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HUNSPERGER,
Robert
Allan
Robert Allan
HUNSPERGER, of Hanover, passed away at Hanover and
District Hospital, Hanover on Saturday, October 27, 2007. He
was 69.
Robert was born in Owen Sound. He was the
son of the late Melville
and Viola
(ARISS)
HUNSPERGER. He was employed with Knechtel Furniture
and Nordic Furniture until the time of his retirement.
Survived by his wife and best friend Shirley, daughter Kimberley
(DALE)
BECKER of Ayton, sons Randall (Debby)
HUNSPERGER of Kitchener,
Rob (Wendy)
HUNSPERGER of R.R.#3, Hanover, grandchildren Jocelyn,
Candace, Graeme, Jordann, Elias, Seth and Sadie. Also survived
by his sister-in-law Doreen (Dean)
PAGE of Waterloo and their
family Nancy, Gwen, Tracey and Cathy. Predeceased by his parents
Melville and Viola
HUNSPERGER and father and mother-in-law Walter
and Lenore
KENNEDY.
Visitation was held at Mighton Funeral Home, Hanover, on Monday,
2-4 p.m. and 7-9 p.m. where a Funeral Service was held on Tuesday,
October 30, 2007 at 11 a.m. Interment in Hanover Cemetery.
Pallbearers were Doug
REAY, Don
REAY, Larry
HEIPEL, Jack
WEIS,
Dennis YAECK and Dean
PAGE.
Memorial donations to the Kidney Foundation, Heart and Stroke
Foundation or the Hanover and District Hospital Foundation were
appreciated as expressions of sympathy.
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HYDE,
Harold
Malcolm
Peacefully at the age of 65 years, surrounded by his family on
Friday, June 15th, 2007 in Southampton after a brief, courageous
battle with cancer, Harold
HYDE of Port Elgin. Beloved spouse
of the former Maxine
DUDGEON and the late Mary
THORNICROFT.
Loved
father of Darrell
HYDE and his wife
Suzanne of Port Elgin, and
Dianne and her husband Todd
HAMILTON of Angola, Indiana. Stepfather
to Peter SINCLAIR and Paul
SINCLAIR, both of Stouffville. Cherished
Grandpa to Matthew, Melissa, Micheal, Danielle and Brandon. Brother
of Gordon HYDE and his wife
Marlene of Teeswater, Joan and her
husband Wes
BROOKS of Edmonton, and Terry
HYDE of Wasaga. He
will also missed by Donald
PAGE (his late wife
Beth) and his
daughter Karen. Brother-in-law of Ross
DUDGEON and his wife
Mary,
Don DUDGEON and his wife
Norma,
Doug
DUDGEON and his wife Ruth,
and Larry DUDGEON and his wife
Heather.
Special friend of Jeff
and Rosemary
CRAWFORD. He will also be missed by his many nieces,
nephews, and extended family and Friends. He is predeceased by
his sister-in-law Carol
HYDE.
Friends may call at the W. Kent
Milroy Port Elgin Chapel, 510 Mill Street, Port Elgin (Town of Saugeen
Shores) from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. on Monday, June 18th. A funeral
service will be conducted in the Port Elgin United Church, 840 Bruce
Street, Port Elgin, on Tuesday at 11: 00 a.m. Interment Southampton
Cemetery. Memorial contributions to the Saugeen Memorial Hospital
Foundation for Palliative Care or the Canadian Cancer Society
would be appreciated as expressions of sympathy. Portrait and
memorial online at www.milroyfuneralhomes.com
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Myrna
Edith
Peacefully at the Huntsville District Memorial Hospital on Wednesday
October 24, 2007. Myrna
PAGE of Burks Falls was in her 62nd year.
Dear mother of Lorraine (Steve), Angela Betty (Lewis), Wesley
(Kim) and Jason (Brenda). Cherished grandmother of Cole, Amanda,
Uneita, Reba, Christopher, Abigail and Mitchell. Great-grandmother
to Jack, Morgan, Faith and Ruth. Loving sister to Dianna (Tim),
Terry (Gerald) and Steven (Brenda.) Ms.
