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Beland HONDERICH,
Newspaper
Publisher (1918-2005)
Micromanager changed the Toronto Star from a scoop-an-edition
news sheet into an information-based vehicle for an emerging
middle class, writes Sandra
MARTIN
By Sandra MARTIN,
Wednesday,
November 9, 2005, Page S9
An outsider who joined the Toronto Star as a "wartime replacement,"
Beland (Bee)
HONDERICH worked his way up through the newsroom
to become editor, publisher and ultimately chairman of the board
of the country's largest and most colourful city newspaper. Its
archives can boast staff bylines belonging to Ernest Hemingway
(he likened it to "serving in the Prussian army under a bad general"),
Pierre Berton, Gordon Sinclair and Peter Newman.
A micromanager and a curmudgeon who was feared more than he was
loved, he transformed and modernized the Star, built a legendary
newsroom in the late 1950s and 1960s, fought and won a newspaper
war with the now defunct Toronto Telegram, bought up its circulation
lists and its fleet of community newspapers, crusaded in support
of diversity, national unity and cultural nationalism, and acquired
Harlequin Enterprises, for many years a substantial cash cow
for Torstar Corp.
"He took a paper that mattered and turned it into a great newspaper.
I think his impact on Canadian journalism and his craft was huge,"
said his son, John
HONDERICH, himself a former editor and publisher
of the Toronto Star and now a member of the board of directors
of Torstar Corp.
He was hard to love, but easy to respect, said Peter
NEWMAN,
editor-in-chief from 1969 to 1971. "I was always impressed by
his wisdom, his determination and his optimistic view of the
Canadian future. Unlike most publishers, his ideology went way
beyond the bottom line. He never really understood the Canada
that stretched beyond the shadow of the C.N. Tower, but he loved
the idea of this country."
Beland
(Bee)
Hugh
HONDERICH was born in Baden (near Kitchener,)
Ontario, one of six children of John William
HONDERICH, a Mennonite
postmaster and railway agent, and Rae Laura
(ARMSTRONG,) a Presbyterian.
Religion was a contentious and omnipresent factor, according
to Mr. HONDERICH's youngest brother, philosopher Edgar (Ted)
HONDERICH.
His father liked unusual names. He called his eldest
son Loine and he named his second son after a physician named
Béland in Montreal.
During the Depression, the family home was sold at auction when
the mortgage holder foreclosed. Beland left school after Grade
8 to help support the family and began working as the Baden correspondent
for the Kitchener Record (now The Record) in 1935 at the age
of 17.
He did well covering two big fires in his community and made
the move to the Toronto Star as a wartime replacement in 1943,
earning $35 a week. He had been rejected from the armed forces
because he had poor eyesight and a bad ear. When he got to the
Star, he was told "all the good men were away fighting" and warned
that there wouldn't be a job for him when they came back.
Shy, private, and insecure -- the poorly educated country man
in the big city -- he "always felt he had to work twice as hard,"
according to his son, John.
Mr. HONDERICH told the journalist Doug (now George)
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in a 1983 interview for Saturday Night magazine that "you produced
or else," explaining that he covered two speeches a day, delivering
a few facts and a couple of "punchy" quotes. "It left a deep
impression on my mind... what people are interested in is information."
This was a lesson he would apply when he had control of the paper.
Far from being dismissed when peace was declared, he was promoted
to financial editor in 1945, named editor-in-chief a decade later
and elected a director of the company in 1957.
The Toronto Star is a private business like other newspapers
in Canada, but it is unusual in that it is owned by a group of
families and it operates according to a set of principles established
by the late Joseph
ATKINSON
Sr. He became editor in 1899, quickly
turned the struggling newspaper around and soon acquired a controlling
interest. In 1911, Harry C.
