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GANDER o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2007-01-02 published
BAKER,
John
K. "
Jack"
Of Lambeth, passed away Sunday December 31, 2006 at Parkwood
Hospital in London. Jack was born 74 years ago in Markdale to
the late Marabel
HALBERT (1995) and Harry
BAKER (1980.) He is
survived by his wonderful and loving wife
Patricia "
Pat"
BAKER
(GANDER) along with sons Garry
BAKER and Pam of London and Jerry
BAKER of Vancouver. Grandfather will be missed by a special granddaughter
Melissa.
Also surviving are sister-in-laws Glenda
VERMEERSCH
of Kitchener and Shannon
McKILLOP of Blenheim and a brother-in-law
Don GANDER and Kim of Blenheim. Old Friends will remember Jack
from his days when he owned and operated the family variety store
"Baker's Red and White" in Cedar Springs. Jack continued to work
in Retail Management for over thirty years for "Mac's" in a number
of locations including Sarnia, Saint Thomas, Union, Mildmay, Tavistock
and Preston. Friends will be received for visiting at the Blenheim
Community Funeral Home, 60 Stanley Street, Blenheim on Wednesday,
January 3, 2007 from 7: 00-9:00 p.m. A Funeral Service for Jack
will be conducted from the funeral home on Thursday January 4,
2007 at 1: 00 p.m. with the Rev. Bill
TERRIS of the Blenheim Baptist
Church officiating. Interment will follow in Evergreen Cemetery,
Blenheim. Friends wishing to make a memorial donation in memory
of Jack are asked to consider either the London Regional Cancer
Centre or the Salvation Army. Donations can be arranged by visiting
or calling the Blenheim Community Funeral Home, (519) 676-9200.
Online condolences may be left at www.blenheimcommunityfuneralhome.com
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GANDHI o@ca.on.simcoe_county.nottawasaga.stayner.stayner_sun 2007-07-18 published
GANDHI,
Saleha
B.
(July 15, 1948-July 16, 2007)
Peacefully, after a courageous battle with cancer. She was blessed
to have her loved ones with her during her illness. Survived
by her husband Qasim, and loving son Sohail. The family wishes
to extend its deepest gratitude to Doctors Dhiniwal, Engell, Klien,
Pressnail, Rubenzahl and Train for all their patient and professional
help. Special thanks also to all the staff at the Community Care
Access Centre. In lieu of flowers and cards, a donation to the
Canadian Cancer Society would be sincerely appreciated.
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GANDHI o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2007-06-20 published
Wife of crash victim calls for tougher laws
'My husband was a grandfather of five. He was 48 years old. And
I shouldn't be burying him,' she says
By Unnati GANDHI with a report from Matt
HARTLEY,
Page▼
A13
A day before David
VIRGOE was killed in a horrific highway accident
for which police blame street racing, the carefree man was enjoying
Father's Day with his daughter and newborn grand_son.
Just before the family sat down for dinner that evening, he saw
a snake under a patio bench and decided to have some fun with
his daughter, Bobbi Jo. He chased the 29-year-old around the
backyard while waving his hand at her, pretending he was holding
a snake.
"She's screaming like a little girl and getting a kick out of
it, and he's laughing and running after her," his wife, Debbie,
told The Globe and Mail yesterday. "He was such a funny guy."
That scene, she said, keeps replaying in her mind. Not even 24 hours
later, the tanker truck Mr.
VIRGOE was driving was sideswiped
by a speeding car on Highway 400, causing him to veer into the
guardrail and crash into a ditch. He was pronounced dead at the
scene - and hailed as a hero for avoiding an even deadlier crash.
Police say two cars were racing in the northbound lanes near
Bradford that morning. Three men in their early 20s have been
charged with dangerous driving, street racing and other offences.
But Mrs. VIRGOE, citing a similar accident that sent 11 people
to hospital on the same stretch of highway just two days before
her husband was killed, wants more done to prevent future tragedies.
"They govern our big trucks so that they don't go over certain
speeds. It's time that they governed cars," she said from her
Innisfil home. "None of the speed limits are over 100 kilometres.
How come our cars go over 200?"
A friend of 19-year-old Nauman
NUSRAT, one of the men charged,
said Mr. NUSRAT was known to go at speeds of up to 180 kilometres
an hour in his Pontiac Grand Am.
"He was into racing. It was just like for fun," said the 21-year-old,
who did not want his name published. The two had worked together
at an Etobicoke Tim Hortons for the last year.
"When I was there, I didn't let him do that. I'm like, 'Don't
do it, don't do it,' he said, adding Mr.
NUSRAT would laugh
at him for being cautious. "His other Friends were kind of scared,
too. This guy's kind of a bold guy."
A woman who identified herself as the mother of another accused,
Prabjit MULTANI, 20 - also charged with dangerous driving and
street racing - declined comment when contacted by The Globe
and Mail. Both men appeared in Barrie court yesterday and were
remanded into custody pending a bail hearing set for Friday.
A third man, charged with dangerous driving, also appeared in
court.
Mrs. VIRGOE said the charges against the men are too lax.
"They just murdered a man on the street. Was it an intent to
set out to do that? In my mind, yes. The minute you get behind
a vehicle, it is a weapon all on its own. It has the ability
to do great damage, just like putting a knife in a child's hand,"
she said.
"My husband was a grandfather of five. He was 48 years old. And
I shouldn't be burying him on Friday."
In a sad twist, Mr.
VIRGOE just met the latest addition to the
family, born on May 14, on Sunday.
Brad VIRGOE, 23, said his father was always working hard for
his family. He would leave for work on Sunday nights, and come
home on Friday nights. He said his parents, after more than 20 years,
were about to move into their first house on July 6. They spent
all of Saturday packing.
"They were renting the house they were at and saving up money
so they can go out and put down the mortgage."
Professional driver George
CHAMBERS drives the 400 regularly.
At a truck stop just south of the crash site yesterday, he said
drivers always need to be watchful for vehicles speeding and
weaving, but they must be especially vigilant near cities.
"It's a big problem," he said.
Mr. CHAMBERS said Mr.
VIRGOE did the right thing by putting the
truck in the ditch to save the lives of the other drivers. "I
would have done the same thing if I had to," he said.
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GANDHI o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2007-07-03 published
Toddler dies after dog mauling
By Alwynne
GWILT and Unnati
GANDHI,
Page A6
Smiths Falls, Ontario and Toronto -- A 17-month-old girl was
mauled to death by a family dog over the long weekend.
