MCKI
MCKIMMIE
MCKINLEY
MCKINNEY
MCKINNON
MCKISSOCK
McKI o@ca.on.manitoulin.howland.little_current.manitoulin_expositor 2003-11-05 published
William
Alton "
Bill"
LEESON
In loving memory of William Alton "Bill"
LEESON who passed away Tuesday morning,
October 28, 2003 at his residence in Val Caron at the age of 54 years.
Beloved husband of Joyce
(BURNETT)
LEESON of Val Caron. Loving
father of Jennifer (husband Michael
THERRIEN) of Hanmer, Rick (wife
Nikki) and Craig all of Val Caron. Proud grandfather of Michaela,
Crystal, Cody and Keara. Dear son of Loretta
(McMULLEN)
MacKI of
Webbwood and Robert
LEESON (predeceased.) Dear brother of Ron
LEESON
(wife Joan) of Webbwood, Larry
LEESON of British Columbia, and Ivan
LEESON (predeceased.) Sadly missed by his special canine companion
"Nix". Bill enjoyed music, dancing, fishing and hunting and family
times. He served as a boy scout and cub leader for over 10 years.
Bill retired from
INCO in 1998 after 30 years of service as an
electrician. He greatly cared for and enjoyed his family, Bill
leaves them a wonderful legacy of strength and love and he will
remain forever in their hearts.
Funeral service was held at the Lougheed Funeral Home, Val
Caron/Blezard Valley Chapel 1815 Main Street, Val Caron on Friday,
October 31, 2003. Interment at The Valley East Cemetery.
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McKIMMIE o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-12-29 published
STANFIELD,
Katherine
Margaret (née
STAIRS)
Died peacefully December 26, Halifax, Nova Scotia. Born February
1, 1918, eldest of Katherine
(DRYSDALE) and Cyril W.
STAIRS,
Halifax, she attended Halifax Ladies College, Edgehill and the
Halifax Business College before working at Wm. Stairs son and Morrow.
She married Gordon (Pete)
STANFIELD in 1940. They resided in
Sydney and New Glasgow before settling in Halifax, summering
in Bedford and vacationing in Bermuda. Kay will be remembered
as a people person who made a life long contribution to her community
through her many interests and activities as a member of the
Waegwaltic and Saraguay Clubs, the Junior League, All Saints
Cathedral, Victoria Hall and the garden club. She is survived
by sisters: Phyllis
(MacDOUGALL) Toronto, Doshie
(MacKIMMIE-
KAUMEYER)
Calgary, Betty
(FREUND)
Johannesburg,
South
Africa and brother
Allan STAIRS,
Montreal: daughters Nancy and Pegi, Calgary; sons
David (Barbara) Halifax and Gordon (Kay), Dartmouth; grand_sons
Peter (Karin
SORRA), New Jersey, Michael, Vancouver, John (Julie)
Calgary, David K and Matthew, Halifax; great grand_son William,
New Jersey. She was predeceased by her husband of 55 years (1995)
and brother Arthur
STAIRS,
Halifax.
The family is most grateful
for the care and support given to Kay by the staff and Friends
at Melville Heights, her home since 1995. The family will receive
visitors at Snows Funeral Home, Windsor Street, Halifax on Monday
December 29 from 7-9: 00 p.m. The funeral service will be at All Saints Cathedral, Tuesday, December 30, 1:30 p.m.
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McKINLEY o@ca.on.manitoulin.howland.little_current.manitoulin_expositor 2003-03-19 published
Mary Elizabeth
LANKTREE
Passed away peacefully on Sunday March 9, 2003 at the Salvation Army AR Goudie Eventide Home, Kitchener.
Mary (née MacDONALD)
LANKTREE in her 85th year was the beloved wife of the late Harry
LANKTREE
(February 27, 1999.) Dear mother of Myrna
TIDD of BC, Gloria
PRIMEAU
of Kitchener, June
KAWA and her husband Larry of Val Caron, David
LANKTREE and his wife
Suzanne of Kitchener and Denise
GILBERT and her
husband Dana of Kitchener. Loving grandmother of twelve
grandchildren and great-grandmother of nine. Dear sister of May
KINSLEY, Minerva
HALL,
Annie
McKINLEY. Predeceased by one brother Russell
MacDONALD.
