TAPANILA
TAPIA
TAPLEY
TAPLIN
TAPP
TAPSCOTT
TAPSON
TAPANILA o@ca.on.grey_county.owen_sound.the_sun_times 2005-01-04 published
KOVATS,
Alexander
Joseph
Peacefully on January 3rd, 2005 at Southampton Care Centre in
his 86th year. Predeceased by his loving wife Ruth (1994) and
his brothers Andrew and William. Beloved and devoted father of
Judith HOLTZHAUER (Helge
TAPANILA), John (Isabell), David (Karen),
Kathy HUNTER,
Nancy
FIDDLER (Wayne) and Paul (Sharon,) thirteen
grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. Survived by his brother
Joseph, his sister Emma
SHORTILL, sisters-in-law Elinor
KOVATS
and Rita KOVATS, brothers-in-law Doug
KUNKEL and Don
KUNKEL.
Special friend to Julia
SAKATCH.
Cremation has taken place. Memorial
mass at St. Clements R.C. Church, 745 Duke Street, Cambridge,
Thursday, January 6th, 2005 at 6: 00 p.m. Visitation at the Church
before the mass from 4: 00 to 5:30 p.m. Reception following the
mass. Memorial donations to Canadian Diabetes Association or
your local food bank.
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TAPIA o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2005-03-12 published
DALY,
Hendrika
Jacoba (née
LOOGMAN)
Born April 12, 1925 in Venray, the Netherlands, passed away March
10, 2005, still fighting, at age 79 in St. Michael's Hospital
in Toronto. Riki waged a long battle with chronic lung disease
with courage and determination, with Peter
DALY, her husband
of 47 years, at her side. A master story teller, she was a constant
source of wisdom, inspiration and hilarity. She was deeply loved
and will be sorely missed by her children John (Ingrid
RIETS,)
Patricia (Eric
GRAFSTEIN,)
Ann
(John
WEIR) and Moira (Claudio
TAPIA.)
She was a loving Oma to Matthew, Daniel and Benjamin
DALY-
GRAFSTEIN, Sarah
WEIR and Owen and Isabella
TAPIA. She also
leaves her sisters Pia
LOOGMAN and Kit
SMITH.
Riki grew up in a large, happy household in Holland, the fifth
of seven children. After Jan, her only brother, a medical student,
died in the Second World War, the family emigrated to Canada.
She married Peter in 1957 in Brantford, Ontario. Her life in
Canada was devoted to her family, keeping an immaculate household,
and caring for creatures large and small. She was also an avid
reader, keenly interested in world events and politics, and a
perpetually disappointed fan of the Toronto Maple Leafs.
But it was her personality that touched all who met her. Intelligent,
combative and never afraid to voice her opinion, she filled a
room and she filled our lives. We will miss her terribly. After
her long struggle, may she now rest in peace.
Funeral services will be held Tuesday March 15, 2005, at 11: 00
am at the Humphrey Funeral Home, A.W. Miles Chapel, 1403 Bayview
Ave. in Toronto.
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TAPLEY o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2005-02-26 published
TAPLEY,
Marguerite
Ruth (née
BLYTH)
In her 90th year, of Erindale, Mississauga, passed away peacefully,
on Tuesday, February 22, 2005, at Grace Manor, Brampton. Beloved
wife of the late Gordon (December, 2000). Loving mother of Allan
and his wife
Terry;
Glenda
SHAW and her husband Joey (deceased)
and Reverend David and his wife
Doris.
Loving
Gramma of John
TAPLEY
Susan (John)
SAMARITA; Michael (Heather)
SHAW; Brian
SHAW (deceased)
Calvin (Jennifer)
TAPLEY;
Esther
(Kent)
ALLISON; and Reverend Matthew
(Lisa) TAPLEY.
Great-gramma of 14. Loving sister of Jack and
Irene BLYTH.
Remembered by brother-in-law Fred
GROSSMITH, and
sister-in-law Margaret
TAPLEY.
Cremation has taken place. A Memorial
Service will be held on Wednesday, March 2, 2005, at Mississauga
Gospel Temple, 1814 Barbertown Road, Mississauga, at 2: 00 p.m.
Flowers gratefully declined. Spring interment at Boston Mills
Cemetery.
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TAPLEY o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2005-10-22 published
WELDON,
Kenneth
Barratt (1916-2005)
Peacefully at the Perley and Rideau Veterans' Health Centre in
Ottawa on Thursday, October 20, 2005 after a lengthy struggle
with Alzheimer's disease. Ken
WELDON, beloved husband for 60
years of Eleanor
TAPLEY. Dear father of Barry (Cathie) and Janet
GORDON
(Ken) and of the late Nancy. Cherished grandpa/poppa of
Andrew and Jonathan
WELDON and Jeff and Melanie
GORDON.
Uncle
of Patty HARGREAVES
(Bill) and Georgie
SHIACH (Don.)
Predeceased
by his brother George. Born and educated in Winnipeg, Manitoba,
Ken obtained a Bachelor of Science Degree from the University
of Manitoba in 1937. Relocating to Montreal, he pursued a long
career as Quebec Sales Manager for a chemical products firm.
A championship golfer and curler, Ken represented Quebec three
times at the MacDonald Brier and won the National Seniors Curling
title in 1972, earning an induction into the Canadian Curling
Hall of Fame. Following cremation, a memorial service for Ken
will take place in Ottawa at a later date. The family would like
to thank the staff at the Hunt Club Manor and the Perley and
Rideau Veterans' Health Centre for their patience and care. In
memoriam donations to the Alzheimer Society would be greatly
appreciated. Arrangements entrusted to McEvoy-Shields Funeral
Home, Ottawa.
