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ANSARI
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ANSLEY
ANSON
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ANSTEE
ANSTETT
ANSTEY
ANSTICE
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ANSARA,
Albert
Passed away peacefully on Friday, September 2, 2005 in his 90th
year. Loving brother of Edward, Florence, Helen, Joseph and his
wife Rika and the late Christine, Charles, Mary, Claire and Samuel.
Beloved son of the late Sadie and McKoll
ANSARA. He will be missed
by his many nieces and nephews. A special thanks to the staff
of Nisbet Lodge, 740 Pape Ave., Toronto, Ontario. for their excellent
and caring service during his residency for the past 11 years.
Friends may call at the Ralph Day Funeral Home, 180 Danforth
Ave., (east of Broadview subway) on Tuesday, September 6 from
2-4 and 7-9 p.m. Please call the funeral home for interment information,
416-463-3870. (Evening supervised parking at rear of funeral
home).
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HALNAN,
Velma
Ellen (née
KNOWLES)
At Grey Bruce Health Services, Southampton, on Friday, April
15, 2005. Velma
HALNAN (née
KNOWLES) of Southampton, in her 91st
year. Wife of the late George W.
HALNAN. Dear mother of George
Kenneth HALNAN of Aurora. Precious grandmother of Melodie Ann
Ellen and her husband Shad
ANSARI of Toronto, and Andrew
HALNAN
of Brampton. Beloved sister of Eileen
WINTON of Unionville and
Shirley Ann
KNOWLES of Southampton. Also survived by her sisters-in-law,
Helen KNOWLES of Toronto, Lois
KNOWLES of Ajax, and Margaret
KNOWLES of Oshawa. Fondly remembered by her special Friends Andrea
and Alan RITCHIE of Brampton and Jean
INNES of Southampton. Sadly
missed by her many nieces and nephews and Friends of the community.
Predeceased by her parents, Albert and Gladys
KNOWLES, by her
brothers, Bert, Roy, Wilfred, William, Warren, Bruce, Carl, and
by her sister, Jean
McPHIE. At
Velma's request there will be
no visitation. Cremation. A Celebration of Velma
HALNAN's
Life
will be held in the Chapel of the Eagleson Funeral Home, Southampton,
on Saturday, April 30, 2005 at 1 p.m. A Time of Fellowship and
Sharing will follow in the Family Centre of the funeral home.
A Service for the interment of ashes will be held at Prospect
Cemetery, 1450 St. Clair Ave. West, Toronto, on Monday, May 2,
2005 at 3 p.m. Expressions of remembrance to the Southampton
United Church or to the Heart and Stroke Foundation. Condolences
may be forwarded to the family through www.eaglesonfuneralhome.
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Bob McADOREY,
Broadcaster: 1935-2005
Deejay who helped determine what Toronto's youth listened to
in the sixties went on to enjoy a 27-year run as a popular and
irreverent figure on Global television
By F.F. LANGAN,
Special to The Globe and Mail, Wednesday, February
9, 2005 - Page S9
Toronto -- If you knew Peggy Sue, you knew Bob
McADOREY.
That's
because, with his pile of curly hair and horn-rimmed glasses,
the Toronto disc jockey was a ringer for Buddy Holly, the songwriter
and singer from Texas whose song was a hit in 1959. The two men
were born 10 months apart --
McADOREY in 1935, Holly in 1936
and actually met in the mid-1950s when Mr.
McADOREY was a
disc jockey in Guelph, Ontario, and the singer was on a tour
of Canada.
"His job was to introduce Buddy Holly at a concert at Kitchener.
When he went on stage, the crowd went wild, and Bob though 'Gee,
I didn't know I was this popular,' " remembered his sister Pat
RUSSELL. "Of course, they thought he was Buddy Holly."
For decades, Mr.
McADOREY was the entertainment commentator on
Global Television; he retired less than five years ago. But in
an earlier era, he was a household name in Southern Ontario.
In 1960, just a few months after Buddy Holly died in a plane
crash in 1959, his look-alike joined Toronto's
CHUM.
Almost overnight,
Bob McADOREY became the top disc jockey at
CHUM, the No. 1 rock
station in the country. He was astonished when the station paid
him what he was asking for -- $7,200 a year (about $50,000 in
today's money, according to the Bank of Canada's inflation calculator).
"Bob McADOREY, whose face is as well known in Toronto as Mayor
Givens, has the most power to dictate what pop music Ontario
teens listen to," wrote the Toronto Telegram in 1966.
Not only was he the on-air man in the key 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. slot,
he was also the music director. He chose the records the other
six disc jockeys played. He and the other disc jockeys decided
on CHUM's
Top 10, which sent kids to record stores to buy records
with a big hole in the middle and a song on each side. They spun
at 45 revolutions a minute and were called 45s.
"He alone commands what goes on the hit parade in Canada," wrote
The
Globe's
Blake
KIRBY in 1968. "Middle-aged squares who run
record stores use the
CHUM chart, the weekly list of what
McADOREY
is playing and plugging as a buying guide."
Along the way, he shared the footlights with such big-name visitors
as the Beatles and the Rolling Stones.
The CHUM hit parade made records such as The Unicorn by the Irish
Rovers. Mr.
McADOREY, a sentimental Irish-Canadian, pushed the
record, which sold 140,000 copies in Canada and a million in
the United States. But he didn't like everything on the
CHUM
chart. It was a business, after all.
"We're playing records here which I just can't bear to listen
to, but I wouldn't let that influence what goes on the air,"
Mr. McADOREY once told The Globe and Mail. His sister said that
when he went home after work, he was so sick of rock 'n' roll
that he put earphones on and listened to classical music.
Like many successful big-city disc jockeys, Mr.
McADOREY also
ran dances on the weekends -- events with such names as Bob McAdorey's
Canadian Bandstand or Canadian Hopville. He and a couple of other
disc jockeys owned a company called Teen Scene Ltd., which put
on dances in towns all over Southern Ontario.
After a long spell on
CHUM,
Bob
McADOREY either was too old --
he was well into his 30s -- or too tired, and so he suddenly
found himself fired. Unlike the regular corporate world, where
people resign, in radio they are just plain sacked. Disc jockeys
almost wear it as a badge of honour.