Mary's family received relatives and Friends on Tuesday March 11 at
the Henry Walser Funeral Home, 507 Frederick Street, Kitchener. Funeral
service was held on Wednesday March 12, 2003 in the chapel of the
funeral home. Spring interment in Civic Cemetery, Sudbury.
Visit www.obit411.com/968 for Mary's memorial.
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McKINLEY o@ca.on.manitoulin.howland.little_current.manitoulin_expositor 2003-11-19 published
Margaret "May"
KINSLEY
In loving memory of Margaret "Kay"
KINSLEY who died at Sudbury
Memorial Hospital on Sunday, November 16, 2003 at the age of 87 years.
Former resident of Tehkummah, Orangeville and Sudbury. Born to Alex
and Martha
McDONALD on September 7, 1916. Predeceased by both
husbands Clarence
KINSLEY and Archie
McLENNAN.
Loved by her
children, Florence and husband Gilbert
PYETTE of Mindemoya, John and
wife Jean of Mindemoya, Russell and wife Fern
McLENNAN of Bradford,
David KINSLEY of Tehkummah. Will be missed by her grandchildren,
Rodney, Anita, Frank, Doug, Don, Mark, Dennis, Janice, Patty
(Patricia). Predeceased by granddaughter Barb. Great grandmother of
ten. Remembered by siblings, "Russell" (William Alexander)(predeceased) and wife
Kathleen McDONALD,
Mary and husband Harry
LANKTREE (both predeceased,) Minerva
HALL
of Orangeville and Annie and husband Arther (predeceased)
McKINLEY of Sudbury.
Visitation from 2-4 and 7-9 on Wednesday, November 19, 2003 and
Funeral at 11: 00a.m. Thursday, November 20, 2003 all at Tehkummah
Pentecostal Church. Burial in Hilly Grove Cemetery. Island Funeral Home.
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THOMPSON/THOMSON/TOMPSON/TOMSON,
Katherine
(Kae)
PLAUNT
Died peacefully at York Extendicare, Sudbury, on May 9, 2003
in her 90th year, with her children at her side. Cherished daughter
of the late Mildred and W.B.
PLAUNT.
Predeceased by her loving
husband, Dr. R. MacKay
THOMPSON/THOMSON/TOMPSON/TOMSON in 1981. Dearly remembered by
her children: Andy (Mandy
TAILOR/TAYLOR) of Toronto, Kathie
THOMAS
(Richard,)
Judy MAKI (Tom) and Robin (Mary Lou
McKINLEY) of Sudbury. Adored
Nana to Allen
DAY (Erin
CAMERON), Andy
DAY (Carla
GIUSTO), Kathy,
Jodi, Alex, Nikki, Fraser, Michael, Jamie, Scott and great-grandmother
to Alexander. Beloved sister of Marian
MAHAFFY
(Guy, predeceased,)
Bill PLAUNT, predeceased (Agnes,) Helen
VOLLANS
(Maurice, predeceased,)
Donald PLAUNT, predeceased, Royal Canadian Air Force, World War
2 and Jean
BENNESS, predeceased (Barry, predeceased.) Loving
sister-in-law to George
WRIGHT of Hanover, Ruth
LAWS of Almonte,
Murray THOMPSON/THOMSON/TOMPSON/TOMSON of Ottawa and Muriel
VALENTIN of Stuttgart, Germany.
Auntie Kae will be fondly remembered by many nieces and nephews
and their families in the
PLAUNT and
THOMPSON/THOMSON/TOMPSON/TOMSON clans.
Born in Renfrew on April 29, 1914, she moved to Sudbury in 1924
where her father established his lumber business. She attended
Central Public and Sudbury High School, Branksome Hall and graduated
from the School of Nursing, University of Toronto, in 1937. After
working in Toronto in public health, she returned to Sudbury
the following year where she met and married Mac.
Kae loved to golf and curl, and took an avid interest in her
family's history. She was very talented in the traditional arts,
enjoying knitting, quilting and cooking. As an active community
volunteer, she belonged to the Imperial Order of the Daughters
of the Empire where she was Regent and to the Salvation Army
as an organizer for the annual fund raising drive and board member.
She loved to travel with her husband and Friends, but her favourite
place in the world was Lake Pogamasing where her parents established
a family camp in 1941 and where she spent every summer with her
family. She loved to entertain her Friends and her children's
Friends, especially at Pog. We were blessed to have a mother
and grandmother who stressed the importance of family, community
and responsibility. She loved to bring people together and do
things for them, to share her interests and her talents, she
was kind and considerate to all she met, and along with Dad taught
us how to dance and have fun.
