WORDEN
WORKMAN
WORLEY
WORSFOLD
WORSLEY
WORTH
WORTHINGTON
WORTSMAN
WORDEN o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2007-10-12 published
WORDEN,
Christopher (1977-2007)
Tragically, in the line of duty, in Hay River, Northwest Territories,
on October 6, 2007 at the age of 30; dear husband and best friend
of Jodie and loving father of his precious Alexis, beloved son
of John and Mary Ann
WORDEN and brother of Cathy, Michael and
Peter.
Son-in-law of John and Mary
LAMERS, godson of Wayne and
Georgette HOLMDEN, godfather of Mason
ASHCROFT, brother-in-law
of Sandy (Brent), Carrie (Brian) and Deb (Curtis). He will be
missed by many aunts, uncles, cousins, Friends and Royal Canadian
Mounted Police members. The family will receive relatives and
Friends at Heritage Funeral Home, 2871 Saint_Joseph Blvd., Orléans,
on Saturday, October 13, from 5-8 p.m. and
on Sunday October 14,
from 12-2 p.m. and 5-7 p.m. Funeral Service will be held at Notre
Dame Cathedral, 385 Sussex Dr., Ottawa, on Monday October 15
at 1: 30 p.m. In lieu of flowers, donations for a trust fund that
is set up for Alexis can be made at any Canadian Imperial Bank
of Commerce branch, account number 2784033 transit 03192 or to
Wilfred Laurier University Chris Worden Memorial Fund www.wlu.ca/giving
would be appreciated. Donations and condolences may be made at:
www.heritagefh.ca Heritage Funeral Home 613-830-2305
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WORKMAN o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2007-07-18 published
SCOTT,
Grace
Workman, PhD.
On July 17th, 2007 in her 94th year at The Briton House, Toronto.
Predeceased by her beloved husband John W.
SCOTT, M.D. (Neurophysiologist.)
Sadly missed by daughter Aleda
O'CONNOR
(Barry
COOMBS,) son James
SCOTT
(Deborah;) by grandchildren Eamonn and Kate
O'CONNOR; Geoffrey,
Lindsay and Emily
SCOTT. Brother Bill
WORKMAN, sister Aleda
VAN
HORN, by Ed
O'CONNOR and by many cousins, nieces, nephews and
Friends. Throughout her life she found fulfillment through her
faith, her great love of music and the family home she and John
lovingly established at Bond Head. Her research at Chalk River
in 1949 showed that bacteria mutates to become resistant to antibiotics
with prolonged exposure. A service will be held on Thursday,
July 19th, 2: 00 p.m. at St. Andrew's United Church, 117 Bloor
Street East (entrance also 54 Hayden St.) Cremation and Interment,
Mount Pleasant Cemetery. Special thanks to the caring staff and
Friends at Briton House and to the loving community at St. Andrews
United Church. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to St. Andrews
United Church.
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WORLEY o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2007-09-17 published
STEELE,
Margaret
Anne
Peacefully at Markham-Stouffville Hospital, on Friday, September 14,
2007. Margaret, loving and devoted wife of the late Alfred John
STEELE.
Beloved mother of Elizabeth
SINCLAIR and her husband
Bruce.
Predeceased by her sister Matilda Wolfenden
WORLEY.
Lovingly
remembered by her niece Elaine
JAMES and her husband Earl; nephews
Ron HATCH and his wife
Lois,
Stephen
STEELE and his wife Annette
and Bob STEELE and his wife
Gayle of Calgary, and cousin Lorraine
Wolfenden WYLIE and her husband George, of Northern Ireland.
Her family would like to express a 'special' thanks to '3 Centre'
staff at Markham-Stouffville Hospital who cared for her in her
last days; and to all of the staff at Bethany Lodge in Unionville,
for their care and love during her three year stay. Friends may
call at the Turner and Porter Yorke Chapel, 2357 Bloor Street West,
at Windermere, east of the Jane subway, on Tuesday, September 18,
2007 from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. Funeral Service will be held in the
chapel on Wednesday, September 19, 2007 at 11 a.m. If desired,
memorial donations may be made to Bethany Lodge, 23 Second Street
South, Unionville, Ontario, L3R 2C2. 'Absent from the body, present
with the Lord'
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WORSFOLD o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2007-08-17 published
PRICE,
Frederic W.R.
Peacefully at Trillium Health Centre, Mississauga on Wednesday,
August 15, 2007 in his 77th. year. Predeceased by his first wife
Muriel.
Beloved husband of Renee. Loving Father of Deborah
WORSFOLD
and her husband Craig, Bradley, and Gregory and his wife Bridgett.
Cherished grandpa of Amber, Clayton, Grant and Garrett. Dear
brother of June
STANFIELD.