Korie-Lyn EDWARDS's family had gathered at her grandmother's
rural house in Montague Township, about 80 kilometres southwest
of Ottawa, for the Canada Day weekend.
About 6: 30 p.m. on Sunday, the toddler wandered over to where
her grandmother's 10-year-old Rottweiler-German Shepherd was
chained in the backyard.
The dog attacked.
"She suffered obviously fatal injuries to the head," Ontario
Provincial
Police
Constable Kevin
DAVIDSON said yesterday.
Korie-Lyn's parents rushed her to Perth and Smiths Falls District
Hospital, he said.
She was then immediately airlifted to the Children's Hospital
of Eastern Ontario in Ottawa where she succumbed to her injuries.
An autopsy was performed yesterday, but results weren't immediately
available.
The dog had no history of aggressive behaviour, Constable
DAVIDSON
said, and it had been socialized with various family members
and children.
"That's what makes this situation that much more tragic," the
constable said yesterday.
The dog was taken into custody by animal control, and, at the
family's request, is scheduled to be put down today.
Constable DAVIDSON said no charges are pending.
No one was at the family's duplex in Smiths Falls yesterday -
about six kilometres west of the grandmother's home - where two
strollers were in view near a large maple tree with wind chimes
in the front yard.
The couple, both in their 20s, had moved in two months ago with
their young daughter, said Dino
MUSCA, their landlord. He said
he often saw the mother taking walks around the neighbourhood
with the girl in a stroller. The family did not own a car.
"They were keeping to themselves a lot, but I know a lot of people
in town know them," he said, adding that the mother had come
to his house once to use the phone.
Around the back of the home, a Dora the Explorer patio set was
clearly visible, along with a large children's paddling pool
with toys still floating in it.
On the front door, a sign that read "Parking For Pitbull" was
above another that read, "Owners only. Violators better haul
ass."
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GANDHI o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2007-07-27 published
Numerous tips lead to arrest in Ontario killing
Man considered a missing person until two fishermen found his
body
By Unnati GANDHI,
Page▲▼ A7
The mysterious disappearance of a man named Jeffrey
MASON last
year had nearly everyone in a Northern Ontario town talking.
The 37-year-old welder's home and car had been found burned and
gutted - his loyal dog's remains inside - and, for months, there
hadn't been a trace of Mr.
MASON anywhere.
But the mystery is no more: The body of Mr.
MASON, from Dowling,
Ontario, near Sudbury, was discovered in a nearby river last
month, and this week an arrest was made in his death.
Two couples fishing on the Vermillion River on June 7, just kilometres
from Mr. MASON's home, caught sight of something that had floated
up from the 120-foot-deep river.
"Two of the people went out and retrieved what was floating and
it was actually Jeffrey," said Sudbury police Staff Sergeant
Sheilah WEBER, adding that Mr.
MASON was found fully clothed,
with a light-coloured cloth wrapped around him. He had died of
blunt-force trauma.
Then on Wednesday, Sudbury resident Nicholas Aaron
MARTIN, 18,
was charged with first-degree murder in Mr.
MASON's death. Mr.
MARTIN
appeared in court yesterday and has been remanded into custody
until Tuesday.
Local police initially treated the investigation, which The Globe
and Mail reported on in February, as a missing-person case. But
with each passing day they were further convinced it was much
more than that. His family always maintained that he was murdered,
and that the killer burned away the slightest bit of evidence.
Staff Sgt.
WEBER said Ontario Provincial Police divers had twice
searched the river, once in the days immediately after Mr.
MASON's
disappearance, and once in the early spring after the temperature
had risen, but could never make it deeper than 90 feet.
After the discovery of his body, the case became a homicide investigation.
Four investigators worked on the file full-time. Witnesses: began
to come forward, forensic evidence - including a blanket that
belonged to Mr.
MASON that was found near the river - was analyzed,
and tips were followed up, she said.
"Basically, everybody had a piece of the puzzle and now we've
been able to put that puzzle together," Staff Sgt.
WEBER said.
Police▼ confirmed that at the time of his arrest, Mr.
MARTIN was
already in jail awaiting a trial for attempted murder in an unrelated
incident from last November, when he had allegedly slashed another
person's neck with a knife during a house party in the Sudbury
area.
Mr. MASON's eldest brother, John, confirmed yesterday that Jeffrey
and the accused weren't strangers. "He was known to him, but
he wasn't an acquaintance," he said. "I certainly don't believe
[his death] was random."
The discovery of Jeffrey's body and the news of an arrest, he
said, brings an uncomfortable sense of relief to his tight-knit
family - three siblings and a widowed mother.
Mr. MASON had moved back to the family farm in 2003 from Calgary
to take care of his mother after his father died of a stroke.
He never went a day without getting in touch with her or his
siblings.
"It was just so unbelievably surreal. We always felt that something
disastrous had happened to him. He could not, because we believed
he would not, stay away from us for so long."
Despite the arrest, the elder Mr.
MASON says there will never
be closure with the family, not even with a conviction, because
he never got to say goodbye to his baby brother.
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GANDHI o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2007-08-08 published
Death of Canadian at actor's home a mystery
Coroner rules out dog bites and heart attack in investigation
of what happened to scriptwriter Jacob
ADAM/ADAMS
By Unnati GANDHI,
Page▲▼ 3
The last time anyone saw Jacob
ADAM/ADAMS alive, he was playing with
his friend Ving
RHAMES's four large dogs.
The next morning, the Canadian scriptwriter was found dead on
the actor's front lawn in affluent West Los Angeles, dog bites
and blood all over his chest, legs and arms.
But what happened in those intervening hours has everyone from
police to Friends scratching their heads. An autopsy yesterday
found the 40-year-old did not die as a result of the bites, and
that he was healthy in every other way.
Police say Mr.
ADAM/ADAMS, who had been living at the Mission Impossible
co-star's home for the past two years and worked as his professional
stand-in, was seen outside the Brentwood, California., home at
about 8 p.m. last Thursday. Half an hour later, Friends tried
calling him but got no answer.
Whatever spurred one of the 90-kilogram mastiffs to give chase
had Mr. ADAM/ADAMS running so hard that police found his shoes more
than nine metres from where his body was discovered.
"He made it to the gate, he got the gate closed to keep the dogs
inside that grassy area, and he collapsed on the other side of
that gate, about three feet from it," said West Los Angeles Lieutenant
Ray Lombardo.