HINDMARSH joined the paper. He became
Mr. ATKINSON's lieutenant and his son-in-law. Together, they
turned the newspaper into the home of "razzle-dazzle journalism,"
ordering saturation coverage of big stories and indulging in
huge headlines, full-page pictures and wacky stunts. They also
supported the Liberal Party and social-welfare issues such as
mothers' allowances, unemployment insurance, old-age pensions,
minimum wages and the rights of labour unions. The combination
of Christian piety, free-wheeling Fabian socialism and popular
journalism was good for circulation and advertising revenues.
By 1913, the Star was Toronto's largest paper and Mr.
ATKINSON
was its controlling shareholder.
He died in 1948, leaving an estate of more than $8-million, putting
the bulk of it, including the ownership of the paper, into the
Atkinson Charitable Foundation, which he had established six
years earlier. In his will, he directed that profits from the
paper's operations were "for the promotion and maintenance of
social, scientific and economic reforms which are charitable
in nature, for the benefit of the people of the province of Ontario"
and he stipulated that the paper could be sold only to people
who shared his social views.
Mr. HINDMARSH became president of the five-person board established
to govern the paper and carry out Mr.
ATKINSON's wishes. However,
the Ontario government, led by Conservative Leslie
FROST, and
rival newspapers, including The Globe and Mail and The Toronto
Telegram, argued that the foundation was merely a device to avoid
paying succession duties on Mr.
ATKINSON's estate.
The FROST government passed a law forbidding charitable foundations
from owning more than 10 per cent of a profit-making business.
The Star was given seven years to sell its business interests,
with the foundation's trustees, officers and directors allowed
to buy them, subject to the approval of the Supreme Court of
Canada.
While this wrangling was going on, Mr.
HINDMARSH dropped dead
of a heart attack on December 20, 1956. The new board of the
Atkinson
Foundation was made up of Joseph S.
ATKINSON (son of
the late Mr.
ATKINSON,) his sister Ruth
HINDMARSH (widow of Mr.
HINDMARSH), Burnett
THALL, William J.
CAMPBELL and Mr.
HONDERICH.
In 1958, after swearing before the Supreme Court that they would
uphold the principles outlined in Mr.
ATKINSON's will, they were
allowed to buy the newspaper. They paid $25.5-million in a leveraged
buyout, which Globe business columnist Eric
REGULY has called
"the steal of the century." They put down $1-million in cash
and secured most of the rest by selling debt and preferred shares
to the public.
Mr. HONDERICH, who had been editor for three years and on the
board for one, had no family money or other resources to draw
upon. He was living in a duplex with his wife and three children.
"We had one couch and one chair," said his son John. "The Bank
of Commerce virtually put up all the money, but the security
was the shares of the largest newspaper in the country."
In addition, Mr.
HONDERICH took a personal loan for his 15-per-cent
share, helped by advice and references from accountant, cultural
nationalist and later politician, Walter
GORDON.
Today,
Torstar
Corp., the media conglomerate that owns the Star, is worth about
$1.7-billion.
As editor and then publisher, Mr.
HONDERICH built the great Toronto
Star newsroom of the late 1950s and 1960s. He transformed the
paper from a flashy, scoop-an-edition news sheet into an information-based
vehicle for columnists and critics. He quickly realized, according
to journalist Val
SEARS, that the real market in the postwar
period lay in finding readers among the young middle class in
the suburbs who were moving up through the social strata.
They wanted context and information, not just headlines. Ron
HAGGART worked as a columnist for the Star in the sixties. Mr.
HONDERICH had the right ideas about how to change the Star, which
was a stodgy, old-fashioned paper, according to Mr.
HAGGART.
"It was still a paper that believed the most recent event deserved
a headline because it had happened in the last hour."
Among the stable of writers and editors Mr.
HONDERICH enlisted
or celebrated were: Pierre Berton as a daily columnist, Charles
Templeton as managing editor, Nathan Cohen as drama critic, Milt
Dunnell on sports, Gwyn (Jocko) Thomas on crime and Peter
NEWMAN
as Ottawa editor and editor-in-chief.
