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KEOGH,
Kenneth
Thomas
Suddenly at his residence, 1229 Huron Street, London, on Saturday,
January 7, 2006, Kenneth Thomas
KEOGH, in his 74th year. Beloved
son of the late Thomas A. and Anna J.
(KAIRNS)
KEOGH.
Survived
by sons Kenneth and Sherry
KEOGH,
Patrick
KEOGH all of Barrie
Granddaughters Megan and Kaytlin. Former wife Rosella Valerie
KEOGH. Sister Leona M. (Michael)
PIPA of Michigan. Nieces Judith
(David) SHAHINIAN, Karan
THOMAS, Michele (Vincent)
SALVATO and
nephew Mark (Diane)
PIPA and many cousins. Relatives and Friends
will be received at the Arn Funeral Home, 193 Shackleton Street,
Dutton, on Wednesday, January 11, 2006 from Noon to service at
2 p.m. Interment in St. Helen's Cemetery. Donations to the Arthritis
Society or Diabetes Association would be appreciated.
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KEOGH,
John "
Jack▼"
Suddenly at his residence, on Wednesday, November 8th, 2006,
John (Jack)
KEOGH of London in his 76th year.
son of the late
Andy and Kathleen
KEOGH.
Loving husband for 48 years of Mary
(McILHARGEY)
KEOGH.
Beloved father of Mike and Linda
KEOGH of
Saint Thomas, Pat and Sharon
KEOGH of London, Lori and Will
MacMURDO
of Australia, John and Lianna
KEOGH of Ailsa Craig and Kevin
KEOGH also of London. Predeceased by daughter Mary Ellen. Sadly
missed by his grandchildren Bryan, Lauren, Brent, Kristen, Bradley,
Brendan, Katie, Thomas, Michaela, Breanne and Laurel. Dear brother
of Helen and Jim
DEFINNEY, and Winnifred and Ken
SHEPPARD.
Predeceased
by his sister Catherine and by his brother-in-law Matt
DUNAN.
Visitation will be held at the Westview Funeral Chapel, 709 Wonderland
Road North, on Sunday from 2: 00-4:00 and 7:00-9:00 p.m. The Funeral
Mass will be celebrated at Holy Family Parish, 777 Valetta Street,
on Monday, November 13th, 2006 at 10: 00 a.m. Interment, Saint Peter's
Cemetery. Those wishing to make a donation in memory of John
are asked to consider the Heart and Stroke Foundation or the
Alzheimer Society of London and Middlesex. Prayers will be held
in the funeral home on Sunday at 7: 00 p.m.
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KEOGH o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2006-11-25 published
KEOGH,
Jack▲
The family of Jack
KEOGH wish to thank everyone for their love
and support during the loss of a dear husband, father and grandfather.
To those who attended the visitation, offered expressions of
sympathy, masses, floral tributes, charitable donations, cards,
prayers, meals and phone calls. A special thank you to Doctor Eric
NICHOLLS for his dedicated care. Our gratitude and thanks to
Fr. Bob REMARK,
Deacon
John
VALLELY and the choir of Holy Family
Parish. Our thanks to Westview Funeral Chapel and Windermere
Manor for their professionalism. Your acts of kindness will forver
be remembered. Mary
KEOGH and family.
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KEOGH o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2006-11-11 published
Kenneth McILWRAITH,
Officer and Diplomat (1917-2006)
The quiet ambassador had some remarkable wartime adventures --
patrolling Palestine on horseback and being taken prisoner by
the French Foreign Legion, writes Sandra
MARTIN
By Sandra MARTIN,
Page
S11
A very private, modest person, Kenneth
McILWRAITH disliked talking
about himself almost as much as he loved playing golf after he
retired from the diplomatic service. Nevertheless, he had some
extraordinary adventures in his long life.
Although Canadian born, he served with the Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry,
one of the last British cavalry regiments to still use horses
at the beginning of the Second World War. He was captured by
the French Foreign Legion in the Syrian desert in 1941 and held
for two months as a prisoner-of-war of Vichy France.
After the war he had a lengthy career as a diplomat and ultimately
became Canadian ambassador to Norway and Iceland. "He was a man
of infinite courtesy and patience and he helped train his juniors
in a methodical and systematic way that was quite rare among
senior officers and heads of missions," said Roy
MacLAREN, a
former High Commissioner to London and one of Mr.