"There are no hard feelings," he told an entertainment writer
in 1972 after he had been sacked from
CFTR following a stint
at CFGM. "I was told that it was either the station's new music-and-contests
format or me." Within days, he had rejoined radio station
CFGM.
A few years later, he morphed into television. No one told him
that radio types, from the hot side of the Marshall McLuhan equation,
are not supposed to be able to make the switch to the cool world
of television. He perched on his stool in 1973 and performed
for about 27 years.
Bob McADOREY was born within earshot of the Niagara Falls. His
father worked as a machinist on the railway and the whole family
lived near both the tracks and the roundhouse at Niagara Falls,
Ontario
For the rest of his life, Mr.
McADOREY maintained a love
affair with trains and rode them at every opportunity.
He went to high school at Stamford Collegiate. An Irish Catholic,
he was one of two non-Protestants in the class. The other was
Barbara FRUM, later the host of The Journal and
As It Happens
on Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. The two would spend the
religious class in another room, enjoying their time off.
In Grade 12, Mr.
McADOREY started work at the local radio station,
doing a program in the early morning before class. "One day,
the station manager told me to go on air and do the play-by-play
of a local baseball game," he told the Toronto Star in 2000.
"I didn't know the players' names and I didn't know much about
baseball, so I sat in the bleachers and interviewed the spectators
and it seemed to work."
After that, he was hooked. For a time, he worked all over --
including radio station
CJDC in remote Dawson's Creek, British
Columbia
Even then, he was fairly outrageous. "
CJDC had access
to Canadian Broadcasting Corporation feeds," he said in 2000.
"But nobody monitored us, so we sold everything -- the one o'clock
time signal to a jewellery store, the Queen's Christmas Message
brought to you by Sammy's Bar and Grill."
But it was soon after he had moved to Guelph, Ontario, that things
really began to happen and he hit the big time at the age of
24 by working for
CHUM.
Though he may have been at the top of the pop game in the Toronto
of the sixties, he also became a national figure at Global as
it expanded from a base in Southern Ontario to become the country's
third network. He never applied for a job in television, it was
just chance.
Bill CUNNINGHAM, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation foreign
correspondent brought in to run Global News, hired him after
he saw him speak during a tour of the new television station.
At the time, Mr.
McADOREY was working for Alan
SLAIGHT, a prescient
broadcaster who had run
CHUM, bought
CFGM and was one of the
early owners of Global. Mr.
CUNNINGHAM's plan was to lighten
up the newscast and hire a kind of humourist-commentator. Thus,
Mr. McADOREY covered entertainment and did light pieces for the
newscast, heading out with a cameraman to find what he could.
Once, during an Air Canada strike, he drifted out to Toronto's
Pearson International Airport and happened to find Terminal 2
entirely deserted. The scene made irresistible camera fodder.
The pair had time to erect an impromptu bowling alley and roll
a few balls before the party was broken up by patrolling policemen.
The show was an enduring success. It helped that Mr.
McADOREY
was good-looking, possessed a great voice and was totally unaffected
and unpretentious. Behind the scenes, though, Global was in turmoil
and not just financially.
The network kept trying to reinvent itself. One idea was to bring
in an untried newsreader, Suzanne
PERRY, who was one of Pierre
TRUDEAU's press aides and whose son, Matthew
PERRY, went on to
fame in the sitcom Friends. Sadly, Ms.
PERRY was put on air before
she was ready and that experiment failed.
A short while afterward, the network tried something called News
at Noon, with Bob
McADOREY doing entertainment, Mike
ANSCOMBE
the sports, and John
DAWE, business. The three of them joked,
made fun of each other, and did and said things you weren't supposed
to see on television. All of a sudden, they had a huge audience,
unheard of at that time of day.
"We broke new ground with 300,000 viewers at noon," said business
reporter John
DAWE. "
Then it expanded and we did the 5: 30 news
as well. We worked together for 14 years."
As he matured, Mr.
McADOREY lost his Buddy Holly looks. Instead,
he was often mistaken for another famous person with glasses
and a mass of curly hair -- Ken
TAILOR/TAYLOR, the Canadian ambassador
to Iran who sheltered American colleagues during the 1979-80
hostage crisis.
At Global, the news department kept trying new things and new
people, though the on-air staff remained pretty much the same.
One producer didn't like the jocular format. And Mr.
McADOREY
didn't like him. He rebelled by being provocative on air.
"It's Friday, and I didn't really feel much like working today.
The boss is out of town so I took it easy this afternoon, stretching
out in my office, reading and daydreaming," he began his part
of the 6 p.m. newscast on April 8, 1983. It got him fired.
"Unprofessional and insulting to the viewers," read the note
from his pompous producer. The viewers thought otherwise. Phone
lines buzzed and letters landed on all the right desks. Two weeks
later, the producer was fired and Bob
McADOREY was rehired.
As host of Entertainment Desk from 1991 to 1997, he guided it
through many lively segments. Among the most memorable was the
appearance of comedienne Judy Tenuta. "[She] pretty well took
over the show, which bothered some viewers but not me," he once
said. "Her wild style made for bizarre television. Most of the
interview was done with Judy sitting on my lap making semi-lewd
comments."
For all that, he never did like producers. At the time of his
retirement in July, 2000, Andrew
RYAN of The Globe and Mail asked
him what advice he would give to aspiring young entertainment
journalists. "Producers are dorks, actors are jerks," Mr.
McADOREY
answered. "The only ones worth talking to are directors."
Having been asked to retire, he said he had no expectations of
a gold watch. Rather, "how about a gold boot up the butt? Retirement
was not my idea. I always thought I had a few more good years
left."
Instead, he chose to retire quietly at his home in Niagara-On-The-Lake,
Ontario His main hobby was reading and he was something of an
authority on James Joyce. An Irish nationalist, he had a lifelong
obsession with the great Dublin writer.
