EINARSON o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2005-07-12 published
SCHELL,
Thomas
John
At his residence, after a lengthy battle with cancer, on Sunday,
July 10, 2005, age 67 years. John
SCHELL of Brighton and formerly
of Willowdale,
son of the late Thomas
SCHELL and the late Clara
(SOPHER.)
Loving husband of Marilynn Loretta
(EINARSON.) Loving
father of Paula, father-in-law of Frank and cherished grandfather
of Joeleen of Toronto, also survived by his son Donald. Dear
brother of Lillian
SMITH of Parry Sound and brother-in-law of
Paul EINARSON and his wife
Nan of Oshawa. Dear uncle of Esther,
Heather, Kristen, Markham and Jeff. Predeceased by a nephew Rodney.
The family will receive Friends at the Walas Funeral Home, 130
Main Street, Brighton on Thursday from 12 noon, followed by a
service in the funeral home on Thursday, July 14 at 1 o'clock.
The
Reverend
Donald
STRATTON officiating. Cremation with interment
in Resthaven Memorial Gardens, Toronto. As an expression of sympathy,
donations to the Canadian Cancer Society or the charity of your
choice, care of Box 96, Brighton, Ontario, K0K 1H0 would be appreciated
by the family www.walasfuneralhome.com
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EINBODEN o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2005-03-02 published
EINBODEN,
Sheilah
June
Passed away peacefully on Friday February 25, 2005 at Leisure
World Nursing Home, Toronto in her 74th year. Predeceased by
her parents Austin and Chrissie
EINBODEN and nephew, Bradley
PERNISIE. Survived by her sisters, Lorna of Kelowna, Joyce of
Calgary, Sherill of Nanaimo and her brother Dennis of Grand Prairie.
She will be fondly remembered by her extended family. A special
thank you to the medical and nursing staff who cared for her
over the years. A memorial service will be held in Calgary at
a later date, as will an interment on Vancouver Island. Funeral
arrangements entrusted to the Morley Bedford Funeral Home.
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EINSIEDEL o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2005-04-09 published
VON
RICHTHOFEN, Baroness Gisela (née Countess
VON
EINSIEDEL)
On April 4, 2005 in her Toronto home, surrounded by family. Born
on July 25, 1909 in Creba, Saxony, Germany as Chancellor Otto
VON
BISMARCK's first great-grandchild, and was in 1931 the youngest
woman ever to graduate from the University of Berlin Law School.
Immigrated to Canada in 1951. Pre-deceased in 2000 by her dearly
loved husband of 56 years, Baron Wolfgang
VON
RICHTHOFEN.
Beloved
beyond measure by children Christiane
PHILIPP (Karl-Reinhard,)
Veronika VON NOSTITZ-
TAIT/TAITE/TATE, Manfred
VON
NOSTITZ-
WALLWITZ (Judith),
Carmen VON
RICHTHOFEN, Nikolaus
VON
RICHTHOFEN (Donna
APRILE),
Micaela VON
RICHTHOFEN.
Also survived by a brother Count Heinrich
VON
EINSIEDEL (Helga). Grandchildren: Gisela
PHILIPP (deceased),
Maximilian
PHILIPP (Susanne), Juliane
WALDMANN (Ulf), Zoë
VON
NOSTITZ-TAIT/TAITE/TATE, Godfrey VON NOSTITZ-
TAIT, Kaspar
VON
NOSTITZ-
WALLWITZ,
Otto VON NOSTITZ-
WALLWITZ, Emma
VON
RICHTHOFEN. Great-grandchildren:
Conrad WALDMANN, Anton
WALDMANN, Paula
WALDMANN, Enno
PHILIPP.
Nephews: Gisbert
VON
EINSIEDEL, Sebastian
VON
EINSIEDEL, Dominik
VON
EINSIEDEL, Daniel
VON
RICHTHOFEN. Cremation and private family
tribute. In lieu of flowers, please donate to The Temmy Latner
Centre For Palliative Care, Mount Sinai Hospital Foundation of
Toronto, 600 University Avenue, Suite 218, Toronto, Ontario M5G
1X5.
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EINSIEDEL o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2005-06-02 published
Gisela VON
RICHTHOFEN,
Aristocrat,
Farmer: 1909-2005
Born into German nobility, she grew up within a stone's throw
of the Kaiser, experienced life under the Nazis and then emigrated
to Canada where she became a three-time Ontario dressage champion
By F.F. LANGAN,
Special to The Globe and Mail Thursday, June
2, 2005, Page S9
Baroness Gisela
VON
RICHTHOFEN was born into the German aristocracy,
but spent more than half her life in Canada, much of it on a
farm outside Toronto. The freedom of the rural life in Canada
was in sharp contrast to the world into which she born.
She lived for all but 8½ years of the 20th century. Just her
name, VON
RICHTHOFEN, provides a hint of her life. Manfred
VON
RICHTHOFEN, known as the Red Baron, was the top fighter pilot
of the First World War. But when the famous
VON
RICHTHOFEN was
killed in April of 1918, Gisela was just 8 years old and knew
as much about the Red Baron as any other German child. He was
a cousin of her future husband.
She was born Countess Gisela
VON
EINSIEDEL, one notch up from
a baroness on the nobility scale. She was the first great-grandchild
of Prince Otto
VON
BISMARCK, the Iron Chancellor who forged the
German Empire in the mid 19th century.
