HOW o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2005-05-10 published
ABBOTT, Leonard Charles (April 19, 1923-May 5, 2005)
Stouffville, Ontario, Canada It is with great sadness we announce the passing of Len ABBOTT in his 82nd year after a brief illness. He leaves to mourn his beloved wife Edna Kathleen of 57 years his sister Joyce HOW (England,) his daughter Louise (Philip) and his son Andrew (Michelle). He will be greatly missed by his five beautiful grandchildren; Aidan, Charlotte, William, Caelan, and Olivia. Len will be fondly remembered by his extended family and Friends in Canada, South Africa, United States and his birth place England. Len served in the Second World War, he had an extensive career in the film industry in England and Canada spanning over forty years, and he was the creator and co-owner of the 'Princess of Wales Pub' in San Diego, California. Len was known as a kind, giving and devoted man who was forever working on a little project and who whistled always. His energy and ability to help all will be missed greatly. Ever the life of the party, never accepting less than perfection. He will be remembered as a loving husband and father and an incredibly proud grandfather. He adored his grandchildren and his stories to them, with them and about them will be forever cherished. We thank the staff of the Markham Stouffville Hospital for the care they provided Len during his illness. On Friday, May 13, 2005 at 1: 00 p.m., the family wishes you to join them for a celebration of Len's life at the Lemonville United Church on McCowan Road. A reception will follow at home; 3 Hilltop Trail. In lieu of flowers the family has requested that memorial donations be made to the Canadian Heart and Stoke Foundation. 'Grandad, we love you always'

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HOW o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2005-01-15 published
PATTISON, Edwin Warren " Bud"
Passed away peacefully, on Wednesday, January 12, 2005, at the Ross Memorial Hospital in Lindsay. Bud PATTISON, in his 78th year, was the dearly beloved husband of Gwendolyn (née BAYLIS.) Loving father of Debra PATTISON and Phil HOW, Eric and Jan PATTISON, Stuart and June PATTISON, and Marnie and Jon DEATHE. Cherished grandfather of Kevin, Ean, Alex, Rowena, Eric, Bryce and Dana. Much loved great-grandfather of Keegan. Dear brother of George and Sheila PATTISON of Burlington, and Audrey and Arnold SLADE of Saskatoon. Bud will be sadly missed by many extended family members and Friends. Cremation to take place. Friends are invited to call at the Mackey Funeral Home, 33 Peel Street, Lindsay (705-328-2721), on Saturday, January 22nd from 1: 00 p.m. until the time of Memorial Service in the Chapel at 2: 00 p.m. As expressions of sympathy, memorial donations to the Shriners Hospitals for Children, Montreal would be appreciated and may be made through the funeral home.

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HOW o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2005-03-04 published
WONG, Elizabeth
Peacefully at Wesburn Manor, on Thursday, March 3, 2005 at the age of 90. Beloved wife of the late Harvey WONG. Loving mother of Alan and his wife Jessie, Robert, Lila and her husband Harry SPARKMAN and predeceased by son Bill and his wife Hazel. Dear grandmother of Jane, Philip, Kevin, Sydney, Connie and Suzie and great-grandmother of Kevin, Lisa, Michelle, Sammy, Jeffrey, Tiffany, Ashley, Amanda and Jessica. Predeceased by her sister Rose and brothers Joe HOW, George, Edward, John and Lorne. Also remembered by several nieces and nephews. Friends may call at the Turner and Porter Butler Chapel, 4933 Dundas Street West, Etobicoke (between Islington and Kipling Aves.) from 6-9 p.m. Friday. Funeral Service in the Chapel on Saturday, March 5, 2005 at 1 p.m. Interment Mt. Pleasant Cemetery.

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HOW o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2005-10-19 published
CHOO CHONG,
Peacefully on October 17, 2005 in Toronto in his 98th year. Beloved husband of the late May CHOO CHONG. Loving father of Bill, Shirley (Tony CHOW HOW), Joan (Fred VILLARI), Margaret (Leo COUPRIE), Winston, Steve (Renee), Henry (Rochelle), George (Joanne), Wanda SYKES and Gerry CHIN (Maureen.) Proud grandfather of Freddy, Christopher, Nicole, Lisa, Sheri, Michelle, Michael, Meghan, Kayla, Victoria, David, Darlene, Alexander, Allan, Paula and Crystal. Visitation will be held at York Visitation, Chapel and Reception Centre, 160 Beecroft Road, (enter through York Cemetery gates) Toronto, 416-221-3404, on Friday, October 21 from 5 to 9 p.m. Funeral service in the Chapel on Saturday, October 22 at 2 p.m. Burial and reception will follow. Memorial donations may be made to the Heart and Stroke Foundation or to the Diabetes Hope Foundation.

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HOWALD o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2005-03-19 published
HOWALD, Ervine
In loving memory of Ervine HOWALD, a dear Dad and Grandpa, who passed away March 20, 2000.
Five years ago comes with deep regret
It brings back a day we can't forget
Everyday in some small way
Memories of you come our way
If tears could build a stairway
And heartache makes a lane
We'd walk the path to Heaven
And bring you back again
God broke our hearts to prove
He only takes the best
Although we smile and make no fuss
No one misses you more than us
And when old times we often recall
That is when we miss you most of all.
Love always, Carol, Ruth, Rick, Donna and families.

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HOWALD o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2005-12-15 published
HOWALD, Bonnie Heather (née FURLER)
Of Saint Thomas, on Wednesday, December 14, 2005, at the London Health Sciences Centre (University Campus) in her 55th year. Beloved wife of 36 years of Larry HOWALD and dearly loved mother of Mary Ellen HOWALD, Larry Nelson HOWALD and Michael Dwayne HOWALD, all of Saint Thomas. Loved grandmother of Cody. Sister of Doug FURLER of London and the late Glen FURLER. Sadly missed by a number of brothers and sisters-in-law and nieces and nephews. Bonnie was born in Saint Thomas on October 13, 1951, the daughter of the late Roy and Muriel FURLER. She worked at Essex Wire and at Johnson Oak Farm. Resting at Williams Funeral Home, 45 Elgin Street, Saint Thomas where funeral service will be held Saturday at 11: 00 a.m. Cremation to follow, with burial of ashes in Union Cemetery. Visitation Friday from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. Remembrances may be made to the Heart and Stroke Foundation.

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HOWARD o@ca.on.manitoulin.howland.little_current.manitoulin_expositor 2005-01-26 published
HOWARD
--In loving memory of a loving mom and grandma, Marlene HOWARD, who passed away January 24, 2001.
Just a though of sweet remembrance
Of the one we lost four years ago.
How we dream and wish to see you smile,
Hear your laugh.
All memories we hold so dear in our hearts,
Today, tomorrow and forever.
We often speak your name
And look at your picture in the frame.
All the silent tears we shed.
Wishing you were still here.
Forever loved and always missed by Wanda, Larry, Caitlyn and Tyler.

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HOWARD o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2005-01-02 published
CARPANZANO, Anita Rosa (née TODINO)
Peacefully at Toronto General Hospital on December 31st, 2004 Mrs. Anita Rosa CARPANZANO of London in her 38th year. Cherished and beloved wife of Tony. Loving and devoted mother of Claudia (13) and Adriana (6). Dearly loved daughter of Geraldine and Vittorio TODINO and daughter-in-law of Ida and Andrea CARPANZANO. Forever missed by her sisters and brothers-in-law Maria and Paul GRAZIANO, Fiorella and John PERCIBALLI and Victoria and Joseph ROSELLI and sisters-in-law and brothers-in-law Franca and Tony SIESTO and Mary and Sal CARPANZANO. Fondly remembered by several nieces and nephews. Visitation will be held at the Westview Funeral Chapel, 709 Wonderland Road North on Monday from 7-9 p.m. and Tuesday 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. Prayers will be conducted in the chapel on Tuesday at 7 p.m. A funeral mass will be celebrated at St. Pius X Parish, 777 Valetta St. on Wednesday, January 5th, 2004 at 10 a.m. Interment St. Peters Cemetery. Those wishing to make a donation in memory of Anita are asked to consider the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation or the Multi Organ Transplant Program. A special thanks to the staff at Toronto General Hospital - Transplant Unit and to Dr. HOWARD and the staff of 2-Middlesex, London Health Sciences Centre, Victoria Campus for their excellent care and support.

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HOWARD o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2005-01-08 published
HEALY, Evelyn▼ (formerly SMITH, née BENSTEAD)
At Strathmere Lodge, Strathroy on Thursday, January 6, 2005. Evelyn (BENSTEAD/ SMITH) HEALY of Strathroy in her 92nd year. Beloved wife of the late Robert SMITH (1964) and Thomas HEALY (2000.) Dear mother of Donald SMITH and his wife Jean▼ of Strathroy. Loving▼ grandmother of Mike SMITH and his wife Bernice▼ of Strathroy. Great grandmother of Kyle and Ryan. Predeceased by 2 sisters Margaret LAW and Florence HOWARD. Also▼ survived by several nieces and nephews. Visitation at the Denning Bros. Funeral Home, 32 Metcalfe St. W. Strathroy on Sunday, January 9 from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. and Monday from 12 noon until time of memorial service at 1 p.m. with Reverend Father Willi KAMMERER officiating. A Legion Ladies Auxiliary service under direction of Legion Br. 116 Strathroy, will be held in the funeral home Sunday at 6: 30 p.m. Cremation with interment in Strathroy Cemetery. Donations to the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart and Stroke Foundation or Strathroy Middlesex General Hospital Foundation would be appreciated by the family. A tree will be planted as a living memorial to Evelyn.

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HOWARD o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2005-01-27 published
SCHUUR, Mary Elizabeth (McLELLAN)
Mary Elizabeth (McLELLAN) passed away at home surrounded by her family on January 25, 2005, after a courageous battle with cancer. Mary Liz is survived by her loving husband Arnold SCHUUR, and three loving and devoted daughters; Beth and Jon TOAL of Hamilton, Karen SCHUUR of Toronto, and Ann SCHUUR of California. Dear sister of Arnold and Carol McLELLAN of Westland, Michigan, Margaret Ann and Brian KILBY of Sarnia, and Barbara and Mike HOWARD, London. She is also survived by several nieces, nephews, cousins and many wonderful and supportive Friends.
Mary Liz was born in Sarnia, 60 years ago on May 13, 1944, daughter of the late Mary Elizabeth and Arnold McLELLAN. She graduated from St. Joseph's Hospital School of Nursing in 1967, moving to Chatham in 1968 after her marriage to Arnold. She nursed at both St. Joseph's and Public General Hospitals, and then for 8 years with Dr. Brian GAMBLE as his office nurse. After completing her diploma in Public Health Nursing, she touched the lives of many people while working for 16 years as a Case Manager with Community Care Access Centre. Mary Liz enjoyed volunteering her time as a Eucharistic Minister with Blessed Sacrament Church in addition to the time she devoted to the Alzheimer Society, the Canadian Cancer Society, Cancer Relay for Life, and as a member of the Executive Board of Directors for the Chatham-Kent Women's Centre. Anyone who had the pleasure of knowing her will understand that she approached all aspects of life with joy, laughter and love. Friends will be received at the McKinlay Funeral Home, 459 St. Clair Street, Chatham on Thursday 7: 00-9:00 p.m and Friday 2: 00-4:30 and 7:00-9:00 p.m. Parish Prayers at the Funeral Home on Friday at 2: 00 p.m. Family welcomes everyone to join them at Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church, 145 Victoria Avenue, Chatham at 11: 00 a.m. Saturday, January 29, 2005 for celebration of Funeral Mass with Reverend Fr. Joseph NEVETT. Cremation with interment in St. Anthony Cemetery at a later date. Donations may be made by cheque to Chatham-Kent Outreach for Hunger. Online condolences may be left at www.mckinlayfuneralhome.com. "It is in dying that we are born to eternal life."

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HOWARD o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2005-03-09 published
FORTH, John Alexander
At Parkwood Hospital, London, on Monday, March 7, 2005, John Alexander FORTH of London in his 75th year. Beloved husband of Olga H. (SCHULZ) FORTH. Dear father of Steven J. FORTH and his wife Martha of London, Michael J. FORTH and his wife Linda of Kelowna, British Columbia and Renee S. FUKUMOTO and her husband Barry of Georgetown. Dear brother of Paul FORTH and his wife Pat▼ of Guelph and Elizabeth HOWARD of Charlotte, North Carolina. Also loved by his grandchildren, Sarah, Zachary, Emily, Amanda, Nathan, Kaitlyn, Rebekkah, Jared, Adam and James. Friends will be received by the family from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday, at the A. Millard George Funeral Home, 60 Ridout Street South, London where the complete funeral service will be conducted in the chapel on Thursday, March 10th at 2: 30 P.M. with Reverend Robert W. WILSON officiating. Cremation. As an expression of sympathy memorial donations may be made to the Canadian Cancer Society, 123 St. George Street, London, Ontario N6A 3A1. On line condolences accepted at www.amgeorgefh.on.ca

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HOWARD o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2005-03-10 published
TAPP, Addie (COUGHTREY)
Peacefully at her residence in Dorchester on Wednesday, March 9th, 2005 Addie (COUGHTREY) TAPP formerly of London in her 97th year. Beloved wife of the late Arthur Bryce TAPP. Dear mother of Patricia COHOON and her husband Robert of Dorchester. Predeceased by her brother Harry COUGHTREY and her sisters Lorinda, Bailie and Susan HOWARD. Loving▼ grandmother of Christopher Bryce COHOON and his wife Maria CAROLINA of London. Friends will be received by the#2 hours prior to the funeral service which will be conducted in the chapel of the A. Millard George Funeral Home, 60 Ridout Street South, London on Saturday, March 12th, 2005 at 1: 00 p.m. with Reverend Brian McKAY of Church of St. Andrew Memorial officiating. Interment in Dorchester Union Cemetery, Dorchester. As an expression of sympathy, memorial donations may be made to the charity of your choice.

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HOWARD o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2005-03-31 published
DEMPSEY, Agnes (née SULLIVAN)
Agnes (SULLIVAN) DEMPSEY, passed away peaceful ly after a long battle with cancer on March 29th, 2005, at the age of 62. Beloved wife of Douglas DEMPSEY. Loving and caring mother of Terry and wife Lori Ann DEMPSEY (Windsor), Lori and husband Robert DRUMM (New Mexico) and Gary DEMPSEY and friend Suzanne HOWARD (London.) Cherished grandmother of Cara and Nolan DRUMM, Kiley DEMPSEY and Ashley HOWARD/ DEMPSEY. Loving▲▼ sister to Vince and wife Mary,▼ Bill, Denis, Greg and wife Anne, Tom and wife Beatrice, Rita and husband Terrance SKINNER, Regina and husband Stan CORBETT and Alisa and Veronica SULLIVAN. Dear daughter of the late Patrick and Blanche SULLIVAN of Brent's Cove, Newfoundland. Loving aunt of many nieces and nephews. The family will receive Friends and relatives at the Westview Funeral Chapel, 709 Wonderland Road North, London, (2 blocks north of Oxford) on Thursday from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. A Funeral Mass will be celebrated at St. Justin's Parish, 855 Jalna Boulevard, on Friday, April 1st, 2005 at 10: 30 a.m. Cremation to follow with private intement of ashes at a later date. In remembrance, donations in memory of Agnes to the Hospice of London would be greatly appreciated.

