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DIACHYNSKY,
Tatiana "
Kay"
In her 90th year on September 14, 2005. Daughter of Nicholas
and Eudoxia
(KRISTOLOVICH) of Sandy Lake, Manitoba. Predeceased
by her parents, sisters Mary (Andrew
PUHACH) and Anne (Harry
ZUK) and brother Joseph (Marie.) Survived by Sr. Celeste, S.S.M.I.,
brother Harry (Marion), beloved nieces and nephews with their
families. Moved to Toronto in 1941. Worked in banking for Canadian
Imperial Bank of Commerce for 35 years. A woman of prayer and
action, rooted in Christian convictions, she was grateful for
her Ukrainian Catholic heritage and served without counting the
cost. She co-founded Saint Mary's Credit Union and was elected
first President of the Toronto Eparchial Youth. She was also
Treasurer of the Ukrainian Catholic Women's League of Canada
on the national, eparchial and parish levels and of the Ukrainian
Catholic Council of Canada. She promoted the founding of St.
Josaphats Ukrainian Catholic School and supported its mission.
She was dedicated to spiritual renewal through weekend retreats,
rosary cenacles and prayer vigils and to Pro-Life initiatives
until her very death. She supported the needy, and in recent
years - immigrants from Ukraine. In lieu of flowers, donations
may be made to St. Josaphats Cathedral, Sisters Servants Education
Fund or Ukrainian Catholic Women's League of Canada charities.
Visitation will be held at the Cardinal Funeral Home, 92 Annette
Street (near Keele) on Sunday 2-4 p.m. and 6-9 p.m. Panakhyda
7: 30 p.m. Funeral Service Monday at 9:30 a.m. then to St. Josaphats
Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral for Mass at 10 a.m. Interment at
Mount Peace Cemetery. Online Condolences at www.cardinalfuneralhomes.com
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KRITCH o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2005-10-26 published
GAMES,
Joseph
Victor
Born December 28th, 1929, Derby, England. Resided in Georgetown
for 35 years until recently this year when he moved to Point
Edward to be closer to his family. It is with great sorrow, sadness
and heavy hearts that we announce the sudden passing of Victor
GAMES on Monday, October 24th, 2005 at the Bluewater Health,
Palliative Care, Sarnia with all his family at his side. Victor
was the beloved husband of the late Jean
GAMES
(October 2004)
for 54 wonderful years. He was a caring loving father 'Pop' of
Diana and her husband John
KRITCH.
Proud grandfather of Lisa
and her husband Toby
BOUCHER and Dwayne
KRITCH and his fiancée
Maricris PANGILINAN.
Great-grandfather of Koral and Ethan
BOUCHER.
Brother of Mavis and her husband Cyril
SMITH of South Africa,
the late Gerald (2002) and his wife Yvonne of England, and Harold
and his wife Mavis of England. He will be greatly missed by his
Friends in Georgetown, those newly made Friends in Sarnia and
his fraternal brothers of the Masonic Lodges. Victor was Grand
Superintendent, Wellington District No. 4 (2000-2001), a member
and Past Master of Friendship Lodge, a member and Past Principal
of Halton Chapter Royal Arch Mason, a member of Credit Lodge,
a member of St. Clair Chapter and a member of the 18th Century
Degree Team. Our world has gone a little quieter today as one
of the great story tellers has gone on to share his stories with
the others on the other side of the rainbow. He has now gone
on to be with his beloved wife Jean, may they find each other
again. God Bless you both. Special thanks to Dr.
CHILVERS, the
Nurses and Staff at the Bluewater Health Russell St. Site, and
the Nurses and staff at Bluewater Health Palliative Care Unit.
Friends will be received at the J.S. Jones and son Funeral Home
and Cremation Centre, 11582 Trafalgar Road, north of Maple Ave.,
Georgetown, 905-877-3631 on Thursday from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. A
Masonic service to follow Thursday evening at 9 p.m. Funeral
Services will be held in the chapel on Friday, October 28th,
2005 at 11: 00 a.m. As expressions of sympathy, memorial donations
may be made to the Cancer Assistance Services of Halton Hills.
To send expressions of sympathy visit www.jsjonesandsonfuneralhome.com.
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KRITER o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2005-05-11 published
LAMB,
Jennie
Marie (formerly
LEWIS, née
WELDON)
At her residence on Tuesday, May 10, 2005, Jennie Marie
LAMB
of Rodney in her 77th year. Predeceased by her parents John
WELDON
and Olive BUTSON, husbands William
LEWIS and Harold
LAMB and
daughter Susan
RYBARSKY.
Dearly loved and sadly missed by her
life-time companion Ronald
BLACK of Rodney and children Rose
Marie GUYITT and her companion David
WYLLIE of Duart, Ruth (Lewis)
RYBARSKY of London, William
LEWIS and his wife
Isabel of West
Lorne, Wesley
LEWIS and his wife
Carrie of Edmonton, Donald
LEWIS
of Edmonton and Mary
CLARKE of Edmonton. Also survived by her
sister Jacquiline and her husband Dave
KRITER of Rodney and numerous
grandchildren and great grandchildren. She was a valued member
of Order of the Eastern Star Lodge #169 and an adherent of West
Lorne Baptist Church. Friends may call at the Rodney Chapel on
Wednesday 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. where service will be held on Thursday
at 11: 30 a.m. Pastor A.