The wars of the 20th century shaped her life. Her father survived
the First World War; other members of her family did not. One
brother was killed in France in 1940. Another brother, a fighter
pilot, was shot down three times, the last time over Stalingrad
in 1942. He was taken prisoner by the Russians and did not return
to Germany until 1951.
As the wife of a diplomat she was a witness to the intrigue of
the Second World War. Her first husband was posted to Warsaw
before the start of the war and then to Paris during the German
occupation. One of her close Friends -- and godfather to her
son Manfred -- was Adam
VON
TROTT, the diplomat executed for
his part in the failed plot to kill Adolf Hitler in 1944.
Gisela grew up on an estate in Saxony near Berlin. One of her
neighbours was the German empress. When she was about 8 years
old, one of Gisela's Friends dared her to climb the wall to the
estate next door. Her pluck impressed the empress and she was
invited to tea.
At the start of the First World War she saw her father off with
his cavalry regiment, though she was more interested in the horses.
"I was 5 years old and I went with my mother to the barracks
and saw him go off to war," she wrote years later. "The horses
being loaded on the train was what fascinated me. I was too young
to have a perspective of what the war meant."
She spent the war on an agricultural estate near Heidelberg.
After the war, her father worked as an estate manager and then
for an agricultural-equipment firm. During the 1920's, Germany
was ravaged by a post-war economic collapse and her family lost
much of their land. Instead, Gisela went to university and, at
22, was the youngest woman to graduate from the University of
Berlin law school. She didn't practise long since the Nazis came
to power in 1933 and they didn't approve of women in professions.
In 1936, she married a diplomat, Oswalt
VON
NOSTITZ, and had
the first of six children. After the fall of France in 1940,
she moved with him to Paris but during that time the marriage
collapsed. She soon wed Baron Wolfgang
VON
RICHTHOFEN, an officer
in General
GUDERIAN's tank regiment who, before the war, had
owned an art gallery in Berlin.
By the time the final months of the Second World came around,
Gisela and her three children were staying on the Bismarck estate
of Varzin in Pomerania and feared the approach of the Soviet
army. Her husband Wolfgang, with the help of her ex-husband,
managed to get a car with Japanese diplomatic licence plates
(there were almost no civilian cars on the road) and mounted
a rescue mission. The baron slipped away from his post for several
days (an act punishable by firing squad), and used formaldehyde
to fuel the car, since gasoline was impossible to find.
"My stepfather was Absent Without Leave and he had to use the
back roads to avoid Gestapo checkpoints," recalls Manfred
VON
NOSTITZ, who went on to a career in the Canadian diplomatic service
as high commissioner to Malaysia and ambassador to Pakistan and
Thailand. "In Berlin we experienced some of the heaviest bombing.
My mother was always very cool under pressure. At one stage she
moved us from one shelter just before it was destroyed by bombs."
Life in Germany after the war was harsh. The
VON
RICHTHOFEN family
was homeless, being from what would soon be called East Germany.
For a while, they lived in rooms in a small castle in Ramholz
with a friend from Baron
VON
RICHTHOFEN's regiment. At school,
the children were harassed.
"I remember my mother once saw a chicken roaming free, grabbed
it, killed it and cooked it for us. For the most part, we survived
on cabbage, which I still can't stand," said Mr.
VON
NOSTITZ.
The VON
RICHTHOFENs decided to emigrate. "My parents didn't feel
at home in western Germany. They said they saw former Nazis in
positions of authority, people like lawyers and doctors, and
didn't want us growing up with them," said Carmen
VON
RICHTHOFEN.
In 1951, the family bought an 80 hectare farm near Campbellville
outside Toronto and arrived with little money. Mrs.
VON
RICHTHOFEN,
as she was almost always called in Canada, set out to make her
new life a success. Later, her husband concentrated on training
race horses, but at first they ran a mixed farm with everything
from dairy cattle to field crops and chickens. She took night
courses at the Ontario Agricultural College in nearby Guelph.
Along the way, Micaela, the last of her children, was born.
Her mother, Bismarck's grand-daughter, also lived in the house.
Mrs. VON
RICHTHOFEN cooked for 10 people and sewed clothes for
her children and for herself. Yet, for all that, her years on
the farm were among her happiest. For one thing, it meant a renewal
of her love for horses. In the early days on the farm, she jogged
trotters up and down Guelph Line, then a dirt road with little
traffic and at age 50 she taught herself dressage.
From 1964 to 67, she won three Ontario dressage championships.
She continued riding until she was 84. On her 75th birthday,
her daughters Carmen and Micaela worked for hours posing her
on a horse in her dressage outfit. The idea was to mirror a photograph
taken of her ancestor Otto
VON
BISMARCK on his 75th birthday.
Mrs. VON
RICHTHOFEN and her husband left their farm in 1985 and
moved to Toronto.
Gisela Sybille Frieda Else Marguerite
VON
EINSIEDEL was born
in Creba, Saxony, Germany, on July 25, 1909. She died in Toronto
on April 4, 2005. She leaves her children Christine, Veronika
and Manfred
VON
NOSTITZ and Carmen, Nikolaus and Micaela
VON
RICHTHOFEN.
Her husband died in 2000.
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