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SOLAJIC,
Zoran
Zoran died peacefully at home with his loving wife Maja and daughter
Ana by his side on Wednesday, May 21, 2003 at the age of 53 years.
He is loved and will be greatly missed by his father-in-law Mirko
RISTIC of Belgrade, Jeff
ROBERTS and many relatives, Friends
and colleagues. The family will receive Friends at First United
Church, 397 Kent St. Ottawa on Saturday from 12: 30 until time
memorial service at 2 p.m. Those wishing may make memorial donations
to the Cancer Research Society, 305-200 Isabella St. Ottawa,
K1S 1V7. Condolences, donations or tributes may be made at www.tubmanfuneralhomes.com.
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SOLEM o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-03-08 published
JOHNSON,
Marion
Sellers
Passed away peacefully on March 5, 2003 in Toronto at the age
of 96. Beloved wife of J. Ragnar
JOHNSON, Q.C. (deceased October
15, 1985,) dear mother of Jon R.
JOHNSON and dear mother-in-law
of Patricia C.
JOHNSON, lovingly remembered by grand_sons, Jon
(Karen) and Patrick (Julie)
JOHNSON and dear great-grandmother
of Jon and Lilja
JOHNSON. Dear aunt of Louise Delaware
KRIEGER,
James WALKER,
Douglas
WALKER, Edward
STOCKELBACH and Herbert
SOLEM.
Predeceased by her sisters, Flora, Lois, Alice and Mary.
Gold medalist in Political Science at the University of Manitoba
and member of the Pi Phi Sorority. Graduated in nursing from
Columbia Presbyterian Hospital and practised paediatrics at Winnipeg
General Hospital. Active member of Calvin Presbyterian Church
in Toronto and the University Women's Club in Toronto. She dedicated
many years as a volunteer at the Toronto General Hospital, the
Canadian Cancer Society and the Canadian Opera Company. Marion
had a long and productive life and will be missed by all who
knew her. Visitation will take place at the Morley Bedford Funeral
Home, 159 Eglinton Ave. W., on Monday, March 10, 2003 from 2-4
and 7-9 p.m.. Private Service. In lieu of flowers, please send
donations to the Canadian Cancer Society, the Heart and Stroke
Foundation or to a charity of your choice.
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SOLOMON o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-01-22 published
She danced on tabletops of Ottawa
Former reporter with capital connections hosted parties for the
powerful and waged a spirited campaign to save railway cabooses
By Randy RAY
Special to The Globe and Mail Wednesday, January
22, 2003, Page R5
Most who knew her have a story to tell about Starr
SOLOMON, a
journalist and public-relations practitioner who for years hosted
glamorous parties in Ottawa that attracted a who's who of cabinet
ministers, bureaucrats and media people.
Ms. SOLOMON, the widow of Hy
SOLOMON, former Ottawa bureau chief
for The Financial Post, has died in Toronto. She was 64.
Long-time friend and colleague Walter
GRAY/GREY remembers the time
Ms. SOLOMON convinced former Prime Minister Brian
MULRONEY and
Liberal
Member of Parliament Sheila
COPPS -- for years Mr.
MULRONEY's
nemesis -- to sing together at the National Press Club in Ottawa
in the mid-1980s, following the annual Parliamentary Press Gallery
dinner.
"They sang a duet. The song was You Made Me Love You," says Mr.
GRAY/GREY, a former Globe and Mail bureau chief in Ottawa, who played
the piano while the two politicians crooned in tandem. Ms.
COPPS
is now Canada's heritage minister.
Edna HAMPTON, one of Ms.
SOLOMON's closest Friends, said acquaintances,
colleagues and politicians always looked forward to dinner parties
at the SOLOMON home in Ottawa's trendy Glebe neighbourhood. Trouble
was, you never knew when the meal would be served.
"I always used to eat first because the parties would zip along
and she would let dinner go. You might eat at 8, you might eat
at 11 . . . but you always knew the food would be good," said
Ms. HAMPTON, a retired journalist.
Ms. SOLOMON was born in Ottawa and moved to North Bay, Ontario,
as a child, where she attended elementary and high school. In
the late 1950s, she landed a reporting job with The North Bay
Nugget, where Ms.
HAMPTON was a senior reporter at the time.
