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CRAWFORTH o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2006-07-03 published
CRAWFORTH, Alma▼ Grace▼
Of Strathroy, on Saturday, July 1, 2006 at Strathroy Middlesex General Hospital. Grace was the beloved daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. A.W. CRAWFORTH and fond sister of Eleanore. Grace was rewarded by teaching French to many fine pupils over the years in several municipalities. There will be no visitation. A private funeral service will be held at Denning Bros. Funeral Home, Strathroy on Wednesday, July 5. A tree will be planted as a living memorial to Grace.

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CRAWFORTH o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2006-07-03 published
CRAWFORTH, Alma▲ Grace▲
Of Strathroy, on Saturday, July 1, 2006 at Strathroy Middlesex General Hospital. Grace was the beloved daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. A.W. CRAWFORTH and fond sister of Eleanore. Grace was rewarded by teaching French to many fine pupils over the years in several municipalities. There will be no visitation. A private funeral service will be held at Denning Bros. Funeral Home, Strathroy on Wednesday, July 5.

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CRAWLEY o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2006-01-18 published
MYCOCK, James
Peacefully at the Strathroy-Middlesex General Hospital on Monday, January 16, 2006 James MYCOCK of Delaware in his 82nd year. Mr. MYCOCK was a self-employed carpenter and taught woodworking at Fanshawe College for a number of years. He was also the building inspector of Delaware Township for 21 years. One of his greatest joys in life was ballroom dancing. Beloved husband for 56 years of Dorcas MYCOCK. Loving father of Stephen MYCOCK of Delaware and David and his wife Christine MYCOCK of England. Proud grandfather of Tracey and Brendan CRAWLEY, Christian and Sue MYCOCK, Felicity and Shane STANBERRY and David James MYCOCK, all of England. Dearly loved great-grandpa of Sarah, Matthew, Ellie-Mai and Harry. Dear brother of Colin and Jean MYCOCK and Raymond and Carole MYCOCK, all of England. Predeceased by his sister Joan BAMFORD (2003.) Friends may call at the McFarland and Roberts Funeral Home, (2240 Wharncliffe Rd., S., Lambeth 652-2020) on Wednesday from 2-4 p.m. The Funeral Service will be held on Thursday, January 19, 2006 at 11: 00 a.m. with Reverend Elaine CLARK officiating. Cremation. Donations to the London Regional Cancer Centre gratefully acknowledged.

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CRAWLEY o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2006-01-19 published
BLACKBURN, Austin Garfield " Gary"
Seaman, union organizer, boxer, trainer, bodyguard, bouncer, golf pro, gaffer, photojournalist and artist passed away on Saturday, January 14th, 2006, in his seventy-second year after a long illness. Beloved father of Kimberly and the late Richard BLACKBURN. Cherished grandfather of Adam, Aaron and Shaunice. Dear brother of Neville BLACKBURN, Lenore "Dian" SKINNER, Bobby BLACKBURN and Angela BLACKBURN. He will be missed by his cousin Billy BLACKBURN, the partners of his daughter and siblings, Alvin Ryan, Nancy and Jean, by his close friend Sandy CRAWLEY and by Downtown Johnny. Cremation has taken place. A Service of Remembrance will be held at Smith's Funeral Home, 485 Brant Street, (one block north of City Hall) Burlington (905-632-3333) on Saturday, January 21, 2006, at 1 p.m.. In lieu of flowers, please make donations to Lupus Ontario or Sickle Cell Anemia Ontario. Gary had many Friends in all walks of life. There will be a celebration of his life in due course with the people and music he loved. www.smiths.fh.com