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TAPLIN o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2005-03-05 published
TAPLIN-
PARSONS,
Ina
Mary
Peacefully on Sunday, February 27, 2005 at Fairvern Nursing Home
in Huntsville at the age of 98. Loving wife of the late Al
PARSONS.
Stepmother of Donnie
PARSONS and his wife
Jeanie of Bracebridge,
Lois MILLER and her husband Bud
WITTER of Kitchener, and Shirley
and her husband Paul
HAMMOND of Bracebridge. Loving sister of
Mary ELDER,
Winnifred
CAMPBELL, and predeceased by Joe
TAPLIN,
Nellie BOOTHBY, Charlie
CUNNINGTON, Art
CUNNINGTON, Bill
CUNNINGTON,
Boyce CUNNINGTON,
Percy
CUNNINGTON, Elsie
BOOTHBY, and Emily
MUNROE.
Fondly remembered by many step-grandchildren, great-grandchildren,
and many nieces and nephews. Funeral Service was held at the
Mitchell Funeral Home, 15 High Street, Huntsville, P1H 1N9, 705-789-5252
on Wednesday, March 2nd, 2005. If desired, donations to St. James
Anglican Church, Port Cunnington, Fairvern Nursing Home or the
Order of the Eastem Star, Clovelly Chapter No. 144, would be
appreciated.
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TAPLIN o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2005-04-23 published
DRIEDZIC,
Geraldine
Peacefully, on Wednesday, April 20, 2005, at King Gardens Nursing
Home. Predeceased by her beloved husband Bill. Loving mother
of Suzanne
TAPLIN and her husband Graham, Daniel and his wife
Anita, and Laura
STEFFLER and her husband Ken. Dear grandmother
of Tim, Mark and Shawn
TAPLIN,
Lauren and Robert
DRIEDZIC, and
Bryan and Leslie
STEFFLER. A private funeral service was held
at the Turner and Porter "Peel" Chapel. Interment Assumption Cemetery.
If desired, remembrances made to the Heart and Stroke Foundation
would be a appreciated by the family.
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TAPP o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2005-03-03 published
TAPP,
Cheryl
In loving memory of Cheryl who passed away March 3, 1991.
God took your hand and we had to part,
He eased your pain, but broke our hearts.
Many a silent tear is shed,
When we are all alone.
When the day is sad and lonely
And everything goes wrong
We seem to hear you whisper
"Cheer up and carry on".
Although we smile and make no fuss,
No one misses you more than us.
Your presence we miss and memories we treasure,
We'll love you always and forget you never.
No length of time can take away
Our thoughts of you today.
Forever loved and sadly missed by Jim, Joshua and Brandon.
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TAPP o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2005-03-10 published
TAPP,
Addie
(COUGHTREY)
Peacefully at her residence in Dorchester on Wednesday, March
9th, 2005 Addie
(COUGHTREY)
TAPP formerly of London in her 97th
year. Beloved wife of the late Arthur Bryce
TAPP. Dear mother
of Patricia
COHOON and her husband Robert of Dorchester. Predeceased
by her brother Harry
COUGHTREY and her sisters Lorinda, Bailie
and Susan HOWARD.
Loving grandmother of Christopher Bryce
COHOON
and his wife
Maria
CAROLINA of London. Friends will be received
by the#2 hours prior to the funeral service which will
be conducted in the chapel of the A. Millard George Funeral Home,
60 Ridout Street South, London on Saturday, March 12th, 2005
at 1: 00 p.m. with Reverend Brian
McKAY of Church of St. Andrew
Memorial officiating. Interment in Dorchester Union Cemetery,
Dorchester. As an expression of sympathy, memorial donations
may be made to the charity of your choice.
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TAPP o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2005-01-11 published
James
Anthony "
Jimmy"
TAPP
By Colleen
TAPP,
Tuesday,
January 11, 2005 - Page A18
Television pioneer, husband, father, grandfather, great-grandfather,
voice of Hercules. Born in Ottawa, April 18, 1918. Died November
20, 2004, of pneumonia in Oakville, Ontario, at 86.
Jimmy TAPP was born at the end of the First World War, the second
of seven children born to George, Canadian Pacific Railway train
conductor, and Kathleen
TRAVERS, she from County Kildare, Ireland.
Jimmy loved to tell stories of his youth in Ottawa through the
roaring Twenties and the great Depression. His favourite story
was about buying his mom a box of coffee creams for Mother's
Day and sharing them with every pal he met on the way home. There
was only one left for his mom but she loved the story even more
than coffee creams.
It was while serving overseas as an officer in the Royal Canadian
Navy in the Second World War that he began his lifelong love
of broadcasting and a career that spanned five decades. Jimmy
hosted a closed-circuit radio show, spinning discs on board the
H.M.C.S. Wasaga, and when the war was over, he studied radio
broadcasting at Northwestern University in Chicago. During a
training session at NBC, he met the lovely Mary Agnes
MORONEY,
and after a whirlwind 11-day courtship, married her in November,
Jimmy and his new bride moved to Montreal, where he became a
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation announcer, and had many successes
as a radio executive. As his little sister, Shirley, said in
his eulogy, Jimmy was born with a microphone in one hand and
a business card in the other, but his real passion was performing.
His talents were ideally suited to an emerging new technology
that was in its infancy: television. He hosted the first show
on CBMT, Montreal's Canadian Broadcasting Corporation English
station, on January 10, 1954. Those early days of television
were exciting, with only a channel or two; if you were watching
in Montreal, you were probably watching Jimmy
TAPP.