Special thanks from the family to Dr. Reg
KUSNIERCZYK and his
staff, the Walford staff and Dr.
ROCH and staff on the fifth
floor of York Extendicare for their devoted and caring attention
to Mother.
In lieu of flowers, the family would appreciate donations to
Young Men's Christian Association Sudbury.
Memorial service in the R.J. Barnard Chapel, Jackson and Barnard
Funeral Home, 233 Larch Street, Sudbury, Tuesday, May 13th, 2003
at 11: 30 a.m. Cremation followed by interment at Lake Pogamasing.
Friends may call 6-9 p.m. Monday, or gather in the chapel after
11 a.m. Tuesday.
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Died
This
Day -- Louise
McKINNEY, 1931
Thursday, July 10, 2003 - Page R9
Teacher, feminist and politician born Louise
CRUMMY at Frankville,
Ontario, on Sept 22, 1868; 1903, left teaching to become western
organizer of Woman's Christian Temperance Union; served 20 years
as president; 1917, elected to Alberta Legislature as first female
legislator in British Empire; 1919, became one of Famous Five
in "Persons Case," whose appeal to Privy Council won women the
right to sit in the Canadian Senate; died in Claresholm, Alberta.
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McKINNON o@ca.on.manitoulin.howland.little_current.manitoulin_expositor 2003-01-22 published
James Athey
BECKETT
At Chelsey Park Nursing Home, London on Sunday, January 19, 2003
James Athey Beckett of London, formerly of Kitchener and born in
Sunrise Kentucky, in his 88th year. Beloved husband of Ruth
(MILLSON)
BECKETT. Dear father of Ruth Ann
BASTERT and Nancy
BELL of
Sheguiandah, Manitoulin Island, Mary Lou
BECKETT and Chuck
EBERLEY of
Ottawa,
Sandy
Lee
BECKETT of London. Dear grandfather of Peggy,
Shawn, Ian and Wendy, Matthew and Aaron. Also survived by nine
great-grandchildren. Predeceased by brothers John and Bud and a
sister Suzanna. Friends called at the C. Haskett and son Funeral
Home, 223 Main Street, Lucan on Monday, January 20 where the funeral
service was held on Tuesday, January 21 with Reverend Fred
McKINNON
officiating. Cremation with interment St. James Cemetery,
Clandeboye. Condolences may be forwarded through www.haskettfh.com
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Reverend
Jackson
W.
STRAPP
In loving memory of Jackson
STRAPP who passed away at the Sault Area
Hospital on Saturday, July 19, 2003 at the age of 77 years. Beloved
husband of Marion
(WEDGE) and father of their four sons Bruce, Bryan,
David and Craig. Loving
son of the Reverend Howard and Mrs. Fannie
STRAPP. Dear brother of Keith (predeceased) and sister-in-law Carolyn
(McKINNON.)
Friends and family joined in the memorial service at Sault
Sainte
Marie on July 23 with the Reverend Phil
MILLER officiating.
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McKINNON o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-02-11 published
Don MacKINNON
By Bill HALEWOOD,
Bill
HARRIS Tuesday,
February 11, 2003, Page
A20
Husband, father, businessman, veteran. Born April 7, 1925, in
Longueuil, Quebec Died April 16, 2002, in Kingston, following
surgery, aged 77.
'You're not 18."
"Are you calling me a liar?"
Don enlisted when he was 16. Any kid who could contradict an
enlisting officer must have had that certain bravado the army
was looking for.
He grew up in St. Lambert, Quebec, across the river from Montreal.
As a young boy, before the St. Lawrence Seaway was built, the
river was his life. Riding the ice flows was a dangerous sport.
He was very athletic, excelling in swimming, hockey, football
and skiing.
The war broke out and his brother enlisted. Don was bored so
he did, too. He had just finished Grade 9.
He did his basic training at Trois-Rivières then volunteered
to join a new elite unit to train as a commando. This combined
force of Canadian and American soldiers was to form the First
Special Services Force, later called The Black Devils Brigade.
Don went with the brigade to the Aleutians to chase out any remaining
Japanese forces, then back to the United States and on to Sicily
and Italy via North Africa.