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CRAWLEY o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2006-01-19 published
LEONARD, Kathleen Theresa " Casey"
Beloved wife of the late Joseph G. LEONARD (1973,) passed away after a valiantly fought struggle with poor health, on Tuesday, January 17, 2006. Casey was retired from Bell Canada and a volunteer at Ronald McDonald House. Devoted Godmother to Anne Purdie MORASH. Adopted loving aunt to James PURDIE, Mary Beth PURDIE, Stewart, Katherine, Nicholas and Alexandra MORASH, Emily and Abigail STEWARD/STEWART/STUART. Sincere gratitude to Doris GALEA and Eileen PURDIE for their kind dedication and generous support over the years, as well as the Home Care, visiting nurses and family physician Dr. Margaret CRAWLEY. Visitation 9 a.m. Friday, January 20 at the church followed by the Funeral Mass at 10 a.m. at St. Gregory's Church, 122 Rathburn Rd. at Kipling Ave. Reception immediately following the Mass in the church hall. Private interment Mount Hope Cemetery. Donations to the Canadian Cancer Society, Ronald McDonald House or a charity of your choice would be appreciated. Arrangements under the care and direction of the Ward Funeral Home, Weston. Rest in Peace

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CRAWLEY o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2006-04-25 published
GRINDLEY, John Douglas " Jack"
At Stevenson Memorial Hospital, Alliston, on Monday, April 24th, 2006. Jack GRINDLEY, of Tottenham, in his 76th year, beloved husband of the late Jean CRAWLEY. Loving father of Donna and her husband Randy GATTO, Laurie GATTO, Christine and her husband Garry HILLIARD, Kim CAIRNS, Lonny CRAWLEY and Donald CRAWLEY. Sadly missed by his 16 grandchildren. Dear brother of Joan and her husband Norman MEECH. Fondly remembered by his niece and nephews. Resting at Rod Abrams Funeral Home, 1666 Tottenham Road, Tottenham, 905-936-3477 on Thursday, April 27th, 2006 from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. Funeral service will be held in the chapel, 11: 00 a.m. Friday, April 28th, 2006 followed by interment in Mt. Tegart Cemetery, Tottenham. Donations in Jack's memory to the Stevenson Memorial Hospital Foundation or the charity of your choice would be appreciated by the family.

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CRAWLEY o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2006-04-28 published
BROUSSEAU, John Allan
Passed away peacefully on Wednesday, April 26, 2006 at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in his 60th year. Beloved husband of Louise. Devoted father of Alan (Greer BUCKINGHAM) and Lorne (Melissa BENES.) Loving son of Normand and the late Margaret. Brother of Ann (Dick MARTIN) and Debbie (John CRAWLEY.) The family will receive Friends at the Humphrey Funeral Home - A.W. Miles Chapel, 1403 Bayview Avenue (south of Eglinton Avenue East), for a service in the chapel on Monday, May 1st at 1 o'clock. If desired, donations to the Sunnybrook Foundation, Palliative Care Unit, 2075 Bayview Avenue, Toronto, Ontario M4N 3M5 or Sick Children's Hospital Foundation, 525 University Avenue, 14th Floor, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1X8 would be appreciated.

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CRAWLEY o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2006-10-17 published
Star on ice, champ, adored coach
Generous spirit fed homeless man
Party, not memorial, to mark her life
By Debra BLACK, Staff Reporter
Rosemary FORBES died doing something she loved, tending her garden. It was a fitting end for a woman who was passionate about everything from gardening to ice skating.
The one-time Ice Follies dancer and Canadian Ladies Junior champion parlayed a love of skating into a career as a figure skating coach, first at the Lakeshore Skating Club and then the Port Credit Figure Skating Club. During 50-odd years of coaching, she taught thousands of youngsters how to skate.
"She treated every skater in the club equally -- it didn't matter if you had talent or not," says Siobhan CRAWLEY, a former student.
"She was very caring. She had a real sense of humour in the way she taught. She had a way of making you feel important even if you felt unsure." FORBES was teaching until the day she died. Many of her students are beside themselves, said CRAWLEY, who sits on the board of the Port Credit Figure Skating Club. She has arranged for a grief counsellor to talk to the children.
"They loved her," said CRAWLEY. " She was so pivotal to our club. We won't be the same club without her. That was her legacy -- she has taken so many little ones and started them on their way."
Born in Toronto, FORBES, in her 70s, died earlier this month from heart problems.
A passionate gardener and traveller, FORBES married Freddie, who had a drugstore in New Toronto, in 1959. He died in 1991. They never had children.
She also ran a skating group, called Morning Glories, for women aged 40 to 80.
She was generous to Friends, but also strangers. FORBES had lived near a grocery store and put her garbage in the nearby dumpster. "One day a homeless person climbed out of the dumpster and growled at her: 'Stay away, this is my territory,'" recalled Taylor ECHLIN, a friend and executor of her estate. "Rosemary pointed her finger at him and said: 'No one in Canada should eat food out of a garbage bin. You come home now and I'll fix you a sandwich and anytime you're hungry I want you to knock on my door.'"
No funeral or memorial service is being held. FORBES "didn't want people to be sad," ECHLIN said. "She wanted me to hold a big party for all her Friends so we can laugh and giggle and share memories." The party will be in late November, he said.