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HOWARD o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2005-05-05 published
HOWARD, John▼
John HOWARD, beloved husband of the late Rita (SCHEFTER) Hogan HOWARD, of Ashfield Township on Tuesday, May 3rd, 2005, age 94. Loved by 7 grandchildren, Francis (Barb) HOGAN, R.R.#3 Lucknow, Kathleen HOGAN (Ken HOEPPNER) Calgary, Anita (Paul) FRAYNE, R.R.#3 Goderich, Leona (Dave) SHARPE, Egmondville, Janette HOGAN (Peter SMITH) Guelph, Lawrence (Marianne) HOGAN, R.R.#7 Lucknow and Stephen (Lori) HOWARD, R.R.#7 Lucknow. Also 22 grandchildren. Predeceased by 3 brothers, James, Tom and Robert HOWARD, son Raymond HOGAN and grand_son Patrick HOGAN. Visitation at MacKenzie and McCreath Funeral Home, Lucknow Friday 2-4 and 7-9. Vigil prayers Friday at 3 p.m. Mass of the Christian Burial Saturday, May 7th, 2005 at St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church, Kingsbridge at 11: 00 a.m. Interment Kingsbridge Cemetery, donations appreciated to St. Joseph's Building Fund.

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HOWARD o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2005-05-11 published
HOWARD, Robert Gordon▼

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HOWARD o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2005-05-18 published
DURRANT, Margaret Edith (née COUGHTREY)
Margaret Edith slipped peacefully into the presence of her Lord and Saviour on Saturday, May 14, 2005, at Nithview Home in New Hamburg in her 85th year. Margaret, also known to her family as 'Peg' was the last of nine children born to the late Charles and Beatrice (SEAGER) COUGHTREY. Margaret was the beloved wife of the late Stanley L. DURRANT (Gar) who predeceased her in 1971 while they were doing missionary work with The Evangelical Alliance Mission in South Africa, where he is buried. Dear mother of Rosemary and husband Douglas MELVILLE of New Hamburg and Marguerite and husband John CASTIGLIONE of Toronto. Sadly missed by her grandchildren Gordon (Janessa) MELVILLE and son Gabriel, Dawn (Rod RUEHLE) and children Rachel and Joshua, Catherine (Dan ARNDT) and children Ryan, Andrew and Sarah, Brenda MELVILLE: Matthew, Jason and Jennifer CASTIGLIONE. Margaret, also known as 'Peg' by her eight siblings Jack, Lillian, Charles, Muriel, Huck, Lloyd, Gordon and Bill all predeceased her. Remembered by sisters-in-law Margaret COUGHTREY of London, and Rona RAMSEY of Naughton, Ontario and many nieces and nephews.
Margaret was a former president of the Women's Missionary Society of Toronto, played the organ at her Church for 17 years, and enjoyed playing for her Friends and family at Nithview. Family and Friends may call at the Mark Jutzi Funeral Home, 291 Huron Street, New Hamburg on Tuesday and Wednesday from 7-9 p.m., and until Thursday, May 19, 2005 at 11: 00 a.m. where the Celebration Service▼ will take place at the Funeral Home with Pastor Don HOWARD officiating. A private family interment in Forest Lawn Memorial Gardens, London. As expressions of sympathy, donations may be made to "The Evangelical Alliance Mission" or "The Gideon Bible Society of Canada".

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HOWARD o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2005-05-25 published
HANLEY, Margaret (PRIDDLE)
Mrs. Margaret (PRIDDLE) HANLEY of Saint Thomas passed away on Monday, May 23, 2005 at the Saint Thomas-Elgin General Hospital, in her 95th year. Beloved wife of the late Gerald A. “Kie” HANLEY (1977.) Dearly loved mother of Carol WHITE/WHYTE (Richard), Gerald B. (Marjorie), all of Saint Thomas, Jack (Helene) of Tillsonburg, Tom A. (Gloria) of Saint Thomas, David G. (Debbie) of London, Dennis M. (Tracy) of Durham, late William F., late (infant) Rodger and late Leo R. HANLEY. Also survived by daughters-in-law, Valerie HANLEY of London and Betty HANLEY of Saint Thomas, many grandchildren, great grandchildren, great great grandchildren and several nieces and nephews. She was the last surviving member of her own immediate family, having been predeceased by sisters, Verna HOWARD, Helena▼ BEATTIE and Mary FURLONG and brothers, Harry, Hugh and Jack PRIDDLE.
Born in Norwich, Ontario, August 15, 1910, daughter of the late Frederick and Clara (MUSTARD) PRIDDLE. She came to Saint Thomas from Ingersoll in 1945 and was a member of Trinity Anglican Church. Friends will be received at the Sifton Funeral Home, 118 Wellington Street, Saint Thomas on Wednesday from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. where the funeral service will be held Thursday at 1: 30 p.m. Interment in Elmdale Memorial Park. Memorial donations to the Canadian Cancer Society or Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario gratefully acknowledged.

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HOWARD o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2005-06-07 published
HOWARD, Grace (SABERI)
In loving memory of a dear mother, grandmother and great grandmother, Grace, who passed away one year ago, June 7, 2004.
You are never more than a thought away.
You will always be remembered, your son Tom, Mary, Dan, Di, Tim Sr., Tracy, Tim Jr. and their families.

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HOWARD o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2005-06-08 published
HOBBS, Howard Raymond
Suddenly at home on Monday, June 6, 2005. Howard Raymond HOBBS, in his 59th year. Husband of Marilyn (THWAITES.) Survived by his aunt Alice HOWARD, cousins Ray HOWARD and Ruth-Anne DEAN, brothers-in-law Larry (Lois) THWAITES and Terry (Lee) THWAITES and several nieces and nephews. Howard was a longtime employee of South Street Campus. Friends will be received at the Evans Funeral Home, 648 Hamilton Rd. (1 block east of Egerton) on Thursday, June 9, 2005, from 10: 30-11 a.m. Funeral Service will follow in the chapel at 11: 00 a.m. Interment in Woodland Cemetery. Online condolences can be expressed at www.evansfh.ca A tree will be planted as a living memorial to Howard.

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HOWARD o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2005-06-14 published
VANDERHOEK, Gerry Sr.
Peacefully at his home on Saturday June 11, 2005, Gerry VANDERHOEK Sr. in his 73rd year. Dear father of Bob, Debbie (Vince) MANCARI, Darlene (Don Rex) BRAITHWAITE, Diana (Rick) PITCHUCK, Denise (Steven) WARD and Gerry (Christine.) Dear grandfather of 12 grandchildren and 6 greatgrandchildren. Also survived by Shirley VANDERHOEK and Dad's loyalist friend "Cheers". Dear brother of Betty (Fred) HALLOWS of Ostrander. Predeceased by a brother Harry and a sister Corrie. Friends and family will be received at Saint Martins of Tours Church (corner of Cathcart and Duchess) London on Wednesday June 15, 2005 for a Memorial Mass at 12 p.m. with visitation 10 a.m., officiated by Father Fred HOWARD- SMITH. In lieu of flowers memorial donations may be made to the London Humane Society, 624 Clarke Road London, Ontario, N5V 3K5. Forest City Cremation Services. "May he soar with the angels"

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HOWARD o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2005-06-14 published
WILCOX, Barbara Ruth (née HOWARD)
Barbara Ruth of Yarmouth Twp. on Saturday, June 11th, 2005, at her late residence on her 80th year. Dearly loved wife of over 53 years of J. Douglas WILCOX and loved mother of Barry WILCOX and his wife Trish of Mississauga and Glenn WILCOX and his wife Linda of Birr. Dear sister Mary MATHESON of Concord, Massachusetts. Loved grandmother of Andrew, Sean, Meghan, Wesley and Mark. Sadly missed by a number of nieces and nephews. Barbara was born in Toronto on March 25th, 1926, the daughter of the late William HOWARD and Winnifred C. (PEARSON.) She▼ was a graduate in Occupational Therapy from the University of Toronto. Barbara was a member of the Knox Presbyterian Church and sang in the choir. Resting at Williams Funeral Home, 45 Elgin Street, Saint Thomas, until Wednesday morning and then to Knox Presbyterian Church where funeral service will be held at 11: 00 a.m. Visitation on Tuesday from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. at the funeral home. Remembrances may be made to the Parkinsons Foundation.

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HOWARD o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2005-07-05 published
HOWE, Thomas G.
Thomas G. HOWE passed away suddenly on Sunday, July 3, 2005 at University Hospital in his 82nd year. Survived by his loving wife Helen▲▼ (HOWARD.) Beloved▼ father of Richard (wife Christina) and David (wife Jill.) Loved brother of Alma VAN NOTEN of London and Carolyn MEDLAND of Victoria, British Columbia. Grandfather of Christopher, Jaclyn and Rachel. A memorial service will be held at Forest Lawn Memorial Chapel, 1997 Dundas Street East (at Wavell), London on Thursday, July 7, 2005 at 11 a.m. Visitation one hour prior. In lieu of flowers, donations to the Canadian Cancer Society would be gratefully appreciated. Arrangements entrusted to McFarlane and Roberts Funeral Home 652-2020.

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HOWARD o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2005-07-11 published
ROBINSON, Donald
At Parkwood Hospital, on Friday, July 8th, 2005, Donald ROBINSON of London in his 84th year. Beloved husband of Marigold. Loving father of Allan ROBINSON of Ottawa, Wendy CUFF (Dan) of Wiarton, Ruth WILSON of Toronto, Ted ROBINSON (Janice LAVERGNE) of Grand Forks, British Columbia, John ROBINSON (Dawn-Marie) and Pat HENRY all of London. Cherished grandfather of many grandchildren and greatgrandchildren. He will be missed by his brothers and sisters, Joy HOWARD, "Jim" James ROBINSON, Doreen WEAKE and Tom ROBINSON. Predeceased by his sisters Dorothy REINHART, Marjorie CALZAVARA, Audrey ALLISON, and by his brother Lawrence ROBINSON. A memorial service will be held at the Westview Funeral Chapel, 709 Wonderland Road North, on Tuesday, July 12th, 2005 at 3: 00 p.m. Intement of ashes will take place at Chesley Cemetery at a later date. Those wishing to make a donation in memory of Donald are asked to consider the Alzheimer's Society.

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HOWARD o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2005-07-12 published
HOWARD, Harold▼
July 12, 2004
Beyond Integrity
At his place of residence, the Bobier Villa, with medical care and family nearby Harold HOWARD passed away Twelve July 04. His passing initiated an ongoing period of sorrow. It also marked the end of a life that was lived as much for others as for himself.
Perhaps starting as an obedient little boy it developed his way of life. That way of life showed clearly through as he spent years in the navy, spent years at his volunteering and municipal duties in their village and in most directions of his life. Warm relationship with his caring and attentive family would be his reward. Any overshadowing of that characteristic would be the dedicated care given him by his loving wife Winn during his declining years and through his death. Hers was an unflagging and compassionate performance. And now she walks alone. But in walking alone it will be on their chosen path, a path with spiri tual guidel ines, a path that bears the footprints of their children, a path drawn with a moral compass, a path for all their years. So in remembering we offer our grateful thanks, for we too number among for whom that life was lived.
Closed is the door to that room in our hearts,
The one that was Harold's to share
Not just because he is gone from us now
But because of the memories in there,
And only should gray skies beset us
With a sorrow too heavy to bear,
Will we open the door to that room in our hearts,
For some of those memories we share.
Frank and Ruth HUMPHREY and family in Stratford.

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HOWARD o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2005-09-19 published
HOWARD, Geraldine (STAINTON)
In loving memory of a dear wife, mother and (great) grandmother, Geraldine (STAINTON,) who passed away 12 years ago September 19, 1993. "In the sweet by and by, we shall meet on that beautiful shore". Hebrews 13: 14 - Husband, Mel and family.

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HOWARD o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2005-09-23 published
TRAHER, Anne Marie
Quietly in prayerful resignation on Wednesday, September 21, 2005 at London Health Sciences Centre, Victoria Campus. Predeceased by her parents Rose (1998) and Joe (2001) TRAHER. Cherished sister of Mary Catherine (Kevin) FLYNN. Devoted and very caring aunt to Lisa FLYNN, Kerry (Dan) HOWARD, Shannon FLYNN (1969), Kristen (Ted) GEORGE, Kevin (Mika) FLYNN, Pat (Claire) FLYNN. Extremely proud of and delighted to be a great aunt to Broghan, Hannah and Olivia HOWARD, Sammy and Quintin GEORGE, Seiko and Benjamin FLYNN, Laura and Priya FLYNN. Very close Friends and many acquaintances will also miss her generous spirit, dedicated thoughtfulness and direct approach to life's matters. Anne Marie enjoyed, very much, sharing the 'fruits' of her talents and labour i.e. knitting, sewing, etc., and her time spent as a volunteer with Orchestra London also brought her great pleasure. Visitors will be received at John T. Donohue Funeral Home, 362 Waterloo Street at King Street, on Sunday from 2-4 and 7-9 o'clock. Funeral Mass will be celebrated at St. Michael's Church, 515 Cheapside Street, on Monday morning, September 26, 2005, at 10 o'clock. Interment in St. Peter's Cemetery. Prayers Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock. Those wishing to make a donation in memory of Anne Marie are asked to consider the London Regional Cancer Centre or a charity of your choice.

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HOWARD o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2005-10-15 published
HESSELWOOD, Reginald Franklin
Peacefully, surrounded by his family, on Friday, October 14, 2005, Mr. Reginald Franklin HESSELWOOD of Blyth in his 73rd year. Beloved husband of Betty (MacDONALD) HESSELWOOD. Loving father of Gary HESSELWOOD of Toronto, Wendy and Brian MURRAY of Walton, Lori and Steve HOWARD of Lucknow and Brad and Cheryl HESSELWOOD of Clinton. Sadly missed by his grandchildren, Jason and Tricia, Kara and Kate, Nikki and Karly, and Claire, and by two great grandchildren Lukas and Kaylen. Also survived by one sister Lois GOVIER of Seaforth, and one brother Art HOGGART. Predeceased by his parents John and Vera HESSELWOOD and by his brother Lorne HOGGART. Friends will be received at the Blyth Visitation Centre of the Falconer Funeral Homes, 407 Queen Street, Blyth, on Sunday from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. Funeral service will be held at Blyth United Church on Monday, October 17, 2005 at 2 p.m. Interment Blyth Union Cemetery. As expressions of sympathy, memorial donations to the Blyth United Church or the charity of one's choice would be greatly appreciated.

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HOWARD o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2005-10-31 published
HOWARD, Catherine Ruth Lowes
In loving memory of Catherine Ruth Lowes HOWARD who passed away October 31, 1999. Secret thoughts, a silent tear Always wishing you were here. No need for words except to say, We feel you with us every day. Missing you - Stuart, Lois, Tom and family.

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HOWARD o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2005-11-10 published
HOWARD, Myna Beatrice (BRYAN)
At Listowel Memorial Hospital on Tuesday, November 8, 2005, Mrs. Myna Beatrice (BRYAN) HOWARD of Listowel, in her 87th year. Beloved wife of the late John HOWARD. Dear mother of Bryan and Kathryn HOWARD of Mississauga, Warren HOWARD of Toronto and Randall HOWARD and Judy McMULLAN of Elora. Grandmother of Jonathan, Jeffrey, Justin, Kendra, Sean, and Devin. Also survived by her sister Phyllis FISCHER of Cambridge. Predeceased by her brothers Russell and Lorne BRYANS and her sister Marguerite STRETTON. Visitation will be held at the Robert Trench Funeral Home, Listowel, on Thursday, 2: 00-4:00 and 7:00-9:00 p.m. Funeral service will be held at Trinity United Church, Listowel on Friday, November 11th at 2 p.m. Interment in Fairview Cemetery, Listowel. Memorial donations to Listowel Memorial Hospital Foundation or Trinity United Church, Listowel would be appreciated. Online condolences may be left at www.roberttrenchfuneralhome. com.

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HOWARD o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2005-11-17 published
HOWARD, David
In loving memory of David who passed away November 17th, 2001. Life does go on, And everyday the memories. Always remembered by your family.

