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GEIGEN o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2006-04-12 published
Teenager remembered as friendly, full of fun
Cassandra HARDWICK was fatally injured while using a crosswalk
on her way to school.
By Peter GEIGEN-
MILLER, Free Press Reporter, Wed., April 12,
Grieving Friends and classmates remember Cassandra
HARDWICK as
outgoing, friendly and full of fun.
The Grade 12 student at Sir Wilfrid Laurier secondary school
was fatally injured Monday morning while using a Southdale Road
crosswalk a block from the school.
It's the latest in a spate of pedestrian accidents that have
killed seven people on London streets in 2004 and 2005 and injured
many more.
Yesterday, shocked classmates responded to
HARDWICK's death by
creating a memorial at the accident site.
The roadside tribute features flowers, photos and a large poster
filled with hand-written messages and memories of
HARDWICK, 17.
The popular student, voted funniest at Laurier this year, laughed
a lot and made others laugh, classmates remembered yesterday.
"She was the queen of funny faces," said Grade 12 classmate Katie
ELDRIDGE. "If you had a bad day, you could talk to her and she'd
cheer you up."
Jessie FOSTER, also in Grade 12, said
HARDWICK always made her
smile.
"If you didn't know her, you missed out on something,"
FOSTER
said.
Laurier principal Frank
GALIZIA spoke about
HARDWICK before her
name was officially released, describing her as "a lovely young
lady, just a good person."
He said the young woman was a good student and well thought of
by staff and students alike.
GALIZIA said guidance counsellors and the Thames Valley District
school board's traumatic events response team have been at the
school to provide support for any staff and students who need
it.
GALIZIA said the student body has responded to the death with
compassion, supporting each other in their grief.
The accident occurred at a crosswalk on Southdale west of Millbank
Drive, where the school is located.
The crosswalk is controlled by buttons that are pushed to turn
traffic lights on Southdale red and give pedestrians a walk signal.
Police are investigating the role of the crosswalk in the accident.
Area resident Wilfrid
VOAKES said he'd like to see more protection
for pedestrians crossing heavily travelled Southdale Road.
He would like to see school zone warning signs and reduced speeds
on Southdale Road near the crosswalk.
"We need signs to slow the traffic down and make drivers more
aware of the kids,"
VOAKES said.
He points out the neighbourhood has Laurier secondary school
and two elementary schools.
"It will probably happen again if they don't do something,"
VOAKES
warned.
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GEIGEN o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2006-04-14 published
Hit-and-run victim popular
Michael Salentyn was due to graduate from Western in June with
a degree in aviation.
By Peter GEIGEN-
MILLER, Free Press Reporter, Fri., April 14,
A 23-year-old man, struck and fatally injured in London by a
hit-and-run driver this week, had just completed a four-year
commercial aviation training program and was heading for a career
as a pilot.
Michael SALENTYN of Grand Bend was on his way to achieving his
lifetime dream.
He'd just finished four years of classroom and flight training
in the University of Western Ontario's commercial aviation management
program and was to receive his degree at convocation in June.
The death of the popular, dedicated and fun-loving student has
hit people hard in University of Western Ontario's close-knit
aviation program, leaving classmates in tears, said Keith
FLEMING/FLEMMING,
director of Western's commercial and administrative studies program.
"It's a horrific loss," said
FLEMING/FLEMMING. "It has really affected
people deeply."
SALENTYN was a highly accomplished student who excelled in a
rigorous program that requires students to carry a full academic
load and complete flight training.
"He was very strong academically and he excelled at the flight
training,"
FLEMING/FLEMMING said. "He had to satisfy not just the university,
but also Transport Canada."
SALENTYN is remembered as a bright, pleasing, gregarious and
happy individual.
"I never encountered him in the hall when he didn't have a big
smile on his face," said
FLEMING/FLEMMING. "He clearly was in his element
entirely and was doing what he wanted to do. He loved aviation."
SALENTYN had concern for others and took an interest in students
in earlier years of the aviation program,
FLEMING/FLEMMING said.
"I have many accounts of his caring way and how he was always
looking out for others. He was watchful and considerate of others,
a real leader."
SALENTYN was out with Friends when struck early Tuesday by a
vehicle that failed to stop. He died later that day in hospital.
The hit-and-run occurred at Castlegrove Boulevard and Walmer
Gardens in northwest London in a popular living area for Western
students.
London police located the suspected vehicle several hours later
a short distance away.
Oscar MARROQUIN-
PONCE, 23, of Castlegrove Boulevard, was charged
with leaving the scene of an accident.
A memorial fund is being created in
SALENTYN's memory. The money
will create a bursary to support a student in the University
of Western Ontario aviation program.