He loved to hire people, said journalist Robert
FULFORD, who
worked for the Star twice (from 1958 to 1962 and from 1964 to
1968), but he quickly grew bored with them. Managing editors
were a notoriously endangered species, according to Mr.
FULFORD,
who once joked that after more than two years on the job, managing
editors took on the look of "hunted animals." When he was having
trouble sleeping at night, police reporter Jocko Thomas was said
to recite the names of the more than 40 city editors who served
during his long career at the paper.
Mr. NEWMAN spent seven years at the Star, leaving in 1971 in
"frustration because [Mr.
HONDERICH] was always stone-cold certain
about what he didn't want, but not good at suggesting practical
options."
He could be a bully. "He wasn't a particularly big man, but he
looked big to his employees. He tended to tower," said Mr.
SEARS,
who worked for Mr.
HONDERICH for about 25 years in a number of
capacities, including Ottawa bureau chief and Washington correspondent.
"He spoke low, but he made his position very clear. On the other
hand, he was certainly the best publisher I ever worked for because
he knew what he wanted and he would back you up."
Saying that he and Mr.
HONDERICH fought a lot, especially when
he was editor of the editorial page, Mr.
SEARS said he always
thought it was a mistake to try to outguess his boss. Mr.
HONDERICH
seemed aware of his power. "He once said to me, 'If I walk through
that newsroom and I say to someone it is a nice day, by the final
edition I have two full pages on the weather," said Mr.
SEARS.
Stories abound about Mr.
HONDERICH's tendency to micromanage.
When he was editor, he behaved as though he was the publisher
and when he became publisher and president in 1966, "he acted
as though he owned the paper outright," Mr.
FULFORD said.
Staffers were obsessed with anticipating his wishes, often with
bizarre results. Somebody heard that "Bee" believed that a colour
photograph had to have red in it, so Star photographers took
to stowing red jackets in their cars and asking people to put
them on before snapping their pictures, or so the story goes.
"Bee had a phobia about accompanying each picture in his paper
with explanatory cutlines," recalled Mr.
NEWMAN. "I got hell
once for running an illustration of Gina Lollobrigida, the Italian
film star, standing beside a male dwarf, because I had left out
the 'left' and 'right' identifications."
During his years at the newspaper, Mr.
HONDERICH oversaw the
introduction of colour, the shift from an afternoon to a morning
paper, a Sunday edition and the appointment of the first ombudsman
at any paper in Canada. He was also a driving force behind the
establishment of the Ontario Press Council. In 1976, he was appointed
chairman and chief executive officer of Torstar Corp. He continued
to serve as publisher until September, 1988.
Mr. HONDERICH married three times. His and his first wife
Florence
divorced in 1962. He married Agnes
KING in 1968. Star legend
has it that he called the paper from the airport as he and his
bride were leaving on their honeymoon and asked for the front
page to be read to him. She died of cancer in 1999 after a long
and painful illness. "He was amazingly diligent in the way he
cared for her," said his son John.
That same year he became engaged to Rina
WHELAN, a widow he had
met many years before (when both were married to other people)
in the barbershop of the Hotel Vancouver, where she worked as
a manicurist. "This is one of the great love stories," John
HONDERICH
said, "I have had the honour of standing up for him at two of
his three weddings."
The HONDERICHs lived in the penthouse of La Carina (Rina's House,)
a condominium she had developed and built on English Bay. "He
was a wealthy man and she was a wealthy woman," commented Mr.
HONDERICH's brother Ted, "and so both were under suspicion of
being gold diggers."
Mr. HONDERICH became more left wing in his politics as he became
older, said his brother. "All newspaper publishers are accused
of being ruthless, but actually they are activists," he said.
"They want to make things happen and they don't like things hanging
on in an indecisive way."
Beland Hugh
HONDERICH was born on November 25, 1918, in Baden,
Ontario. He died yesterday in St. Paul's Hospital in Vancouver
after a massive stroke. He was 86. He is survived by his first
wife Florence, his third wife Rina, three children, six grandchildren
and one brother.