Robert Joseph
McADOREY was born in Niagara Falls, Ontario, on
July 24, 1935. He died on February 5 at St. Catharines, Ontario
He was 70 and had suffered prolonged illness. He is survived
by daughter Colleen, sister Pat and brother Terry. He was predeceased
by his wife and by two of three children.
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LEWIS,
Audrey
(ANSELL) (May 10, 1924-April 3, 2004)
In loving memory of my dearest sister and best friend.
A Sister,
She's the one who dreams with you, grows with you.
Shares with you some of the funniest, saddest, sweetest and most
memorable moments in life.
She's one of the precious few who can see into your heart.
Your one and only Sister,
Ruth (ANSELL)
WALLACE.
"I'll remember April"
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ANSELL o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2005-02-02 published
ANSELL,
Margaret
A. "
Curly"
Suddenly at her home in Aurora on Monday, January 31, 2005. Marg,
in her 68th year, beloved wife of Alex S.
ANSELL.
Loving mother
of Kerry and her husband Steven
GARNER of Huntsville, Lynne
WHITE/WHYTE
and her companion Tony
FITZSIMMONS of Newmarket and Scott and
his fiancée Maria
KURMEY of Aurora. Dear grandmother to Danielle,
Kyle, Devon and Laura. Dear sister of Irene
ASPIN of Aurora.
Marg was very outgoing and active in the community and will be
sadly missed especially by her Friends in bowling, euchre and
the Optimists International organization. Friends will be received
at Thompson Funeral Home, 29 Victoria Street, Aurora (905-727-5421),
on Wednesday, February 2 from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. Service in the
Chapel Thursday at 11 a.m. Cremation. Donations to the Canadian
Diabetes Association would be appreciated by the family.
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MAGRILL,
Rose
On Tuesday, February 8, 2005 at Carefree Lodge. Rose
MAGRILL,
beloved wife of the late Cyril
MAGRILL.
Loving mother of Gordon.
Dear sister of the late Sarah
BRONSKY,
Bertha
MOORE, Esther
BERNSTEIN,
and Jack and Louis
ANSELL.
Devoted grandmother of Laurie and
Cedric
Stone,
Barry and Judy
MAGRILL, and great-grandmother of
Alexandra, Jamie, Haley, and Geoffrey. A graveside service will
be held on Thursday, February 10, 2005 at 11: 30 a.m. at Beth
David Synagogue Section at Pardes Shalom Cemetery. If desired,
memorial donations may be made to the Rose
MAGRILL
Memorial
Fund
c/o The Benjamin Foundation, 3429 Bathurst Street, Toronto, M6A
2C3, 416-780-0324.
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VANDER
VLOET,
John
C.
Peacefully at Strathroy Middlesex General Hospital on Monday,
May 30, 2005 John C.
VANDER
VLOET of Parkhill in his 78th year.
Beloved husband of Lucy
(ANSEMS)
VANDER
VLOET. Dear father of
Adrian and Lynn
VANDER
VLOET of Parkhill, Tony and Mary
VANDER
VLOET of Kerwood, Frank and
Jo-Ann VANDER
VLOET of Parkhill,
Joanne and Simon DE
GROOT of Strathroy, Pete and Annette
VANDER
VLOET of Parkhill. Opa to Marie and Nathan, Yvonne and Andrea,
Brian, Laura, Paul and Karen, Joey, Johnny, Jennifer and Kevin,
Kristine, Michelle and John, Jacob and Olivia. Brother of Frank
VANDER
VLOET,
Elizabeth and Conrad
SPECHT, Lena and Bill
VAN
ROESTEL,
Mary and Don
GOODALE. Brother-in-law of Gary
YATES,
Harry and Edith
ANSEMS,
Casey and Audrey
ANSEMS, Gerard and Toosey
ANSEMS,
Frank and Marilyn
ANSEMS, Casey and Audrey
ANSEMS, Antoon
ANSEMS, Jeannie
MERKS and Corry
COFFIN, and Peggy
ANSEMS. Predeceased
by his parents Adrian and Maria
VANDER
VLOET, sisters Corry
VEEKE,
Anne YATES and Klazina
VANDER
VLOET, mother and father-in-law
Chris and Johanna
ANSEMS, sister-in-law Marie
VANDER
VLOET, brother-in-law
Jack VEEKE, John
ANSEMS, Ted
ANSEMS and Joe
MERKS. Resting at
the M. Box and son Funeral Home, 183 Broad Street Parkhill. Visitation
Wednesday 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. Funeral Mass will be celebrated at
the Sacred Heart Church Parkhill on Thursday, June 2nd at 11: 00
a.m. Reverend Father Michael
RYAN officiating. Prayers Wednesday
evening at 6: 45 p.m. Donations to the Strathroy Middlesex General
Hospital "Building Fund" would be greatly appreciated. Interment
in Parkhill Cemetery. Share a memory or send condolence to www.boxfuneralhome.ca
M. Box and son will plant a tree in living memory of Mr.
VANDER
VLOET at the Ausable-Bayfield Conservation Parkhill.
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ANSEMS o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2005-09-13 published
RICHARDSON,
Everett "Ev"
George
At the Strathroy Middlesex General Hospital on Sunday, September
11, 2005. Everett "Ev" G.
RICHARDSON of Parkhill in his 85th
year. Beloved husband of Dorothy "Peg"
RICHARDSON (1990.) Dear
father of Judith (Joe)
ANSEMS of Parkhill, James (Donna)
RICHARDSON
of Sarnia, William
RICHARDSON of British Columbia. Also survived
by 7 grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren. Brother of Harold
and Evelyn
RICHARDSON of London, Helen
BURNETT of London. Predeceased
by grand_son Brent. At the request of Ev there will be no funeral
home visitation or funeral service. Donations to the Strathroy
Middlesex General Hospital: Building Fund" ould be appreciated.
A celebration of Ev's life will be held Sunday, October 2 at
the Parkhill Legion Branch #341 Broad Street, Parkhill from 2-4
p.m. M. Box and son entrusted to arrangements 519-294-6382. Share
a memory or send condolences to www.boxfuneralhome.ca M. Box
and son will plant a tree in living memory of Mr.
