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DEJAGER o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2006-11-06 published
Gordon MOORE,
Airman (1925-2006)
Royal Canadian Air Force tail gunner claimed he won the Distinguished
Flying Cross for saving his Lancaster, and buzzed Buckingham
Palace into the bargain
By Buzz BOURDON,
Special to the Globe and Mail, Page S9
Ottawa -- Gordon
MOORE spent a lifetime dining out on a yarn
that told how he won the Distinguished Flying Cross in the Royal
Canadian Air Force during the Second World War. While winning
such a medal was not unusual, he was a not a pilot but a tail
gunner in a Lancaster.
This is the story he liked to tell: Flying home one dark night
from one of the 64 bombing missions he flew over the German Reich,
Mr. MOORE fired his guns at the Luftwaffe fighters attacking
his stream of Lancasters. A few moments later, the bomber flying
in front of his aircraft blew up and debris from the explosion
shattered the cockpit windows and wounded the pilot. Mr.
MOORE
said he had some experience at the controls and, knowing this,
the pilot called for help. Mr.
MOORE snaked his way forward along
the narrow fuselage, took over the controls, and managed to keep
the aircraft in the air, putting it down safely at an airfield
near London. Mr.
MOORE even said he buzzed Buckingham Palace,
though it had happened only because the plane was far off course.
Mr. MOORE liked to tell his Friends that he and his wife, Helen,
had an audience with the Queen Mother years later. The incident
came up and the Queen Mother said she recalled the low-flying
Lancaster.
According to him, they also met in Toronto. During a Royal tour,
he was a policeman on guard duty at the Royal York Hotel when
she happened past. He said she did a double take and turned in
surprise. "Gord?" she asked. "Is that you?"
Gordon MOORE grew up in Toronto during the Depression. After
joining the Royal Canadian Air Force, he trained in Canada as
an air gunner and was eventually posted to 428 Squadron. A diminutive
five foot, three inches tall, Mr.
MOORE was just the right size
to fit in the turret. Once he climbed inside, dressed in his
heavy flying suit, complete with parachute and harness, there
was little room to move around.
Scanning the skies though panels of clear Perspex, Mr.
MOORE
strained his eyes to get the jump on high-speed German fighters.
He learned how to lead his target, because if he fired directly
at an aircraft then it was long gone when his stream of bullets
arrived. Even so, he never managed to shoot down any enemy aircraft.
Years later, he told his Friends that he was awarded the Distinguished
Flying Cross for saving the Lancaster. An exhaustive check of
the Royal Canadian Air Force association's web site, which is
equivalent in length to 5,000 pages, did not support his claim.
His name does not appear and, as an enlisted man, he would have
won the Distinguished Flying Medal. The Distinguished Flying
Cross was for officers.
Mr. MOORE never gloated about the Germans his Lancaster's bombs
had killed or wounded. To him, it was a terrible, yet necessary
job that had to be done. After reaching England and safety, he
would sit in his turret for about 30 minutes, praying for the
people he had helped kill, his friend Shelley
HILL said.
After the war, Mr.
MOORE joined the Toronto police force, where
he continued to live an adventurous life as a sergeant in the
traffic division. He later told how, in 1952, he had a hand in
capturing the Boyd gang. Eddie
BOYD and his boys had terrorized
Toronto banks for almost five years. They also managed to escape
twice from the Don Jail. Mr.
MOORE's cousin, a police detective
working on the manhunt, got a tip that the gang was hiding in
the Don River valley. Mr.
MOORE told his cousin he'd help find
him if he could tag along. The cousins agreed and Mr.
MOORE was
present when police arrested the gang. Two of its members were
hanged for murder, while Mr.
BOYD got 14 years.
Years later, Mr.
MOORE and his wife were vacationing in Victoria
when he spotted someone who looked like Eddie
BOYD. "
He's done
his time," he told his wife. "Let's invite him over for a coffee."
During the 1950s, decades before Canada abolished the death penalty,
Mr. MOORE claimed to have spent time with three condemned prisoners.