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BOOTH-
ZUFELT,
Helen
Bernice
Peacefully at the Orillia Soldiers' Memorial Hospital on Wednesday
January 12, 2005; in her 72nd year. Helen
BOOTH-
ZUFELT of Orillia,
beloved wife of Dr. William
ZUFELT and the late Norman Lyle
BOOTH.
Loving mother of Shauna
BOOTH of Washago and Geoffrey
BOOTH and
wife Kelly of Orillia, and step mother of Christine and husband
Brian FETHERSTONHAUGH of New York, Dr. Kirk
ZUFELT and wife
Jennifer
of Sault Ste. Marie, Matthew
ZUFELT and wife
Gayle of Toronto.
Loved grandmother of Riley and Bailey
BOOTH,
Claire and Alison
FETHERSTONHAUGH,
Emily and Nicole
ZUFELT,
Samantha and Hannah
ZUFELT. The family will
receive Friends at the Doolittle-Carson Funeral Home, 54 Coldwater
St. E., Orillia, from 7-9 p.m. Friday. Funeral service will be
held at St. James' Anglican Church, corner of Coldwater and Peter
Streets, Orillia, on Saturday morning, January 15, 2005, at 11
o'clock. Cremation. In lieu of flowers memorial donations to
the Orillia Soldiers' Memorial Hospital Foundation would be appreciated
by the family. Online Condolence are welcome at www.carsonfuneralhomes.com
A Memorial Tree will be planted by the Doolittle-Carson Funeral
Home
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FETTER o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2005-07-25 published
ASHFORD,
Albert
Ernest
Peacefully, on Friday, July 22, 2005 at the London Health Sciences
Centre - University Hospital, Albert Ernest
ASHFORD in his 77th
year. Beloved husband of the late Madeline
ASHFORD.
Cherished
companion of Jackie
NIELSEN.
Loving father of Charlie (Cindy,)
Pam FETTER, Penny
WOLSTENHOLME, Louis (Carmen) and Robert
ASHFORD.
Loved grandfather of Eleven grandchildren. Dear brother of Winnifred
PICKLES. A Graveside Service will be held at Forest Lawn Memorial
Gardens, 2001 Dundas Street East, London, on Wednesday, July
27, 2005 at 10: 30 a.m. In memory, donations to the Heart and Stroke
Foundation would be appreciated. Arrangements entrusted to McFarlane
& Roberts Funeral Home, 652-2020.
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FETTERLY o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2005-01-29 published
NORDEMANN, Harmpje Maria "Hannie"
(VAN
REIJENDAM)
After a lengthy illness, Harmpje Maria (Hannie) passed away at
Craigwiel Gardens, Ailsa Craig on January 27, 2005. Harmpje Maria
((HannieVAN)
REIJENDAM)
NORDEMANN in her 77th year. Loving wife
of J. Gerhard (Gerald)
NORDEMANN of Nairn. Loving mother of Gerald
and wife Brenda▼
NORDEMANN of Komoka, Joan
NORDEMANN-
KELLER and
husband Robert
KELLER of Brampton, Shirley and husband Don
WATSON
of Nairn, Helen
NORDEMANN and husband Tony DA
SILVA of London,
Keith and wife
Ramona▼
NORDEMANN of Medicine Hat, Alberta and
Dorothy and husband Larry
FETTERLY of Brampton. Predeceased by
daughter Yvonne
(NORDEMANN)
MacGREGOR (1987.) Beloved Oma of
Beth and Craig
NORDEMANN,
Marc▼ and Matthew
NORDEMANN-
KELLER,
Jacki and Jason
WATSON,
Andrea▼ and Daniel
NORDEMANN-DA
SILVA
and Andrew and Emily
NORDEMANN. Dear sister of Dini DE
ROOI of
the Netherlands, sister-in-law of Corry
NORDEMANN of Strathroy,
D.W. (Wim)
NORDEMANN of the Netherlands, D.J.J. (Dick) and Map
NORDEMANN of the Netherlands, J.F. (Fred) and Edna
NORDEMANN
of Nightville, New Brunswick, brother-in-law J.