When police arrived, the dogs - one with blood on its right forepaw
the other so old it hardly had any teeth - were running around
freely on the lawn. Mr.
ADAM/ADAMS was pronounced dead at the scene.
Yesterday, the dogs were still in the custody of animal control.
Mr. RHAMES's wife told police yesterday that the dogs, which
the family has owned for about seven years, were very gentle.
"She said she has two young children and that the dogs had never
viciously turned on anybody," Lt. Lombardo said.
Most of the bites were superficial, the Los Angeles coroner's
office said yesterday. It was also determined that Mr.
ADAM/ADAMS
did not die of a heart attack and did not have any clogged arteries.
The body is now being sent in for toxicology tests.
"At this point, it's simply a mystery. We're ruling it an undetermined
death," Lt. Lombardo said.
He believes the dogs - "they're big dogs; they look like lions,"
he said - sensed something was wrong with Mr.
ADAM/ADAMS and were
trying to help him by pulling on him. There were no bites on
the head or neck.
Mr. ADAM/ADAMS, who is from the Toronto area, had met the Pulp Fiction
actor several years ago on the Canadian set for Kojak, a made-for-television
movie in which Mr.
RHAMES played a police detective. Mr.
ADAM/ADAMS
had written that film's script.
The two men got along very well in a short time and became good
Friends.
"He took a real liking to Jacob," Anne
DODDS, a long-time friend
of Mr. ADAM/ADAMS, said yesterday. Mr.
RHAMES then asked Mr.
ADAM/ADAMS
if he would like to work for him.
"He had apparently said to Jacob, 'When I'm here, I want you
to stand in for me, but when I'm not here, treat my home in Vancouver,
treat my home in Los Angeles, as your own home,'" Ms.
DODDS said
in an interview.
"This man, when he was a friend, he was a friend," Ms.
DODDS
said of Mr.
ADAM/ADAMS. "If you ever had a down time, he'd give you
that lift to make you feel better about yourself."
With that, Mr.
ADAM/ADAMS moved to Los Angeles two years ago, where
he lived in Mr.
RHAMES's estate with his wife and two young children.
Mr. ADAM/ADAMS is not married and recently got his green card.
The deal was that whenever Mr.
RHAMES was out of town - he's
currently in Europe - Mr.
ADAM/ADAMS would take care of the "odds
and ends" around the house, police said.
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GANDHI o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2007-08-23 published
Police investigate stabbings in separate incidents
By Geoff NIXON with a report from Unnati
GANDHI,
Page
A12
A love triangle is believed to have prompted an attack in Scarborough
that left a woman in critical condition in hospital last night.
Homicide investigators were on standby after a man was found
across the street from a Scarborough police station with an unconscious
woman lying by his side early yesterday morning.
A 45-year-old man was taken into custody.
A report from CTV News said the woman is 22 years old and
a mother of three children, aged 3, 2 and 11 months.
Police believe the suspect confronted the woman at the Roycroft
motel in Scarborough where she was with another man. Police said
the suspect allegedly slashed the other man with a knife and
then dragged the woman to his van and drove her to an apartment
building across the street from the police station, near Birchmount
Road and Eglinton Avenue. The other man was taken to hospital
with non-life-threatening injuries.
The woman is believed to have been both beaten and stabbed.
In a separate incident, police responded to a fatal stabbing
just south of the East York Town Centre yesterday morning. They
received an emergency call around 7: 15 a.m.
When they arrived, officers found a man without vital signs who
had been stabbed several times while in the parking lot of an
apartment building.
He and a man he knew had gotten into a verbal argument that police
say quickly escalated into Engin
YILMAZ getting stabbed. Mr.
YILMAZ,
who lived in the building, was taken to hospital, where he died.
After a short investigation by homicide detectives, Hikmet
DASDEMIR
surrendered to police in 53 Division last night. The 35-year-old
has been charged with second-degree murder.
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GANDHI o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2007-09-01 published
Mother's actions saved child from certain death, police say
By Unnati GANDHI with a report from Tim
SHUFELT,
Page▲▼
A14
Simply put, Jackie DO
VALE-
AVELAR lived for her daughter.
From play dates to cooking, drawing to shopping, the 25-year-old
mother's every breath was for her three-year-old baby girl, Orbela.
That included her last.
As Ms. DO VALE-
AVELAR drove home early yesterday morning to her
waiting husband in Brampton, her Dodge SX collided with a tractor-trailer.
Police say the truck driver fled the scene, and Ms. DO
VALE-
AVELAR's
badly damaged car came to a stop across two lanes of the eastbound
401 near Cambridge.
Police later found the semi near Napanee, and arrested the driver
for failing to remain at the scene of an accident.
Ms. DO VALE-
AVELAR grabbed Orbela and put her in the ditch beside
the highway's shoulder. But she returned to her totalled car,
probably for her cellphone, police say.
As she tried to get in through the driver's door at about 4: 45 a.m.
with her back to oncoming traffic, another rig plowed into her.
She was pinned.
Ontario
Provincial
Police Constable David
WOODFORD said she likely
died on impact.
He said Ms. DO
VALE-
AVELAR did the right thing by immediately
getting her daughter to safety, preventing what could have been
an even greater tragedy.
"She got her child out. She saved her child's life, because the
child would have been killed," he said.
To her closest Friends, the act of bravery sounded every bit
like Jackie.
Candice SHERRETT, who said her Friendship with Ms. DO
VALE-
AVELAR
dates back to elementary school, remembers the day Orbela was
born.
"Jackie's life had been fulfilled," she told The Globe and Mail.
"… I think some comfort can be taken knowing that Jackie died
knowing her daughter was safe and out of harm's way."
Yesterday, Orbela was told, "Mommy has gone to heaven," she said.
Ms. DO VALE-
AVELAR's husband, parents, and younger sister, Ligia,
were too distraught to comment yesterday.
Jackie DO VALE married her high school sweetheart six years ago
after graduating from Saint_Joseph's College School in downtown
Toronto. The couple moved to Brampton and their daughter was
born three years later.
Ms. DO VALE-
AVELAR worked two jobs so Orbela could have whatever
she wanted, said one of her best Friends, Alex
POLICARPO, 25.
During the week, she was a secretary at a local car dealership.
On weekends, she worked at a laundromat.
"She liked to do everything in life. She was always the first
to try things out," Ms.
POLICARPO said.