McILWRAITH's
juniors at External Affairs. "The juniors in the department greatly
admired him. He would take any amount of time helping to train
us and showing us by example how to conduct ourselves," said
Mr. MacLAREN. "He was a very fine person."
Kenneth Douglas
McILWRAITH was the younger
son of William Norman
McILWRAITH and his wife
Ruby (née
SOMERVILLE.)
His father, who
had left school at 16, was hired as a clerk by George Herbert
WOOD and James Henry
GUNDY as one of their first two employees
on the day they opened their investment firm in 1905. Mr.
McILWRAITH
became such an adept and valued investment analyst that five
years later, when he was 30, the founders asked him to open the
London office of Wood Gundy (which is now part of Canadian Imperial
Bank of Commerce).
Although a decidedly anglophile couple, the
McILWRAITHs returned
to Canada every summer to their cottage on Centre Island in Lake
Ontario across the harbour from Toronto, and deliberately came
back to Canada in the penultimate year of the First World War
so that their second son, Kenneth, could (like his elder brother
William) be born on Canadian soil. As well, Mr.
McILWRAITH "did
not trust the quality of British medical treatment," said his
grand_son Bill
McILWRAITH in a e-mail from Thailand where he owns
a small resort.
Ken was sent to board at Boxgrove preparatory school in Guildford,
Surrey, from the age of 8. At 13, he went to Rugby School, near
Coventry in Warwickshire, the same school that the soldier-poet
Rupert Brooke had attended, and then went up to Cambridge where
he studied English literature at Clare College, graduating with
a bachelor's degree in 1939 and a master's the following year.
Mr. McILWRAITH joined the British Army as a second lieutenant
and served with the Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry, a regiment that
can trace its lineage back to 1794. At the time Mr.
McILWRAITH
enlisted, the regiment (which had been given the honorific Royal
in 1831 and designated the Prince of Wales's Own in 1863 in tribute
to the future King Edward VII) was still a cavalry unit,
a tradition that must have appealed to the horse-loving Mr.
McILWRAITH.
He, along with his batman, served in Palestine, riding his own
two horses (which he had shipped by train and boat from England)
on patrols. It was only at the end of 1941, two years into the
war, that the regiment was mechanized, following its transfer
to the Royal Armoured Corps.
While serving as a regimental liaison officer in the Syrian desert,
Mr. McILWRAITH and his batman were captured south of Palmyra
on June 2, 1941, by a French patrol (of Arab soldiers with French
officers, as he later explained in a letter to his parents).
As France had fallen to the Germans the year before and established
the Vichy collaborationist government, the French and the British
were technically at war.
Mr. McILWRAITH was taken to the local commandant, a captain in
the French Foreign Legion. After a noisy exchange, the commandant
sent his prisoner on his first flight by "aeroplane" to Homs,
about 145 kilometres west of Palmyra. "The plane was a very ancient
affair (four-seater biplane), the air currents over the desert
were particularly active, and the pilot and navigator were more
concerned with some bottles of wine they had brought with them
than with the smooth progress of their flying chicken-crate,"
he wrote to his parents in September, 1941.
Lieutenant
McILWRAITH was transported along with other captured
British officers to Alefsis on the outskirts of Athens. That's
where he saw the Germans for the first time. "The Jerries paid
no attention to us other than to glance with a certain bovine
curiosity at the rather motley looking party of British officers.
It was obvious, however, that the French depended on German authorization
for every move they made," he wrote.
Another "hair-raising" flight later, the prisoners reached Salonika,
where they were kept in filthy conditions in a warehouse for
five days and then interned for two weeks in the hold of a French
passenger ship in the harbour. After the Saint Jean d'Acre Armistice
was signed on July 14 between British forces in the Middle East
and Vichy France forces in Syria under General Henri Dentz, he
should have been returned to the British. The prisoners were
shown the armistice and allowed to read the clause demanding
their immediate return to the British, but they were still loaded
on a train and sent across enemy-occupied Europe and through
Germany to Toulon, France -- all the time in ghastly conditions,
without adequate food or water.
In Toulon, he and the other officers were finally released under
the terms of the armistice and sent back to Beirut on a French
ship that sailed through the Mediterranean, enjoying considerably
better conditions than he had endured on his outward journey.
