BLOCH
BLOCK
BLOIS
BLOKHUIS
BLOM
BLOMMAERT
BLOMMERS
BLONDAL
BLONDEAU
BLONDIN
BLOOM
BLOOMER
BLOOMFIELD
BLOTT
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RANDS,
Clyde
David
Richard
Suddenly at the Prince Edward County Memorial Hospital, Picton,
Ontario on Friday, December 14, 2007, Clyde
RANDS formerly of
Cherry Valley, at the age of 89. Beloved husband of Catherine
RANDS (née
WATTAM, former wife of the late Doctor G.A.
POWERS) and
the late Anna Leona Cecelia
RANDS (née
LABA.) Dear brother of
Cyril (Lena) and the late Reginald (Trid). Predeceased by his
four sisters. Uncle of Maurina
PAULSON,
Mary
BLOCH and Jimmy
HUELIN.
Step-father of Scot
POWERS (Louise) and Nancy (Brent
BAILEY) and their children Darcy, Calum, Travis, Zachary and
Lauren. Mr.
RANDS rested at the Hicks Funeral Home, 2 Centre
Street, Picton. 613-476-5571. Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated
in the Church of St. Gregory The Great on Tuesday, December 18
at 11 a.m. The Reverend Father Bernard
O'NEILL and Deacon William
GERVAIS officiated. Interment of Cremated Remains will take place
in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Memorial donations to the Heart and Stroke
Foundation would be appreciated. (Cheques only, please). Friends
were received at the Church for one hour prior to the Massachusetts.
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MINUK,
Beverly
Passed away peacefully after a truly courageous battle with cancer
on Friday, February 8, 2008, aged 69. Beloved wife of William
for almost fifty years, and loving mother of devastated children
Sandy, Steven, Jeffrey and Jennifer. Loving sister of Marilyn
LIVERGANT and Rosalind
NICHOLS
(Hersch
NICHOLS,) and sisters-in-law
Faye MINUK and Clara
BLOCK.
Bev will be greatly missed by her
son-in-law Kevin
SHNIER and daughters-in-law Susan and Tania,
and her grandchildren, Jordan, Zachary, Rachel and Alex. A loving
and devoted wife, mother and grandmother, Beverly inspired devotion
in all those who appreciated her wonderful passion for life and
impeccable taste. Bev helped orchestrate numerous charity events
for Ezrath Nashim Hospital in Jerusalem. At Benjamin's Park Memorial
Chapel, 2401 Steeles Avenue West (3 lights west of Dufferin)
for service on Monday, February 11, 2008 at 1: 00 p.m. Interment
Adath Israel Synagogue section of Pardes Shalom Cemetery. In
lieu of flowers, donations in Beverly's memory would be appreciated
to Hill House Hospice, 905-737-9308, 36 Wright Street, Richmond
Hill, Ontario L4C 4A1.
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BLOCK,
Pearl (née
SUGAR)
Peacefully passed away at age 98, on Saturday, May 31, 2008.
Daughter of the late Joseph and Etta
SUGAR.
Devoted and loving
wife of the late William Robert
BLOCK.
Loving mother of Caryl
ALEXANDER and Bradley
BLOCK and his wife
Margaret.
Cherished
grandmother of William, Trevor, Skottie, Michele and Jessica.
Beloved aunt of many loving nieces and nephews. Predeceased by
her sisters, Rose
AXLER,
Helen
FISHER, Bertha
FRANKEL, Belle
SKOLNIK,
Anne
FRIEDENBERG and brothers Lou, Aaron, David and
Harold SUGAR. "
Your strength and dignity will always be an inspiration
to all your family." A funeral service will be held on Monday,
June 2, 2008 at 12: 00 p.m. from Steeles Memorial Chapel, 350 Steeles
Ave. W. (between Yonge and Bathurst). Interment at Beth Tzedec
Memorial Park, on Bathurst Street. In her memory donations to
her favourite charity The Hospital for Sick Children, 416-813-5320
would be appreciated.
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BLOIS,
William "
Willie"
Alexander
Suddenly, with his family by his side, on Friday, May 9, 2008,
William (Willie) Alexander
BLOIS "Willie Lee", in his 57th year,
went to be with the Lord. He will be sadly missed by his wife
Donna. Beloved
son of Rita and the late William
BLOIS (1977.)
He will be deeply missed by his brothers and sisters; Anne (Ken)
DOAN,
Bob
(Denise,)
Kevin
(Dale,) Tom (Nancy,) Mike, Larry (Pam,)
Susan (Ian)
JONES and Tony (Lisa.) Father of Katie
HOFFMAN.
Loving
grandfather of Casidy, Buddy, Colton, Michael, Tyler and Grace.
