O'GRADY o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2006-03-01 published
BUTTERFIELD,
Frederick
Edmund
A resident of Chatham. Frederick Edmund
BUTTERFIELD died Tuesday
February 28, 2006 at the Chatham-Kent Health Alliance at the
age of 90. Born in Healey Falls, Ontario
son of the late Herbert
Choate and Clara Lorraine Phoebe
(BROWN)
BUTTERFIELD.
Beloved
husband of the late Margaret A.
(STACK)
BUTTERFIELD (1989) and
Clare (O'GRADY)
BUTTERFIELD (2000.) Dear father of Ronald H.
and Valerie
BUTTERFIELD,
Chatham.
Grandfather of Anna Lee and
Jeff EDMONDSON,
Chatham and Fred
BUTTERFIELD, Orillia.
Great
Grandfather of Shawna and Tyler
EDMONDSON. A Private Family Memorial
service will be conducted at the McKinlay Funeral Home, 459 St.
Clair St. Chatham. Cremation. Donations made by cheque to the
Charity of Choice appreciated. Online condolences may be left
at www.mckinlayfuneralhome.com.
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O'GRADY o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2006-03-13 published
DAVIDSON,
Bernice▼ (née
COOK)
At her home in Goderich on Friday, March 10, 2006. Bernice
(COOK)
DAVIDSON in her 84th year. Beloved wife of nearly 64 years of
Herbert DAVIDSON. Dear mother of Ken and Louise
DAVIDSON of Port
Coquitlam,▼
British▼
Columbia,▼ Eleanor
DAVIDSON of Guelph and Heather
Davidson MARTIN and Fred
MARTIN of London. Loving grandmother
of Jeff DAVIDSON, Greg
DAVIDSON, Tanya
MARTIN, Jacob
MARTIN and
great-grandchild Tanner
DAVIDSON. Survived by sister Frances
O'GRADY.
Predeceased▼ by her parents Oliver and Gertrude
COOK,
brothers Robert, Jack and Frank
COOK.
Friends▼ will be received
at McCallum and Palla Funeral Home, Cambria Road at East Street,
Goderich on Tuesday from 7-9 p.m. Funeral service will be held
at the Funeral Home on Wednesday March 15, 2006 at 1 p.m. Interment
Colborne Cemetery. Donations to the Canadian Cancer Society,
Canadian Diabetes Association or Knox Presbyterian Church gratefully
acknowledged.
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O'GRADY o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2006-03-14 published
DAVIDSON,
Bernice▲ (née
COOK)
At her home in Goderich on Friday, March 10, 2006. Bernice
(COOK)
DAVIDSON in her 84th year. Beloved wife of nearly 64 years of
Herbert DAVIDSON. Dear mother of Ken and Louise
DAVIDSON of Port
Coquitlam,▲
British▲
Columbia,▲ Eleanor
DAVIDSON of Guelph and Heather
Davidson MARTIN and Fred
MARTIN of London. Loving grandmother
of Jeff DAVIDSON, Greg
DAVIDSON, Tanya
MARTIN, Jacob
MARTIN and
great-grandchild Tanner
DAVIDSON. Survived by sister Frances
O'GRADY.
Predeceased▲▼ by her parents Oliver and Gertrude
COOK,
brothers Robert, Jack and Frank
COOK.
Friends▲ will be received
at McCallum and Palla Funeral Home, Cambria Road at East Street,
Goderich on Tuesday from 7-9 p.m. Funeral service will be held
at Knox Presbyterian Church, Goderich on Wednesday March 15,
2006 at 1 p.m. Interment Colborne Cemetery. Donations to the
Canadian Cancer Society, Canadian Diabetes Association or Knox
Presbyterian Church gratefully acknowledged.
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O'GRADY o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2006-09-26 published
BROWN,
Nora
Brown (née
O'GRADY)
90 years, of Petrolia. Passed away at her home on Sunday, September 24,
2006. Beloved wife of the late Charles A.
BROWN (1989.) Dear
mother Noreen
SMITH and the late Larry of London, Charles and
Helen BROWN of Bright's Grove, and Shirley
TENK and the late
Harry of Sarnia. Dear sister of Mary, Eileen, and Tom all of
England, predeceased by sisters Bridget and Sheila and brothers
Mike and John. Also survived by five grandchildren, five great
grandchildren, and several nieces and nephews. Visitors will
be received on Tuesday from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Needham-Jay Funeral
Home, Petrolia. Parish Prayer's will offered on Tuesday at 7 p.m.
and the Royal Canadian Legion Br. 216 Ladies' Auxiliary will
conduct a memorial service at 8: 45 p.m. A funeral mass will be
Celebrated at St. Philip's Church, Petrolia, on Wednesday, September 27,
2006 at 11: 00 a.m. Interment in Mount Calvary Cemetery, Wyoming.
As expressions of sympathy, memorial donations may be made by
cheque to the C.E.E. Hospital Foundation. Memories and condolences
may be left on-line at www.needhamjay.com.
