CHUDNOVSKY
CHUNG
CHURCH
CHURCHILL
CHURCHLEY
CHUTER
CHUDNOVSKY o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2007-07-09 published
COLE,
Maxwell
On Saturday, July 7, 2007 at Harold and Grace Baker Centre. Maxwell
COLE, beloved husband of Lillian
COLE.
Loving father and father-in-law
of Peter COLE and Ila
SISSON,
Ellen
COLE and Mircea
POPESCU,
and Susan G.
COLE and Leslie
CHUDNOVSKY. Dear brother and brother-in-law
of Stanley and Sandy
COHEN, and Evelyn
COLE.
Devoted and sweet
Zaidy of Andresa, Sascha, and Molly. He touched all who knew
him with his music, kindness and love. At Benjamin's Park Memorial
Chapel, 2401 Steeles Avenue West (3 lights west of Dufferin),
for service on Tuesday, July 10, 2007 at 1: 00 p.m. Interment
Holy Blossom Temple Section of Pardes Shalom Cemetery. Shiva
commencing Wednesday, July 11, 2007 at 68 Appleton Avenue from
2: 00 p.m. daily. Donations may be made to the Maxwell Cole Memorial
Fund c/o The Benjamin Foundation, 3429 Bathurst Street, Toronto,
M6A 2C3, 416-780-0324.
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CHUNG o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2007-01-01 published
Mary Bates
BURNS, 89: Swing singer
Mary Bates Burns was a hit with the troops and once turned down
a date with Frank Sinatra
By Matthew
CHUNG,
Staff
Reporter
She was a decorated World War 2 veteran with "perfect pitch."
Mary Bates
BURNS went from making bottle tops in a factory to
entertaining overseas troops with a featured singing role in
the wartime revue "Meet the Navy."
She later shared stages, and radio waves, with legends of the
swing era and, according to family lore, once rejected a romantic
overture from Frank Sinatra.
"Mary never did make a big thing about her celebrity status,"
said her sister, Peg
HARRIS, 85, from her home in Prince Edward
Island. "She certainly was a celebrity in Toronto."
BATES
BURNS performed for much of her career as Mary
BATES but
later took her second husband's surname. She died December 19
at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, after a brief illness,
at age 89.
Born June 6, 1917 in Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, she moved
with her family six years later to Toronto's east end, near Pape
Ave. and Gerrard St. E.
Her voice got noticed by co-workers in a factory and they encouraged
her to try out for a local quartet. She got the job and performed
with Jack ALLISON,
Bill
BOUNSALL and Helen
RICHARDSON as The
Crushy Swingers, after a successful audition for Orange Crush
Co.
They quickly made a splash in the Canadian music scene, garnering
airplay on CFRB and being featured on a radio broadcast put
on by The Toronto Star Fresh Air Fund.
The quartet was spotted that summer by Rudy Vallee, the famous
1930s American crooner known for singing through a megaphone,
as they performed at the Canadian National Exhibition.
Impressed, Vallee asked the group to sing on his Thursday evening
NBC radio show broadcast from New York.
The performance was such a success
BATES
BURNS and the others
moved to the Big Apple and made more appearances on Vallee's
show as The Swing Kids. They disbanded in the late 1930s, and
she launched her solo career.
BATES
BURNS appeared as a featured vocalist with many large swing
orchestras including The Modernaires.
In front of a microphone,
BATES
BURNS was "Marvellous… she was
just a natural," her sister said.
It was back in Toronto, at the Canadian National Exhibition around
the start of World War 2, that
BATES
BURNS rubbed shoulders with
Frank Sinatra, then in the early years of his career.
"I think the story was, he asked did she know where a guy could
get a drink?" said
BATES
BURNS's daughter, Kate
BURNS
Rapley,
in a phone interview from England.
"He then said was there any chance of him having some company
with that drink?"
BATES
BURNS, married at the time to musician Ken
ADAMSON, declined.
She and
ADAMSON were later divorced.
BATES
BURNS joined the Canadian navy in World War 2 as a member
of the Women's Royal Canadian Naval Services. She was a featured
act in the "Meet the Navy" musical show that entertained soldiers
stationed across Canada.
It was a dangerous time and "sad too, because you lost so many
Friends in those days," said another sister, Betty
JESSHOPE,
82, from her home in Oakville.
In 1944, "Meet the Navy" went overseas, playing around England.
During a five-month run at London's Hippodrome theatre in 1945,
the show received a rave from Beverley Baxter in the London Evening
Standard.
"You don't have to visit the Hippodrome out of any sense of duty,"
she wrote. "The Canadian Navy has sailed up the Thames and London
is its prisoner."
