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NAVAGE o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2006-02-11 published
BERNOTIES,
Frank
Jr.
It is with great sadness, that the family of Frank
BERNOTIES
Jr. announce his passing on February 6th, 2006 in Prince Rubert,
British Columbia, formerly of London, Ontario
son of Margaret
and the late Frank Sr. (1999.) Dearest partner of Sheila
PELLIZZARO.
Loving brother of Raymond (Barb) of West Bank, British Columbia.
Loving Dad of Charlene (David)
QUIRK, Michelle (Chris)
JOHNSON,
Tracy (Chris)
NAVAGE, their mother Jeannie, all of London, Ontario.
Grandchildren, Quinlan, Maddie, Ethan, Rachel, Chance, Grace
and Carter. Uncle of Lisa (Steve)
McCULLOCH of West Bank, British
Columbia and Ray
BERNOTIES of Port Moody, British Columbia. Cremation.
Celebration of life to be held in Prince Rupert. He will be sadly
missed by all
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NAVARRO o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2006-02-17 published
NAVARRO,
Rosina
Passed away peacefully, with her family by her side, on February
6, 2006, at Credit Valley Hospital, close to her 94th birthday.
Beloved mother of Maria Nilza
NAVARRO and grandmother of Aleksandra
NAVARRO.
Predeceased by her husband Israel de Campos
NAVARRO.
Survived by her sisters Elia DA
SILVA and Glaucia
BARBUTO and
her husband Helton
BARBUTO.
Will be sadly missed by her many
nephews and nieces. In memory of Rose and in Celebration of her
Life, a Funeral Mass will be celebrated in Canada on Saturday,
February 18, 2006 at Saint John of the Cross Church, 6890 Glen
Erin Dr., Mississauga. Viewing at the Church 10-11 a.m. Mass
of Resurrection 11 a.m.-12 noon. Reception in Church Hall 12
noon-2 p.m. All Friends are welcome and encouraged to bring sandwiches
or desserts for all to share as we gather together to pay tribute
to Rose and celebrate her life - a life which has inspired and
touched so many. Final Funeral Service will be held in Brazil.
Arrangements made by Bates and Dodds Funeral Services, 416-703-0681.
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NAVE o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2006-01-05 published
McCRACKEN,
Margaret (née
STEWARD/STEWART/STUART)
Of Oakville, Ontario, passed away peacefully, at the age of 71,
on January 2, 2006, at Oakville-Trafalgar Memorial Hospital.
Born in Coatbridge, Scotland on August 10, 1934, she is survived
by her husband John
McCRACKEN, brother Frank
STEWARD/STEWART/STUART, sisters
Jean CLARKE and Anne
STEWARD/STEWART/STUART, daughter Audrey
McCRACKEN, sons
John, Stephen and Brian, daughters-in-law Joanne
ANGER-
McCRACKEN,
Anna NAVE-
McCRACKEN and Roberta
BROWN-
McCRACKEN, grandchildren
Christina, Kyle, Cody, Shane, Brianna, Emma, Shawna and Kelsey.
She was surrounded by her family and lots of love and caring
in her final days. She touched many, many lives and will live
on in our hearts forever.
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NAVICSKAS o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2006-03-20 published
GREIBUS,
Kenneth
John
Passed away suddenly at his residence in Toronto on March 16th,
2006 in his 63rd year.
son of the late Alfons and Janina (nee
NAVICSKAS)
GREIBUS. He leaves to mourn his brother Ben and sister-in-law
Nancy (née
KRISCIUNAS,) nephew Gary
GREIBUS, niece Lori
GREIBUS
and her husband Karl
SCHMOETZER, grand-nephew Karl Adam
SCHMOETZER
and many close Friends, colleagues and associates. Friends are
invited to call at York Visitation, Chapel and Reception Centre,
160 Beecroft Rd. (west of Yonge Street, north of Sheppard Ave.,
416-221-3404), on Wednesday, March 22nd, 2006 from 12-1 p.m.
A Memorial Service will follow in the chapel at 1 p.m. Interment
of ashes and Committal Service will be held in Montréal at the
Notre Dame Des Neiges Cemetery Chapel at a later date. In lieu
of flowers, donations in Ken's memory may be made to: Giant Steps
Foundation of Montréal, 11 Hillside Street, Westmount, Montréal,
Quebec, H3Z 1V8, tel. 514-935-1911.
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NAVIS o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2006-11-10 published
NAVIS,
Olive▼
Hélène▼ (née
CHABAN)
Peacefully, on Thursday, November 9, 2006 at Sunnybrook Hospital,
Olive, in her 90th year, pre-deceased by her husband, Borden.
