KANE
KANEE
KANGAS
KANN
KANSCHAT
KANTOR
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KANE,
Elizabeth
Joy (née
SUMMERS)
48, on December 28, 2006 suddenly left her home in Glendale,
California. to be with her Lord Jesus. She leaves to mourn her
passing her beloved husband, Richard, and her mom, Kathleen
SUMMERS.
Dearly loved daughter of the late Bill
SUMMERS, and the loved
sister of Bert and Bonnie, Flaxville, Missouri, Mary and Ivan
FLIGG, Kitchener, Ontario, Ruth and Walt
SQUIRE, Chatham, Ontario,
John and Dianne, Waterloo, Ontario, Gord and Pat, Regina, Saskatchewan,
David and Susan, Owen Sound, Ontario. Loved aunt of several nieces
and nephews. Memorial service at a later date.
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KANE o@ca.on.grey_county.owen_sound.the_sun_times 2007-10-11 published
KNOTT,
Orville
Henry
Orville KNOTT,
son of the late William H. and Mildred
ABERCROMBIE)
KNOTT of Euphrasia Township, passed away at Errinrung Residence
in Thornbury on Wednesday October 10, 2007 at the age of 83.
Dear brother of Maurice and Audrey
KNOTT of Meaford. Predeceased
by brothers Harvey in infancy, and Russell as a teen. Uncle of
James KNOTT and his wife
Patricia of Hickson, Wayne
KNOTT and
his wife Ruth of Meaford, Russell
KNOTT and his wife Debbie of
Clarksburg, Nancy and her husband Brian
KANE of Thornbury, and
Shelley and her husband Chris
CORNFIELD of Rocklyn. Also remembered
by 10 great-nieces and nephews, a great-great-niece, and three
great-great-nephews. Funeral services, officiated by Reverend
Dr. Brian GOODINGS, will be conducted at the Grace United Church
in Thornbury on Friday October 12 at 11 a.m. with interment and
committal services to follow at Thornbury-Clarksburg Union Cemetery.
Friends are invited to a time of fellowship and remembrances
of Orville at the Grace United Church following interment. As
your expression of sympathy, donations to Meaford General Hospital
Foundation would be appreciated and may be made through the Ferguson
Funeral Home, The Valley Chapel, in Thornbury to whom arrangements
have been entrusted.
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KANE o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2007-09-07 published
Crash victim a 'lovely' person
By Sun Media Staff, Fri., September 7, 2007
A 20-year-old woman who died in a crash near Tavistock was remembered
yesterday as a devoted mother and volunteer.
Jessica JOCQUE died Wednesday while driving her 16-month-old
son Nathan from Shakespeare to the boy's father's home in Tavistock,
Perth County Ontario Provincial Police said. "She was a lovely
girl," said Denise
KANE, secretary at Sprucedale public school
in Shakespeare. Rescue workers were shaken by the horrific crash
that left the baby motherless, said Ontario Provincial Police
Const. Glen
CHILDERLEY. "
There is no easy way to deal with something
like that," he said.
JOCQUE's son was taken to hospital in Stratford
and kept for observation,
CHILDERLEY said. The crash happened
on Perth Road 107, about 11: 45 a.m. Wednesday.
JOCQUE's car crossed
the centre line and crashed into an oncoming car. Police were
still investigating.
