DEI
DEICHERT
DEIF
DEIGHTON
DEISLEY
DEITER
DEITNER
DEI o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2006-07-17 published
DEI,
Daniel
Yao
In loving memory of Daniel Yao
DEI who passed peacefully on July 17,
1999. Respectful
son of Richard and Rosina
DEI.
Missed by daughter
Kayana and son Markus. Treasured by sisters, brother, nieces
and nephews and forever adored by girlfriend, Keri
WALTERS.
Rest
in peace.
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DEICHERT o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2006-02-11 published
DESROSIERS,
Josée
Peacefully at home, on Sunday, February 5th, 2006, Josée
DESROSIERS
of London and formerly of Montreal in her 37th year. Beloved
fiancé of Mark
DEICHERT.
Daughter of Andre
DESROSIERS of Quebec,
and the late Louise
(CASTONGUAY)
DESROSIERS.
Dearly missed by
Mark's family including his father Ron
DEICHERT of Stratford,
his mother Judy
DEICHERT of London, his brother Paul
DEICHERT
of New Zealand, and many family and Friends in Ontario. Also
sadly missed by her Quebec family; uncles Michel
CASTONGUAY,
Pierre (Soheir)
CASTONGUAY, cousins, Elyane (Mario)
CASTONGUAY
and their children Manuelle and Raphael, and cousin Mario
CASTONGUAY,
as well as by her good Friends and co-workers in London. Visitation
will be held on Monday from 2: 00-4:00 and 7:00-9:00 p.m. at the
Westview Funeral Chapel, 709 Wonderland Road North, where the
funeral service will be conducted on Tuesday, February 14th,
2006 at 11: 00 a.m. Interment, Mount Pleasant Cemetery. Those
wishing to make a donation in honour of Josée are asked to consider
the charity of their choice.
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DEIF o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2006-11-16 published
Raziel GERSHATER, 67: Radiologist
By Catherine
DUNPHY,
Obituary
Writer
When the doctor was dancing the tango, his eyes were closed,
his concentration intense and complete and joyous, his smile
contemplative.
"The hyper attention, that look on his face, it was really extraordinary
to watch, like a moving meditation," said long-time friend Bernie
SCHIFF, a former professor and until recently, publisher of The
Walrus magazine.
And so very much like the way radiologist Raziel
GERSHATER, 67,
conducted his entire life.
His partner was his wife, Jeanne. "She was the dancer,"
SCHIFF
noted, "but Raziel was the passionate tango scholar."
Two years ago, after
GERSHATER had been operated on for the first
reoccurrence of his bladder cancer, the couple signed up for
a tango tour in Buenos Aires, dancing every day for 10 days.
He had always loved music, buying his first classical recording
at age 13, never missing a tango performance in Toronto, but
this was a reaffirmation for him. Life had not been easy since
the unexplained death in 1999 of his only son, David, in Addis
Ababa.
"It was his greatest tragedy. He never transcended it but he
was a big enough man to encompass it," said his friend, oncologist
Mark GREENBERG. "
For a year or more he was raging against it,
but eventually in time allowing love and life back into a David-less
world."
"He wore that tragedy in his body, I think," said
SCHIFF. "
Inside
he may have felt he wanted to give up but he had a family and
he had Friends and he persisted in style. Going out dancing in
Buenos Aires is hardly a defeated person."
The GERSHATERs had taken up the tango only a few years ago. They
preferred the Argentinian version, classical, formal, elegant,
complex. And they were good, very good, at it. "They were learners
but there were moments they were magical to watch,"
SCHIFF said.
But then
GERSHATER was very good at everything he did.
"Not just competency," said
GREENBERG. "
Mastery.
There was nothing
he did that he didn't know everything there was to know."
Squash? "
The racquet grew out of his hand,"
GREENBERG said. Tennis?
He was a regular at Mayfair West, three times a week, for two-hour
sessions starting at 6 a.m. -- and his backhand was gorgeous.
He owned a collection of videos of every major tennis match.
Skiing?
South
African-born and raised,
GERSHATER took it up after
watching Jean-Claude Killy storm the 1968 Olympics. He took lessons,
bought and studied videos and was soon conquering double Black
Diamond hills.
"He took great pleasure in doing things well," said his wife.
Passionate about his profession, he was chief radiologist at
North York General Hospital for 20 of his 35 years there and
the man responsible for first introducing three-dimensional imaging
and a computerized patient archiving and communicating system
technology previously found in only a few teaching hospitals
into community hospitals.
"He was a visionary, so aggressive in acquiring new technology,
sometimes even before the teaching hospitals," said Hassan
DEIF,
a radiologist who worked with him at the hospital and in their
private practice for 25 years.
"He was a broader thinker who was trying to prove a point that
Magnetic Resonance Imaging was a mainstream technology that should
be in a community hospital," said Ontario Association of Radiologists
executive director Ray
FOLEY. "
Today that's ho-hum, but 12 years
ago this was almost revolutionary."