Frederic was the Former President
of the Mississauga Real Estate Board, Founding Member of the
Cooksville (Mississauga) Businessman's Association and long time
Member of the Credit Valley Golf and Country Club. Friends may
call at the Turner and Porter 'Peel' Chapel, 2180 Hurontario Street,
Mississauga (Hwy…10, N. of the Queen Elizabeth Way) From 2-4 and
6-9 Monday, August 20, 2007. Funeral Service will be held in
the chapel on Tuesday, August 21, 2007 at 1: 00 p.m. Interment,
Saint_John's Dixie Cemetery. If desired, donations to the Canadian
Cancer Society would be appreciated by the family.
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WORSLEY o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2007-06-16 published
WORSLEY,
Lillian
Irene
In loving memory of our dear mother and nana who passed away
three years ago today. There's not a day that we do not think
of you. We miss you, we love you. We are comforted by our memories
of all our good times together. You are forever in our hearts
and thoughts. Your loving son Douglas and his wife Carole, loving
daughter Sharon and her husband Andrew, your loving grandchildren
Andrew, Brianne, Douglas and David.
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WORSLEY o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2007-12-27 published
WORSLEY,
Carolyn
On Christmas morning, Carolyn peacefully passed away after a
lengthy illness. Married to John for 54 wonderful years. Mourning
her loss are her 5 much loved children: Willa (Derek), Harry
(Janet), Jonathan (Laura), Dickon and Katie (Paul). She also
leaves her grandchildren: Jennie, Nicole and Richard; Nicholas,
Oliver, Hugo and Charlotte; Audra and Tristan; Carson and Bridger
all of whom she loved dearly. Her many Friends are welcome to
join the family for a celebration of Carolyn's life at Saint Paul's
Anglican Church, 59 Toronto Street South, Uxbridge, on January 11,
2008 at 11: 00 a.m. A private family funeral will be held previously.
On-line condolences can be made at www.lowandlow.ca
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WORTH o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2007-11-03 published
GILLING, Kathleen Margaret Ruth (formerly
ENGLISH, née
WESTMAN)
Kathleen Margaret Ruth
GILLING (née
WESTMAN, formerly
ENGLISH),
daughter of Thomas
WESTMAN and Florence
COLLETT of Ottawa and
Toronto, died in Saint_John's, Newfoundland, on October 26, 2007.
She was predeceased by her husband Basil Redvers
ENGLISH,
Rector
of the Church of St. Aidan, Queen Street East, Toronto (1960)
by her husband Walter
GILLING,
Dean of Saint_James Cathedral (1990)
by her daughter Margaret
FRAZER,
Curator of the Byzantine Collection,
Metropolitan Museum, New York (1999); and by her seven Westman
siblings: Winnifred, Florence, Viola, Arthur, George, Roberts,
Evelyn.
A devoted student of art and art history, she taught at Western
Preparatory School, Forest Hill, was head of the Art Department
of Earl Haig Collegiate, and from 1964 to 1967 Associate Professor
and head of the Art Department of Althouse College of Education,
University of Western Ontario. In a long and spirited life spent
largely in Toronto, she was active in support of the Georgina
Houses of the Anglican Church, and greatly enjoyed duplicate
bridge, golf, opera, ballet, theatre, and international travel.
She is survived by her son Christopher
ENGLISH
(Jean
GUTHRIE,)
Saint_John's, and grandchildren Katinka
ENGLISH,
Sudbury;
Ellen
ENGLISH, Halifax; Martha
WORTH (Thomas) and Andrew
FRAZER, North
Carolina; Zoë
CHESWICK
(Dan,)
Brooklyn; and great-grand_son, Rowan
WORTH.
Special niece Francess
HALPENNY and nephew C. Robert
SENIOR
were generously supportive in her final years. In Saint_John's
Mary Connors and Una Marsden gave the best of care.
Donations in her memory may be made to the Anglican Church of
Canada, 60 Hayden Street, Toronto, M4Y 3G2. A memorial service
will be held in Toronto later.
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WORTHINGTON o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2007-10-02 published
In a famous role, the spy didn't love her
James Bond's flirtatious foil grew up in Ontario; she returned
and penned tabloid columns, writes Sandra
MARTIN
By Sandra MARTIN,
Page S8
Gutsy, impetuous and adventurous, Lois
MAXWELL ran away from
home as a teenager to become an actress and became famous as
Miss Moneypenny, M's flirtatious secretary in the James Bond
films. Although she appeared in 14 Bond films, she had a tough
life, supporting two young children after her husband died prematurely
of heart disease. Writing a weekly newspaper column in Toronto
and starting a company to build crowd-control barriers were just
two of her schemes.