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KANEE o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2007-07-03 published
SCHACHTER,
Doctor
Ricky (née
KANEE) (1918-2007)
Healer, educator, innovator and advocate for the rights of women,
Jews and people in need, passed away peacefully on July 1st following
a prolonged illness during which she was constantly surrounded
by the love of her family and Friends. We thank the staff at
the Toronto Western and Baycrest Hospitals for their compassion
and exemplary care. Our special thanks to the caregivers Naty,
Lota, and Erwina. Doctor Ricky
SCHACHTER had a long, productive
and fulfilling life. Beloved wife of the late Doctor Benjamin
SCHACHTER
dear mother and mother-in-law of Doctor Daniel and Anya
SCHACHTER,
and Bonnie and Peter
DRUXERMAN; adoring grandmother of Reva and
Jonathan SCHACHTER, and Jessie and Cobi
DRUXERMAN; and loving
aunt to all of her nieces and nephews. Predeceased by her parents,
Rose and Sam
KANEE, and her brothers Abe, Doctor Ben, Sol, and Harry
who died at an early age. Raised in Melville, Saskatchewan, Ricky
was the daughter of self-educated immigrants, who instilled in
her the value of education. She put herself through the universities
of Manitoba and Saskatchewan, and through medical school at University
of Toronto in the early 1940's, later following in her older
brother's footsteps to specialize in dermatology at Columbia
University in New York, becoming a Fellow of the Royal College
in 1950. Ricky settled with her husband, a biochemist, in Toronto
where they raised their family. Doctor Ricky, as she preferred to
be called, spent every day of her career fighting for equality
and patient care, opening many doors for women in her discipline
and pioneering new techniques for treating chronic dermatological
conditions such as psoriasis and scleroderma. Her hard work,
energy and devotion earned her many distinctions, including the
Award of Merit from the Federation of Medical Women of Canada,
the Queen's Golden Jubilee Medal, the Order of Canada, the Canadian
Dermatology Association Practioner of the Year Award and an honorary
doctorate from Queen's University, but she always listed family
on her CV as her most important contribution. She has been honoured
for her contributions by medical associations from Ontario to
Poland. Doctor
SCHACHTER took great pride in her achievements, and
continued working tirelessly for the benefit of her patients
until she became ill in 2006. Doctor
SCHACHTER will be sorely missed
by her family, Friends, colleagues, students and patients. Her
funeral will be held on Tuesday, July 3, 2007 at 2: 00 p.m. at
Beth Tzedec Synagogue, 1700 Bathurst Street. Interment will follow
at Beth Tzedec Memorial Park, 5822 Bathurst Street. In lieu of
flowers, donations may be made to the Ricky Kanee Schachter Memorial
Fund c/o the Benjamin Foundation, 3429 Bathurst Street, Toronto,
M6A 2C3, 416-780-0324.
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KANEE o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2007-07-21 published
Canada's pre-eminent dermatologist refused to take no for an
answer
She overcame the twin 'congenital anomalies' of being a Jew and
a woman by entering medical school and becoming the country's
best skin specialist
By Ron CSILLAG,
Special to The Globe and Mail, Page S10
Toronto -- She was a mere slip - a hair over five feet tall,
maybe 50 kilos - from a small Prairie town in the middle of nowhere,
and was once told she suffered from two "congenital anomalies"
that ensured her failure. Even so, people who knew Doctor Ricky
Kanee SCHACHTER somehow lose their inhibitions when they describe
her (not in so many words) as having had balls. She didn't just
open doors for women in medicine, she kicked them down.
Diminutive in physical stature, a giant in her field and the
definition of moxie, Doctor
SCHACHTER was among Canada's pre-eminent
dermatologists, and tallied several firsts: She was the first
woman to head an academic division of dermatology in Canada,
the first female president of the Canadian Dermatology Association
(thus the first woman in Canada to lead specialists in her field)
and was the first female to win the Canadian Dermatology Foundation's
Practitioner of the Year award, in 2005.
As a woman and a Jew, she overcame tremendous obstacles at a
time when being either, never mind both, meant that higher education
was difficult, if attainable at all. But "these men and their
rules," as she once put it, were not going to stand in her way.
She became more determined than ever to become a doctor.
Her stunning success meant breakthroughs in the treatment of
her specialties, scleroderma and psoriasis. In 1976, Doctor
SCHACHTER
established the Psoriasis Education and Research Centre, renamed
four years ago the Phototherapy Education and Research Centre
at Women's College Hospital in Toronto, the first of its kind
in Canada.
Believing she could improve psoriasis sufferers' quality of life
on an out-patient basis - that people were more or less capable
of taking care of themselves - she first had to convince Ontario's
Health Ministry that ambulatory care was more cost-effective
than keeping patients in hospital. Her son, Doctor Daniel
SCHACHTER,
also a dermatologist, said her vision was to provide treatment
that did not disrupt patients' daily lives and which stressed
self-care - years before the concept existed. The facility remains
one of the largest centres of its kind in Canada, and treats
about 30,000 visitors annually. It has revolutionized the way
some chronic skin diseases are treated.