GERSHATER took his scholarly journals to bed with him at night
and would sit on the deck at his cottage reading three medical
books at a time.
"In radiology you have to know everything about the whole body
and what procedures have been done and what should be done. It's
very inclusive. His career suited him," said Jeanne.
His daughters were married and also successful in their careers
Tal GERSHATER is a high school math teacher and Elize
GERSHATER
a doctor who decided to follow in his footsteps, much to his
delight, and enrol in a radiology residency.
His children were always his priority.
"He always told us we were the most important and that we could
call him any time at work. So we did," Tal recalled.
He was, she added, a confidante to many.
GERSHATER had everything, it seems -- except an explanation for
his son David's death.
The 10 officials who met them at the airport back in '99 in Ethiopia
told them their son had jumped from his hotel room and deflected
all their questions. But nothing felt right about their conclusion
that their son had been suicidal and unstable. It turned out
it hadn't happened at the hotel where their son had been staying,
but instead at a rooftop bar, where, they learned, some journalists
were said to have been pushed to their deaths, although the official
version was they, too, had jumped. In fact, it was known in Ethiopia
as an "execution post," Jeanne said.
David GERSHATER was 31, a freelance writer and social activist,
a young man with a probing intellect but scattered interests
who had never really found a place or profession to stick to.
He was researching, seeking the truth about aspects of the war
in Eritrea and the floppy disk containing his writings had been
stolen from his backpack a few days before his death. His father
had always wanted to know what had really gone on.
A year after his son died,
GERSHATER was diagnosed with the bladder
cancer that eventually killed him.
He worked until the beginning of this year. By the summer he
was very weak, but he was determined to live to meet Tal's first
child and his second grandchild.
"He kept my due date as a mantra and made it to meet my son David,
and even managed to come out to the hospital the day the baby
was born," she recalled.
"Even though my Dad could barely get out of bed, he somehow found
the strength that day to get down the stairs and into a cab to
come and see us. His smile that day lit up our hearts."
Three weeks later, on Sept.2, he died at home, listening to a
new recording of a piano concerto by Mozart.
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DEIGHTON o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2006-02-10 published
PENFOUND,
Bernice
Jewel (née
DEIGHTON)
The
Lord called Bernice Jewel
PENFOUND, age 82, home on Wednesday
February 8, 2006 from University Hospital, London. She was born
in Dawn Township daughter of the late George and Mary
McALISTER)
DEIGHTON.
She is predeceased by her loving husband Jack in 1992.
Surviving are four daughters and sons-in-law: Sharon and Dick
YOUNG of Winter Haven, Florida, Janice and Bert
SCHALK of Denfield,
Mona and Doug
LEWIS of Sarnia, Gwen and Dan
KERSLAKE of London
and one son and daughter-in-law Douglas and Jill
PENFOUND of
London. Also surviving are nine grandchildren, eight great grandchildren,
a sister Donna
DEIGHTON and a brother Hugh
DEIGHTON.
Predeceased
by one grand_son, two brothers and a sister. The funeral service
will be conducted from the Thomas L. DeBurger Funeral Home, 620
Cross Street, Dresden on Saturday, February 11, 2006 at 2: 30
p.m. with Reverend Lyle
MIX officiating. Visitation prior to the
service 1: 00-2:30 p.m. Interment in Oil Springs Cemetery. As
an expression of sympathy, contributions may be made by cheque
to the Ontario Heart and Stroke Foundation, Canadian Diabetes,
or West London Alliance Church, 750 Wonderland Rd., London, Ontario
N6H 4K9.
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DEIGHTON o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2006-01-03 published
CAMPBELL,
Dorothy
Janet
In her 97th year, Dorothy left us peacefully in Oakville on December
31, 2005. Beloved sister of Marion
DEIGHTON
(Paul) and loving
aunt of Leslie
POTKIDIS
(Angelo,)
Patricia
HARRISON (Paul) and
Greg DEIGHTON
(Kim) and their children Laura and Nicholas; Stephanie
and Christopher; Tara, Heather and Michael. Retired teacher at
Oakwood Collegiate, Toronto. Special thanks to her dedicated
caregivers at Sunrise. Cremation has taken place.
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DEISLEY o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2006-04-20 published
QUENNEVILLE,
Beatrice
(LESPERANCE)
95 years, of London, formerly of Comber, passed away at Extendicare
Nursing Home, London on Wednesday, April 19, 2006. Predeceased
by her husband Thomas
QUENNEVILLE (1995.) Survived by stepson
Marvin (Linda)
QUENNEVILLE, grandchildren Dean (Debra)
QUENNEVILLE,
Denise (Jim)
DEISLEY, and five great grandchildren. Visitation
at Paul Reaume Funeral Home, Comber from 2-5 p.m. and 7-9 p.m.