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O'GRADY o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2006-11-04 published
ROWDEN,
Mary
Ellen (née
CLARK)
Of Caressant Care Home, Saint Thomas, on Thursday, November 2,
2006, at the Saint Thomas-Elgin General Hospital, in her 90th year.
Wife of the late Walter
ROWDEN and dear mother of Lee
ROWDEN
and his partner Mary Helen
RAMERTH,
William and his wife
Diane
ROWDEN,
Marie
TRUDELL and the late Raymond "Red"
ROWDEN (1974.)
Predeceased▲ by 2 sisters Grace (Brady)
O'GRADY and Annabelle
LUNN.
Special aunt of Ken
LUNN (Marlene,)
Ron
LUNN (Gail,) Ray
LUNN
(Doreen) and Linda
CLARK (Charlie) and their families. Also
survived by several grandchildren, great-grandchildren and nieces
and nephews. Mary Ellen was born in Dunwich Township on November 19,
1916, the daughter of the late Clarence and Annie
CLARK.
Resting
at Williams Funeral Home, 45 Elgin Street, Saint Thomas where funeral
service will be held Monday at 11: 00 a.m. Interment to follow
in Saint Thomas Cemetery. Visitation Sunday from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m.
Remembrances may be made to the charity of choice.
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O'GRADY o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2006-05-20 published
HAWKEN,
William
Cullen, Q.C.
Peacefully at Saint_Joseph's Hospital, Hamilton, on Thursday, May 18,
2006 at the age of 69. Beloved husband of Margaret (née
O'GRADY.)
Loved father of William Cullen
HAWKEN, Christopher Paul
HAWKEN
and his wife Terri-Anne and Joseph Anthony
HAWKEN, all of Burlington.
Cherished grandfather of Lydia. Dear brother of Barbara and her
husband Doctor John
JOHNSON of Hamilton and Katherine and her husband
George DEMBROSKI of Toronto. Predeceased by his parents Doctor William
Cullen HAWKEN and Gladys
HAWKEN.
Bill will also be sadly missed
by his nieces and nephews and great nieces and nephews. Bill
maintained a Law Practice with Kerr and Hawken in Burlington
since 1968. Member of the Law Society of Upper Canada, Chair
of Animal Review Board of Ontario, Former Trustee and Chair of
Halton Catholic District School Board, Founding Member of the
Burlington Youth Residence, Former Board Member of Halton Children's
Aid Society. Visitation at Smith's Funeral Home, 1167 Guelph
Line (one stoplight north of Queen Elizabeth Way), Burlington
(905-632-3333), Monday 3-5 and 7-9 p.m. Funeral Mass will be
celebrated at Saint_John the Baptist Roman Catholic Church, Brant
Street (at Blairholm), on Tuesday, May 23, 2006, at 10: 30 a.m.
Interment at Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Burlington. Vigil Monday
8: 30 p.m. at the Funeral Home. www.smithsfh.com
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O'GRADY o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2006-12-02 published
McCLEARY,
Min
Fond farewell to our feisty family titan Min
McCLEARY in Orillia,
November 30th, aged 95. Mother to Judy (Lou)
PROBSAINT_Gran to
Lou (Kate KLEIN,)
Steve
(Jen
O'GRADY,) Nick and Christine (Andrew
BURK/BURKE-
HALL) and Great Gran to Zach and Ben
PROBST,
Lou and Cole
PROBST,
Emily and Jessica
BURK/BURKE-
HALL. Body donated to U of T.
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O'GRADY o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2006-02-27 published
Officer who shot Dudley
GEORGE dies
DEANE killed in accident on 401
He was scheduled to testify at inquiry
By Peter EDWARDS,
Staff
Reporter
Kenneth DEANE, the elite Ontario Provincial Police paramilitary
officer convicted of fatally shooting Indian activist Anthony
(Dudley) GEORGE, was killed on the weekend in a traffic accident
on Highway 401 in eastern Ontario.
DEANE, 45, was in charge of a four-man sniper team late at night
on September 6, 1995, with the job of escorting the force's crowd
management unit, or riot squad, as it marched toward about three
dozen protestors outside Ipperwash Provincial Park.
Police marched on the park at night two days after Stoney Point
Indians occupied the park, saying it contained sacred burial
grounds. Their claims were later supported by documents released
by the federal government.
DEANE, nicknamed "Tex" by colleagues, was expected to be called
as a witness next month at the Ipperwash inquiry before Mr. Justice
Sidney LINDEN in the town of Forest, near the now-closed park.
The mandate of the inquiry is to probe events surrounding
GEORGE's
death, and to draft recommendations to prevent similar deaths
in the future.
"He did wrong, but the family has always said that he shouldn't
be the scapegoat,"
GEORGE family lawyer Murray
KLIPPENSTEIN said.
"The family thinks the inquiry can still do its very important
job very well,"
KLIPPENSTEIN said.
The inquiry has heard 101 witnesses: since it began hearings in
July 2004.
Sam GEORGE,
Dudley's brother, said in an interview yesterday
that he felt bad when he heard of the death, which happened on
Saturday afternoon during a whiteout on Highway 401 near Prescott.
