MUGFORD o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2005-07-11 published
MATHIEU,
Raymond "
Ray"
Joseph
Sr.
At London Health Sciences Centre, Westminster Campus on Saturday
July 9th, 2005. Raymond (Ray) Joseph
MATHIEU
Sr. of London in
his 71st year. Beloved husband of the late Eleanor
MATHIEU
(July
21st, 2004). Dear father, grandfather and greatgrandfather of
Judy MUGFORD, Debbie (Shaun)
GAGNE, Raymond (Lesley), Jeff (Sharlene),
Sherry (Doug), Rob, Matty, Amanda, Marcy, Reese, Benton, Brittany,
Kyle and Riley. Dear brother of Rita, Robert, Shirley and twin
sister May. Predeceased by brothers Leslie and Desmond. Friends
will be received at the Evans Funeral Home (1 block east of Egerton
St.) 648 Hamilton Road on Monday 2-4 and 7-9. Funeral Service
will be held in the chapel on Tuesday, July 12th, 2005 at 11
a.m., with Reverend Ernest
CRAWFORD officiating. Interment at Mount
Pleasant Cemetery. Friends who wish may make memorial donations
to the charity of your choice. On-line condolences can be expressed
at www.evansfh.ca A tree will be planted as a living memorial
to Ray MATHIEU.
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MUGFORD o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2005-08-02 published
MUGFORD,
Jennifer
Margaret (née
SMITH)
Passed away after a lengthy and courageous battle with cancer
surrounded by her family and Friends at her home on Sunday, July
31, 2005 at the age of 52 years. 21 years Canadian Forces (Master
Corporal) Canadian Forces Decoration and Queens Jubilee Medal.
Loving wife of Ken
MUGFORD of Trenton. Beloved mother of Elsie
MUGFORD at home, step mother of Scott and Corey
MUGFORD and mother
at heart to Dawn
TRACEY and her son Chase. Survived by her parents
Harold and Elizabeth
SMITH of Southampton, Ontario and her sister
Susan HARRISON of Palgrave, Ontario. Remembered and loved by
all. Friends are invited to call at the Weaver Family Funeral
Home - West Chapel, 170 Dundas St. West, Trenton on Tuesday from
2-4 and 7-9 p.m. Funeral Service will be held at King Street
United Church on Wednesday, August 3, 2005 at 11 a.m. Reverend Janet
STEPHENS officiating. Cremation to follow. As expressions of
sympathy, donations to the Canadian Cancer Society or the Quinte
Humane Society would be appreciated by the family. Online Guest
Book and Condolences at www.weaverfuneralhomes.com
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MUGFORD o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2005-03-22 published
MUGFORD,
James
K. "
Jim"
(Former Owner of All Seasons Marine) Passed away peacefully at
Ajax-Pickering Hospital on Sunday, March 20, 2005 in his 72nd
year. Jim MUGFORD, dearly beloved husband of Lorna
MUGFORD of
Whitby.
Loving father of Cathy and her husband Scott
PEEL and
Jamie and his wife
Dianne
MUGFORD. Dear Popa to Hayley, J.J.
and Alexandra. Dear brother of Marvin (Elsie)
MUGFORD,
Ian
BEWS,
Elizabeth FRANKLIN, Ruth
WAGNER (Rick), Joyce
MacKENZIE and predeceased
by George and Dolly
MUGFORD and Roy
MUGFORD.
Jim will be sadly
missed by his many nieces, nephews, father-in-law Tom
JORDAN,
brother-in-law Earl (Rita)
JORDAN and sister-in-law Lois (Ron)
BUKER.
Family and Friends may call at the Low and Low Funeral
Home, 1763 Reach Street, Port Perry (905-985-7331) on Wednesday,
March 23, 2005 from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. A funeral service
will be held in the chapel on Thursday, March 24, 2005 at 1 p.m.
Interment Pine Grove Cemetery, Prince Albert. Memorial donations
to the Canadian Cancer Society, Salvation Army or the Heart and
Stroke Foundation of Ontario would be appreciated.
