FOTHERGILL
FOTHERINGHAM
FOTI
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FOTHERGILL o@ca.on.grey_county.owen_sound.the_sun_times 2006-06-23 published
WEAVER,
Dorothy
Jean (née
FOTHERGILL)
Peacefully at her home, on Thursday morning, June 22nd, 2006.
Dorothy Jean
WEAVER (née
FOTHERGILL,) of R.R.#4, Owen Sound,
in her 94th year. Dearly beloved wife of the late Clifford
WEAVER.
Loving mother of James
WEAVER and his wife, Doreen, of R.R.#4,
Owen
Sound.
Proud grandmother of Kathy
HART and her partner,
Ian; Andrew
HART; and Jennifer
KAANAN and her husband, John
and step-grandmother of Brad
HOPKINS and his wife, Helen, Craig
HOPKINS, and Susan
TREMBLE and her husband Don, and their families.
Cherished great-grandmother of John, Tyler, Ashley and Emma Jean.
Jean will be sadly missed by her son-in-law, Bob
HART and his
wife, Nancy, and her sister, Margaret
CORNWALL and her husband,
Jim.
Predeceased by her daughter, Dorothy
HART; her parents,
Stan and Dorcas
FOTHERGILL; her sister, Hazel
SWANNELL.
Friends
may call at the Brian E. Wood Funeral Home, 250 - 14th Street
West, Owen Sound (376-7492) on Friday from 2: 00-4:00 and 7:00-9:00 p.m.
A Funeral Service for Jean
WEAVER will be held in the Funeral
Home Chapel on Saturday, June 24th, 2006 at 10: 30 a.m. with Rev. Cathy
HIRD officiating. Interment in Greenwood Cemetery. If so desired,
the family would appreciate donations to the Division Street
United Church or the Grey-Bruce Community Care Access Centre
as your expression of sympathy.
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FOTHERINGHAM o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2006-07-14 published
George BAIN, 86: Political columnist set standard
A must-read in Canada for nearly 40 years
Helped clarify muddle over 'fuddle duddle'
By Isabel TEOTONIO,
Staff
Reporter
For Canadian political junkies from the 1950s through the 1980s,
George BAIN's newspaper column was a must-read.
Witty, urbane, and an incisive observer of Parliament Hill and
Washington,
BAIN's elegant prose and musings about politics and
politicians informed and delighted readers for more than 40 years.
Remember "fuddle duddle," the late prime minister Pierre Trudeau's
explanation of an expletive he directed to an opposition member
of Parliament in the House of Commons? Thank
BAIN for setting
the record straight on it.
The rest of the Ottawa press gallery reported only that Trudeau
"mouthed an obscenity" in the now-famous 1968 incident. In his
Globe and Mail column,
BAIN wrote that Trudeau told the member
of Parliament to fuck off, and without the dashes -- the first
time the word had ever been published in a Canadian newspaper.
BAIN, who also wrote for The Toronto Star, died in Halifax yesterday
(May 14) at age 86. He had suffered from Alzheimer's disease.
"He wrote the most important column in Canada," said Val
SEARS,
a former Star reporter who worked with him. "He was the most
stylish of the people writing about Canadian politics. His columns
were often hilarious, which made him tremendously popular."
"George wrote with real wit and style," said Tim
CREERY, a former
Southam News and Montreal Star reporter who worked with him in
Ottawa and Washington.
"He was clever and funny and not a guy who accepted the party
line."
BAIN's column in the Globe set the standard to which political
columnists aspired. He was considered the unofficial opposition
in Ottawa and never cowered from pointing out when politicians'
words didn't square with their actions.
Allan FOTHERINGHAM, who himself occupies a formidable place in
Canadian journalism, once called him "the wittiest columnist
ever to grace Ottawa."
When the late Canadian Broadcasting Corporation radio giant Peter
GZOWSKI was asked if he read
BAIN, he responded, "Do Catholic
priests read the Bible?"
BAIN's "
Letters from Lilac, Saskatchewan.," were columns in which
he created fictional prairie reactions to political events. The
columns distilled his trademark humour and wit, were hugely popular
and were later published in a book.
Born in Toronto in 1920,
BAIN quit school at age 16 to work as
a copy boy at the Star for $6 a week. But he ended up back in
school, vowing to return to the paper over the summer.
"I can't explain where his interest in newspaper work arose but
he had the reputation of being a funny guy -- not a class clown
at North Toronto Collegiate," said brother Ian
BAIN, who attended
the same school.
