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O'DONOVAN,
Michael
Valentine, C.M. (1936-2005)
Val died quietly at his home in Bermuda on Saturday, February
5, suddenly but peacefully, 16 months after learning he had cancer
of his larynx. He was attended by his wife of 44 years, Sheila.
Val is predeceased by his parents, Patrick Joseph and Mary Imelda
(née O'DONOVAN,) and brother Patrick and sister Noreen and survived
by brothers Seamus and Aaron, sisters Rita and Dolores, wife
Sheila, sons Simon, Christopher and Stephen, daughter Caroline,
daughters-in-law Geraldine, Fuyuko and Lori, grandchildren Brian,
Patrick, Tyler, Tiffany, Deborah, Michael, Kelly, Adam and Ashley,
goddaughter Joanne and by many nieces and nephews. Val was born
in Clonakilty, Co. Cork, Ireland on Valentine's Day in 1936.
After graduating as an electrical engineer from the Cambridge
College of Technology in 1959 he worked at Pye Telecommunications.
Soon after graduating he met Sheila and they were married in
1960. In 1963 Val, his pregnant wife and their two infant sons
immigrated to Canada. After working in the satellite division
at RCA in Montreal Val, joined with two partners who founded
Com Dev in 1972. On Hallowe'en in 1979 Com Dev, along with 44
families, moved to Cambridge, Ontario. Under Val's leadership
Com Dev continued to thrive and in 1996 became a publicly listed
company. In 1998 Val retired as Chief Executive Officer of Com
Dev but continued on as Chairman of the Board until December
2004. In 1992 Val was awarded the McNaughton Gold Medal by the
Institution of Electrical and Electronic Engineers. In 1995 the
University of Waterloo awarded him the degree of Doctor of Engineering
(Honoris Causa). In 2001 Val was awarded with the John H. Chapman
Award from the Canadian Space Agency. In 2003 Val was appointed
to the Order of Canada, Canada's highest civilian honour. From
1997-2003 Val was Chancellor at the University of Waterloo where
he relished giving degrees to many thousands of students, to
each of whom he has something special to say. In 1998 Val and
Sheila started a charitable foundation to establish a residential
hospice in Waterloo Region for terminally ill cancer patients.
In July 2000 Lisaard House (lisaard.com) was open for its first
residents. Val's special interests included his rose garden,
his bookshelves and his wine cellar. There will be a private
family funeral followed by a celebration of Val's life on the
afternoon of Sunday, February 20th. All whose lives have been
touched by Val are welcome to attend. For details please either
email (celebration@odonovan.ca), fax (519-624-0182) or telephone
(519-653-6412). In lieu of flowers donations to Lisaard House
(990 Speedsville Rd., Cambridge, Ontario, N3H 4R6) would be appreciated.
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RCA o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2005-10-28 published
Patrick Gregory
SCOTT
By Clark DAVEY,
Friday,
October 28, 2005, Page A24
Journalist, jazz critic. Born January 7, 1927, in Ottawa. Died
May 10 in Cumberland, Ontario, of bone cancer, aged 78.
Life for Patrick
SCOTT, virtually from beginning to end, was
all about jazz and journalism. At Jarvis Collegiate Institute
in Toronto, he was already the correspondent for Canadian High
News -- the Bible in its day for high-school students. He also
studied piano, guitar and clarinet at the Royal Conservatory
with a thought to teaching music.
But after graduation he started as a cub reporter at the Guelph
Mercury and soon became the youngest city editor at a Canadian
daily. Subsequently, he spent a year in Kirkland Lake as managing
editor of the Northern Daily News. Then it was on to the Windsor
Star before gravitating back to Toronto and The Globe and Mail
in 1957.
At The Globe, he moved around on the desk -- city editor, telegraph
editor, news editor and chief of the copy desk -- jobs that finished
in the late evening, freeing
SCOTT to hustle the two blocks to
the Colonial Tavern or the Town Tavern, both now long gone.