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HOWARD o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2005-11-20 published
KIPP, Ivy▼ (BROOME)
Peacefully at her home November 19th, 2005, Mrs. Ivy KIPP (BROOME,) of London, in her 94th year. Ivy was born in England and emigrated to Canada as an infant in 1912. She has also been a member of Forest City Baptist Church. Beloved wife of the late Charles KIPP. Special aunt to Bill BROOME (Mary), Dorothy TUROW and June FROHLICH. Dear sister-in-law to Reverend Fred HOWARD. Ivy will be missed by several nieces and nephews and great nieces and nephews. Predeceased by brothers Chris, Bert and Bill and sisters Margaret, Nellie and Eva. Visitation will be in the Lloyd R. Needham Funeral Chapel (520 Dundas St.) on Monday, November 21, 2005 from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. where the funeral service will be conducted on Tuesday, November 22, 2005 at 2 p.m. under the auspices of Pastor Gordon LEGROW. Interment to follow at Mount Pleasant Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, donations to the Canadian Cancer Society would be greatly appreciated.

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HOWARD o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2005-11-30 published
HASKETT, Hilda (née HOWARD)
Passed away peacefully on Monday November 28, 2005 at the Stratford General Hospital. Hilda HASKETT of Innerkip in her 89th year. Beloved wife of Jack HASKETT whom she married February 23, 1940. Loving mother of Alvin and wife Margaret and Arnold and wife Nancy all of R.R.#1 Bright. She will be sadly missed by her five grandchildren Greg and Jodi HASKETT, Heather HASKETT, Will and Stephanie HASKETT, Brandon HASKETT amd Spencer HASKETT and by great grandchildren Sierra, Sydney and Christian HASKETT. She is survived by one sister Gladys HEWITT of Mount Elgin. Predeceased by her parents Robert HOWARD (1938) and Edith BOXALL (1953,) brothers Roy, Stanley, Gordon, and Cecil HOWARD, sisters Edythe BAUMAN/BOWMAN, Irene HUGHES, Myrtle SIMS and Helen MEATHERALL. Relatives and Friends may call at the Glendinning Funeral Home, 40 William Street, Plattsville on Wednesday from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. Funeral service will be conducted at the Chesterfield United Church Thursday December 1, 2005 at 11: 00 a.m. Lay Pastoral Minister-in-Training Maggie PLANT officiating. Interment in the Harris Street Cemetery, Ingersoll. In lieu of flowers, donations to the Chesterfield United Church (cheques accepted) would be appreciated by the family.

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HOWARD o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2005-12-10 published
KIPP, Ivy▲ (BROOME)
We wish to extend our sincere thanks to everyone who supported us on the recent loss of our dear aunt, Ivy. A special thanks to Reverend LEGROW for his caring and compassion and in conducting the funeral service. Thanks also to Reverend Fred HOWARD and Rev. Don HOWARD, who assisted him. Our sincere thanks to the pallbearers and the congregation of Forest City Baptist Church, who gave great support, and also for the lovely luncheon the ladies provided in the church hall. We also wish to thank Needham Funeral Home for their professional services. The Broome Family.

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HOWARD o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2005-12-13 published
HEWITT, " Randy" Randall Arthur
At the Woodstock General Hospital on Sunday December 11, 2005, "Randy" Randall Arthur HEWITT in his 54th year. Beloved husband of Darby L. HEWITT (née POLZIN) for over 29 years. Dear father of Brandy HEWITT (Chris THOMAS,) Whitney HEWITT all of Toronto and Jay HEWITT of Woodstock. Loved son of Gladys H. HEWITT (nee HOWARD) of Mt. Elgin and the late "Art" Arthur HEWITT (1981,) brother of Larry of Tillsonburg, Don and his wife Shelba of Fenwick, Marie FLEMING/FLEMMING and her husband Ron SACKRIDER of Mt. Elgin, son-in-law of Al and Eileen POLZIN of Woodstock, brother-in-law of Cheryl LINDSAY of Woodstock and is also survived by his many nieces and nephews. Predeceased by his daughter Alexis Thompson HEWITT (1978). Randy was an avid baseball player with the Ontario Fastball League playing with several teams in Woodstock and the surrounding area and played hockey in Woodstock and area for many years. Friends may call at the R.D. Longworth Funeral Home, 845 Devonshire Ave., Woodstock, 539-0004 on Thursday December 15, 2005 from 7 to 9 p.m. where the complete memorial service will be held in the chapel on Friday at 11: 00 a.m. with Reverend John LINDSAY officiating. Cremation has taken place. Contributions to the Canadian Cancer Society or the Children's Wish Foundation would be appreciated. On-line condolences at www.longworthfuneralhome.com

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HOWARD o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2005-12-21 published
HOWARD, Leslie
2 years ago today I sadly started missing my special friend and always will. Missed by me and Sam

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HOWARD o@ca.on.middlesex_county.strathroy.age_dispatch 2005-01-11 published
HEALY, Evelyn▲ (formerly SMITH, née BENSTEAD)
At Strathmere Lodge, Strathroy, on Thursday, January 6, 2005, Evelyn (BENSTEAD/ SMITH) HEALY of Strathroy, in her 92nd year. Beloved wife of the late Robert SMITH (1964) and Thomas HEALY (2000.) Dear mother of Donald SMITH and his wife Jean▲ of Strathroy. Loving▲ grandmother of Mike SMITH and his wife Bernice▲ of Strathroy. Great-grandmother of Kyle and Ryan. Predeceased by 2 sisters, Margaret LAW and Florence HOWARD. Also▲ survived by several nieces and nephews. Visitation was at Denning Bros. Funeral Home, on Sunday, January 9 from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. and Monday, from 12 noon until time of memorial service at 1 p.m. with Reverend Father Willi KAMMERER officiating. A Legion Ladies Auxiliary service, under direction of Legion Br. 116 Strathroy, was held in the funeral home Sunday at 6: 30 p.m. Cremation with interment in Strathroy Cemetery. Donations to the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart and Stroke Foundation, or Strathroy Middlesex General Hospital Foundation would be appreciated by the family. A tree will be planted as a living memorial to Evelyn.

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HOWARD o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2005-02-01 published
Richard OUTRAM, Poet 1930-2005
Writer who was a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation stagehand by day viewed the world in a grain of sand. A private and intensely emotional man, his devotion to his art was nourished by a lifelong love of his wife, writes Sandra MARTIN
By Sandra MARTIN, Tuesday, February 1, 2005 - Page S7
On the coldest night of the winter, poet, stagehand and widower Richard OUTRAM, having consumed a quantity of pills and drink, sat on the enclosed side porch of his house in Port Hope, Ontario, and, in a grand Blakean gesture, contemplated the universe and quietly allowed himself to die.
Everything that made his life joyful emanated from his love for his wife and collaborator, the artist Barbara HOWARD. She▲▼ died in 2002 during an operation to fix a broken hip. "Devotion is not too strong a word," said writer Barry CALLAGHAN. " The two of them fed each other beautifully and with enormous intensity. They were the closing of the couplet. So, what are you going to do with a one-line couplet? He really was his work and his love for her."
Mr. OUTRAM was not the only poet to have a day job that required entirely different skills from his literary vocation. The poet Raymond SOUSTER, for example, spent his working life at the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce. It was Mr. OUTRAM's conscious decision to spend his days at physical labour so his mind would be free in the evenings to devote to his poetry. But unlike other working poets, such as Mr. SOUSTER, Mr. OUTRAM won very little popular or critical acclaim.
Although he published steadily for more than 40 years, he won only one major prize -- the City of Toronto Book Award in 1999 for his volume Benedict Abroad. There is only one book-length critical study of his work, Peter Sanger's "Her kindled shadow..." An Introduction to the Work of Richard OUTRAM, which was published in limited numbers by The Antigonish Review in 2001.
Instead of a popular audience, he had a series of passionate champions, such as Mr. Sanger, a retired academic. "Richard has both a physical and a metaphysical orientation that isn't compromised at either level," explained Mr. Sanger. "When Richard writes well there is absolutely no distinction between those two levels." Although Mr. Sanger agrees some poems are better than others, he says what makes Mr. OUTRAM's work stand out is its "magnificence coherence." Every poem is ultimately linked to the rest of his body of work.
Richard Daley OUTRAM was born in Oshawa, Ontario, the son of Mary Muriel DALEY, a teacher, and Alfred Allan OUTRAM, an engineer who served in the artillery in The First World War and was wounded at Ypres in Belgium. His mother's father was a Methodist minister who was deeply involved in the negotiations to form the United Church of Canada in 1925. His paternal grandfather ran the hardware store in Port Hope, the town east of Oshawa where Mr. OUTRAM and his wife moved in 2000.
Shortly after young Richard's birth, his parents moved to the Leaside area of Toronto. As a teenager, Mr. OUTRAM was already interested in music and botany, two areas that remained central to his poetry for the rest of his life. Graduating from Leaside Secondary School in 1949, he went that autumn to Victorian College at the University of Toronto to begin an honours degree in English and Philosophy. There he encountered two professors, philosopher Emil FACKENHEIM and literary critic Northrop FRYE, both of whom had a huge impact on the way he thought about the world. He also enlisted as an officer cadet in the reserve system of the Royal Canadian Navy, spending the summers of 1950 and 1951 aboard frigates in the Bay of Fundy and at H. M. C. S. Stadacona in Halifax.
After he graduated from the University of Toronto in 1953, he worked for a year at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in Toronto as a stagehand and then moved to England where he found a job in the same capacity for the British Broadcasting Corporation. It was in London that he first began to write poetry and where, in 1954, he met visual artist Barbara HOWARD. From that meeting their lives were entwined until her death in 2002.
"You can't speak of them apart," said Louise DENNYS, executive vice-president of Random House Canada. "They were so completely connected and so beloved of each other, and that is what proved in the end to be impossible for him to live without."
Four years older than Mr. OUTRAM, Ms. HOWARD was born in Toronto in 1926, began drawing as a child, graduated with honours and a silver medal from the Ontario College of Art in 1951 and then taught school to earn enough money to continue her studies in the major art centres of Europe.
They returned to Canada in 1956 and Mr. OUTRAM went back to working as a stage hand and then crew leader at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, a job he would hold until he retired at 60 in June, 1990. The late typographical designer Allan FLEMING/FLEMMING (of the Canadian National logo among other work) was the best man at their wedding in April, 1957, and also the designer and publisher of Mr. OUTRAM's first collection, Eight Poems, a chapbook with a print run of 190 copies that appeared in 1959 under the Tortoise Press imprint.
The next year, Mr. OUTRAM and Ms. HOWARD founded The Gauntlet Press, producing an elegant series of hand-printed volumes of Mr. OUTRAM's poetry over the years decorated with Ms. HOWARD's beautifully coloured wood engravings.
Early in their marriage, the OUTRAMs had a daughter who lived for only a day. His grief is encased in several poems including Sarah, which appeared in his first major collection, Exsultate, Jubilate (1966,) an elegant volume designed by Mr. FLEMING/FLEMMING and published by Macmillan Co. of Canada.
Toronto writer Barry CALLAGHAN, who was one of the hosts on Weekend, a local Canadian Broadcasting Corporation television show, met Mr. OUTRAM on the set in the late 1960s. "I became aware of this intense man standing beside the camera, dressed like a guy working on the floor but staring at me like a hawk," Mr. CALLAGHAN said in a telephone conversation. After the two men struck up a conversation, "I discovered this very isolated and intensely intellectual man who was interested in poetry and ideas."
In the middle 1970s, Mr. OUTRAM took the manuscript for Turns and Other Poems to the now defunct Clarke Irwin publishing house. Two young editors, Susan KEENE and Louise DENNYS pushed the collection, but Clarke Irwin was already in its demise and was doing very little original publishing.
"He had a shining, sharp, sense of the natural world and he was able to give it a sense of form, a sense of greatness larger than and one moment," said Ms. DENNYS. "He saw the world in a grain of sand and he did that in a way that was very beautiful and very particular to his work and to him."
Ms. DENNYS wanted to find a way to publish the book and Mr. OUTRAM suggested she meet his friend bookseller Hugh ANSON- CARTWRIGHT. Bookseller and poet had met years before, the way such people usually do, over a volume of Mr. OUTRAM's poetry that Mr. ANSON- CARTWRIGHT was trying to sell in his bookstore. Then it turned out that they were neighbours and a lifelong Friendship ensured.
The Christmas of 1974, Ms. DENNYS took the manuscript on a visit home to her parents in England and cold-visited the Hogarth Press, a division of Chatto and Windus. She met poetry editor D. J. Enright, who eventually offered to publish Mr. OUTRAM's poems. She came back to Canada and was able to tell Mr. ANSON- CARTWRIGHT that if he wanted to form a little publishing company, here was a British partner. That is how Turns and Other Poems was published by Chatto and Windus with the Hogarth Press in London in 1975 and by Anson-Cartwright Editions in Toronto the following year. "That moment, when I elided happily in his life back then, was a moment of great pride for Hugh and for me too," she said. "It was the first time that I was involved directly in a book's publication."
Mr. ANSON- CARTWRIGHT published another volume of OUTRAM poems, The Promise of Light in 1979 and Mr. Callaghan's Exile Editions did a Selected Poems in 1984. "He had a fantastic sense of form and a musical ear for what he was doing that was almost perfect, but often his poems were the prisoner of his skill," said Mr. CALLAGHAN, adding that "you can't be first rate every time out and there are times when the form traps what he is trying to do."
Shortly after writer Alberto MANGUEL arrived in Canada in 1983, he met Mr. OUTRAM. "I was awed at first by the strange combination of intelligence and devastating humour," said Mr. MANGUEL. " For all the seriousness of his poetry, he was a very funny man."
After reading Mr. OUTRAM's poetry, Mr. MANGUEL says he was surprised, as he has been so many times in Canada, that "a poet of Richard's magnitude" was not celebrated around the world. "Richard's poems were very serious and complex, and in many cases they required a lot of time and patience from readers," said Mr. MANGUEL. " You had to disentangle the references and look up the words, but it was always worthwhile. When you discovered what he meant, the poem built to a different level."
The next person to publish Mr. OUTRAM was Tim INKSTER of The Porcupine's Quill, who released Man in Love (1985), Hiram and Jenny (1989) Mogul Recollected (1993) and Dove Legend (2001). "It is incredibly elegant and sophisticated and passionate and demanding and even, to a lot of people, off-putting, because verbally it is immensely clever and full of allusions and references," said writer and poetry editor John METCALF. "It is probably some of the most rewarding stuff that has been written in Canada."
Writing poetry, even life itself, lost its purpose for Mr. OUTRAM after his wife died. "Richard was always sending me poems that he loved by other people," said Mr. MANGUEL, mentioning the poem Winter Remembered by John Crowe Ransom about an "... Absence, in the heart, /" that was too great to bear and how the only way to soothe it was to "...walk forth in the frozen air/."
"He must have been thinking of that poem," concluded Mr. MANGUEL sadly.
Funambulist by Richard OUTRAM, 1975
I work on a slender strand
Slung between two poles
Braced fifteen feet apart.
My patient father coached me
From childhood to fall unhurt,
Then set me again and again
On a crude slack-rope he rigged
Out back of our caravan,
Raising the rope by inches:
Now, I'm the only acrobat
In the world to include in his act,
As finale, a one-hand-stand
Thirty feet from the ground
With no net. I married
A delicate, lithe girl
From another circus family.
We are very happy. She stands
On the circular platform top
Of one pole, to steady me
As I reach the steep, last,
Incredibly difficult slope
Near the pole: when I turn about
To retrace my steps, no matter
How quickly I spin, she is there
At the top of the opposite pole,
Waiting, her arms outstretched.
From Turns and Other Poems, published by ANSON- CARTWRIGHT Editions.
Richard Daley OUTRAM was born in Oshawa, Ontario on April 9, 1930. He died of willful hypothermia in Port Hope, Ontario, on Friday, January 21, 2005. He was 74. He was predeceased by his wife Barbara. A celebration of their lives is being planned for a later date.