KAUPS officiating. An Eastern Star service
will be held Wednesday evening at 8: 00 p.m. Cremation. If desired,
donations to West Lorne Baptist Church, Four Counties Health
Services or charity of choice would be appreciated. Arrangements
entrusted to Padfield Funeral Homes (519-785-0810)
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KRITER o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2005-08-27 published
KRITER,
Erma
(SIMPSON)
Peacefully, at Bobier Villa, Dutton on Thursday, August 25th
2005 Erma KRITER
(SIMPSON) of Dutton and formerly of West Lorne
in her 85th year. Predeceased by her husband Wilfred
KRITER (1980.)
Lovingly remembered by her children Anna Jean
RIPLEY and her
husband Bob of West Lorne, Lorne
KRITER and his wife
Helen of
Pt. Lambton and Marilyn
FODOR and Bill
TRASK of West Lorne. Dear
grandmother of Carol
CRUMP
(Mike,)
Laura
VERSTEEG (Tom,) Brian
KRITER (Sara), Brad
KRITER, Brenda
BELLAIRE and Steve (Lesley).
Also survived by her 8 greatgrandchildren. Predeceased by her
sister Marge
DAWDY and her brother Ralph
SIMPSON.
Friends may
call at the West Lorne Chapel on Sunday, August 28th, 2005 from
2-4 and 7-9 p.m. Funeral service will be conducted from the chapel
on Monday at 1: 30 p.m. Reverend J.
WHITE/WHYTE and Pastor R.
KARN officiating.
Interment Rodney Cemetery. If desired, memorial contributions
to the Saint Thomas-Elgin General Hospital, Bobier Villa or the
Parkinson's Society would be appreciated as your expression of
sympathy. Arrangements entrusted to Padfield Funeral Homes (519-785-0810).
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KRITICOS o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2005-02-02 published
DWYER,
Lynn
Ann
(May 4, 1951-February 1, 2005)
Of Campbell Avenue. Visitation 5-9 p.m. Thursday (Scripture reading
at 8 p.m.) at the Ryan and Odette Funeral Home, 1498 Dundas St.
W., at Dufferin, Toronto. Service 1: 30 p.m. Friday then to Beechwood
Cemetery. Bobby
DWYER predeceased his wife. Mrs.
DWYER is survived
by: children John
WEBB, Robert
DWYER, Bobbi
DWYER (Moose
PROANO),
Alan KRITICOS; 4 grandchildren. Parking is no problem - simply
enter from Dufferin, just north of Dundas.
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ARCHER, Vernon R. "Vern" (May 16, 1920-June 6, 2005)
It is with deep sadness that we announce Vern's death on Monday,
June 6, 2005 at Toronto General Hospital surrounded by his family.
Cherished husband and best friend of Patricia (Pat) for almost
61 years. Devoted and dearly loved dad of Leonore (Nick
BARNARD,)
Paul (Heather
MacDONALD,)
Marty
(Karen
KELLY,) Joanne (Keith
KRITZER,)
Larry
(Kirste
SPENCER) and Mary (predeceased May 24,
1974.) Proud grandpa of Matthew, (Clea
CLARK) and Martha
BARNARD,
Mary Elizabeth and Alastair
ARCHER,
Graham,
Erin and Emily
KRITZER
and Madeleine and Camille
ARCHER.
Delighted great-grandpa of
Ruby Rose BARNARD.
Treasured friend and brother-in-law of Sister
Frances HAYES (C.S.J.) and Leonore and Vern
MOORE.
Vern was the
youngest son of Margaret and Fred
ARCHER. He was predeceased
by his brothers Sydney, Leo and Russell. He will be lovingly
remembered by Syd's children Adele
ARCHER,
Rosemary
TUCKER, Lucille
KENNEDY,
Fred
ARCHER and their families. Vern will be sadly missed
by many nieces, nephews, great nieces, great nephews and a host
of wonderful Friends. Vern was a proud Toronto Star employee
for 36 years. When he retired in 1985 as Promotions and Public
Relations Manager he left a job he truly enjoyed. In retirement
he followed his heart to the Toronto Hunt Club where he enjoyed
18 years of golf and many special times with family and Friends.
The family will receive Friends at the Sherrin Funeral Home,
873 Kingston Road, (west of Victoria Park Ave.), Toronto 416-698-2861
on Wednesday from 6-9 p.m. and Thursday from 2-5 and 7-9 p.m.
Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at Saint John's Roman
Catholic Church (794 Kingston Road) on Friday, June 9, 2005 at
11 o'clock. Interment Holy Cross Cemetery, Thornhill. In lieu
of flowers, donations to St. Michael's Hospital Foundation, Good
Shepherd Refuge or a charity of one's choice would be appreciated.
The family would like to thank Dr. Sudi
DEVANESEN and Dr. Stuart
HUTCHINSON/HUTCHISON for their Friendship and many years of dedicated care.
Heartfelt gratitude to the wonderful staff on the 10th floor
Medical/Surgical Intensive Care Unit at Toronto General Hospital
for their kindness and compassion.
"We love you Dad"
"Rest in Peace, Vern"
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KRITZER o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2005-06-08 published
Vern ARCHER, 85: Bled Star blue
Drive for the business inspired peers
Worked fervently for Star social causes
By Isabel TEOTONIO,
Staff
Reporter
Vern ARCHER may not have had ink in his veins but he was a newspaperman
who bled Star blue.
"The Star was the love of his life," remembered his son Larry
ARCHER yesterday. "He loved the newspaper business. He loved
the daily adrenaline of it and he loved the people who were attracted
to it."
Vern ARCHER, who worked at the Star for 36 years, died peacefully
Monday at the age of 85 surrounded by his family in the Toronto
General Hospital after a brief battle with cancer.