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MUGFORD o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2005-05-02 published
PARKER,
Margaret
Peacefully, at Buckingham Manor, Stouffville, on Thursday, April
28, 2005, in her 98th year. Widow of Les (1965). Lovingly remembered
by her sister Florence
CLAYTON; her nieces and nephews. Predeceased
by her brothers Bill and Steve
MUGFORD. A Funeral will take place
at the Trull "North Toronto" Funeral Home. Interment Prospect
Cemetery.
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MUGFORD o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2005-12-12 published
PIKE,
Mildred
Lillian (née
BROWN)
(November 17, 1922-December 7, 2005)
Suddenly and tragically on December 7, 2005 as the result of
massive stroke followed by a car accident while driving home
from a family weekend. Our Mom, Mildred
PIKE (née
BROWN,) has
now gone to be with her love, our Dad, Bill. Mom leaves behind
her devastated extended family of Karen
MUGFORD
(Al,)
Bill
PIKE
(Anne) and her "baby," Jim
PIKE
(Regina.)
She was a doting and
devoted Grandmother to Rory
FITZPATRICK
(Dianne,)
Neil
FITZPATRICK
(Stephanie,) Joshua
PIKE,
Jennifer
PIKE, Justin
PIKE and Emily
PIKE.
Her great-grandchildren were her special loves, Jackson,
Katie, Julianne, and William... How lucky they were to have had
her as their Great-Grammi. Mom was also a special Grandma to
Karen BISHOP, Michael
MUGFORD (Donna), Lynn
KLUGMAN (Steve),
Diane BRENNAN (Tom), Janine
SKORUPA (Charlie) and Paula
MUGFORD.
Loving step-great-grandma to Sherrie, Brian, Paul, Jeanette,
Jaden, Laura, Jill, Tyler, Erin, Chris and Michael. She leaves
behind in Newfoundland, her surviving sisters, Clarice
HIGHMORE
(Jack,) Daphne
SMITH
(Azariah, deceased,) Irene
HIGHMORE (Les,
deceased,) sister-in-law Floss
BROWN
(Bill,) sister-in-law May
HUTCHINGS
(Sel,) and Mary
HUTCHINGS (Len, deceased) and all their
families. Very special Aunt to Pat
BROWN and Don and Louise
SMITH.
Mom was always forever a lady who worked tirelessly for her church,
St. James Anglican in Fenelon Falls, as well as their Community
Care. After Dad died, her many Friends, especially those at 70
Murray, became her life-line and she enjoyed so much their card
games and bus trips together. We are all so grateful for having
been part of her life. Our wish is that every child should know
the love and devotion of a Mother and Grandmother like our Mom.
She will be missed more than words can say and our lives will
never be the same. To One who bears the sweetest name And adds
luster to the same Long life she had and there's no other Could
take the place of our dear Mother. Rest in Peace Sweet Lady.
In accordance with Mom's wishes, cremation has taken place. A
celebration of her life will be held on Saturday, December 17,
11: 00 a.m., St. James Anglican Church, 19 Bond Street E., Fenelon
Falls. Visitation with the family at 10: 00 a.m. While flowers
are always appreciated, the family would be grateful for donations
to the Heart and Stroke Foundation.
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MUGGERIDGE o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2005-11-28 published
MUGGERIDGE,
John▼
He was called by God in his 73rd year with his loving family
at his side. Born in Croydon, England, in 1933, John went to
grammar school at Cranbrook College. After two years national
service in Kenya, John graduated from Cambridge University, Jesus
College, in history. Shortly after graduation, he immigrated
to Canada where he landed a job teaching high school in Corner
Brook, Newfoundland. There, he met his future wife Anne-Marie
ROCHE,
Catholic author and commentator. After an M.A. in history
at the University of Toronto, John taught at Ridley College in
St. Catharine's. He married Anne in 1960. For the next 25 years,
he taught in Toronto and then at Niagara College in Welland,
Ontario. John was a devout Catholic.