Loving mother of Gordon and his wife Marlene, and Allen. Dear
grandmother of Heather and Leslie. A special thank you to all
of her many customers and dear Friends for over thirty years
at Handy Book Exchange. The family will receive Friends at the
Trull "North Toronto" Funeral Home and Cremation Centre, 2704 Yonge
St; (5 blocks south of Lawrence) on Sunday November 12th from
4-8 p.m. in lieu of flowers, donations may be made in Olive's
memory to Frontier College 35 Jackes Ave, Toronto Ontario, M4T 1E2
(416) 923-3591 or to the Literacy Foundation of your choice.
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NAVIS o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2006-11-11 published
NAVIS,
Olive▲
Hélène▲ (née
CHABAN)
Peacefully, on Thursday, November 9, 2006 at Sunnybrook Hospital,
Olive, in her 90th year, pre-deceased by her husband, Borden.
Loving mother of Gordon and his wife Marlene, and Allen. Dear
grandmother of Heather and Leslie. A special thank you to all
of her many customers and dear Friends for over thirty years
at Handy Book Exchange. The family will receive Friends at the
Trull "North Toronto" Funeral Home and Cremation Centre, 2704 Yonge
St; (5 blocks south of Lawrence) on Sunday November 12th from
4-8 p.m. in lieu of flowers, donations may be made in Olive's
memory to Frontier College 35 Jackes Ave, Toronto Ontario, M4T 1E2
(416) 923-3591 or to the Literacy Foundation of your choice.
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NAVIS o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2006-12-14 published
Used bookseller was a friend to customers
By Catherine
DUNPHY,
Obituary
Writer
One of the bonuses of living in a big city is the small bookstore.
The very small used bookstore.
The kind where the aisles are narrow, book-lined shelves reach
from floor to ceiling, and handwritten notes denote whether they
are history, romance, mystery or for children.
The kind of place where there are always boxes of more books,
spine up, on every available surface waiting for sorting.
The kind Olive
NAVIS ran for 32 years.
First on Yonge St. (near Lawrence Ave.), then on Avenue Rd.,
the Handy Book Exchange attracted customers from near and far,
and that is more than a cliché.
NAVIS had regulars from the United
States, North Bay and the Beach. Most became her Friends. Long
before there were coffee bars on every corner, her coffee pot
was always on.
She had treats for all the dogs. One customer once tried to avoid
the bookstore -- she was in a hurry that particular day -- and
crossed the street. But her dog balked and refused to move. The
woman had to cross back over Avenue Rd. and stop at the store
to appease her pet.
There are at least 10,000 books in the store -- although
NAVIS's
son, Gord, believes there are probably more like 20,000 to 30,000 books
when you count those in the basement.
Nothing was or is computerized --
NAVIS used to keep track of
her books in her head or in a series of small pads of paper in
which she would record the author's name, every book he or she'd
written and the number of copies she had.
Her good friend Carole
NELLES, who has run the store during the
past couple of years when
NAVIS has been too ill to come in,
used to call her at home three times a day, on the pretext of
locating a book.
"I did it to keep her part of it,"
NELLES said. "Say someone
wanted Leon Uris's Trinity, she'd say 'Go downstairs, walk straight
to the bathroom, turn left at the boxes. Lift the top box and
it's there.' She was always right."
NAVIS, the mother of two sons, always referred to
NELLES as the
daughter she never had. There was real love between the two,
which started when they bonded over books and cigarettes smoked
by the back door and grew when
NELLES, a nurse working in London,
Ontario, began spending more and more time in the bookstore when
she was back in Toronto on her days off.
Together they cleaned up the books --
NAVIS called it their "spit
and polish" day -- fixing broken spines with coloured magic markers,
coating the covers with Mylar so they shone once more. "It was
a lot of fun,"
NELLES recalled. "It's amazing what you can do."
NAVIS was fun, too. She kept a favourite cartoon near the cash
"Going into a bookstore and buying one book is like going
to McDonald's and buying one French fry." She collected jokes,
filling 10 scrapbooks with them. She would foist copies of jokes
on her customers.
She also handed out small notebooks, telling her customers to
write down every book they read to avoid duplications.
"I was the bane of Olive's existence," said Enid
RICHARDSON.
"She would explain to me -- over and over -- that when books
came out in their second printing, often their covers were different
colours. 'Enid, this is one you have already read,' she would
say. She gave me two notebooks to write my books down. I never
used them."
For the last few years she was in the store, she refused to let
RICHARDSON pay for books.