PAGE will be resting
at the Dempster-Allair Funeral Home, 210 Ontario Street in Burks
Falls on Friday October 26th from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. Funeral service
will be held in the Chapel commencing at 11: 00 a.m. on Saturday
October 27, 2007. Pastor Richard
McQUILLIN officiating. Cremation
with interment of ashes in South River Cemetery at a later date.
If desired, donations to the Diabetes Foundation or the Heart
and Stroke Foundation would be appreciated by the family.
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Kathleen
Mary (née
JAMES)
Peacefully with her family by her side on January 10th, 2007
in her 92nd year. Kathleen will be deeply missed by her husband
Robert. Devoted mother to Robert Jr., Gregory, John, Malcolm,
Peter and Paul. She will be greatly missed by her many grandchildren
and great-grandchildren. A Memorial Service to celebrate Kathleen's
life will be held on Saturday January 20, 2007 at the Brampton
Memorial Gardens Cemetery, 10061 Chinguacousy Rd. and Highway #7
at 10: 30 a.m. Cremation. In lieu of flowers, donations to the
Alzheimer's Society of Peel would be greatly appreciated. The
family wish to express their appreciation to the staff of Peel
Manor, especially the staff and volunteers of the Fountainview
Unit.
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CASSEL,
Pearl
Georgina (née
PAGE,) M.Ed.
on July 3rd, 2007, age 75, of heart failure after a long battle
with illness. Teacher, traveler, guidance counselor, author,
naturalist, public speaker, patron of our native artists, cruise
ship lecturer, photographer, fisherwoman, mother and grandmother.
Born in Bengeo, England, Pearl studied science at the Universities
of London and Southampton after turning down a scholarship that
would have required her to study education. After three years
in research pharmacology, her thirst for travel and adventure
took her to North America, where she hitch-hiked through 40 states
before serendipitously landing a short term teaching position
in Toronto. Ironically, the experience discovered a passion for
pedagogy that began a 35 year career in which she taught all
elementary and high school grades, earned a Masters of Education
at the University of Toronto and a Parent Education Diploma,
and became a founding director of the Alfred Adler Institute
of Ontario. With Doctor Rudolph
DREIKURS, a colleague of Adler,
she co-authored Discipline without Tears, a teacher and parent
guide to managing primary school pupils through understanding
motivation, which became an international bestseller translated
into several languages. Pearl went on to author Why Kids Jump
Over The Moon (Winner of the Elmer Huff Award, Ontario School
Counselors
Association) and, with co-author Doctor Raymond
CORSINI,
The Challenge of Adolescence (Writers Award, Federation of Women
Teachers' Associations of Ontario) and Coping with Teenagers
in a Democracy. The success of her books and her love of helping
others resulted in invitations to deliver over 1000 keynote speeches
and workshops throughout North America, including most of Canada's
major universities and many remote locations where she introduced
Adlerian, democracy-based teaching approach to First Nations
educators. Pearl developed a deep appreciation for native art
and relationships with native artists, including the Hunts in
British Columbia and Goyce Kakegamic, for whom she helped to
arrange an airlift of his work when his studio was threatened
by forest fire. Following her retirement from the public school
system, Pearl alternated residences in Toronto, Florida, Victoria
and Vancouver and reapplied her skills to guiding and educating
adults on cruise ships. Greatly distressed when she became unable
to continue cruise ship lecturing, she applied her characteristic
determination to find other venues in which to contribute to
the community: providing telephone support to the housebound
through community care; organizing trips and events for her residence
and local clubs; and, in her last year, returning to assist in
a local elementary school, which she found as rewarding as any
of the experiences in her rich life. Pearl is survived by son
Paul and granddaughters Camille and Celeste in Toronto and niece
Linda in England. A celebration of Pearl will take place in the
banquet room at 1880 Valley Farm Rd., Pickering, where she lived,
on Friday, July 20th from 3: 00 to 5:30 p.m. Donations in lieu
of flowers may be made to the Pickering Naturalists, Box 304,
Pickering, Ontario. L1V 2R6 or the Adlerian Psychology Association
of British Columbia 230-1818 W. Broadway Vancouver, British Columbia
V6J
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Doctor▼
Orville "
Ory"
Thomas
Passed away on Saturday, August 4, 2007, at the Summerset Manor,
Summerside, Prince Edward Island, after a lifetime devoted to
science and the pursuit of Knowledge. He was predeceased by his
beloved Norma
ELLIS and is survived by a sister Grace
BRIDLE,
a daughter Karen
MARANTZ and a son William
PAGE.
