TONER o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-09-23 published
PARK,
Olive
Elizabeth (née
WILSON)
Betty PARK (née
WILSON) died peacefully at George Hees Wing,
Sunnybrook Hospital, September 14, 2003; predeceased by her husband
Dr. Norman S.
PARK. She will be missed by her daughter Dr. Elizabeth
PARK, her husband Dr. Michael
GATES, and their children Kirstin,
Norman, Russell, and Thomas. Also sharing in this loss are her
son Dr. Norman
PARK, his partner Dr. Brenda
TONER, and their
children Jessica, Emma, Sari, Lindsay, and Michelle. She is survived
by one brother, Dr. John
WILSON, predeceased by two brothers
Fred WILSON and Eric
WILSON, Royal Canadian Air Force aircrew
World War 2. If desired, memorial donations may be given to the
Bob Rumball Centre for the Deaf, 2395 Bayview Avenue, Toronto.
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TONG o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-06-07 published
CAMPBELL,
Ruth
Eleanor (née
BEATSON)
Died on June 5, 2003 at Glynwood Retirement Residence. Predeceased
by her husband Dr. Hoyle
CAMPBELL.
Loving mother of Dr. Kathryn
CHALLONER and her husband Dorian and their children Christine,
Byron and David; Virginia
TONG and her husband David and their
children Kathryn and Janet. A private interment will take place
in the family plot at Mount Pleasant Cemetery.
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TONKS o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-08-20 published
Ex-politician and war hero
FLYNN dies
Was chairman of Metropolitan Toronto
By James RUSK Municipal Affairs Reporter Wednesday, August 20,
2003 - Page A17
Dennis FLYNN, a war hero who parachuted into France on D-Day
and eventually rose to be chairman of Metropolitan Toronto, died
yesterday morning as he was preparing to observe an army reserve
exercise at Canadian Forces Base Petawawa.
Mr. FLYNN, 79, who had been in poor health in recent years, collapsed,
apparently of a heart attack, at his hotel in Pembroke, and was
pronounced dead at Pembroke General Hospital, the Canadian Armed
Forces said in a statement.
Mr. FLYNN was mayor of Etobicoke from 1972 to 1984, the longest-serving
mayor of the Toronto suburb, and was chairman of Metropolitan
Toronto from 1984 to 1988. He continued to serve on Metro Council
until the 1997 amalgamation that created the new City of Toronto.
He served on the Toronto Police Services Board and was awarded
the Order of Canada in 2001.
Major Tim LOURIE, public-relations director of the exercise,
said Mr. FLYNN travelled to Pembroke on Monday to observe a reserve
exercise in which the Toronto Scottish Regiment (the Queen Mother's
Own,) of which Mr.
FLYNN was the honorary lieutenant-colonel,
was participating.
"Unfortunately, he didn't even get out to see us here," Major
LOURIE said. The regiment received the call that he had collapsed
in the hotel just before a group of honorary colonels was heading
out to observe the exercise.
Mr. FLYNN, was born in County Cork, Ireland, in 1923. When he
was two years old he migrated with his family to the Kensington
section of Toronto, long a melting pot for immigrants.
In 1938, at age 15, he joined the Toronto Scottish and volunteered
for active service at the outbreak of the Second World War. In
1942, he joined the joint Canadian-American unit that came to
be known as the Devil's Brigade, and in 1943, he transferred
to the 1st Canadian Parachute Regiment.
He jumped into Normandy on D-Day, June 6, 1944, where he was
wounded by German fire. After recovery, he rejoined the regiment,
jumped into Germany on March 24, 1945, in Operation Varsity,
the crossing of the Rhine River, and was wounded again when part
of his leg was shattered by machine-gun fire as he escorted two
German prisoners across the Rhine.
As a result of the wound, Mr.
FLYNN walked with a cane for the
rest of his life. "One of his most self-deprecating comments,
when talking to young soldiers, was that he had made only three
jumps. One was for practice, one was on D-Day, and the third
and last was across the Rhine," commented Lieutenant-Colonel
Mike TRAYNER, commanding officer of the Toronto Scottish.
After the war, he joined the City of Toronto's clerk's department,
and rose to be protocol officer. He failed in his first run for
mayor of Etobicoke in 1969, but upset the incumbent, Doug
LACEY,
in 1972.
In 1984, he was elected chairman of Metropolitan Toronto, replacing
Paul GODFREY, now president of the Toronto Blue Jays, who was
then leaving Toronto politics to become publisher of the Toronto
Sun. His career as Metro chairman ended in 1988, when he lost
to Alan TONKS, now a member of parliament.
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TONNER o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-01-02 published
Hockey commentator made switch to print
Thursday, January 2, 2003, Page R9
Woodstock, Ontario -- Bill
TONNER, a hockey commentator and former
news editor of the daily Woodstock Sentinel-Review, has died.
He was 86.
Mr. TONNER was the live commentator for
CKOX radio for Woodstock
hockey games in the 1950s and 1960s and covered some memorable
moments, including the Woodstock Athletics' trip to Winnipeg
for the 1964 Allan Cup senior hockey championship. He eventually
made the switch to print as a reporter with the Sentinel-Review
and rose to become news editor.
Born in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1916, Mr.
TONNER moved to Saint
John, New Brunswick, in 1924 and later spent 11 years as a sailor.
During the Second World War, he was a gunnery officer on merchant
ships. After the war, he went to work with a radio station in
New Brunswick.
Mr. TONNER, who retired in 1981, was also a family man, with
eight sons. "It was pretty busy around Christmas time," Mark
TONNER said. "There was so many of us . . . He was always proud
of his boys."
Mr. TONNER died at his home on Saturday. C.P.
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