son of British journalist
Malcolm MUGGERIDGE,
John▼ was also a writer and commentator. Beloved
husband of Anne. Loving father of John, Charles, Peter, Matthew
and Rosalind, and grandfather of 16 grandchildren. He is survived
by his brother Leonard. Friends may call at the Turner and Porter
Funeral Home, 436 Roncesvalles Avenue (at Howard Park), Toronto,
on Monday, November 28, 2005 from 2-4 p.m. and 7-9 p.m., with
Prayers at 8: 00 p.m. Funeral Mass to be held at St. Vincent de
Paul Catholic Church, 263 Roncesvalles Avenue, Toronto, Tuesday,
November 29, 2005 at 10: 00 a.m. Interment at Mount Hope Cemetery,
Toronto. If desired, donations can be made to the St. Vincent
de Paul Society and Holy Family Conference, 1372 King Street West,
Toronto, M6K 1H3.
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MUGGERIDGE o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2005-12-01 published
John MUGGERIDGE,
Teacher And Writer: (1933-2005)
son of the famous British journalist and author carved out a
life in Canada as a writer, educator and anti-abortion zealot
who, in his way, introduced his father to Catholicism, writes
Sandra MARTIN
By Sandra MARTIN,
Thursday,
December 1, 2005, Page S9
Teacher and writer John
MUGGERIDGE was brought up "a mild boarding-school
Anglican," according to his friend, the journalist David
WARREN,
but became an orthodox Catholic and fervent anti-abortionist
under the influence of his wife, the Catholic writer and polemicist
Anne ROCHE.
However public and political his stance as a "pro-life" campaigner,
Mr. MUGGERIDGE never condoned or supported the homicidal activities
of some anti-abortion campaigners, according to Mr.
WARREN, himself
a convert to Catholicism. "The whole point is that he was defending
life, not psychopaths. He would be much more likely to shelter
the woman who has had an abortion and realizes that she has done
a terrible, terrible thing."
A gentle, self-effacing man with a wry wit, he never acknowledged
how many people were touched by his faith in their essential
goodness. Mr.
MUGGERIDGE subsumed his own ambitions to his role
as father and provider to a large family of four sons and a daughter.
"He parked his academic career for his family," said his eldest
son John Malcolm
MUGGERIDGE. "He sacrificed his studies because
he needed an income."
His nascent literary skills were called upon when George Orwell
asked him to read the manuscript of Animal Farm before it was
published in 1945. "Orwell and his father were worrying that
the manuscript might suffer the same fate as Gulliver's Travels
that is, become a children's book," said the writer Kildare
DOBBS, who is related to the
MUGGERIDGEs through his mother.
John, at the age of 12, read Orwell's masterpiece and proclaimed
it an adult book.
John MUGGERIDGE was born on the outskirts of London, England,
the second of four children of journalist, writer and pundit
Thomas Malcolm
MUGGERIDGE and his wife
Katherine "
Kitty"
DOBBS,
a niece of Fabian socialist Beatrice
WEBB.
His older brother
Leonard said he really didn't know John
MUGGERIDGE as a child
because they were "shipped off to boarding schools early on"
because their famous father was "here, there and everywhere."
The two brothers only became close in the past two decades.
Mr. MUGGERIDGE went to Cranbrook College and then did his then-obligatory
two years of military service in Kenya. On his return to England,
he studied history at Jesus College, Cambridge. After graduation,
he immigrated to Canada in the mid-1950s "out of boredom," as
he told one of his grandchildren who was writing a school essay
on immigration.
"I think he wanted a change, said his son John Malcolm
MUGGERIDGE.
"His father was well known and he wanted to carve his own way
and he wanted to teach." He looked in The Times of London and
found two jobs advertised: one in Hong Kong and one in Corner
Brook, Newfoundland.
That's how he met his future wife Anne-Marie
ROCHE.
She had entered
the Sisters of Presentation as a novitiate, but had left the
order before taking her vows. The sisters had found her a teaching
job at the local Catholic school in Corner Brook. Mr.
MUGGERIDGE,
who was teaching at the public school, met her at a teacher's
union meeting.
A couple of years later, Mr.
MUGGERIDGE left Corner Brook to
study for a master's degree in Canadian history at the University
of Toronto. "He and my mom courted by letter," said his son.