Donations can be arranged through the Hopper Hockey Funeral Home
in Exeter, phone (519) 235-1220, or can be sent to Foundation
Western, Room 11, Alumni Hall, University of Western Ontario,
London, N6A 5B9.
Cheque donations should be made payable to Foundation Western
and should mention
SALENTYN.
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GEIGER o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2006-04-24 published
ORR,
Lorraine
Amanda (née
EMARD)
Surrounded by her family at Bluewater Health - Palliative Care
on Friday, April 21, 2006. Lorraine Amanda
(EMARD)
ORR, age 86
of Sarnia. Beloved wife of Red. Dear mother of David and his
wife Catherine,
Marilyn
ORR, and Stephen and his wife Karen all
of Sarnia. Loving grandmother of Christina, Thomas, David and
Amanda, Lindsay and Brendan. Sister of Bill
EMARD,
California,
Ted EMARD, Oregon, Marie
GEIGER, Vancouver, and Joan
MacDONALD,
Sarnia.
Predeceased by parents James and Amanda
EMARD, brothers
Ernest and Raymond
EMARD and sister Terry
BOHMIER.
Visitation
at the McKenzie and Blundy Funeral Home and Cremation Centre, 431 Christina
St. N., Sarnia, on Tuesday from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. where prayers
will be offered at 3: 30 p.m. Mass of Christian Burial will be
celebrated by Fr. Len
DESJARDINS 11: 30 a.m. Wednesday at Sacred
Heart Church. Interment Resurrection Cemetery. As an expression
of sympathy, Friends who wish may send memorial donations to
Breast Cancer Society, 401 St. Clair Street, Point Edward, N7V 1P2
or Saint_Joseph's Hospice Resource Centre, 110 Water Street, Sarnia,
N7T 5T3, Messages of condolence and memories may be left at www.mckenzieblundy.com
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GEIGER o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2006-04-03 published
CAUTIUS,
John
Passed away peacefully on March 31, 2006. Beloved husband of
Christine. Loving father of Werner (Linda). Wonderful Opa to
Cassandra, Alannah and Justin. Loving father of Ron (Cheryl).
Wonderful Opa to Brandon, Jeffrey, Trevor and Ryan. Beloved brother
of Eva JANDEL (Alfred), Waltraut
GABERT and Reneta
GEIGER (Herman).
He will be sadly missed by brothers-in-law, sisters-in-law, nephews
and nieces. A special thank you to Leisureworld Ellesmere for
their dedication, care and concern for John. Visitation will
be held at the Ogden Funeral Home, 4164 Sheppard Ave. East, Scarborough
(east of Kennedy Rd.) on Tuesday from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. Funeral
service will be held at the Warden Full Gospel Assembly, 2210 Warden
Ave., Scarborough (north of Sheppard Ave.) on Wednesday at 1 p.m.
Interment Pine Hills Cemetery. If desired, memorial donations
to Bethel Park Bible Camp Society would be appreciated.
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GEIS o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2006-11-23 published
MEYER,
Harold
George
(January 26, 1920-November 20, 2006)
Harold MEYER, beloved husband of Mary Bernice
MEYER of Kitchener,
passed away peacefully at the Grand River Hospital on Monday
November 20, at the age of 86. Harold will be lovingly remembered
by his children Annette (Donald)
McKINNON,
Brian
(Zinta)
MEYER,
Nancy (Michael
TANNER)
MEYER, Connie (Paul
TIMMINS)
MEYER from
Toronto, Ontario and Lynn (Marcel)
SAVOIE from Calgary, Alberta
as well as six grandchildren, two great-grandchildren, many nieces,
nephews and extended family members. Harold was born in Waterloo,
Ontario to Theodore and Sarah
(GEIS)
MEYER and was brother to
three sisters - Mary Ann
(KENNEDY,)
Charlotte
(STOCKIE) and Leona
(ZETTEL.) He is survived by his sister Mary Ann
KENNEDY of Oakville,
Ontario who will dearly miss him and their many conversations.
Harold married Bernice
DILLON on July 8th, 1944 in Elmira, Ontario.
After the birth of their children they traveled extensively from
1966 until Bernice suffered a stroke in December of 1998. Harold
worked tirelessly to give her as comfortable and full a life
as possible since that time. They had celebrated 62 years of
marriage. Harold was a salesman all his life and had two careers,
one with The W.T. Rawleigh Company as his father had been, and
the second in the investment business. As a stockbroker he had
a long and productive career spanning 30 years. Harold worked
for many companies before he retired from RBC Dominion Securities
in 1993, although he never lost his passion for following the
market. Harold was involved in several different Investment Clubs
over the years and made many Friends. He also enjoyed playing
cards, his favorites being bridge and solo. He was a member of
The Knights of Columbus Kitchener Council since 1940 (the second
longest member). Visitation will be held on Friday from 2: 00
until 4: 00 p.m. and from 7:00 until 9:00 at Henry Walser Funeral
Home at 507 Fredrick Street, Kitchener, Ontario. Funeral Prayers
will be held at 8: 15 during the Friday evening visitation. The
Funeral Mass will be on Saturday, November 25th at 10: 00 a.m.
at St. Francis Church, 49 Blueridge Avenue, Kitchener, Ontario.