As host of The Tapp Room, the first television talk show of its
kind in the mid-1950s, Jimmy interviewed every big star from
New York to Hollywood, such as Bob Hope, Ed Sullivan, Gregory
Peck, Tony Bennett and Joan Crawford, to name a few. The stars
often commented on how much they enjoyed working with him and
how well he had done his homework. Although he hosted a number
of successful television and radio shows, he is probably best
known for being the voice of Hercules in the original hit cartoon,
The Mighty Hercules. Over the years "Herc" delighted his five
children, eight grandchildren and three great-grandchildren with
cheers of "Olympiaaaah!" upon request.
To his family, and others who knew him, Jimmy was larger than
life. Although in very poor health in the months before he died,
he was still "hosting" from his hospital bed, entertaining his
audience and regaling his family with old memories. In his last
days he talked with increasing clarity about his career and his
life, how he was blown away to have participated in that inaugural
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation broadcast, and how it was through
his family that he really made his mark in this world. It was
profoundly moving to watch him muster up all his energy to sign
a 58th anniversary card for Mary despite being barely able to
lift his hand or speak by then. He managed to eat a little (for
her sake) and enjoy a little party with the family in his hospital
room; he died peacefully a few days later.
Ten days after his death, Jimmy was inducted in to the Canadian
Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame and received a tribute
he would have loved. At his grave, where we said our goodbyes
for the last time to the man who was, in his four-year-old grand_son's
words, a "real live superhero," Mom quietly sang an Irish song
and we saluted our beloved Dad with one last "Olympiaaah!"
Herc would have approved.
Colleen is Jimmy's daughter.
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TAPP o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2005-02-14 published
Klaus Dietmar
WOERNER,
Entrepreneur 1939-2005
The German-born tool-and-die maker with enormous willpower founded
ATS, a Kitchener, Ontario, company that is now a global leader
in automated manufacturing solutions, Sandra
MARTIN writes
By Sandra MARTIN,
Monday,
February 14, 2005 - Page S6
A precision mechanic who arrived in Canada in 1960 with nothing
but his skill, energy and ambition, Klaus
WOERNER went on to
become the founder of
ATS, a specialized designer and supplier
of automation systems, that now has 4,000 employees in 26 locations
around the world and annual sales of more than $650-million.
He was named Canadian Entrepreneur of the Year in 1997.
He wasn't a big man, but he was powerful. When he walked into
a room, you could feel the crackle in the air. He could be impatient,
and when he got excited his slight German accent became more
pronounced, but he was very approachable and he never held a
grudge.
"There was no way you could work with Klaus and not be Friends
with him," said Ron
JUTRAS, who has succeeded Mr.
WOERNER as
president of
ATS. "He was a very good judge of character and
he always had time for people. It didn't matter what your role
was in the company, he would find a way to include you in social
gatherings."
Although he wanted people in the company to bring him solutions,
not problems, one of his best skills was problem solving. "He
loved rolling up his sleeves and getting into a problem," Mr.
JUTRAS said.
"Klaus could walk into a factory and he could see the opportunities
to improve it through automation and how he could make a real
difference," said Lawrence
TAPP, chair of the
ATS board, "and
he recognized the importance of the trades and apprenticeships,
which we really needed from a Canadian perspective."
"He was a business giant," said member of provincial parliament
Elizabeth WITMER, former deputy premier of Ontario, "but more
important, he was a very compassionate, generous human being
who gave a tremendous amount back to his community, never expecting
anything in return."
Klaus WOERNER, the youngest of three sons of Karl and Alice
(GREMPER,)
was born in Tiengen in the Black Forest area of Germany, just
after the outbreak of the Second World War. Becoming a toolmaker
was his dream but his hometown was too small to have an apprenticeship
program. He went first to Waldshut to do an apprenticeship as
a watch and clock maker and then to Switzerland to study tool
and die making.
After completing a four-year apprenticeship as a precision mechanic
at Braun Boverei in Switzerland, he applied for visas to Australia,
South Africa and Canada, intending to immigrate to whichever
country accepted him first. Canada won and he arrived in Montreal
in 1960 with a job waiting for him, or so he thought, in aviation.
He showed up for work and learned his employer had shut down
because of the cancellation of the Avro Arrow program the previous
February. He spent his first 14 years in Canada working at technical
jobs and as a watch and clock maker for jeweller Gabriel Lucas
in his celebrated Sherbrooke Street studio. Meanwhile, he finished
his high school diploma and then studied industrial engineering
at night at Sir George Williams (now Concordia) University in
Montreal. Through Friends, he met his wife Anna, then a nursing
student at the Royal Victoria Hospital, in the mid-1960s. "He
was very charming, very elegant and very ambitious," his widow
said this week. They married in Canada's centennial year and
moved to Toronto in 1969 because they were worried about the
economic and political instability in Quebec.
He worked for Litton Systems, then went full-time to Ryerson
Polytechnical Institute (now University) to complete his engineering
qualifications before working at the Ford Motor Company's Oakville
truck plant, installing assembly lines, and then working as an
engineering supervisor at Electrohome Ltd., a television manufacturer,
in Kitchener.
When Electrohome decided to wind down its television business,
Mr. WOERNER went out on his own and, in 1978, founded Automation
Tooling Systems
(ATS,) a start-up company in Kitchener building
specialized equipment to enable manufacturers to take advantage
of new technology.
"The idea of going into industrial automation was really sparked
at Ford," Mr.
WOERNER told Canadian Business magazine in 1998.
"I installed all these automated weld machines and welding robots
there. It was really fun work."
From those early days of building specialized machinery for the
automotive industry, the company has since designed and built
more than 10,000 automation systems for telecommunications, fibre
optics, solar energy and other industries.
ATS was always a family business. Mr.