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HOWARD o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2005-04-23 published
FLOYD, Catherine Hester (née HANCOCK)
84, Chester, died peacefully April 21, 2005 at home, with family by her side. Born in Caledon, Ontario, daughter of the late Frederick and Ethel (STEWARD/STEWART/STUART) HANCOCK. Catherine, always an interesting and talented person, was well appreciated and loved by all who knew her. She had the ability to pen a poem for any occasion. Catherine is survived by her son, Brian, Chester; daughters, Maureen (Albert) MARTINEZ, Denver, Colorado, Deirdre (John SKUGGEDAL), Halifax, and grand_son Jason COLVILLE, Yarmouth; sister, Isabel HAYWARD, Mount Forest, Ontario. She was predeceased by her husband Jack HOWARD, half-sisters, Hester, Rose, Emma Jane, Daisy, Mary, Lucy and Margaret, half-brothers, Walter and Harold, brother Stewart in infancy. At her request there will be no visitation. Memorial service 2 o'clock, Wednesday, April 27, 2005 at St. Stephen's Anglican Church, Chester, with Father Jim McCorriston officiating. Reception to follow at her residence. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to Epilepsy Association of Nova Scotia. Arrangements entrusted to Davis Funeral Home, Chester, Nova Scotia (902) 275-3811. The family would like to express their sincere thanks to Dr. Karen Cox, Lunenburg County home care workers and Lunenburg County Victorian Order of Nurses staff for their wonderful care and attention to Catherine.

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HOWARD o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2005-05-30 published
BLAKELY, William▼ Thomas▼ " Tom▼" (1913-2005)
Passed away peacefully on Wednesday, May 25th, 2005 in the Sunnybrook Hospital Veterans Residence.
Born and educated in Hamilton, Ontario, Tom entered the newspaper publishing business.
He enlisted in the Royal Canadian Navy in World War 2 and as Lt. BLAKELY saw action serving on corvettes escorting convoys across the North Atlantic to Britain. Post-war he authored a book describing life in one such ship during those dark and dangerous days - H.M.C.S. Coburg.
In 1946 he joined one of Canada's foremost advertising agencies which led to a lifelong career in advertising and marketing which brought numerous awards and citations. He was hugely respected by his peers and in 1970 was appointed President of the Association of Canadian Advertisers, the authoritative body for the industry in Canada. He led the organization for 11 years serving on many industry boards. Awarded the Association's Gold Medal Award in 1982 "For creative contributions towards making advertising in Canada more ethical in its practices, more respected by those it served, and better understood by even its critics."
On his retirement from advertising Tom launched a new career as a journalist and for 18 years wrote a popular column on retirement carried by many daily newspapers in Canada and the U.S.A. He also authored many articles on a diverse range of subject matter.
He is survived by his wife Patricia▼ BLAKELY (née LEADER,) son Thomas▼ Patrick,▼ sister Jean McCOY, niece Barbara HOWARD and nephews Harry and Paul McCOY, all of Hamilton. His brother Maurice predeceased him.
There will be a private entombment of cremated remains at the Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Cremation Gardens, on Tuesday, May 31, 2005 at 11 a.m. In memory of Tom, donations can be made to the Veteran's Memorial Fund, Room H 332, Sunnybrook and Women's Foundation, 2075 Bayview Avenue, Toronto, Ontario M4N 3M5.

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HOWARD o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2005-06-11 published
HOWARD, Charles John,▲▼ C.A. (May 22, 1942-June 10, 2005)
Charlie passed away June 10, with his characteristic grace, after a long and courageous battle with cancer. He died peacefully at home in Oakville surrounded by his family. He is survived by his loving wife and partner of 41 years, Diana (BAILLIE) his daughters and sons-in-law Baillie and Stephen SISOKIN; Susan and Jamie BONDEN; Jennifer and Chris WILSON; his son, Douglas grandchildren Jonathan, Benjamin, Madeline, Oliver, Charlotte, Katie and Emma; and his sister and brother-in-law, Barbara and Andrew SCACE and their sons Andrew and wife , Jennifer ILLSLEY) and Cameron. Charlie was predeceased by his parents, Douglas Steven HOWARD, Q.C. of Sherbrooke, Quebec, and Maurie (TURNER) HOWARD of Montreal. Charlie was educated at Bishops College School, Trinity College School and The University of Western Ontario (B.A.). He earned his C.A. designation in 1970 and was a member of the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants. He pursued a long and successful career in the investment industry with C.J. Hodgson and Co. Ltd., F.H. Deacon and Co., Ltd., and Nesbitt Thomson. He founded Howard, Barclay and Associates Ltd. in 1994 and served as its president and Chief Executive Officer. He was president of Ausnoram Holdings Limited and served as a director on many boards, including Bowater Incorporated, Anderson Exploration Ltd., Unicorp Energy Ltd. and Petromet Resources Limited. He was a past chairman of the Investment Dealers Association of Canada and a past chair of the Young Presidents' Organization, Upper Canada Chapter. He had served as a director of a number of organizations, including the Hugh MacMillan Rehabilitation Centre, Women's College Hospital Foundation and the Oakville Golf Club. He was a member of the Toronto Golf Club, Brays Island Plantation Golf Club, Secession Golf Club, South Carolina, and The Ford Plantation, Georgia. Charlie loved to spend time with his family and Friends golfing, fishing and hunting. He and his wife, Diana, and their many retrievers were active and successful competitors in field trials across Canada and the U.S. Charlie lived life to the fullest every day and was an inspiration to his family and Friends. His irrepressible sense of humour, his great story telling and wonderful laugh will last forever in the memories of his family, his many Friends and the extended Baillie family. Special thanks to the many caring and talented healthcare professionals who supported Charlie and his family over the past year - Dr. Ron Hinder and staff at the Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida; the oncology staff at the Credit Valley Hospital, Mississauga, and Dr. Helen PYLE, Dr. Nora CURRAN- BLANEY and the Halton Community Care Access Centre, who supported us at home with nursing care and supplies. Special thanks to Dr. Brad Bowyer of Lagrange, Georgia; fellow field trialer and wonderful friend, who has seen us through every day of the past 16 months, and who has provided superb professional advice, a sympathetic ear, and an invaluable sounding board. A service to celebrate Charlie's life will be held at St. Jude's Anglican Church, 160 William Street, Oakville, Ontario L6J 1C5 on Tuesday, June 14, 2005 at 2: 00 p.m. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to The Credit Valley Hospital Foundation Cancer Centre, 2200 Eglinton Avenue West, Mississauga, Ontario L5M 2N1 or online donations at www.cvh.on.ca, or the Beaufort Memorial Hospital, 955 Ribaut Road, Beaufort South Carolina 29902, or online at www.bmhsc.org.

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HOWARD o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2005-06-17 published
HOWARD, William Arnold, C.M., C.M.M., C.D., Q.C. (1918-2005)
Bill HOWARD passed away at the Colonel Belcher on Wednesday, June 15, 2005 at the age of 86 years. Bill was born and raised in Calgary, attended Western Canada High School and received his B.A. (1940) and law degree (1941) from the University of Alberta. After serving overseas with the 31st Alberta Reconnaissance Regiment, Royal Canadian Armoured Corps, he co-founded the law firm of Cairns and Howard which later became Howard Mackie. He was a president of the Calgary Bar Association and a Founder of the Faculty of Law at the University of Calgary. He was well known for his attention to detail, passion for the law and military, and for his ability to function without sleep. His Directorships included Nova, Cana, Trilogy, Bow Valley Industries, Medis Western and SNC Group. He was Chairman of the Calgary Police Commission as well as National Governor of the Canadian Corps of Commissionaires. As an avid supporter of Canada's Armed Forces, Bill HOWARD earned a reputation for speaking up for the rank and file. He was a retired Major General (Chief of Reserves) of the Canadian Forces, Founding Governor and Colonel Commandant of the Royal Canadian Army Cadets, Colonel Commandant and President of the Royal Canadian Armoured Corps Association and perhaps most proudly, Honorary Colonel of the King's Own Calgary Regiment. He was Chairman of the Conference of Defence Associations, Chairman National Employers' Support Committee, President Winston Churchill Society, President Royal Alberta United Services Institute and Founder of the Calgary Military Museums Society. In 1994 he received the Vimy Award in recognition of his outstanding contributions to defence and security and preservation of democratic values. He was a Commander of the Order of Military Merit and a Member of the Order of Canada. Bill was a voracious reader with a penchant for cigars, port, Disney television shows, and raw onion sandwiches. He had unquestionable ethics and integrity, tremendous generosity, and a larger-than-life personality that will be remembered fondly by his family and colleagues. Bill is survived by his children, Mary HOWARD (Said NEMIRI), John HOWARD (Joanne HOWARD), and Barbara HOWARD (Mike GARDNER;) and five grandchildren, Zak NEMIRI, Katie and Mac HOWARD, and Ross and Stuart GARDNER. Bill was predeceased by his wife Margaret Elizabeth HOWARD (née HANNAH) in 2001; his son William George HOWARD in 1975; and his infant daughter Kathryn Elizabeth HOWARD in 1953. He was also predeceased by his brothers, Hal, Bert and Arthur HOWARD. Funeral Services▲ will be held at Bethany Chapel (3333 Richardson Way S.W.) on Monday, June 20, 2005 at 2: 00 p.m. with the Reverend Philip Costain, Presider. Forward condolences through www.mcinnisandholloway.com. Thanks to the staff at the Colonel Belcher and, in particular, to Marlene Collins who has been Bill's special advocate for many years. If Friends so desire, memorial tributes may be made directly to the Alzheimer Society of Calgary, #201, 222 - 58 Avenue S.W., Calgary, Alberta T2H 2S3 Telephone: (403) 290-0110 www.alzheimercalgary.com or to the Calgary Health Trust - Carewest: Colonel Belcher Hospital, 10101 Southport Road S.W., Calgary, Alberta T2W 3N2 Telephone: (403) 943-0615, www.calgaryhealthtrust.org. In living memory of William HOWARD, a tree will be planted at Fish Creek Provincial Park by McInnis and Holloway Funeral Homes Park Memorial Chapel, 5008 Elbow Drive S.W., Calgary, Alberta. Telephone: (403) 243-8200.

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HOWARD o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2005-06-27 published
Dianne Lee MARTIN
By Ingrid GADSDEN and Linda HOWARD, Monday, June 27, 2005, Page A14
Friend, lawyer, teacher, dog lover. Born March 19, 1945, in Regina, Saskatchewan. Died December 20, 2004, in Toronto, of a heart attack, aged 59.
Since her death, many have written about Dianne's extraordinary legal career, her dedication to the Innocence Project, a program she co-founded at York University, and her love of teaching law all of them outstanding achievements in what was a rich and satisfying life. There were, however, other facets of her life that made her memorable to many who had little familiarity with her professional life. To most of those folks, she was simply "Dianne - Magic and MacLeod's mom."
Magic and MacLeod are Dianne's beloved collies. Almost every morning for more than eight years, she walked them in the off-leash park at Toronto's Cherry Beach. Clad in gloves, boots, parkas and toques in winter, sandals and colourful drapey smocks in summer, Dianne was a familiar, welcoming sight. For the first few years she'd arrive as close to sunrise as possible, hiking through snowdrifts, mud puddles or knee-high grass to stand at the point and watch the sun rise over the Leslie Spit. It was like watching a painting come to life, she'd say.
Dianne never lacked for walking companions at Cherry Beach -- humans or dogs. She drew them to her through her strength of personality and the affectionate, generous spirit she exuded. Pockets jammed with plastic poop-bags and homemade, organic liver treats, she discovered the names of hundreds of dogs long before she knew their owners. For that alone, she earned our admiration, but as the years slipped by, we loved her for so much more. She attracted us, like bees to pollen.
Walking the dirt paths in all kinds of weather, she entertained us with eye-popping stories and opinions on everything from cross-examination techniques to butterfly migration and the science behind DNA. There wasn't a topic she couldn't talk about intelligently. Plot swings on The West Wing (her favourite television show), gardening, herbal remedies, Prairie politics, and the birth of the feminist movement -- Dianne shared her ideas and listened to ours. Conversations were always spirited, passionate and invigorating. Full of life and with a razor-sharp mind, she adored a good argument and a well-phrased retort. Topics segued effortlessly, one into another, often punctuated by rollicking bursts of laughter.
Cherry Beach was her special place, a gift of nature that she treasured. As the seasons changed, there was always something different to see, something new to talk about. Flocks of geese in a "V" formation, or a blustery northwest wind reminded Dianne of her Prairie days. Pale green buds on trees in spring, buttercups and daisies in summer, Monarch butterflies and masses of chicory blossoms and Saint John's Wort in fall -- all these were catalysts for discussions that went on for weeks and morphed into dozens of unrelated, equally fascinating topics. Dianne left us far too soon.
Today, Magic, Dianne's 13-year old tri-colour collie lives with Ingrid. MacLeod, her sable collie sleeps on the sofa at Linda Howard's home. We love and nurture them the same way Dianne did. We walk with them along the same paths we walked with Dianne, but these days the park seems quieter and a little emptier. Dianne had a powerful and unforgettable presence. That's why, in her honour, the Cherry Beach dog owners are donating funds to buy a permanent bench that will overlook the Leslie Spit at the entrance to the Eastern Gap. It was Dianne's favourite viewing point. We'll inscribe it with her name, a token of our affection for a remarkable, generous and inspiring friend who left us with heaps of enduring memories.
Linda and Ingrid are Dianne's Friends.