When Ms. POLICARPO had her baby shower in July, Ms. DO
VALE-
AVELAR
was the first to give her advice. "She told me to tell my husband
to do all the work. I was supposed to just sit back and relax,"
Ms. POLICARPO said.
The Ontario Provincial Police also investigated another serious
collision yesterday, in which a 70-year-old woman visiting from
Trinidad was killed and three others were injured.
The four were travelling in the Niagara-bound lanes of the Queen
Elizabeth Way near St. Catharines with a house trailer in tow
just after 7 a.m. As their truck approached a construction zone,
it suddenly veered off into a grassy shoulder at highway speed
and struck a tree, Constable
WOODFORD said.
The Ontario Provincial Police says 295 people have been killed
in traffic accidents in the province so far this year, up from
280 in the same period in 2006.
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GANDHI o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2007-09-12 published
Fatal stabbing shakes Toronto schools
Scarborough student slain at lunchtime
By TIMOTHY
APPLEBY with reports from Unnati
GANDHI,
Jennifer
LEWINGTON,
Karen
HOWLETT and Shawn
McCARTHY, Page A1
Toronto -- In a lunch-hour confrontation that dispatched fresh
shock waves across Toronto's school system, a 16-year-old Scarborough
student was stabbed to death yesterday on a walkway leading from
his high school.
Homicide detectives were hunting at least one suspect, seen fleeing
the crime scene at Winston Churchill Collegiate Institute in
a speeding car, and offered little insight into why the youth
- identified by CTV News last night as Denesh
MURUGIAH -
had been killed.
Suspicion, however, immediately fell on a long-simmering rivalry
between Tamil factions, whose animosity is believed responsible
for a firebombing and a stabbing in the same neighbourhood in
April.
What was certain was that the teen's death came just four months
after the shooting death of teenager Jordan
MANNERS in a high
school on the other side of the city. And, moreover, it had the
hallmarks of being planned.
"My Friends told me they saw the victim standing there when two
guys came up behind him and said, 'Do you want to do this now?'
recounted Ajay
MANGARA, 18, who lives a few doors from the
school, near Lawrence Avenue and Kennedy Road.
"Then they saw the guy screaming on the ground, 'Help me, help
me.' "
The teen was stabbed several times in the stomach and showed
no vital signs when paramedics responded to the 12: 05 p.m. call.
He died soon after in Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre.
Word on the street is that the killing stemmed from "Tamil reprisals,"
Mr. MANGARA said, echoing the opinion of a Lawrence Avenue pizza
parlour operator that caters to many Winston Churchill pupils.
If so, it is not the first time police attention has been drawn
to a Tamil-based gang conflict, loosely spread across half a
dozen Scarborough schools.
Students milling around the collegiate in the bright sunshine
yesterday seemed to know little about the victim, a new arrival
in his second week of school, and some appeared strikingly unaffected.
As television cameras hovered, several urged their Friends, "Don't
snitch, don't talk."
Yesterday's killing was Toronto's 57th of 2007 - 11 more than
had occurred at the same time last year.
The principal suspect is thought to be a male with brown skin,
17 or 18 years old, about 5 foot 5, wearing black jeans, a black
zip-up hoodie and a bandana covering his face.
Also sought is a light blue Honda, probably a mid-1990s Civic,
in which the killer or killers are believed to have fled.
Whether any of them also attended Winston Churchill was unknown.
But 41-year-old floor installer Jim
NIKOLAKAKOS, an alumnus who
has lived close to the walkway for most of his life, said the
school has become markedly rougher in recent years and that tensions
were often evident.
"There's a lot of rivalry going on in the school - kids from
this school, kids from other schools - they get together in little
gangs and it's all, 'You said this, you said that,' " he said.
"The whole school has changed; inside there's graffiti all over
the place, it's not kept up. There's no respect any more for
anything… Things have changed."
Others familiar with the sprawling 1,200-student school disagreed.
Jessica COPELAND, 19, was a student for five years and wept yesterday
as she arrived home to learn what had taken place almost on the
doorstep of her Flora Drive home.
"I just can't believe something like this would happen at Churchill
it was a really good school for me, the teachers were nice,"
she said.
"There were incidents, yeah, but they were really contained and
personally I never saw anybody with any weapons, not in five
years. Nothing ever got out of hand like this."
Toronto
Police▲
Service Inspector Kathryn
MARTIN said much the
same.
"I'm very familiar with the neighbourhood, I've spent 13 years
working in 41 Division and this is a very good school… so I'm
thinking this is an incident unrelated to the school itself."
Winston Churchill, however, is adjacent to a community centre
that last year installed closed-circuit cameras because of fights.
And in the past, local councillor Michael
THOMPSON/THOMSON/TOMPSON/TOMSON has asked
nearby retailers not to sell knives.
Mr. THOMPSON/THOMSON/TOMPSON/TOMSON said of yesterday's homicide that he was "not shocked
but saddened."
Gerry CONNELLY, director of education at the Toronto District
School Board, denied rumours that the victim had been transferred
to Winston Churchill because of behavioural problems.
In fact, she said, the teen was a new student because he and
his family had moved into the Lawrence and Kennedy area from
Don Mills.
"I can't speak to behavioural issues, but he was not a transfer
student," she said.
The fatal stabbing nonetheless reignited the issue of safe schools,
which erupted in May after 15-year-old Jordan
MANNERS was shot
to death at his school in the Keele and Finch area.
As police quizzed witnesses: at nearby 41 Division yesterday,
Detective
Sergeant
Gary
GRINTON of the homicide squad alluded
to Jordan's death, in which two 17-year-olds have been charged
with first-degree murder, and appealed for public help.
"Do the right thing, come forward, man up," he urged the suspect.
Liberal Leader Dalton McGuinty commented on the stabbing during
a campaign stop in Markham, Ontario, last night. "As Premier,
and maybe more importantly just as a dad, I wanted to express
my deepest sympathies to the family and Friends of this young
man who lost his life today in a senseless tragedy," he said.
Progressive Conservative Leader John Tory described the homicide
as symptomatic of a larger problem - the Liberal government's
alleged failure to crack down on violent crime.
"We simply let this kind of thing go on," Mr. Tory said. "We
simply have to deal with this kind of crime and the causes of
this kind of crime."
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GANDHI o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2007-09-12 published
Three die in separate but related crashes on the 401
By Unnati GANDHI,
Page▲▼ A7
Three people are dead, including a mother and daughter, after
a horrific chain of events unfolded on a small strip of Canada's
busiest highway yesterday.