One wanted to play cribbage to pass his final hours on Earth,
so Mr. MOORE obliged. When asked if he let the condemned man
win, he replied no: "He had to earn it."
After retiring from the police, Mr.
MOORE became a glass engraver.
He then built furniture, also refinishing it. After undergoing
successful triple bypass surgery in 1993, he decided to show
his gratitude to London, Ontario's University Hospital by giving
it money.
Over the years, Mr.
MOORE and his wife gave between $100,000 and
$500,000 to the London Health Sciences Foundation. "He was an
exceptional gentleman," the foundation's Colleen
DEJAGER told
the London Free Press. "He liked recognition for what he had
done. He loved telling stories, but he was a modest man, too."
Gordon Ross
MOORE was born in Toronto in 1925. He died of internal
bleeding on August 18, 2006, in London, Ontario He was 81. He
is survived by his wife, Helen, and his sister Barbara.
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'An incredibly lovely person'
To her grieving family, Lisa
POSLUNS was an inspiration
Murder cut short life of joy and energy, they tell Peter
SMALL
By Peter SMALL,
Staff
Reporter,
Page B1
On a heartbreakingly brilliant day in a cemetery north of Toronto,
Helen POSLUNS points to a young sugar maple arching above her
sister's headstone, its buds impatient to sprout.
The family planted it in her memory two years ago.
Every
March 30, Lisa
POSLUNS' birthday, family and Friends decorate
it with coloured balloons.
"She loved cheerful things," her sister recalls, their mother,
Margie, looking on from a bench placed in Lisa's honour.
"She was full of life and energy. She was very much a glass-is-half-full
sort of person."
The 38-year-old commercial real estate broker's crumpled body
was found November 3, 2002, in the ground-floor equipment room
of the Yorkville building where she rented an office.
A jury found 36-year-old Nelson
DEJESUS guilty yesterday of first-degree
murder in her sexual assault and stabbing.
At the cemetery, Helen
POSLUNS clears snow from the base of her
sister's headstone to reveal a ceramic flowerpot fashioned by
one of Lisa's nieces, and some small pumpkins.
"She loved pumpkins," Helen recalls. "She loved Halloween."
"She was the kind of person you would never want to let go of.
Never," Margie
POSLUNS says.
Pardes Shalom Cemetery is the last place Helen saw her sister,
just 13 days before she was murdered.
It was during the unveiling of the headstone for Helen's first
and only child, Zachary, who died just one day old on March 21,
2002, of a chromosomal disorder.
"She stood there with me and my husband, holding our arms," Helen
says. Afterward they walked down the gentle slope from Zachary's
grave to the cemetery road, Lisa's hair blowing in the wind,
Helen recalls.
Now her headstone stands beside his.
"You are our inspiration and our guiding light," its inscription
reads, in part. "We will never let go of you." Also inscribed
is a long-stemmed broken rose -- the family's redefinition of
a Jewish symbol for a child who dies before her time.
"Lisa was really an incredibly lovely person," Helen says.
"She was like a rose, a beautiful delicate rose, and we felt
like she was snapped in half. We felt like we were snapped in
half."
Lisa-Ann Lauren
POSLUNS was born in Toronto in 1964 to Margie
and lawyer Avrum
POSLUNS, a few years after the births of Helen
and their brother, Steve.
She spent most of her first two years in the Hospital for Sick
Children, battling gastrointestinal problems.
"For someone who struggled and fought even at that stage of her
life -- she faced challenges, and met them all -- to have her
life taken …" Helen says.
She attended Associated Hebrew Day School of Toronto, then York
Mills Collegiate.
A good all-around student, she excelled at math and loved the
arts. She took piano lessons and ballet, and tried her hand at
modelling.
Two years after her father died of cancer, the family moved to
the St. Clair Ave. and Avenue Rd. area and she settled into Grade 13
at Forest Hill Collegiate.