Dear step-father of Mike (Erin)
KORPI and Cathy
KORPI. He will
also be missed by several nieces and nephews. Friends will be
received at the Evans Funeral Home, 648 Hamilton Rd. (1 block
east of Egerton), on Tuesday from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. A Memorial Service
will be held in the Evans Chapel on Wednesday, May 14, 2008,
at 11: 00 a.m. with Father John
VAN
DAMME officiating. Donations
to the Heart and Stroke Foundation would be appreciated by the
family. Online condolences can be expressed at www.evansfh.ca.
Thank you to Doctor
DIN and the staff at Victoria Trauma Unit. "In
a New York minute everything can change" (Don Henley) A tree
will be planted as a living memorial to Willie
BLOIS.
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MUNRO,
Betty
Eldeen (née
BLOIS)
Born in Portage la Prairie, Manitoba on February 8, 1923 to Mary
Jane and Howard
BLOIS.
Mom passed away unexpectedly on May 4,
2008 with her children, Carey, Don and Liz (Art) at her side.
Survived by grandchildren, Colin (Stacey), Andrew (Billie), Albion
and Alexandra and great-grandchildren, Shayan, Ty, Taylor and
Jada and her loving companion Gemi. Predeceased by her husband,
Alexander in 1974. The family would like to thank Doctor Derek Carroll,
E.R. nurses, Deb and Rebecca, Doctor Rusnak, hospice nurse, Judy,
the staff at the Wellesley and Beacon Home Support Workers.
There will be a Celebration of Life at The Wellesley, 2800 Blanshard
Street on Sunday, May 25, 2008 at 2: 00 p.m. Condolences may be
offered to the family at www.mccallbros.com Rest peacefully mom!
You lived and passed with grace.
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Wounded on the sands of Normandy, his one-day war ended on D-Day
His life was saved by a thick letter from home he had tucked
into the breast pocket of his tunic. It deflected a bullet into
his ribs and his arm, and he spent the rest of his life selling
insurance in small-town Ontario
By F.F. LANGAN,
Special to The Globe and Mail, Page S8
Don DONER's war lasted just one day - D-Day, June 6, 1944.
The night before, he boarded a ship in Southampton on the southern
coast of England. It was pitch dark, but he and the rest of the
Queen's Own Rifles of Canada had practised the drill so many
times they didn't need any light.
They had been in the port since June 4, waiting for the signal
for the invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe. They knew the real
thing was coming when breakfast arrived. "The last meal, so to
speak, of the condemned," he said in a memoir written in 1982.
"It was bacon and eggs - something unheard of in the army."
A storm had just passed through the area, leaving behind rough
seas. Just off the French coast, he and the other men from 8 Section
of 9 Platoon, "A" Company of the Queen's Own, left the mother
ship, transferred to assault craft A9 and headed toward the beach
at Bernieres-sur-mer. It was their bad luck to be among the first
to land in Normandy on D-Day, and worse for Mr.
DONER. He was
second in line to enter the water, right behind his pal Corporal
Hugh ROCKS.
"We were elected to be the assault section for the platoon, which
meant that we would be first to leap off the assault craft, carry
bangalores [long, cylindrical mines], steel ladders, wire mesh
and any other material that would assist us in scaling the sea
wall and blowing holes in the barbed wire," wrote Mr.
DONER.
Don DONER was no gung-ho, Royal Canadian Legion cliché of a soldier.
He was just a kid who joined the army at 19 and soon grew cynical
about the military and the war. He often went Absent Without
Leave, mostly to visit girlfriends. A good-looking young man,
he found falling in love rather easy. One time, he got cold feet
and backed out of an engagement to a young British woman, although
he did leave the material for the wedding dress - he'd had it
sent from Canada - at her front door.
Riding toward the beach that morning he felt frightened, and
believed most of the young men on the landing craft were no braver.
"Just a bunch of ordinary guys thrown together by fate, not mad
at anybody, not wanting to die or be maimed or blinded, just
wanting to live and let live," he wrote. "Had 90 per cent of
us known then what we know now, there wouldn't have been a war
because none of us would have been there to fight it."
They may have been scared, but it didn't stop them fighting.
As their boat approached the beach, a shell destroyed another
landing craft that had been advancing alongside. Their own landing
craft stopped in deep water, unable to go closer. Cpl.
ROCKS,
who was 5 feet 5 inches and a non-swimmer, asked Mr.
DONER to
go first. Standing 6 feet 2 inches, Mr.
DONER stepped off the
boat and found the water up to his chin. Cpl.
ROCKS gamely followed.
Burdened by a full battle kit, ammunition and a rifle, he sank
to the bottom. Mr.
DONER grasped his friend's hands underwater
and led him part way to the beach.