The accidents involved four vehicles - including three trucks
- in two separate but related crashes.
It all began about 4 a.m. Fanshawe College student Ashley
GARROD,
22, was driving eastbound on the 401 near London, Ontario, with
her mother, Elizabeth
THOM, when a tractor-trailer struck them
from behind, police said. Their small car was sent skidding across
the highway before coming to a stop in the ditch on the south
side.
Ontario
Provincial
Police Sergeant Dave
REKTOR said police received
a 911 call about headlights seen shining out of the ditch.
When emergency crews arrived, they found Ms.
GARROD and her 52-year-old
mother dead inside the car. The truck that had hit them was nowhere
to be found, Sgt.
REKTOR said.
After issuing a public alert, police found a truck with extensive
damage to its front at a Flying J truck stop a few kilometres
away.
Its 61-year-old driver, Stefan
FOGIEL, of Acton, has been charged
with two counts of failing to remain at the scene of an accident
causing death, resisting arrest, failing to maintain log books,
and failing to have a pre-trip inspection.
The highway was closed for several hours as investigators reconstructed
the collision.
Then, just before 11 a.m., a transport truck slowing down as
it approached the roadblock at the collision site was struck
from behind by another truck. The driver of the second truck,
Timothy McDERMOTT, 50, died on impact. The driver of the first
truck, Harpreet
PANNU, suffered non-life-threatening injuries.
No charges are expected to be laid.
"It would appear the driver was not paying attention," Sgt.
REKTOR
said. "The at-fault driver was the victim as well."
The officer said the collisions were that much more tragic because
both could have been prevented with more careful driving.
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GANDHI o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2007-09-19 published
Founder of Brazilian Ball dies of cancer
By Unnati GANDHI,
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Anna Maria DE
SOUZA, known best as founder, president and Chief
Executive Officer of the glittery Brazilian Carnival Ball, died
at Princess Margaret Hospital yesterday afternoon after a battle
with cancer. She took the secret of her closely guarded age with
her - something she once told The Globe and Mail that even her
husband did not know. Friends estimate she was in her mid-60s.
Ms. DE SOUZA, who counts Conrad Black among her ex-beaus, was
born Anna Maria Marcolini
GUIDI in Brazil, the granddaughter
of an Italian immigrant.
She met a Canadian bulk-foods importer and, in 1965, she moved
to Canada, where she threw a Brazilian ball in a church basement
for herself and fellow Brazilians.
The event has since become one of Canada's most prestigious fundraisers,
amassing a "crème de la crème" guest list, her friend, Norma
Meneguzzi SPALL, said yesterday. Visitation will be held at the
Morley Bedford Funeral Home tomorrow from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. and
7 p.m. to 9 p.m. A funeral mass will be held at Holy Rosary Church
on Friday at 9: 30 a.m.
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GANDHI o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2007-10-02 published
Canadian entrepreneur among victims in plane crash
Greg BROPHY, founder of information-security company Shred-it,
was killed along with his brother and tour guide in Alaska
By Unnati GANDHI,
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A10
Greg BROPHY was in his 20s when he realized there was good business
in getting rid of companies' secrets. He was right.
Within a few years, the Ontario native had conquered the information-security
industry with his company, Shred-it, having destroyed everything
from hospital and bank records to Academy Awards documents.
Mr. BROPHY, 44, was killed Sunday after the plane in which he
was travelling crashed in Alaska. Also killed were his brother,
Sean, 49, guide Tom Beatty, 38, and a pilot whose name was being
withheld last night pending notification of his family, a spokesman
for Katmai National Park and Preserve confirmed.
The four were on their way back to the lodge from a fly-fishing
expedition when their Helio Courier single-engine floatplane
crashed around 4 p.m. into a group of trees near Nonvianuk Lake,
park spokesman John Quinley said.
When the plane didn't arrive 45 minutes after it was scheduled,
the lodge organized an aerial search and discovered the plane's
wreckage around 10: 30 p.m. He added that where he was, about
80 kilometres away, the weather was nothing out of the ordinary.
"It was raining. There was a light wind, but fairly high ceilings.
Definitely not dramatic weather for this area," he said. "There
was no communications from the pilot indicating any trouble."
The National Transportation Safety Board and park rangers were
investigating the cause of the crash last night.
"He was a very hands-on president," Securit spokeswoman Elizabeth
Hendricks said. "He just had a real strong vision and passion
for the growth of the company and instilled that in his employees.
A real entrepreneur."
Shred-it began as a two-man show in 1988, growing to more than
140 branches worldwide, with 2,600 employees and customers in
16 countries.
Mr. BROPHY, who graduated from the DeGroote School of Business
at McMaster University, was from Mississauga.
He leaves his wife, Tracey, and their children Christopher, Megan
and Kirstin.
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GANDHI o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2007-10-03 published
Housekeeper found dead in Mississauga mansion
By Timothy
APPLEBY with a report from Unnati
GANDHI,
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A14
The multimillion-dollar home of a successful Indo-Canadian businessman
turned into an investigation scene yesterday after the lifeless
body of a housekeeper was found inside, police said.
The 27-year-old woman was discovered inside a mansion on Doulton
Place in the Mississauga Road and Dundas Street West area, after
one of the homeowners called police Monday evening, Peel police
Constable Adam
MINNION said last night.
Neighbours said the victim was a domestic maid who was often
seen in and around the house, which is surrounded by a wrought-iron
fence and backs onto the Mississaugua Golf and Country Club.
The home was purchased in 1998 for $823,000 by Vasdev (Dave)
CHANCHLANI, transferred to daughters Sonia and Tina
CHANCHLANI
for a nominal $2 and registered in the two women's names in 2004,
property records show.
Mr. CHANCHLANI is the Chief Financial Officer of Toronto-based
Sigma Global Solutions, while his wife, Jayshree, is a Brampton
family physician. The couple also have a son, Neil, who is attending
university in Britain.
Dr. CHANCHLANI did not answer calls to her cellphone yesterday
evening.
Police released no names or a cause of death, but said they were
looking for a suspect who likely knew the victim. They also confirmed
she was a housekeeper.
Meanwhile, Toronto's homicide tally for the year rose to 64 early
yesterday with the stabbing death of a pregnant 25-year-old North
York woman whose common-law husband was arrested at the scene
and charged with murder.