Lois Ruth HOOKER was born on February 14, 1927, in Kitchener,
Ontario For the rest of her life, she loved to throw people off
balance with her name, introducing herself by saying, "I'm a
hooker." Her father was a school teacher and her mother a nurse
she once described her family as religious and temperate while
she was scrawny, freckled and saucy and sulky. When she was a
child, the Hookers moved to Toronto. Lois attended John Wanless
Public School and then Lawrence Park Collegiate.
Lively, rebellious and game for anything, she was much more interested
in performing on stage than sitting in a classroom solving algebra
equations. She played parts in radio dramas under the name Robin
WELLS, at least partly so that her parents wouldn't find out.
After winning a part in Maurice Maeterlinck's play The Blue Bird
at Hart House, she was determined to become an actress. However,
an oft-told story has her running away from home in 1942 to join
the Canadian army. She would have been 15.
"Teenagers in those days were terrified that the war would end
before they could get into it," explained journalist Peter
WORTHINGTON,
a friend and former newspaper colleague. There's another version
of the story, which Ms.
MAXWELL told when she began writing a
weekly column in The Toronto Sun in 1979: She skipped school
in 1943 to audition for the army's entertainment corps, earned
a place and then went to England with the show, where she sang
and danced and (according to some reports) often appeared on
a bill with comedians Johnny Wayne and Frank Shuster.
Seven months later, army officials discovered she was underage
and prepared to send her home. Undeterred, she knocked on the
doors of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, where she persuaded
officials to name her "the first winner of the Lady Louis Mountbatten
Scholarship," according to an account she wrote in The Sun. At
Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, her favourite classmate was Roger
Moore - she once played his uncle, complete with red beard, in
a performance of Shakespeare's Henry V. After leaving Royal Academy
of Dramatic Art, she found small parts in plays and films and
was "discovered" by Canadian-born film mogul Jack Warner, who
put her under contract and sent her to Hollywood. Her first major
role was as a schoolteacher in That Hagen Girl (1947), starring
Ronald Reagan and Shirley Temple. She was so impressive that
she won a Golden Globe as "best newcomer." Two years later, Life
magazine included her and Marilyn Monroe in a photo spread of
eight starlets.
She never made the Hollywood big time and after appearing in
two forgotten Warner Brothers films, The Big Punch and The Decision
of Christopher Blake, she went to Italy with friend Geraldine
Brooks. Ms.
MAXWELL lived in Rome for five years, making British
and Italian films.
During this time, she met British television executive Peter
Churchill MARRIOTT - "a handsome sardonic stranger," as she later
described him. They married in 1957 and moved to London, where
they had two children: daughter Melinda in 1958 and son Christian
in 1959.
In 1962, Mr.
MARRIOTT collapsed with a serious heart condition
and Ms. MAXWELL was forced to seek film work to support the family.
That year, she was given a small part as a nurse in Stanley Kubrick's
Lolita and the role of Ms. Moneypenny in Doctor No, the first Bond
film. Apparently, director Terrence Young, who had once turned
her down for a role because she looked like she "smelled of soap,"
offered her the part of either Moneypenny or Bond's girlfriend,
Sylvia
Trench.
Ms.
MAXWELL was squeamish about playing sex scenes,
so she chose the part of the chaste secretary to the head of
MI6. She supplied her own clothes and was guaranteed two days'
work at what was then the daily rate of £100. At the wrap party
at the end of filming, she met Ian Fleming, the creator of the
James Bond books. "I visualized Moneypenny as a tall, elegant
woman with the most kissable lips in the world," Ms.
MAXWELL
remembered him saying. "You, my dear, are perfect."
As Moneypenny, she created a character who was cheeky and flirtatious
but also knowing and impervious to the seductive prowess of a
series of Bonds, including Sean Connery and her old Royal Academy
of Dramatic Art pal Roger Moore. Her last Bond film was A View
to a Kill in 1985. She asked producer Cubby Broccoli if he would
kill off her character, but he recast it instead. Miss Moneypenny
was subsequently played by Caroline Bliss and Samantha Bond.
Ms. MAXWELL, who always had ambitions beyond her secretarial
character, set her sights on M, but that part was out of bounds
as an equal opportunity role until Judy Dench laid claim to the
position.
"She was always fun and she was wonderful to be with and was
always perfect casting," Mr. Moore told the British Broadcasting
Corp.'s Radio 5 Live on the weekend. "… It was a great pity that
after I moved out of Bond, they didn't take her on to continue
in the Timothy Dalton films. I think it was a great disappointment
to her that she had not been promoted to play M. She would have
been a wonderful M."
The good part about playing Miss Moneypenny was that she was
so identified with the role that she became a recognizable part
of popular culture. The bad part, of course, was that she was
so typecast as the smouldering secretary that it became hard
to win other major roles.