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HOWARD o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2005-08-03 published
ERB, John▼ Edwin▼ (13 September 1932-31 July, 2005)
Reverend Canon, Executive Director, Anglican Foundation
"We have lots of love, Friendship, family; we are blessed." These were some of John's last words, given through a wonderful smile, as his magnificent brain was being ravaged by the Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease. John was born in Kitchener, Ontario, to the late Irvin and Sally ERB (née MEYSCHEIN.) He will always be missed by his adored children Nicholas and Katie, his wife Didy▼ (née BRADISH) of 29 years, his loving sisters and brothers-in-law Cathie and John HOWARD, Hornby Island, British Columbia, and Margie and Bob CARR, Hamilton. 'John The Giant' was a special uncle to Stephen HOWARD and Rhonda SPENCE, Emily HOWARD and Alex LAVIGNE; Tom HOWARD and Landys KLYNE; Mary HOWARD, Stewart, Duncan, Will and Angus MURRAY; Sally HOWARD, Jim and Tommy HAMAGUCHI; Sarah CARR Tim CARR and Kate FEIGHTNER; Pat CARR, Nadine HEINTZ and Oliver CARR; and friend David HUGHES. His▼ many ERB and Meyschein family cousins love him and will miss him.
A passionate Canadian, John was a leader, Anglican Priest, teacher, traveller, camper and actor. Until his late teens John was a member of Trinity United, the ERB family's church, where he grew up in the Sunday School. He attended 'Young People's' both there and at Saint John the Evangelist Anglican Church. When he returned after working for a year in England, he joined the confirmation class at Saint John. Thus began his journey to become an Anglican priest. Graduating from the Kitchener Public School system and Wilfred Laurier University, he received his early theological training from Trinity College. He continued graduate studies in later years in Boston, Virginia and Jerusalem.
John's ministry began at St. Aidan's in 1965. In 1967 his strong identification with young people led him to a truly successful period as Director of Youth for the Church of England, both in Guyana, S.A. and then in the United Kingdom..
John returned to Canada with Didy in December 1973 and continued his ministries, first at Grace Church on the Hill, then at St. Luke's East York. In 1981 he became Rector of St. Michael and All Angels, where he embraced all, and many saw him as more than a pastor. He retired from St. Michael's in 1997. For the past seven years John's energetic leadership has been devoted to the Anglican Foundation of Canada, a work he loved. It enabled him to travel the length and breadth of this country, often visiting parishes in small communities, and as in all of his previous work, met wonderful dedicated people and established lasting Friendships and respect everywhere.
Throughout his working life John participated on many Boards and Committees focusing on community outreach, and has helped develop programs such as Out Of The Cold, Street Haven for battered women and Christie Gardens, and has worked to encourage interfaith ministry. His robust leadership has been recognized and honoured in many ways including the 125th Anniversary Medal of Canada Member and former Chaplain, Order of Saint John Ambulance, Serving Brother - Saint John of Jerusalem; Chaplaincy appointments to The Royal Society of Physicians and Surgeons, The Canadian Club of Toronto, The Benchers and The Order of St. Lazarus.
His personal passions are his family, his ministry, the theatre, ballet, opera, the family cottage at Oliphant and the Taize Retreat in France.
During his hospital confinement John and his family were enormously moved by those many Friends, acquaintances and co-workers old and new, who visited during his last days. Literally, they came by the hundreds from all spectrums of society to reminisce, renew Friendships and offer their love and support. Nothing could have made more visible the lasting impact John had on so many lives.
We will always be grateful for the kindness and incredible care given to John and his family by all the caregivers in the Palliative Care Unit at St. Michael's Hospital.
In lieu of flowers, please join John in his living legacy for theological education through his work at the Anglican Foundation of Canada (80 Hayden Street, Toronto, M4Y 3G2), or to the charity of your choice.
Visitation will be at the Morley Bedford Funeral Home, 159 Eglinton Ave. W., Toronto, between Yonge and Avenue Rd., 1: 00 to 4:00 p.m. and 7: 00 to 9:00 p.m. Friday, August 5th.
The funeral will be held at St. James Cathedral, King St. E. at Church Street, at 11: 00 a.m. Saturday, August 6th. A service preceding interment in Woodland Cemetery will be held in Kitchener at the Church of Saint John The Evangelist, Water Street, north of King Street, on Monday, August 8 at 11: 30 a.m. Reception at 10:30 a.m. in the Church Hall.

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HOWARD o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2005-09-05 published
Keith OLEKSIUK
By Ross HOWARD and Gary CWITCO, Monday, September▼ 5, 2005, Page A16
Labour advocate, socialist, canoeist. Born April 3, 1947, in Chippewa, Ontario Died Feb 22, in Vancouver, of cancer, aged Keith OLEKSIUK had never considered his own obituary when he was stricken with cancer. He rarely talked of his accomplishments and his still-expanding career as a labour lawyer. For the last two decades, his life had focused almost exclusively on labour relations and New Democratic Party politics, his family and his community in Vancouver. But he often recited the boyhood joys of jumping into Chippewa Creek, near Niagara Falls, where he was born.
Early on, Keith acquired a respect for sweat labour and harsh conditions working summers in Chippewa's Norton foundry. At York University he was an average arts student with an abnormal course load in political theory. Keith ignored the campus protests over co-ed dorms and marijuana laws, and quietly focused on bigger issues. After graduation Keith joined the front lines of social-justice advocacy, becoming director of the Toronto Unemployment Help Centre. His evenings were eclectic: exploring Toronto's left-wing political circles, and Toronto's music scene. Class-consciousness was linked to most things about Keith: it was Grossman's and the Silver Rail, not the O'Keefe Centre, for him. When he went further afield, it was to the North -- the Nahanni River -- for serious canoe-tripping.
The Marxist Institute attracted his intellectual curiosity but its lack of activism held no lasting appeal. It was storefront lawyers, getting dirty in the trenches, that propelled him to Osgoode Hall Law School in 1980. It was there he met his future wife, Cathy AGNEW. In 1983 he joined the United Steelworkers of America staff.
Keith enthusiastically tackled even arcane legal issues, but he personally found most satisfaction in the long evening meetings with steelworkers in towns such as Flin Flon, Snow Lake, Manitoba, and Trail, British Columbia The plain-speaking young lawyer, in blue jeans and leather jacket, could strategize with workers over beers or the labour leadership across Canada.
In 1990, the steelworkers union lured Keith to Vancouver. This new posting brought him before the British Columbia Labour Relations Board. Shortly thereafter, then-premier Michael Harcourt's New Democratic Party government tapped Keith as a vice-chair for the Labour Relations Board. Although he had not sought the post, Keith welcomed the chance to meld adjudication with a labour consciousness. He also championed efficiency and intellectual rigour in Labour Relations Board rulings. Premier Glen Clark made him chair in 1996. He resigned in 2000 without public comment.
Keith was not one to waste his time on tired ideas or tiresome individuals. As a lawyer and adjudicator, he deplored time-wasting litigators arguing flimsy cases. He acknowledged posturing as a form of protest but his patience was short.
Except on the playing field. When coaching his beloved Trout Lake soccer, baseball or hockey teams, Keith had unlimited patience for the weakest player. His encouragement for young teams, and his attention to the minutiae, was a restorative alternative to the cut-throat realm of British Columbia labour relations. His children Danny, Shane and Kayla, were his greatest pride and, with Cathy, the centre of his life.
By 2002 Keith was again before the British Columbia Labour Board, as staff lawyer for the British Columbia Government Employees Union fighting the new British Columbia Liberal government policies. He also resumed New Democratic Party political activism and mused about international work.
Life, although not necessarily the state of the world, pleased Keith, but nothing fulfilled him more than the accomplishments and love of his family.
His trademark ear-to-ear grin, his sparkling eyes and his good-hearted challenging nature will be sorely missed.
Ross was Keith's canoe partner; Gary his sometimes squash partner.

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HOWARD o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2005-09-07 published
Defeated by his demons, man met violent end on a Moss Park bench
By Anthony REINHART, Wednesday, September 7, 2005, Page A1
Last Tuesday night, Paul CROUTCH laid down his life, or what little was left of it, safe in the belief that he could handle any threats.
He bedded down on his usual bench in Toronto's Moss Park, which, to his mind, was a damn sight safer than the shelters, with their drunken bullies and bedbugs, their tuberculosis, their thieves.
When the former British Columbia resident wound up dead the next day, beaten almost beyond recognition on a rough and desperate patch of the city's downtown, few would have expected police to find $300 in his pocket, right there where he'd put it.
Fewer still would have guessed he had been a newspaper publisher, minor hockey coach, homeowner and the father of a scientist before his demons defeated him.
And no one who was thinking straight would have anticipated where the finger would point: at three part-time reserve soldiers from the armoury next door, three young men trained to lay down their own lives to save others.
As often as death walks the tired streets around the park, "you wouldn't expect people that are charged with our protection to take this kind of action," said Don HARRIS, who runs the Good Neighbours' Club, a men's drop-in centre where Mr. CROUTCH, 59, visited daily.
For all its optimism, the centre's name suggested only irony yesterday, given what police allege to have happened after three members of the Queen's Own Rifles left the Moss Park Armoury and visited the park next door.
There, police say, a woman saw three men beating a homeless man, and they turned on her when she tried to intervene.
There,▼ at 4: 40 a.m., officers found an unconscious Mr. CROUTCH, suffering what the coroner would call "blunt impact head trauma... consistent with being punched, kicked or stomped."
And there, they pursued leads, along with the National Investigation Services of the Canadian Forces, that resulted in Jeffery HALL, 21, Mountaz IBRAHIM, 23, and Brian DEGANIS, 21, being charged with second-degree murder and assault causing bodily harm.
In due course, a court will answer the questions. Yesterday, those closest to Mr. CROUTCH could only wait, wonder and remember.
"Paul wasn't always a crazy homeless person," said Marilyn HOWARD, his former wife of 25 years, from Dawson Creek. "He was incredibly brilliant, and that was probably a lot of his difficulty."
Difficulty quickly followed Mr. CROUTCH's birth, in Toronto, on November 6, 1945. He was placed in a foster home with a family called CROUTCH, but they never adopted him.
At 12, he renamed himself Paul Richard Franklin CROUTCH, taking his first three names from his favourite hockey players.
When the young couple met in 1966, Mr. CROUTCH worked for aircraft maker McDonnell Douglas, and after they married, he started his own fabricating business.
"His mental illness was starting even then," Ms. HOWARD said. "His big problem was, he was always right," and too often saw the rest of the world as wrong.
The couple moved to Vancouver in 1973, then north to Dawson Creek two years later, where Mr. CROUTCH worked as a travelling auto-parts salesman for Ford. Twice a month, even in winter, his work took him deep into the Yukon via the Alaska Highway, a desolate but essential lifeline for northerners.
"He did lots of favours for people on the highway," Ms. HOWARD said, recalling how her husband would pick up a half-dozen lobsters on sale at Safeway, or a side of beef from a farmer, and deliver them to far-flung Friends along his route.
Mr. CROUTCH left the road after their daughter, Shannon, was born in 1977. He joined the Peace River Block News as advertising manager, but when its owners cut salaries, he left. With his wife and some Friends, he started a weekly, The Mirror, in 1980, and focused his coverage exclusively on good news.
The▼ paper prospered, but Mr. CROUTCH's mental illness became ever more evident, both at home and in the paranoid tone of his editorials.
"The worse it got, the less he realized how much help he needed," said Ms. HOWARD.
And he would go on refusing help until the day before his death.
The▼ couple divorced in 1993, and soon after, Mr. CROUTCH sold The Mirror and moved to Grande Prairie, Alberta.
"I got reports of him just sitting in the mall [in Grande Prairie], looking like a zombie," Ms. HOWARD said.
She lost track of him from there, but in the late 1990s, as his daughter was earning her master's degree in plant science, Mr. CROUTCH made his way back to Toronto.
When he walked through the stainless steel doors of the Good Neighbours' Club in 1999, he filled out a form to become a member. In the box marked "next of kin," he wrote "none wished."
From then on, he was a fixture, albeit a quiet one, at the drop-in centre, where he showered, did his laundry and sent faxes to the social agencies that helped him.
"He was really smart, and he really felt he'd been wronged," said Gary McCRIMMON, a worker at the centre, referring to Mr. CROUTCH's phantom fears of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the government, whoever. "I think it consumed him and it was a large part of his downfall."
As evening fell last Tuesday, Mr. CROUTCH turned aside a doctor's concerns with his usual phrase: "I'll be dead in a couple days." He also refused, as usual, to sleep in a homeless shelter.
"I gave him two bottles of water and he set off for the park," Mr. McCRIMMON said.
When a detective called the centre on Wednesday morning, Mr. McCRIMMON answered. When told of Mr. CROUTCH's death, and of the bruising on his face, his first thought was that he had fallen.
"She said, 'Oh, no, no, this is a homicide,' " he said. "When I went and identified the body, I could see what she meant."
Ms. HOWARD, who spent yesterday taking condolences on the sidewalks of Dawson Creek and arranging a Toronto cremation by phone, said she hopes to be in court to see her ex-husband's alleged killers face justice.
"Paul's life was over, in many ways, years ago," she said. "These people who did this have got to atone for what they've done."

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HOWARD o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2005-09-14 published
DAHL, Enid (née HUNT)
Enid Hunt DAHL of Toronto, Canada, and Delray Beach, Florida died Saturday, September 10, 2005, at the Franke Home in Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina.
A graveside service will be held in Toronto, Canada at the Mount Pleasant Cemetery on Thursday, September 15, 2005 at 2: 00 o'clock. There will be a memorial service at the Franke Home Chapel, Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, on Saturday, September 17, 2005 at 10: 00 a.m. Arrangements By J. Henry Stuhr, Inc., Mount Pleasant Chapel.
Mrs. DAHL was the daughter of the late Irene Laidlaw HUNT and Harry William HUNT. She was the widow of Joseph George DAHL.
Growing up in Toronto, Mrs. DAHL graduated from Havergal College. She was an excellent equestrian, riding with the Eglington Hunt, and competing in events both in Canada and abroad. She was also an avid golfer, playing at Baltusrol Golf Club in New Jersey, and the Country Club of Florida. She served in Gander, Newfoundland in the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War 2. She was an active member of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Delray Beach, Florida.
She▲ is survived by her daughter, Daphne Carruthers HOWARD, a son-in-law, William L. HOWARD, a granddaughter, Tiffany L. HOWARD, a grand_son, William L. HOWARD, Jr., a granddaughter-in-law, Elizabeth Reeves HOWARD, and a great grand_son Chase Adwell HOWARD.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Alzheimer's Association, Coastal Carolina South Carolina Chapter, P.O. Box 80459, Charleston, South Carolina 29416-0459; Lutheran Hospice, 900 Johnnie Dodds Boulevard, Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina 29464 the Franke Home at Seaside, 1885 Rifle Range Road, Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina 29464; or the Make-A-Wish Foundation, P.C.C. Box 1115, 701 East Bay Street, Charleston, South Carolina 29403.
A memorial message may be written to the family by visiting our website at www.jhenrystuhr.com.

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HOWARD o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2005-09-14 published
Viceroy praises murder victim
By Paul CHOI, Wednesday, September 14, 2005, Page A15
Lieutenant-Governor James BARTLEMAN said yesterday that two brief encounters with a homeless man who was beaten to death last month "enriched" his life.
Mr. BARTLEMAN joined more than 100 people at the Salvation Army Gateway▼ to remember Paul CROUTCH, 59, who died on August 31 after suffering a beating while sleeping on a bench in Moss Park in Toronto.
Three reservists have since been charged in his death.
"He was an individual with a unique sense of dignity, whose life we have come together to commemorate," Mr. BARTLEMAN said in a speech at the funeral. "He was a man with accomplishments in his life, with Friends, and was someone who touched the lives of many."
His connection with Mr. CROUTCH began a few years ago, when he took part in a breakfast run conducted by the Salvation Army, Mr. BARTLEMAN said. He said he offered Mr. CROUTCH coffee after spotting him sleeping on a bench and they struck up a conversation.
"We talked for a few minutes. He told me he had been a newspaper editor in a small community in northern British Columbia, and had been living on the streets of Toronto for years," he said.
"I had the pleasure of meeting him again elsewhere. He was always well-spoken, obviously a person who was celebrated and very likable. I remember after that first morning, I told my wife when I went home that I had met a really remarkable person. He enriched my life from those brief encounters."
Yesterday, Friends and family of Mr. CROUTCH remembered the man with stories of his "healthy" days -- before paranoid thoughts pushed him to the streets.
"He was entrepreneurial, he had successes in his chosen professions," said Don HARRIS, director of the Good Neighbours' Club, a drop-in centre where Mr. CROUTCH would take showers and rest. "But slowly his illness began to overtake his logic... until finally he had to be on his own."
Gary McCRIMMON, a worker at the centre, said Mr. CROUTCH was a bit of a "loner" who never caused any trouble while he ate his meals and did his laundry.
"He was a quiet guy who mostly kept to himself," Mr. McCRIMMON said. "He was easygoing, very smart, and very opinionated. But much of his time was consumed by thoughts of paranoia toward those he believed wronged him."
At the service, Marilyn HOWARD, who was married to Mr. CROUTCH for 25 years, said he was a loving father who lived a "really good life" until his mental illness began to consume him.
"Unfortunately, he refused help at every turn," said Ms. HOWARD, who urged people to treat the problems of homelessness and mental illness more seriously.
"We need to talk about these [mental health issues]," she said. "We shouldn't pretend we don't see these people. Look them in the eye and say 'hello.' Just try to elevate people's lives. One person can make a difference."