WOERNER put a $70,000 second
mortgage on his house for cash flow, his wife Anna, who was raising
their two children and working part-time as a nurse, put in half-days
doing secretarial work. Sales reached $370,000 that first year
and grew to $1-million the next. By 1984, the company had $4-million
in revenues and was growing so fast that it was consuming cash
as quickly as he produced it in sales. The company was profitable,
but it needed more working capital than Mr.
WOERNER could provide
from a line of credit at his local bank. It was the bank which
suggested to Mr.
WOERNER that a chartered accountant might help
him increase his financing capability.
"I came to his office, and the level of activity was mind-boggling,"
Mr. JUTRAS said. "It was a beehive of activity. There was a tremendous
pulse and energy level."
Mr. WOERNER was wearing many different hats and working closely
with a bunch of people who were committed to working with him
and who shared his vision, according to Mr.
JUTRAS. "It was inspiring."
Essentially, Mr.
JUTRAS never left. He tested his boss early
on to see if he really wanted somebody to help him on the finance
side. "I made him spend the money on an ad in The Globe and Mail
and when he did it, I said, 'I guess he's serious,' so then I
asked him if he would hire me, and he said absolutely and I came
to work with him [as Chief Financial Officer] and off we went."
That was June of 1985, the year revenues hit $9-million.
"Klaus always wanted to minimize the bureaucracy and to have
an environment that was very team oriented and didn't have an
ivory tower. I can remember him articulating his vision early
on and getting out the white board and mapping out where he wanted
to go. It was exciting."
Mr. JUTRAS helped to find outside investment from Aer Lingus,
which gave the airline a 75-per-cent controlling interest in
ATS.
Giving up such a big share of the company was very hard
for Mr. WOERNER, but he knew he needed the outside capital. Then
in the early 1990s, after having survived downturns in the automotive
and computer electronics industries, Aer Lingus was itself struggling
as a result of the rising fuel costs brought on by the Persian
Gulf war. They wanted to divest themselves of
ATS and Mr.
WOERNER
seized the opportunity to retake control of his company through
an employee-management buy-back offer.
A business connection who became a friend is Robert
WARREN, a
lawyer in the Kitchener office of Miller Thomson. He was brought
in by Mr. JUTRAS to help with the first annual meeting after
the company went public in 1993, a move that brought in the capital
to enable ATS to expand globally. From the beginning, Mr.
WARREN
was impressed by his client's energy, work ethic and loyalty
to his Friends, customers and employees. "He was a horse," Mr.
WARREN said. "He was so strong and he lived to work. You always
knew where you stood with him and I can't think of a nicer man
that I've ever had the pleasure of working with."
Although they didn't know each other at the time, Robert "Bob"
FERCHAT worked at Ford doing financial analysis at the same time
as Mr. WOERNER was working in the technical area. They met and
compared notes in totally different circumstances when Mr.
FERCHAT,
who has held a number of executive positions at Northern Telecom
and BCE
Mobile
Communications and other firms, was invited to
join the board of
ATS in 1997.
A self-described fan of Mr.
WOERNER,
Mr.
FERCHAT said he had
enormous will power and the energy to back it up and that showed
both in the creation of
ATS and in his ability to make it survive
through the downturns in both the high-tech and automotive industries
in the late 1980s and early 1990s. There were no layoffs at
ATS
during those tough times because Mr.
WOERNER insisted on absorbing
the costs of keeping his people working. "He was very loyal to
his employees," Mr.
FERCHAT said, pointing out that the
ATS management
buyout in 1993 was offered to staff, who responded on a broad
level. "He wanted them to share in his wealth and he was frustrated
if the stock went down."
"There were no airs about him," said John
TIBBITS, president
of Conestoga College in Kitchener. "He was very direct so you
never had to do a 'song and dance' for him if you wanted something."
Describing Mr.
WOERNER as one of Conestoga College's best Friends,
Mr. TIBBITS said the relationship with
ATS began in the late
1980s with co-op programs. "It was symbiotic. As they grew, we
grew, too, in a number of areas, a key one being robotics and
automation," he said.
Over the years,
ATS gave cash, equipment, program advisers, apprenticeship
programs, even an engineering building, amounting to an overall
gift of at least $10-million since the mid 1990s. And he strong-armed
other community leaders to make big donations as well. At least
400 Conestoga graduates work at
ATS.
ATS workers and students weren't the only recipients of the
WOERNER
family's generosity. Six years ago the family gave $5-million
to Kitchener's Centre in the Square performing arts theatre.
They tried to give the money anonymously but the centre wanted
to announce it publicly to help in their fundraising. Nevertheless,
they declined an offer to rename the facility in their honour.
They also gave money to local hospitals, to the University of
Waterloo to establish a laboratory for automated manufacturing
research and $100,000 to Ms.
WITMER's unsuccessful run against
Ernie Eves in 2002 for the leadership of the Ontario Conservative
party.
The WOERNERs moved from a house in Kitchener to a 23-hectare
farm outside Cambridge in the early 1980s. That's where he practised
his serve in highly competitive matches on custom-built tennis
courts with his wife and Friends. That's also where, perhaps
in an homage to the denuded Black Forest area of his birth, he
exercised his green thumb by planting more than 100,000 trees
over the years.
Less than a year ago his famous energy flagged and his strength
diminished. Faced with a five-week wait for an M.R.I. in Ontario,
he went to the U.S. and was diagnosed with small-cell carcinoma.
He kept on working, often having chemotherapy in the morning
and then heading straight to the office. His only concession
to ill health was to work four days a week, staying home on Fridays
to recoup his strength.
"If will power could overcome cancer, he would have beaten it,"
said Mr. FERCHAT, adding that the challenge now is to honour
his legacy. "Nobody will be moving into his office or his parking
space for a long time."