After Ms. MAXWELL's husband died in 1973, she returned to Canada
to film a television series, Adventures in Rainbow Country. She
bought a property in cottage country and a bungalow in Fort Erie,
Ontario, settled down with her young children and established
a company called Great Barrier Industries, which manufactured
crowd-control stands. She eventually opened a British subsidiary
and planned to market her barriers in Europe.
In the late 1970s, she proposed writing a column for The Toronto
Sun to editor Peter
WORTHINGTON and publisher Donald Creighton.
They took her for a boozy lunch at Winston's, according to Mr.
WORTHINGTON,
and long before the coffee was served, they had a deal. She wrote
her chatty, gossipy, opinionated weekly column, called "Moneypenny,"
for almost a dozen years.
After Kim Campbell's Progressive Conservatives went down to an
ignominious defeat in the 1993 federal election, Ms.
MAXWELL
confided that she had declined an invitation to run. "Kim Campbell's
handlers threw her to the slavering wolves," she said. "She is
a gutsy, bright strong woman who didn't deserve the treatment
she received from her party."
As for Ms.
MAXWELL, she had her own problems in the newsroom
at The Sun, according to Mr.
WORTHINGTON. "
There was a certain
resentment that she was a celebrity getting into the column business,"
he said. "She was also one of the better-read people and that
was a problem, too."
Her final column appeared April 23, 1994. By then, her daughter,
Melinda, the married mother of a small child, was living near
the market town of Frome in Somerset, England. Ms.
MAXWELL decided
to join them, planning to live every day, "with gusto!"
Her last film was The Fourth Angel (2001) with Jeremy Irons.
The same year, she underwent surgery for colorectal cancer and
then moved to Perth, Australia, where her son, Christian, and
his wife had settled.
Lois Ruth MAXWELL was born in Kitchener, Ontario, on February 14,
1927. She died of cancer in Fremantle Hospital in Perth, Australia,
on September 29, 2007. She was 80. Ms.
MAXWELL is survived by
her daughter and son and extended family.
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WORTSMAN o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2007-08-27 published
WILKS,
Bessie "
Barbara"
On Saturday, August 25, 2007 at Baycrest Hospital, in her 99th
year. Daughter of the late Gavreil Eli and Matle. Beloved wife
of the late Hillel
WILKS. Dear mother and mother-in-law of Sylvia
and Irving
WORTSMAN,
Marlene and David
SEFTON. Loving grandmother
of Sandy and Stephen
LEIBOW,
Jeffrey and Leigh
WORTSMAN, Carol
and Peter BROWN,
Andrew and Eunhee
SEFTON, Daniel and Shelley
SEFTON.
Very proud great-grandmother of Laura and Amanda
LEIBOW
Jamie, Sam and Sophie
WORTSMAN;
Wesley,
Stephanie,
Russell and
Samantha BROWN;
Zev
SEFTON; Sabrina and Max
SEFTON. Survived
by her caring brother and sister-in-law Irving and Min
HANEFORD.
Devoted sister and sister-in-law of the late Sarah and Abraham
ROTENBERG,
Rose and Abe
GREEN, Mary and Joe
PANCER, and Leo and
Edythe HANIFORD.
With gratitude to Josie and Fanny for the wonderful
care given to Bessie. Services were held at Benjamin's Park Memorial
Chapel on Sunday, August 26th. Interment, Beth Sholom Synagogue
section of Mt. Sinai Memorial Park. Shiva, 73 Ridelle Avenue.
Memorial donations to the Ontario Heart and Stroke Foundation
416-499-1417, or to a charity of your choice.
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UNGERMAN,
Celia
Surrounded by her family, on Thursday, August 30, 2007 at Baycrest
Hospital. Celia
UNGERMAN, beloved wife of Jack. Loving mother
and mother-in-law of Marvin and Sharon, Bernie and Monique, and
Elayne and Irwin
WORTSMAN. Dear sister of Harold
GROSSMAN and
the late Anne
SINUKOFF.
Devoted
Bubby of Jordan and Veronica,
Lezli and Massimo, Troy, Nicole and Ross, Jason, Stacey and Gil,
Kimberley and Craig, Jillian and Jordy, Michael and Jessica.
Devoted great-grandmother of 14. At Beth Sholom Synagogue, 1445 Eglinton
Avenue W., (Eglinton and Allen Road) for service on Sunday, September 2nd
at 11: 00 a.m. Interment, Beth Sholom Synagogue section of Mt. Sinai
Memorial Park. Shiva 177 Dewbourne Avenue. Memorial donations
may be made to the Jack and Celia Ungerman Endowment Fund, c/o The
Baycrest Centre Foundation 416-785-2875.
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