Born in Toronto's east end in 1920,
ARCHER landed a job with
the newspaper he'd grown up with in 1948 and started out working
in the circulation department. While he toyed with the idea of
becoming a sports writer, he found his calling in public relations
and promotions. Once there, he poured all his energy into a paper
whose mission he fully believed in. He retired from that department
as manager in 1985 and was sent off by 300 of his closest Friends
who threw a superb bash for him at Maple Leaf Gardens.
"He left the Star at 65 but never really left the Star," said
ARCHER's son, Paul, a news editor at the Star. "He constantly
had suggestions for me on how to improve the paper.
"The Star was in his blood... My dad is probably reading tomorrow's
Star right now wherever he is."
Veteran reporter George
GAMESTER described
ARCHER as "a great
ambassador for the Star," who always had a "twinkle in his eye."
ARCHER believed the Star, because of it size, was uniquely positioned
to publicize and promote worthy events and was very conscious
of associating the paper's name with only good causes.
"He made no bones about his biases, he bled Star blue," said
ARCHER's son Larry.
"He felt that the Star prospered when it stayed true to its roots
as a compassionate small-L voice in the community."
ARCHER was heavily involved in publicizing both the Star's Fresh
Air Fund and Santa Claus Fund. In fact it was
ARCHER who created
the annual Christmas Carol concert at St. Paul's Anglican Church
on Bloor St. to raise proceeds for the Santa Claus Fund.
While his commitment to the job is legendary, particularly among
those who remember his involvement in launching the Sunday Star,
readers have
ARCHER to thank for pushing to have an Extra edition
on the day of the Blue Jays' first game in April 1977.
ARCHER
kept a framed copy of the edition on his wall.
"He was one of the old loyal Star people," said former colleague
Al SURMINSKY. "
His passion for the paper drove him."
While his work demanded much of him, there were very few nights
when ARCHER wasn't home for dinner with family, said Larry
ARCHER,
adding, "he led by example."
ARCHER leaves his wife
Patricia
ARCHER of 60 years, his daughters
Leonore BARNARD and Joanne
KRITZER and sons Paul, Martin and
Larry, as well as nine grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
He is pre-deceased by his youngest daughter, Mary
ARCHER, who
died in 1974 at 14.
Joanne KRITZER and Martin
ARCHER are also long-time Star employees.
KRITZER has worked over 30 years in the classified ad department
and Martin
ARCHER has worked 32 years in the circulation department.
Visitation at the Sherrin Funeral Home and Cremation Centre on
Kingston Rd. will be tonight from 6 to 9 and tomorrow between
2 and 5 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m.
A funeral mass is scheduled for 11 a.m. Friday at Saint John's
Catholic Church on Kingston Rd.
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KRITZWISER o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2005-10-27 published
Shizuye TAKASHIMA,
Artist And Writer: (1928-2005)
Japanese Canadian who was interned during the Second World War
published a moving and furious account of her experiences for
children and then lost her spark, writes Sandra
MARTIN
By Sandra MARTIN,
Thursday,
October 27, 2005, Page S7
Painter, writer and teacher Shizuye
TAKASHIMA was the author
of A Child in Prison Camp, the first book about the internment
of Japanese Canadians during the Second World War. Called Shichan
by family and Friends, Ms.
TAKASHIMA was the youngest of six
children of Senji and Teru
TAKASHIMA, a first-generation (Issei)
gardener and a housekeeper.
She was born three months prematurely, weighing less than three
pounds, and suffering from a congenital dislocation of both hips.
As a small child she spent a year in traction in hospital as
doctors tried unsuccessfully to correct her birth defect, which
meant she was a year late enrolling in elementary school. She
walked with a pronounced limp for the rest of her life.
After
Japan bombed Pearl Harbour on December 7, 1941, the
TAKASHIMA
family was caught up in reprisals against Japanese Canadians.
Before the war, there were more than 22,000 Japanese Canadians
in British Columbia, most of them either naturalized or native-born
Canadians. Their homes, farms and fishing boats were confiscated
and sold for paltry sums, single young men were sent to labour
camps, and families were relocated to eight internment camps
in the interior of B.C.
Her four older brothers were sent to work on road gangs in Ontario,
while Ms. TAKASHIMA, her father, mother and older sister were
removed to an internment camp outside the village of New Denver,
in the Kootenay Mountains near the Alberta-B.C. border. They
lived under surveillance in a hastily built one-bedroom wooden
house without electricity or running water, and were forced to
share their accommodation with another family. They had to walk
more than a mile to get drinking water and there was no school
beyond Grade 8.
In 1944, William Lyon Mackenzie King's Liberal government passed
a law saying Japanese Canadians who returned to British Columbia
after the end of the war were liable to be deported. Ms.
TAKASHIMA
joined her older sister Mary in Hamilton in September of 1945
and was reunited with the rest of her family in Toronto a year
later. She studied commercial art at Central Technical School
and then went to the Ontario College of Art (now the Ontario
College of Art and Design), graduating in fine arts in 1953.
She spent most of the next two decades travelling and studying
art in Europe, Mexico (at the Fine Arts Institute in San Miguel
Allende), New York (at the Pratt Graphic Art Centre), India,
Asia and Europe. Toronto remained her home base, where she showed
paintings, influenced by her travels, at the Jerrold Morris Gallery
in Toronto. Writing in The Globe, art critic Kay
KRITZWISER praised
the paintings from her 1964 show as "mummified figures blindly
searching in non-colour space."
A friend from those days says Ms.
TAKASHIMA had a studio on the
top floor of a mansion on Jarvis Street in Toronto. "She was
a tiny little thing, with a pronounced limp and the biggest mouth
I had ever heard. She could swear and she was sharp-tongued,"
said a friend who asked not to be named. "I remember her snapping
at a visitor, 'If I knew why I painted bound figures, I'd be
a writer.' "
May
Cutler, founding publisher of Tundra Books, met Ms.