RICHARDSON
at the Ausable-Bayfield Conservation Parkhill.
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BRITTON,
Joan▼ (née
ANSLEY)
It is with great sadness that the family of Joan
BRITTON
(ANSLEY)
announces her passing on September 28, 2005. She had lived with
a very deadly form of leukemia for over three years. The eldest
daughter of Claude and Elsie
ANSLEY,
Joan▼ grew up in Willowdale.
She▼ married Ted
BRITTON in 1968 and the couple founded successful
publishing companies in Muskoka, beginning in May of 1977. She
will be missed deeply by Ted, as well as by David, Jonathan,
Miranda and Emily. Also mourning her death are Jim and Donna
ANSLEY, Tom and Donna
SUGAR, Ken and Gail
DIMSON, Holly
WATT,
Louise GLEESON and Scott
TURNBULL. A private family memorial
service took place in the home Joan loved so much in Windermere.
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BRITTON,
Joan▲ (née
ANSLEY)
It is with great sadness that the family of Joan
BRITTON
(ANSLEY)
announces her passing on September 28, 2005. She had lived with
a very deadly form of leukemia for over three years. The eldest
daughter of Claude and Elsie
ANSLEY,
Joan▲ grew up in Willowdale.
She▲ married Ted
BRITTON in 1968 and the couple founded successful
publishing companies in Muskoka, beginning in May of 1977. She
will be missed deeply by Ted, as well as by David, Jonathan,
Miranda and Emily. Also mourning her death are Jim and Donna
ANSLEY, Tom and Donna
SUGAR, Ken and Gail
DIMSON, Holly
WATT,
Louise GLEESON and Scott
TURNBULL. A private family memorial
service took place in the home Joan loved so much in Windermere.
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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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ANSTEAD o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2005-05-07 published
SENSABAUGH,
G.
Edward "
Ed"
A resident of R.R.#1 Ridgetown, G. Edward (Ed)
SENSABAUGH, died
at the Chatham-Kent Health Alliance on Wednesday, May 4, 2005
at the age of 56. Born in Cumberland, Maryland,
son of the late
Grover N. and Betty Jane
(WHITEMAN)
SENSABAUGH.
Beloved husband
of Nancy (SIMPSON)
SENSABAUGH.
Loving father of G. David
SENSABAUGH
and his wife
Sherri of Maryland, and Katie J.
SENSABAUGH at home.
Grandfather of Bradley and Annie. Brother of Peggy
ISAACS and
her husband Steve of Pennsylvania. Survived by his step-mother
Betty SENSABAUGH of Maryland, nephew Fred
ISAACS and wife
Tina,
step-sister Sharon
GOETZ and her husband Greg of Maryland and
step-nephew Ian
BOYER.
Also survived by Nancy's families, Max
and Marjorie
SIMPSON of Ridgetown, John and Sonia of Ridgetown,
Bob and Maryanne of Blenheim, Gordon and friend Mary
DAWN of
Chatham and their families.
Ed was an active member and Elder in the Christian Church and
Superintendent of the Sunday School, with a special interest
in the church campground. He was a Board Member of the Ontario
Assembly of Christian Churches. He enjoyed sports, particularly
golf and his tennis clinic for youth. Ed was a veteran of the
U.S. Army having served as an officer overseas in Germany. Family
will receive Friends at the McKinay Funeral Home, Ridgetown on
Saturday from 7: 00-9:00 p.m. and Sunday from 2:00-4:30 and 7:00-9:00
p.m. Funeral Service will be conducted at the Christian Church,
Ridgetown on Monday, May 9, 2005 at 1: 30 p.m. with Pastor Janet
ANSTEAD officiating. Interment in Greenwood Cemetery, Ridgetown.
Donations made by cheque to Disciples Conference Grounds, The
Christian Church, Ontario Heart and Stroke or Kidney Foundation
would be appreciated. Online condolences may be left at www.mckinlayfuneralhome.com
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SACHS,
Nancy
Diane (née
KELLY)
At London Health Sciences Centre-Westminster Campus on October
2, 2005. Nancy Diane
SACHS of Lyons in her 54th year. Beloved
wife of Larrie
SACHS and loving mother of Heather and Curtis
SACHS of London and Pamela, Laura and Lisa
SACHS of Lyons. Dear
daughter of Lillian
BUHROW of Lyons and the late Francis
KELLY.
Sister to Cheryl
BRENNAN and husband Bud of Mississauga, Glenn
KELLY and wife
Lorraine of Lucan and Brenda
KELLY of Lyons. She
will be sadly missed by a number of nieces, nephews, aunts, uncles
and cousins. Born in Walkerton, Ontario on October 4, 1951 Nancy
was a former employee of the Matthews Group in London. She was
Past President of the South Dorchester Optimist Club and Past
Lt. Governor for the District, Past President of the Aylmer Girls
Basketball Assoc., Past President of the Belmont Figure Skating
Committee, a former coach of Aylmer Ladies Slo-pitch and a former
trustee of the Elgin County Board of Education. Friends may call
at the H.A. Kebbel Funeral Home, Aylmer on Tuesday 7-9 p.m.,
Wednesday 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. Wednesday. The funeral service will
be held on October 06, 2005 at 11: 00 a.m. at the Christian Reformed
Church, 194 South Street West, Aylmer with Reverend Janet
ANSTEAD
of the Mapleton Church of Christ officiating. Interment Necropolis
Cemetery. Donations to the S. Dorchester Optimist Club or Canadian
Cancer Society would be appreciated.
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ANSTEE,
Viola
May (née
FISHBACK)
On Tuesday, January 11, 2005, Viola May
ANSTEE
(FISHBACK) in
her 78th year, passed away peacefully at her home in Salford
with her family by her side after a courageous battle with cancer.