Later, The Ottawa Citizen hired her as a reporter and she wrote
under the byline Starr
COTE, the surname of her first husband.
"She was always full of energy and fond of fun assignments,"
recalls Ms.
HAMPTON. "
She would cover anything from a royal tour
to a St. Patrick's Day event up the Ottawa Valley."
Among her plum assignments was the visit to Ottawa by U.S. president
John F. KENNEDY and his wife, Jacqueline. She also wrote restaurant
reviews for The Citizen, where she developed a reputation as
a lively writer who was quick-witted, entertaining and personal.
Ms. SOLOMON often fought it out for the big local stories with
Joyce FAIRBAIRN, a reporter with the now-defunct Ottawa Journal.
Ms. FAIRBAIRN later became a Senator.
Ms. SOLOMON left The Citizen in the mid-1960s and moved to Toronto,
where she worked with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation as
a writer/producer. She married Mr.
SOLOMON on January 23, 1966.
The couple lived in Toronto until Mr.
SOLOMON was transferred
to Washington to open a bureau for The Financial Post.
When the
SOLOMONs returned to Ottawa, Ms.
SOLOMON and a partner
formed a public-relations firm. She quickly became a fixture
in the city's media and political circles, a move Mr.
GRAY/GREY calls
"networking at its best. She had a wide range of Friends and
she used these connections to her greatest advantage. I wish
I had her Rolodex."
For about 10 years in the 1980s, Ms.
SOLOMON and Mr.
GRAY/GREY worked
at the same public-relations firm, where they teamed up on a
variety of projects.
"There was the day the African chief Butelezi arrived in Ottawa
as a front for a group of Canadian businesses trying to develop
business relations with South Africa. I was assigned to shepherd
the chief around town," says Mr.
GRAY/GREY. "
Starr was to accompany
his lady, the lovely Princess Irene, whose sole interest was
to shop -- especially at Zellers. As they made their departure
laden down with Zellers bags. I think the princess gave Starr
a tip for her services."
The pair also worked together on an unsuccessful campaign to
stop the Canadian National Railway from eliminating railway cabooses.
"The cabooses disappeared, but to this day, the Save the Caboose
sweatshirt has been the most comfortable sweatshirt in our respective
wardrobes," says Mr.
GRAY/GREY.
Over the years Ms.
SOLOMON volunteered her public-relations skills
for many campaigns. She was a founding member of the Legal Education
and Action Fund, which was established to advance women's equality
rights, and served on the board of directors of the Ottawa Civic
Hospital.
As a couple, the
SOLOMONs were known in Ottawa for throwing glamorous
parties, some planned, some spontaneous, that attracted the leading
cabinet ministers, writers and journalists of the day. Ms.
SOLOMON
entertained and amused guests with her wit and political insights,
while her husband was an engaging conversationalist whose business
and political insights held the attention of politicians and
bureaucrats.
Those who attended their soirees remember Ms.
SOLOMON as a welcoming
hostess and terrific cook, whose specialty was Greek and Mediterranean
dishes. When guests arrived, she was always beautifully dressed
and "the records were on the turntable," recalls Mr.
GRAY/GREY. "
Patsy
Cline was her favourite. But also lots of jazz -- her friend
Brian Browne, Oscar Peterson, Oliver Jones." Often guests would
sing and dance around the
SOLOMONs' dining-room table.
"We did have serious discussions on serious subjects, from time
to time," adds Mr.
GRAY/GREY.
Former Ottawa Citizen food editor and restaurant reviewer Kathleen
WALKER remembers Ms.
SOLOMON as "literally . . . the kind of
person who danced on tabletops. She was just wonderful and wild.
We had a ball together. Great sense of humour. A terrific lady."
She will also be remembered as a great friend "who was there
in thick and thin if you had a problem," says Mr.
GRAY/GREY.
After her husband died in 1991, Ms.
SOLOMON moved back to Toronto,
where she did volunteer consulting and public relations work
for various organizations, including Legal Education and Action
Fund and a Greek nursing home. She was also a trustee of the
Hyman SOLOMON
Award for Excellence in Public Policy Journalism,
established to honour her husband's legacy.
Ms. SOLOMON leaves her two sons, Adam and Ben, two grandchildren
and two brothers. A celebration of her life is to be held at
the National Press Club in Ottawa on January 29 at 5: 30 p.m.