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CRAY o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2006-03-30 published
COOPER, Marjorie▼ Helen▼ (née LICK)
Left us on March 28th in her 81st year. She passed on in peace and dignity at her Toronto home in the loving care of her family and Friends. Her family caregivers extend heartfelt thanks to Dr. Giovanna SIRIANNI, Heather▼ WHALEN, Marlene CARSCALLEN and Heather McLEAN for helping her through a mercifully brief and intense battle with cancer. Born in Calgary, educated at the Universities of Toronto, Ottawa and Carleton, Marjorie was known and admired for her elegance, intellect, dry wit and peaceful spirit. Betrayed by her body, her sharp mind continued her daily ritual of completing the Globe and Mail crossword puzzle until two days before she died. She also was able to enjoy most of the televised World Championships in both skating and curling. Marjorie▼ is predeceased by Bill COOPER, her husband of 54 years, her brother Gordon LICK of Ottawa and her daughter Margaret CRAY of Holland Landing. She leaves four children, Ian (Toronto), Doug (Powell River, British Columbia), Judy EAST (Calais, Maine), Kathy (Lindsay, Ontario), and eleven grandchildren, Valery, Alexander and Patrick COOPER, Mathew,▼ Devon▼ and Caitlynn PIANOSI, Graham and Heather CRAY, Jocelyn▼ COOPER, Merryn LUSH and Alyson EAST. She▼ is also survived by her daughters-in-law, Karen COOPER (nee PIANOSI,) Kate▼ SAUNDERS, Sandra WRIGHT and sons-in-law, Paul CRAY, Richard▼ EAST and Stuart LUSH. She lived a rich, full life that had its share of both great joy and extreme hardships. A scholarship at the age of 16 took her to Trois Pistolles, Quebec for a French immersion experience, the memory of which she treasured ever after. She met Bill in 1941 on one of many hiking and cycling expeditions in the Canadian Youth Hostelling Association. She shared Bill's keen advocacy for the Canadian Youth Hostelling Association and hosted a chuckwagon-style Canadian Youth Hostelling Association information booth at the Calgary Stampede of 1942. Marjorie served in the Royal Canadian Air Force, Women's Division working in Halifax during the war. With Bill and four other Friends, she went on a cycling expedition to New England in 1946 visiting Boston and Cape Cod. They were married in 1948 after both completed university. Her professional career included teaching sociology at the University of Toronto and she served as Registrar of Erindale College (now Utah, Mississauga) for many years, a job that she found deeply fulfilling especially when she knew she had helped students make difficult choices in their lives. After her retirement she focused on a quiet life of spiritual questing and fulfillment and never missed the full season of the Canadian Opera Company. Her community of Friends of Grace Church on-the-Hill meant the world to her. At Grace Church she was a member of the Altar Guild, the Cariboo Group, the Adult Christian Education Committee and she was the founder and moving spirit of The Book and Film Club. Serving as librarian, she was instrumental in the development and maintenance of the Church library. Her spiritual path also led her to become an oblate with the Sisters of St. Benedict in Erie, Pennsylvania. Her many contributions to the Church were recognized last Spring in the Award for Meritorious Service, an honour that, very quietly, gave her great pride. Funeral service will be held on Saturday, April 1, 2006, 11 a.m., Grace Church On-The-Hill, 300 Lonsdale Road with luncheon and reception to follow in the Parish Hall. In lieu of flowers, please consider donations to the Temmy Latner Centre for Palliative Care, Mount Sinai Hospital or the Palliative Care Unit at South Lake Regional Health Centre in Newmarket where her daughter received such excellent care.