"She empowered nurses in a way they were never empowered before
to become not only caregivers but educators," noted Doctor Neil
SHEAR, professor of dermatology at the University of Toronto.
"She designed a clinic where people take responsibility for their
own care. That has a huge impact on patient outcome.
"Ricky was not only the right person, but in the right place
to really deliver a model of care that, even 30 years later,
is still innovative and cutting-edge."
In 1991, the Ricky Kanee Schachter Dermatology Centre was opened
at Women's College Hospital to treat and educate ambulatory patients,
after six years of fundraising. (Her reaction to the campaign's
establishment: "I thought I'd faint. I'm basically a shy person.")
Shy maybe, but definitely dogged, a trait acquired from her immigrant
parents - Russian father, Sam, and Austro-Hungarian mother, Rose
- who came to Canada to escape the anti-Semitism of Europe. They
had six children - the first died in childbirth - with Ricky
their only daughter.
Sam KANEE had arrived in 1903 to work on the Canadian Pacific
Railway. He settled in Melville, Saskatchewan., opened a general
store and eventually went into the grain business to establish
the successful Soo Line Mills.
Young Ricky had two role models as a child: her old brother Ben,
who went to Columbia University to study dermatology, and her
mother, who lovingly tended Ricky's younger brother Harry, who
had cerebral palsy. Harry, who died at 16 of chicken pox, couldn't
speak, and Rose
KANEE taught him to communicate through magazine
pictures.
Her other brothers were no slouches: Abe
KANEE was an executive
with Soo Line Mills. Sol
KANEE, who died in April, practised
law in Melville and was a former president of the Canadian Jewish
Congress. He also formed the first small-loans bank, served on
the board of the Bank of Canada longer than anyone and founded
the Royal Winnipeg Ballet.
Ricky, meantime, had skipped several grades, graduated from high
school at 14, and announced her plans for university. Her father,
an otherwise progressive man, countered that she would be taking
up a place for a man, and wanted his daughter to get married
and start a family. Ricky threatened that she would never get
married until she had a university education. Her father scraped
together the money.
She enrolled at the University of Manitoba, where she had her
first encounter with anti-Semitism - an "awakening," as she put
it in a 1995 published interview. "There was a sign in the women's
locker room: 'You Jews have taken over Winnipeg Beach but we
don't want you in our locker room.' " She transferred to the
University of Saskatchewan where the dean informed her that all
the universities in Canada, except in Halifax, had filled their
quota of Jews. Six weeks before her final exams, despite being
among the top three students, she was told she had to take an
IQ test. She refused. Then she was told she couldn't graduate
because she lacked a credit in physical education. "So while
everybody else was studying, I learned how to swim."
She completed two years in one and, armed with a degree in science
(and a swimming badge), she set out for medical school at the
University of Toronto. In her only interview with the dean of
medicine she was told there was no place for her because she
had two congenital anomalies: She was a woman and Jewish.
"What a silly man," she recalled. "I don't think I ever spoke
to him again. He didn't know how I felt about medicine. He didn't
know how hard my parents worked to send me to university. He
didn't know about my brother Ben. And he didn't know I had already
been accepted at U of T."
In 1942, she married Benjamin
SCHACHTER, a University of Toronto
biochemist who was researching female sexual hormones, and graduated
the following year. That was followed by two years of postgraduate
training in dermatology at Columbia University in New York. Her
association with Women's College Hospital began in 1946, and
in 1961 she was appointed associate professor in the University
of Toronto's faculty of medicine.
She challenged tradition, her grand_son Jonathan, 23, eulogized
at her funeral. One of her patients, a nun, had developed a scalp
condition from her veil, so in 1959, she wrote the Pope to complain
about the dress code for nuns. "Boba got a response, though not
from the Pope directly, granting permission for the nun to dress
appropriately to cure her condition." A few years later, Jonathan
added, the dress code for nuns was relaxed amid other reforms
of the Second Vatican Council. "She was by no means an ordinary
grandmother, nor an ordinary Jew or woman for that matter, but
she was a fiercely driven person who could do whatever she wanted."