Loving wife of Albert
ANSTEE for 57 years. Greatly loved and
will be sadly missed by her children, daughter Patricia
KUHLMAN
(Ingersoll,) daughter Janis and Mike
POIRIER
(Ingersoll,) son
Ken and Patti
ANSTEE
(Salford,) son Dan and Judi
ANSTEE (Ingersoll,)
daughter Kathy and Sherwood
BURWELL
(Courtland,) son Gary and
Linda ANSTEE
(Ingersoll,) daughter Susan and Jim
McADAM (Ingersoll,)
daughter Brenda and Mike
ROBINSON
(Wahnapitae) and son Michael
at home. Special grandmother of Frank, Chris, John, Angela, Kelly,
Eric, Shawn, Stacey, Fred, Tracy, Sarah, Brian, Amanda, Matthew,
Ryan, Dexter, Keith, Kerri, Clarissa and Tyler. Great-grandmother
of Chantelle, Brandon, Michael, Jordan, Tanner, Madison, Tika,
Conner,
Madison,
Kyle and Megan. Survived by Aunt Elsie
SCOTT
(Ingersoll,) brother Harold and Marilyn
FISHBACK
(Salford,)
Sister
Flora and Ross
WALTERS
(Ingersoll) and several nieces and nephews
and sisters-in-law and also known as gramma to all the Salford
neighbours. Predeceased by her parents James
FISHBACK (1966)
and Mae FISHBACK (1970.) Friends will be received a the McBeath-Dynes
Funeral Home, 246 Thames Street South, Ingersoll Thursday 2-4
and 7-9 p.m. where funeral service will be held on Friday, January
14, 2005 at 1: 30 p.m. Reverend Gary
CARRUTHERS officiating. Interment
later Harris Street Cemetery. Memorial donations to the Brain
Tumor Foundation, Canadian Diabetes Association, Community Care
Access Centre or Canadian Cancer Society would be appreciated.
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HUPMAN,
Gertrude
(POLHILL)
At Alexandra Hospital, Ingersoll on Sunday, May 8, 2005, Gertrude
(POLHILL)
HUPMAN, of Ingersoll, in her 83rd year. Wife of the
late Carl HUPMAN (1973.) Dear mother of Carolyn and husband Barry
ANSTEE of Ingersoll, Barbara
WHITTAKER of Ingersoll, Julie and
husband John
THERIAULT of Ingersoll, Crystal and husband Norman
JOHNSTON of Woodstock and Robert and wife
Jackie of Frankfort.
Dear sister of Eileen of Woodstock, Vivian of Bayfield and Evelyn
of Peterborough. Also survived by 17 grandchildren and 25 great
grandchildren. Predeceased by one daughter Sharon (1991), one
sister Gladys, one brother William and dear friend Nancy Anne
MURPHY.
Friends will be received at the McBeath-Dynes Funeral
Home, 246 Thames Street, S., Ingersoll Tuesday 2-4 and 7-9 p.m.
where service will be held on Wednesday, May 11, 2005 at 1: 00
p.m. Captain Tina Paddock officiating. Cremation to follow. Memorial
donations to the Ontario Heart and Stroke Foundation or Canadian
Cancer Society would be appreciated.
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ARNETT,
Victor
Charles
At Rockwood Terrace, Durham, on Tuesday, January 4th, 2005. Victor
ARNETT, of Durham and formerly of Glenelg Township, in his 86th
year. Beloved husband of Grace (née
VOLLETT.)
Loving father of
David
(Lorraine,) of R.R.#1, Priceville, Mary Ellen
ARNETT-
THORNE,
of Owen Sound, Cheryl (Don)
HOFFMAN, of Kitchener and Joan (Gary)
McNABB, of Nobel. Dear brother of James
ARNETT and Dorothy
MOONEY,
both of Toronto. Mr.
ARNETT will be sadly missed by his grandchildren,
Landis (Barry)
ANSTETT, Aaron
ARNETT, Brett (Felicity)
HOFFMAN
and Brodie, Linden and Garrett McNabb, his great-granddaughter,
Lauren ANSTETT and several nieces and nephews and their families.
Predeceased by his brothers, Reginald and Frederick and his sister,
Anne TOMLINSON.
The family will receive Friends at Rockwood Terrace,
Durham, on Friday from 11: 00 a.m. until 2:00 p.m. Funeral Service
will be held at Rockwood Terrace, Durham at 2: 00 p.m., Friday,
January 7th, 2005. Interment, Trinity Anglican Cemetery, Durham.
As expressions of sympathy, donations to Trinity Anglican Church,
Durham or the Durham Medical Clinic would be appreciated.
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ANSTETT o@ca.on.grey_county.owen_sound.the_sun_times 2005-03-23 published
KING,
Thomas
William
Of Port Elgin, and formerly of Walkerton, passed away at South
Bruce Grey Health Centre, Walkerton, on Monday, March 21st, 2005,
in his 92nd year. Survived by his children, Elizabeth and Jack
O'HAGAN, of Walkerton, Thomas and Agnes, of Walkerton, Beverley
and James HILBORN, of Cambridge, Anne
KING, of Waterloo, Susan
KING and Fred
CREED, of Kitchener, Nancy and Al
YAECK, of Oshawa,
James and Donna, of Smithfield, Edward and Aya, of Ottawa; Joan
and Vince VAN
EMPEL, of Milton. Grandfather of eighteen grandchildren
and ten great-grandchildren and his sister, Rosanne
FLETCHER,
of Burlington. Tom will also be missed by Peter and Joan
McCANNEL
and family, of Port Elgin. Predeceased by his wife, Rita
ANSTETT
brothers, Frank and Owen; parents, William and Margaret
(McGLYNN)
KING and dear friend and companion, Edith
MIDDLETON . Private
family visitation and service will be held at the Cameron Funeral
Home, Walkerton. Interment, Calvary Cemetery, Walkerton. Memorial
donations to The Lung Association or the Heart and Stroke Foundation
would be appreciated as expressions of sympathy.
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ANSTETT o@ca.on.grey_county.owen_sound.the_sun_times 2005-05-05 published
POWERS,
Kathleen
Marie (née
LANG)
Of Walkerton, passed away at South Bruce Grey Health Centre,
Walkerton, on Wednesday, May 4th, 2005 in her 89th year. Survived
by her children, Gerrard and Marilyn, of Owen Sound, John and
Doris, of Chepstow and Mary
KOEBEL, of Walkerton; grandchildren,
David POWERS, Crystal
POWERS, Stephanie
McQUEEN and Chad
CULBERT,
Jacob and Melinda
KOEBEL; great-grandchildren, Brittany
KOEBEL,
Isaac KOEBEL and Brayden
McQUEEN.