Thursday. Parish prayers 3: 30 p.m. Thursday. Funeral service
from the funeral home Friday, April 21, 2006 at 10 a.m., then
to Annunciation Church, Stoney Point for Mass at 10: 30 a.m. Interment
at Heavenly Rest Cemetery, Windsor. Memorial donations to Heart
and Stroke Foundation appreciated.
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DEISLEY o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2006-10-11 published
DEISLEY,
Eleanor▼
In loving memory of a beloved grandmother and great-grandmother,
Eleanor.
So often do we reminisce and share a laugh or two,
Fondly telling stories of the things you'd say and do.
Your memory is so special, your presence missed so much,
You are always in our thoughts and loved by all of us.
From your grandchildren and great-grandchild.
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DEISLEY o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2006-10-11 published
DEISLEY,
Eleanor▲▼
In loving memory of beloved mother and mother-in-law, Eleanor.
There will always be a heartache,
And often a silent tear,
But always precious memories,
Of the days when you were here.
We hold you close within our hearts,
And there you will remain,
To walk with us throughout our lives,
Until we meet again. Ellen (Troy), Terry, Bill (Janet), Cindy
(Tim), Jim (Denise), David (Heather).
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DEISLEY o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2006-10-11 published
DEISLEY,
Eleanor▲
(March 12, 1934-October 11, 2005)
One year today, each day dawns and starts anew.
And when it closes I think of you.
The tears in my eyes can be wiped away.
But the ache in my heart will always stay.
Wishing today as I have wished before.
That God could have spared you a few years more.
So treasure her Lord, in your Garden of Rest,
For on this earth she was the best.
Lovingly remembered by husband Bill.
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DEITER o@ca.on.grey_county.owen_sound.the_sun_times 2006-11-27 published
MacDONALD,
Gladys
Angeline (née
SKENE)
Peacefully at the Grey Bruce Health Services Owen Sound on Saturday
November 25, 2006 in her 91st year. Gladys Angeline
MacDONALD
(née SKENE,) beloved wife of the late Harold
MacDONALD.
Loving
mother to Larry and his wife Penny, Ron and his wife Myrna, Reg
and his wife
Brenda,
Ruthie
WEATHERHEAD,
Margaret and her husband
Clark McMILLAN,
Ted and his wife
Elke and Joanne and her husband
Wayne DEITER.
Loving grandmother to 19 grandchildren, 24 great-grandchildren
and 1 great great-grandchild. Gladys is survived by her brothers
Bud SKENE and his wife Harriet, Earl
SKENE (Rose) and by her
sisters Helen and her husband Bob
PORTER,
Marj
SMITH (Gord,)
Fairy and her husband Gord
BUCHANAN and Mae and her husband Lorne
DENNIS.
Fondly remembered by her sister-in-law Joyce
HILLIS and
many nieces and nephews. Predeceased by her son Wayne, her brothers
Ewart and his wife
Florence
SKENE,
Morgan and his wife Dolley
SKENE and Bill
SKENE, sisters Beatrice and her husband Bill
TWIGGER,
Pearl and her husband Aldon
WALPOLE and June and her husband
Harold HEATH.
Friends may call at the Breckenridge-Ashcroft Funeral
Home on Tuesday November 28, 2006 from 12 to 1 p.m. A funeral
service will be held at the funeral home on Tuesday afternoon
at 1 p.m. Rev. David
LEGGATT officiating. Interment, in Greenwood
Cemetery. As an expression of sympathy memorial donation to the
Canadian Cancer Society or the Heart and Stroke Foundation would
be appreciated by the family.
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DEITNER o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2006-01-28 published
SIMPSON,
Roberta (née
CRAIG)
Peacefully at Huronlea Home, Brussels, on Thursday, January 26,
2006. Mrs. Roberta
(CRAIG)
SIMPSON of Brussels and formerly of
Blyth in her 90th year. Beloved wife of the late John
SIMPSON
(1990.) Loving mother of Joan and Donald
DEITNER of Grey Township.
Cherished grandmother of Anthony, Francis and Madelaine. Dear
sister and sister-in-law of Annie
WIGHT of Listowel, William
and Isabelle
CRAIG of Blyth and Olive
FAITZ of Stoney Creek.
Predeceased by her parents Robert and Ada May
CRAIG and by sisters
and brothers Agnes
CRAIG,
Ada
May
CRAIG, Harvey and Margaret
CRAIG,
Velma and Orval
COOK, Gordon and Ruth
CRAIG, Margaret
and Ed CRAIG, Mary
CRAIG, David
CRAIG and Steve
FAITZ. Friends
will be received at the Blyth Visitation Centre of the Falconer
Funeral Homes, 407 Queen Street, Blyth, on Sunday from 2-5 p.m.
and on Monday, January 30, 2006 from 1 p.m. until time of service
at 2 p.m. Spring interment Blyth Union Cemetery. As expressions
of sympathy, memorial donations to the charity of one's choice
would be greatly appreciated.
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