Dr. PAGE was born on February 13, 1921 in Burlington, Ontario.
After serving in the Royal Canadian Air Force as a coastal pilot
and chief test pilot from 1940 to 1945, he went on to university,
obtaining a first degree in science at the Ontario Agricultural
College (Guelph) of the University of Toronto and then Masters
and Doctorate degrees at the Iowa State College in the United
States in 1954.
After ten years of research activity Doctor
PAGE went on to teach
as a professor and to serve as the Associate Dean of Science
at the University of New Brunswick. In 1973, he was appointed
Deputy Director and Director of Research at the International
Potato Center in Lima, Peru, where he directed the research of
some 50 PhD level scientists and their research students until
his retirement in 1985. As a consultant, Doctor
PAGE undertook assignments
on behalf of numerous Canadian and foreign development agencies
in some 28 countries in the developed and lesser developed world.
Ory supported various scientific endeavors after his retirement
ranging from encouraging young people to pursue science as careers,
the establishment of a library, the inventory of trees in Summerside
and the scientific underpinnings of the Bedeque Bay Environment
Association.
Resting at the Moase Funeral Home, Summerside, Prince Edward
Island, until Friday, August 10, 2007, then to the Summerside
Baptist Church, for funeral service at 11: 00 a.m. Interment in
Peoples Cemetery, Summerside. Visiting hours Thursday from 7-9 p.m.
only. Memorial donations to the Friends of the Summerside Rotary
Library would be appreciated. www.moase.ca
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Prince Edward Island plant pathologist led the world in potato
research and breeding
Although unable to stomach spuds himself, he believed that with
some laboratory tinkering the humble tuber could be the answer
to beating famine in developing countries
By Douglas
McARTHUR,
Special to The Globe and Mail, Page S10
As a boy, Orville
PAGE had a bad experience with a potato. He
either choked on one or had an allergic reaction. In any case,
he never knowingly ate one again.
Yet he was to become one of the world's leading potato researchers
and a strong believer in the introduction and expansion of potato
production in developing countries as a means of alleviating
hunger. The Ontario-born scientist worked in Peru from 1973 to
1985 as the first director of research and deputy director at
the International Potato Center. The centre is a multinational
institution devoted to reducing poverty through sustainable development
of the potato, sweet potato and other root and tuber crops.
Dr. PAGE, known to Friends and co-workers as Ory, had earlier
spent 12 years researching potatoes in Fredericton with Agriculture
Canada and the University of New Brunswick. And he continued
his potato work after his retirement through assignments with
a number of development agencies.
As a young man, he was based in Prince Edward Island, Canada's
potato capital, where he served as a pilot with the Royal Canadian
Air Force during the Second World War. He went on to obtain a
doctorate in plant pathology, to teach at the Ontario Agriculture
College in Guelph and to spend a number of years researching
banana diseases for the United Fruit Co. in both Honduras and
the United States.
Colleagues at International Potato Center say Doctor
PAGE set the
centre's overall research policy while letting his staff get
on with their individual projects without interference. They
remember him as a charming but tough boss, and as a dedicated
scientist with a commitment to feeding the world's burgeoning
population and a reputation for looking immaculate -- even when
inspecting agriculture projects in remote areas of the Third
World. In his spare time, he had a passion for sailing and dabbled
in studying sparrows, saying he was intrigued by the small birds'
ability to adapt to local conditions anywhere in the world.
"Ory laid the groundwork for a highly recognized international
potato research program," says Hubert Zandstra, a fellow Canadian
who was International Potato Center's director general from 1991 to
2005. One of Doctor
PAGE's major contributions, he says, was the
development of sanitary measures that allow genetic material
from potatoes to be exchanged among researchers around the world
and to be made available for breeding in developing countries.