TAKASHIMA
at the Fine Arts Institute in San Miguel Allende, probably in
1968. Ms. TAKASHIMA was painting and weaving and "I was immediately
interested in her background," said Ms. Cutler, with the result
that Ms. TAKASHIMA wrote and illustrated a book for children
about life in the internment camps.
Reading the ensuing manuscript, her "heart sank," Ms. Cutler
said from her Montreal home. "It was so awful... just a kind
of indignation letter that somebody might write to a newspaper...
with none of the living information. But every so often she had
these little sections that looked like poetry and suddenly it
came alive."
In one of these scenes, Shichan and her older sister (called
Yuki in the book) walk by an Royal Canadian Mounted Police office
"half hidden among the dark pines" and Yuki warns they are being
watched. Shichan looks at the closed door and says: "Their power
seems to come through the very walls. We walk quietly past."
"Do the whole book like this," commanded Ms. Cutler. The result
is an evocative and poignant account of daily life in an internment
camp, with all its deprivations, rivalries and small joys, accompanied
by Ms. TAKASHIMA's impressionistic watercolours (which are now
in the Osborne Collection of the Toronto Public Library).
The book had a huge impact. It went into several reprints, was
excerpted in newspapers and magazines, won a gold medal from
the Canadian Children's Library, and was published in several
countries, including Japan, where it was also turned into a musical.
A Child in Prison Camp marked a transition for Ms.
TAKASHIMA,
from painter to writer and illustrator, but there were other
more fundamental changes going on that had a profound impact
on her life and her art.
During her travels, she had embraced Agni Yoga, sometimes called
the teaching of "Living Ethics," a philosophy founded by the
Russian painter Nicholas Roerich and his wife, Helena Roerich
in the 1920s. In the five years she spent in New York at the
Pratt Institute, she became devoted to an Agni Yoga guru named
Ralph Harris Houston. She dedicated A Child in Prison Camp to
him.
Lorne
Berkowitz met Ms.
TAKASHIMA in New York in 1969. They were
both followers of Mr. Houston and they went to classes and meditated
together. She believed that all the great religions were different
paths toward a greater consciousness of God and the boundaries
and distinctions between them were mainly cultural, he explained.
Her art, as Ms.
KRITZWISER wrote in The Globe in 1971, altered
"largely due to her change in philosophy," to pastel paintings
based on interpretations of the planets, the cosmic system, and
peaceful cohabitation. "Our basic problems occur because we isolate
our religions," Ms.
TAKASHIMA told Ms.
KRITZWISER. "As long as
we think in 'I' terms, we'll never change."
Ms. Cutler also noticed the transformation. "Her early art was
fascinating, and then she became interested in eastern religions
and her art became very happy, lovely, pastel flowers." Noting
the contrast from the marvellous "spooky" and powerful works
done in the days when Ms.
TAKASHIMA was bitter at what had happened
to her family, and her later art, Ms. Cutler said, "I was glad
that she found happiness even though her early art was the most
powerful." Another observer said: "When she lost her anger, she
lost her edge as a painter."
In 1976, Ms.
TAKASHIMA began teaching watercolour classes in
the drawing and painting department of the Ontario College of
Art, a position she held until she reached retirement age. In
the 1980s she did the illustrations for a book called Kenji and
the Cricket written by the late Adele Wiseman.
She also became a supporter, although not a very vocal one, in
the movement to seek redress from the Canadian government for
the shame and economic loss the Japanese community suffered during
the war. She attended a press conference in Toronto in June of
1984 at which David Dingwall, then multiculturalism minister
in Pierre Trudeau's last Liberal government, announced that the
federal government couldn't apologize for the internment of Japanese
Canadians because the action was "legitimately taken by elected
representatives."
As reported in The Globe and Mail, she told him that his statements
did not "ring the right bell" for the community. "The government
is made up of human beings and they made an error. Why can they
not admit it?"
The Tory government of Brian Mulroney had no difficulty apologizing
for the actions of Mackenzie King's cabinet four decades earlier.
He signed a $12-million compensation package in 1988.
Ms. TAKASHIMA retired from the Ontario College of Art and Design
in 1993 and moved back to Vancouver, mainly to be nearer a brother
and sister who had also relocated to the West Coast and to avoid
the harsh Ontario winters. By then, Ms.
TAKASHIMA was very lame
and suffered from chronic bronchitis in the cold weather. She
wanted a respite from the climate and the slippery sidewalks.
Just before she left she was diagnosed with breast cancer. She
put off treatment until she had relocated.
Although she reconnected with her siblings and some old Friends
in Vancouver, she missed those she had left behind. Writer Joy
Kogawa, author of Obasan, the seminal novel about the Japanese-Canadian
experience, was visiting Vancouver this summer and went to see
her. "She was living in a basement apartment and all of her work
was around her, but she was very weak and very lonely. 'Never
move for the weather -- you can't leave your Friends,' she told
me."
A few weeks ago, Ms. Kogawa heard that Ms.
TAKASHIMA was in hospital
and went to visit. "She was very peaceful. She wasn't in any
pain and she knew what was happening to her, but she seemed okay
with it." Ms. Kogawa wrote "with love from all of your Friends
in Toronto," on a board in her room. "And the next day I heard
she had died."
Shizuye (Shichan)
TAKASHIMA was born in Vancouver on June 12,
1928. She died of breast cancer in the palliative-care unit at
Vancouver General Hospital on September 21, 2005. She was 77.
She is survived by an older sister and brother and by many nieces
and nephews.