"Any life lost is a tragedy," Sam
GEORGE said. "I feel badly
for his family."
DEANE is the third police officer involved in the massive police
operation at Ipperwash to die in a traffic accident.
Sgt. Margaret
EVE was hit by a transport truck on Highway 401
near Chatham in June 2000, while Insp. Dale
LINTON, the officer
who activated
DEANE's unit that night, was killed in a single-vehicle
accident near Smiths Falls in October 2000.
The
Ontario
Provincial Police said that
DEANE was killed by a
tractor-trailer at about 1: 15 p.m. on Saturday.
DEANE was driving a westbound Ford Explorer, and was attempting
to steer around vehicles when he struck the back of a stopped
tractor-trailer unit. A second tractor-trailer was unable to
stop and struck his Explorer.
DEANE was pronounced dead at the
scene.
A passenger, who has not been identified, was taken to Brockville
General Hospital with serious injuries.
Sam GEORGE, who never spoke to
DEANE, said he would have been
a valuable witness at the public inquiry.
"We needed to know why he thought he was there that night," Sam
GEORGE said. "Who told him to go there? What he was told, and
what was his mission… Now, we'll never know."
DEANE was found guilty of criminal negligence causing death in
April 1997.
Provincial Judge Hugh
FRASER ruled then that Dudley
GEORGE, 38,
was unarmed when he was shot, and that
DEANE's fellow officers
doctored their evidence to support him.
That trial, held in the Sarnia courthouse, heard that
GEORGE
had a bullet wound in his right calf, consistent with him being
shot in the back of the leg, and another bullet wound that punctured
a lung.
After being found guilty of shooting
GEORGE,
DEANE was given
a conditional sentence of two years less a day, to be served
outside jail, plus community service. At the time of the shooting,
DEANE was a senior officer in the paramilitary Tactics and Rescue
Unit, which carried sub-machine guns with night-vision scopes.
DEANE hung on to his job for 5½ years after the criminal conviction,
as he unsuccessfully appealed the verdict to the Ontario Court
of Appeal and the Supreme Court of Canada.
Once his appeals were exhausted, he faced disciplinary charges
under the Police Services Act.
In September 2001, he told a disciplinary hearing: "I sincerely
apologize to the family and Friends of Dudley
GEORGE and to his
community for causing the terrible loss that they have been forced
to endure."
However, under cross-examination, he said his apology did not
mean that he admitted doing anything wrong in the park that night,
when he and six other Ontario Provincial Police officers fired
upon Indian protestors.
Former
Ontario
Provincial Police Commissioner Thomas
O'GRADY
told the public inquiry last fall that he now believes that all
of the Indian protestors were unarmed.
Prosecutor Denise
DWYER asked
DEANE at his 2001 disciplinary
hearing if he felt he was justified in opening fire.
"That was my belief that night,"
DEANE replied.
"And it remains your belief today?"
DWYER continued.
"Yes it does," he replied.
At those Police Services Act hearings in late 2001,
DEANE's lawyer,
Ian ROLAND argued that, apart from Ipperwash,
DEANE had had a
stellar 16-year career with the Ontario Provincial Police.
ROLAND noted that
DEANE had risen since the night of
GEORGE's
death to become the force's top bomb and anti-terrorist weapons
expert. ROLAND also noted that many political commentators blamed
the former Conservative provincial government for the bloodshed
at Ipperwash.
"Acting Sergeant
DEANE didn't make the decision for the Ontario
Provincial Police to be involved and cannot be held responsible
for the damage that flowed from the incident," said
ROLAND, calling
dismissal a "professional death sentence."
However, when she ordered
DEANE off the force, adjudicator Loyall
CANN, former deputy chief of the Toronto force, called
DEANE's
conviction "the most serious" ever recorded against the Ontario
Provincial Police.
"What could possibly be more shocking to society than to have
a sworn, fully trained and experienced police officer, while
on duty, in full uniform, using a police-issued firearm, kill
an unarmed citizen?" she asked in her 28-page ruling.
"This is further aggravated by the fact that the sworn police
officer was found by the presiding criminal court justice to
have concocted and fabricated his evidence.
"I find that this is one of those exceedingly tragic incidents
in which one act of negligent behaviour has totally nullified
an otherwise promising career," she said, ordering
DEANE off
the force in January 2002 for discreditable conduct because of
his criminal conviction.
In his April 1997 criminal trial,
DEANE testified that he fired
after observing muzzle flashes indicating that the protestors
were firing at officers -- and that he saw a man in a half-crouched
position holding a rifle and scanning the police.
He also gave a detailed description of the rifle.
But DEANE was found guilty after another officer who had been
standing close to him at the time testified that he did not see
any muzzle flashes, other than his own, and that he observed
"a pole or stick" in
GEORGE's hand.
DEANE had fired seven shots that night -- four at other natives
and three at
GEORGE.
After losing his job,
DEANE worked in security with an Ontario
Hydro nuclear station.
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