He arrived in Cairo on August 19, a little more than two months
after his capture and after 10 days leave, returned to the fighting.
The Royal Wiltshire was the first British tank regiment to engage
the German (and Italian) forces under General Erwin Rommel at
the crucial battle of El Alamein in North Africa in 1942. Mr.
McILWRAITH
missed the fighting because he was ill with jaundice and desert
sores, (a virulent form of impetigo that was exacerbated by sand,
heat and the confined quarters in tanks). The sergeant who took
his place was killed almost immediately, according to Mr.
McILWRAITH's
daughter Mary.
He later served in Norway and was demobilized with the rank of
captain in 1946. Although he survived the war, many of his school
Friends and army colleagues were killed and he suffered from
horrible nightmares about the horrors he had witnessed. His daughter,
Mary McILWRAITH, can still remember him shouting in his sleep
and waking everybody up. As a result they rarely talked about
their father's war experience.
When peace came, his father wanted him to join Wood Gundy, but
he resisted and opted instead to study Canadian history at the
University of Toronto for a year with a view to joining External
Affairs (now Foreign Affairs and International Trade), which
he did on September 1, 1948, after successfully writing the entrance
examinations. As a student, Mr.
McILWRAITH lived in a boarding
house on Lonsdale Road. That's where he met Ruth (née
KEOGH)
RICHARDSON, a widow one year his senior and the mother of two
little girls, Deirdre and Darragh. Her husband Pat had fought
with the Canadian forces and been killed in Holland near the
end of the War.
Although of different religions -- Mr.
McILWRAITH was Protestant
and Mrs. RICHARDSON was Irish Catholic -- they married in 1951
just before he received his first foreign posting to Geneva.
During their three years in Switzerland, the
McILWRAITHs' daughter
Mary was born. The family returned to Canada and lived in Ottawa
where Mr. McILWRAITH was a member of the inspection service,
charged with travelling the globe to observe and report back
on conditions in Canadian embassies and diplomatic missions.
The McILWRAITH's final child, Sheila, was born in Ottawa just
before their next posting to Tokyo in 1958. They travelled by
ship, as Mrs.
McILWRAITH disliked flying, a trip that her daughter
Mary still remembers as the height of luxury and glamour. After
a three-year stint, the family went back again to Ottawa where
Mr. McILWRAITH was head of personnel for External Affairs.
In 1964, the fluently bilingual Mr.
McILWRAITH was posted to
Paris at the height of the first wave of Front de Liberation
du Québec violence in Quebec and during a troubled diplomatic
period between French president Charles de Gaulle and the Canadian
government. While working in the embassy he took some pleasure
in recounting to his colleagues how an earlier French administration
had held him as a prisoner-of-war, according to his old friend
and colleague Peter Towe, former Canadian ambassador to the United
Nations. Mr.
McILWRAITH's final posting was to Oslo where he
served as ambassador to Norway and Iceland from 1972 until 1976.
He took early retirement at 60 and continued to live in Ottawa
where he enjoyed playing golf, meeting with old Friends from
External and reading. He and his wife separated in 1990 and she
returned to Toronto where she died in 2004.
Mr. McILWRAITH, who continued to live in Ottawa in the family
home with his step-daughter Darragh, was in good health, surviving
prostate cancer and melanoma, until the cancer metastasized to
his urinary tract. He died shortly after receiving the diagnosis
and having refused treatment.
Kenneth Douglas
McILWRAITH was born in Toronto on May 25, 1917.
He died in Ottawa on September 11, 2006. He was 89. He is survived
by his four daughters, three grandchildren and his extended family.
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KEON o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2006-11-15 published
LECLAIR,
Noella, 61
First Canadian artificial heart recipient
Canadian Press, Page S7
Ottawa -- Noella
LECLAIR, who became part of medical history
as the recipient of Canada's first artificial heart transplant,
died at Ottawa Civic Hospital on Saturday. She was 61.
A little more than 20 years ago, Ms.
LECLAIR, then 41, was all
but dead from heart disease when her family gave permission for
her to receive a temporary, Jarvik-7 artificial heart. On May 1,
1986, a surgical team led by Doctor Wilbert
KEON, one of the country's
leading heart specialists, performed the 3½-hour transplant operation.