Interment will follow at Williamsburg Cemetery and the reception
will follow interment in St. Francis Church, lower level. In
lieu of flowers, donations can be made at the funeral home to
the Canadian Cancer Society or the Heart and Stroke Foundation.
Deep appreciation to Doctor Lana
TAN, Doctor Natalie
KONTAKOS, Doctor Satish
RANGASWAMY and all the nursing and support staff of Saint Mary's
and Grand River Hospitals. Visit www.henrywalser.com for Harold's
memorial.
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GEISENDORF o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2006-01-18 published
GEISENDORF,
Hans
Peacefully at Greater Niagara General, Niagara Falls on Monday,
January 16, 2006, in his 79th year. Hans who lived in Bradford,
was full of life, and was the beloved husband of the late Mary
GEISENDORF.
Loving father of David and his wife
Shannon and Rudi
and his wife Susan. Wonderful grandfather of 7 grandchildren
and 4 great-grandchildren. Friends and family may call at Skwarchuk
Funeral Home, 30 Simcoe Rd., Bradford for visitation on Thursday,
January 19, 2006 from 1 p.m. until the time of a funeral service
held in the Lathangue Chapel at 2 p.m. Interment Mt. Pleasant
Cemetery, Bradford.
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GEISLER o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2006-11-30 published
James BURK/BURKE,
Writer And Editor: (1917-2006)
Paralyzed by an auto accident in 1942, he survived to become
one of Canada's longest-surviving paraplegics
By Douglas
McARTHUR,
Special to The Globe and Mail, Page S9
Toronto -- James
BURK/BURKE was 22 and only weeks from getting a pilot's
licence when an accident left him paralyzed. The year was 1940 and
Toronto's health system was ill equipped to deal with civilian
paraplegics. Hospital authorities basically told him to "pray
and die," he said later.
He spent long years in institutions before the availability of
the personal collapsible wheelchair -- combined with his own
willpower -- helped him start a new life on the outside. He worked
as a freelance writer and editor, married radio and stage personality
Laddie DENNIS, and authored two comic novels in the 1960s. He
was to spend more than six decades in a wheelchair and was one
of Canada's longest-surviving paraplegics.
"He never allowed himself to be shackled by remorse," says William
GEISLER, one of the doctors who helped with his rehabilitation.
"He didn't ruminate on what had been. He knew those emotions
would sap him of the energy he required." Friends say he avoided
talking about his handicap, had a strong sense of humour and
was always willing to help others.
For a number of years, Mr.
BURK/BURKE edited the Caliper, the journal
of the Canadian Paraplegic Association. He also wrote Return
to Action, a history of treatment programs for spinal-cord patients.
But he never mentioned disabilities in his other writings, which
included a physical fitness course, short stories, book reviews
for The Globe and Mail and two novels.
Flee Seven Ways (1964) is the rollicking tale of a corrupt businessman.
It was published in Britain, the U.S. and Germany to favourable
reviews. "A very funny first novel," wrote The New York Times.
The paper's Literary Supplement noted: "His novel is a complex
construction, bravely undertaken and creditably carried out."
In The Firefly Hunt (1969), mischief and mayhem bedevil the hero
after he inherits a castle from an eccentric uncle. Argosy magazine
called it "a sparkling Roman-candle of a fantasy." Mr.
BURK/BURKE
drafted a third novel, but health problems halted completion.
Christened James
KAPHALAKOS, he changed his last name to
BURK/BURKE
as a young man. He was the second of five sons of Panogiotis
(Peter) KAPHALAKOS, a Greek immigrant who operated a Toronto
coffee business, and his wife, Florence (née
COCHRANE.)
Young
James excelled at school and in athletics but, because of his
father's death in 1930, he abandoned his studies. To support
his family, he graduated from high school and then went looking
for whatever work he could find.
An avid weightlifter with a striking physique, he earned some
income as a live model at the Ontario College of Art. But his
main job in 1940 was on the bull gang at a paper mill. He was
also taking flying lessons at the Toronto Island airport, but
only when he had some extra money. That all changed when the
car in which he was a passenger was involved in an accident.
The impact broke his back and left him paralyzed from the mid-back
down.
