AZIZ o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2006-02-06 published
FOY,
Hazel
Isobelle
Peacefully with family and Friends at her side, at Sprucedale
Care centre, Strathroy, on Sunday February 5th, 2006. Hazel Isobelle
FOY in her 97th year, of London and formerly of Sarnia. Wife
of the late Walter Frank
FOY (1992.) Dear mother of Carole
AZIZ
of London, Donna
BRASH
(Allan) of Burlington and James
FOY (Maryanne)
of Illinois. Loving grandmother of 9 grandchildren and 9 great-grandchildren.
Cremation has taken place. A memorial service will be held at
a later date. Expressions of sympathy and donations (Heart and
Stroke Foundation) would be appreciated and may be made through
London Cremation Services 672-0459 or on line at www.londoncremation.com
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AZIZ o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2006-06-05 published
AZIZ,
Jim
At Victoria Hospital on Friday, June 2nd, 2006 in his 79th year.
Beloved husband of Suzanne
McDONALD-
AZIZ.
Loving father of Catherine
and Michael. Dear brother of Nick and Lou
AZIZ,
Madeline
DUNN,
Evelyn JONES and Delia
STEWARD/STEWART/STUART all of Toronto. Dear son-in-law
of Rita E.
BELEC. Dear brother-in-law of John, Greg and Fay,
and Bruce McDONALD,
Bessie and Tom
SWEAZEY, Louise and Noël
MORIN.
Predeceased by his sister Margaret
GRAINGER, his brothers George
and Bill AZIZ, and sister-in-law Charlene
SPRATT. Survived by
many nieces and nephews and their families. Jim was a respected
member of the London-Saint Thomas Real Estate Board and a well-known
restaurateur in Sarnia and London. He will be fondly remembered
by many Friends and business associates. A memorial Mass will
be celebrated at Saint Michael's Catholic Church, 515 Cheapside
St. at Maitland, on Wednesday, June 7 at 10: 00 a.m. In lieu of
flowers, memorial contributions to the Merrymount Foundation
for the Aziz Family Art Therapy Fund, 1064 Colborne Street, London,
Ontario N6A 4B3 would be gratefully acknowledged. (James A. Harris
Funeral Home)
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AZIZ o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2006-06-24 published
AZIZ,
Catherine
Julia "
Kitty"
Peacefully at London Health Sciences Centre, Victoria Hospital
on Thursday, June 22, 2006. Catherine Julia "Kitty"
AZIZ of London
in her 90th year. Predeceased by her loving father and mother
George and Freda
AZIZ, her beloved sister Helen
YARED, her brothers
Russell and Ernest
AZIZ, and her nieces Mariene
KOURI and Elaine
YARED. Dear aunt of Susan
MASCIOTRA and her husband Alex of London
and great-aunt of Gregory
KOURI and his wife
Jean
Marie of Miami,
Florida, Andrew
KOURI and his wife
Susan of Montreal, Québec
and David MASCIOTRA and Stephanie
MASCIOTRA, and many other nieces
and nephews. Catherine "Kitty" was an exceptionally talented
commercial artist. Renown for her life-like animal portraits,
she was also commissioned in her early years to paint Roosevelt's
beloved Scottie, "Falla", which is located in the Franklin Delano
Roosevelt Library in Hyde Park, New York. Her special artistic
works were produced similarly for Prime Minister Mackenzie King,
Lord and Lady Alexander, and many others; and, of particular
note, a Border Collie employed by the U.S. Army's K-9 Corps to
deliver messages during the Second World War. A uniquely independent
character, Kitty will be forever loved and missed by close family
and Friends. Heartfelt thanks are extended to Doctor Isabel
LI and
the 6th Floor Palliative Care Team for their tremendous expertise
and care. At Kitty's request a private family graveside service
was held at Woodland Cemetery on Friday, June 23rd. (A. Millard
George Funeral Home entrusted with the arrangements)
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AZIZ o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2006-07-10 published
Artist known for dog paintings
By Ryan CUREATZ, Free Press Reporter, Mon., July 10, 2006
London artist Catherine (Kit)
AZIZ linked her love of art and
animals to paint the pooches of world leaders.
Her pastel portraits of Canadian wartime prime minister Mackenzie
King's beloved Irish terrier, Pat I, and
of U.S. wartime president
Franklin
D.
Roosevelt's Scottish terrier, Fala, earned
AZIZ acclaim
at an early age, her niece said.
"She wanted a dog so badly when she was a child," Susan
MASCIOTRA
said.
"She started painting pictures of them."
Born in Saint Thomas,
AZIZ lived in London most of her life before
she died June 22 of cancer at 89,
MASCIOTRA said.
AZIZ was a commercial artist who met with King in 1948 in Ottawa
to give the prime minister a painting of his pooch, the first
of three terriers he owned -- all named Pat -- and about whom
he wrote in his diary almost every day the dog lived.
King, a devotee of the spiritual world, who held seances to contact
the dead, including his mother, to confirm his instincts, once
wrote that he believed Pat had been sent by his mother to offer
him peace and comfort.
On the same trip
AZIZ made to Ottawa to meet King, she gave a
painting of Muldoon the Second, a Great Dane, to its owners --
Lord Alexander of Tunis, Canada's governor-general at the time,
and his wife Lady Margaret.
"They loved their pets and
(AZIZ) was aware of that,"
MASCIOTRA
said. "She just presented herself to these people with the utmost
grace."
When AZIZ handed Roosevelt's widow, Eleanor, the portrait of
Fala at F.D.R.'s memorial library in Hyde Park, New York the
same year, Fala licked the artist's hand.
"There were a lot of admirers of her work,"
MASCIOTRA said.
In other portraits of celebrity dogs,
AZIZ depicted a border
collie used by the U.S. army's K-9 Corps to send messages during
the Second World War.
A German shepherd that worked as a seeing-eye dog and a perennial
dog-show champion, the Great Dane Rudiki, were also captured
in AZIZ's lifelike works crafted from photographs.
"She was just an incredible person who enjoyed all aspects of
the visual arts," said her cousin, Philip
AZIZ, also a prominent
London artist.
Catherine AZIZ loved the opera and enjoyed dancing her fingers
along piano and organ keys,
MASCIOTRA said.
"(She was) just a fun-loving person when she socialized."
AZIZ once confessed she'd like to have a Kerry Blue terrier.
But her quiet, private life came with no children or dogs of
her own, MASCIOTRA said.
"I don't want to become merely an imitator of someone who is
recognized as a great artist,"
AZIZ told The Free Press 60 years
ago.
"I want to be original, if I can, and I can achieve originality,
I feel, only by working by myself."
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AZIZ o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2006-09-19 published
AZIZ,
Mary
Daisy
On Tuesday September 12, 2006 peacefully with loving care at
Toronto Grace Hospital. Survived by sisters Emma
HANNA, Edna
TABAH and brother William, also sisters-in-law Mary and Lally
and twenty six nieces and nephews. A private family service was
held at Humphrey - A.W. Miles Funeral Home on Friday September 15,
2006. Interment at Mount Pleasant Cemetery.
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AZIZEH o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2006-12-20 published
AZIZEH,
Margaret
In loving memory of our sister Margaret, who passed away December 20th,
2004. Living life without you, Is so very hard to bare, And I'd
give all I have to waken, To see you standing there. Chris, Keith,
Betty, Eileen, Fred, Bob and families.
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