Without those procedures, most countries would refuse entry to
specimens taken from live potato plants.
Peter VanderZaag, a Canadian potato breeder, says Doctor
PAGE's
initial priority at the centre was to collect and classify wild
and cultivated species of potato and study their properties.
His team then had to find ways to transfer disease-resistant
genes from plants that grow wild in the Andes to domesticated
varieties, a complicated process because of the genetic makeup
of potatoes.
Dr. PAGE also helped further the growing of potatoes from the
plants' seeds, rather than from pieces of the tuber as had been
the normal practice. This is important in Third World countries
because it means all the tubers could be used for food, says
Dr. VanderZaag, who was once Southeast Asian regional director
with the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research,
of which International Potato Center is a member.
Dr. PAGE had a special interest in late blight, the fungal disease
that led to one million deaths during the great Irish famine
in the mid-1800s, says George Tai, a retired New Brunswick potato
researcher. Late blight continues to ravage crops today, and
Dr. PAGE worked to find a way to prevent it by building up resistance.
Under his guidance, researchers and breeders developed many new
potato varieties and introduced them to suitable locations around
the world. "To a large extent," says William George
BARKER, a
retired potato researcher and long-time friend, "the potato presence
in the world is largely his doing."
In a 1994 paper published in the Canadian Journal of Plant Pathology,
Dr. PAGE explained that potatoes yield more food energy per hectare
than cereals and are especially valuable in developing countries
that can grow more than one crop a year. The most critical problem
in developing countries is the population explosion, he wrote.
But potato production in the Third World is limited by the lack
of disease and pest controls and the limited availability of
chemical fertilizers.
Orville Thomas
PAGE grew up in Burlington, Ontario, and learned
carpentry skills from his father, English-born Thomas William
PAGE, and used them later in life to design and finish a 12-metre
wooden sailboat he called Caesar's Ghost. He passed his woodworking
skills on to his son, William, a professional carver who lives
in New Brunswick.
Orville's mother, Eunice Grace (née
BUSCOMBE,) died when the
boy was 3. He and a younger sister Grace (now
BRIDLE) were raised
by their father's second wife, Scottish-born Isobel
REID.
The future scientist was not a stellar student at high school
and was happy to sign up with the Royal Canadian Air Force when
war broke out, says his daughter, Karen
MARANTZ. He joined as
a mechanic, but soon quit and re-enlisted to be trained as a
pilot. He should have been turned down because he was colour-blind,
she says. But he avoided detection by memorizing the correct
responses to eye tests. Based at No. 1 General Reconnaissance
School in Summerside, he flew low flights over coastal waters
looking for enemy submarines. He was also the base's chief test
pilot. Wartime flying in Prince Edward Island was so dangerous
that 98 young airmen died there, mostly as the result of air
crashes. While in the service he courted Norma Isobel
ELLIS of
Summerside and married her in 1944.
After the war he went to Guelph to earn a bachelor of science
at the Ontario Agricultural College (then affiliated with the
University of Toronto), followed by a masters and PhD from Iowa
State College. From 1954 to 1957, he was an associate professor
at Ontario Agricultural College. It was there he met Doctor
BARKER,
then a fellow member of the botany faculty. The pair went on
to work together in both Honduras and Fredericton.
While in Guelph, Doctor
BARKER, who had also served in the Canadian
military, extolled the virtues of "army underwear" and convinced
his friend to buy some with him at a surplus store. The pairs
they purchased were too constrictive to wear, but became the
basis of a long-running joke.
Once while Doctor
PAGE was giving a scientific lecture in the United
States, his friend dangled a set of army underwear from the balcony
on a string. Doctor
PAGE retaliated by having a pilot friend drop
a package containing army underwear to Doctor
BARKER using a parachute.
The underwear passed back and forth on special occasions for
half a century. At Doctor
PAGE's 50th anniversary party, Doctor
BARKER
had a pair piped in on a silver tray.
