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SHATZ,
Jack
On Monday, July 16, 2007 at York Central Hospital. Jack
SHATZ,
beloved husband of the late Alice
SHATZ.
Loving father and father-in-law
of Stacie and Stan
KATCHEN,
Eddie and Cheri, and Michael and
Traci. Dear brother of Shirley
GRAYMAN and the late Harry and
Barney SHATZ.
Devoted grandfather of Josh and Elizabeth
KATCHEN,
Devra and Jordan
FREEDMAN,
Samantha,
Jessica,
Kylie, and Jake,
and great-grandfather of Joseph and Ari. At Benjamin's Park Memorial
Chapel, 2401 Steeles Ave., W., (3 lights west of Dufferin), for
service on Wednesday, July 18th at 1: 00 p.m. Interment Beth Emeth
Section of Bathurst Lawn Memorial Park. Shiva 110 Rosedale Heights
Drive in Thornhill from 1: 00 p.m. daily. Memorial donations may
be made to Toronto Hadassah Women's International Zionist Organization
at 416-630-8373.
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KATES,
Eugene▼
(October▼ 12, 1914 August 21, 2007)
Eugene KATES with his wife
Helen by his side, at their cabin
in Algonquin Provincial Park, a place he loved dearly, when he
died peacefully. Many thanks to all their wonderful Friends for
their love and support. A champagne party to celebrate Eugene's
very special life will be announced at a later date. www.billingsleyfuneralhome.com
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KATES o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2007-09-01 published
KATES,
Eugene▲
(October▲ 12, 1914-August 21, 2007)
Was with his wife Helen, at their cabin in Algonquin Park - a
place he loved dearly when he died peacefully. Many thanks to
all our wonderful Friends for their love and support. A champagne
party to celebrate his very special life will be announced at
a later date.
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'Country gentleman' doubled as the gravel-voiced Nose of Algonquin
Disarmingly direct, he kept a close eye on his resort's decorum
and his campers' secrets
By Charles
OBERDORF,
Special to The Globe and Mail, Page S12
For 30 years, most people met Eugene
KATES as the proprietor
of Arowhon Pines, the luxury resort in Ontario's Algonquin Park.
Although sometimes disarmingly direct, he had the manners and
style of what an earlier generation called a "country gentleman."
In charge but at ease, he made a very reassuring host.
Mr. KATES's gentlemanly side often came as a revelation to the
two generations of summer campers, more than 5,000 children and
adolescents, who knew him in the 30 years before 1975 as the
fearsome, gravel-voiced autocrat who owned and ran Camp Arowhon,
two lakes away from "the Pines."
Seth GODIN, a former Arowhon camper and counsellor who is now
a widely read marketing guru, wrote recently that, "In an age
of 'the customer is king,' Eugene was an anachronism. He never
said things to make people happy, didn't sugarcoat his point
of view and didn't compromise. He stood up to the government,
to rangers, to staff and even to his customers, the parents.
He wasn't afraid to tell you what he thought, and it didn't take
long to guess what he expected."
Behind his back, campers called him The Nose. That hurt, but
as his daughter Joanne, now Arowhon's camp director (and in winter,
this newspaper's restaurant critic), tried to tell him, it was
really a backhanded compliment. Although he rarely dealt with
campers individually - that was the counsellors' job - he always
seemed to know everything that went on, including each child's
most embarrassing secrets. The full phrase was "The Nose knows."
And so he did. When two counsellors-in-training got caught smoking
marijuana, Mr.
KATES immediately began arranging to send them
home. Not an easy decision; one of the two was very popular and
also a close relative. Within hours, one senior counsellor had
begun organizing a resistance: "If those two have to go home,
we should all quit."
Mr. KATES called a staff meeting for 11 p.m. His decision was
final, he said, adding that he had heard talk about quitting.
"I'm going into my office now," he said. "If any of you want
to leave, meet me there and we'll do the paperwork." No one took
him up on it.
However, he was less hard-hearted than his young charges thought.
His second wife, Helen, remembers a pale yellow bathrobe in which
he would patrol the grounds when he thought some campers were
staying up too late. Helen, new and conscientious, took a walk
herself one night, caught a boy in one of the girls' cabins and
marched the miscreants to the director's cabin. Later, he told
her gently that the idea wasn't really to catch anyone. It was
enough that campers saw the yellow bathrobe and got scared back
to where they belonged.