Klaus Dietmar
WOERNER was born in Tiengen, Germany, on October
27, 1939. He died of cancer at home on February 7. He was 65.
He is survived by his wife, Anna, two children and three grandchildren.
A memorial service was set for today at Centre In The Square,
101 Queen St. N., in Kitchener, Ontario
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TAPP o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2005-03-21 published
BARLOW,
C.▼
Keith▼
At the South Muskoka Memorial Hospital in Bracebridge on Thursday,
March▼ 17, 2005. Keith
BARLOW in his 83rd year. Beloved husband
to Shirley
BARLOW (née
TAPP) of Gravenhurst. Beloved father to
Keeley (Mrs. C. Scott
ALLINGTON) of Thornton, and Rob. C.
BARLOW
(Shiona COUE) of Vancouver. Keith was the adopted
son of the
late Dr. Harry and Joy
HAZLEWOOD of Gravenhurst. Beloved grandfather
to Katie and Kristin
ALLINGTON. At the request of Mr.
BARLOW,
cremation has taken place. In memory donations to the South Muskoka
Memorial Hospital Foundation or to the Canadian Cancer Society
would be appreciated by the family. Arrangements entrusted to
the W.J. Cavill Funeral Home, Gravenhurst (705) 687-3242.
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TAPP o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2005-01-15 published
DAVIES,
Raymond
(Retired employee of Ford Motor Company, Oakville and a veteran
of World War 2). Suddenly, on Thursday, January 13, 2005, at
Oakville Trafalgar Memorial Hospital, in his 81st year. Raymond,
beloved husband of Kathleen. Loved father of Patricia and her
husband Bill
TAPP and grandfather of Gordon. Dear brother of
Jennifer BOWSHER and Betty
GIMBLETT.
Funeral
Service 1: 00 p.m.
Monday, January 17, 2005 in the Chapel of Kopriva Taylor Community
Funeral Home, 64 Lakeshore Road West, Oakville (905-844-2600)
with visitation one hour prior to service. Cremation. For those
who wish, memorial contributions to the Ontario Heart and Stroke
Foundation, or the charity of your choice would be appreciated.
Email condolences may be sent to kopriva@eol.ca; please place
DAVIES in the subject line.
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TAPP o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2005-02-07 published
'Mac' led heady days at
CHUM
Disk
Jockey
Bob
McADOREY as popular as music
'Bon vivant' later a Global television fixture
By Jim BAWDEN,
Television
COLUMNIST
Bob McADOREY helped usher in radio's rock 'n' roll era and set
the musical agenda for a generation of Toronto teens.
Few today realize the power that Disk Jockeys like
McADOREY exerted
over Toronto popular culture 40 years ago, when radio ruled.
It was a cozy time for music -- and then
CHUM entered the fray,
blew the cobwebs away and ushered in the crazy days of rock broadcasting.
McADOREY, 69, died Saturday at St. Catharines' Hotel Dieu hospital
after a long illness.
McADOREY grew up in Niagara Falls and attended Stamford Collegiate,
also the alma mater of Titanic director James
CAMERON. He was
in the same graduating class as Barbara
FRUM, the legendary Canadian
Broadcasting Corporation-television interviewer.
As a teen,
McADOREY won a province-wide public speaking contest
and was the popular president of his high school fraternity.
He also played ragtime piano.
"Crowds would go around him," said his older brother, Terry
McADOREY.
McADOREY's radio career started in 1953 when the Niagara Falls
native first signed on with
CHVC near the Falls, introducing
listeners to his unique style of easy-going patter.
"I looked like Buddy Holly back then,"
McADOREY told the Toronto
Star in a 1981 interview. "I weighed about 95 pounds and we played
songs like 'Que Sera Sera.' Everything was a lot softer, smoother
then."
After additional stops in London, Guelph, Hamilton and Dawson
Creek, McADOREY wound up at Toronto's
CHUM, coaxed to climb aboard
by resident star Disk Jockey Al
BOLISKA.
"I'd lived with Al above a variety store in London and he kept
telling me to come to
CHUM. I asked for $600 a month, after all
Gordie TAPP was making $100 a week, and to my surprise I got
the job."
Starting in 1960,
McADOREY began a stint that many people consider
rock programming at its finest: brash, spontaneous and pretty
wild. And the Disk Jockeys were the stars.
CHUM became the rock station to listen to and
McADOREY was the
man who told you if a song was going places. The guy who hung
out with The Beatles and The Stones when they were in town (and
introduced them from the stage) was known simply as "Mac."
For years, he hosted the all-important 4 to 7 p.m. slot.
CHUM's
chart of the week's top records was posted everywhere: in record
stores and high school lockers. Eaton's and Simpson's would only
stock those 45s that were on the
CHUM list. When a new record
called "The Unicorn" came in,
McADOREY liked it so much he immediately
put it on the air and it sold 140,000 copies in Canada in two
weeks and made The Irish Rovers.
Thinking back on those heady days,
McADOREY said, "We kept it
all clean up here. There was no payola as in the U.S. and we
deliberately helped a lot of Canadians. It was personality radio.
We were promoted like crazy back then. And the pressures were
unbelievable. We dictated what records were going to go. And
what kids would eat, drink.
"I could have written five books about what happened at
CHUM.
There'd be one book if I saved my memos. The most frightening
thing was the British invasion. There weren't enough cops to
handle the crowds -- it was out of control."
Off the air, he was a bon vivant, said 72-year-old Terry
McADOREY.
"We did a lot of drinking. He was a good friend of Ronnie
HAWKINS."
In 1968, the
CHUM deal fizzled. When owner Al
WATERS brought
in American consultants,
McADOREY felt the business was becoming
too heavily formatted and left.