The constant in his life was his Jazz Scene weekly column. Marked
by his acerbic, mordant wit and fuelled by his developing relationships
with some of the greats of the jazz world -- the likes of Count
Basie, Buck Clayton, Earl Hines -- the column quickly became
the word on jazz in Toronto.
He wrote an illuminating piece for The Globe Magazine about his
favourite, Louis Armstrong, including the details of Armstrong's
legendary laxative fixation, chronicling the 10 hours he spent
with Satchmo before a concert at the O'Keefe Centre in Toronto.
When
Armstrong died,
SCOTT was an invited mourner at the Harlem
funeral.
In 1967, using his own money, he brought together Don Ewell and
Willie "
The
Lion" Smith in the
RCA recording studio on Mutual
Street in Toronto to produce the record Grand Piano, which has
just been re-issued as a Compact Disk on the Sackville label.
SCOTT's sardonic style wasn't always appreciated by his editing
colleagues, who brought union grievances against him based on
his admonishing memos about their editing lapses. Even the mediator
who heard the grievances had to smile at some of his phrases.
Though tortured by migraine headaches, Patrick moved to The Toronto
Star in late 1967 to write an entertainment column. He became
entertainment editor and then, in 1971, city editor. But most
important was his meeting with Margaret (Maggie)
URMSTON, a city
desk clerk from Liverpool who expressed her appreciation for
his review of the movie Blow-Up. That led to their first hand-holding
date at the movie In Cold Blood and, ultimately, their marriage
in May of 1971. It was his second; he had two sons from his previous
one.
Then, Pat was sent to the Star's Paris bureau. He covered the
Egyptian side of the Yom Kippur War, managing to get himself
beaten up by what he always assumed were government agents, and
filed another of the Star's legendary expense accounts covering
the rental of a camel for desert transportation.
After he left the Star and a brief stint in England, he taught
journalism at St. Clair College in Windsor.
His escalating health problems, including removal of a cancerous
kidney and a heart attack, and the drugs he had taken to washing
down with Crown Royal whisky soon overtook him. He retired and
moved to Ottawa with Maggie. They both wound up in institutional
care and when bone cancer swept through him earlier this year,
he refused all treatment and asked to be moved back to his seniors'
residence where, as he put it: "I can be among people I know
and listen to my music to the end."
Clark is Patrick's friend and was The Globe's managing editor
through his tenure.
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RCA o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2005-11-25 published
Dottie WILSON
By David WILSON,
Friday,
November 25, 2005, Page A24
Hospice pioneer, stepmother, wife. Born September 16, 1923, in
Aurora, Ontario Died June 1 in Bayside, New York of heart failure,
aged 81.
Dottie WILSON fervently believed that the traditional practice
of forcing terminally ill patients through a gauntlet of pain
in their process of dying, in the unrealistic, faint hope of
miraculous recovery was morally indefensible, unnecessary and
barbaric. And so in 1974, she became captivated with the new
field of hospice and palliative-care medicine, just then being
introduced into Canada at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal
by Dr. Balfour Mount.
She immersed herself in the hospice movement, becoming the administrator
of the palliative care service at the Royal Victoria Hospital,
North America's first hospital-based hospice. In 1979, we left
Quebec and moved to Chevy Chase, Md., to work with Elm Services
Inc., one of the largest U.S. health care consulting firms. As
their hospice consultant, she worked internationally with local
health care organizations, teaching and encouraging hospice development.
In 1982, after completing a feasibility study of a hospice for
children at Saint Mary's Hospital for Children in Bayside, New
York Dottie was retained to oversee its design, construction
and startup. The facility became the first hospice for children
in the world. After its completion, she remained as its director
for five years until her retirement.
Born
Dorothy
Nettie
CLARKE in Aurora, Ontario, to Caroline and
Ernest CLARKE, she was the second of three children, between
older sister Mary Louise and younger brother Douglas.