Eugene KATES was born in Toronto, the elder child and only son
of Max KATES, a dentist, and his wife, Lillian. He grew up on
Edgar Avenue in Rosedale, attended St. Andrew's College, Elm
House School and Upper Canada College until his final school
year, 1932-33, when he transferred to the University of Toronto
Schools. At the university itself, he studied math, physics and
chemistry. He then went for a short time to Rochester, New York
to learn film editing, hoping to work in the industry.
But the Depression was cutting deeply into his father's income,
and to eke things out, Lillian
KATES determined to open a children's
camp in Algonquin Park. She took over the lease on a bankrupt
family campground, renamed it Arowhon (from Samuel Butler's utopian
novel Erewhon - and "arrow"), and in 1934, signed up her first
60 campers, recruiting them through the sisterhoods of Reform
synagogues within one day's drive of Toronto. Mr.
KATES, then
20, dealt with logistics.
"The cabins had no lights, no running water," he later recalled.
"There was a smelly central toilet system and a kitchen with
a couple of old wood-burning stoves. To keep food cold, we had
to cut ice from the lake in wintertime, carry it to the icehouse
and pack it in sawdust. I was as much trouble as I was a value,
but I installed a small 32-volt generator, which allowed a 25-watt
bulb in each of the camper cabins. Almost every time there was
a play, we would overload the generator and there'd be a mad
rush up the hill to restart it while the camp waited in the dark."
In 1940, he and friend Tommy Walker joined the armed forces.
He trained at Camp Borden and in 1941 was commissioned a second
lieutenant with the 10th Armoured Regiment. By mid-1942, in England,
he had been seconded to the Royal Air Force, interpreting aerial
photographs and, it seems, spending many evenings at London's
Savoy Hotel.
He always spoke fondly of his time in England, but hardly at
all about later tours in Europe and North Africa, except to imply
that what he witnessed there turned him forever against the idea
of war. His last long conversation with his daughter was about
the folly, as he saw it, of Canada's involvement in Afghanistan.
At war's end, he had a job offer in the British film industry
but decided to help out for one season at the camp. The war years
had left it with a staff more interested in having fun than in
their charges, and his mother was giving it only partial attention,
having also built and opened Arowhon Pines, for visiting parents.
"That season was so unsuccessful and so unhappy" he wrote, "that
I had to come back to prove that I could beat it. I certainly
had no experience as an educator, but I had trained men in the
army and had become used to having my directions unquestioned.
That first postwar year at camp hooked me on the life."
He abhorred the thought of running a babysitting service, though.
He cleared a baseball diamond and an archery range, built stables
and a riding ring, expanded the docks for canoeing, sailing and
swimming. They could choose what skills to master, but they were
expected to set goals, state them and meet them. "His philosophy,"
his daughter says, "was that the drive toward excellence and
the pursuit of learning forged lifelong character - for both
the child attaining the skill and the staff member teaching it."
He was also passionate about the wilderness, even though, as
his son, Robert, an expert outdoorsman, points out, he never
hiked in the bush, never paddled a canoe and hardly ever sailed.
"But he loved Algonquin Park, loved being in business in Algonquin
Park."
From the start, Camp Arowhon had been co-ed - one of the first
such camps in North America. After the war, Mr.
KATES set about
diversifying it in other ways, reaching outside the Jewish community
to replicate the rich mix of cultures he had experienced in the
army. Soon enough, Arowhon was mixing not only Jews and gentiles,
Americans and Canadians, but also campers from Europe, the Caribbean
and Latin America.
His off-season life in Toronto went less well for a while. In
1949, he had married Ruth
GROSS,
Joanne and Robert's mother,
but the pair divorced in 1962. In 1968, he married Helen
DAY,
an English-born businesswoman. In 1971, the two took over Arowhon
Pines, the resort hotel, which had been fading under Mr.
KATES's
mother's management.
The hotel's lease then had only six years to run, and government
policy called for an end to all private leaseholds in the park.
Mr. KATES brought his full-bore energy and single-mindedness
to bear on Queen's Park. "A park the size of Algonquin can't
be the exclusive preserve of canoeists and backpackers," he argued.
"Three hotels in a 3,000-square-mile park exclude no one."
The minister he addressed was impressed, and even more that the
Pines had stayed solvent for 30 years with no liquor licence
(guests bring their own) and operating only 18 weeks a year.