A memorial service is to be held on Friday evening at the Japanese
Canadian Cultural Centre, 6 Garamond Court, Don Mills, Ontario
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Kay KRITZWISER,
Journalist: (1910-2005)
Reporter who started out as a 17-year-old editor of a children's
magazine became a fearless feature writer, provocative art critic
and 'a kind of Welcome Lady' for The Globe and Mail, writes Sandra
MARTIN
By Sandra MARTIN
With files by the late Donn
DOWNIE, Friday,
December 9, 2005, Page S9
When most women reporters were writing about teas, weddings and
the latest in hemlines, Kay
KRITZWISER was reporting on immigrants'
problems, starving children, battered babies and the status of
the working woman. She was among the first women reporters in
Canada to compete head-to-head with her male counterparts. The
newspapers she worked for were better because of her verve and
insight.
"The lady knows how to bat an eyelash, swivel a hip, show off
an ankle or arch an eyebrow," the late Richard "Dick"
DOYLE said
about her in a tribute in which he described her as the "daughter
of Cartier, the sister of Givenchy -- the nemesis of Levi Strauss."
He went on to deconstruct her devastating brand of seduction
and betrayal as an interview technique.
"A rustle of silk announces her arrival, a breathless voice begins
the interview, a laugh like Bacall's punctuates the questions.
Tiny gasps greet the most mundane of responses to her guileless
prodding into the dark recesses of the hapless fellow on the
other side of her note pad. How gently she applauds the confession,
how sympathetically she receives the acknowledged weakness....
Until the interview appears in print."
Veteran
Globe journalist Michael
VALPY remembers meeting her
in the 1960s. "Kay was an incredibly elegant, warm, sophisticated
woman, a female boulevardier with a healthy soupçon of Auntie
Mame. She dressed very stylishly. I recall seeing her at events
in hat and gloves -- I mean, not decades ago but as a matter
of course. She was a rarity in journalism, an intellectual, well-read,
an engaging conversationalist. I think of her as sparkling."
None of that famous style belies her success as a fearless feature
writer and an engaging and provocative art critic. Art historian
David Silcox, now president of Sotheby's Canada, predated Ms.
KRITZWISER as an art critic at The Globe. "She was a very, very
good reporter, more than a critic, but she was always curious
and she loved writing about art and artists. She was somebody
who was known and respected and liked by artists, curators and
collectors."
Former
Globe art critic John Bentley
MAYS met her in the newsroom
after he was appointed art critic of The Globe in 1980. "I came
upon this birdlike lady with sharp clear eyes and a great smile
and she said 'I'm Kay
KRITZWISER,' he said. "That meant something
to me because she was the witness to a generation of Toronto
and Canadian artists dominated by Harold Town and the Isaacs
Gallery."
She was a great chronicler of that period, he said, as a feature
writer who could do wonderful interviews. "She knew the game
and the players very well."
Kathleen Alice
MULLAN was born in Regina five years after Saskatchewan
joined Confederation and while Sir Wilfrid Laurier was prime
minister. She was one of seven children of Joseph
MULLAN, an
Englishman who had served in the Boer War before immigrating
to Canada, and his wife Lucy.
Ms. KRITZWISER began writing as a teenager, submitting articles
to The Torchbearers Magazine, a supplement designed to encourage
young writers that was part of the Regina Leader-Post's Saturday
edition. After taking a secretarial course, she worked for an
insurance company before being appointed, at the age of 17, the
editor of the Leader-Post's young people's magazine.
She became a full-time reporter, but quit in 1933 to marry Harold
H. KRITZWISER, a reporter and editorial writer at the paper.
He was in his early 40s when he died of a heart attack in 1946,
leaving Ms.
KRITZWISER with a six-year-old son, David Erik to
raise.
She went back to the Leader-Post as an editorial writer and wrote
K.M.K.'s column three times a week. It appeared on the editorial
page and was "about anything and everything" that caught her
fancy, but usually about social and current affairs, according
to her son, who is now a freelance writer in Vancouver. She was
hired away by The Globe and Mail as a feature writer in 1956.
The late Oakley
DALGLEISH was editor of the newspaper at the
time, but her real mentor was the late Dick
DOYLE, who was the
first managing editor of the Weekly, The Globe magazine that
began publication on May 4, 1957.
In his memoirs, Hurley-Burly, Mr.
DOYLE recalled assigning her
to write "the human side" of a big series on immigration. She
was "a kind of Welcome Lady who gave special attention to the
day-by-day problems of the newcomers and their old Canadian neighbours,
the resident White, Anglo-Saxon, Protestants who didn't always
know what to expect of the recent arrivals," Mr.
DOYLE wrote.
He said her major impact came, though, with a series on child
welfare, "The One Who Never Grew Up."
Ms. KRITZWISER had a distinctive style that defied the conventional
rules of daily journalism. She spurned the "who, what, where,
when and how" first paragraph, preferring instead a scene-setter
or an anecdote that would get the reader into the story. The
essential facts would still be there, but the reader was permitted
to swallow them in small gulps while she told her story.
"When Shirley Ann Barnhardt, in the first few weeks of her life,
went to live in one of the Sunset cabins on Highway 17, a mile
west of the town of Pembroke in Renfrew County, there were still
a few stubborn roses blooming among the painted jockeys and ornamental
birds in the circular garden," she wrote in a classic example
of her style. "The hills of the upper Ottawa Valley were a backdrop
for the white frame cabin and not too far away ran the Ottawa
River. It promised to be a fine place to put out a baby's pram
come the next summer."
She followed up that painterly opening with a zinger of a second
paragraph: "When Shirley Ann Barnhardt died on January 27 in
the seventh month of her life of malnutrition, dehydration and
pneumonia, an icy wind blew in a broken window of the squalid
cabin and the rose bushes scraped in the wind above the snow.