JESSHOPE said servicemen turned out to be an appreciative audience
for her sister.
"In the navy show, the first time
(BATES
BURNS) sang… I think
they had a hard time getting (soldiers) to shut up,"
JESSHOPE
said, "because the young men just kept clapping her on."
After the war, "Meet the Navy" was shot as a film in Britain
with BATES
BURNS as a featured vocalist.
England also provided her with a second husband, accomplished
saxophone player Bob
BURNS, whom she wed in 1948.
BATES
BURNS
performed there in 1950 with orchestra leader Bert Ambrose at
Ciro's, a popular nightclub of the time. The pair had a son,
Rob, in 1948, and daughter Kate in 1952.
BATES
BURNS retired from singing professionally soon after the
birth of her daughter and, around the same time, was divorced
from BURNS.
She returned to Canada and worked as an electrologist for a while,
moved back to England for a few years in the 1970s and then came
back to Canada for good.
"I think she was never really sure where she wanted to be," said
Kate. "She had gone back and forth all her life."
In fact, BATES
BURNS made one last trip across the Atlantic in
August, paying a three-week visit to Kate and her three children.
"She was very bright, she had all her faculties," said Kate.
BATES
BURNS remained close with many Friends from the swing era,
including composer Robert Farnon and Bert Pearl, bandleader on
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Radio's popular program The
Happy Gang.
And she still loved to sing when together with family. "I don't
think she ever appreciated how good (a vocalist) she was herself,"
JESSHOPE said.
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CHURCH o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2007-10-12 published
CHURCH,
Caroline
Baily
Passed away at William Osler Health Centre, Etobicoke on Friday,
October 5, 2007. Wife of the late Leonard. Mother of Stephen
and Bonnie. Friends may call at the Turner and Porter Yorke Chapel,
2357 Bloor St. W. at Windermere, east of the Jane subway, on
Monday, October 15, 2007 from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. Funeral Service
to be held in the Chapel on Tuesday, October 16, 2007 at 1 p.m.,
followed by cremation.
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CHURCH o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2007-12-19 published
CUNNINGHAM,
Dorothy
Dorothy passed away peacefully December 16, 2007, a few weeks
shy of her 80th birthday, sparing her from the Alzheimer's disease
that had just seriously claimed her personality and quality of
life.
Do grew up and, after marrying Graham, raised her own family
on Vivian Ave. in the Town of Mount Royal. She had many Friends
in the town, who all appreciated her sense of humour and musicality.
She played the piano, sang in choirs, and every year was involved
in a Gilbert and Sullivan production. A natural organizer and
promoter, she turned her talents first to the Montreal West Operatic
Society and then, after returning to university and moving to
Butternut Bay on the Saint_Lawrence River, to the Brockville Arts
Centre. She also found time to co-found the Brockville Women's
Network and teach English at the college. Graham's retirement
saw them spending winters by the beach near Saint_Petersburg in
Florida, where, once again, she got her new Snowbird Friends
involved in a million activities, including the musical Sister
Act.
Do leaves her four children; Jane, David, Gordon and Ann, eight
grandchildren; Ross, Alana, Martha, Ashleigh, Evan, Drew, Edward
and Kimberly; and one great-granddaughter; Emma. Also her brother,
Evan CHURCH.
After family, Friends were the most important part of Do's life.
She had many great Friends in all the different locales she lived.
She thrived in company, and we'll all remember the distinctive
laugh we heard so often.
A private family service will be held. Please send messages to
the family c/o David
CUNNINGHAM, 604 Broad Street, Fredericton,
New Brunswick E3A 2L8. If you would like to make a donation in
Dorothy's memory, please consider doing so to the Suncoast Seabird
Sanctuary, 18328 Gulf Blvd., Indian Shores, Florida 33785. This
sanctuary, on Do and Graham's favourite beach, rescues injured
seabirds, and was one of Do's favourite destinations.
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CHURCHILL o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2007-11-10 published
ROBINSON,
Luella
Reta (née
WILBUR)
(March 2, 1920-November 2, 2007)
After a wonderful life, Luella
ROBINSON passed away on Friday,
November 2, 2007 at the age of 87 years. Lue was born in New
Horton, New Brunswick on March 2, 1920 to the late Captain Alvin
WILBUR and Ella Akerly Strayhorn
WILBUR.
She moved to Montreal
in 1939 to pursue a career in nursing and graduated from Montreal
General in 1942. Lue then joined Northern Electric as the Home
Care Nurse. On July 6, 1945 Lue married her humorous, affectionate
and charismatic husband George Airlie (Pete)
ROBINSON of Rawdon,
Québec. She was a business woman before her time, but was a nurse
most of all. Lue opened the Rawdon Convalescent Home in the early
1960's and she later established Heather Lodge Hospital. Many
of the young men and woman hired and trained by mom simply became
part of our extended family. Pete and Lue spent many wonderful
years in Boca Raton golfing and enjoying a very active social
life with their many Friends. In 1990 they moved from Rawdon
to Calgary to be nearer to their daughters. Lue is survived by
three daughters and sons-in-law, Heather and Daniel J.