She was a cheerleader and played drums in a school band, practising
with her bandmates in the
POSLUNS home. "Those were good days
when you heard banging and music," Margie says.
Even as an adult, Lisa kept a set of drums in her apartment.
She loved the musical Annie, John Travolta in Saturday Night
Fever, and was a lifelong member of the Donny Osmond fan club.
He called the family after she died.
In the Talmud it says that to save a life is to save the world.
By the same token, to take a life is to take the world -- a person's
death affects so many people, Helen says.
Alicia ROSS, another woman killed in her prime, is buried metres
from Lisa.
"When we bring flowers to Lisa, we leave a flower there for Alicia,"
Helen says. "I can't believe that these people aren't here any
more."
Lisa earned a bachelor's degree in business management from Ryerson,
graduating in 1988 on the dean's list.
She started in photocopier sales, then moved into real estate,
first as an agent and then as a commercial broker.
In her scant spare time, she did charity work, particularly for
children.
"She had a real heart for people who didn't have enough in life
for the basic necessities," Helen says. "She was very selfless."
At work and at home, she was known as immaculate, super-organized
and thoughtful. She could find the perfect gift for anybody,
always wrapping it with care and adding her trademark extra touch:
candy or chocolate coins.
"Lisa had her running shoes on all the time," her mother recalls.
"She didn't walk, she ran. She made everything fun for me."
And she always found time for her two nieces and nephew, who
called her Auntie Lis.
One of Helen's strongest images of her sister is what it was
like to walk into their mom's house with Lisa already there helping
in the kitchen.
She would come out chewing on a piece of celery, "and she would
give you a very, very tight hug. She would give you bear hugs."
In 2000, she left her job as vice-president of a real estate
company to found her own, Posluns Realty Inc. The modest office
suite she leased on the fifth floor of 94 Cumberland Street, near
Bay and Bloor Sts., was just a five-minute walk from her apartment.
She travelled across North America scouting malls and commercial
buildings for clients, often large chains including Dairy Queen
and Tim Hortons.
Jane COONEY, founder of Books for Business, hired Lisa to help
her renew her lease. Soon they were Friends.
"She was very generous and would take the time I needed,"
COONEY
recalls. "She just always gave more than she got."
Early media reports that styled Lisa as a rich, sex-in-the-city
stereotype baffled the family. She was just an average working
woman trying to turn her dreams into reality, Helen says.
The nine-storey building where she hung her shingle had low rents,
she says. "That's why we laughed when they said it was her 'posh
Yorkville office.'"
Nor are the
POSLUNS the prominent family portrayed by some, Helen
says. Their branch is only distantly connected to the
POSLUNS
involved with the Dylex clothing empire.
After Lisa died, some media coverage seemed to imply she deserved
what she got, Helen says. "They went out of their way to say
she was single and had no children. It was very sexist."
Some reports also focused on lawsuits she had launched against
former clients, including Starbucks and Mark's Work Wearhouse,
over alleged breach of contract.
Helen, a lawyer who carried on the lawsuits in Lisa's honour,
won't discuss them in detail. But she called her sister a tough
negotiator with strong ethics, always out to get the best deal
for her clients.
"The men didn't like her because she worked harder than them,"
Margie says. "She was one little person in one little company."
Lots of women work hard and put in long hours, Helen says. They
don't expect a killer to strike as they leave for the night.
Lisa's last day was mundane, albeit in a nice part of town.
She got her hair done at Holt Renfrew, the upscale Bloor St. W.
retailer where she also bought clothes. She was acutely aware
that she was the public face of her firm, virtually a one-woman
operation, and had to meet company presidents looking right,
Helen says.
That night, she had dinner alone at a small Bay St. eatery.
She returned to her office around 7 p.m. to prepare legal documents
for the lawsuit against Mark's. "She was so upset and nervous
about the case," Helen says.
Her mother called briefly. Lisa said she was leaving soon and
promised to call her mom when she got home. "I hung up the phone
about 8 o'clock," Margie says. "I said, 'I love you.' And she
said, 'I love you,' and that was the last I heard of her voice."