Meanwhile, enemy machine-gun bullets flew thick and fast, and
artillery and mortar shells exploded all around. Wounded or killed
outright, many of the Queen's Own never cleared the surf.
The soldiers had orders that if a man was hit they were to leave
him until the beach was secure. Mr.
DONER saw one of his Friends
in the water with massive wounds. He ignored his call for help,
in part because it was obvious he was close to death. In the
confusion, Mr.
DONER lost sight of Cpl.
ROCKS. A short while
later, he went back to look for him. He found him dead, shot
between the eyes.
Cpl. ROCKS, a hard-rock miner from Kirkland Lake, Ontario, was
40. Probably the oldest man from the unit to be killed on the
beach that day, he had lied about his age to get into the war.
As a married man in what was considered a vital industry, it
is unlikely he would have been conscripted.
By that time, Mr.
DONER had also been wounded. As implausible
as it seems, his life was saved by mail from home. A bullet aimed
straight at his chest hit the corner of an envelope containing
a thick letter from his sister. He had put the letter in his
breast pocket, and its many folds absorbed most of the impact.
The bullet deflected off a rib and ended up in his arm. He was
also struck many times over by bits of shrapnel that entered
other parts of his body and would, years later, set off metal
detectors at airports.
The key to survival was to get out of the line of fire. All around
him, soldiers furiously dug down into the sand. "Steve DE
BLOIS
and I set a world record for digging a slit trench, wounded or
not," he wrote.
The Queen's Own Rifles had landed near Bernieres-sur-mer just
after 8 a.m. The rough seas meant the tanks were late coming
ashore, and the infantry landed without their support. To make
matters worse, the assault craft had taken them several hundred
metres away from their planned objective and set them down right
in front of a strong German position that included a powerful
88-mm gun.
"They received the worst battering of any Canadian unit on D-Day
crossing the beaches," said Steve Harris, director of history
at the Department of National Defence, whose father, Lieutenant J.P.
Harris, was wounded while landing with the same regiment. In
all, 60 men of Queen's Own were killed and another 78 were wounded,
the worst casualty figures of any Canadian unit on D-Day.
In spite of the strength of the German positions, the regiment
more than met their objectives. "So fast did the Queen's Own
move against this and other positions that when the Regiment
de la Chaudiere began to land behind them 15 minutes later, the
only fire on the beach was coming from snipers," wrote war correspondent
Chester Wilmot in his book, The Struggle for Europe.
Medics treated Mr.
DONER's wounds on the beach and he was given
the job of guarding some German prisoners. Some of them spoke
English and they engaged him in conversation while all around
the battle raged. "I talked with a German prisoner of war who
wondered, much as I did, why he was there and blamed it all on
the big wheels far removed from the battle area."
Mr. DONER was shipped back to England that day. A week later,
he was sent home to Canada. His one-day war was over.
Don DONER was born in a Prairie village about 100 kilometres
southeast of Saskatoon, but grew up in Toronto. His mother had
died giving birth to him, and soon after that the family moved
east to Ontario, where his father remarried. In Toronto, he attended
Northern Secondary School on Mount Pleasant Road. He spent summers
at his uncle's farm near Stayner, about 70 kilometres north of
the city.
He enlisted in the army in September, 1941, and trained at Camp
Borden in Ontario before being shipped to England. Like many
young soldiers, he was not used to strong drink and freedom,
and he got into a lot of trouble. He was disciplined several
times for returning late to barracks, often after spending the
evening at pubs and dances.
After the war, he worked for a time at European Silk in Toronto.
By 1950, he and his brother Bob had retreated to the peace and
quiet of small-town life in Alliston, Ontario Together, they
set up an insurance brokerage called Doner Brothers. They got
married and bought houses next door to each other. Don and his
wife, Josephine, had six daughters; Bob and his wife, Maxine,
had six sons.
Today, Alliston is the site of a busy Honda factory, and has
grown enormously, but back then it was a typical, small Ontario
community. "Alliston was like Mayberry. It had one stop light
and my father's office was a drop-in spot for every character
in town," said his daughter, Joanna
DAHLIN. "
Once a month, they
ran a poker game in the basement."
Late in life, Mr.
DONER was contacted by George
ROCKS, son of
Corporal Hugh
ROCKS, the man he had tried to save on D-Day. George
ROCKS was 6 when his father died.
"An uncle of mine read Don
DONER's name in a book on D-Day and
I contacted him. Speaking to Don brought everything to a close
for me, to learn just how my father died," said Mr.
ROCKS. "No
one in my family ever spoke much about the war. There was no
celebration in our house when the war ended. I was 30 before
I learned my father died on D-Day."
For his part, Mr.
DONER's views of the war and his role in it
changed little over the years. While he felt the conflict had
a purpose, he believed senior officers did not really know what
they were expecting of Canada's young men. For many years, he
refused to discuss the whole rotten business, and it was not
until he was in his sixties that he began to talk about his experiences.