That didn't mean she was hard. Health care, poverty and the disparity
between rich and poor were her greatest concerns, and her family
her greatest love (the names of her children and grandchildren
are on page one of a 24-page curriculum vitae).
"I learned so much from how she practised, how she handled patients
[and] got to know them all exceedingly well," said Doctor Vera
PRICE,
who'd been a teenaged patient of Doctor
SCHACHTER's, and later shared
her practice.
"To this day I insist that all my residents and fellows get to
know who they're treating. You have to know how to relate to
them… I certainly got this from her," added Doctor
PRICE, who now
teaches medicine at the University of California in San Francisco.
"[Patients] knew she loved them. She could be very strict and
not mince her words, but the tremendous caring was there."
Among her many honours were the 1994 Award of Merit from the
Federation of Medical Women of Canada, a 1995 award from the
Women's Dermatologic Society, and in 1998, induction into the
Order of Canada.
She retired several times, beginning in 1985, and stepped down
from teaching when she reached 65. "No problem," she pronounced
in 1995. "I just haven't accepted any salary for teaching the
past 11 years."
Asked once about the best advice she ever received, she replied:
"Don't take no for an answer - and I have passed it on to many
people."
Ricky Kanee
SCHACHTER was born in Melville, Saskatchewan., on
December 23, 1918. She died in Toronto on July 1, 2007. She was
88. Her husband, Benjamin
SCHACHTER, died in 2001. She is survived
by her children, Doctor Daniel
SCHACHTER and Bonnie
DRUXERMAN.
She
also leaves grandchildren Reva, Jonathan, Jesse and Cobi.
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KANGAS o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2007-01-10 published
ARMSTRONG,
Jane (née
McNAMARA)
It is with great sadness that our family announces the passing
of our beloved mother Jane
ARMSTRONG on January 7th, 2007. Mom
is greatly missed by her children, Michael of London, Pattye
and Gregg of Kirkton, Barbara and Kevin, Cindy and Mark all from
London and Sherrie and Shannon of Saint Marys. Grandma Jean has
a very special place in her heart for all 12 grandchildren and
6 great-grand_sons. Jean is sadly missed by sisters Barb and Harold
SNODDY of Exeter, Joan and Larry
KANGAS of Toronto and sister-in-law
Norma McNAMARA of Byron. Aunt Jean is fondly remembered by many
nieces and nephews. Jean is predeceased by big brother Jack
McNAMARA
and infant grand_son David. A memorial service will be held on
Thursday, January 11th, 2007 at 2 p.m. at Street, George's Church,
1475 Dundas St. East London Ontario. Donations to the Cancer
Society in lieu of flowers. You may be gone, but you will always
be in our hearts.
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ARMSTRONG,
Jean (née
McNAMARA)
It is with great sadness that our family announces the passing
of our beloved mother Jean
ARMSTRONG on January 7th, 2007. Mom
is greatly missed by her children, Michael of London, Pattye
and Gregg of Kirkton, Barbara and Kevin, Cindy and Mark all from
London and Sherrie and Shannon of Saint Marys. Grandma Jean has
a very special place in her heart for all 12 grandchildren and
6 great-grand_sons. Jean is sadly missed by sisters Barb and Harold
SNODDY of Exeter, Joan and Larry
KANGAS of Toronto and sister-in-law
Norma McNAMARA of Byron. Aunt Jean is fondly remembered by many
nieces and nephews. Jean is predeceased by big brother Jack
McNAMARA
and infant grand_son David. A memorial service will be held on
Thursday, January 11th, 2007 at 2 p.m. at Street, George's Church,
1475 Dundas St. East London Ontario. Donations to the Cancer
Society in lieu of flowers. You may be gone, but you will always
be in our hearts.
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KANN o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2007-10-22 published
CURTIN,
Walter
A.
Photographer
Walter
A.