From 1957 to 1959, Doctor
PAGE worked in La Lima, Honduras, where
he conducted research into banana diseases for the United Fruit
Co. He brought along his wife and two young children. Mrs.
MARANTZ
says her parents flipped a coin to decide whether to go or not.
At that time, United Fruit, which operated banana plantations,
had near-total control of most Central American economies. He
continued as a research officer with the United Fruit Co. in
Norwood, Massachusetts., from 1959 until 1961.
The family then moved to Fredericton where Doctor
PAGE was a research
officer with Agriculture Canada's national potato program until
1964 and then a professor and associate dean of science at the
University of New Brunswick until 1973. His work at the potato
centre in Lima started as a one-year sabbatical from the university,
but he ended up staying until his retirement in 1985. He hired
staff and directed the work of some 50 PhD-level scientists and
their research students. During his career he published 33 scientific
papers and served as president of the Canadian Phytopathological
Society.
On his retirement, he moved with his wife to a Summerside house
that had been built for her parents. But he continued to work
as a consultant with International Potato Center and such agencies
as Canadian International Development Agency and the U.S. Agency
for International Development. Over the years his work took him
to more than 25 countries including China, India, Tanzania and
Papua New Guinea.
In Summerside he put his knowledge of sustainable development
to use as a volunteer board member with the Bedeque Bay Environmental
Management Association, a non-profit group that focuses on local
ecosystem issues. He helped with the establishment of the Prince
Edward Island Potato Museum at O'Leary and worked on setting
up a local library in a former train station. He also laid out
a heritage tree walking tour that highlighted species imported
from Europe by pioneers or from points abroad by early seafarers.
That project won him the nickname Tree Man of Summerside.
In recent years, he began writing poetry, with environmental
issues as one of his most common themes. He continued to keep
up with developments in science until he was diagnosed with Alzheimer's
disease.
Orville Thomas
PAGE was born in Burlington, Ontario, on February 13,
1921. He died of pulmonary arrest on August 4, 2007, in Summerside.
He was 86. His wife, Norma Isobel (née Ellis), died in 2006.
He leaves his daughter, Karen Marantz, his son, William
PAGE,
and his sister, Grace Bridle.
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Doctor▲
John, M.D., C.M., M.Sc. (Med,) (F.R.C.P.C,) F.A.C.P.
Peacefully with his family by his side at the Brockville General
Hospital Charles Street Site, on Monday September 17, 2007. Doctor John
PAGE of Brockville, aged 82 years. Beloved husband of the former
Frances Pearl
McGILL. Dear father of Tom
PAGE and his wife
Lynn
of Bedford, Nova Scotia, Nancy
GORDON and her husband Kevin,
Jim PAGE and his wife
Jackie and Jane
PAGE and her fiancé Andrew
BROWN all of Brockville. Loving grandfather of Max, Tess and
Austin PAGE,
Elizabeth
FREAMO and her friend Rob and Lindsay
FREAMO, and Jackson and John
PAGE.
Also survived by a great-grand_son
Devon RUTHERFORD.
Predeceased by his parents Rev. Arthur
PAGE
and his wife
Eva
GROGAN and a sister Ruth in infancy.
A private family service at John's request will be held at his
residence. Interment will be held at Roselawn Memorial Garden's
Maitland. In memoriams to the Charity of Your Choice would be
gratefully acknowledged by the family. Barclay Funeral Home 137 Pearl
St. East, Brockville entrusted with the arrangements. Messages
of condolence may be sent online at: www.barclayfuneralhome.com
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STRICKLAND,
Joy (née
MacAULAY)
Who was born November 16, 1914 in Lachine, Quebec, has died in
Victoria, British Columbia, November 20, 2007 at the age of 93.
There will no ceremonies at her request. She wanted to thank
all her wonderful Friends who have helped, amused, and sustained
her during her long life. Her family is grateful for the superb
care she received from the staff of Island View Place Nursing
Home during her last 2 months. She leaves her son Dan
STRICKLAND
(Madeleine
PAGEOT,) her daughter Mary Jane (Peter DE
KOOS) and
grandchildren Sarah, Matt, Andras, and David.
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