Its lease was renewed, and the government was soon promoting
it in its tourism brochures.
The KATESes set about upgrading on all fronts. As Mr.
KATES put
it with typical directness in a 1976 interview, "We're in the
business of selling three things: a bedroom, a dining room and
a setting. The setting is superb, but it's beyond our control,
so we have to do our best with the other two." In 1987, Arowhon
Pines was invited to join Relais and Châteaux, the very selective
luxury hotel association.
By that time, it was already attracting guests from Europe. It
has since seen them arrive from as far as Peru, Vietnam and Senegal.
Mr. KATES delighted over the foreign guests, but when his staff
was abuzz over serving Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell, William
Hurt, Frances McDormand or Martin Short, he would ask, "Who?"
And, while he fretted over decorum in the stately dining room,
whenever hydro crews worked on lines to the camp or the hotel,
they got invited to lunch, sweaty work clothes and all.
Until late in his 70s, he went skiing for three weeks each year
in the Alps. In his 80s, he and Helen were beating couples 30 years
his junior at doubles tennis. About five years ago, though, he
was diagnosed with emphysema. Still, one afternoon in April,
sitting in his Toronto garden with the management team, talking
about reopening, he offhandedly said, "I don't know if 92 is
the right time to retire."
He spent his final weeks in his cabin at the camp, amid the shouts
and laughter of children. He died on the final day of camp, but
not until after the last bus had left.
The Nose knew.
Eugene KATES was born in Toronto on October 14, 1914. He died
at his cabin in Algonquin Park on August 21, 2007. He was 92.
He is survived by wife Helen, children Joanne and Robert, and
four grandchildren.
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SPEAGLE,
Patricia (née
QUARRY)
On Saturday, September 22, 2007 at the age of 77, Patricia
SPEAGLE
passed away after a lengthy illness at The Brant Centre in Burlington,
Ontario. Her equanimity and patience throughout her illness were
inspiring to all. Survived by her loving husband Walter, dear
sons Paul (Janelyn), John, Michael (Christine) and daughter Mary
BOUCHER
(Alan.)
She will be missed by her 8 wonderful grandchildren
- Robert, Madeleine, Matthew, Melissa, Penny, Patricia, Kathryn
and Alison. She is survived by her sisters Margaret
SILCOCK,
Betty CAVANAUGH and Hélène
RYAN.
Predeceased by her parents James
and Dorothy
QUARRY, sisters Claire
TRUDEL,
Eleanor
KATONA and
brother Doctor Gregory
QUARRY.
She▼ will be missed by numerous nieces
and nephews. The family wishes to extend its thanks to the caring
staff members of The Brant Centre. Born in Burlington in 1929,
Pat lived a happy and productive life in both Burlington and
Montreal. She was a longtime hospital volunteer, secretary of
the Newcomers Club, member of Saint_John's choir, a lifetime member
of the C.W.L. and a wonderful mother who made innumerable trips
to swimming, dancing and music lessons, soccer, hockey and schools,
all of which produced terrific memories, great Friends, and a
legacy that will not be forgotten. Visitation at Smith's Funeral
Home, 1167 Guelph Line (one stoplight north of the Queen Elizabeth
Way), Burlington (905-632-3333) on Wednesday from 3-5 and 7-9 p.m.
Funeral Mass will be Celebrated at Saint_John the Baptist Roman
Catholic Church, Brant Street (at Blairholm), Burlington on Thursday,
September 27, 2007 at 11 a.m. Interment Holy Sepulchre Cemetery,
Burlington. In lieu of flowers, donations to the Huntington Society
of Canada would be appreciated by the family. Vigil for Patricia
Wednesday at 8: 30 p.m. at the Funeral Home. www.smithsfh.com
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CAVANAUGH,
Betty (née
QUARRY)
(January 7, 1922-September 23, 2007)
Betty died with the courage, grace and dignity that she displayed
throughout her long, rich and full life. She lives in the heart
of Bill CAVANAUGH, her husband, best friend and life-companion
of 65 years. She is much loved and cherished by her eight children:
Peter (Peg), Peggy
MANIS, Cathy (John
BECKINGHAM), Chris (Joan),
Betty Lou REYNOLDS,
Michael,
Nancy
HELMERS (Bill) and Paul (Sue.)