One week later, in another long surgical procedure, she received
a heart from a 44-year-old Montreal man who had died after a
traffic accident near London, Ontario
Ms. LECLAIR died November 11 at the Ottawa Heart Institute in
the same hospital where she underwent both heart transplants
in 1986. She is survived by her husband, Simon, and daughter,
Sophie.
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McCORKELL,
Clarence
Harold
At his home surrounded by family after a battle with cancer on
Sunday evening, February 12th, 2006. Clare
McCORKELL of Barrie
was born in Toronto on September 17th, 1934. Beloved husband
of Helen (née
BILOTTI)
McCORKELL.
Loving father of John
McCORKELL
of Barrie. Dear brother of Lillian
O'NEIL (late Andy) of Virginia,
Ontario, and late Herbert
McCORKELL
(Marie) of Newmarket. Predeceased
by his parents Earl and Mary Bridget (née
KEON)
McCORKELL.
Dear
son-in-law of Carolina and the late Frank
BILOTTI of Timmins.
Dear brother-in-law of Val (Lucille), Louisa, Norman, Elizabeth
(Michael) and their families. He will be sadly missed by many
nieces, nephews, relatives and Friends. Friends may call at the
Steckley-Gooderham Funeral Home (201 Minet's Point Road at Yonge
Street) Barrie on Thursday from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. Funeral Mass
will be held from Saint John Vianney Church (13 Baldwin Lane),
Barrie on Friday, February 17th, 2006 at 10: 00 a.m. Interment
Saint Mary's Cemetery, Barrie. Memorial donations to the Royal
Victoria Hospital Regional Cancer Care Centre or the St. Vincent
de Paul Society would be appreciated.
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KEON o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2006-11-15 published
Medical pioneer dead at 61
Noella LECLAIR received artificial heart
Defied the odds, lived for 20 years
By Phinjo GOMBU,
Staff
Reporter
When Noella
LECLAIR made history on May 1, 1986, as the recipient
of Canada's first artificial heart, doctors gave her at most
five years to live.
She proved them wrong. To the delight of her family and Friends,
LECLAIR went on to live a normal, healthy and happy life for
20 years.
The resident of the Ottawa suburb of Orleans, who died Saturday
at the age of 61, even opened up her own small store in the Byward
market, which she ran for more than 15 years.
"She always looked at (her life) as if she had been given a second
chance, which a lot of people don't get," her daughter Sophie
LECLAIR-
MICETICH recalled yesterday.
LECLAIR was 41 when she received a Jarvik-7 artificial heart
at the Ottawa Heart Institute. A week later, she received a human
heart from a 44-year-old Montreal man who had died after a traffic
accident.
LECLAIR died in the same Ottawa institute.
According to her daughter,
LECLAIR's heart was not functioning
well in recent months, but doctors advised against another transplant.
"She took it gracefully," said
LECLAIR-
MICETICH. "
She was happy
and ready to go. She looked at the 20 years she had with us as
a bonus."
Dr. Ross DAVIES, a cardiologist at the Ottawa institute who had
had LECLAIR as a patient from the beginning, described her as
a lovely lady, beloved by all the patients and staff.
"I don't think we would have dreamt that people would have lived
more than 20 years with such good quality of life," said
DAVIES.
"It has just been a remarkable story all along, very satisfying
for the patient and family and very satisfying for the heart
institute and the medical staff."
Born in the small community of Plantagenet, northwest of Ottawa,
LECLAIR was destined to live a quiet life in Orleans with her
husband, Simon, who ran a furniture business.
Before her illness, she raised nine foster children, in addition
to her own daughter.
But on April 25, 1986, she suffered a heart attack that left
her on life support and technically dead.
A few days' later, family members gave doctors permission to
insert the Jarvik-7 artificial heart, and after a 3½ hour transplant
operation led by Doctor Wilbert
KEON,
Canadian medical history was
made.
"Heart transplantation was still somewhat young, so doing a transplant
was still pretty exciting," recalled
DAVIES. "It was very exciting
to be involved in the first mechanical circulatory-assist device
in Canada."
Back then, only the Ottawa institute performed such complex surgery,
something that is now routinely performed in select hospitals
across Canada.
LECLAIR's gratitude was such that she went on to become the Ottawa
Heart Institute's most enthusiastic volunteer: She organized
bingo games, took part in telethons and assisted doctors to help
calm patients who were nervous about impending surgery by discussing
her own experiences.