Also survived by her sisters,
Rita FRITZ, of Chepstow and Joan and Edgar
BESTER, of Walkerton.
Predeceased by her husband, Stephen; brothers, Nicholas, Joseph
and Peter; sister, Irene
BECHBERGER and parents, Peter and Mary
(ANSTETT)
LANG.
Visitation at Cameron Funeral Home, Walkerton,
on Friday from 2: 00 to 4:00 and 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. C.W.L. Service
will be held at 2: 30 p.m., followed by Knights of Columbus Rosary,
at 8: 45 p.m. Funeral Mass will be held on Saturday, May 7th,
at 11: 00 a.m. at Sacred Heart Church, Walkerton. Interment in
Mary Immaculate Cemetery, Chepstow. Memorial donations to the
Heart and Stroke Foundation or Brucelea Haven - Disability Van
would be appreciated as expressions of sympathy.
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ANSTEY o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2005-09-23 published
Thomas Herbert
ANSTEY
By J.F. BOSHER,
Friday,
September 23, 2005, Page A28
Yachtsman, soldier and director of agricultural research stations.
Born December 27, 1917, in Victoria. Died May 18 in Ottawa after
a car accident, aged 87.
My cousin Tom
ANSTEY, a lifelong benevolent force, would repair
broken furniture in a friend's house, prune a friend's roses,
or give away strawberry plants, potting soil, and his own home-made
wine. He never counted the cost or the trouble.
It was in the same spirit that he went to Kiev in the early 1990s
with his friend Eugene
WHELAN, former minister of agriculture,
to help the Ukrainian government with agricultural problems.
Off he went, handing out freely what he had learned in his career
as a director of Canadian agricultural research stations at Agassiz
and Summerland, British Columbia, Lethbridge, Alberta., and,
from 1969, in the agriculture department in Ottawa.
He was a plain, practical person. It would not cross Tom's mind
to mention that he was an honorary life member of the Canadian
Society for Horticultural Science, held office in the International
Commission on Irrigation and Drainage, and had published a 400-page
history of agricultural research in Canada called One Hundred
Harvests.
In the Second World War, he served in Europe as an officer in
a Canadian unit that was lent to the 2nd Battalion Oxford and
Buckinghamshire Light Infantry of the British 6th Airborne Division
and for the rest of his life he attended the annual gatherings
of his fellow veterans in that "CanLoan" force.
His interest in the plant sciences had first been aroused in
his childhood by an English uncle in Canada, J.E.
BOSHER, who
worked at the Saanichton Experimental Farm in British Columbia.
After a doctoral degree at the University of Minnesota, Tom's
research added to horticultural knowledge about broccoli, strawberries,
and other fruit crops.
Tom was the oldest of four children born in Victoria to a cabinet-maker
from Coventry, Britain, who had followed his lady-love when she
moved with her family in 1911 from Manchester to Sidney, B.C.
The children grew up in a house their father had built with his
own hands, he being a trained cabinetmaker in charge of teaching
woodwork and metalwork at Victoria High School.
Tom grew up playing the cello, accompanied on the piano by his
mother.
His father taught the boys in the family to build boats and sail
them in the sheltered waters around the Saanich Peninsula, which
is why Tom sailed a 22-foot yacht on the Ottawa River at Britannia
Yacht Club in Ottawa as long as he could. He named her Tilicum
after the famous native dugout canoe sailed from Victoria to
London in 1901 by Captain J.C. Voss.
But lest anyone imagine that Tom was spoiled during his childhood,
it should be added that his parents were strict Baptists and
he was often left in Sidney with grandparents who had brought
strict, though well-meaning, habits with them.
In October, 1921, when Tom was four years old, his grandmother
reported to one of his aunts in a letter, "He is a dear little
fellow. I thought this morning he was going to be ill so I put
him to bed tho' he very much objected. So I spanked him and gave
him a dose of castor oil when he wakened. Seems much better now."
Trouble like that did not deter Tom. And he did not impose such
discipline on the three children he had with his wife, Wynne
FERGUSON, whom he married in Brockville, Ontario, during the
war.
Soon after she died in 1998 he moved to an old-age home in Ottawa
and three years later married a widowed neighbour there, Dorothy
MOORE, with whom he lived happily until his fatal car accident.
J.F. BOSHER is Tom's cousin.
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ANSTEY o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2005-11-11 published
ANSTEY,
Susan▼
Jane▼ (née
SCOTT) (1946-2005)
Susan Jane
ANSTEY (née
SCOTT) passed away peacefully after a
short but courageous battle with cancer on November 9, 2005 at
her home, Wyndstone Farm in Nobleton, Ontario with Michael and
Jennifer by her side. She is survived by her daughter, Jennifer
ANSTEY, her sister, Alice
FERRIER, her loving partner of 24 years
Michael VAN
EVERY and their families. An avid horsewoman, she
competed and judged hunters/jumpers, bred and raced Thoroughbreds,
published Canada's leading horse magazines including Horse Sport,
Horse-Canada and Canadian Thoroughbred and was a life long member
of The Toronto and North York Hunt. Susan Jane made a significant
contribution to horse sport nationally and internationally serving
as a director of Jump Canada, chair of the Media Advisory Committee
of the Federation Equestre International and for the last 12
years, President of the International Alliance of Equestrian
Journalists. A memorial service will be held on Monday November
14, 2005 at 1: 30 p.m. at the Aurora United Church, 15186 Yonge
St. (south of Wellington) in Aurora, Ontario. Donations to the
Princess Margaret Hospital Foundation or Southlake Regional Health
Centre Foundation would be welcomed.
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ANSTEY o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2005-11-26 published
ANSTEY,
Susan▲▼
Jane▲▼ -- Dispatch:
By Judith TENENBAUM,
Saturday,
November 26, 2005, Page M5
Susan ANSTEY's horizons were never constrained. Raised on a horse
farm in Scarborough, she followed her lifelong passion for horses
to international competition, and a junior hunter and jumper
championship in 1961.