Grandma is remembered joyfully by her eleven beautiful grandchildren,
Linda, Alexi, Christy, Sean, Colleen, Laura, Beth, Christopher,
Simone, Esme and William. She is an inspiration to her three
great-grandchildren, Jordon, Gavin and Oliver. Betty is survived
by her sisters Margaret
SILCOCK and Hélène
RYAN, her sister-in-law,
Barb QUARRY, and brothers-in-law Joe, John (Mavis) and Paul (Gwen.)
She▲ was predeceased by her parents James and Dorothy
QUARRY,
sisters Claire
TRUDEL,
Eleanor
KATONA, Patricia
SPEAGLE, and
brother Greg. She is fondly remembered by her many nieces, nephews
and cousins. Her special gift for Friendship leaves many with
warm and fond memories. Born in Stratford, Ontario, Betty grew
up in Waterdown and Burlington. She taught elementary school
in Kingsbridge, North Bay, Terrace Bay and Thunder Bay where
she also worked as a Christian Living Consultant with the Catholic
School Board and provided leadership in the revision of Catholic
curriculum for primary grades in the 1980s. Following her retirement
in 1987, Betty and Bill made their home in Burlington where they
enjoyed family get-togethers, celebrations and many cultural
and sporting events. A lifelong reader, Betty especially appreciated
her book club. She taught and regularly attended aquafit classes
at the Y. She looked forward to bridge games, fun luncheons and
walks in Spencer Smith Park. She was an active member of the
Newcomers Club. During these years she grew in her faith and
belief in God who granted her many blessings, including a peaceful
death, gently and lovingly cared for by her family and the staff
and volunteers at Carpenter Hospice. We are deeply grateful for
their support and compassion. We also thank Doctor Ernest
HAJCSAR
for his concerned and timely care. A memorial mass will be celebrated
at St. Raphael's Roman Catholic Church, 4072 New Street (at Longmoor,
east of Walker's Line), on Friday, September 28, 2007 at 11: 00 a.m.
In lieu of flowers, the family will appreciate donations to The
Carpenter Hospice, 2250 Parkway Drive, Burlington, L7P 1T1. Arrangements
entrusted to Smith's Funeral Home, Burlington, 905-632-3333 www.smithsfh.com
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KATZ,
Sophie
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CHOLAKIS,
Harry
A.
(December 16, 1926-July 16, 2007)
It is with great sadness that the family of Harry
CHOLAKIS announces
his passing at age 80 in Toronto. Survived by his loving wife
of 54 years, Marina, his beloved children Ernest (Rebecca
LAST,)
Nancy (Richard
RACZKOWSKI,)
Cynthia
(Robert
GEMMELL) and George
(Hanya KATZ.) Cherished grandfather to Jennifer, Greg, Laura,
Megan, Michelle and Michael. Survived by brothers, John, Paul
and Leo CHOLAKIS, predeceased by brother Chris and parents, Ernest
and Helen CHOLAKIS, all of Winnipeg. Harry was born in Winnipeg
to a Greek immigrant father and
an American mother. His passion
for sports resulted in recruitment to the Winnipeg Blue Bombers
Football team before polio ended his dream. He then focused his
energy coaching the Winnipeg Rods, a Manitoba junior football
team. He joined the family business, Broadway Florists and Greenhouses
and then at 41 years of age moved to Toronto with his young family
after purchasing Helen Simpsons Flowers. He soon acquired Stan
Muston Florist, Graingers and Staines Florists, opened shops at
the Royal York Hotel and
on Bay Street and was managing the flower
shop at the downtown Simpsons department store. Harry was active
with FTD and was the first elected Canadian director. He
was proud to be a founder of the Ontario Florist Conference and
was honored when, in recognition of his many years of involvement
in the floral industry, the conference created a 'Harry Cholakis
Award'. His family will forever miss his wisdom, strength, humor,
integrity and devotion. Harry felt fortunate to have had grandchildren
to share his life with the past 18 years. It was a joy for him
to celebrate their milestones and to frequently travel with them,
often to watch them compete in junior squash tournaments throughout
North America and Europe. They will miss his sense of fun, wit
and love. A private family funeral service was held followed
by interment at Mount Pleasant Cemetery. Condolences can be sent
to marinacholakis@sympatico.ca
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MOSES,
Eleanor
On Monday September 10, 2007 at Saint Michael's Hospital. Eleanor
MOSES beloved wife of the late Aubey. Loving mother of Susan,
and John. Dear sister and sister-in-law of Sybil
KESTEN,
Marjory
and Harry KATZ,
David and Dorothy
PULLAN, and the late Ruth and
Dr. Robert
VOLPE. At
Beth
Tzedec
Synagogue 1700 Bathurst Street,
for service on Wednesday September 12th at 10: 00 a.m. Interment
Beth Tzedec Memorial Park. Memorial donations may be made to
the Canadian Cancer Society 1-888-939-3333.
