POYNER o@ca.on.simcoe_county.nottawasaga.stayner.stayner_sun 2006-04-05 published
GREENSLADE,
Melvin "
Mel"
The family of the late Melvin (Mel)
GREENSLADE wishes to extend
thanks to all those who comforted us during our time of sorrow.
We would like to extend particular thanks to the attending paramedics
and Ontario Provincial Police officers who tried valiantly to
revive Mel, to Doctor Matt
POYNER and the nursing staff of the Collingwood
G&M Hospital E.R., to all the neighbours and Friends in Wasaga
Beach who opened their hearts with food, floral tributes and
comfort, to Watts Funeral Home for their caring handling of the
cremation and memorial service, to the Reverend Jack
ANDERSON
for his comforting words, to Doctor Tessa
KITAI, for her caring
assistance and to the members of the Bayshore Seniors Club for
providing the funeral reception. Words are hard to find to express
the true extent of our thanks in this hard and trying time in
the loss of a dear husband, father and grandfather.
Sincerely, Ada
GREENSLADE and Family
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POYNTON o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2006-05-01 published
HALL,
Sadie
M.
Peacefully at University Hospital on Tuesday, April 25, 2006
in her 78th year. Beloved wife of Lloyd V.
HALL.
Loving mother
of Julie-Anne and her husband William J.
POYNTON of Geelong,
Australia, Andrew
HALL and Shadi
MAKTOFI of Coquitlam, British
Columbia, Steven
HALL and his wife
Kim
STRBA of Kingston, and
Peter HALL and his fiancée Susan
BROOKS of London. Grandmother
of Matthew and Taylor
HALL. A private family service was conducted
at the James A. Harris Funeral Home on Saturday, April 29 by
Rev. Dr. David
McKANE. Interment Forest Lawn Memorial Gardens.
The tide recedes but leaves bright seashells on the sand The
sun goes down but gentle warmth still lingers on the land The
music stops yet echoes on in sweet refrain Our dear friend leaves,
fond memories remain..
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POYNTON o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2006-07-04 published
HALL,
Lloyd
V.
Peacefully at University Hospital on Thursday, June 29, 2006
in his 88th year. Beloved husband of the late Sadie M.
HALL.
Loving father of Julie-Anne and her husband William J.
POYNTON
of Geelong, Australia, Andrew
HALL and Shadi
MAKTOFI of Coquitlam,
British Columbia, Steven
HALL and his wife Kim
STRBA of Kingston,
and Peter HALL and his wife
Susan of London. Grandfather of Matthew
and Taylor
HALL. A private family service was conducted at the
James A. Harris Funeral Home on Monday, July 3 by Rev. Dr. David
McKANE. Interment Forest Lawn Memorial Gardens. The tide recedes
but leaves bright seashells on the sand The sun goes down but
gentle warmth still lingers on the land The music stops yet echoes
on in sweet refrain Our dear friend leaves, fond memories remain.
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POYNTZ o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2006-07-10 published
COLLICT,
Frederick
Thomas "
Fred" M.Sc.F., M.Comm.
(November 27, 1929-July 7, 2006)
Passed away peacefully at Sunrise in Unionville. He will be greatly
missed by his loving wife Anne "Nan" beloved father of Allison
(Sergio) ORDORICO, Louise, Bruce (Carol
FORD-
COLLICT) and Brian
(Jennifer TAILOR/TAYLOR.) Dear grandfather of Lauren, Leah, David and
Cameron. Dear brother of Elizabeth "Bess" (Nick)
SAJATOVIC and
the late Freda
POYNTZ and their families. The family wishes to
express their gratitude to the staff of Sunrise for their exceptional
care during Fred's stay. The family will receive Friends at the
Ogden Funeral Home, 4164 Sheppard Ave. E., (east of Kennedy Rd.)
on Monday, July 10 from 6-9 p.m. A funeral service will be held
in the chapel on Tuesday, July 11 at 12: 30 p.m. with a reception
to follow. In lieu of flowers, donations to the Society for Progressive
Supranuclear Palsy or the charity of your choice would be appreciated
by the family.
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POYSER o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2006-09-25 published
Runner dies in marathon
By James CHRISTIE with a report from Omar EL
AKKAD,
Page
A10
A 41-year-old Toronto runner collapsed near the end of the 2006
Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront Marathon and died in hospital.