The unit was under the overall command of General Mark
CLARK
and the immediate goal was the capture of Monte Cassino. Their
first battles were to take Monte La Defensa and then Monte Majo
in February, 1943, in order to block the German supply line to
Cassino. Here Don was wounded -- his foot was blown off. It took
two platoon members 12 hours to carry him on a stretcher to a
field hospital. The stretcher was dropped every time they came
under fire. Don was in poor shape, having lost a lot of blood,
and remembers the padre reciting the 23rd Psalm over him.
He was in hospital in Italy for more than a year, then back in
hospital in England in June, 1944, and home to Canada by August,
1945. Canadian doctors saw the need for further amputation.
He was now 19 and his father said to him, "What are you going
to do with your life? You have no education and you can't dig
ditches." Don went back to finish high school and then to McGill
to obtain a B.A. under a program sponsored by the Department
of Veterans Affairs. At McGill, he met his wife Heather; they
later had two daughters, Beth and Janet.
Don had a business career in advertising, communications, and
public relations which took him to Montreal and England.
With his artificial leg, he learned to ski again, and was better
on one leg than many a skier on two. He was the second Canadian
amputee to ski with specially built equipment. He was physically
imposing in a handsome, broad-shouldered, athletic way that seemed
to suppress the difficulty of getting through life on one leg.
He was a model of courage and prowess in life and work and sport.
He played a very good game of golf. Don's spirit was exemplary
and his sense of humour allowed him to laugh when he fell in
a sand trap; others would have expressed the miseries of frustration.
His was a noble equanimity with iron discipline behind it.
On his retirement, Friends encouraged Don and Heather to move
to Port Hope, Ontario, where they had some of the happiest years
of their life together. He was a generous and sincere friend
who generated respect and admiration. He was also a passionate
Canadian who stayed politically engaged and applied his liberal
perspective to public events inside and outside Canada. His day
was made when he, along with his Friends, erected a flag pole
on his front lawn.
Don's was an active life in business; in retirement he volunteered
with the Navy League Sea Cadets. After he died, his artificial
leg was sent to Honduras.
Bill HALEWOOD and Bill
HARRIS are Friends of Don.
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PETROWSKI,
Mary
Anne
(KENT)
At London Health Sciences Centre, Westminster Campus on Thursday,
March 6, 2003 in her 73rd year. Only daughter of the late Marion
(FAUNT) and Gordon
KENT.
She leaves behind her dearest friend
and loving husband Victor. She is survived by her two cherished
daughters Suzanne
LEWIS of West Vancouver and Lauren
TEEVAN of
Toronto, their husbands Richard and Nicholas, and two darling
granddaughters Jordan and Kendall
LEWIS.
Mary
Anne was predeceased
by her son G.W. Kent
PETROWSKI and now goes happily to meet him
with open arms. She was born and lived her entire life in London
and was a third generation of the West-Kent family, business
people in London from 1888-1980. She will be fondly remembered
by many beloved relatives and Friends made throughout her life.
She was very interested in the work of the Imperial Order of
the Daughters of the Empire and May Court clubs and was a life
member of Metropolitan United Church. Mary Anne had a deep love
of music for pleasure, and hopefully will leave a song in the
hearts of all who knew her and whom she loved.
Friends may call on Sunday from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. at the James
A. Harris Funeral Home, Richmond St. at St. James, London, Ontario.
A memorial service will be conducted on Monday, March 10 at 12: 00
Noon in Metropolitan United Church, Dufferin Ave. at Wellington
Street,
London,
Ontario, by Reverend Farquhar
MacKINNON. A private cremation
service will be held followed by burial in Woodland Cemetery.
Memorial contributions to the Children's Hospital Foundation
(for Medical Genetics Research) or the London Regional Cancer
Centre would be gratefully acknowledged.
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CAMPBELL,
William
Logan 'Bill'
Died April 9, 2003, in Camp Hill Veterans' Memorial Building,
Halifax, at the age of 83. Survived by his wife
Enid
(BOWEN,)
daughter Leslie
MacKINNON, grand_son Beau (Michelle,) great-grand_son
Alexander, daughter-in-law Lynn and grand_son Aaron; predeceased
by son Bob in 1974. Bill joined the Canadian Army in 1939. After
retiring in 1969 with the rank of lieutenant colonel, he was
active in municipal and provincial politics. A memorial service
will be held at a later date in Saint John's Anglican Church, York
Mills, Ontario.
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McKINNON o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-05-03 published
Leafs trusted their doctor
Talented M.D. specialized in hand surgery. 'He had a unique technical
approach. That's what made him different from other surgeons.'