Starr SOLOMON, journalist, public-relations specialist; born
Ottawa, February 27, 1938; died Toronto, January 3, 2003.
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ADAM/ADAMS,
Robert ''Bob'' Watson
Born January 22, 1921 in Windsor, Ontario, Bob died February
10, 2003 at the age of 82, from complications arising from heart
disease and cancer. Bob started Adams Rent-All in 1967, with
his first store on Avenue Road. The business grew to include
six stores in the Toronto area. He retired in 1989 upon selling
the business. An active member of the Rental Association of Canada
until his death, he served as president in 1973 and 1974. The
son of Dr. Frederick
ADAM/ADAMS and Essie (née
WATSON,)
Bob was a
Flight Lieutenant in the Royal Canadian Air Force. In November
1943, his Wellington aircraft was shot down while bombing a ship
in Naxos harbour, Greece, and for the next six weeks he and his
crew evaded enemy capture before returning to Allied territory.
In 1965, he became a member of the newly formed Royal Air Forces
Escaping Society (Canadian Branch). Its 140 members were Canadian
airmen who, after being shot down over Europe, escaped or evaded
capture with the help of the underground. The Society's purpose
was to honour and assist the individuals who guided airmen to
safety, and who often suffered from imprisonment and torture
as a result. Bob was president of the Society's Canadian Branch
in 1995 and 1996. Bob is survived by his loving wife and best
friend, Joan (née
BERKELEY;) his children John, Patricia, and
Mary; his sons-in-law, Lawrence
SOLOMON and Steve
DOUGLAS/DOUGLASS; and
his granddaughters Essie and Catharine. He will be missed dearly
by them, and by his many Friends. Bob is predeceased by his brothers,
Frederick Coulson and John Charles, both Royal Canadian Air Force
pilots, who were killed in action in 1941 and 1945. A celebration
of Bob ADAM/ADAMS' life will be held on February 23, at 2900 Yonge
Street. All who knew him and his family are welcome to drop by,
anytime from 1: 00 pm until 5:00 pm. If desired, donations can
be made to Toronto's West Park Healthcare Centre in Bob's memory.
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Ex-pilot aided foreigners who hid soldiers
By Kelly HAGGART
Saturday,
March 1, 2003 - Page F11
Robert ADAM/ADAMS, past president of a society set up to honour and
assist individuals who risked their lives helping Allied airmen
evade capture during the Second World War, died in Toronto this
month of cancer. He was 82.
Mr. ADAM/ADAMS was a 22-year-old Canadian pilot on loan to Britain's
Royal Air Force when his plane was shot down after bombing a
German ship in southern Greece. Stout-hearted people on two small
islands in the Aegean, risking torture or execution for their
actions, sheltered the six-man crew for a month until they were
rescued.
After the war, Mr.
ADAM/ADAMS founded a chain of tool-rental stores
in the Toronto area called
ADAM/ADAMS Rent-All, which he sold when
he retired in 1989.
In 1965, Mr.
ADAM/ADAMS joined the newly formed Canadian branch of
the Royal Air Forces Escaping Society. The group vowed to assist
the citizens who had helped Allied airmen who fell into their
midst escape or evade capture; thanks to their courage, almost
3,000 men had made it back to safety.
"The object of the society is to remember, " the group's literature
says, "and to aid our helpers who may still be suffering the
results of imprisonment and torture at the hands of the enemy,
and to maintain the very strong Friendships that developed during
those years."
(Ernest BEVIN,
Britain's foreign secretary in 1945-51, told the
first chairman of the group's British chapter: "Your society
does a damned sight more good in Europe than all my ambassadors
rolled together.")
John DIX, a fellow member of the Escaping Society's Canadian
branch, said that, "in most cases, we only knew our helpers a
week or less -- we were just passing through. But the nature
of the relationship and the tension of the times were such that
they became lifelong Friends. We never forgot them, we had them
over to Canada every year, we kept in touch. We owed them a debt
of honour."
Flight Lieutenant
ADAM/ADAMS and his crew of four Britons and an Australian
left their base in Benghazi, Libya, on the night of November
6, 1943, scouting for targets to bomb. They spotted a German
ship anchored off Naxos, an island in the Cyclades group south
of Athens.
After dropping 16 bombs, one of the plane's two engines was hit
by German flak. "Luckily, it kept going for 10 minutes, which
gave us time to make a getaway, Mr.