DRENTH of the
Netherlands and C.J. (Carel) and Rudi
NORDEMANN of the Netherlands.
Will also be missed by many nieces and nephews both in Canada
and the Netherlands. The family will be at the Nairn Mennonite
Church (26459 Bear Creek Sideroad - just off Petty Street) on
Friday, February 4, from 7-9 pm and
on Saturday, February 5,
from 1-2: 30 pm with memorial service at 2:30 pm officiated by
Rev. David
FRIESEN-
WALDNER.
There will be a private family service
of interment at another time. T. Stephenson and son Funeral Home
(Ailsa Craig) entrusted with arrangements. Cremation has taken
place. Those wishing to make donations in memory of Hannie
NORDEMANN
are asked to consider Craigwiel Gardens. A tree will be planted
in memory of Mrs. Harmpje
NORDEMANN.
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FETTERLY o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2005-04-11 published
WARDROP,
Claire
Judson (formerly
ROSS,
FETTERLY)
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FETTERLY o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2005-07-02 published
NORDEMANN,
Johann▼
Gerhard▼ "
Gerald▼"
After a short illness, Johann Gerhard (Gerald) passed away peacefully
at Strathroy General Hospital on Tuesday June 28, 2005. J. Gerhard
NORDEMANN was in his 80th year. Predeceased by his wife
Harmpje▼
(Hannie) NORDEMANN
(January▼ 2005.) Loving father of Gerald and
wife Brenda▲▼
NORDEMANN of Komoka, Joan
NORDEMANN and husband Robert
KELLER of Brampton, Shirley and husband Don
WATSON of Nairn,
Helen NORDEMANN and husband Tony DA
SILVA of London, Keith and
wife Ramona▲▼
NORDEMANN of Medicine Hat, Alberta and Dorothy and
husband Larry
FETTERLY of Brampton. Predeceased by daughter Yvonne
(NORDEMANN)
MacGREGOR (1987.) Beloved Opa of Beth and Craig
NORDEMANN,
Marc and Matthew
NORDEMANN-
KELLER,
Jacki and Jason
WATSON, Andrea
and Daniel
NORDEMANN-DA
SILVA and Andrew and Emily
NORDEMANN.
Dear brother of D.W. (Wim)
NORDEMANN of the Netherlands D.J.J.
(Dick) and Map
NORDEMANN of the Netherlands, J.F. (Fred) ad Edna
NORDEMANN of Nightville, New Brunswick, C.J. (Carel) and Rudi
NORDEMANN of the Netherlands, brother-in-law of Cory
NORDEMANN
of Strathroy, J.
DRENTH of the Netherlands and Dini DE
ROOI of
the Netherlands. Will also be missed by many nieces and nephews
both in Canada and the Netherlands. Visitation will be at Nairn
Mennoite Church (26459 Bear Creek Sideroad -just off Petty Street)
Friday, July 8th from 7: 00-9:00 p.m. and Saturday, July 9th from
1: 00-3:00 p.m. There will be a private family service of internment
at another time. T. Stephenson and son Funeral Home (Ailsa Craig)
entrusted with the arrangements for the family. Cremation has
taken place. Those wishing to make a donations memory of J. Gerhard
NORDEMANN are asked to consider a charity of choice.