Martin POYSER fell to the pavement at Wellington and Bay Streets,
800 metres from the finish line of the 41.195-kilometre course.
"He was given cardio-pulmonary resuscitation within a minute
at the scene and Emergency Medical Services paramedic service
were there within three minutes to take him to Mount Sinai Hospital,"
said race general manager Dana
ALLEN of Toronto. "They worked
on him for about an hour in hospital, but he did not survive."
Mr. POYSER is the first fatality in the seven-year history of
the event. Last October a 36-year-old Oakville man died after
running a half-marathon in the Toronto Marathon.
"We send our condolences to Martin's family, Friends and fans,"
said Alan BROOKES, the race director. "Martin will be remembered
as a wonderful spirit, with a tremendous passion for running."
Relatives at Mr.
POYSER's house yesterday refused to speak to
a reporter. One family member, contacted yesterday evening, said
he was still on the phone with a doctor regarding what happened.
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POYSER o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2006-09-28 published
POYSER,
Martin
Roy
(February 11, 1965-September 24, 2006)
Passed away suddenly on Sunday, September 24, 2006 while doing
something he loved at the age of 41. Beloved
son of Trevor and
Chris. Loving Partner of Martin
KING. Brother of Tina. Martin
was a creative, talented and successful hairstylist. The family
will receive Friends at the Humphrey Funeral Home - A.W. Miles
Chapel, 1403 Bayview Avenue (south of Eglinton Avenue East),
from 2-4 p.m. and 6-9 p.m. on Friday, September 29th. The funeral
will be in the chapel on Saturday, September 30th at 1 o'clock.
If desired, donations in Martin's memory may be made to the Christian
Children's Fund, 1027 McNicoll Avenue, Toronto, Ontario M1W 3X2
or to the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario, 1920 Yonge
Street, 4th Floor, Toronto, Ontario M4S 3E2. 'To die completely,
a person must not only forget but be forgotten, and he who is
not forgotten is not dead'
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POYSER o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2006-09-28 published
Martin POYSER,
Hairdresser And Athlete: (1965-2006)
Hairstylist from Toronto's chic Yorkville who ran marathons to
raise money for children in undeveloped countries was felled
by a heart attack
By Alex DOBROTA,
Page S9
Toronto -- As Martin
POYSER finished the 2003 Chicago Marathon,
he had two reasons to feel proud: His effort had raised a hefty
sum for a children's charity and he had run his first big race.
On Sunday, the Toronto hairdresser ran his last. He died less
than a kilometre from the finish line.
He used his first attempt to raise money for a Paraguayan boy
and that thought pushed him to the end of the 41-kilometre route.
"Three-quarters of the way through, my legs were starting to
feel pretty tired," he told the Christian Children's Fund. "Then
the thought of my little guy crossed my mind and I said to myself:
'You know what? This is a good cause. I [have] to do this.' "
Mr. POYSER's death left empty his hairdresser chair at a high-scale
Yorkville salon, where he attracted a network of female confidants
who admired his tall, muscular frame. His clientele ranged from
the banker to the artist to the house wife. His gift for listening
made him privy to his clients' deepest secrets; he acted simultaneously
as a surrogate husband, a confidant and a workout mate. He was
known as "Uncle Martin" to their children.
Martin POYSER grew up in Stourbridge, a town in England's West
Midlands. He took up his first job at 10, as a milkman's helper.
Martin would run back and forth to the milk vehicle, carrying
carts and milk bottles across the streets of his town, said his
sister Tina
POYSER, who lives in England. While he enjoyed physical
activity, the boy always shunned team sports.
His father tried unsuccessfully to initiate him to football and
cricket. "I would be left watching the football and he would
go play on the swings," Trevor
POYSER recalled with a laugh.
As a boy, young Martin was dedicated to his two grandmothers.
He also preferred the company of a sister four years his senior
to that of other boys of his own age. Tina and Martin were inseparable.
The brother even followed his sister on her first date to a James
Bond movie. "Martin sat in between me and the guy all the way
through the film and kept his eyes on this guy every time he
tried to sneak his arm over Martin to touch mine," Ms.
POYSER
recalled. "He was determined he wasn't going to give up his place."