When he returned to the Star that summer, the editor who'd promised
him a job was on vacation.
Rather than "waste a streetcar ticket," as
BAIN later told a
reporter, he went over to the Toronto Telegram and was hired
on the spot.
He worked there until 1941, when he became an Royal Canadian
Air Force bomber pilot -- despite a fear of flying that lasted
throughout his life. He served in Britain and North Africa, piloting
Wellington bombers on raids against Italy. He was given temporary
leave to act in a film about the air force.
At the end of the war,
BAIN was lured from the Telegram by the
Globe, where he wrote about municipal politics. He eventually
moved on to Queen's Park and Parliament Hill.
In 1957, BAIN opened the Globe's first London bureau, where he
covered Europe, Africa and the Middle East. From 1960 to 1964
he was posted to Washington and reported on the civil rights
movement, the Cuban missile crisis and the assassination of John F.
Kennedy.
In 1964, BAIN returned to Ottawa to begin work as the national
affairs columnist and remained there for nearly a decade.
He returned to the Star as editorial page editor in 1973, but
realized he didn't like the committee process of writing editorials.
"Writing editorials is like wetting your pants while wearing
a blue serge suit," he once said. "Nobody notices and it leaves
you with a warm feeling."
The next year, the Star sent him to London as a European correspondent.
Editors at the Star knew him as a "perfectionist" who would rewrite
his opening paragraph 30 times before being satisfied.
BAIN's last newspaper column ran in the Star on August 10, 2001
a fitting end to a career launched in those same pages.
"There are very few people to whom you could apply the word giant.
Pierre Berton was one and I think Walter Stewart was one and
certainly George
BAIN was one," said former King's College journalism
professor Eugene
MEESE, who worked with
BAIN.
BAIN and his wife
Marion were eventually seduced by Nova Scotia
and in 1982 they designed and built their home in Mahone Bay,
complete with a wine cellar to house his vintage collection.
While out east, he continued writing about wine while serving
as dean of journalism at King's College in Halifax and maintaining
a critical watch on Ottawa for two Halifax dailies.
BAIN authored books including I've Been Around and Around and
Around, Letters from Lilac, Champagne is for Breakfast, Gotcha
and Nursery Rhymes to be Read Aloud by Young Parents with Old
Children, which won the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour.
After
Marion died in 1998,
BAIN's health deteriorated. He is
survived by his son Christopher and grand_sons Sam and Jonathan,
his brother Ian of Maple Ridge, British Columbia, and sisters
Moyna SEIDERMAN and Sheila
BAIN of Vancouver.
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FOTI o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2006-05-11 published
PULITANO,
Francesca
(BALDASSARRO)
Peacefully surrounded by her loving family at Chateau Gardens
on Wednesday, May 10, 2006, Francesca
(BALDASSARRO)
PULITANO
in her 93rd year. Beloved wife of the late Giovanni
PULITANO.
Loving mother of Vincent
PULITANO,
Kathy
SORRENTI and her husband
Frank. Cherished Nonna of Francesca
DEVEAU
(Shawn,)
Giovanni
PULITANO
(Colleen,)
Michael
PULITANO, Carlo, John and Robert
SORRENTI.
Great-grandmother of Olivia, Elliott and Oliver. Dear
sister of Caterina
CUSTURERA and her late husband Enrico of Italy.
Dear sister of the late Domenico (Caterina)
BALDASSARRO,
Antonio
(Rosa) BALDASSARRO of London and Maria
FOTI
(Antonio) of Italy.
Francesca will be sadly missed by many nieces, nephews in Canada,
Italy, U.S.A., Germany and France. Visitors will be received
at John T. Donohue Funeral Home, 362 Waterloo Street at King
Street, on Thursday evening from 7-9 o'clock and Friday 2-4 and
7-9 o'clock. Funeral Mass at Saint Mary's Church, 345 Lyle Street,
on Saturday morning at 9 o'clock. Entombment in Holy Family Mausoleum,
Saint Peter's Cemetery. Prayers Friday evening at 8: 15 o'clock.
In lieu of flowers donations to the Alzheimer Society would be
appreciated.
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FOTIADIS o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2006-03-13 published
FOTIADIS,
Hrisoula
Passed away, on Saturday afternoon, March 11, 2006, at Saint Michael's
Hospital, Toronto, after a lengthy illness. Born June 20, 1929,
in Agios Pantaleimonon, Greece, Hrisoula was predeceased by her
devoted husband, Evangelos
FOTIADIS.