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NORDEMANN, Harmpje Maria "Hannie"
(VAN
REIJENDAM)
After a lengthy illness, Harmpje Maria (Hannie)
(VAN
REIJENDAM)
passed away at Craigwiel Gardens, Ailsa Craig, on January 27,
2005, in her 77th year. Loving wife of J. Gerhard (Gerald)
NORDEMANN
of Nairn. Loving mother of Gerald and wife
Brenda▲▼
NORDEMANN of
Komoka, Joan
NORDEMANN and husband Robert
KELLER of Brampton,
Shirley and husband Don
WATSON of Nairn, Helen
NORDEMANN and
husband Tony DA
SILVA of London, Keith and wife
Ramona
NORDEMANN
of Medicine Hat, Alberta, and Dorothy and husband Larry
FETTERLY
of Brampton. Predeceased by daughter Yvonne
(NORDEMANN)
MacGREGOR
(1987.) Beloved Oma of Beth and Craig
NORDEMANN,
Marc▲▼ and Matthew
NORDEMANN-
KELLER, Jacki and Jason
WATSON, Andrea and Daniel
NORDEMANN-DA
SILVA and Andrew and Emily
NORDEMANN. Dear sister of Dini DE
ROOI of the Netherlands, sister-in-law Corry
NORDEMANN of Strathroy,
D.W. (Wim)
NORDEMANN of the Netherlands, D.J. J. (Dick) and Map
NORDEMANN of the Netherlands, J.F. (Fred) and Edna
NORDEMANN
of Nightville, New Brunswick; brother-in-law J.
DRENTH of the
Netherlands and C.J. (Carel) and Rudi
NORDEMANN of the Netherlands.
Will also be missed by many nieces and nephews both in Canada
and the Netherlands. The family will be at the Nairn Mennonite
Church (26459 Bear Creek Sideroad, just off Petty Street) on
Friday, February 4, from 7-9 p.m. and
on Saturday, February 5,
from 1-2: 30 p.m. with memorial service at 2:30 p.m., officiated
by Reverend David
FRIESENWALDNER.
There will be a private family
service of interment at another time. T. Stephenson and son Funeral
Home (Ailsa Craig) entrusted with arrangements. Cremation has
taken place. Those wishing to make donations in memory of Hannie
NORDEMANN are asked to consider Craigwiel Gardens. A tree will
be planted as a living memorial to Mrs. Harmpje
NORDEMANN.
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NORDEMANN,
Johann▲▼
Gerhard▲▼ "
Gerald▲▼"
After a short illness, Johann Gerhard (Gerald) passed away peacefully
at Strathroy Middlesex General Hospital on Tuesday, June 28,
2005. J. Gerhard
NORDEMANN was in his 80th year. Predeceased
by wife Harmpje▲▼
(Hannie▼)
NORDEMANN
(January▲▼ 2005.) Loving father
of Gerald and wife
Brenda▲▼
NORDEMANN of Komoka, Joan
NORDEMANN
and husband Robert
KELLER of Brampton, Shirley and husband Don
WATSON of Nairn, Helen
NORDEMANN and husband Tony DA
SILVA of
London, Keith and wife
Ramona▲▼
NORDEMANN of Medicine Hat, Alberta,
and Dorothy and husband Larry
FETTERLY of Brampton. Predeceased
by daughter Yvonne
(NORDEMANN)
MacGREGOR (1987.) Beloved Opa
of Beth and Craig
NORDEMANN,
Marc▲▼ and Matthew
NORDEMANN-
KELLER,
Jacki and Jason
WATSON,
Andrea▲▼ and Daniel
NORDEMANN-DA
SILVA,
and Andrew and Emily
NORDEMANN. Dear brother of D.W. (Wim)
NORDEMANN
of the Netherlands, D.J.J. (Dick) and Map
NORDEMANN of the Netherlands,
J.F. (Fred) and Edna
NORDEMANN of Knightville, New Brunswick,
C.J. (Carel) and Rudi
NORDEMANN of the Netherlands, brother-in-law
of Cory NORDEMANN of Strathroy, J.