After he finished high school, Mr.
POYSER studied at a business
college for two years, but shrank at the thought of spending
his life in an office. At 18, he decided to step into his sister's
footsteps and enrolled in a hairdressing school.
After graduating, he spent two years tending the hair of vacationers
on a Mediterranean cruise ship and returned home with a passion
for travel. In the late 1980s, he decided to experience the bite
of a Canadian winter and moved to Collingwood, Ontario, to work
as a hairdresser.
"He was the type of guy who wanted to see the world," said Martin
KING,
Mr.
POYSER's life partner. "His initial plan was to spend
some time in Canada but he ended up staying."
Eventually, his hairdressing talents got him noticed by the André
Pierre hair salon in Toronto's Yorkville neighbourhood. He was
offered a job and quickly made a name for himself as a skilled
and versatile practitioner.
But it was his sense of humour and his knack for putting a client
at ease that made him popular with Yorkville denizens. It wasn't
long before his clients had to book several weeks in advance
to ensure a place on his busy agenda.
"Getting a haircut suddenly became this really fun experience
because the hairdresser was fabulously fun," said Michelle
JOHNSON,
a 38-year-old sculptor. "A really quirky laugh, and he [was]
very handsome, too."
Mr. POYSER and Ms.
JOHNSON became Friends shortly after the first
time she sat in his chair for a haircut in the early 1990s. They
would talk on the phone at least three times a week and see each
other almost daily over a glass of wine or a coffee. "I used
to call him so much sometimes, that I would call myself the 'nagging
wife.' "
She was not alone. More than a half-dozen clients and co-workers
called Mr.
POYSER their confidant. Around 1996, when he quit
his job at André Pierre, many of them followed him to his new
workplace, Hair Excel on Cumberland Street.
During Mr.
POYSER's shifts, the salon became a meeting place
filled with the chatter and laughter.
"Martin was my husband No. 2," said his colleague, Jeanette
UEBERHOLZ,
38. "He filled in the parts that my husband couldn't."
He routinely took her out on dance nights and lent himself to
the role of a playmate for her two daughters. He even accompanied
Ms. UEBERHOLZ to her prenatal classes, Ms.
JOHNSON said.
For Mr. POYSER, who was never a father, his Friends filled the
gap of the family he left behind in England. They would religiously
attend the parties he threw at his Riverdale house on Easter,
Thanksgiving and during the summer season to drink and eat heartily.
At one of these parties, Mr.
POYSER turned the vegetable drawer
of his refrigerator into a massive sangria pitcher.
In 2003, Mr.
POYSER decided to leave his Friends for a month
to backpack across Myanmar, formerly known as Burma. He wanted
to witness how people lived in the South-Asian country governed
by a military regime.
When he returned to Toronto, moved by his experiences, he contacted
the Christian Children's Fund and ended up sponsoring Enrique,
a seven-year-old boy who lived with 20 family members in a three-bedroom
house in a Paraguay village. The money Mr.
POYSER raised in Chicago
funded another bedroom for Enrique's home and a water pump for
the community. Altogether, he raised $3,000 to improve the boy's
squalid living conditions.
"The part he liked best is that they used some of the money to
buy the little boy a bicycle," Ms.
JOHNSON said.
Mr. POYSER continued running, though his marathons in 2004, 2005 and
2006 were not meant as fundraisers.
He trained with his Friends, running along Lakeshore Boulevard.
The group used to stop at a coffee shop on Queen Street East
for a latté.
His partner, Mr.
KING, never really liked his new activity because
he knew Mr.
POYSER had a bad knee, but he also knew he could
not be dissuaded.
His father had also tried. "At the age of 41, it's old to do
that," Trevor
POYSER told his son.
"Dad, you need to get more exercise," the son answered back.
On Sunday, as Mr.
POYSER attempted to finish half the 41-kilometre
distance of the Scotia Bank Toronto Waterfront Marathon, he collapsed
on the corner of Wellington and Bay streets, within 800 metres
of the finish line.
Martin POYSER was born February 11, 1965, in Stourbridge, England.
He died of a heart attack Sunday in Toronto. He is survived by
his sister, Tina, his mother, Christine Bunn, and his father,
Trevor POYSER. He also leaves his partner, Martin King.
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