Many years ago, I asked her father what he thought was the most
important thing about a sign for my new store. I was stunned
when he answered "that it not fall down." Yet it was fundamental,
down-to-earth and revealed his methodical, basic and practical
way of thinking. I believe that her father instilled that way
of looking at things into her.
After graduating with a degree in sociology from the University
of Toronto in 1946, she worked for several years with Dr. Perry
Culver at the Massachusetts General Hospital until she moved
to Montreal in 1951, where she became a systems and procedures
analyst for what was then the
RCA
Victor▼ company. She then became
Canada's first female management consultant with the Montreal
accounting firm of Riddell, Stead, Graham and Hutchison.
In 1959, she married David
WILSON, a Montreal businessman and
later a psychoanalyst and group therapist in New York City. This
marriage was her second.
Dottie is remembered for her skill in empowering the infant dreams
of nascent startups in the health care field. Her expertise was
honed in guiding the development of her husband's many startup
projects.
After her retirement from Saint Mary's, Dottie helped Dr. Louis
Ormont create the Center for Group Studies. Ironically, Dottie
herself was forced into the gauntlet of severe pain by the development
of an excruciating ulcer during a recent hospitalization for
disorientation. She knew that common hospice protocols for wound
care might have avoided this tragedy, so, after weeks of pointless
suffering, and recognizing the hopelessness of her situation,
she chose to enter a local hospice program. She knew that the
hospice focus on the quality of life, rather than clinging to
life at any cost, would help her win the relief she deserved.
She is survived by her husband David
WILSON, her nephews Rory
CAMERON,
Gordon
CAMERON and David
CLARKE, and her nieces Susan
CAMERON, Margaret
McCUTCHEON, Wendy
ZAROWSKI and Sandra
RANA.
Stepsons David Andrew
WILSON, Daniel Thompson
WILSON and Douglas
S. WILSON will sorely miss her.
David is Dottie's husband.
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RCA o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2005-11-22 published
WARREN,
Dorothy
Andrea (née
BARTON)
(November 30th, 1912-November 19th, 2005)
Peacefully on November 19th, 2005 at 2 p.m. at Leisure World
- O'Connor Court, in Toronto, in her 93rd year. Beloved wife
of the late Captain William John Edward
WARREN of the Toronto
Fire Department. Sadly missed by her much loved devoted and loyal
daughter Karen Andrea
WARREN of Toronto, Ontario. Predeceased
by her parents Joseph Alfred
BARTON of Turnbridge Wells, Kent,
England and Margaret Ethel
BARTON (née
LEACH/LEECH/LEITCH) of Williamstown,
Cornwall, Ontario. Predeceased by her brother William Courtney
BARTON of Peterborough and her sister Jessie Margaret
BARTON
of Montreal, Quebec. Dorothy Andrea
WARREN (née
BARTON) was born
in Montreal, Quebec. She worked for
RCA
Victor▲ in Montreal for
12 years and met "Bill" at the Air Force House and later married
him at St. James' United Church on April 20th, 1946. Sincere
thanks to the staff and residents from Leisure World - O'Connor
Court, her home for almost 3 years, for the love and support,
especially for making her last months in Palliative Care comfortable.
The family will receive Friends at the Humphrey Funeral Home
- A.W. Miles Chapel, 1403 Bayview Avenue (south of Eglinton Avenue
East), from 2-4 p.m. and 7-9 p.m. on Wednesday, November 23rd.
The funeral service will take place in the chapel on Thursday,
November 24th at 1 o'clock. Interment Resthaven Memorial Gardens.
If desired, donations to the Alzheimer Society of Ontario - Research
Department, 1200 Bay Street, Suite 202, Toronto, Ontario M5R
2A5 or the Canadian Cancer Society - Research Department, 20
Holly Street, Suite 101, Toronto, Ontario M4S 3B1.
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