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KATZ,
Sidney
On Thursday, September 13, 2007, Sidney (Sholem)
KATZ died peacefully
in his 92nd year at Toronto's Sunnybrook Hospital after a long
battle with kidney disease.
Born in Ottawa in 1916, he was the third
son of Samuel
KATZ of
Russia and Susan
SUGARMAN of Lithuania. Educated at Lisgar Collegiate
and St. Patrick's College (now Carleton University), where he
received his B.S. Sc., he then moved to Toronto, where he was
named editor of the now-defunct publication Magazine Digest.
In 1941, he enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force as a radar
mech., serving in the Eastern Air Command and, later, overseas
with the Royal Air Force. Returning to Canada after the war,
Sid continued his education at the University of Toronto, obtaining
a M.S.W. (Master of Social Work), specializing in psychiatry.
He later received a Diploma in Alcohol and Drug Addiction from
Yale University.
Having married Ottawa-born journalist Dorothy
SANGSTER while
on leave during the war, the couple settled in Toronto. Sid joined
the staff of Macleans Magazine as a feature writer, gaining national
acclaim for his numerous articles over a period of fifteen years,
including his breakthrough 1954 article "I Was a Madman for Twelve
Hours", the first detailed, first-person account in a general
magazine of the effects of the hallucinogenic drug LSD, given
to Sidney under the supervision of Doctor Humphrey Osmond in Weyburn,
Saskatchewan.
Sid later joined the Toronto Star, where he was a feature writer
and columnist, specializing in issues of mental health, mental
illness, and social and behavioural problems. Retiring early
from the Star, he continued his career as a freelance journalist
and broadcaster as well as acting as an Adjunct Professor at
the University of Western Ontario's Graduate School of Journalism,
and authoring the book The Divided Woman.
His concern about Canadians with special needs often led to the
establishment of organizations designed to help them, including
the Non-Smokers' Rights Association, Parent Finders, The Patients'
Rights Association and the Allergy Information Association. He
was actively involved in several other groups, including those
dealing with Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome and gay rights,
and as a member of the Conference on Aging's planning committee
and of the executive planning committee of the Ontario Consultation
on Youth.
Sidney received numerous awards for his work, including the City
of Toronto Civic Award, the Canadian Mental Health Award, Metro
Police Award, the University of Western Ontario's President's
Medal (twice), the Canadian Education Conference Award, Canadian
Nurses Association Award, Allergy Information Association Award,
the Ohio State University Award, and ten Maclean-Hunter Awards
for editorial excellence.
Sidney is survived by his wife Dorothy, son Jeremy, sisters Esther
(Mrs. Irving
ROBINSON) of Toronto and Miriam (Mrs. Lou
WEINER)
of Ottawa, and numerous nieces and nephews. He was pre-deceased
by his son Stephen in 1989.
The family would like to express its sincere appreciation to
the staff of Sunnybrook Hospital's K Wing (Veterans) and Dialysis
Unit for their wonderful care over the past several years.
A private family service was held at Mt. Pleasant Cemetery. Friends
may call at the Morley Bedford Funeral Home, 159 Eglinton Ave. W.
(2 stop lights west of Yonge St.) on Wednesday September 26 from
2-4 and 7-9 p.m.
In lieu of flowers, donations to Sunnybrook or The Kidney Foundation.
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GOUIN,
Jean
Yvon "
Ivan"
On November 11, 2007 Ivan, beloved husband of the late Carol
GOUIN, passed away peacefully.
Ivan was born on February 15, 1916 in Vimy, Alberta. He was the
second of seven children born to Rudolph and Rose Alma
GOUIN.