By Carol COOPER
Special to The Globe and Mail Saturday, May 3,
2003 - Page F10
Nothing about Jim
MURRAY's hands indicated that he was a surgeon.
Large and gnarled with undulating fingernails, those hands played
bagpipes, patched up Toronto Maple Leafs and Team Canada players
and restored form and function to other hands.
Dr. MURRAY, a plastic surgeon who was the first Canadian doctor
to devote his practice to hand surgery, died last month at the
age of 82.
"His hands looked more like those of a prize fighter than a surgeon.
His fingers were bent, "said Robert
McFARLANE, a retired plastic
surgeon with a special interest in hands and a close friend of
Dr. MURRAY. "It didn't seem to make a difference. He had tremendous
skill."
In 1983, Dr.
MURRAY brought together plastic and orthopedic surgeons
to form a hand unit at Toronto's Sunnybrook Health Science Centre,
the city's first. "His concept was to pull together the expertise
of different surgeons, "said Paul
BINHAMMER, once a student
of Dr. MURRAY and now a plastic surgeon at the hospital, now
part of the Sunnybrook and Women's College Health Sciences Centre.
Dr. MURRAY assembled a highly skilled team. Among them were orthopedic
surgeon Robert
McMURTRY, who went on to become dean of medicine
at the University of Western Ontario, and plastic surgeon and
nerve expert Susan
MacKINNON, who is now a professor in the United
States.
But before rising to prominence in the field of hand surgery,
Dr. MURRAY gained fame in hockey circles. Serving as one of the
Toronto Maple Leafs team doctors from 1948 to 1964, he was greatly
trusted by players. When cut during games on the road, they left
their wounds unstitched until he could tend to them at home.
"He'd come at you with those fingers and they were just so big,
you'd wonder how he was ever able to stitch as neat as he did,"
said former Leaf defenceman Bobby
BAUN, who played professional
hockey for 17 years.
Mr. BAUN estimates that Dr.
MURRAY put in half of his 143 career
stitches.
Under instructions from Leaf owner Conn
SMYTHE, injured players
were not to be rushed back into the lineup, according to Hugh
SMYTHE, another Leaf doctor and Mr.
SMYTHE's son. "This was a
heavy and not always popular role, "he said.
During the 1964 Stanley Cup finals, it became especially challenging.
Entering Game 6, the Detroit Red Wings led the series against
the Leafs 3-2. Playing in Detroit on April 23, with the scored
tied at 3-3 in the third period, Mr.
BAUN first was hit on his
right leg by a slapshot from Gordie
HOWE and then, after a faceoff,
spun on the leg, which gave way.
X-rays delayed at Mr.
BAUN's insistence showed a small broken
bone, just above the ankle. He spent six weeks in a cast.
But that came after the series ended. During its sixth game,
Mr. BAUN was tended to by Dr.
MURRAY and other team doctors.
After being carried off the ice, he asked Dr.
MURRAY if he could
hurt his leg any more. The doctor replied no. "Having someone
like Jim tell me that, I could believe him, "Mr.
BAUN said.
With his leg taped and frozen, Mr.
BAUN continued playing. Within
the first two minutes of the first overtime period, he scored
the winning goal and kept the Leafs in the series.
Mr. BAUN didn't miss a shift during Game 7, and neither did teammate
Red KELLY, who had torn knee ligaments during the previous game.
The Leafs won the seventh game 4-0 and the Stanley Cup, their
third in a row and their fifth during Dr.
MURRAY's time with
the team.
That year, Dr.
MURRAY resigned and 20 years later joked to The
Toronto Star that it was he who had led them to the five Stanley
Cups.
If he took the connection between his presence and the Leafs'
wins lightly, Punch
IMLACH, then the team's coach, did not. Mr.
IMLACH had become convinced that Dr.
MURRAY brought the team
good luck, the doctor told the Star in a 1972 story.
The newspaper was interviewing Dr.
MURRAY about his appointment
as a doctor to Team Canada for the Canada-Russia hockey series.
In the article headlined "Good luck charm for Team Canada, "
he recalled how during the 1967 Stanley Cup playoffs, Mr.
IMLACH
invited him to a Leaf game in Chicago, believing that he would
bring the team good luck.
"If it had been anybody else but Punch, I'd have dismissed it
as a joke. But he really needed to win and he honestly believed
my presence would make a difference, "Dr.