This past March 30 marked the fourth of Lisa's birthdays the
family has commemorated since her death.
"We try to make it through the day and stay alive," Helen says.
But the manner of Lisa's death keeps her family and Friends from
finding any peace of mind.
A physically shy, modest woman, she was brutally sexually assaulted,
stabbed and left with her throat slit in a dirty equipment room.
"We know what absolute hell she went through and there will never
be any peace for us around her death. In this kind of death,
we can't get over what happened to her and what she had to suffer
through all by herself, and in such pain. She must have been
beyond petrified of all she had to face, and all alone."
It's hard to sit at the family dinner table knowing she won't
be there, Helen says.
To this day, they set a wine glass on the table filled with Coke
and ice, Lisa's usual Friday-night drink.
For the
POSLUNS family, "she is still alive and will always be
alive in some way," Helen says.
"We can't accept that she's not here.
"No matter what we do, there is always sadness," her mother says.
A woman at a bereavement group said it best, Helen recalls: When
someone so significant to you dies, you can never have the same
life because a part of yourself has died.
"It's like being a fish on land. That's the closest anyone has
put it to me."
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DEJONG o@ca.on.grey_county.artemesia.flesherton.the_flesherton_advance 2006-10-25 published
HARVEY,
Alieda
(DEJONG)
In loving memory of a dear wife, mother and grandmother, Alieda
October 26, 2900.
Gone are the days we used to share
But in our hearts you are always there
The gates of memory will never close
We miss you more than anyone knows
With tender love and deep regret
We who love you will never forget
- Love you always and forever, Leonard, Shayla, Jeffery, Tanya
and family
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DEJONG o@ca.on.grey_county.owen_sound.the_sun_times 2006-05-13 published
MacINTYRE-
CURRIE,
Marion
Pearl
(AITCHESON)
Passed away at the Hanover and District Hospital on Thursday,
May 11th, 2006. The former Marion Pearl
ACHESON in her 95th
year. Beloved wife of the late Archibald (A.D.)
MacINTYRE and
the late Rev. Robert
CURRIE.
Loving mother of Robert
MacINTYRE
and his wife
Gerry of Midhurst, Alan
MacINTYRE of Toronto, and
Ron MacINTYRE and his wife
Bonnie of Durham. Step-mother of James
CURRIE and his wife
Gail of Kitchener and Margaret and her husband
Case DEJONG of Perkinsfield. Cherished grandmother of Art
MacINTYRE,
the late Rob
MacINTYRE,
Larissa
BAILEY, Gena
WELLWOOD, Heather
MacINTYRE,
Brian
MacINTYRE and Jessie
DEJONG. Fondly remembered
by 10 great-grandchildren. Predeceased by her brothers Ivan and
Morley AITCHESON, and her sisters Verna
STEVENS and Jennie
SAULTER.
Friends may call at the McCulloch-Watson Funeral Home, Durham
on Saturday from 2 4 and 7 9 p.m. A Celebration of Life for Pearl
will be held at the Durham Presbyterian Church on Monday afternoon
at 2 o'clock, with visitation one hour prior to the service.
There will be no visitation on Sunday. Interment Durham Cemetery.
As an expression of sympathy, memorial donations to the Durham
Presbyterian Church, the Ontario Heart and Stroke Foundation
or the charity of your choice would be appreciated by the family.
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DEJONG o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2006-10-09 published
SCOTT,
Clara
Peacefully at her residence on Saturday October 7, 2006 Mrs. Clara
SCOTT of Bayfield in her 87th year. Beloved wife of the late
Morris SCOTT.
Loving mother of Myrna
VODDEN of Clinton, Joyce
SCOTT of Clinton, and Ray
SCOTT of Bayfield. Cherished grandmother
of Cindy and James
DEJONG,
Jennifer
SCOTT and James
DUNBAR, Samantha
SCOTT, David
SCOTT, Amanda, Meghan, and Ryan
VODDEN. Great-grandmother
of Ondrea and Courtney
DEJONG. Dear sister and sister-in-law
of Thelma BYE,
Louise
PRESBER, Alice
BRANDON, Beulah and Keith
KEYS, and Viola and Ted
PATRICK.