The family lived in rugged conditions on a small farm. As a teenager
during the Great Depression of the 1930's, Ivan experienced the
desperation of poverty. The lessons of misery defined his young
life and taught Ivan that hard work, persistence and optimism
would change his circumstance. Always practical even as a little
a boy, Ivan once witnessed a fire and responded to those crying,
'God stop the flames, by saying you pray, I'm getting some water'.
An alter boy to an early mentor, Father Coolin, Ivan learned
and lived by the notion, the most important thing was to look
after those he loved here and now, not in the hereafter. Throughout
his life, generosity flowed from a man who is defined by helping
others. In 1938 at the age of 22, Ivan got a job at grain elevator.
His salary of $15 a week was shared by his large family whose
needs he understood as being more important than his own.
In 1940, Ivan discovered his entrepreneurial talent by purchasing
a general store in Vimy with his sister. From those humble beginnings
Ivan prospered, never forgetting his commitment to his family
and those in need. World War Two interrupted his career as a
shop keeper when he joined the Canadian Army and served in Ontario.
After serving in the military and seven years as a merchant,
Ivan realized the future of rural Alberta would be roads and
cars. Most important he understood this future would bring increased
competition to little towns and jeopardize his business and so
many others. Ivan sold his store and turned his attention to
a career that would make him a pioneer in construction.
Ever the entrepreneur, Ivan noticed farmers in the area were
using small bulldozers to clear their land. Most farmers did
not have the capital to invest in this equipment so Ivan and
his younger brother Bob bought one very old piece of equipment
and then another, clearing the land of bush and rock. As business
grew, the brothers broadened their horizons and secured work
from the Alberta Department of Highways.
On New Years Day 1948, at the age of 31 Ivan went to a party
that would change his life forever. At that happy occasion was
a beautiful woman named Carol. Originally from Yugoslavia, Carol
immigrated to Canada with her family as a child of 4. Ivan was
immediately captivated by the vibrant young woman. Three months
later they were married and began a family.
In 1951, Ivan and Carol moved their young family to a small house
in Edmonton and soon thereafter to the West Edmonton neighbourhood
of Valleyview. A home and a life Carol, Ivan and the children
would come to cherish. In 1952, Ivan, brother Bob and two partners
began work under the name North American Road Builders. Soon
the brothers bought out their partners and so began the foundation
of a company that expanded throughout Alberta. Twenty years later,
in 1972 Bob decided to pursue other interests. Ivan bought Bob's
share of the company.
There were many strenuous challenges, all of which Ivan faced
with optimism and an unrivalled passion. He knew the business,
worked hard to compete and expand. Survival was not always easy
in the highly competitive and always risky business of construction.
His success was by any standard, outstanding, fuelled by the
need to innovate, to compete and to see just over the horizon.
In the late 1970's, Ivan experienced health problems that changed
his approach to life and business, spending more time with Carol
traveling to southern California to escape Alberta's winters
and exploring the world. Ivan was blessed with an immense knowledge
of history and politics. He was a voracious reader, affording
him an intellectual presence that allowed him tolerance and perspective
widely respected throughout his life. Ivan was honest, his ethics
were beyond reproach. He had wisdom and grace, was a teacher
of all who knew him and a friend of so many. His optimism was
infectious. Ivan believed that obstacles in life provided endless
opportunity. When it rained making road building difficult he
would say, 'rain is why we include contingencies in our budgets,
when it does not rain, we are more profitable. And that's just
good business.' When faced with competition, Ivan would innovate.
When paying taxes, he would remind colleagues 'working is a privilege
and taxes remind us of that.' Business was his passion. Carol
and his family was his life. He respected others and asked only
what he expected of himself. Ivan is survived by his children
Elaine BUSCH (Ron), Roger (Peggy), Renee
KATZ (Daryl) Colette
(Michael), Martin (Sarah). His grandchildren include, Renee,
Arden, Justin, Anna, Lauren and Isabelle
GOUIN, Britt
FRENCH,
Harrison and Cloe. Ivan's brothers and sisters include, Giselle,
Jennie (deceased), Lucille (deceased), Lomar (deceased), Rolond
and Robert. His many nieces and nephews. Ivan will be remembered
for his many contributions to Edmonton, to Alberta and
to Canada.
A man of substance and charisma, of depth, and always a man whose
love of his wife knew no bounds. Ivan died in his 91st year at
11 a.m. on November 11. A fitting tribute to his country and
to his wife, Carol whose birthday fell on that same day.