McADOREY headed to
CFGM in Richmond Hill, which was trying to
invade Toronto with a country music format. As morning man, he
energized the station. He moved to
CFTR in 1970 and after a few
years returned to
CFGM.
A constant listener was Bill
CUNNINGHAM, head of Global television
news, and he asked
McADOREY to contribute satirical bits, which
eventually became a full-time job.
Sample segment: during an airline strike
McADOREY headed out
to Terminal 2 with bowling equipment and pins to demonstrate
the building was only of use as a bowling alley. Royal Canadian
Mounted Police officers saw nothing funny in this and whisked
him out as the piece was being filmed.
Another time during a city campaign to get dog owners to scoop
up deposits,
McADOREY and a cameraman went out to do field tests,
which consisted of chasing terrified dogs whose owners had failed
the test.
By 1980, he was entertainment editor. In 1983, Global tried to
fire him when he disagreed over assignments. Global's Three Guys
at noon telecast was a big hit (the others: Mike Anscombe and
John Dawe) and hundreds of daily phone calls forced management
to reconsider. For a time, Global even outperformed Canadian
Broadcasting Corporation's Midday.
McADOREY later got his own afternoon entertainment show where
he'd report from movie junkets and comment on the entertainment
scene.
I last chatted with him in 2000 when he was railing against Global's
retirement-at-65 rule. But he looked frail and had been off for
months after a fainting attack.
McADOREY had a farm at Gormley and a place in Niagara-on-the-Lake.
Despite his television success he still yearned for the golden
days of radio: "I'd walk into the booth in pyjama tops and jeans
and talk one-on-one to people. At least that's the way I always
imagined it."
McADOREY leaves daughter Colleen, her husband Jim
TATTI, a Global
sports broadcaster, and four grandchildren.
He was predeceased by his wife Willa, daughter Robin and son
Terry.
A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday at St. Patrick's
Church in Niagara Falls.
With files from Gabe
GONDA
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TAPP o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2005-02-11 published
RYDER,
George
Alexander
Suddenly at his residence in Mississauga, on Monday, February
7, 2005. George
RYDER husband of Terry
LOCK and dear father of
Kevin and Michael. Loving grandfather of Alexia, Joshua, Madison
and Brandon. Dear brother of Anne
DALE,
David,
Stephen,
Doreen,
Susan HUNTER, Kathy
MONGEON, Betty Rose and Gord
TAPP. Predeceased
by his parents Roy and Isabel
RYDER and by siblings Christine
WILLIAMS and James
RYDER.
Friends may call at the Lee Funeral
Home Limited, 258 Queen Street South(Misssissauga Road South
of 401), Streetsville on Saturday, February 12, 2005 from 12
noon until service time at 4 p.m. As an expression of sympathy,
donations to the Schizophrenia Society of Ontario, 885 Don Mills
Road, Suite 322, Don Mills, Ontario M3C 1V9 or the charity of
your choice would be appreciated.
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TAPP o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2005-02-19 published
COLLINS,
William▼ "
Bill▼" (1937-2005)
On Thursday, February 17, 2005, after a ten year, very courageous
struggle with cancer, William (Bill)
COLLINS passed away peacefully
at home. Cherished and loving husband of Iris
(TAPP-
TURNBULL,)
devoted son of Noreen and the late George
COLLINS, proud and
adoring father of Kelly (Dino), Steve (Nancy) and Cheryl (Mike).
Cherished step-father of Chella, Lynn, Barb, Christine and Alison
TURNBULL. He will be sorely missed by his precious grandchildren
Patrick, Megan, Ryan, Sean and step-grandchildren Liam, Justin,
Nicholas and Sydney. Leaves his only brother and best friend
David (Joan) and nephew James. Friends may visit at Carruthers
and Davidson, 7313 Highway 26, Stayner on Sunday, February 20
from 2 to 4 p.m and Monday, February 21 from 10 to 11 a.m., prior
to service in the chapel. Reception to follow at 21 Martyn Drive,
Wasaga Beach. If desired, in lieu of flowers, donations can be
made to the Barbara Turnbull Foundation for Spinal Cord Research,
55 St. Clair Ave. West, Suite 410, Toronto, Ontario, M4V 2Y7,
or the charity of your choice.
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TAPP o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2005-02-20 published
COLLINS,
William▲ "
Bill▲" (1937-2005)
On Thursday, February 17, 2005, after a ten year, very courageous
struggle with cancer, William (Bill)
COLLINS passed away peacefully
at home. Cherished and loving husband of Iris
(TAPP-
TURNBULL,)
devoted son of Noreen and the late George
COLLINS, proud and
adoring father of Kelly (Dino), Steve (Nancy) and Cheryl (Mike).
Cherished step-father of Chella, Lynn, Barb, Christine and Alison
TURNBULL. He will be sorely missed by his precious grandchildren
Patrick, Megan, Ryan, Sean and step-grandchildren Liam, Justin,
Nicholas and Sydney. Leaves his only brother and best friend
David (Joan) and nephew James. Friends may visit at Carruthers
and Davidson, 7313 Highway 26, Stayner (1-866-428-2637) on Sunday,
February 20 from 2 to 4 p.m and Monday, February 21 from 10 to
11 a.m., prior to service in the chapel. Reception to follow
at 21 Martyn Drive, Wasaga Beach. If desired, in lieu of flowers,
donations can be made to the Barbara Turnbull Foundation for
Spinal Cord Research, 55 St. Clair Ave. West, Suite 410, Toronto,
Ontario, M4V 2Y7, or the charity of your choice.