Aysan SESEN was stabbed in the abdomen. Her seven-month-old fetus
died as a result of the violence, despite an emergency cesarian
section in hospital.
However, there is no scope under the Criminal Code for laying
murder charges involving an unborn child.
"A being has to be born and take a breath, basically," Detective
Sergeant Gary
GRINTON of the homicide squad said.
A second woman, aged 44 and believed to be the mother of the
accused, was also stabbed and was waiting last night for plastic
surgery on a badly injured arm.
Turan COCELLI, 30, who is believed to be the father of Ms.
SESEN's
baby, faces charges of second-degree murder and aggravated assault.
Police from 31 Division were called at around 1 a.m. to a bungalow
on Whitburn Crescent, near Keele Street and Sheppard Avenue West.
Det. Sgt. GRINTON would not say whether the 911 call came from
Mr. COCELLI, an unemployed carpenter on compensation. But he
confirmed that when police arrived at the home, the accused was
there.
Both the accused and the two victims shared the home but there
is no record of police having been called there before, Det. Sgt.
GRINTON
said, adding the baby would have been the couple's first child.
The woman believed to be Mr.
COCELLI's mother remained under
sedation and had not been interviewed, he added.
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GANDHI o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2007-11-03 published
Man acquitted in notorious shooting found slain
Former Toronto resident tried in Just Desserts case was deported
to Jamaica in 2002
By Unnati GANDHI,
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A18
The man who was acquitted in the notorious Just Desserts shooting,
but later deported, has been shot dead in Jamaica.
O'Neil GRANT was found with several gunshot wounds to his body
late Monday night at a busy downtown bus terminal in west Kingston.
Police say the 35-year-old was hunted down in the crowd.
"He was approached by a lone gunman on foot, who opened fire,
hitting him," Leslie Green, Jamaica's assistant commissioner
of police for serious and organized crime, told The Globe and
Mail. "… From the investigation to date, the officers believe
this may have been a reprisal, that he may have shot somebody
locally some time ago."
Mr. GRANT was taken to Kingston Public Hospital shortly before
midnight, where he was pronounced dead.
His death marks the final chapter of a life that, in the eyes
of his family and Friends, has been hounded by tragedy and misfortune.
In April of 1994, Mr.
GRANT was charged with manslaughter and
robbery in the shooting death of Georgina (ViVi)
LEIMONIS, who
was having coffee with a friend at the Just Desserts café on
Davenport Road.
After 5½ years in the Don Jail, he was acquitted of all charges
by a jury in 1999.
Lawrence BROWN was found guilty of first-degree murder and sentenced
to life in prison in Ms.
LEIMONIS's death, and Gary
FRANCIS received
a 15-year sentence for manslaughter and robbery convictions.
But the publicity surrounding the shooting and Mr.
GRANT's treatment
in jail resounded for years afterward, and highlighted racial
divisions in Toronto and concerns about immigration policy.
In a separate ruling handed down in November, 1998, Mr. Justice
Brian TRAFFORD of Ontario Superior Court wrote that Mr.
GRANT
was unfairly treated during his time at the Don Jail, including
the use of waist restraints connected to his handcuffs.
"The use of restraints… was the result, in part, of cultural
insensitivity towards black people," he wrote.
And while Mr.
GRANT had not been convicted of a crime since 1992,
or been charged with any offences since his release from jail,
the father of three was ultimately deported to his native Jamaica
in 2002, from where he had come to Canada at the age of 11.
An immigration board said he had violated the terms of a stay
of an earlier deportation order, one of which was failing to
notify authorities of his change in address when he was being
held at the Don Jail.
Heather McARTHUR, one of Mr.
GRANT's lawyers, said she has kept
in touch with Mr.
GRANT's common-law wife, his mother and his
siblings, all of whom still live in Canada. His two daughters,
7 and 18, and son, 14, learned of his death two days ago.
"They're devastated," Ms. McArthur said.
She said there is no way Mr.
GRANT, who had been having a hard
time adjusting to life in Jamaica where deportees are treated
roughly, was involved in any criminal activity in the Caribbean
country. She added he never should have been deported from Canada
in the first place.
"He was an innocent man. He didn't do it. But still, he stayed
in jail for over 5½ years… and despite that, they sent him down
to a country where he knew nobody, he had no money, they just
put him on a plane," she said. "And now, he's dead."
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Couple 'arm in arm' as bus shatters their 58-year bond
By Unnati GANDHI with a report from James
RUSK,
Page▲▼ A1
Toronto -- Just as she has done every morning for the past 58 years,
Rosalia DORNYEI laid her husband Stephen's clothes out on the
bed for him yesterday.
Then, hand in hand, the couple left their mid-Toronto condominium
building to catch the Toronto Transit Commission bus that would
take them downtown for Mr.
DORNYEI's follow-up appointment with
his eye surgeon.
It was about 9: 45 a.m., and Mr.
DORNYEI, 80, could see the No. 25
bus coming down the street. Taking into consideration his wife's
newly replaced knee, he decided it would be less painful for
both of them if, instead of going all the way to the corner,
they simply crossed the six live lanes of traffic to the Don
Mills Road bus stop directly across from them.
Flagging down the bus as they walked, they made it to the west
side of the street.
But the driver didn't immediately see them, police say, and they
were both struck before they could reach the curb.
"They were still arm in arm," the couple's only daughter, Eva,
told The Globe and Mail from her father's hospital bedside yesterday.
Mrs. DORNYEI, 77, died at the hospital, while Mr.
DORNYEI suffered
four broken ribs, two fractures to his pelvic bone, a collapsed
lung, 16 stitches to his head and several large bruises and cuts
to his body. Doctors say he'll survive the physical injuries.
Whether he'll be able to come to terms with the abrupt ending
of a love story that began in Europe and spanned more than half
a century, his daughter isn't sure.
"I hope my father finds the will to live," Ms.
DORNYEI, 55, said.
"But you just don't get over losing your soulmate like that."
They fell in love when they first met in their native Hungary.
She was 16, he was 19. Within three years, they were married.
He was doing well for himself, having become the plant manager
of a business that exported livestock and eggs across Europe.
But less than a decade later, the Hungarian revolution geared
up, and, in November of 1956, a large Soviet force invaded Budapest.
An estimated 200,000 people, including the
DORNYEIs and their
young daughter, fled their country.
"They travelled through Europe and stayed in various places that
were accepting Hungarian refugees, before finally making it to
Canada," Ms.
DORNYEI said.