ADAM/ADAMS told his daughter,
Patricia ADAM/ADAMS. "
Then it conked out and we had to slowly descend."
He ditched his disabled Wellington bomber flawlessly into the
sea. The crew escaped through hatches, and a dinghy and a parachute
popped out of the aircraft before it sank within 30 seconds of
hitting the water. The men paddled ashore to the island of Sifnos,
half a kilometre away.
"After complaining about our cigarettes being wet, we slept in
the parachute under an olive tree, Mr.
ADAM/ADAMS recalled. "In
the morning, we were discovered by a girl riding by on a donkey.
She went to fetch her father [George
KARAVOS], and he went and
got someone who could understand English and who decided we weren't
German."
The initial suspicion was mutual. When Mr.
KARAVOS took the men
to his home and offered them water, they were afraid to drink
it, until the farmer reassured them by taking a first sip.
The six men were hidden first in a mountaintop monastery on Sifnos,
and then in a cave used as a goat pen on the neighbouring island
of Serifos. Their presence was kept from local children, in case
they unwittingly tipped off the German patrol that visited the
islands several times a week from the nearby occupied island
of Milos.
"During the war, 180 people on Sifnos died because they didn't
have enough to eat, Mr.
ADAM/ADAMS said. "But the locals made a
big fuss over us, bringing food and cigarettes."
The men spent 10 days in the monastery, with a stream of hungry
people climbing the steep path to bring them bread and cheese,
oranges, figs, retsina and handfuls of precious, rationed cigarettes.
Then the Sifnos chief of police, Demetrius
BAKEAS, who was determined
the men should not be captured, arranged for them to go to Serifos,
because "there are people there who can help you."
A fisherman took them under cover of darkness to Serifos. There,
housed in the goat pen, they found five British commandos spying
on German troop movements. Conditions were primitive in that
cave for the next 20 days, but the spies had a wireless and were
able to arrange the air crew's rescue. A Royal Navy gunboat disguised
as a Greek fishing vessel picked them up and, moving by night,
took them to safety in Cyprus.
All six men survived the war, and later learned they had succeeded
in sinking that ship in Naxos harbour.
Mr. ADAM/ADAMS kept in touch with his helpers after the war, with
his letters translated for him by a Greek neighbour in Toronto.
"I remember being taken to Greek community functions, " Patricia
ADAM/ADAMS recalled. "And every Christmas Dad would send a parcel
to the school on Sifnos, with paper and pencils, and little dime-store
gifts for the children. Putting that package together every year
was very emotional."
"Bob was a very great guy, with a great sense of humour, " said
Roy BROWN, secretary of the Escaping Society. Mr.
ADAM/ADAMS was treasurer
of the society at his death, and served as president in 1995-96.
"We have about 100 members now across the country, who are in
their 80s and beyond, Mr.
BROWN said. "Most of our helpers
are in the same or worse shape, so we're not bringing them over
as we did up until five or six years ago. But we still help out
when we see a helper in need."
Robert Watson
ADAM/ADAMS was born on January 22, 1921, in Windsor,
Ontario, where his father, Dr. Frederick
ADAM/ADAMS, was the medical
officer of health for more than 20 years. If he had returned
to base that night after the raid on Naxos harbour, he would
have received the cable informing him of his father's death back
home.
After graduating from Windsor's Kennedy Collegiate in 1939, Mr.
ADAM/ADAMS worked in a bank before enlisting in June, 1941. A few
weeks later his older brother, Coulson, was killed during training
in England, shot down by a German night fighter that had sneaked
across the Channel. His other brother, John, was also a bomber
pilot killed in action, shot down during a raid on Hanover, Germany,
just a few months before the war in Europe ended.
Robert ADAM/ADAMS's story was featured in a Canadian Broadcasting
Corporation-Television documentary
in 1966, when a Telescope camera crew followed him and his wife,
Joan, back to Sifnos, where they received a hero's welcome.
"Those Greeks had nothing to gain and everything to lose, " Mr.
ADAM/ADAMS told the show's associate producer, George Ronald. "They
were starving, and yet they gave us everything. They were superb....
I don't think they know just how kind and generous and how brave
they were."