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HOWARD o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2005-09-24 published
BURFORD, Dora▼ Annie▼ (formerly FOGAL, née VANPEE)
(May 4, 1910-September 20, 2005)
Following a sudden illness at the Lennox and Addington County General Hospital,▼ Napanee,▼ Ontario, Dora Annie VANPEE passed away after a long and wonderful life. Predeceased by her husbands Oakley FOGAL (1971) and Newman BURFORD (1996.) Beloved mother of Janis SMITH (Earl▼) of Odessa, Ontario. Proud grandmother of Joey LOWES, Napanee, Ontario and Jeffrey LOWES (Colleen,) Kingston, Ontario & Kelly LOWES. Great▼ grandmother of Sean, Tashauna and Ryan. Predeceased by her parents Louisa and John VANPEE, her sisters Hertha McALHONE, Gertrude McMAHON, Agnes HOWARD, Margaret PERRY and her brother John VANPEE. Remembered fondly by many nieces and nephews and their families. A private graveside service has taken place. A memorial service will be celebrated at a later date. Donations to your favourite charity in Dora's memory would be appreciated by the family and can be placed through the Paul G. Payne Funeral Home, Box 324, Odessa, Ontario K0H 2H0 (613) 386-7373.

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HOWARD o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2005-09-27 published
Marc POULIOT
By Frank HOWARD, Tuesday, September▲ 27, 2005, Page A20
Officer and gentleman. Born May 30, 1955, in Magog, Quebec Died April 1 in Ottawa of a heart attack, aged 49.
The death of a good man always comes too soon.
So it was for Brigadier-General Marc POULIOT, who died suddenly one afternoon in April.
Marc was at the top of his form that sunny spring day when he collapsed outside National Defence Headquarters in Ottawa. Earlier that noon-hour, he had kissed Jennifer, his wife and the mother of their two young daughters; and they parted. It was their last embrace.
There was nothing to prepare Marc's family and Friends for the brutal news that he had collapsed and that attempts to revive him on the spot and in an ambulance had failed.
It was so unfair, many who knew him said. His death seemed a frightful waste.
But Marc's life was not a waste. Marc was an over-achiever of the very best kind, the kind that strives and achieves without fanfare, show or self-aggrandizing.
He had, at that time in his life, received many of the rewards one hopes will come for a life well-lived.
He had been recently decorated for his latest success, Operation Athena, the opening of a Canadian base in Afghanistan. He had also been promoted this year to Brigadier-General.
In many ways he represented much that is fine in Canada.
A man of great tact, he could deal with difficult human encounters with quiet good-humour and equanimity. This was never better demonstrated than in his tour of duty near Kabul, where he dealt with the often-conflicting interests of local authorities, warlords and North Atlantic Treaty Organization allies.
Using local labour, he completed the mission on time and on budget with a base that was secure, and located near an appropriate exit route in case of the mission's failure. All of this was done at a time when the German contingent that preceded the Canadians was confined to barracks because of terrorist threats.
Major-General Andrew LESLIE, in his eulogy at the military funeral in Ottawa's Christ Church Cathedral, gave a measure of Marc's diplomatic and administrative skills on this mission. At the ceremony handing over the base to the operations team, Gen. LESLIE said, he was approached by a warlord who wanted to borrow Marc, who was then a colonel.
Gen. LESLIE had to decline the request.
Born and educated in Quebec, Marc worked with ease in both French and English. He had been with the Canadian Armed Forces since 1972. He served overseas with distinction in the former Yugoslavia, the Middle East and latterly, Afghanistan. He was the recipient of a Canadian Forces Decoration.
In 2003, he was chosen to command Operation Athena in Afghanistan. For this work he received the Governor-General's Meritorious Service Medal. Happily, his father Marcel was an invited guest at Rideau Hall for the presentation -- it was one of their last meetings.
His funeral was a solemn event during which his military comrades, family and Friends paid their respects.
And there was the eulogy by his brother-in-law Nicholas TRUDEL, who read the text of a love note written by his sister Jennifer when her husband Marc was in Kabul.
It was found in Marc's daybook. Translated, it read: "It is hard to say goodbye -- so I say: See you soon. It is hard to wake up lonely and without you -- so I keep you close in my heart and in my thoughts always. It is hard to believe that we will be separated yet again -- so I don't believe it and know you are here. It is hard to need someone so much -- to need you when you are so far away, but in my heart I can still kiss you ever so tenderly.
"Come back to me soon my love."
Frank HOWARD is Marc's stepfather-in-law.

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HOWARD o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2005-10-04 published
O'GRADY, Catherine
Passed away peacefully with her family by her side on Sunday, October 2, 2005 after a courageous battle with cancer. Catherine leaves her loving husband Doug BLACK, daughter Sara, stepson Jason, her sisters and brothers Sharon HOWARD (Clive,) Terry▼ (Rhonda), Mary, Mark LARONDE (Lori) and Peter LARONDE. Catherine also leaves many cherished nieces and nephews. Catherine will be greatly missed by her family, dear Friends and many colleagues from over the years. Catherine's happiest times were spent with those she loved at her cottage, at home, and in her garden. Visitation will be held at the "Scarborough Chapel" of McDougall and Brown, 2900 Kingston Road, (east of St. Clair Ave. E.) on Wednesday, October 5 from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. Funeral Mass will be celebrated at Corpus Christi Roman Catholic Church, 16 Lockwood Road, (west of Woodbine Ave., on the north side of Queen St. East) on Thursday, October 6 at 12 p.m. Cremation to follow. As expressions of sympathy, donations made to the Toronto General Hospital would be appreciated.

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HOWARD o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2005-10-10 published
BUTTERILL, Lois▼ (née HOWARD)
Suddenly and peacefully on Friday October 7, 2005 at Scarborough Grace Hospital in her 85th year. Loving and devoted wife of George for 59 years. Loving mother of Dale and her husband Lou SZABO, and Bonnie McLELLAN and her husband Brian McLELLAN. Cherished grandmother of Luke and Emma McLELLAN. Dear cousin of Marie WRIGHT and sister in law Ila CRAMPTON. Lois▼ will be sadly missed by all her family and Friends. A memorial service for family and Friends will be held at a later date. Funeral arrangements entrusted with Ogden Funeral Home, 416-293-5211.

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HOWARD o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2005-10-13 published
BUTTERILL, Lois▲▼ (née HOWARD)
After a long life of good health died suddenly and peacefully on Friday October 7, 2005 at Scarborough Grace Hospital. Devoted wife of George for 59 years. Loving mother of Dale and her husband Lou SZABO, and Bonnie and her husband Brian McLELLAN. Cherished▼ grandmother of Luke and Emma McLELLAN. Dear cousin of Marie and sister-in-law of Ila CRAMPTON. Lois▲▼ will be deeply missed by all her family and Friends, yet her love of life and her committed and caring being will live in our hearts forever. The family acknowledges with gratitude, the competence and kindness of the entire Grace team on 4-D. A memorial ser vice will be held on Saturday October 15 at 11: 00 am in the Shepherd Lodge Sanctuary, 3760 Sheppard Ave. E, (west of Kennedy Rd.) In lieu of flowers donations to the Shepherd Village Foundation, 3760 Sheppard Ave. E., Scarborough, Ontario M1T 3K9 would be greatly appreciated. Arrangements entr usted to Ogden Funeral Home, 416-293-5211

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HOWARD o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2005-10-18 published
HOWARD, John▲▼ Alfred Kyle
On October 5, 2005 at Shelbourne, late of Caledon, Ontario. Elder brother of Ted, Betty, and Lynn. The family wishes to give grateful thanks to long-time friend and artist Bronwen STANLEY- JONES. Memorial to be announced at a later date.

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HOWARD o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2005-11-23 published
He sailed for Canada at the Olympics
By Tom HAWTHORN, Wednesday, November 23, 2005, Page S9
Kingston, Ontario -- Donald TYTLER, who sailed for Canada in two Olympic regattas, has died at Kingston, Ontario He was 81.
In 1952, Mr. TYTLER joined skipper Bill GOODERHAM and other crewmen aboard the six-metre Canadian yacht Trickson VI in the waters off Finland's Harmaja lighthouse. The crew finished seventh overall in an event won by Americans aboard Llanoria. The Canadians' best result came with a second-place finish, three minutes behind Llanoria, on the fourth of seven race days. It was a day of gentle but constantly changing winds that demanded immediate decisions about sails.
Mr. TYTLER returned to Olympic competition in 1956, joining helmsman Dave HOWARD and his brother Cliff HOWARD on Tomahawk III. The Dragon-class racing sloop was sailed from Toronto to Montreal, where it travelled to Australia as deck cargo on a freighter. The journey lasted seven weeks.
Racing in the open waters of Port Phillip Bay, outside Melbourne, the Canadian crew finished eighth in the Dragon competition.
While his crews were competitive if not victorious at the Olympics, Mr. TYTLER could claim a share of the North American six-metre championship in 1954. He joined a Royal Canadian Yacht Club crew skippered by Mr. GOODERHAM aboard Buzzy II, which defeated 12 other crafts in three days of racing on Lake Ontario. The sailors were awarded The Globe and Mail Trophy by the newspaper's publisher.
Donald Milne TYTLER was born in Toronto on March 8, 1925. During the Second World War, he served in the navy. In 1949, he graduated from the University of Toronto with a degree in mechanical engineering and worked for the Toronto school board for 20 years. He died at Kingston General Hospital on November 15.

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HOWARD o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2005-01-07 published
HOWARD, Marguerite▲▼ (née GARDNER)
Passed away January 1st, 2005 at Bendale Acres. Predeceased by husband Earl "Danny" and brothers Cyril, Dermot, Herbert and Kevin. Lovingly remembered by daughters Beverley and Wendy and sadly missed by granddaughters Jennifer and Stephanie BYRON. Friends and family are invited to Giffen-Mack "Scarborough" Funeral Home and Cremation Centre, 4115 Lawrence Avenue East (just west of Kingston Road), West Hill, 416-281-6800, for visitation on Saturday, January 8th from 12-1 p.m. Funeral service will take place at 1: 00 p.m. in the Chapel.

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HOWARD o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2005-01-23 published
LINDSAY, Robert Paul
(Veteran World War 2, Member of R.A.F.E.S. - Royal Air Force Escaping Society, Retired from Holophane Company, Bramalea) Peacefully, on Friday, January 21, 2005, at the Picton Manor Nursing Home in Picton, at age 81. Bob LINDSAY, dearly loved husband of Elinor "Lynne" (née INGRAM.) Loved father of Paul LINDSAY, and Jan and her husband Mike LONGO. Loving grandfather of Dave and Michelle LINDSAY, Carly and Cindy HOWARD and Jennifer and Michelle LONGO. Survived by his sisters Thelma ROURKE and Mildred WOOLLEY, and predeceased by his sister Adeline COMPTON and his brothers Jack, Fred and Morley LINDSAY. The family of Bob LINDSAY will receive Friends at the Wagg Funeral Home, "McDermott-Panabaker Chapel", 216 Queen Street in Port Perry (905-985-2171) on Sunday, January 23rd from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. A Service to celebrate his life will be held in the Chapel on Monday, January 24th at 11 a.m. If desired, memorial donations may be made by cheque to the Alzheimer Society. Online condolences may be left at www.waggfuneralhome.com.

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HOWARD o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2005-02-05 published
HOWARD, Harry▲ Cleland
79 years of age, passed away peacefully, on Wednesday, February 2, 2005. He leaves behind those whose hearts he has touched with smiles and love, including Teresa HOWARD, his loving and beautiful wife of 56 years, as well as his saddened children, Sandra and husband Henry, Debbie and husband Mike, and Douglas and wife Karen. His devoted grandchildren will miss his unique perspective on life and his quest to pursue "the" dream; they include Sean, Alison (and Karl), Jaclyn (and Blake), Courtney, Kaylee, Danica, Alex, and Nicholas. Harry will miss times shared with Friends at the Legion, neighbours, and all who have known his gentle spirit, including special friend "Pat." His courage and strength witnessed throughout his illness has taught us all the value of love and the determination to overcome the greatest possible obstacles. Harry's final wish is to have his body donated to medical science. There will be a celebration of his life to be held on Sunday, February 13 at 1: 00 p.m. at the Royal Canadian Legion (Legion 101), 3850 Lakeshore Blvd. W. (Lakeshore and Browns Line).

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HOWARD o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2005-02-09 published
SEWELL, Madelon Cecile (née ROTHWELL)
At North Bay on Tuesday, February 1, 2005. Madelon Cecile ROTHWELL, beloved mother of John SEWELL of Vancouver and Patti SEWELL of Halifax, she was in her 81st year. Lovingly remembered by her granddaughter Jade SEWELL of North Bay and by her great-grand_son Cody. Predeceased by her parents Herbert and Cecile ROTHWELL, and by her siblings Ted ROTHWELL and Eleanor HOWARD. She was the dear aunt of Gayle CARR, Judy VIRGIN and David HOWARD. A time of fellowship will be held at the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 210 (3326 Bloor Street at Islington) on Friday, February 11th, from 1-3 p.m. As expressions of sympathy, remembrances may be made to a charity of your choice. Arrangements under the direction of the Martyn Funeral Home.

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HOWARD o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2005-03-05 published
GREENWAY, Lilian Ethel Louise (née HOWARD)
Peacefully at Garden Court Nursing Home, on March 4th, 2005, 2 weeks short of her 94th birthday on March 22. Predeceased by her husband Ernest D. GREENWAY. Loving mother to Joan, Sharon and her husband Bill. She will be sadly missed by her grandchildren Paul, Diane, Brian, Valerie, their families and great grandchildren Brian, Jennifer, Scott, Keith, Jason, Matthew, Kelly, Sarah and predeceased by Samantha. A special thank you to the Nursing Home and Storefront Humber. Friends will be received at the Ridley Funeral Home, 3080 Lakeshore Blvd. W. (between Islington and Kipling Aves., at 14th Street, 416-259-3705) on Tuesday, March 8, 2005 for a Funeral Service at 12 noon in the Chapel. Interment Mount Pleasant Cemetery.

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HOWARD o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2005-03-05 published
TAILOR/TAYLOR, Frederick Victor
Suddenly at the Campbellford Memorial Hospital on Wednesday, March 2, 2005, age 84 years. Victor TAILOR/TAYLOR of Warkworth. son of the late Frederick Mark TAILOR/TAYLOR and the late Mary Ann (MASON.) Beloved▲ husband of the late Audrey Kathleen (HOWARD.) Loving▲ father of Mandy TURNER of Toronto. Dear friend of Muriel NICHOLS of Warkworth. Following the cremation a private family service will be held. As an expression of sympathy, donations to the charity of your choice would be appreciated by the family. www.walasfuneralhome.com

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HOWARD o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2005-04-02 published
HOWARD, Alice
Peacefully at her home, surrounded by her family, on Tuesday, March 29, 2005. Loving and cherished mother of Glen and his wife Gina, Carolynn and her husband Joe. Dear grandma of Lindsay, Jennifer and her husband Joe. Alice will be deeply missed by her sister Ingrid and her husband Robert SCHWARZ. Loving aunt of Elisa, Phil, Melinda, Martin and Cara. A private family service will be held. If desired, remembrances may be made to Lutheran World Relief or the A.L.S. Society. Funeral arrangements entrusted to the Turner and Porter Yorke Chapel, 416-767-3153.