They married in 1960 and his father converted to Catholicism
about a year later. "Mom was the driving force there. She was
very, very devout and she had a strong influence on people. She
was the main reason for Dad's conversion and for granddad's [in
1982], although he was also influenced by Mother Teresa and the pope."
"My theory is that John came to Canada to get away from his father's
notoriety and also perhaps to get away from opinionated people,
but then he married an even more opinionated person," said Mr.
DOBBS.
A traditional Catholic who disagreed vehemently with Vatican
II and its attempts to modernize the Church, Ms.
ROCHE is the
author of The Gates of Hell: The Struggle for the Catholic Church
(1975) and The Desolate City: Revolution in the Catholic Church
(1986). "I didn't marry a Catholic, I married Catholicism," Mr.
MUGGERIDGE used to say about his increasingly orthodox religious
views and his strong anti-abortion stance.
"In Catholic teaching there can not be anything right about abortion,"
said Mr. WARREN, himself a Catholic convert. "The moral positions
may be difficult to uphold in people's personal lives, but they
are not difficult to understand."
Mr. MUGGERIDGE taught history and French at Ridley College in
the early 1960s and then taught at Earl Haig High School in Toronto
before moving with his growing family to Hamilton to pursue a
doctorate at McMaster University.
For a time, the
MUGGERIDGEs were involved in a conservative discussion
group critical of the provisions of Vatican II. Called the St.
Athanasius
Society, it was led by Jim
DALY, a McMaster professor,
and by Sister Mary Alexander, a teacher. The group fell apart
after Prof.
DALY's early death from cancer.
Mr. MUGGERIDGE didn't finish his doctorate. He moved his family,
which by then numbered three children, to Niagara College in
Welland, Ontario, in 1969, where he taught English literature
and composition and Canadian Studies. He retired in the early
1990s. A voracious reader, he read his wife to sleep every night
with a selection from Shakespeare, Dickens, Jane Austen, P.G.
Wodehouse or John Donne and the Metaphysical poets.
As a writer, Mr.
MUGGERIDGE frequently contributed book reviews
to The Globe and Mail, wrote regularly for the now-defunct The
Idler magazine and served as a contributing editor to the orthodox
monthly magazine, Catholic Insight. "He was a Christian gentleman,
very kindly disposed," said associate editor David
DOOLEY, a
retired English professor from St. Michael's College at the U
of T.
Mr. MUGGERIDGE was not a quick writer, according to Mr.
DOOLEY.
"Give him a book review and the result would be slow in coming
and very well thought out with a good sense of style."
Both he and his wife wrote regularly for The Idler in the 1980s
and became close Friends with founding editor David
WARREN. "He
never really thought of himself as a writer," said Mr.
WARREN,
explaining that Mr.
MUGGERIDGE mainly displayed his literary
skills through old-fashioned letter writing. He could focus a
cold, clear eye on his subject, however.
In "The Last Days of St. Muggs," an article he wrote in the January/February
1991 issue of The Idler, Mr.
MUGGERIDGE wrote frankly about his
father's youthful days as "an unfaithful, hard-drinking near-playboy,"
the progressive senility of his last months and summed him up
as "a magnificent battle-axe of a Catholic controversialist with
yet a wistful and forgiving, kindly heart."
Mr. MUGGERIDGE also contributed regularly to Human Life Review,
a sectarian quarterly that William F. Buckley once praised as
"the focus of civilized discussion of the abortion issue." He
came to the journal through his father, who was good Friends
with the founding editor, J.P. McFadden. "He brought clarity,
humour, optimism, wisdom, patience and perseverance," to the
publication, said senior editor Faith Abbott, the founder's widow.
Mr. MUGGERIDGE's wife
Anne began evincing signs of dementia in
the early 1990s, and was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease and
institutionalized in Toronto about five years ago. Mr.
MUGGERIDGE
moved to Toronto to be near his wife and went every day to feed
her lunch. His own health began to fail about 2000. He suffered
from multiple myeloma and underwent a strenuous bone-marrow transplant
about three years ago. He survived the drastic treatment, but
fell ill this autumn with a previously undiagnosed bowel cancer
that had metastasized to his liver. His life was celebrated at
a Latin mass at St. Vincent de Paul Church in Toronto on Tuesday.