A dog sniffed at frozen garbage outside the door. Inside, the
cold air blowing in from the river could not clear the smell."
In his analysis, Mr.
DOYLE wrote that the "poignancy of the scene
set the stage for a ruthless examination of society's failure
to provide even the flimsiest protection for the helpless."
The subjects of many of Ms.
KRITZWISER's stories are still in
the headlines today. In 1959, when credit cards were a new and
a largely unfamiliar phenomenon, she wrote that they would eventually
replace cash. In 1961, she spotted Metro Toronto's urban sprawl
and the problems it created for the commuter. She noted, as others
are still noting, that commuters are wedded to their cars and
will take them to work regardless of parking costs and inconvenience.
Although much of her work appeared in the old Globe magazine,
she was frequently assigned to cover Royal tours when they were
regarded as big news by Canadian newspapers. She was also often
asked to interview visiting celebrities. The list included Edward
G. Robinson, Liberace, Cary Grant, Truman Capote, Elvis Presley
and Zsa Zsa Gabor. Her byline also appeared on book and movie
reviews.
She was best known in the latter part of her career as an art
critic, a position for which she had no formal training. When
she was offered the job, after The Globe's art critic, Pearl
McCARTHY, died in 1965, she said, "I don't know anything about
art," according to her son. "Well, you can learn," her son remembers
Mr. DOYLE retorting.
She held the post for a decade until she retired in 1975. Turning
65 didn't mean she stopped working. She went to India, China,
and South America, either privately or on assignment as a travel
writer, for The Globe and other outlets. As well, she wrote extensively
about the arts, read widely and kept up with a wide circle of
Friends, until illness finally slowed her down in her 90s.
Kay KRITZWISER was born in Regina, Saskatchewan., on February
25, 1910. She died in Toronto yesterday of cancer. She was 95.
She leaves her son David and his wife. A memorial service is
being planned in Toronto.
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Kay▼ -- I Remember
By Karen YORK,
Saturday,
December 10, 2005, Page S9
Karen YORK, former Globe and Mail arts editor, also writes about
Kay KRITZWISER:
At a time when journalists seemed to pride themselves on unconventional
(read sloppy) attire, Kay was always impeccably turned out: matching
coat and hat, gloves (usually), rarely pants (if ever), but always
with a distinctive, rakish little thumb-your-nose-at-convention
detail such as an outrageous brooch, an eye-catching colourful
scarf, or a purse that looked more like a sculpture than a functional
object. And always with bright lipstick that was matched only
by the sharp sparkle in her eyes. She went to the galleries tirelessly,
always determined to catch the work of the young up-and-comers
as well as established artists. She always had an encouraging
word, but never pulled her punches in her reviews, which were
balanced and sensible and assumed the reader had some smarts.
She could be quite scathing, but never nasty. She didn't condescend
to either her readers or the artists.
One of my most treasured little "objets" is a carved wooden head
of a cherub that Kay brought back for me from one of her trips
to Europe. It is a memento of a kind and generous soul. Today,
I treasure it even more.
A memorial service for Kay
KRITZWISER will be held at 2 p.m.
on December 19 at The Arts and Letters Club, 14 Elm Street, Toronto.
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Kay▲▼ -- I Remember
By Lyman POTTS,
Saturday,
December 10, 2005 Page, S9
Burlington, Ontario, -- Former broadcaster Lyman
POTTS of Burlington,
Ontario, writes about Kay
KRITZWISER, whose obituary appeared
yesterday.
Six years younger than Kay, I was one of the avid readers of
the Torchbearers Magazine. So was my wife-to-be, Micky
BOLE,
who contributed poetry and was encouraged by Kay and became a
"torchbearer." (There were "torchbearers" from as far away as
Australia.) In my teens, while haunting the halls, press room,
editorial room and radio station in the Regina Leader-Post building,
I got to know Kay and her husband, Harold. When I was moved to
the Toronto head office of Standard Broadcasting in 1963, after
launching the Canadian Talent Library the previous year, Kay
gave me a nice review in The Globe and Mail.
Kay was a long-time friend of Nancy
(GRAHAM)
CALDWELL -- another
Regina girl -- who married Spence
CALDWELL, founder of the CTV
television network. When he sold CTV to the participating stations,
Spence and Nancy retired to a farm near Bolton, Ontario One night,
Kay was coming to join the
CALDWELLs for dinner. Spence picked
her up at a bus stop near the farm. On their way to the farm,
a tractor-trailer pulled out from a coffee shop and Spence crashed
into it. Spence was killed, but Kay survived. Kay and Nancy remained
close and often travelled together.
I lost track of Kay when Nancy went to live with a relative in
Edmonton and died there. My wife and I often wondered what had
become of Kay, and we are saddened to hear of her passing.
A memorial service for Kay
KRITZWISER will be held at 2 p.m.
on December 19 at The Arts and Letters Club, 14 Elm Street, Toronto.
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Kay▲▼ -- I Remember
By Jean JOHNSON,
Wednesday,
December 14, 2005, Page S9
Jean JOHNSON of Harbourfront Centre Craft Projects in Toronto
writes about Kay
KRITZWISER, whose obituary appeared on December
We became Friends in the 1970s when I was the curator of the
Merton Gallery in Toronto and Kay came to review our exhibitions.
Her interest was open and sincere, never superficial, but always
positive, as if she were seeing them for the first time.
Kay was always dressed immaculately, creatively and confidently
with a courageous use of warm colour and style that was always
in good taste. No matter where she was, in the country, the city
or the jungle, she looked fabulous. Until the very end, she had
to have "her face on" before she could converse.