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HOWARD o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2005-04-09 published
BURK/BURKE, Mary H. " Mayme"
Passed away at Stevenson Memorial Hospital, Alliston, Ontario on Friday, April 8, 2005, in her 99th year. Beloved daughter of the late Thomas Francis BURK/BURKE and Rose Alice LYNCH. Dear sister of Helen HOWARD and the late James BURK/BURKE, Terrance▲ BURK/BURKE, Marguerite EVERSON, Sarah DERMOTT, Bernadette BOYLE, Joseph BURK/BURKE, Frances O'LEARY, and Emmett (Thomas) BURK/BURKE. Dear sister-in-law of Josephine BURK/BURKE, Roderick EVERSON and the late Loney DERMOTT, John BOYLE and George O'LEARY. Mayme will be lovingly remembered by her nieces and nephews. Resting at the W. John Thomas Funeral Home, 244 Victoria St. E., Alliston on Monday, April 11, 2005 from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. Funeral Mass will be held at St. Paul the Apostle Church, 190 King St. S., Alliston on Tuesday, April 12, 2005 at 11 a.m. Interment St. Paul's Cemetery, Alliston, Ontario.

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HOWARD o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2005-04-18 published
MacMILLAN, Helen Whitney
Peacefully passed away at Seven Oaks Home for the Aged on Friday, April 15, 2005, one month short of her 99th birthday. Loving sister to Alla HOWARD of Scarborough, Maxine WHITE/WHYTE of Tide Head, New Brunswick, Jim of Toronto, Alexander of Tide Head, New Brunswick, Emery of Campbellton, New Brunswick and predeceased by George, Jack and Myrtle. Beloved aunt of Jeannie HOWARD, John▲▼ MacMILLAN, Jeannie GRAHAM, Gerald MacMILLAN of Ottawa, Sherry MacMILLAN of Campbellton, Sandra MURRAY of Ottawa, Phyllis MacMILLAN of Moncton, New Brunswick, Maxine MacMILLAN of Saint John, New Brunswick and Susan FRASER of Barbados. Cremation. A graveside service will take place in Campbellton, N.B at a later date. Funeral arrangements have been entrusted to the McDougall and Brown Funeral Home (416) 267-4656.

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HOWARD o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2005-04-30 published
MOORE, Howard P.
Passed away suddenly on Thursday, April 28, 2005, at his home in Brampton, at the age of 45. Long time employee of Graff Concrete Cutting and X-Ray, Brampton. Beloved husband of Yvonne. Loving father of Austin, stepsons Ronnie (Annalea) and Clint (Jennie) and stepdaughter Angie. Poppy of Mikaela and Sierra. Missed by his loving supportive mother Geraldine SMITH, Chicago, Illinois, sister Patricia HOWARD, Chicago, Illinois, brothers Alfred (Mary,) Oakland, California., Ronald (Donna), San Francisco, California., Douglas (Janet), Chicago, Illinois, brother-in-law of Marjory (John), Astrid, Foukje (Eric), Ina (Tom) and the late Binke (Liz). Son-in-law of Oma. He is survived by a host of nieces, nephews, great-nieces, nephews, aunts, other relatives and a host of many Friends. Howard was loved and respected by so many people and will be dearly missed by all. Resting at the Ward Funeral Home "Brampton Chapel," 52 Main Street South (Hwy. 10), Brampton, on Monday from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. The Funeral Service will be held on Tuesday May 3, 2005 at Bramalea Baptist Church, 9050 Dixie Rd., Brampton at 1 p.m.

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HOWARD o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2005-05-02 published
DE LUCA, Victor
Passed away peacefully at Ross Memorial Hospital, Lindsay on Saturday, April 30, 2005 in his 81st year. Loving husband and best friend of Wilma DE LUCA for 54 years. Father of Christopher (Gail) DE LUCA of Oshawa, Janice (Lonnie) HOWARD of Springfield, Missouri and Michael DE LUCA of Lakefield. Loving grandfather of Christopher DE LUCA, Tammy BAXTER and Aubrey DE LUCA. Great-grandfather of Liam BAXTER and Lily GAIL. Father-in-law of Schellé DE LUCA. Brother of Sister Reta DE LUCA, Sister Jean DE LUCA and the late Harry, Albert, Anthony and Stella. Family and Friends will be received at Monk Funeral Home, 6 Helen Street, Bobcaygeon (866-393-0063) from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. Monday. Mass of Christian Burial in Our Lady Queen of Peace Roman Catholic Church, Need Street, Bobcaygeon on Tuesday, May 3, 2005 at 11: 00 a.m. Burial at a later date in St. Aloysius Cemetery, Fenelon Falls. Donations to the Oshawa General Hospital Cancer Unit would be appreciated. Messages of condolence may be sent to www.monkfuneralhome.com

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HOWARD o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2005-05-05 published
BRETHOUR, Orvan Lloyd
Passed away peacefully to be with his Lord, on Tuesday, May 3rd, 2005 at Uxbridge Cottage Hospital, in his 81st year. Orvan, beloved husband and friend of Doreen née LAPP. Dear father of Wayne (Lynn,) Kimberly CASTER (Larry), Sharee HOWARD (Pat), Dale (Carolyn). Loving grandfather of Catharine, Leslie, Kris, Michael, Andrew, Rosie and Claire. Resting at the Low and Low Funeral Home, 23 Main Street South, Uxbridge (905-852-3073) on Thursday, May 5th, 2005 from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. The funeral service will be held on Friday, May 6th at 2: 00 p.m. from the Trinity United Church, Uxbridge. Interment, Uxbridge Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Trinity United Church, Uxbridge Cottage Hospital, Heart and Stroke Foundation or the Canadian Cancer Society.

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HOWARD o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2005-05-30 published
BLAKELY, William▲ Thomas▲ " Tom▲" (1913-2005)
Passed away peacefully, on Wednesday, May 25, 2005, in the Sunnybrook Hospital Veterans' Residence. Born and educated in Hamilton, Ontario, Tom entered the newspaper publishing business. He enlisted in the Royal Canadian Navy in World War 2 and as Lt. BLAKELY saw action serving on corvettes escorting convoys across the North Atlantic to Britain. Post-war he authored a book describing life in one such ship during those dark and dangerous days - H.M.C.S. Coburg. In 1946 he joined one of Canada's foremost advertising agencies which led to a lifelong career in advertising and marketing for which brought numerous awards and citations. He was hugely respected by his peers and in 1970, was appointed President of the Association of Canadian Advertisers, the authoritative body for the industry in Canada. He led the organization for 11 years serving on many industry boards. Awarded the Association's Gold Medal Award in 1982 "For creative contributions towards making advertising in Canada more ethical in its practices, more respected by those it served, and better understood by even its critics." On his retirement from advertising Tome launched a new career as a journalist and for 18 years wrote a popular column on retirement carried by many daily newspapers in Canada and the U.S.A. He also authored other articles on a diverse range of subject matter. He is survived by his wife Patricia▲ BLAKELY (née LEADER,) son Thomas▲ Patrick,▲ sister Jean McCOY, niece Barbara HOWARD and nephews Harry and Paul McCOY, all of Hamilton. His brother Maurice predeceased him. There will be a private entombment of cremated remains at the Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Cremation Gardens, on Tuesday, May 31, 2005 at 11 a.m. In memory of Tom, donations can be made to the Veterans' Memorial Fund, Room H 332, Sunnybrook and Women's Foundation, 2075 Bayview Avenue, Toronto, Ontario M4N 3M5.

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HOWARD o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2005-06-11 published
WIERSMA, Donald
Went to be with his Lord on June 9, 2005, in his 74th year. He leaves his loving wife of 53 years, Sally (Yff); his children Karen and Cecil VAN NIEJENHUIS (Nathan and Shawna, Sara, Miriam), Donna and Bill LEO (Tara, Alex,) Pam and Shawn HOWARD (Sean) his sister Theresa SALOMONS; his brothers George and Jack; his nieces and nephews. Visitation Sunday, June 12, 2005 from 2 to 5 p.m. at Glen Oaks Memorial Chapel and Reception Centre (Dundas St. and 9th Line), 905-257-8822, Oakville. Funeral Service 1: 30 p.m. Monday, June 13, 2005 at the Clear View Christian Reformed Church (Ford Dr. at Sheridan Garden Dr.). Interment Glen Oaks Memorial Gardens.

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HOWARD o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2005-06-28 published
HOWARD, Mary▲▼ Margaret▲▼ (née McKINNON)
At Campbellford Memorial Hospital on Monday, June 27th, 2005 in her 81st year. Beloved wife of the late Alvin D. HOWARD. Dear mother of Sandra and Mike CORK, Gayle and Allan GRAHAM, all of Campbellford, David and Gene HOWARD of Burlington. Loving grandmother of Kevin and Josh CORK, Adam, Damien and Courtney GRAHAM, Gerald and Loren HOWARD. Daughter of the late Kenneth and Anne McKINNON. Sister of Edith and the late Ralph HOWARD of Bowmanville, Audrey McKINNON of Oshawa, Carol and William HARTLEY of Saint John, New Brunswick, Kenneth and Joyce McKINNON of Coldwater. Lovingly remembered by many nieces and nephews. Friends are invited to call at the Weaver Family Funeral Home, 77 Second Street, Campbellford from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. Tuesday. Mass to be held in Saint Mary's Church on Wednesday, June 29th at 11 a.m., Father Clair HICKSON officiating. Interment in Saint Mary's Cemetery. Parish Prayers will be held in the Funeral Home on Tuesday at 4 p.m. Donations to the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation or charity of your choice would be appreciated by the family. Online Guest Book and Condolences at www.weaverfuneralhomes.com

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HOWARD o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2005-07-02 published
HOWARD, Marjorie▲ B. (née BARTRAM) (1922-2005)
Marjorie B. HOWARD (née BARTRAM) passed away on Wednesday, June 29, 2005 at 4: 15 p.m. while in the gentle hands of the Palliative Care Ward at Toronto Grace Hospital. She will be remembered as an artist, both in her youth and her later years, a graduate of the Vancouver School of Decorative and Applied Arts, now known as the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design. She will be remembered as a leader with Girl Guides of Canada where she was the Area Commissioner for Halton County. She will be remembered by those she worked with in the Ontario government, as the Manager of the Provinces Resource Centre. She will be remembered as a dedicated volunteer at her home Burnham Glen (YCC56) serving 20 years on the Board of Directors in the capacity of President. Finally, she will be remembered by her three sons Michael (Susan) HOWARD, Pat▲ a.k.a. P.M. (Jenny) HOWARD and Dave HOWARD. Arrangements for celebration of Marjorie's life are incomplete at this time. For further information, please contact the Ward Funeral Home, 2035 Weston Rd., Weston, at 416-241-4618.

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HOWARD o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2005-07-23 published
WRIGHT, Ruth Gordon (née ROBERTSON)
After a short illness on July 21, 2005, in her 89th year. Predeceased by her husband William James. Beloved mother of James Alexander. Proud grandmother of Kim and David SMITH. Dear sister of Anne and Ed HOWARD, Jim ROBERTSON and predeceased by Jack ROBERTSON. Ruth will be greatly missed by her nieces, nephews, family and Friends. Friends will be received at The Simple Alternative Funeral Centre - Mississauga, 1535 South Gateway Road (Dixie Rd., 2 lights south of Eglinton), 905-602-1580, on Sunday, July 24th from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. Funeral Service will be held in the Chapel on Monday, July 25th at 11 a.m. In lieu of flowers, donations to the Osteoporosis Society would be appreciated.

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HOWARD o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2005-08-03 published
ERB, John▲ Edwin▲ (13 September 1932-31 July, 2005)
Reverend Canon, Executive Director, Anglican Foundation
"We have lots of love, Friendship, family; we are blessed." These were some of John's last words, given through a wonderful smile, as his magnificent brain was being ravaged by the Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease. John was born in Kitchener, Ontario, to the late Irvin and Sally ERB (née MEYSCHEIN.) He will always be missed by his adored children Nicholas and Katie, his wife Didy▲ (née BRADISH) of 29 years, his loving sisters and brothers-in-law Cathie and John HOWARD, Hornby Island, British Columbia, and Margie and Bob CARR, Hamilton. "John The Giant" was a special uncle to Stephen Howard and Rhonda SPENCE, Emily HOWARD and Alex LAVIGNE; Tom HOWARD and Landys KLYNE; Mary HOWARD, Stewart, Duncan, Will and Angus MURRAY; Sally HOWARD, Jim and Tommy HAMAGUCHI; Sarah CARR Tim CARR and Kate FEIGHTNER; Pat CARR, Nadine HEINTZ and Oliver CARR; and friend David HUGHES. His▲ many ERB and Meyschein family cousins love him and will miss him. A passionate Canadian, John was a leader, Anglican Priest, teacher, traveller, camper and actor. Until his late teens John was a member of Trinity United, the ERB family's church, where he grew up in the Sunday School. He attended "Young People's" both there and at Saint John the Evangelist Anglican Church. When he returned after working for a year in England, he joined the confirmation class at Saint John. Thus began his journey to become an Anglican priest. Graduating from the Kitchener Public School system and Wilfred Laurier University, he received his early theological training from Trinity College. He continued graduate studies in later years in Boston, Virginia and Jerusalem. John's ministry began at St. Aidan's in 1965. In 1967 his strong identification with young people led him to a truly successful period as Director of Youth for the Church of England, both in Guyana, S.A. and then in the United Kingdom John returned to Canada with Didy in December 1973 and continued his ministries, first at Grace Church on the Hill, then at St. Luke's East York. In 1981 he became Rector of St. Michael and All Angels, where he embraced all, and many saw him as more than a pastor. He retired from St. Michael's in 1997. For the past seven years John's energetic leadership has been devoted to the Anglican Foundation of Canada, a work he loved. It enabled him to travel the length and breadth of this country, often visiting parishes in small communities, and as in all of his previous work, met wonderful dedicated people and established lasting Friendships and respect everywhere. Throughout his working life John participated on many Boards and Committees focusing on community outreach, and has helped develop programs such as Out Of The Cold, Street Haven for battered women and Christie Gardens, and has worked to encourage interfaith ministry. His robust leadership has been recognized and honoured in many ways including the 125th Anniversary Medal of Canada; Member and former Chaplain, Order of Saint John Ambulance, Serving Brother - Saint John of Jerusalem Chaplaincy appointments to The Royal Society of Physicians and Surgeons, The Canadian Club of Toronto, The Benchers and The Order of St. Lazarus. His personal passions are his family, his ministry, the theatre, ballet, opera, the family cottage at Oliphant and the Taize Retreat in France. During his hospital confinement John and his family were enormously moved by those many Friends, acquaintances and co-workers old and new, who visited during his last days. Literally, they came by the hundreds from all spectrums of society to reminisce, renew Friendships and offer their love and support. Nothing could have made more visible the lasting impact John had on so many lives. We will always be grateful for the kindness and incredible care given to John and his family by all the caregivers in the Palliative Care Unit at St. Michael's Hospital. In lieu of flowers, please join John in his living leg

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HOWARD o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2005-08-03 published
STITH, Doreen M.
Suddenly after a brief illness at Toronto General Hospital on Sunday, July 31st, 2005. Beloved sister of Maxine HOWARD. Predeceased by her sister Kathryn LEVEY. She will be missed by her nieces Kim KERKLAAN, Sandra ERNST and Shireen KITTO and her grand-nieces Corey and Kathryn KERKLAAN. A private family service with cremation will take place. Arrangements entrusted to the Trull "North Toronto" Funeral Home and Cremation Centre 416-488-1101.

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HOWARD o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2005-08-06 published
HOWARD, John▲ Allan
Peacefully on Thursday, August 4, 2005 at Baycrest Centre in his 87th year. John, husband of Marion. Dear father of Ross, Pam (George) PERSAUD, Sharon and Dez. Grandpa to Verona, Sandy and the late Michael. Brother of Archie of Ottawa and Shirley of Windsor. Friends and family may call at The Simple Alternative Funeral Centre, 1057 Brock Road, Pickering (south of 401), 905-686-5589, on Tuesday, August 9, 2005, after 11 a.m. A Funeral Service will follow in our chapel at 1 p.m. Cremation. In lieu of flowers, donations to the Canadian Cancer Society would be appreciated.