John MUGGERIDGE was born in Croydon, near London, England, on
February 28, 1933. He died in Toronto on Friday, November 25,
of bowel cancer. He was 72. He is survived by his wife Anne,
his sons John, Charles, Peter and Matthew, his daughter Rosalind,
and his older brother Leonard.
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MUGGERIDGE o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2005-12-19 published
MUGGERIDGE,
John▲ -- I Remember
By Eleanor
DALY,
Monday,
December 19, 2005, Page S11
Eleanor DALY, who teaches English and history at an international
school in Saudi Arabia, writes about John
MUGGERIDGE, whose obituary
appeared on December 1.
My four siblings and I were lucky enough to have known John
MUGGERIDGE
almost all our lives. My father was James
DALY, a Catholic scholar
and professor at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, who
became a close friend of "Uncle John." The two families saw each
other frequently.
We Daly children grew up listening to "Uncle John" and "Aunt
Anne" converse with our parents (and often other academics, Catholic
or not) on a wide range of erudite topics -- though it always
came back to the Catholic faith the four of them shared. Sometimes
we could barely hear the Leafs game on the television in the
downstairs rec room over the laughter coming from the living
room.
"Uncle John" was the quintessential "absent-minded professor,"
from his tweedy jackets to his habit of forgetting details. I
remember, in particular, how one autumn "Aunt Anne" had given
him a letter to mail and he pocketed it in his coat. When he
put the coat back on in the spring, he found the letter still
in the pocket!
Yet anyone who assumed that his wit or intelligence were anything
like his occasional short-term memory lapses were soon put right.
He was a formidable conversationalist and, as his biography makes
clear, a man of great culture, learning and charm. Even when
theological conversations became heated, he never lost his wonderful
sense of humour or the dry wit mentioned in Sandra
MARTIN's article,
and he kept others on a more or less even doctrinal keel.
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MUGGRIDGE o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2005-02-17 published
ORR,
Douglas
Johnston, U.E.
Passed away on Thursday, February 10, 2005 to join his loving
wife, Helen
VACHA (2001.) They are survived by their daughter,
Sandra
Elizabeth.
Predeceased by his mother Ina L.
HICKS of Loyalist
Heritage, South Bay, Prince Edward County, father William Johnston
ORR of Kingston, younger brother Billy and older brother John
Lewis
(Jack 2003.) Survived by his loving sisters Mary
HASTINGS
(Lionel) of Regina and Dorothy
QUINN
(Bob-2004) of Grayslake,
Illinois. An Honours student in the Faculty of Medicine at University
of Toronto (1941-43), he joined the war effort in the Royal Canadian
Navy Reserve, subsequently joining Canadian General Electric
(1946-54) in Toronto and Vancouver. A brief stint as a Field
Worker at the Department of Public Welfare in Toronto propelled
him back to university for a B.A. and on to a career as a teacher/guidance
counsellor at Parkdale Collegiate Institute (1959-76), Bloor
Collegiate Institute (1976-80) and Parkview Secondary (1981-84).
In retirement Douglas served his church and maintained the home
in which he and his own family grew up. His fondest memories
were of time spent with family in Prince Edward County where
his Loyalist ancestors settled some five generations before him.
'Uncle Doug' will be lovingly remembered by numerous nieces and
nephews for his honesty, faithfulness, compassion, integrity
and dedication to his family. A memorial service will be held
Friday, February 18, at 1: 00 p.m. at The Ward Funeral Home, Weston
Chapel, 2035 Weston Road, followed by burial in Riverside Cemetery.
In lieu of flowers, a donation to New Visions Toronto, Suite
101, The Mill, 250 The Esplanade, Toronto, Ontario M5A 1J2 (416-8681493)
would be appreciated. Our heartfelt thanks to Wendy
ORR,
Ian
MUGGRIDGE and staff of William Osler Health Centre for their
assistance. Condolences may be sent to the family at douglas.orr@wardfh.com
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