At the time, life expectancy for paraplegics was considered low.
As a result, Mr.
BURK/BURKE was given little more than food, a bed
to lie in and drugs to fight off infection. In all, he spent
seven years at a succession of Toronto hospitals. Later, he said
he only talked about those missing years "to counter the canard"
that he had spent them in jail.
He gave details of his dreary hospital years in lengthy interviews
conducted in the early 1990s by Mary
TREMBLAY, an associate professor
of health sciences at McMaster University. She used his experiences
in a series of academic papers on the evolution of Canada's treatment
of spinal-cord injuries.
At Saint Michael's Hospital, nuns asked Mr.
BURK/BURKE to accept his
fate and make peace with God. "I somehow didn't feel like taking
on the chore of dying at that moment," he told Ms.
TREMBLAY.
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital was "very restrictive" with few
activities, but at Runnymede Hospital he found the staff to be
more sympathetic. Somehow, he obtained a typewriter and took
up writing. One of his first successes as a freelancer was a
correspondence course on fitness that he sold through magazine
ads.
His life changed dramatically in 1946 when he was visited by
Dr. Al JOUSSE and John
COUNSELL, a paraplegic veteran who had
been injured at Dieppe. Along with neurosurgeon Doctor Harry
BOTTERELL,
they had helped set up Lyndhurst Lodge in Toronto as a centre
for spinal-injury rehabilitation programs for veterans of the
Second
World
War. As a deserving civilian, Mr.
BURK/BURKE was squeezed
into the program. He began travelling to Lyndhurst for physiotherapy
twice a week. More importantly, he was given one of the Everest
and Jennings folding, self-propelled wheelchairs that had provided
freedom and hope to paraplegic veterans.
In 1948, he moved to the Young Men's Christian Association in
downtown Toronto where he pursued his writing career. He wrote
short stories and book reviews, and also worked as a copy editor.
It was at the Young Men's Christian Association coffee bar that
he met Laddie
DENNIS, then a stage actress and radio announcer.
She later appeared regularly on Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
television and became a travel writer. One friend called their
romance "the love story of the century." Ms.
DENNIS says she
"made the first move" and was also the one who proposed. They
were married in 1951 and spent their honeymoon in Mexico.
In 1955, they purchased a former five-car garage that once belonged
to the historic Falcon Inn in Scarborough. The partly finished
structure was considered a white elephant, but the couple turned
it into a comfortable home where they often entertained 40 guests
at a time.
In 1963, Mr.
BURK/BURKE was invited to England to turn his first novel
into a screenplay. The project fell through, but along the way
he picked up an assignment to write the script for a British
Broadcasting Corporation Radio play based on Nikolai Gogol's
Diary of a Madman. It starred comedian Kenneth Williams.
Despite his handicap, Mr.
BURK/BURKE drove a car, raked lawns, got
in and out of a rowboat and even chopped wood.
Mary TREMBLAY started one interview saying she wanted to talk
about Mr. BURK/BURKE's ideas about disability. His reply summed up
his attitude: "I'm against it."
James BURK/BURKE was born in Toronto on September 16, 1917. He died
in Toronto on October 15, 2006, of complications of paraplegia.
He was 89. He leaves his wife, Laddie
DENNIS, and brothers Paul
and Peter KAPHALAKOS.
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GEISSLER o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2006-05-27 published
WAGNER,
Elsbeth (née
GEISSLER)
At Trillium Villa Nursing Home on Thursday, May 25, 2006 Elsbeth
WAGNER, age 91 of Sarnia. Beloved wife of the late Richard
WAGNER
(1972.) Loved mother of Walter
WAGNER and his wife
Loretta,
Herbert
WAGNER and Richard
WAGNER and his wife
Pamela. Dear grandmother
of Darin WAGNER and his wife
Kathy,
Deborah
WAGNER and her husband
Mark DICKSON/DIXON, Natalie
WAGNER, Heidi
WAGNER, Paul
WAGNER, Alese
WAGNER.
Great grandmother of Lloyd, Edward, Harrison and Kyle.
Predeceased by her parents Paul and Olga
GEISSLER and a sister
Irmgarde GEISSLER.
Elsbeth was a member of Trinity Lutheran Church
in London and was retired from Westminster Hospital Prosthetic
Services. A funeral service will be held on Monday, May 29, 2006
at 2: 00 p.m. at Smith Funeral Home, 1576 London Line, Sarnia
with Rev. Roger
ELLIS officiating. Interment to follow in Mount
Pleasant Cemetery, London. Sympathy through donations to the
Heart and Stroke Foundation would be appreciated by the family.
Memories and condolences may be sent online at www.smithfuneralhome.ca
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