Predeceased by sister Nora
HEARD.
Friends will be received at the Falconer Funeral Home 153 High
Street Clinton, on Monday from 7-9 p.m. where the funeral service
will be held on Tuesday October 10, 2006 at 2 p.m. Interment
Bayfield Cemetery. As expressions of sympathy memorial donations
to the Heart and Stroke Foundation or the Clinton Public Hospital
Foundation would be greatly appreciated.
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DEJONG o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2006-10-30 published
SNELL,
Arthur
Royce "
Art"
Suddenly at his residence on Saturday October 28, 2006 Arthur
Royce "Art"
SNELL of Clinton in his 56th year. Beloved husband
of Ruth (SMITH)
SNELL.
Loving father of Terrence
SNELL of Kelowna,
British Columbia and William
SNELL of Vanastra. Sadly missed
by his granddaughters Megan
SNELL and Brittany
HEERSINK.
Loved
son-in-law of Rita
DEJONG and her husband George of Goderich.
Dear brother and brother-in-law of Charles and Pearl
SNELL of
Lower
Sackville,
Nova Scotia; Coreen
LEVIN of Carbon, Alberta
Bob and Sherry
SNELL,
John
SNELL and Brad and Deborah
SNELL all
of Clinton; Stewart
SMITH of Brockville, Susan and Dave
McLINDEN
of Oshawa and David
SMITH and Katherine
MILES of Brantford. Also
survived by several nieces and nephews. Predeceased by his parents
Gordon SNELL and Gwyn
SNELL-
GLIDDON, stepfather Eldon
GLIDDON
and by his father-in-law Clifford
SMITH.
Friends will be received
at the Falconer Funeral Homes Ltd. - Clinton Chapel, 153 High
Street, Clinton on Wednesday from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. where the
funeral service will be held on Thursday November 2, 2006 at
2 p.m. Interment Clinton Cemetery. Donations to the Ontario Heart
and Stroke Foundation or the Friends of Hullett would be appreciated
as expressions of sympathy.
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DEJONG o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2006-12-26 published
SIPKENS,
Marie "
Minke" (née
BERG)
Surrounded by her loving family at Bluewater Health on Saturday,
December 23, 2006 Marie (Minke)
SIPKENS
(BERG,) age 82, of Sarnia,
was called to her eternal home by the Lord she loved. Beloved
wife of the late William (Wietse)
SIPKENS (2006.) Marie was a
member of the Living Hope Christian Reformed Church, Sarnia.
Dear mother of Marg and John
VANSICKLE of Stoney Creek, John
and Cathy SIPKENS of Wyoming, Ray
SIPKENS of Dorchester, Helen
and Paul DE
BRUIN of Brights Grove, Herman
SIPKENS of Sarnia,
Bill and Margaret-Anne
SIPKENS of Wyoming. Dearly loved grandmother
of Sherri, Greg, Kelly, Julie, Janice, Michael, Darryl, Amanda,
Tara, Justine, Heather, Elisha, Bill, Karisa, LeeAnn, Stephen
and Kaelynn. Loving great-grandmother of Noah, Kaden, Kate and
Olivia.
Predeceased by her parents Renze and Maaike
BERG.
Dear
sister of Herman and Nel
BERG of Brights Grove, Fred and Clara
BERG of Sarnia, Wilma and the late John
VANDERLINDE of Sarnia,
Meino and Lodewyk
ZYLSTRA of Wyoming, Donna and Wilco
VANDERWAL
of Courtright, Pat and the late Wesley
KOOTSTRA of Sarnia, Ina
and Harry BOERSMA of Sarnia, Andy and Jennie
BERG of Brights
Grove, Martha
BERG of Sarnia, Mike and Barb
BERG of Bradenton,
Florida. Predeceased by father and mother-in-law Jan and Helen
SIPKENS. Dear sister-in-law of Francis and Tony
BROUWER of Cambridge,
Gertie and the late John
SIPKENS of Wyoming, Stan and Leni
SIPKENS
of Sarnia, Clarence
DEJONG and the late Gertrude of Sarnia, Agnes
SIPKENS of Sarnia, Joan and John
HUIZINGA of Sarnia, Earl and
Janet SIPKENS of Sarnia, and Clara and Bill
BARNEVELD of Woodstock.
