OCHALSKI o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2005-09-03 published
OCHALSKI,
Jan
Piotr, D.V.M., V.S.
In his 92nd year, on August 31, 2005, at the Perley and Rideau
Veterans' Health Centre. He is survived by his wife, Judith,
his children Andrew
OCHALSKI and Joanna
COOK and by his grandchildren,
Christopher and Matthew
OCHALSKI, and Marques and Rochelle
SUNDAY.
Musician, actor, athlete, politician, decorated for valour with
the Virtuti Militari as an officer with the Polish Wing of the
Royal Air Force in World War Two, he will be missed by all who
knew him.
Services will be held in Ottawa on Saturday, September 3 at 2
p.m. in Lupton Hall at the Perley and Rideau Veterans' Health
Centre, 1750 Russell Road, and
in Aurora on Saturday, September
10 at 11 a.m. at Our Lady of Grace Church, 15347 Yonge Street.
Donations in memory of Dr.
OCHALSKI may be made to Perley and
Rideau Veterans' Health Centre. Arrangements entrusted to the
Thompson Funeral Home, 29 Victoria Street, Aurora (905) 727-5421.
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OCHRYM o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2005-04-11 published
CIECHANOWICZ,
Stefania
Called to the Lord peacefully at home while in prayer, on Saturday,
April 9, 2005, Stefania
CIECHANOWICZ in her 78th year. Beloved
wife of the late Aleksander
CIECHANOWICZ (1991.) Dear mother
of Janet MICHALSKI (Andy), Wanda
KOWALSKI (Clare) and Ted
CIECHANOWICZ,
all of London. Loving grandmother of Joanne, Mark, Robert, Michelle,
Justin, Kristen, Kelsey, and Kylie. Predeceased by her mother
Rosalia OCHRYM (1976,) her uncle John
ZINKO (1988) both in Canada,
her father Antoni and eight brothers and sisters in Poland. Visitors
will be received on Monday from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. at the O'Neil
Funeral Home, 350 William St. Funeral Mass in Our Lady of Czestochowa
Church, 419 Hill St. on Tuesday at 10 a.m. Interment St. Peter's
Cemetery. Prayers Monday evening at 8 p.m.
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OCHTERLONY o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2005-05-18 published
Barbara BROUSE
By Andrew BROUSE, Gillian
BROUSE, Susan
BROUSE and Terance
BROUSE,
Wednesday, May 18, 2005, Page A22
Mother, grandmother, author, poet. Born January 1, 1932, in Indore,
India. Died February 23, of a heart attack, in Toronto, aged
Barbara was born in British India in 1932 to missionary parents.
Barbara's father, a respected doctor, would eventually become
Chief Surgeon to Lord Louis Mountbatten (the last Viceroy and
first Governor-General of independent India). Barbara adored
her father, but lived in constant fear of her abusive mother.
While Barbara's childhood was traumatic, it enabled her to master
unique survival skills that became the basis of her talents as
a writer -- a finely tuned memory and a love of language.
Sent to boarding school in Ireland when she was 6, she became
the school's youngest-ever recipient of the "student of the year"
award. Barbara came to Canada two years later, went to Brown
School, Bishop Strachan School and University of Toronto. Her
first job was as an advertising copywriter for Simpson's department
store.
Like many women in the early Sixties, Barbara was not expected
to return to the office after she had children. She stayed connected
to the world of work by taking freelance assignments, and in
volunteering with the Art Gallery of Ontario where she dreamt
up some outlandish promotions, including a tribute to the psychedelic
Sixties that the gallery director hosted in his bare feet.
Barbara was later a creative force in the advertising company
she ran with her husband, Lionel. Among several award-winning
collaborations at the time, she wrote the lyrics for the jingles
"It's hard not to think of the Bay," and "Nobody knows noses,
like Kleenex knows noses." In the late Seventies, she took up
a second career as romance novelist and, with more than a dozen
titles, under the pen names Abra
TAILOR/TAYLOR and Araby
SCOTT, she
supported her family. Barbara wrote Harlequin's first "SuperRomance,"
a longer and steamier format that became a huge success for the
company.
Her own marriage ended in the mid-Eighties. Although she and
Lionel grew apart, there was no enduring animosity and Barbara
kept the surname that had been hers for almost 30 years.
In her later years, Barbara began to recover memories of her
traumatic childhood and worked tirelessly on corroborating and
completing her as-yet-unpublished memoirs, The Drummin, Lion
in the Drawer, and Dolly. All three manuscripts tell a story
of survival and hope.
In 1997, Barbara had a major stroke and temporarily lost her
ability to communicate, her gift for words. It was a profound
loss.
As Barbara worked hard to regain her precious language, there
were some surprisingly hilarious and beautiful moments. Barbara
was moved to Riverdale Hospital for lengthy speech therapy and
physiotherapy. Having just been reduced to one or two syllables,
she was assigned Dr.
OCHTERLONY.
Many a sidesplitting tear was
shed as she tried to pronounce that name -- and pronounce it
she would.
A year later, with her family gathered around her, Barbara pointed
to each of her four children in turn and, with still-limited
language, declared, "Imperfect, imperfect, imperfect, imperfect,"
and then gesturing again to each, she emphasized, "
PERFECT!"
With two simple words, she boiled down to its essence one of
her basic philosophies; the foibles and frailties of her children
were an integral part of the complete people she loved. She wanted
her children to know that she felt this way and hoped that they
could see each other in the same way.
Of star we come; returned to star We change - and changing, changeless
are.
From
Peace, by Barbara
BROUSE.
Andrew, Gillian, Susan and Terance are Barbara's four grown children.
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