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HOWARD o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2005-08-08 published
RUSH, Callum Paul
Passed away suddenly at Cambridge Memorial Hospital on Friday, August 5, 2005, in his 36th year. Beloved son of Verlyn (HOWARD) RUSH and the late Robert RUSH. Loving brother of Verlyn (Alan YOSHIKI) of Markham, Bruce (Robin) of Cambridge, Jim (Cindy) of Barrie. Also survived by his nieces and nephews Kelli, Karen, Ian, Christopher, Katie, Michael, Jared, Andrew, Elizabeth, Anthony, Jeremy, Robin, Michael James and James Ethan. Cal was born on December 3, 1969 in Toronto and was employed with Stackpole Ltd. of Ancaster. At Cal's request, cremation has taken place. Private family services were held. As expressions of sympathy, donations to the Terry Fox Foundation, 303-46165 Yale Road, Chilliwack, British Columbia, V2P 2P2, would be appreciated by the family. Arrangements entrusted to the Barthel Funeral Home, 566 Queenston Road, Cambridge. Tributes may be made online at www.mem.com.

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HOWARD o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2005-08-24 published
STEPHENS, Donald Murray (June 11, 1925-August 23, 2005)
Passed away peacefully at Soldiers' Memorial Hospital, Orillia, on Tuesday, August 23, 2005. Donald STEPHENS, of Barrie, loving husband of Diane (née ROBLIN,) beloved father and father-in-law of Robert (Sally) of Toronto, Thomas of Cape Coral, Florida, and David of Flesherton. Proud grandfather of Ashley and Katie of the U.S.A., and Megan and Bo Robert of Toronto. Donald will be sadly missed by his brothers "best buddy" John (Marg) of Richmond Hill, and Bruce (Gwen) of Peterborough, sister-in-law Eve of Markham, and many nieces and nephews. Predeceased by his brother Stewart and sister Audrey. Big "D" will be sadly missed not just by family, but also by his buddies in Florida, Oklahoma, and Ontario. In accordance with Don's wishes, there will be no funeral service. Cremation has taken place. However, due to his love of animals, especially Tiger and Blackie, memorial donations to your local Humane Society or the charity of your choice would be appreciated by the family. A special thank you to Patrick and Wendy SLATTERY of Cumberland Beach, Ontario, and Wayne and Judy HOWARD of Moffat, Ontario for all their support during Don's short illness. Also special thanks to Dr. SOCHANIWSKY and Colleen. Funeral services entrusted to the L. Doolittle Chapel of Carson Funeral Homes, 54 Coldwater Street East, Orillia, (705) 326-3595. Online Messages of Condolence are welcome at www.carsonfuneralhomes.com

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HOWARD o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2005-08-27 published
STEWARD/STEWART/STUART, Helen (née CLAYDEN)
Passed away, at the age of 90, on Wednesday, August 24, 2005, at the Trillium Health Centre, Mississauga. Predeceased by her husband Robert (1959) and son Bobbie (1998). Will be greatly missed by sons David (Isobel) and Ken; grandchildren Derek, Lyndsay (Bob), Cheryl, and Robert, and great-grandchildren Conner, Rylee, and Robbie; brother Robert CLAYDEN (Millie) and sister Eveline HOWARD and will be sadly missed by her many nieces and nephews and their families. A private family service was held on Friday, August 26, 2005. Arrangements entrusted to the Andrews Community Funeral Centre, 905-456-8190.

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HOWARD o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2005-09-07 published
RUDDOCK, Gladys
Peacefully at her home on Moday, September 5th, 2005. Beloved wife of the late Maurice RUDDOCK. Dear sister to Kenneth HOWARD and his wife Cherie, Gordon▲ HOWARD and his wife Muriel (England,) and the late Irene, Dennis and Eric. Sadly missed by nieces Debbie and husband Keith, Kim and husband Rob and family; Josie, Wyn, Christine, Janette and their families of England. Lovingly remembered by her cousin Vera and Robert and family. The family will receive Friends at the Ogden Funeral Home, 4164 Sheppard Ave. East, Agincourt (east of Kennedy Rd.) on Wednesday from 6-8: 30 p.m. Complete Funeral Service in the Ogden Chapel on Thursday at 11: 00 a.m. Cremation to follow. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations to the Canadian Cancer Society would be appreciated.

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HOWARD o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2005-09-14 published
Homeless man's defiant life honoured
BARTLEMAN met slaying victim
CROUTCH spoke of his mental illness
By John GODDARD, Staff Reporter
Paul CROUTCH attracted more attention at his funeral yesterday than he likely ever did in life, as the victim of a fatal beating that has galvanized the downtown homeless community and moved the Queen's representative in Ontario to sympathy.
Lieutenant Governor James BARTLEMAN and his small entourage mixed with social workers, street people, a few of CROUTCH's former Friends and his ex-wife at a shelter on lower Jarvis St. to pay tribute to CROUTCH as a man, not a statistic.
"I met him two years ago, at about 6 a.m.," BARTLEMAN told about 130 mourners at the yellow-brick chapel of the Salvation Army Gateway▲ shelter, where CROUTCH sometimes stayed. "I was part of a Salvation Army breakfast run and I had on a Salvation Army jacket."
BARTLEMAN recalled getting out of a van and serving coffee and soup to a man sitting on a park bench.
The man, not aware he was speaking to the lieutenant governor, told of owning a newspaper in British Columbia and falling on hard times due to mental illness. BARTLEMAN recognized the same details in newspaper accounts of the beating.
"He was well spoken, obviously well read and very likeable," the lieutenant governor recalled.
CROUTCH, 59, could also be anti-social, paranoid, fatalistic and self-neglectful, Friends and other supporters said of his decline. And in the early hours of August 31, he was beaten to death in his sleeping bag next to the Moss Park Armoury at Queen and Jarvis Sts.
Three reserve soldiers with the Queen's Own Rifles, attached to the armoury, are charged with second-degree murder in the case. They are Brian DEGANIS, 22, Jeffrey HALL, 21, and Mountaz IBRAHIM, 23.
All three had been celebrating with other reservists the night before, after 10 days of war games at Canadian Forces Base Petawawa, northwest of Ottawa.
The anti-poverty group Toronto Disaster Relief Committee has called on Ontario's attorney general to prosecute the killing as a hate crime, saying CROUTCH was targeted as a homeless person.
The▲ group also helped pay for CROUTCH's ex-wife, Marilyn HOWARD, to travel from Dawson Creek, British Columbia, to attend the funeral, and is arranging for her to meet senior Crown attorney Fred BRALEY this week to discuss the hate crime proposal.
At the crowded chapel yesterday, HOWARD spoke of CROUTCH as a spirited family man and entrepreneurial talent. The two met in Toronto in 1966, she said, and later moved to Vancouver and the northern British Columbia town of Dawson Creek.
In 1977, their daughter was born. She did not attend the service, but a recent photograph showing her as a smiling blonde stood on the altar next to a container holding CROUTCH's ashes, and two snapshots of CROUTCH playing with her as a baby.
CROUTCH stopped seeing his daughter when she was 14 as his creeping mental illness turned serious. The couple divorced in 1993. Their daughter recently graduated with an M.A. in plant sciences in the United States, HOWARD said.
"(Over the years), he owned six houses, including a section of farmland, and was a partner in seven businesses," HOWARD said.
At one point, he started his own weekly newspaper in Dawson Creek, the Mirror, which is still publishing. Earlier on, he worked as a travelling auto-parts salesperson for Ford.
"Every second week, he would drive 700 miles of the Alaska Highway," HOWARD said. "He was extremely well known. He'd get calls from all over the North -- 'Hey, I hear Safeway has a sale on lobsters, can you bring some with you?' He would do those things for people."

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HOWARD o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2005-09-17 published
HALE, Gladys Alice (née HOWARD)
Peacefully at the Toronto East General Hospital on Thursday, September 15, 2005. Gladys, in her 84th year. Predeceased by her husband Gordon. Fondly remembered by her son Brian, her grand_sons Jesse and Morgan and her brother Eric HOWARD. A private family service will be held. Cremation to follow. If desired, memorial contributions to St. Nicholas Church, Birchcliff would be appreciated. Arrangements in the care of Sherrin Funeral Home, 416-698-2861.

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HOWARD o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2005-09-24 published
BURFORD, Dora▲ Annie▲ (formerly FOGAL, née VANPEE)
(May 4, 1910-September 20, 2005)
Following a sudden illness at the Lennox and Addington County General Hospital,▲ Napanee,▲ Ontario, Dora Annie VANPEE passed away after a long and wonderful life. Predeceased by her husbands Oakley FOGAL (1971) and Newman BURFORD (1996.) Beloved mother of Janis SMITH (Earl▲) of Odessa, Ontario. Proud grandmother of Joey LOWES, Napanee, Ontario, Jeffrey LOWES (Colleen), Kingston, Ontario and Kelly LOWES. Great-grandmother▲ of Sean, Tashauna and Ryan. Predeceased by her parents Louisa and John VANPEE, her sisters Hertha McALHONE, Gertrude McMAHON, Agnes HOWARD, Margaret PERRY and her brother John VANPEE. Remembered fondly by many nieces and nephews and their families. A private graveside service has taken place. A memorial service will be celebrated at a later date. Donations to your favourite charity in Dora's memory would be appreciated by the family and can be placed through the Paul G. Payne Funeral Home, Box 324, Odessa, Ontario K0H 2H0 (613-386-7373).

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HOWARD o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2005-10-12 published
BUTTERILL, Lois▲ (née HOWARD)
After a long life of good health died suddenly and peacefully on Friday, October 7, 2005 at Scarborough Grace Hospital. Devoted wife of George for 59 years. Loving mother of Dale and her husband Lou SZABO, and Bonnie and her husband Brian McLELLAN. Cherished▲ grandmother of Luke and Emma McLELLAN. Dear cousin of Marie and sister-in-law of Ila CRAMPTON. Lois▲ will be deeply missed by all her family and Friends, yet her love of life and her committed and caring being will live in our hearts forever. The family acknowledges with gratitude, the competence and kindness of the entire Grace team on 4-D. A memorial service will be held on Saturday, October 15 at 11: 00 a.m. in the Shepherd Lodge Sanctuary, 3760 Sheppard Ave. E. (west of Kennedy Rd.). In lieu of flowers, donations to the Shepherd Village Foundation, 3760 Sheppard Ave. E., Scarborough, Ontario M1T 3K9 would be greatly appreciated. Arrangements entrusted to Ogden Funeral Home, 416-293-5211.

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HOWARD o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2005-11-11 published
BEYERLE, Mary Veronica "Bonnie" (formerly CHAMBERS, HOWARD, nee MacDONALD)
Age 95, of Punta Gorda, Florida, passed away October 18, 2005 at Peace River Regional Medical Center. She was born March 21, 1910 in Ottawa, Canada. Bonnie is survived by her husband Fredrick J. BEYERLE, daughter Valerie HOWARD of Toronto, sister Grace PAINTER, 10 grandchildren, many great-grandchildren, a great-great-grand_son and Beyerle families. Bonnie will be sadly missed by Friends and families, loving caregivers, staff and many Friends at Sandhill Gardens. Bonnie was preceded in death by husbands Thomas Edmund HOWARD and David Lee CHAMBERS, her sons John Robert (Bob) HOWARD, Terrance (Terry) Edmund HOWARD, granddaughter Valinda Ann HOWARD, daughter-in-law Therese Ellen (McCOOL) HOWARD. Celebration of Bonnie's life will be Saturday, November 12, 2005 at 12 p.m. at St. Monica's Catholic Church, 44 Broadway Ave., Toronto. Interment at Mount Hope Cemetery.

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HOWARD o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2005-11-24 published
MORETTO, Bruno
God called Bruno peacefully on November 23rd, 2005 from the William Osler Etobicoke General Hospital at the age of 73. He will be sadly missed by his loving wife Elvira. He will be cherished by his dear children Joe (Norma), Tony (Brenda), Elisa (Anthony HOWARD,) and Carlo (Diane.) Proud grandfather of Daniel, Andrew, Natalie, Matthew, Alexander, Frances, Nives, and Marco. He will be re-united in heaven with his loving brother Enrico. He will be sadly missed by his brother Giuseppe and sister Maria and their families. He will be held dear in the hearts of his brother and sisters-in-law, nieces, nephews, cousins, and many Friends. Family will receive Friends at the Fratelli Vescio Funeral Homes Ltd. (8101 Weston Rd., south of Langstaff Rd., 905-850-3332) on Thursday 6-9 p.m. and Friday from 2-4 and 6-9 p.m. A Funeral Mass will be celebrated on Saturday from St. Clare of Assisi Roman Catholic Church (off of Rutherford Rd., west of Weston Rd.). Entombment to follow at the Queen of Heaven Catholic Cemetery (on Hwy 27., south of Hwy. 7). The Moretto family would appreciate any donations made to the Heart and Stroke Foundation.

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HOWARD o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2005-11-28 published
HOWARD, Helen▲ (BURK/BURKE)
Passed away at the Humber River Regional Hospital, Finch Site, Toronto, Ontario on Saturday, November 26, 2005, in her 93rd year. Beloved wife of the late James HOWARD. Dear sister of the late Marguerite EVERSON, Sarah DERMOTT, Bernadette BOYLE, Frances O'LEARY, Mary (Mayme) BURK/BURKE, James BURK/BURKE, Terrance BURK/BURKE, Joseph BURK/BURKE and Emmett (Thomas) BURK/BURKE. Dear sister-in-law of Roderick EVERSON, Josephine BURK/BURKE and the late Loney DERMOTT, John BOYLE and George O'LEARY. Helen will be lovingly remembered by her nieces and nephews Resting at the W. John Thomas Funeral Home, 244 Victoria Street E., Alliston on Tuesday, November 29, 2005 from 12: 30-1:45 p.m. Funeral Mass will be held at St. Paul the Apostle Church, 190 King Street S., Alliston on Tuesday, November 29, 2005 at 2: 00 p.m. Interment St. Paul's Cemetery, Alliston, Ontario

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HOWARD o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2005-12-05 published
HOWARD, Eric Henry
Suddenly, at his residence, on Friday, December 2, 2005. Beloved husband of the late Marjorie Mae HOWARD (deceased 1997.) Loving step-father of Byran JAY (his wife Kathleen,) Cheryl JAY, Nadine JORDAN and Kevin JAY. Sadly missed by his grandchildren and many Friends. Predeceased by his sister Gladys HALE. A Service will be held in the Chapel of the Morley Bedford Funeral Home, 159 Eglinton Ave. West, Toronto (2 stoplights west of Yonge Street), on Tuesday, December 6 at 1 p.m., with visiting 1 hour prior. Cremation. In lieu of flowers, donations to the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario or the Princess Margaret Hospital would be appreciated by the family.

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HOWARD o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2005-12-17 published
HOWARD, Eveline (née CLAYDEN)
Lifelong Member of the Royal Canadian Legion Queen's Own Rifles Branch 344. On December 15, 2005 at Milton, Ontario. Born April 7, 1912. Eveline, beloved wife of the late Sgt. Major T.J. HOWARD (The Grey Ghost). Dearest mother of Lillian (Cissie) and her husband Terry and Charles (Dennie) and Teresa. Dearest grandmother of Stephan, Clay, René, Glen, Monique and Devon. Dearest great-grandmother to 7. Dearest sister of Robert and the late Helen. A Memorial Gathering will be held at the Scott Funeral Home, Mississauga Chapel, 420 Dundas St. East (one block west of Cawthra Rd.), 905-272-4040, on Tuesday, December 20, 2005 at 11 a.m. until time of the Memorial Service at 1 p.m. in the Chapel. In Eveline's memory, kindly consider a donation to the charity of your choice.

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