A special thank you to Doctor
BOREK and the nursing staff of the
4th Floor at Bluewater Health -- Norman St. The funeral service
will be held on Thursday December 28, 2006 at Living Hope Christian
Reformed Church 1281 Exmouth Street, Sarnia at 1: 00 p.m. Internment
at Blackwell Cemetery. Family and Friends will be received at
Smith Funeral Home, 1576 London Line, Sarnia on Wednesday from
2: 00 to 4:00 p.m. and 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. Sympathy donations gratefully
accepted to the Canadian Cancer Society. Memories and condolences
may be sent online at www.smithfuneralhome.ca
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DEJONG o@ca.on.peterborough.north_monaghan.peterborough.the_peterborough_examiner 2006-03-18 published
WILSON,
Violet
Catherine
Merle
Peacefully, at Springdale Country Manor on Thursday, March 16,
2006, in her 95th year. Merle, dearly beloved wife of the Mansell
(formerly of Warsaw), and loving mother of the late Wayne (Peterborough).
Dear grandmother of Jacqueline
LANTHIER and her husband David,
and Tanya DEJONG, and her husband Ralph. Great grandmother of
Tyson, Calvin, Kelsey, and Jordan. Dear daughter of the late
George and Mabel
CLARK.
Sister of Chester
CLARK and his wife
Ethel (Peterborough), and the late Royal, Shirley, Viola, Leslie,
and Eunice
CLARK.
Merle will be missed by several nieces and
nephews. Friends may call at Community Alternative Funeral Home,
83 Hunter Street West (at the Bridge), Peterborough, from 1 p.m.
on Sunday, March 19th, for a funeral service in the chapel at
2 p.m. Interment Saint Mark's Cemetery, Warsaw, at a later date.
If desired, condolences to the family, directions to the funeral
home, and remembrances to the Gideon's may be made at www.CommunityAlternative.ca
or by calling 742-1875.
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DEJOODE o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2006-05-08 published
VERBURG,
Antje
(DEJOODE)
The
Lord took our mother Antje
(DEJOODE)
VERBURG to her eternal
rest on Saturday, May 6, 2006 in her 92nd year. Beloved wife
of the late Johannes
VERBURG (1989.) Dear companion and friend
of Doeke BUFFINGA.
Loving mother of Peta and John
BRANDERHORST
of Hensall, Janie and Martin
WILTS of Londesborough, Koos and
Rita VERBURG of R.R.#1 Auburn, Tony and Roely
VERBURG of R.R.#1
Auburn, Wilma and John Hessels of R.R.#2 Goderich, , and John
and Margaret
VERBURG of Londesborough. Grandmother of 22 grandchildren
and 49 great-grandchildren. Dear sister of Cor
BOS of Alberta,
Adrianna UYL of Blyth, Freda
UYL of Clinton, Jannie
VANDEN
DOOL,
and Wim DEJOODE both of The Netherlands. Predeceased by infant
grand_son (1966) and by nine sisters and brothers. Friends will
be received at the Blyth Visitation Centre of the Falconer Funeral
Homes, 407 Queen Street, Blyth on Monday from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. Funeral
service will be held at the Blyth Christian Reformed Church,
Blyth, on Tuesday, May 9, 2006 at 11 a.m. Interment Hope Chapel
Cemetery, Hullett Twp. As expressions of sympathy memorial donations
to the Clinton Public Hospital Foundation or Goderich Community
Living would be greatly appreciated.
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