RICHARDSON and her late husband, Jack,
often drove her home from her shop --
NAVIS loathed using taxis
and could never understand why a short trip from the store to
Wanless Crescent could cost $7.
And until ill health stopped her,
NAVIS was always at her store.
It was officially closed Mondays, but she would be there anyway
working on inventory. She absolutely loved being there. After
her husband Borden died in 2001, her home was just a place to
sleep. The store was always her real home.
Olive CHABAN was born and raised in Winnipeg. She married Borden
NAVIS, a hometown Ukrainian boy and talented graphic artist in
Winnipeg in 1938 and the two moved to Toronto. Sons Gord and
Al were born 11 years apart; the family always lived with Borden's
parents. Father and son owned the house jointly, but it was
NAVIS's
mother-in-law, whom neighbourhood kids called Queen Mary, who
ruled it.
"My mother came from an abusive home -- so she never fought and
maybe had one or two confrontations with my Dad during all those
years," Gord
NAVIS recalled. And so she was always polite to
her mother-in-law, even going home to make lunch for her every
day she worked at the bookstore.
NAVIS worked for a Yonge St. bookstore, then for Simpson's department
store variously as a model, white-gloved elevator attendant,
and in their book section. No one in the family is too sure about
when she went to work for Tom
MERCHANT, who owned the Handy Book
Exchange on Yonge St. near their home.
She took over the store in 1974 after
MERCHANT died.
NELLES said
she had been in the process of buying the business with weekly
payments culled from the sale of handicrafts -- crocheted toilet
paper covers and the like -- she made and sold in the store.
"It was a cute little store, a half-width store," recalled Gord
NAVIS, and it thrived under the combination of
NAVIS's personality,
her knowledge of books and her coffee pot.
The family opened up the second location on Avenue Rd. in 1982
for son Al to operate. Ten years later, she moved into that store,
when Al started a rare book and first edition business in Thornhill.
She was always happy in her store. She had a knack for finding
just the right book -- especially for younger readers, whom she
doted on. That doesn't mean she made money -- far from it, possibly
because she was so generous about the credit she gave people
for the used books they brought her.
"With Ollie, some customers brought 10 cartons of books. She'd
give a credit of $1 per paperback. One man had a credit for $250,"
NELLES said.
Her eyesight began failing -- she developed cataracts -- but
NAVIS kept going to the store until 2003, when she suffered an
accidental fall at home. She died early on November 9 at age
89. NELLES opened the store that day in her honour. Her picture
is still in the window and by the cash is a book for customers
to sign. Many have.
"You gave me a googly-eyed pencil," wrote one young reader. "You
were the first friend I made when I moved here," wrote another.
And one person spoke for hundreds of customers when he wrote:
"You were a touchstone in my reading life."
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NAVROT o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2006-06-06 published
WALNECK,
The
Honourable
Raymond
Joseph
Passed away in Thunder Bay on May 30, 2006 after a brief illness.
Remembered with love and dearly missed by his wife of 47 years
Maureen (BLACK,) his two daughters Susan and Sandra, their husbands
Mark HARTVIKSEN and David
KERR, and grandchildren Owen, Cameron,
Kaitlin, Megan and Vanessa. Also remembered lovingly by his sister
Joyce and her husband Raymond
LAINE,
Ann
(BLACK) and John
MORAN,
Barbara (BLACK) and Tom
DELANEY,
Bob and Marilyn
BLACK, his nieces
and nephews, and so many dear Friends. He was predeceased by
his parents Caroline
(NAVROT) and Joseph
WALNECK.
After receiving
his Honours Bachelor of Business from the University of Western
Ontario in June 1954 he went on to study law at Osgoode Hall,
University of Toronto and was called to the Ontario Bar in 1958.
He returned to Thunder Bay and married Maureen on March 30, 1959.
Ray practiced law until April 28, 1981 when he was sworn in as
a Judge of the Provincial Court of Ontario. He also served as
Regional Senior Judge for the Northwest region of Ontario from
1990 to 1998. He presided in court as a Judge until his retirement
on September 7, 2005. Funeral services were held on Saturday,
June 3, 2006 in Corpus Christi R.C. Church for Funeral Mass at
10: 00 a.m., celebrated by Msgr. P.M. Stilla V.G. Interment followed
in St. Andrew's Roman Catholic Cemetery. Visitation was held
on Friday in the Sargent Family Reception Centre 21N. Court Street.
As expressions of sympathy memorials to the Ontario Heart and Stroke
Foundation or the Lung Association would be appreciated. On-line
condolences may be made at www.sargentandson.com.
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