Scotch
aficionado. Born January 10, 1931, in Hamilton, Ontario; died
June 29 in Lyn, Ontario, of pancreatic cancer, aged 72.
For all that Mary
HUDSON cultivated her Scottish roots and was
a keen royalist, she loved her country well. Never one for southern
beach holidays, she preferred a visit to the polar bears in Churchill,
Manitoba
Mary's father, Edward
MORWICK, was a Westinghouse engineer in
Hamilton,
Ontario; her mother, Anne
HAMILTON, was a Scottish
émigrée. The family brought mementoes from Scotland -- a tartan
rug, a travelling trunk -- which had been handed down over the
generations; Mary considered herself not the owner but the custodian
of these pieces, which she has since entrusted to her children.
After Hamilton's Westdale Collegiate, Mary studied home economics
at Macdonald Institute at the University of Guelph. In 1956,
responding to a Globe and Mail ad for a high school home economics
teacher in Brockville, Ontario, Mary set off in her Nash Metropolitan
hardtop. Joe
HUDSON, a local farmer and eligible bachelor took
note; his nieces always said Mary seemed like a movie star. The
city girl married the country boy in 1958, and traded her hardtop
for a station wagon. Then she and Joe began a life that would
allow Mary to make her home in the tiny village of Lyn, and to
see her country and the world.
Mary and Joe raised five children, with the best fundamentals
she could offer: She taught them to remember where they came
from and she encouraged them to be citizens of the world. She
helped found and maintain a local library; established a swimming
program; and worked with her United Church, the Fulford Home
for Women and the Brockville Hospital, where she not only sat
on the board of governors, she also took the wagon around to
bring chocolate bars and newspapers to patients.
Mary's passions included a penchant for early morning royal weddings
on the television. A founding member of the Brockville An Quaiche
society, a club that appreciates the merits of good single malt
scotch, she had a taste for a "wee dram."
Together, Mary and Joe built Joe's business, Burnbrae Farms,
into a dynamic agricultural enterprise. In 1978, her Christmas
gift from Joe started her on her herd of Aberdeen Angus cattle.
In 1995, several of her cows won championship ribbons at the
Royal Winter Fair in Toronto.
Mary was a mother to many; privately, she lived a public life.
Her door was open without the need to knock. Known as the best
cook on the Lyn Road, she made jams in a copper kettle brought
from Scotland. I remember Mom supervising church turkey dinners,
using a three-foot masher to deal with all the potatoes.
She also produced baby quilts; the last was for Evelyn Mary Morwick
ROGAN, her granddaughter who was born 16 days after Mom died.
The crowd at her funeral was so large that we had to enlist the
Ontario Provincial Police to handle the traffic. After the service,
we walked from the church to the cemetery, with Mary's Clydesdale
horses leading the way. When Rob
MILLER, the self-declared piper
for the clan, reached the top of the hill by the cemetery, he
stopped for a moment to talk with the Ontario Provincial Police
officer, and they looked down at the hundreds of people walking
in the procession. "With all this activity you'd think the Queen
had died," said the officer. Rob responded, "She has."
Mary is survived by her husband, Joe, her sister, Helen
MORWICK,
her children, Helen Anne, Mary Jean, Ted, Susan and Margaret,
their spouses, and nine grandchildren. She loved them all.
Mary
Jean is Mary
HUDSON's daughter.
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ROGERS o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-02-21 published
COLBOURNE,
Don
Died of a heart attack on February 19th shortly after returning
to Toronto from an extended holiday. He is survived by Marion,
his wife of over 46 years, three wonderful daughters, their great
spouses and super grandchildren: Trish and Robert (Steven and Lauren),
Jacquie and Ken (Tyler, Teri and Donald), Sandy and Larry (Greg
and Natalie). Those who will also greatly miss him are his sister
Betty ROGERS and brothers Gord and Doug and many special nephews,
nieces and Friends. Don's work has always revolved around construction,
initially subdivisions in and around Toronto and then in environmental
containment for landfills. This later work allowed him to enjoy
life in both Canada and the U.S. A memorial service will be held
at 3: 00 pm Saturday at the Morley Bedford Funeral Home, 159 Eglinton
Avenue W., (2 stoplights west of Yonge St.) Toronto.
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ROGERS o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-02-21 published
Elizabeth Audrey
HEILIG (née
HILLMER)
Daughter of the late Robert and Mabel
HILLMER of Southampton
Ontario and long time resident of Oakville, Ontario Died peacefully
and with grace in her 98th year on February 19th, 2003. She was
predeceased by her husband Carl, her son Kenneth, her brother
George HILLMER and her sister-in-law Margaret
HEILIG.
She will
be missed by her son Bob (Margaret), daughter Margie (Ron), daughter-in-law
Kay SCOTT and her ten grandchildren- John, Katherine
HEINRICHS,
Nancy, Mike; Chris, David, Karen
GRANT, Linda, James; Daniel
ROGERS.
She is also survived by her sister-in-law Alice
HEILIG
of Hamilton and 15 great-grandchildren. We would like to thank
Tita BAGUISA for her devoted care of Elizabeth and the staff
of North York Seniors Health Centre for their sensitive support.
A Memorial Service will be held on February 22nd at the North
York Seniors Health Centre, 2 Buchan Court, North York at 2: 00pm.
In lieu of flowers donations may be sent to the Marine Heritage
Society, Box 421, Southampton, Ontario N0H 2L0 or your favourite
charity.
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