Once in Toronto, language became a huge barrier, and the newly
arrived couple found the country's people initially unwilling
to help them integrate.
Mr. DORNYEI got his first job as a dishwasher at the Lord Simcoe
Hotel before going back to school to become an engineering draftsman
- the trade he worked in until he retired more than a decade
ago. His wife worked odd jobs for a few years before deciding
it would be best if she stayed at home to take care of her daughter.
"She was a wonderful, loving, kind woman. We were very close,
just like Friends," her daughter said.
Mr. DORNYEI remained active, chairing the board of the condo
tower.
"He always made sure everything was done properly. He's a very
diligent, dedicated man. And I would say my mother was just as
dedicated to him," she said. "They were very in love to this
day. They really were soulmates."
On Monday, they would have celebrated their 58th wedding anniversary.
Police say that the accident was preventable. There was an intersection
with signal lights at Overlea Boulevard about 100 metres from
where the couple decided to cross, Traffic Services Sergeant
Paul LOBSINGER said.
"It's so close to the intersection that they could have just
walked down there, but they wanted this bus, I guess. How many
times do we see that?"
It was unclear whether any charges would be laid against the
bus driver, who was receiving counselling yesterday, Toronto
Transit
Commission spokeswoman Marilyn
BOLTON said.
Ms. DORNYEI said that she would be looking at the final police
report carefully, frustrated that nothing could possibly console
her family's grief at the loss of a mother and wife.
"When they broke the news to us," she said, "all my father could
say was, 'Why? Why? Why?' "
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GANDHI o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2007-12-08 published
Police point to diabetes as probable cause of death for Algoma
Chief Executive Officer's daughter
By Unnati GANDHI,
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A20
The daughter of Algoma Steel Inc. president and Chief Executive
Officer Denis
TURCOTTE likely suffered diabetic complications
before dying in her Ryerson University dorm room, police and
family say.
When Adele
TURCOTTE, 17, didn't answer her phone all day Thursday,
her mother, Julie, called one of her daughter's Friends who lives
in the same residence building to check on her, Toronto police
Detective Robert
GORDON said yesterday.
The friend found her in bed in her sixth-floor single room without
vital signs about 4: 15 p.m.
A postmortem examination conducted yesterday was inconclusive,
but Det. GORDON said foul play is not suspected and police are
not looking for witnesses. Police have also ruled out suicide.
The first-year fashion student had diabetes since she was six
years old, "and worked hard at having a normal life in spite
of it," her family wrote in a death notice.
The coroner's office is now awaiting the results of a toxicology
test, which "examines fluids of the body, the blood and everything
to see what's in there - you know, alcohol, drugs, whatever her
insulin level was at the time," Det.
GORDON said.
Ms. TURCOTTE, who was born in Saint John but grew up in Sault
Ste. Marie, Ontario, "was the best friend a girl could have,"
one of her closest Friends, Stefanie
BRUZAS, 18, said from Sault
Ste. Marie last night.
"She's been through everything with me. A rough breakup, a fight
with my Friends - she would never take sides but she would talk
me through it."
Ms. BRUZAS, who is also attending school in Toronto, said Ms.
TURCOTTE
had designed her own clothing line, Turca, before being accepted
at Ryerson and would often dress in her own designs when going
out.
"She was doing everything she wanted to," Ms.
BRUZAS said. "She
knew how to have fun, but she always got her work done. She made
great Friends after moving to Toronto, but stuck with her old
ones. Her life was perfect. She was perfect."
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GANDOSSI o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2007-08-14 published
WATSON,
Robert "
Bob"
Henry, B.A., LL.B., Q.C.
In his 82nd year, passed away peacefully on August 13th, 2007
at home surrounded by his family. Beloved husband of fifty-five
years to Islay (née
PATTERSON) and loving father of Ann
WATSON
(Malcolm LAWRIE), Rosie
WATSON (Bruce
GANDOSSI) and Ian
WATSON
(Sabrina FRITTENBURG.)
Devoted and proud grandfather of Kate,
Ian and Tara
TRETHEWEY,
Sarah
LAWRIE and Robbie
WATSON. Born
to Mel and Ella
WATSON in Peel County on the family fruit farm
at Dixie Road and the Queen Elizabeth Way, he and his two brothers
Ross (deceased) and Sidney (killed in action World War 2) were
the fifth generation to farm in the then Township of Toronto.
He attended Port Credit High School, Albert College in Belleville
and thereafter Osgoode Hall Law School. After graduating in 1954,
Bob practised law first in Port Credit for 32 years with the
firm last known as Jackson, Watson, Gillespie and Lane, and thereafter
for 5 years as Senior Counsel with Keyser, Mason, Ball and Lewis.
He was appointed a Q.C. in 1967 and is a past president of the
Peel Law Association. Bob was actively involved in the Rotary
Clubs of Cooksville and Mississauga and became District Governor
of Rotary International 707 in 1973-74. After his retirement
in 1991 to both Milton and Collingwood, he continued to be active
in Probus. He was awarded the Rotary Foundation Award for Meritorious
Service and was made a Paul Harris Fellow. Bob was also a long
time member of the Bethesda and Cooksville United Churches and
was a chairman of the Halton Peel United Extension Council. At
the time of his death he was a member of the Collingwood First
Presbyterian Church. Bob was a past director of the Peel United
Way, and a past member of the Board of Governors of the Mississauga
Symphony. Bob enjoyed many activities. He was a member of the
Port Credit Yacht Club, Muskoka Lakes Association, where his
family had a cottage on an island in Lake Muskoka for many years,
Craigleith Ski Club, as well as the Mississaugua, Trafalgar,
Blue Mountain and Plantation (Florida) Golf and Country Clubs.
He is a past president of the Mississaugua Golf and Country Club
and was a founder and past president of the Trafalgar Golf and
Country Club in Milton. He enjoyed golf, bridge, boating, skiing,
photography, genealogy and spending time on his computer. He
was devoted to his wife, children and grandchildren. Bob's cup
was always half full and he died peacefully with a strong faith.
There was never a man so much loved by his family and Friends.