Mr. BAKEAS, who had moved to Athens after retiring from the police
force, returned to Sifnos for the emotional reunion held 23 years
after he helped save Mr.
ADAM/ADAMS's life. Earlier, he had written
to "my dear friend" in Canada: "It is not possible for me to
forget the danger which connected us in those terrible war days.
We shall be always waiting you."
In addition to his wife, Mr.
ADAM/ADAMS leaves his children John,
Patricia and Mary, sons-in-law Lawrence
SOLOMON and Steve
DOUGLAS/DOUGLASS,
and granddaughters Essie and Catharine.
Robert Watson
ADAM/ADAMS, chain-store founder and past president of
the Canadian branch of the Royal Air Force Escaping Society
born in Windsor, Ontario, on January 22, 1921; died in Toronto
on February 10, 2003.
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He founded Readers' Club of Canada
Nationalist visionary struggled financially to publish Canadian
writers
By Carol COOPER
Special to The Globe and Mail Tuesday, April
22, 2003 - Page R7
In the early 1960s, when writers asked Peter and Carol
MARTIN
where to publish their manuscripts on Canada, the couple realized
how few choices there were. Inspired, the Martins, both voracious
readers, staunch nationalists and founders of the Readers' Club
of Canada, decided to start their own press. In 1965, Peter Martin
Associates came into being. Last month, Peter
MARTIN died of
lung cancer in Ottawa.
In an industry overshadowed by American companies, Peter
MARTIN
Associates was among the first in a wave of independent publishing
houses to open during a time of rising Canadian nationalism.
Launched in a downtown Toronto basement on a shoestring budget,
skeleton staff, idealism and enthusiasm, the company flew by
the seat of its pants. Its employees were often young and new
to the business. But many, including Peter
CARVER,
Michael
SOLOMON
and Valerie
WYATT, went on to become Canadian mainstays.
"It really was a time of Canadian nationalism and those of us
who believed in that cause could see what Peter and Carol were
doing," said Ms.
WYATT, a children's editor who spent four years
with the company in the seventies.
During the 16 years before its sale in 1981, Peter Martin Associates
published approximately 170 works, mainly non-fiction. Its presses
put out I, Nuligak, the autobiography of an Inuit man; The Boyd
Gang by Marjorie
LAMB and Barry
PEARSON;
Trapping is My Life
by John TETSO; and the Handbook of Canadian Film by Eleanor
BEATTIE.
Others who came through their doors included Hugh
HOOD,
Robert
FULFORD, John Robert
COLOMBO, Douglas
FETHERLING and Mary Alice
DOWNIE -- all to have their works published.
Started with small amounts of seed money from private investors
and no government funding, Peter Martin Associates constantly
struggled financially. At one point, for a bit of extra cash,
the office became the designated nuclear-fallout shelter for
the street. Pat
DACEY, once the firm's book designer, lugged
suitcases of books up the street to sell at Britnell's bookstore
with summer employee Bronwyn
DRAINIE.
Working at Peter Martin Associates was always fun, Ms.
WYATT
said. "You went in to work happy and you stayed happy all day."
Still, in a time when Canadian works received little recognition,
she remembers finding it difficult to get media interviews for
the author of Martin-published book.
Yet another title caused trouble with its subject. The company
was putting out a collection of previously published sayings
of former prime minister John
DIEFENBAKER, called I Never Say
Anything Provocative, edited by Margaret
WENTE. Mr.
DIEFENBAKER
heard about the project, called Mr.
MARTIN and threatened to
sue. Mr. MARTIN stood firm.
"He handled it with such élan," said writer Tim
WYNNE-
JONES,
then in the art department. "He was suitably dutiful, but not
in awe. Mr.
DIEFENBAKER was just over the top, as was his wont."
The book went to press and Mr.
DIEFENBAKER did not go to court.
Once listed along with Peter
GZOWSKI in a Maclean's magazine
article on "Young Men to Watch," Mr.
MARTIN was born on April
26, 1934 in Ottawa to a dentist father and a mother who drove
an ambulance in the First World War. The younger of two sons,
he attended Trinity College School in Port Hope, Ontario and
the University of Toronto, where he earned a degree in philosophy.
During a year in Ottawa as the president of the National Federation
of University Students, Mr.
MARTIN met his first wife
Carol.