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TAPP o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2005-03-19 published
BARLOW,
C.▲
Keith▲
At the South Muskoka Memorial Hospital in Bracebridge, on Thursday,
March▲ 17, 2005. Keith
BARLOW, in his 83rd year. Beloved husband
to Shirley
BARLOW (née
TAPP) of Gravenhurst. Beloved father to
Keeley (Mrs. C. Scott
ALLINGTON) of Thornton, and Rob C.
BARLOW
(Shiona COUE) of Vancouver. Keith was the adopted
son of the
late Dr. Harry and Joy
HAZLEWOOD of Gravenhurst. Beloved grandfather
to Katie and Kristin
ALLINGTON. At the request of Mr.
BARLOW,
cremation has taken place. In memory donations to the South Muskoka
Memorial Hospital Foundation or to the Canadian Cancer Society
would be appreciated by the family. Arrangements entrusted to
the W.J. Cavill Funeral Home, Gravenhurst, 705-687-3242.
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TAPP o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2005-08-26 published
LANGLEY,
Helen
Elizabeth (née
TAPP)
Suddenly on August 25, 2005 at York Regional Hospital, following
a heart attack. Helen, in her 85th year, beloved wife of William
DREW for 63 years. Loving mother of Jeanne
KING and her husband
John, Douglas
LANGLEY and Christine
LANGLEY.
Grandmother to Lisa
KING, wife of Ronald
JOHNSON, and Janice
SMITH, wife of Craig
SMITH of Melbourne, Australia. Great-grandmother of Charlotte
JOHNSON.
Friends will be received at the Lynett Funeral Home,
3299 Dundas St. West on Sunday from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. Complete
Funeral Service to be held on Monday, August 29, 2005 at 1: 00
p.m. in the funeral home Chapel. Cremation to follow.
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TAPP o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2005-12-27 published
CAREY,
Gladys
Lind
Beloved wife of the late Kenneth
CAREY (deceased August 18, 1986.)
Peacefully at the Craiglee Nursing Home in Toronto on the 25th
day of December, 2005 in her 95th year. Beloved mother of Dorothy
(Stan CROWLEY,)
Loretta
(David
TROTMAN,) Melvyn, Yvonne (predeceased
Bud TAPP,)
Verlyn
(John
MacPHERSON,) Marilyn (predeceased Jimmy
McARTHUR,)
Suzie
(Ahmed
DEAN) and predeceased son Russell (Virginia
CAREY.)
Will be sadly missed by many grandchildren and Friends.
Friends may call at the Jerrett Funeral Home, 660 Kennedy Road,
Scarborough (between Eglinton and St. Clair Aves. E.) on Wednesday,
December 28 from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. O.E.S. Service to be held on
Wednesday at 7: 30 p.m. at Jerretts. Service in the chapel on
Thursday at 1 p.m., Reverend Pat
KEITH officiating. Cremation.
In lieu of flowers, donations to the Alzheimer Society.
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TAPSCOTT o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2005-04-16 published
PRITCHARD,
Audrey▼
Carolyn▼ (née
BROWN)
Died peacefully at home in Mississauga on Thursday, April 14,
2005 in her 75th year, of cancer. Beloved wife of Ross for 50
years. Sister of Connie
HENLEY, sister-in-law of Don
HENLEY,
Tom SADLER and Audry
WEST.
Mother▼ and mother-in-law of Kelli
and Nagui
(PRITCHARD-
CHARKY), Jory and Doug
(PRITCHARD-
KERR),
Jeff and Jane
PRITCHARD, and Jill and Nigel
(PRITCHARD-
SCOTT.)
Dear Nanny of Brady, Daniel, Emily, Jamie, Kyle, Michael, Ryan,
Teddy, Thomas and Whitney. Audrey was born and grew up in Chatham,
Ontario and was predeceased by her parents, Alfred and Miriam,
sister Jean and brothers Gordon and Douglas. She attended the
University of Western Ontario where she served as chapter president
of the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority. Audrey taught English and
physical education at high schools in Belle River, Oakville and
Milton. She was an active member of Streetsville United Church,
and helped found and lead many community-based volunteer programs,
including the youth volunteer corps at Credit Valley Hospital,
and Mississauga-based Foodpath, an organization whose initiatives
included creation of a foodbank, children's breakfast program
and co-op housing. Audrey was privileged to have had so many
good Friends, colleagues, neighbours and family who contributed
to her well-being and success and whom we would like to thank
for their generous support in her final days. We are particularly
grateful for the loving homecare provided to Mom by our Dad Ross
and our sister Kelli. Our family would also like to thank Dr.
Ron PEDDLE, Nadean
HARLEY, Dr. Robert
SAULS and other staff of
Credit▼
Valley▼ hospital, Carolyn
OLIVER and other nurses of the
Victorian▼
Order▼ of Nurses, Doina
GAIU, and Reverend John
TAPSCOTT
and the members of Streetsville United Church for their compassionate
care. Visitation will be on Sunday, April 17, 2005 from 2-4 p.m.
and 7-9 p.m., at the Lee Funeral Home, 258 Queen Street South,
(Streetsville) Mississauga, L5M 1L8 (phone 905-826-1148). Funeral
and reception will take place on Monday, April 18, 2005 at 11
a.m. at Streetsville United Church, 274 Queen Street South, Mississauga
(phone 905-826-1542). Burial to follow in Chatham, Ontario. If
desired, donations by cheque may be made payable to: 'Foodpath'
(in memory of Audrey Pritchard, for Breakfast Clubs), 2550 Goldenridge
Road, Unit 36, Mississauga, Ontario, L4X 2S3; phone905-270-9792
www.foodpath.org; registered charity #11892 7011 RR0001 (tax
receipts will be issued).
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TAPSCOTT o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2005-01-02 published
COXWORTH,
Gordon
Passed away at the Uxbridge Cottage Hospital on January 1, 2005.