"At one point her doctor told me that she was (the institute's)
best spokesperson, obviously because she was living proof of
their capabilities," said
LECLAIR-
MICETICH.
DAVIES said the relationship between patient and the hospital
was long and fruitful.
"Our objective when we went into this was to improve her quality
of life," he said. "It turns out we couldn't have done it to
a more wonderful person because not only did we help her… she
returned the favour many fold both to the heart institute and
the community."
Funeral services are scheduled for Monday at Saint_Joseph Church
in Orleans.
LECLAIR is survived by her husband, Simon, and daughter
Sophie.
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KEOPRULIAN,
Beverley
Ann (née
MORRIS)
We are saddened to announce that Beverley passed away suddenly
on Monday, May 1, 2006 at the North York General Hospital at
the age of 67. Beloved wife of Levon. Dear sister to David (Anne),
Robert (Marry Ann) and the late Ernie. Beverley will be sadly
missed by her brother and sister-in-laws, Melik (Lilly) and Anouche.
Dear aunt to Andrew, Laura and Stepshen. A memorial service will
be held at The Holy Trinity Armenian Church of Toronto, 920 Progress
Avenue, Scarborugh (south of Hwy 401 and east of Markham Road)
at 11: 00 a.m. on Tuesday, May 23, 2006. Donations can be made
to the North York General Hospital Foundation in memory of Beverley.
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KEOUGH o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2006-06-04 published
MORLOCK,
Alma
Irene
(SMITH)
Peacefully, at Queensway Nursing Home, Hensall, Friday, June 2,
2006, Alma Irene
(SMITH)
MORLOCK, age 102, formerly of Crediton.
Beloved wife of the late C. Gordon
MORLOCK (1993.) Mother-in-law
of Gladys
(BECKER)
MORLOCK of Waterloo. Grandma of Scott and
Janet MORLOCK,
Lynn and Mike
KEOUGH and great-grandma of Mark,
Peter and Weston
MORLOCK,
Austin,
Kevin and Sean
KEOUGH. Remembered
by her nephew Donald
FINKBEINER, great-nieces, great-nephews
and their families. Predeceased by Doctor Frederick
MORLOCK (1993,)
brothers William, Roy and Eldon
SMITH, sisters Idella
SIMS,
Beulah
SPARLING and Lavina
FINKBEINER.
Resting at the T. Harry Hoffman and
Sons Funeral Home, Dashwood, with visitation Sunday evening 7 to
9 p.m.; where the funeral service will be held Monday, June 5,
2006 at 1 p.m. The Rev. Sheila
MacGREGOR officiating. Interment
Crediton Cemetery. If desired, memorial donations to the Zion
United Church, Crediton or charity of choice would be appreciated.
Alma was a life-long member of Zion United Church and the Crediton
Women's Institute. Condolences at www.hoffmanfuneralhome.com
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KEOUGH o@ca.on.peterborough.north_monaghan.peterborough.the_peterborough_examiner 2006-04-01 published
EGGLETON,
Olive
Violet (née
FIFE)
(formerly of Driscoll Terrace)
It is with great sadness that the family of Olive
EGGLETON announce
her passing at Extendicare Peterborough on Thursday, March 30,
2006 in her 102nd year. Beloved wife of the late Charles
EGGLETON
(1995.) Dear Mother of Marion
MILBURN and her husband Gerald
of Peterborough, Norma
KEOUGH and her husband Micheal of Douro,
Kenneth EGGLETON and his wife
Margaret of Peterborough and the
late Mansel
EGGLETON and his surviving wife
Bonnie of Oshawa.
Loving Grandma of Gordon, Janet, Micheal, Connie, Leanne, Angula,
Coleen, Mark, David, Robert and Katie. Loving Great-grandma of
many. Predeceased by her siblings Vina, Elizabeth and Russell.
A funeral service will be held at Comstock Funeral Home and Cremation
Centre, 356 Rubidge Street on Monday, April 3, 2006 at 3 p.m.
with visitation one hour prior, Reverend Doctor Robert
ROOT officiating.
Interment Rosemount Memorial Gardens. In lieu of flowers, donations
to Five Counties Children's Centre or the charity of your choice
would be appreciated by the family.
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