GAGNIER,
Terry and Bruce
CHURCHILL-
SMITH, and Lynne
ROBINSON who were
her pride and joy; by her two grandchildren, Peter and Jane
CHURCHILL-
SMITH.
She will also be missed by her sister, Elta Wilbur
DUGID, sister
and brother-in-law Doris Wilbur
HICKS and Harvey
HICKS of New
Brunswick and their five children, Susan, Nancy, Karen, Barbara,
and Hugh. Lue will be lovingly remembered by many grand nieces
and nephews. She was predeceased by her sister Mildred Wilbur
STEEVES and by her beloved brother Harry
STRAYHORN. A Private
Family Service was held in Calgary. In the summer of 2008 a Memorial
Service will take place in Rawdon, Québec. Forward condolences
through www.mcinnisandholloway.com. If Friends so desire, memorial
tributes may be made directly to the New Horton Baptist Church,
c/o H. Hicks 485 Shediac Road, Moncton, New Brunswick E1A 2T4
or to the Rawdon United Church, 3253, 4 Avenue, Rawdon, Québec
J0K 1S0. In living memory of Lue
ROBINSON, a tree will be planted
at Fish Creek Provincial Park by McInnis and Holloway Funeral Homes
Park Memorial Chapel, 5008 Elbow Drive S.W., Calgary, Alberta
Telephone: 1-800-661-1599
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CHURCHLEY o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2007-09-14 published
TREW,
Gerald
Beatty
Passed away at Northumberland Hills Hospital on Wednesday, September 12,
2007. Gerald
TREW, Royal Canadian Air Force World War 2 R277961,
beloved husband of Betty
BAXTER and the late Nora
OWENS.
Dear
father of David
TREW (Christine), Brenda
SMITH (Wayne
McROBERTS),
Anita (Terry
JACKSON,)
Jim
CHURCHLEY (Sharon) and Terry
CHURCHLEY
(Luanne). Also survived by 13 grandchildren and 4 great-grandchildren.
Brother of Doreen
CHURCHLEY,
Jean
SMITH and the late Kenneth
and Bertram
TREW.
Friends will be received at the Allison Funeral
Home, 103 Mill Street North, Port Hope, Sunday 2-4 and 79 p.m.
Hope Lodge No. 114 and visiting brethren Masonic Funeral Service
Sunday 6: 30 p.m. Funeral Service Monday 11 a.m. at the Port Hope
United Church, 34 South Street, Port Hope. Interment, Port Hope
Union Cemetery. If desired, memorial contributions may be made
to the Port Hope and District Health Care Foundation. www.allisonfuneralhome.com
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CHUTER o@ca.on.grey_county.owen_sound.the_sun_times 2007-05-30 published
CHUTER,
Harvey
Edwin
Peacefully at Grey Bruce Health Services, Owen Sound on Tuesday,
May 29, 2007. Harvey
CHUTER of Owen Sound in his 88th year. Beloved
husband of the late Audrey (née
BUTLER.) Dear father of Catherine
and her husband Dan
SHANAHAN of Sarnia, Marlene and her husband
Rick BURNS and Debbie and her husband Greg
MARTIN all of Owen
Sound and Trevor and his wife Shelley of Sarnia. Sadly missed
by four grandchildren Sharleen and her husband Paul
LEONE,
Kimberly
and her husband Paul
HURST,
Chevonne
MARTIN and Brendon
MARTIN
and five great-grandchildren Jestyn, Jayla, Lexie, Rachel and
Leighton.
Also survived by two sisters Ida
McBRIDE of Exeter
and Bessie
TOWNSHEND of Clinton and two sisters in law Tillie
ISAAC and Florence
CHUTER.
Predeceased by four sisters Doris,
Mary, Margaret and Irene and three brothers Bus (Elliott), Tom
and Wilfred. Friends are invited to the Tannahill Funeral Home
519-376-3710 for visiting on Thursday evening from 7-9 p.m. The
funeral service will be conducted at St. George's Anglican Church
on Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock with Father Ed
WAGNER officiating.
There will be visiting at the church on Friday afternoon from
1 o'clock until service time. Interment, Greenwood Cemetery.
Memorial donations to St. George's Anglican Church, Crescent
Athletic Club or the G.B.R.H.C. Foundation would be appreciated.
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