She will be greatly missed
her 5 loving daughters, Anastasia
ROMANO,
Aristea
BOLLARD, Despina
BURSEY,
Thomai
JENSEN, and Viva
TSVETNOVA, who nursed her lovingly
until the end. Hrisoula also sadly leaves her 5 grandchildren,
whom she was extremely proud of, Lorna
JENSEN,
Mario
ROMANO,
Kelly BOLLARD,
Timothy
BOLLARD, and Tara
BURSEY. Hrisoula was
a ceaseless fighter and survivor, having been abducted at the
age of 18 by the Partisan Rebel Army in the 1948 Greek Civil
War. She was a machine gunner, sharp-shooter, operated rocket
launched grenades, was a mobile cave hospital nurse, and military
code cryptographer. Despite her training, Hrisoula was pleased
to say that she never killed or harmed anyone. Hrisoula and her
family immigrated to Canada in 1967 to escape the Greek military
dictatorship, and settled in Toronto's Greektown since 1971 as
a respected member of the community and proud homemaker. Services
will be held Wednesday, March 15th at 11 a.m. at St. Cyril and
Methody Macedonian Orthodox Cathedral, 238 Sackville Street, Toronto,
416-368-2828, followed by interment at Westminster Mausoleum,
5830 Bathurst Street, 416-665-2015. Donations can be made in Hrisoula's
name at the Palliative Care Unit of Saint Michael's Hospital, 416-864-5454,
in gratitude for their outstanding care.
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FOTOVSKY o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2006-03-31 published
MICHAEL,
Vesa
(FOTOVSKY) (née
KIRKOFF)
Passed away peacefully, at her home, on Thursday, March 30, 2006,
at the age of 93. Born in August 1912 in the village of Drenoveni,
Macedonia. She was predeceased by her husband Bill (Vasil). She
will be greatly missed by her children Sophie
GEORGEFF,
Christine
(Bill) ZISKOS, and Tasha
MICHAEL.
Beloved
Baba of Dorothy (George)
KIZOFF, Kathy (Darryl)
PARSONS, Vanessa (Frank)
DECARIA, and
Alex (Jenny)
ZISKOS.
Beloved great-grandmother of Vasselle, Tammi,
Danielle, Nadine and Claudia. Beloved great-great-grandmother
of Amalia and Conan. Dear sister of Leftera
PAPAMARKOS.
Vesa
will be missed by many nieces and nephews. Friends and family
may visit at The Heritage Funeral Centre, 50 Overlea Blvd., Toronto,
416-423-1000, on Saturday, April 1st from 5-9 p.m. and
on Sunday,
April 2, 2006 from 2-9 p.m. Funeral Service to be held in the
Chapel on Monday, April 3, 2006 at 11 a.m. Interment Mount Pleasant
Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Canadian
Cancer Society, the Heart and Stroke Foundation or a charity
of your choice.
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FOTSCH o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2006-05-30 published
SANDERS, Elizabeth Anne "Betty" (née
McCLENAGHAN)
Peacefully at the Woods Park Care Centre, Barrie on Monday, May 29th,
2006. Betty
SANDERS of Barrie, and formerly of London, in her
94th year. Beloved wife of the late Arthur
SANDERS. Dear mother
of Betty Anne
STEWARD/STEWART/STUART and husband Bill of Barrie, Bill
SANDERS
and his wife Kathy of Lethbridge, Alberta, and the late Georgina
IRVINE and late husband Jack of Barrie. Loving grandmother of
Elizabeth FALLONE and her husband Ben of Barrie, David
IRVINE
and his wife
Liliana of Richmond Hill, Elizabeth
STEWARD/STEWART/STUART and Wolfgang
SEIDA of Ladner, British Columbia, Susan
FOTSCH and husband Aaron
of Prince George, British Columbia, Arthur and Andrew
SANDERS
of Lethbridge, Alberta, and loving great-grandmother of 17 great-grandchildren.
Dear sister of the late David and Thomas
McCLENAGHAN of London.
Friends may call at the St. George's Anglican Church, (Burton
Avenue and Granville Street) Barrie, after 10: 00 a.m. on Monday,
June 5th, 2006, until time of funeral service at 11: 00 a.m. Memorial
donations to St. George's Anglican Church Memorial Garden or
a charity of choice would be appreciated by the family, and may
be made through the Steckley-Gooderham Funeral Homes, 30 Worsley
Street, Barrie, Ontario, L4M 1L4. Condolences may be forwarded
through www.steckleygooderham.com.
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