CURTIN died peacefully at home at the
age of 96 on October 21st, 2007. Born in Vienna, Austria, he
fled the Nazis for England in 1939, married painter Isabel
KANN
and in 1952 moved to Toronto.
Once dubbed "Canada's greatest photographer" by Peter C. Newman,
CURTIN captured his subjects' unguarded moments with kindness
and humanity.
He made Friends readily and seldom lost them. He loved good food,
travels with Isabel, and spoiling his dog Bertie. In old age,
he increasingly loved to sleep, saying it prepared him for eternal
rest. He gave himself over to this in the presence of his wife,
six children and their families. He is much loved, and will long
be remembered.
Mass and reception 10 a.m. Tuesday at Holy Rosary Church, 354 St. Clair
W. In place of flowers, donations to Plan International Canada.
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KANN o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2007-11-03 published
He escaped the Nazis to become Canada's 'most brilliant photographer'
Initially trained as an engraver in Vienna, he pursued a passion
for photography that led him to produce trademark black-and-white
images. The results took him to the heights of his profession
By Charles
OBERDORF,
Special to The Globe and Mail, Page S11
Toronto -- Peter Newman once described Walter
CURTIN as Canada's
greatest photographer. A Viennese Jew who fled Nazism, he became
one of the country's most successful photojournalists of the
Fifties and Sixties.
His best-known image is probably also the best-known photograph
of its subject, Glenn Gould. In it, the pianist, wearing a heavy
overcoat and a driver's cap, sits in profile, hunched over the
keyboard of a shopworn Canadian Broadcasting Corporation studio
piano, his mouth slightly ajar, as if singing along with his
playing.
Mr. Gould himself seems to have preferred a different Walter
CURTIN shot.
Over the years, thanks to several
CURTIN assignments, the two
had become Friends. ("Walter," Mr. Gould once said, "you're as
crazy as I am.") The Friendship had an opposites-attract element:
the charming, gregarious and dapper Viennese and the unkempt,
argumentative and reclusive Canadian.
During one conversation - possibly one of Mr. Gould's famous
late-night phone calls - the pianist described a nightmare he'd
recently had in which he was a passenger in a 747 jet. A flight
attendant came to him and whispered that the pilot had just died
and that only Mr. Gould could land the plane. He woke up in terror.
In his darkroom, Mr.
CURTIN dug out the negatives from an assignment
he'd done that included a shot of a pilot at the controls of
a big jet. He printed an enlargement, then one of Mr. Gould with
his head at a matching angle. Carefully, he substituted the pianist's
face for the pilot's, framed the result and sent it to Gould.
He heard nothing, but later learned that for years there had
been a shot of Mr. Gould in a pilot's uniform, with someone else's
hairy hands, hanging in the pianist's bedroom.
Walter CURTIN was born Walter
SPIEGEL in the imperial Vienna
of Gustav Mahler and Ludwig Wittgenstein, Arthur Schnitzler and
Gustav
Klimt. In that well-fed city, the
SPIEGELs were food importers
and wholesalers. The business ran into trouble, however, when
Walter was about 15.
A few years later, in 1933, his father died, leaving him head
of the family. In November, 1938, eight months after Hitler's
Germany annexed Austria, the concierge in their apartment building
saved the family during the brutal Kristallnacht pogrom by sowing
such seeds of deceit and confusion that the Nazi mob who came
for them went away empty-handed. The strategy gained precious
time, and Mr.
CURTIN and his brother, Otto, soon fled to Britain.
Their mother would die in Poland along with thousands of other
Viennese Jews.
In England, Mr.
CURTIN worked at odd jobs, tried to enlist on
the day war was declared in September, 1939, but was rejected
as an "alien." After the fall of France, both brothers, along
with 2,000 other German-speaking aliens of military age, were
shipped to an internment camp in Australia. When British Prime
Minister Winston Churchill changed the policy to allow "friendly
aliens" to enlist, Mr.
CURTIN joined the British military and
was advised to change his name in case of capture.
The brothers served first in the 93rd Pioneer Corps, and then
Mr. CURTIN joined the Royal Engineers "after passing a test that
required putting together two bits of old-fashioned toilet chain.