After earning a B.A. in economics and political science at the
University of Toronto, she joined Merrill Lynch, where she met
future husband Tom
ANSTEY.
Her later stint with the Economic
Council of Canada ended when they headed to Vancouver in 1976.
Two years later, now a single parent, she returned to Toronto
with her horse and two-year-old daughter Jennifer.
With her sister, Alice
FERRIER, she created the Horse Publications
Group and in 1994 was elected president of the International
Alliance of Equestrian Journalists. But it was her involvement
with the Canadian Equestrian Team that linked her to Michael
VAN
EVERY, her life partner since 1981. They shared a love of
riding, bred and raced thoroughbreds and established a horse
farm in Nobleton, Ontario.
Ms. ANSTEY showed her bedrock of courage when she was diagnosed
with cancer in April. She died on November 9 at the age of 59.
"I loved her tenacity," Mr.
VAN
EVERY says. "She made a decision,
never regretted it and got things done."
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ANSTEY o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2005-04-16 published
GRIECO,
Samuel
Suddenly, at home, after a lengthy illness, on Friday, April
15, 2005. Sam, beloved husband of Filomena for 49 years. Loving
father of Gail (Ralph
ANSTEY,) and Gary. Cherished grampa of
April (Robert
MERSON,)
Andrew, and
Amber.
Sam will be missed
dearly and remembered by his brothers, sisters, extended family
and Friends. Visitation will be on Sunday from 7 to 9 p.m. and
Monday from 2 to 4 and 7 to 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 Tuesday, April 19, 2005 at 11 o'clock.
Interment to follow. Condolences www.rskane.ca
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HARVEY, Eliza Mary Reeves (formerly
WOOLRIDGE, náe
ANSTEY) (1933-2005)
On Thursday, August 11, 2005 after a long courageous battle with
cancer, in her 73rd year. Predeceased by her first husband Wallace
WOOLRIDGE (1967) and her second husband John Norman
HARVEY (2005,)
her parents Annie
BAUMAN/BOWMAN and Charles
ANSTEY. Survived by her
daughters Elizabeth (Michael)
SMITH,
Karen
(Michael)
HULAN, Shirley
(Glenn) SMITH and her son Bill, her sister Maria (Wallace)
WARREN
and her brother Charles (Rolly)
ANSTEY.
She will also be greatly
missed by her grandchildren Chris, Michelle, Jennifer, Jody,
Nicole, Dustin and her 7 great-grandchildren. Family and Friends
will be received at the Low and Low Funeral Home, 23 Main St. South,
Uxbridge, (905) 852-3073, for visitation on Sunday, August 14,
2005 from 2-4 p.m. and 7-9 p.m. Service to be held in the chapel
on Monday, August 15, 2005 at 2 p.m. Visitation 1 hour prior
to service. Interment Uxbridge Cemetery. In Eliza's memory, donations
made to the Canadian Cancer Society or to the charity of choice
would be appreciated.
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ANSTEY,
Susan▲
Jane▲ (née
SCOTT) (1946-2005)
Susan Jane
ANSTEY (née
SCOTT) passed away peacefully after a
short but courageous battle with cancer on November 9, 2005 at
her home, Wyndstone Farm in Nobleton, Ontario with Michael and
Jennifer by her side. She is survived by her daughter, Jennifer
ANSTEY, her sister, Alice
FERRIER, her loving partner of 24 years,
Michael VAN
EVERY and their families. An avid horsewoman, she
competed and judged hunters/jumpers, bred and raced Thoroughbreds,
published Canada's leading horse magazines including Horse Sport,
Horse-Canada and Canadian Thoroughbred and was a life long member
of The Toronto and North York Hunt. Susan Jane made a significant
contribution to horse sport nationally and internationally serving
as a Director of Jump Canada, chair of the Media Advisory Committee
of the Federation Equestre International and for the last 12
years, President of the International Alliance of Equestrian
Journalists. A Memorial Service will be held on Monday, November
14, 2005 at 1: 30 p.m. at the Aurora United Church, 15186 Yonge
St. (south of Wellington) in Aurora, Ontario. Donations to the
Princess Margaret Hospital Foundation or Southlake Regional Health
Centre Foundation would be welcomed.
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ANSTEY o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2005-12-05 published
Susan Jane
ANSTEY, 59: A passion for horse riding
Passion for horses led to successful magazine career
Had wanted to create museum for equestrian sports
By Catherine
DUNPHY,
Obituary
Writer
To Susan Jane
ANSTEY, it was simple and always so: A horse is
the most glorious, awe-inspiring, wondrous creature on the planet.
And so she built her whole life around them.
She grew up with them, rode them, jumped them, hunted on them,
showed them, judged them, bought them, broke them. Later, as
publisher of three important horse publications, she documented
their wins, losses, owners, organizations, riders and regimens.
But most of all, she believed in them.
For ANSTEY, who died of cancer on November 9 at the age of 59,
there was no such thing as a casual Sunday ride along the 16th
Concession Rd. outside her home, Wyndstone Farm, in King Township.
Michael VAN
EVERY, her partner for 24 years, described it this
way: "She was a nut about the turnout of a horse. She couldn't
ride down our road without spending a half-hour cleaning the
tack, brushing the horse, the mane, flipping it over to the right-hand
side. Her horses were always impeccable."
Added her daughter, Jennifer
ANSTEY: "It was an issue of respect
with my mother."
And love.
Susan Jane
SCOTT grew up on the original Wyndstone Farm, a horse
and cattle farm that was expropriated for what was going to be
the Pickering Airport and ended up functioning as the holding
barn for new animals of the Toronto Zoo. Her father, Lewis
SCOTT,
was a hard-driving developer who served as Master of the Hunt
of the Toronto and North York Hunt, a fox-hunting club, for many
years.
Everyone in her family rode -- it would have been unnatural not
to -- but ANSTEY rode with passion, precision and panache. It
helped that she was tall and blonde, but most people always said
that no one looked better on a horse.