In his 81st year. Beloved husband of Mary for over 48 years.
Dear father of Larry (Joy,) Debbie (Steve)
NORTHOVER.
Proud grandfather
of Neil, Erica, Thomas and Daniel. Survived by his brothers Lloyd
and Ray (Marianne)
COXWORTH, sister Lois
ANNARINO and predeceased
by Frank COXWORTH and Ilene
TAPSCOTT. Survived by sister-in-law
Ada COXWORTH.
Gordon will be sadly missed by his many nieces
and nephews. Family and Friends will be received at the Low and
Low Funeral Home Uxbridge, 23 Main Street South (905) 852-3073
on Monday January 3, 2005 from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. A Funeral Service
will be held in the chapel on Tuesday January 4, 2005 at 2 p.m.
In Gordon's memory, donations made to the Uxbridge Cottage Hospital
or to the charity of choice would be appreciated.
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TAPSCOTT o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2005-04-16 published
PRITCHARD,
Audrey▲
Carolyn▲ (née
BROWN)
Died peacefully at home in Mississauga on Thursday, April 14,
2005 in her 75th year, of cancer. Beloved wife of Ross for 50
years. Sister of Connie
HENLEY, sister-in-law of Don
HENLEY,
Tom SADLER and Audry
WEST.
Mother▲ and mother-in-law of Kelli
and Nagui
(PRITCHARD-
CHARKY), Jory and Doug
(PRITCHARD-
KERR),
Jeff and Jane
PRITCHARD, and Jill and Nigel
(PRITCHARD-
SCOTT.)
Dear Nanny of Brady, Daniel, Emily, Jamie, Kyle, Michael, Ryan,
Teddy, Thomas and Whitney. Audrey was born and grew up in Chatham,
Ontario and was predeceased by her parents, Alfred and Miriam,
sister Jean and brothers Gordon and Douglas. She attended the
University of Western Ontario where she served as chapter president
of the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority. Audrey taught English and
physical education at high schools in Belle River, Oakville and
Milton. She was an active member of Streetsville United Church,
and helped found and lead many community-based volunteer programs,
including the youth volunteer corps at Credit Valley Hospital,
and Mississauga-based Foodpath, an organization whose initiatives
included creation of a foodbank, children's breakfast program
and co-op housing. Audrey was privileged to have had so many
good Friends, colleagues, neighbours and family who contributed
to her well-being and success and whom we would like to thank
for their generous support in her final days. We are particularly
grateful for the loving homecare provided to Mom by our Dad Ross
and our sister Kelli. Our family would also like to thank Dr.
Ron PEDDLE, Nadean
HARLEY, Dr. Robert
SAULS and other staff of
Credit▲
Valley▲
Hospital, Carolyn
OLIVER and other nurses of the
Victorian▲
Order▲ of Nurses, Doina
GAIU, and Reverend John
TAPSCOTT
and the members of Streetsville United Church for their compassionate
care. Visitation will be on Sunday, April 17, 2005 from 2-4 p.m.
and 7-9 p.m. at the Lee Funeral Home, 258 Queen Street South,
(Streetsville) Mississauga, L5M 1L8 (905-826-1148). Funeral and
reception will take place on Monday, April 18, 2005 at 11 a.m.
at Streetsville United Church, 274 Queen Street South, Mississauga
(905-826-1542). Burial to follow in Chatham, Ontario. If desired,
donations by cheque may be made payable to: Foodpath (in memory
of Audrey Pritchard, for Breakfast Clubs), 2550 Goldenridge Road,
Unit 36, Mississauga, Ontario, L4X 2S3; 905-270-9792; www.foodpath.org
registered charity No. 11892 7011 RR0001 (tax receipts will be
issued).
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TAPSCOTT o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2005-06-18 published
BREADEN,
Ruby
Eileen (née
TAPSCOTT)
Peacefully, on Thursday, June 16, 2005 at Kawartha Lakes Exendicare,
Lindsay, at age 85. Ruby, beloved wife of the late Robert Victor
BREADEN. Dear mother of Lorraine and her husband Kenneth
POWELL,
Robert and his wife
Melita and predeceased by Donna
BREADEN.
Grandmother of Alisha, Miranda and Travis. Survived by her sister
Jessie and brother Melvin. Predeceased by brothers William, Bert,
Carmen, Fred, and Clarence. Fondly remembered by many nieces
and nephews. Resting at the Low and Low Funeral Home, 23 Main Street
South, Uxbridge, 905-852-3073, on Sunday, June 19, 2005 from
2-4 and 7-9 p.m. Funeral Service to be held in the chapel on
Monday at 11 a.m. Interment Westminster Cemetery, Willowdale.
In Ruby's memory, donations may be made to the Alzheimer Society.
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TAPSON o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2005-05-06 published
MUNRO,
James
(Member of The Toronto Scottish Regiment World War 2) Peacefully
at home, with family by his side on Wednesday, May 4, 2005, at
the age 85. Beloved husband and best friend of Margaret, for
sixty-one years. Loving father of, Gary and his wife Nancy, and
Glenn. Adored grandpa of Ryan and Brent. He is also survived
by his sisters, Irene
TAPSON
(Pat) and Mary
HAWKINS (Bert) and
brothers, Jack (Irene) and George (Helen). He will be lovingly
remembered by daughter-in-law Lorraine. Friends may call at the
Turner and Porter Butler Chapel, 4933 Dundas St. W. (between
Islington and Kipling Aves.) on Sunday from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m.
The Funeral Service will be held in the Chapel on Monday, May
9, 2005 at 1: 00 p.m. If so desired, donations can be made to
The Canadian Cancer Society.
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