That's how I became an Army engineer," he once wrote. He served
until 1946, mainly with the Royal Air Force.
Once out of the military, he decided to pursue a career in photography.
It was an interest that had followed him through the years. In
Vienna, he had studied photoengraving and worked briefly for
a portrait photographer; in London, before he was deported, he
had learned colour printing; on the ship to Australia, he and
some had formed a keen if under-equipped photography club.
Returning to London, he talked his way into an apprenticeship
at a busy commercial photo studio. He was soon behind a camera
making copy photographs of paintings. In 1948, he set up shop
on his own in Kensington, where such clients as Time-Life Books
wanted his well-crafted photos of paintings and art objects.
Along the way, Mr.
CURTIN became acquainted with a talented young
British painter 10 years his junior whom he met through an old
military friend. As it happened, his friend was married to a
painter who had decided to play matchmaker. Invited to dinner,
Mr. CURTIN showed up in all innocence to be introduced to a beautiful
young woman named Isabel
KANN.
She was Catholic and he was Jewish,
but no matter. As these things go, a relationship quickly developed
and they fell in love. They married in 1949.
On visits to Paris, he made Friends with the founders of the
Magnum photo agency - including Robert and Cornell Capa, Dimitri
Kessel and Henri Cartier-Bresson - who were setting new standards
in photojournalism made possible by the inconspicuous mobility
of the 35 mm camera and the versatility of high-speed film.
In 1952, hard economic times in Britain, together with the needs
of a young family, led the
CURTINs to emigrate to Canada.
Settling in Toronto, Mr. Walter decided to follow the lead of
his Magnum Friends and began shooting people and events rather
than paintings and sculpture. Within months he had sold a cover
to Liberty magazine. It was a portrait of the hockey giant, King
Clancy. Not long after that, the National Film Board in 1953
commissioned him to document the first season of the Stratford
Festival.
It soon became apparent, though, that photojournalism would not
support a growing family that by 1963 would number six children.
So, according to his colleague, John Reeves, "Walter did this
amazing thing. He unleashed that Viennnese charm of his on the
ad agencies and somehow convinced them that his kind of shooting
was just what they needed. All of a sudden, these black-and-white,
available-light images started showing up in magazine ads and
at the art directors' shows."
It was during this period that he worked with the journalist
Peter C. Newman, who was then a senior editor and columnist at
Maclean's. In a hand-written dedication, Mr. Newman wrote: "To
Walter CURTIN, the most brilliant photographer in Canada. With
admiration and best wishes. Peter Newman, May, 1961." It was
a respect that was to remain unchanged through the years.
By then, Mr.
CURTIN had moved the family back across the Atlantic
to again try his luck in London. There, he replicated his Toronto
ad-agency breakthrough, most memorably in a series of ads for
Wills cigars. Each one featured a large informal close-up portrait
of a man, clearly not a model, usually working-class - one was
a street sweeper - each in his working garb and almost off-handedly
holding a cigar. Freed of their ad copy, the series still stands
up as a vivid collection of genre portraits.
Eight years later, the
CURTINs returned to Toronto, where he
would soon begin an obsessive personal project to document the
major figures in Canada's classical music scene. In concert or
rehearsal, in their homes or sometimes his own, he shot them
all, from an aging Wilfred Pelletier in 1971 to a just-unpacked-from-Finland
Jukka-Pekka Saraste in 1994. His Canadian Brass look slimly resplendent
in the bell-bottomed, peacock tailoring of the early 1970s. Lotfi
Mansouri of the Canadian Opera Company gesticulates, soprano
Teresa Stratas clasps her hands to her mouth in embarrassment,
the Huggett family clutter the floor with their many wind and
string instruments. In 1994, some 80 of these images (from tens
of thousands of negatives) finally became a book, Curtin Call,
published by Exile Editions.
One reason Mr.
CURTIN could indulge in this labour of love was
that just as he was reaching retirement age in the mid-1970s,
his wife, Isabel, took up painting again and was soon a success
in major galleries with calm canvases that always included a
vase of flowers, a colourful swatch of fabric and a sun-shot
view through a window. Increasingly, in paintings made in winter,
the window looked out on a corner of Cannes or Albuquerque.