Kay and I travelled together often and I learned that she was
a natural flirt. One Christmas in the 1980s, we visited Caracas.
We flew down to Angel Falls for New Year's Eve, stayed in a jungle
hut and joined a large group of Japanese tourists for dinner
in a large, straw-roofed dining room. While we boated down the
Caroni River, she found time to flirt with the Guardia Nacional
while enjoying the jungle on either side.
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Kay▲▼ -- I Remember
By Erika RITTER,
Thursday,
December 15, 2005, Page S9
Toronto writer and broadcaster Erika
RITTER writes about Kay
KRITZWISER, whose obituary ran on December 9.
In Regina back in the 1950s, Kay
KRITZWISER was an elegant young
widow who worked for the Leader-Post, while raising a small son
on her own. That would have been enough for most women -- or
men. But Kay also set herself the challenge of starting up a
children's theatre. My mother made sure my brother and I got
to see those shows. But it's Kay I credit -- or blame -- for
leading me, however unintentionally, toward a life in the theatre.
In a parochial Prairie city of half a century ago, she opened
up a world of dramatic possibility for hundreds of suggestible
kids.
My mother took me and my brother to see those plays. She had
worshipped Kay ever since the early 1930s, when the two women
met at the Leader-Post. Kay, still a teenager herself, edited
a supplement to showcase the work of adolescent authors. As one
of those young writers, my mother never forgot Kay's kindness,
nor her editorial gifts -- nor her outstanding chic.
Later, Kay left Regina for a job down east at The Globe and Mail.
After moving to Toronto myself many years later, Irenewed the
contact -- initially for my mother's sake, but ultimately for
my own.
In her Davisville Avenue apartment, hung with wonderful art,
Kay would demand, "Ideas! I'm hungry to hear some fresh ideas!"
Mindful of all that she'd given my mother and me back in Regina,
I always did my best to oblige her.
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Kay▲▼ -- I Remember
By Frances
GAGE,
Wednesday,
December 21, 2005, Page S7
Sculptor Frances
GAGE also writes about Kay
KRITZWISER.
What a wonderful memory I have of Kay. She covered the construction
and shipping of my statue Discovery of the Hands for what is
now Fanshawe College in London, Ontario To make it I had to rent
a now-razed coach house at Davenport and Dupont in Toronto. My
biggest surprise came when it was safely loaded on to Robert
FLAHERTY's flat bed, on it's way to London, and I saw tears in
her eyes. She was a great mix of tough and sweet.
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Kay▲▼ -- I Remember
By Rudy BIES,
Wednesday,
December 21, 2005, Page S7
Mississauga, Ontario -- Rudy
BIES of Mississauga, Ontario, writes
about Kay KRITZWISER, whose obituary appeared on December 9.
For many years, we had enjoyed only intermittent telephone contact
regarding Arthur Shilling, a favourite artist. In 1986, he died
and I phoned Kay with the news and she finally asked to meet
me. I went to her apartment and she greeted me with fresh-baked
muffins and tea and showed me a log of phone calls where she
had kept notes on 10 years of our conversations. Later, we visited
Arthur Shilling's studio together. For many years after that,
my wife Gloria and I accompanied Kay to art shows and other events
with our young family in tow.
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Kay▲▼ -- I Remember
By Walter GRAY/GREY,
Thursday,
December 22, 2005, Page S9
Toronto -- Walter
GRAY/GREY of Toronto writes about Kay
KRITZWISER,
whose obituary appeared on December 9.
I knew her as a Globe and Mail colleague and as a dear friend,
party playmate and artiste. With her early training at the Regina
Little Theatre, she treasured the memory of her dance with a
ruby jewel in her navel before an enthusiastic Regina audience
as a particular artistic triumph. At office parties, she vied
with beloved columnist Lotta
DEMPSEY, a frustrated tap dancer
who did an energetic Shuffle off to Buffalo. My family recalls
Kay's table-top performance of her Duck Lake Ballet for the benefit
of then Mr. Canada, John Fisher. She reached artistic heights
at the family chalet at Blue Mountain -- with me at the piano,
my nephew on the drums -- doing a Gypsy Rose Lee striptease --
right down to her body stocking. She had great legs.
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Kay▲ -- I Remember
By Shirley
ENDICOTT,
Wednesday,
December 28, 2005, Page S7
Shirley ENDICOTT of Toronto writes about Kay
KRITZWISER, whose
obituary appeared on December 9.
Kay was my neighbour in the dining room at the retirement centre
where I have been living for 2½ years. About six weeks before
she died, I went to visit her in palliative care. "I used to
read poetry at night to get myself to sleep," she said. I offered
to read aloud to her from her bedside collection of 1,500 poems.
I began with ones she had marked. She was thrilled. Not only
did she recite some of the words with me, she lifted up her arms
and waved them as though to conduct me through the rhythm of
the lines. I usually have trouble speaking loudly enough for
people to hear, but this response enabled my voice to be strong
and have lots of expression.
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KRIVONOSOV,
Walentyna
At Versa Care Nursing Home on Tuesday, November 29, 2005. Walentyna
KRIVONOSOV, in her 82nd year. Beloved wife of Alex and dear mother
of Liz and her husband John
KENNY. "
Lena" was kind and generous
of spirit to the end. Friends will be received at the Sherrin
Funeral Home, 873 Kingston Road (west of Victoria Park Avenue),
Toronto (416-698-2861) on Friday, December 2, 2005 from 2-4 and
6-8 p.m. Cremation to follow.