They married in 1956 and moved to Toronto. Three years later,
they founded the Readers' Club in Featuring one Canadian book
a month, it distributed works by Mordecai
RICHLER,
Irving
LAYTON,
Morley CALLAGHAN and Brian
MOORE among others, and supplied its
members with coupons. While continuing to run the Readers' Club
(sold in 1978 to Saturday Night Magazine and closed in 1981),
the MARTINs started Peter Martin Associates.
Throughout his career, Mr.
MARTIN spoke out for Canadian publishing.
Alarmed by the sale of Ryerson Press and Gage Educational Press
in 1970 to American firms, he called a meeting of publishers
to discuss problems in the industry. Named the Independent Publishers
Association, the group started in 1971 with 16 members and with
Mr. MARTIN as its first president. In 1976, it was renamed the
Association of Canadian Publishers and continues today with 140
members. As a result of the group's efforts, Canadian publishing
began to receive federal and provincial funding.
In the late 1970s, the
MARTINs went their separate ways. Afterward,
Mr. MARTIN published a small newspaper, The Downtowner, and owned
a cookbook store with his second wife, Maggie
NIEMI. In 1983,
they moved near Sudbury, Ontario, where Mr.
MARTIN did freelance
book and theatre reviews, then moved to Ottawa in 1985 to work
as president for Balmuir Books, publisher of the magazine International
Perspectives and consulting editor for the University of Ottawa
Press.
After a spinal-cord injury in 1997, Mr.
MARTIN was left a quadriplegic,
except for limited use of his left arm. Even so, he remained
active, maintained a heavy e-mail correspondence and spent time
in the park reading while seated in a bright-yellow wheelchair.
Mr. MARTIN leaves his children Pamela, Christopher and Jeremy
and his wife
Maggie
NIEMI. He died on March 15.
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CROWE,
Doris
Mary (née
SCANES)
Born in Winnipeg, July 12, 1921, daughter of Richard
SCANES and
Alice PAYNE, sister of Lenore and Jimmy, married Marshall
CROWE,
December 5, 1942. Graduate of United College, Winnipeg (B.A.:
History and English) awarded highest standing in her class. Doris
died on Friday, September 26, 2003, surrounded by family and
Friends, after a long and spirited battle with cancer. Beloved
wife, dear mother of Tom (Allison), Alison, Helen (David), Sheila
(Brian), Abigail, Seumien (Nabo), Le (Ping) and Nick (Irene).
Delighted and indefatigable grandmother of Jessica, Caleb, Innie,
Susan, David, Adam, Cathy, Yuli, Jonathan, Ben, Rebecca and Ariana.
Predeceased by her dear Friends Ann
PHELPS and Starr
SOLOMON.
During World War 2, Doris worked as a reporter for the Vancouver
Sun and taught high school. After the war, she accompanied Marshall
on diplomatic postings, chiefly to New York and Moscow. During
the 60's, she worked for Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Radio
and wrote and narrated a series of documentaries on life in the
Soviet Union. She also worked tirelessly for the Toronto French
School in its early years, helping to establish the first school
library. Doris studied public relations in the early 70's, and
did a variety of work in that field, including shepherding Harold
CARDINAL through the Ottawa launching of ''The Unjust Society''.
She also served as public relations director for the Canadian
Nurses' Association. She was a member of the Committee for an
Independent Canada and campaigned for the provincial and federal
Liberal parties in many elections, beginning with Mitchell
SHARP's
campaign in the Toronto riding of Eglinton in 1963. In her 70's,
Doris returned to university to study English history, Russian
and Chinese. for the last 30 years of her life, Doris focused
on the farm that she and Marshall ran near Portland. Among many
enterprises, Doris was instrumental in introducing the Dexter
cow into Canada. According to Doris' wishes, there will be no
funeral. Arrangements by Scotland Funeral Home, Elgin. The family
will receive Friends on Saturday, October 4, 12 to 8 p.m., at
the farm, 4421 Old Kingston Road, Portland. In lieu of flowers,
donations to the hospice, St. Vincent de Paul Hospital, Brockville
(613) 342-4461, ext. 2271 would be most gratefully received.
Their compassion, skill and generosity of spirit did much to
ease Doris' last days when she could no longer be at her beloved
farm. In memory of Doris: plant a garden, serve paella, learn
a language, read a book to a child, be kind to an animal, support
universal health care, live at peace with nature.
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