The six
CURTIN children also flourished. All of them have worked
in the arts, but as one son, John, said, "We keep out of each
other's way." One daughter paints, another sculpts, another writes
poetry, another designs stage sets. John
CURTIN makes award-winning
documentary films. Joe, a designer and builder of concert violins
and violas, recently received a $100,000 "genius" fellowship
from the MacArthur Foundation for advancing the science of his
field.
At the age of 80, Walter
CURTIN, an agnostic Jew, converted to
Roman Catholicism - primarily, his Friends speculated, to be
buried with Isabel. Characteristically, he took Israel as his
baptismal name. Until his early 90s, he seemed to live as energetically
as ever, though, travelling whenever possible, especially to
Europe, at home running errands for Isabel, entertaining Friends
and eating heartily in the Viennese style, always with a glass
of port before dinner, music after. He loved walking the dog,
Bertie, and sitting in Isabel's overflowing garden of lilies.
In the last year or two, though, he loved more and more to sleep,
claiming it was preparing him for "the eternal snooze."
Walter CURTIN was born Walter
SPIEGEL, on August 16, 1911, in
Vienna. He died of age-related causes in Toronto on October 21,
2007. He was 96. He leaves his wife, Isabel
KANN, and two sons
and four daughters. He also leaves four grand_sons.
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KANSCHAT,
Henry
Gerhard
After a lengthy illness at the Collingwood General and Marine Hospital,
on Friday June 29, 2007. Henry in his 79th year, beloved husband
of Elena. Dear Step-Father of John (Roz), Stephen (Jane) and Chris
MUIRHEAD.
Grandfather of John-Luke, Tom, Kyle and Hannah. Visitation
was held at the Watts Funeral Home and Cremation Centre (132 River
Rd. East, Wasaga Beach) Tuesday July 3, 2007 from 7-9 p.m. and
Wednesday July 4, 2007 from 12-2 p.m. Funeral Service was conducted
in the Chapel Wednesday July 4th, 2007 at 2 p.m. Interment Wasaga
Beach Cemetery. Donations to the Collingwood General and Marine
Hospital Heart and Stroke Department would be appreciated.
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CULNAN,
Rita
Marie (née
LORTIE)
Passed peacefully at Trillium Health Centre, Mississauga on Wednesday,
July 4, 2007. Rita, beloved wife of the late Doctor George F.
CULNAN.
Loving mother of Doctor James
CULNAN (Pamela), Michael (Jocelyn),
Patty (Nick
KANTOR), Marie
CASSELBERRY, Anne, Georgette (David
BIGELOW) and Thérèse. Cherished grandmother of Charlie (Barbara,)
Jeremy (Tracy), David, Michael, Amanda, George, Michelle, Veronica,
Andrew and great-grandmother of Tyler, Jaxon, Dylan and Holly.
Loving sister of Sr. Jeanne Marie
LORTIE, Anna
McKANE, Doctor Paul
LORTIE and the late Jean
MORRISSEY.
Friends will be received
at the Ward Funeral Home, 109 Reynolds Street, Oakville 905-844-3221,
from 6-9 p.m. Sunday, July 8. Funeral Mass to be held at Saint Michael's
Cathedral, 65 Bond Street at Shuter, Toronto, Monday morning
at 10 o'clock with cremation to follow. By request, donations
in Rita's memory may be made to the Heart and Stroke Foundation
or the charity of your choice.
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GOMME,
Paula (née
IVANCHUK)
Died peacefully on Friday, September 14, 2007 after a brief illness,
in her 88th year, at Toronto East General Hospital. She is survived
by her husband, Edwin Arthur
GOMME, and three sisters, Helen
FOOTE,
Vicky
SIEMENS and Anne
KANTOR. For many years Paula was
a loyal volunteer of the Canadian Red Cross Society and in more
recent years she devoted much time, as a volunteer, to Roy Thomson
Hall. She travelled extensively and for several years was a travel
agent and tour director. Cremation has taken place.
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