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CRAY o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2006-03-30 published
COOPER, Marjorie▲ Helen▲ (née LICK)
Left us on March 28th, 2006, in her 81st year. She passed on in peace and dignity at her Toronto home in the loving care of her family and Friends. Her family caregivers extend heartfelt thanks to Doctor Giovanna SIRIANNI, Heather▲ WHALEN, Marlene CARSCALLEN and Heather McLEAN for helping her through a mercifully brief and intense battle with cancer. Born in Calgary, educated at the Universities of Toronto, Ottawa and Carleton, Marjorie was known and admired for her elegance, intellect, dry wit and peaceful spirit. Betrayed by her body, her sharp mind continued her daily ritual of completing the Globe and Mail crossword puzzle until two days before she died. She also was able to enjoy most of the televised World Championships in both skating and curling. Marjorie▲ is predeceased by Bill COOPER, her husband of 54 years, her brother Gordon LICK of Ottawa and her daughter Margaret CRAY of Holland Landing. She leaves four children, Ian (Toronto), Doug (Powell River, British Columbia), Judy EAST (Calais, Maine), Kathy (Lindsay, Ontario), and eleven grandchildren, Valery, Alexander and Patrick COOPER, Mathew,▲ Devon▲ and Caitlynn PIANOSI, Graham and Heather CRAY, Jocelyn▲ COOPER, Merryn LUSH and Alyson EAST. She▲ is also survived by her daughters-in-law, Karen COOPER (nee PIANOSI,) Kate▲ SAUNDERS, Sandra WRIGHT and sons-in-law, Paul CRAY, Richard▲ EAST and Stuart LUSH. She lived a rich, full life that had its share of both great joy and extreme hardships. A scholarship at the age of 16 took her to Trois Pistolles, Quebec for a French immersion experience, the memory of which she treasured ever after. She met Bill in 1941 on one of many hiking and cycling expeditions in the Canadian Youth Hostelling Association. She shared Bill's keen advocacy for the Canadian Youth Hostelling Association and hosted a chuckwagon-style Canadian Youth Hostelling Association information booth at the Calgary Stampede of 1942. Marjorie served in the Royal Canadian Air Force, Women's Division working in Halifax during the war. With Bill and four other Friends, she went on a cycling expedition to New England in 1946, visiting Boston and Cape Cod. They were married in 1948 after both completed university. Her professional career included teaching sociology at the University of Toronto and she served as Registrar of Erindale College (now Utah, Mississauga) for many years, a job that she found deeply fulfilling especially when she knew she had helped students make difficult choices in their lives. After her retirement she focused on a quiet life of spiritual questing and fulfillment and never missed the full season of the Canadian Opera Company. Her community of Friends of Grace Church on-the-Hill meant the world to her. At Grace Church she was a member of the Altar Guild, the Cariboo Group, the Adult Christian Education Committee and she was the founder and moving spirit of The Book and Film Club. Serving as librarian, she was instrumental in the development and maintenance of the Church library. Her spiritual path also led her to become an oblate with the Sisters of St. Benedict in Erie, Pennsylvania. Her many contributions to the Church were recognized last Spring in the Award for Meritorious Service, an honour that, very quietly, gave her great pride. Funeral service will be held on Saturday, April 1, 2006, 11 a.m., Grace Church-on-the-Hill, 300 Lonsdale Road, with luncheon and reception to follow in the Parish Hall. In lieu of flowers, please consider donations to the Temmy Latner Centre for Palliative Care, Mount Sinai Hospital or the Palliative Care Unit at Southlake Regional Health Centre in Newmarket where her daughter received such excellent care.

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