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STATE,
Albert
Albert passed away suddenly on February 28, 2005, in his 97th
year. Beloved husband for 69 years of Millie, dearly loved father
of Rochelle
KRIVY (Boris), Mark and Jay (Diana). Greatly missed
by grandchildren and great-grandchildren, sister Rose
GERRARD
and brother Dr. David
STATE.
Sadly predeceased by brother Jack
and grand_son Colin
KRIVY.
Albert was an accomplished and respected
educator and a leader in his community in Hamilton for 58 years.
Donations in his memory will be welcomed and may be made to the
State Youth Library, c/o Temple Anshe Sholom, 215 Cline Avenue
North, Hamilton, Ontario, L8S 4A1. Phone 905-528-0121.
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VAN
WATTEGHEM,
Richard
Alan (1956-2005)
Dick VAN
WATTEGHEM, after a courageous battle, passed away on
June 22, 2005. Dick was born on August 17th, 1956 in Chatham,
Ontario, graduated with a B.A.A. - Interior Design from Ryerson
in 1979. Dick moved to Calgary in 1990, to form Martens/VanWatteghem
Design
Consultants
Ltd., with Sharon
MARTENS, but due to illness,
stepped away from the business in 1995. Dick brought his great
sense of style, his creative talent, and his unique, sweet sense
of humour to everyone he met. Leaving to mourn his loss is his
mother Vi VAN
WATTEGHEM of Chatham, his brother Frank (Cathy)
of Windsor, his niece Shannon (Randy
LEVASSEUR) and nephew Trevor
(Karen KENNY) and their children Tommy, Madeline and Mia. Dick
was predeceased by his father Frank in 1973, his great friend
and colleague Peter
RICE in 1994 and his little 'Angel' Dillon
in 2004. Dick will also be missed but will live on in the hearts
of his extended family - Lynn
McGREGOR from Toronto and from
Calgary - Sharon
MARTENS and Robert
HLADY, Pat
LARSON, Wendy
ARNETT,
Jeff KAPLER, Britt
SIMMONS, Wendy Ovaris
ANDERSON and Gary
KRIVY.
Memorial tributes may be made to Beswick House (c/o The Sharp
Foundation, Suite 530, #2, 3012 - 17 Avenue S.E., Calgary, T2A
0P9); in thanks for the caring attention Dick received.
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KRESS,
Keith▼
Grant▼
Keith passed away at age 61, on Wednesday, September 14th, 2005
at Sunnybrook Hospital after a brief battle with cancer. Beloved
husband of Lorraine
(BERTOL.)
Loving▼ and devoted father of daughter
Karen and son Scott and his wife Susan. Proud grandfather to
Amy and Colin. Survived by his loving sister Diane and her husband
John O'CONNOR and their children Kelly, Carolyn, Suzanne and
families. Dear son-in-law of Lydia and Nello
BERTOL and brother-in-law
to Diane HISCOX, Loretta
BERTOL, Zora
KRIZ and Anita
SAUNDERS
and their families. Keith appreciated the support of his Friends
during his illness. Friends may call on Saturday, September 17th,
from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. at the R.S. Kane Funeral Home (6150 Yonge
Street, at Goulding, south of Steeles). Funeral service will
be held at the Chapel on Sunday September 18th, 2005 at 11 o'clock.
Donations may be made to the charity of your choice.
Condolences www.rskane.ca. R.S. Kane 416-221-1159
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KRESS,
Keith▲
Grant▲
Keith passed away at age 61, on Wednesday, September 14th, 2005
at Sunnybrook Hospital after a brief battle with cancer. Beloved
husband of Lorraine
(BERTOL.)
Loving▲ and devoted father of daughter
Karen and son Scott and his wife Susan. Proud grandfather to
Amy and Colin. Survived by his loving sister Diane and her husband
John O'CONNOR and their children Kelly, Carolyn, Suzanne and
families. Dear son-in-law of Lydia and Nello
BERTOL and brother-in-law
to Diane HISCOX, Loretta
BERTOL, Zora
KRIZ and Anita
SAUNDERS
and their families. Keith appreciated the support of his Friends
during his illness. Friends may call on Saturday, September 17th,
from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. at the R.S. Kane Funeral Home (6150 Yonge
Street, at Goulding, south of Steeles). Funeral service will
be held at the Chapel on Sunday, September 18th, 2005 at 11 o'clock.
Donations may be made to the charity of your choice. Condolences
www.rskane.ca.
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HURREN,
Mona (formerly
RANSOM, née
FERRIER)
Gone to be with her Lord on Wednesday, August 10, 2005 at The
William Osler Health Centre. Mona
HURREN
(RANSOM) (née
FERRIER),
beloved wife of the late Tony
RANSOM and Douglas
HURREN.
Loving
mother of Judy Ann and her husband Ron
CLAYTON,
Joan
Marie and
her husband Tom
KRIZMANCIC and Sharon
TONI.
Sadly missed by her
grandchildren Joe and Angela
PARKS,
Daniel
KRIZMANCIC, Brenda
and Wayne SCHREIBER and Michael, Jason and Leanne
BREESE and
her great-granddaughter Tonya
TONI. Dear sister of Doreen
SCOTT,
and the late Lois
WHITE/WHYTE and Glenn
FERRIER.
Also missed by her
longtime friend Aunt Cressy. Friends may call at The Scott Funeral
Home "Brampton Chapel", 289 Main St. N., Brampton (905-451-1100)
on Friday from 2-4 p.m. and 7-9 p.m. Funeral Service will be
held on Saturday, August 13, 2005 at 11: 00 a.m. in The Heart
Lake United Church, 85 Sandalwood Pkwy. Private interment to
take place in Erin Cemetery. Friends are invited to sign the
book of condolences at www.obituariestoday.com.
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