MURRAY was quoted
as saying.
The
Leafs won not only that game, but, with Dr.
MURRAY in attendance
for the remainder of the series, the Stanley Cup. The Leafs haven't
won a Stanley Cup since.
And the Star's headline proved prophetic. Team Canada won the
Canada-Russia series when Paul
HENDERSON scored with 34 seconds
left in the eighth game.
Born in Toronto on May 14, 1920, James Findlay
MURRAY was the
youngest of three children. His father ran a store at Yonge and
Queen Streets in downtown Toronto and died before the birth of
his third child.
Dr. MURRAY attributed his curvy fingernails to his mother's malnutrition
when she was pregnant with him, said his youngest son Hugh. Within
a few years, she had remarried, and his stepfather helped to
raise him.
An avid athlete, Dr.
MURRAY played football during his high school
and university days, so much so that once, when forbidden by
his mother to play for his high-school team because he had had
pneumonia, he practised and played in secret.
That lasted until his picture appeared in the Star running for
a touchdown. He was immediately placed on the disabled list.
Awarded the George Biggs trophy for sportsmanship, leadership
and scholarship, Dr.
MURRAY graduated from medical school in
1943 and spent two years in the Royal Canadian Medical Corps,
finishing as a captain.
After a year of general practice in Belleville, Ontario, he trained
in plastic surgery at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto
with A. W.
FARMER, whom many consider to be the father of Canadian
hand surgery.
A humble man, who drove less-than-fancy cars, Dr.
MURRAY was
known for his ability to relate to everyone. "He was a doctor
and an esteemed member of society, but it didn't matter to him,"
Hugh MURRAY said. "He considered himself an everyday person.
He was as comfortable, if not more comfortable, dealing with
just working guys."
In 1953, Dr.
MURRAY joined the Toronto East General and Orthopedic
Hospital as head of plastic surgery and organized a specialized
hand clinic, according to Bernd
NEU, another former student of
Dr. MURRAY and now a plastic surgeon at North York General Hospital.
"It's because the hand is such an important part of the body,
not just physically, but aesthetically, "Dr.
MURRAY, a specialist
in soft tissue and the reconstruction of flexor tendons, said
in 1984 to explain the dedication of hand surgeons.
In 1983, Dr.
MURRAY left Toronto East General, where he had been
surgeon-in-chief since 1976, to head the hand unit at Sunnybrook
Medical Centre, taking a cut in pay to do so.
At the time, plastic surgeons could earn $2,000 for a face-lift
and $106.50 for a carpal-tunnel release.
Dr. MURRAY derived great satisfaction from the help his hands
gave others. Once in a clinic at Toronto East General, he and
Dr. NEU came upon a patient with only a thumb and little finger
on one hand.
"This is a wonderful hand, "he told Dr.
NEU. "
Look at how dirty
and callused it is."
After several surgeries, Dr.
MURRAY had restored the worker's
hand to the point where the man could use it once again to earn
a living.
"What to other people would look like a devastating loss, to
Dr. MURRAY and the patient, this was a hand to be proud of,
Dr. NEU said.
As a hand consultant beginning in 1974 at the Downsview Rehabilitation
Centre of the Workers' Compensation Board, Dr.
MURRAY treated
those injured in industrial accidents, often surmounting language
barriers to do so.
"He could speak to them [the patients] in basic English, so they
could understand how seriously he took their problems, and how
everything was being done that could be done for them, "Dr.
NEU said.
In a 1996 letter to Dr.
MURRAY, another of his former residents
recalled how once on rounds, the doctor lifted the sheets to
examine a paraplegic patient, only to find the man soiled. Instead
of calling for hospital staff to clean the man, Dr.
MURRAY performed
the task himself.
"That little lesson reminded me that being a doctor is not just
being a cutter, "the physician wrote.
Not only did he have a natural way with people, Dr.
MURRAY was
a gifted surgeon.
"He was a talented person with original ways of doing things,"
Dr. McFARLANE said. "He had a unique technical approach. That's
what made him different from other surgeons."
Appointed a lecturer at the University of Toronto in 1953, Dr.
MURRAY was first an assistant and associate professor, becoming
a full professor in 1979. He developed the first hand surgery
fellowship training program in Canada in 1981, Dr.
NEU said.
As well as teaching at the university, Dr.