Ann and Ian would like to thank their mother and sister Rosie
for the homecare that they provided to him in the last days of
his life. His many Friends are invited to attend a memorial celebration
of his life at the First Presbyterian Church, 200 Maple Street,
Collingwood, on Thursday, August 16th, 2007 at 1: 00 p.m., reception
to follow at Craigleith Ski Club. In lieu of flowers, donations
to The Collingwood General and Marine Hospital would be appreciated
by the family. The family invites Friends and family to sign
the online guestbook by visiting www.fawcettfuneralhomes.com
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GANS o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2007-06-29 published
CROCKER,
Ruth
On Wednesday, June 27th, 2007 at Toronto General Hospital. Ruth
CROCKER, beloved wife of the late Lewis
CROCKER.
Loving mother
and mother-in-law of Debbie and Marvin
GANS,
Lynn and Shelly
SELIGMAN,
Gwenn and Gary
LISS. Dear sister and sister-in-law
of Rose and the late Max
GARFINKEL,
Jack and Sybil
GELLER. Devoted
grandmother of Michael
GANS and Nancy
WITTMAN,
Jeffrey and Kim
GANS, Kiera
GANS, Chris
SELIGMAN, Daniel
SELIGMAN, Aaron
SELIGMAN,
Sarah LISS,
Ryan
LISS, Kate
LISS, great-grandmother of Noah,
Naomi, and Leah
GANS. At
Holy
Blossom
Temple, 1950 Bathurst Street
(Bathurst south of Eglinton) for service on Friday, June 29th,
2007 at 10: 30 a.m. Interment Holy Blossom Memorial Park. Shiva
27 Penwood Crescent. Memorial donations may be made to Canada's
National Ballet School, 416-964-3780.
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GANTNER o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2007-01-10 published
PHILLIPS,
Vivian
Maxine (née
McKIBBIN)
Of Extendicare, Port Stanley on Monday, January 8, 2006, at her
late residence, surrounded by her loving family in her 87th year.
Beloved wife of Charles 'Charlie"
PHILLIPS and dearly loved mother
of Ronald and his wife
Shirley
PHILLIPS,
Jeff
PHILLIPS, Michael
and his wife
Demi
PHILLIPS and Cheryl and her husband Garry
LALE.
Dear sister of Greta
WILSON of Saint Thomas and June
BALAZS of
Tillsonburg. Dear mother-in-law of Roberta
PHILLIPS,
Marg
BARENDREGT,
Tina PHILLIPS and the late Betty Jane
PHILLIPS. Dear sister-in-law
of Ruth BAXTER and the late Graham (Bud)
PHILLIPS.
Cherished
grandmother of Larry
PHILLIPS,
Tracey
DAVIES and her husband
Rob, James and his wife
Maureen
BARENDREGT,
Peter
PHILLIPS and
his partner Kate
McVITTIE,
Steve
PHILLIPS and his wife
Kathy,
Sondra GANTNER, Jed
PHILLIPS, Greg
LALE, Brent
LALE and his wife
Melissa, Michael
LALE and his partner Jodi
MARISSEN,
David
LALE
and his wife Danielle. Predeceased by a great-grand_son Jamie.
Dear great-grandmother of Paul, Brandi, Ashley, Michelle, Emily,
Nicholas, Veronica, Jackie, Bobby, Chelsey, Jackson, Dylan, and
Kaitlyn and also survived by five great-great-grandchildren.
Maxine was born September 7, 1920 in Elgin County the daughter
of the late Russell and Bessie
(KENNEDY)
McKIBBIN.
There will
be no visitation or public service. A private family service
will be held. Cremation has taken place with interment of ashes
in Calton Cemetery. Donations may be made to the Saint_Joseph's
Hospital Neo Natal Unit or the Elgin County Archives. Williams
Funeral Home, 45 Elgin Street, Saint Thomas in charge of arrangements.
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GANTON o@ca.on.grey_county.owen_sound.the_sun_times 2007-08-30 published
McLAY,
Floyd
Kenneth
At Grey Bruce Health Services-Markdale, on Wednesday August 29,
2007, Floyd Kenneth
McLAY of Berkeley in his 76th year. Beloved
husband of the late Marie
McLAY.
Loving father of Pearl
McLAY
of Owen Sound and Darlene (Lloyd)
GANTON of Onaping. Grandfather
of Greg GANTON and Amanda (Henry)
DUMAIS.
Great-grandfather of
Landen DUMAIS. Dear brother of Mae
BAINES and Reta
JOHNSON both
of Markdale and Wilfred
McLAY of Delhi. Sadly missed by nieces
and nephews. Predeceased by sisters Ruby
LOUGHEED and Marie
PARLEE.
The family will receive Friends at the May Funeral Home, Markdale
on Saturday September 1st from noon until time of funeral service
of 2: 00 p.m. Cremation followed by interment in Berkeley Community
Cemetery. If desired, donations to the Heart and Stroke Foundation
would be appreciated.
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GANTSCHNIG o@ca.on.grey_county.owen_sound.the_sun_times 2007-08-10 published
ELLIOT/ELLIOTT,
Captain
William
T. “Smokey&rdquo
At the Grey Bruce Health Services in Owen Sound Thursday afternoon
August 9, 2007. Smokey
ELLIOT/ELLIOTT of Oliphant formerly of Thorold
and Port Colborne in his 82nd year. Beloved husband of Anne
(GANTSCHNIG)
and the late Joyce
(ASTLES.) Dear father of Larry of Thorold,
Bill (Dianne) of Sarnia, Wayne (Patti) of R.R.#3, Bayfield, Bryan
(Lori) of Port Colborne and Bruce of Goderich. Loving grandfather
of Dylan, Kyle, Bill, Matthew, John, Wendi, Laura, Taylor and
great-grand_son Nick. Brother of Loreen
CHEVALIER and Bob
ELLIOT/ELLIOTT
both of Port Colborne. Predeceased by his sisters Isobel
COOK,
Thyra SOUCY and brothers Jim and Steve
ELLIOT/ELLIOTT.
Smokey began
sailing in 1943 with Scott Misener Steamships, served 26 years
as Captain and retired in 1986 as Commodore of the Fleet. Friends
may call at the Downs and son Funeral Home Hepworth Sunday from
2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Funeral Mass will be celebrated from Saint Thomas
Aquinas Catholic Church, Wiarton Monday morning at 11: 00 a.m.
Interment Balsam Grove Cemetery, Oliphant. Expressions of remembrance
to the Wiarton Hospital or the Grey Bruce Health Services, Owen
Sound would be appreciated. Messages of condolence for the family
are welcome at www.downsandsonfuneralhome.com. A tree will be
planted in the Memorial Forest of the Grey Sauble Conservation
Foundation in memory of Smokey by the Downs and son Funeral Home.
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