"She was so graceful on a horse," said Judy
JONES, a friend since
the two met in 1957 at the Eglinton Pony Club junior show. "She
was poetry in motion and always upright, as if she had followed
our mothers' advice to walk with your shoulders back, as if you
had a book on your head."
After marrying broker Tom
ANSTEY and moving to Vancouver,
ANSTEY
used to tell
JONES she was fed up with the rain and having to
ride indoors. When the marriage ended, she moved back east with
her horse and Jennifer, then 2.
With her sister, she purchased The Corinthian magazine, an ailing
publication at the time but still the newsprint Bible for most
of Canada's horsey set.
ANSTEY renamed it Horse Sport and took
it to a slick, full-colour glossy monthly that rapidly took up
pride of place on many coffee tables. Its circulation is 20,000,
its influence much more.
Later, ANSTEY started Canadian Thoroughbred (circulation 15,000)
and Horse Canada, a horse magazine for families and a huge hit
with a circulation base of 35,000.
"Susan Jane saw what was and what was not working well, and through
the magazines she used to lay out the issues for the equestrian
community," said Jeff
CHISHOLM, a horse owner, former chair of
the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair and member of Jump Canada.
"Her articles were always well-researched and she was an excellent
writer. She could crystallize issues."
When ANSTEY was elected president of the International Alliance
of Equestrian Journalists in 1994, she became the first woman
and the first non-European to obtain that position, which she
held for 11 years.
For eight years, she also chaired the media advisory committee
of the Fédération Equestre Internationale, the international
ruling body for equestrian sport. She belonged to its Nations
Cup committee, despite representing a country that failed to
qualify to field a show-jumping team at the last Olympics. (Canada
was able to send only one show-jumping rider, Ian Millar of Millarbrook
Farms.)
ANSTEY chaired a task force that led to the reorganization of
the Canadian Equestrian Federation into Equine Canada, an organization
that functions as a governing body and from which Jump Canada
which sets standards around the jumping competitions -- was
created.
"Jump Canada has done an awful lot. We have more good horse-and-rider
combinations now in this country than we have had in the last
20 years,"
CHISHOLM said.
Bold, efficient ("there will be no lollygagging," she used to
say to her daughter) and indefatigable,
ANSTEY managed to also
fill her days with riding, no matter where she was. She would
often drive from Heathrow Airport near London to the English
countryside for a fox hunt on a rented horse, en route to or
from a meeting in Paris or elsewhere in Europe.
She loved the hunt, riding over fields and through forests as
morning was breaking. She told
JONES it was good for the horse's
soul to get out and streak through the cool, crisp air. For years,
she would join the Toronto hunt, twice a week every spring and
fall, then go home, shower and arrive at her Aurora office by
9: 30 a.m. She stopped only when the hunt started later in the
mornings.
When Jennifer was in Grade 9 at Toronto's Havergal College, her
mother's alma mater,
ANSTEY bought her a horse. "It was really
nice, the best I've ever had," she recalled.
ANSTEY would leave work in Aurora, drive to Havergal, pick up
her daughter and drive her to the barn in Schomberg to ride,
before heading back to Aurora to work for a few hours before
repeating the circuit to pick up and return Jennifer to school.
"She did it twice a week for two years," Jennifer said.
There are currently a dozen horses (plus a pony and a donkey)
at Wyndstone Farm, many of them horses
ANSTEY bought off the
track to develop into show jumpers or field hunters.
"She always had young horses, she loved to watch them develop,"
Jennifer said. "Fun was something you had to work on, a life
you are shaping and moulding."
After her mother gave her an ultimatum -- either she could work
with her or the magazines would be sold -- Jennifer went to work
for ANSTEY six years ago, gradually assuming greater responsibility
at Canadian Horse Publications Inc., so much so that
ANSTEY was
planning to retire next year.
At the time of her death, she wanted to create a museum for equestrian
sports and was considering writing a book on its history. She
had been diagnosed with cancer only in April.
By the summer, she was failing and gave Jennifer her horse to
ride in competition.
VAN
EVERY,
ANSTEY's partner, had bought
Baroness, a huge horse, the summer before and
ANSTEY had competed
on Baroness in the 1.2-metre circuit in the senior division in
Collingwood then.
"Typical Mom," Jennifer said. "Riding a 7-year-old fairly green
horse against experienced, schooled horses."
This past summer, Jennifer rode Baroness in eight horse shows,
in the 1.3-metre junior amateur jumpers A or highest level circuit.
"I had never jumped this big before," she said. "It was a big
move for both of us."
The organizers of the Palgrave, Ontario, competition allowed
VAN
EVERY to drive his car to the north end of the grandstand,
usually off-limits to spectators, so
ANSTEY could watch her daughter
compete.
Jennifer, in part, was competing so her mother could watch.
"She loved watching. We'd talk afterward about why I had a rail.
She loved the training process and the horse's moods. She just
really understood them."
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ANSTICE,
Olive
D. (née
BROOM)
Peacefully at the Babcock Community Care Centre, Wardsville on
Saturday,
February 5th, 2005, Olive D.
ANSTICE, formerly of R.R.#1
Muirkirk, in her 77th year. Born in Tilbury East Township, daughter
of Clarence and Gladys
BROOM, she was predeceased by her husband
Charles (1982). Dearly loved by her son Gary and his wife Arlene
of Saint Thomas, grandchildren Melissa (Jeremy)
ROBERTS of Ridgetown
and their sons Trevor and Tyler, Bill and Charles of Chatham
brother Donald (Dorothy)
BROOM of Rodney, sister Alice (Arthur)
MANNING of R.R.#1, Highgate and several nieces and nephews. Friends
may call at the Rodney Chapel on Tuesday, February 8th from 7-9
pm and 2 hours prior to the service which will be held there
on Wednesday at 2: 00 pm with Reverend Tom
GODFREY officiating. Interment
Duart Cemetery. If desired, donations to Babcock Community Care
Centre would be appreciated. Arrangements entrusted to the Padfield
Funeral Home, Rodney (519) 785-0810
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