MURRAY trained surgeons
during two trips to Southeast Asia as a volunteer with Cooperative
for American Relief Everywhere, Inc. Medico and led a group of
hand surgeons to study techniques in micro-surgery in China during
the late 1970s.
At the medical meetings Dr.
MURRAY often attended, he impressed
Dr. McFARLANE with his ability to discuss surgery. "He had a
very common-sense approach to a surgical problem, and when everyone
had something to say about a problem, he would get up and clarify
it very nicely, "Dr.
McFARLANE said.
A founder of
MANUS
Canada, a society of hand surgeons, once a
president of the Canadian Society of Plastic Surgeons and the
American
Society for Surgery of the Hand, Dr.
MURRAY was honoured
by the U.S. society at "Murray Day" in 1990 with tributes from
past presidents.
Stricken with Alzheimer's disease toward the end of his life,
Dr. MURRAY died in Collingwood, Ontario, on April 4. He leaves
his wife of 57 years, Shirley, and his children, John, Bill,
Claire and Hugh.
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Sylvia Mary
KISSOCK
By Conrad ALEXANDROWICZ
Thursday,
April 17, 2003 - Page A22
Mother, friend, meteorologist. Born January 9, 1919, in London,
England. Died July 13, 2002, in Victoria, British Columbia, of
heart failure, aged 83.
My mother was the first child born to William Henry
KISSOCK and
Catherine IRENE, née
SHARPE.
Her father was a wacky Scot, originally
named MacKISSOCK, who worked as a marine engineer. Her mother
came from a large family whose parents were wealthy brewers.
When my mother was 5, the family moved to Australia, near Adelaide.
Here she spent some of the happiest years of her life, excelling
at dancing and acrobatics, and spending much time on the beach
with many Friends.
Then the Depression hit and my grandfather lost his job. They
returned to cold, grey, out-of-work England, and the family,
like many others, had a very hard go of things. (By this time
sister Marian, nine years Sylvia's junior, had joined the family.)
My mother took after her father: she seems to have inherited
his irreverent sense of humour, native optimism, great generosity,
love of adventure, and talent for dancing. She had always wanted
to be a performer, but her mother vetoed that idea, and insisted
that Sylvia take secretarial courses at Pitman's College; my
mother became a first-rate secretary and administrator.
During the Second World War, Sylvia joined the Women's Auxiliary
Air Force and worked as a meteorologist. She met my Polish father,
Adam ALEXANDROWICZ, in London after the war. He swept her off
her feet with his dashing good looks and continental manners.
The couple emigrated to Canada, eventually settling in Ottawa,
where he worked for the federal government. Because of her asthma,
Ottawa winters were a great trial for her. They had three sons:
older brother Stefan, myself, and Adam junior.
Life with my father was mostly very hard; he suffered from bipolar
disorder, and he never really recovered from the Second World
War. In 1975, she left him, taking most of the furniture with
her: she had paid for it out of her meagre salary.
When she retired in 1984, she moved to Victoria, a city where
she had only one old friend. But moving there was an adventure
that she undertook with anticipation and pleasure.
She enjoyed keenly her retirement there. She loved the swarms
of robins in February, the stunning rhododendrons, the cherry
blossoms, and the daffodils. But heart disease (she'd had a heart
attack back in Ottawa in 1975) was stalking her relentlessly.
Despite her devotion to health food, the right fats, a positive
attitude, and lots of exercise, the effects of arteriosclerosis
continued to accumulate.
My mother suffered much from various ailments of the physical
body, but she never let them get her down. She had very few material
or financial resources and never met another man after leaving
my father, but she never lapsed into bitterness or self-pity.
She made the most of life with her energy, enthusiasm, a great
sense of humour, and passion for the causes of feminism and environmental
activism.
Mum must have had an extra portion of luck from somewhere, since
she survived so many health crises. But in the last few months
she took what she herself recognized as the last turn with the
onset of congestive heart failure. Always independent, she had
no wish to languish at home or to be parked in a long-term care
facility. So, sometime during her afternoon nap, she just left.
She used to say to me, "You know, I always wanted to go out with
a massive heart attack, not slowly fall apart." It seems she
got what she wanted.
If anything can be said to exemplify my mother's life, it's the
concept of triumph over adversity. She had a hard life, but she
lived well. Sylvia was a woman of great integrity and principle
a dedicated mother and a loyal friend.
Conrad ALEXANDROWICZ is Sylvia's son.
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