Special thanks to Doctor Allison Theman for her compassion in caring
for both Carol and Ivan. And to the Emergency and Intensive Care
Units of the U of A and Misericordia Hospitals. The family thanks
Ivan's caregiver, Blandina Carilla for her many years of service.
There will be a family memorial service followed by a celebration
of his life, for all, at the Royal Mayfair Golf and Country Club
on south Groat Road in Edmonton, Thursday, November 15, at 4 p.m.
In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to a hospital of your
choice. Connelly-McKinley Funeral Home 10011-114 Street Edmonton,
Alberta 780.422.2222
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SINGER,
Belle
On Monday, December 3, 2007. Belle
SINGER, beloved wife of the
late Fred SINGER.
Loving mother and mother-in-law of Rosalyn
and Bernard
NATHANSON, and Francine and Ralph
GREEN. Dear sister
and sister-in-law of Rose and the late Ben
KATZ,
Jules
NEWTON
and the late Wallace J. and the late Tillie
NEWTON,
Francis and
the late Samuel
NISSENBAUM, the late Toba and the late Harry
KASH.
Devoted grandmother of Bill and Shaindy
NATHANSON, and
Lani and Bryon
ALEXANDROFF, great-grandmother of Lindsi and Michael,
Brandon and JoJo, Daniel, and Adam, great-great-grandmother of
Zoe Nora. Blessed to have outstanding caregivers Lisa, and Beth.
At Benjamin's Park Memorial Chapel, 2401 Steeles Avenue West
(3 lights west of Dufferin) for service on Tuesday, December 4,
2007 at 1: 00 p.m. Interment Beth Tzedec Memorial Park. Memorial
donations may be made to the Fred and Belle Singer Memorial Fund
c/o Baycrest Centre, 416-785-2875.
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Lucie Jane
DOAN (née
COLLINS)
In Loving Memory of Lucie Jane
DOAN (née
COLLINS) who died peacefully at
the Manitoulin Centennial Manor on Sunday, May 20, 2007 at the age of 94.
Predeceased by her beloved husband Andrew in 1987. Loved by her children
Betty BOWERMAN (husband Clint predeceased) of Espanola, Everett and wife
Maralynn of Rexdale, Lillian (predeceased in 1975), George (predeceased
in 1996) wife June of Toronto. Cherished grandmother of Sandra and husband
Albert BEAVEN,
Debora and husband John
MERCHANT, Joanne and husband Peter
KATZUR,
Cathie and husband Cas
BURNS, Staccy and husband Michael
DUNNE, Kim and
husband Jeff
TOPPIN,
Derwin
DOAN and Samantha, Leanne and husband Royce
HAMIGUCHI,
Leslie and husband Dave
GUYON. Special great grandmother of
Chris and wife Joelle
MERCHANT, Megan
MERCHANT and fiance Matt, Kara
MERCHANT,
Ehren KATZUR,
Michael
BURNS and fiance Jennifer, Anthony
BURNS,
Patrick and Thomas
DUNNE,
Jessie
TOPPIN, Britney and Jake
DOAN, Cassidy
Hamiguchi, Cole
GUYON.
Proud great great grandmother of two - Jack and Darcy
MERCHANT.
Will be missed by her siblings Alice
KIRK (predeceased by both
husbands Ivan
KIRK and Russ
HORE,)
Pearl
SMITH (husband Aubrey
predeceased,) Dorothy
WISSON (friend Orest
NADOR) (husband Lorne "Spike"
predeceased,) Richard
COLLINS (wife
Dorothy predeceased,) Clifford
COLLINS and wife Moria, Percy (predeceased) wife May
COLLINS, Elizabeth and
husband Wilbert
McCULLIGH (both predeceased,) Walter (predeceased) wife
Norine COLLINS,
Bella and husband Fred
DENNIS (both predeceased,) Mable
PETERS (predeceased,) Norman and wife
Ruth
COLLINS (both predeceased.) Will
be forever remembered by many nieces and nephews. Visitation was 7 - 9 pm
Monday. Funeral Service was at 11: 00 am Tuesday, May 22, 2007 at Island
Funeral
Home,
Little Current. Reverend Faye
STEVENS officiating. Burial in
Elmview Cemetery, Sheguiandah. Donations to Sheguiandah United Church,
Manor Bed Fund or to cancer.
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