DRENTH of the Netherlands,
and Dini DE
ROOI of the Netherlands. Will also be missed by many
nieces and nephews both in Canada and the Netherlands. Visitation
will be at Nairn Mennonite Church, 26459 Bear Creek Sideroad,
just off Petty Street, on Friday, July 8 from 7-9 p.m. and Saturday,
July 9 from 1-3 p.m. There will be a private family service of
interment at another time. T. Stephenson and son Funeral Home,
Ailsa Craig, entrusted with the arrangements for the family.
Cremation has taken place. Those wishing to make a donation in
memory of J. Gerhard
NORDEMANN, are asked to consider a charity
of choice.
A tree will be planted in memory of Mr. J. Gerhard
NORDEMANN.
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NORDEMANN,
Johann▲
Gerhard▲ "
Gerald▲"
After a short illness, Johann Gerhard (Gerald) passed away peacefully
at Strathroy Middlesex General Hospital on Tuesday, June 28,
2005. J. Gerhard
NORDEMANN was in his 80th year. Predeceased
by wife Harmpje▲
(Hannie▲)
NORDEMANN
(January▲ 2005.) Loving father
of Gerald and wife
Brenda▲
NORDEMANN of Komoka, Joan
NORDEMANN
and husband Robert
KELLER of Brampton, Shirley and husband Don
WATSON of Nairn, Helen
NORDEMANN and husband Tony DA
SILVA of
London, Keith and wife
Ramona▲
NORDEMANN of Medicine Hat, Alberta,
and Dorothy and husband Larry
FETTERLY of Brampton. Predeceased
by daughter Yvonne
(NORDEMANN)
MacGREGOR (1987.) Beloved Opa
of Beth and Craig
NORDEMANN,
Marc▲ and Matthew
NORDEMANN-
KELLER,
Jacki and Jason
WATSON,
Andrea▲ and Daniel
NORDEMANN-DA
SILVA,
and Andrew and Emily
NORDEMANN. Dear brother of D.W. (Wim)
NORDEMANN
of the Netherlands, D.J.J. (Dick) and Map
NORDEMANN of the Netherlands,
J.F. (Fred) and Edna
NORDEMANN of Knightville, New Brunswick,
C.J. (Carel) and Rudi
NORDEMANN of the Netherlands, brother-in-law
of Cory NORDEMANN of Strathroy, J.
DRENTH of the Netherlands,
and Dini DE
ROOI of the Netherlands. Will also be missed by many
nieces and nephews both in Canada and the Netherlands. Visitation
will be at Nairn Mennonite Church, 26459 Bear Creek Sideroad,
just off Petty Street, on Friday, July 8 from 7-9 p.m. and Saturday,
July 9 from 1-3 p.m. There will be a private family service of
interment at another time. T. Stephenson and son Funeral Home,
Ailsa Craig, entrusted with the arrangements for the family.
Cremation has taken place. Those wishing to make a donation in
memory of J. Gerhard
NORDEMANN, are asked to consider a charity
of choice. A tree will be planted in memory of Mr. J. Gerhard
NORDEMANN.
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FETTIG,
Nancy
In loving memory of our dear daughter and sister, Nancy
FETTIG,
who passed away May 2, 2001.
Our time with you was precious
And the memories we have are too.
The love we shared together
Keeps us close to you.
Maybe we cannot touch your hand
Or see your smiling face.
Maybe we cannot hear your voice
Or feel your warm embrace.
But there is something we'll always have
Tucked safely in our hearts.
Our love for you, your love for us
Will never let us part.
Always loved and sadly missed by Mom, Dad and Eileen.
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HARTMANN,
Elfriede
Christine
Helene
Peacefully at Sunnybrook Health Centre on Tuesday, February 15,
2005 in her 79th year. Lovingly remembered by daughter Sonja
FETTING
(Norbert,) dear Omi to Suzi, Kirk (Barbara) and Niki
(Jonathan). Sadly missed by her cousins and Friends in Germany,
and in Ontario. She will always be remembered for her positive
outlook, her love of life, the opera, ballet and music. A celebration
of life will be held in the spring.
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