Donald Grieve
DONER was born in Simpson, Saskatchewan, on July 23,
1922. He died at Sunnybrook Veterans Hospital in Toronto, of
complications from Parkinson's disease, on May 3, 2008. He was
85. He is survived by his wife, Josephine (Josie), and his daughters
Joanna, Christine, Mary, Helen, Martha and Jennifer. He also
leaves his half-sisters Marilyn, Kay, Nan and Dorothy. His brother
Bob died in January, 1987.
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Career nurse served in pioneering wartime plastic surgery unit
With the rank of lieutenant nursing sister in the Royal Canadian
Army Medical Corps, she sailed for Britain during the Battle
of the Atlantic to tend burn victims and the wounded. She continued
nursing until 1986
By Sandra MARTIN,
Page
S11
Margery
(Bunny)
Cambon
QUAIL, a woman of resolute good cheer,
was one of the stalwart Canadian nurses to cross the treacherous,
enemy-infested Atlantic waters during the Second World War. She
worked with plastic surgeons in hospitals in southwest England
to care for badly burned pilots and civilians wounded in German
bombing raids.
"I am quite sure that her experience as a nurse in England, caring
for a great many very badly injured victims of war, led her to
conclude that she would never, ever, feel sorry for herself,
no matter whatever happened to her. And that is exactly how she
lived her life," wrote Austen
CAMBON, her brother, in an e-mail
tribute.
She came from a military family. Her father, George
CAMBON, was
a Scottish immigrant who played in several orchestras in the
eastern United States before crossing the border and joining
the Royal Canadian Horse Artillery Band in Kingston, Ontario
That is where he met and married Lucy
DUFFIELD, whose father
was a colonel in the Royal Ulster Rifles and had been garrison
commander in Jamaica before bringing his family to Canada in
the early years of the last century. Soon after their marriage,
the CAMBONs moved to Quebec City. He was a professional musician
in the regimental band of the Royal 22nd Regiment under the command
of future governor-general Georges
VANIER.
Margery, the eldest of four children, was born in the final year
of the First World War. She once explained that "my mother was
called Bunny and she called me Bunny," but others say she was
given the name because she had large ears, a trait inherited
from the DUFFIELD side of the family. Noreen was born in 1919,
Ken in 1923 and Austen in 1932.
The CAMBONs lived on Cartier Avenue near Battlefields Park in
Quebec City. Margery went to nearby St. George's School and then
Commissioner's High School, graduating in 1936. She trained at
Jeffery Hale Hospital, graduating in 1939. On February 8, 1940,
five months after Canada declared war on Germany, she enlisted
in the nursing service of the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps,
which embraced the three branches of the military: navy, army
and air force. Given that the army was bred in her bones, she
elected to serve as a commissioned army officer with the rank
of lieutenant nursing sister.
Along with another nurse from Quebec City, she made her way to
Halifax in December of 1940, according to a short memoir she
provided for The Military Nurses of Canada: Recollections of
Canadian Military Nurses, edited by E.A. Landells. By the time
they arrived in Halifax, their ship had already sailed, so the
two single women boarded a mail ship - which she later joked
had plenty of males - and crossed the ocean in the days before
the advent of full escort convoys. "It took 11 days" and it was
"cold and miserable," she told Wilma
BLOKHUIS of the Oakville
Beaver in September of 1991.
In England, she was a reinforcement for the 15th Canadian General
Hospital at Bramshott, Surrey, which had been established with
officers and staff in June of 1940. Dorothy Macham, who had graduated
from Women's College Hospital School of Nursing in Toronto in
1932 and had joined the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps shortly
after the war began, was already there. When Stewart Gordon,
one of the earliest Canadian plastic surgeons, set up a plastic
surgery unit in November of 1941 at Rooksdown House, Park Prewett
Hospital, near Basingstoke, Hampshire, he took Lt.
CAMBON and
Lt. Macham with him.
The work was harrowing, but there was also time for fun and Friendships
and, for Lt.
CAMBON, the chance to own and ride her first bicycle.
Rationing meant that cars were mostly reserved for military and
official use, and buses were scarce in the countryside. While
she rarely talked after the war about the horrors she had seen
as a nurse, she did tell her children how she had always wanted
a bike when she was growing up in Quebec City, but her parents
were too poor to indulge her fancy.
Six months after Lt.
CAMBON enlisted, her younger brother Ken
(obituary March 17, 2007) joined up, lying about his age to enlist
in the Royal Rifles of Canada in July of 1940, just before his
17th birthday. His regiment was shipped to Hong Kong to defend
the British colony in an ill-fated stand against the Japanese.
After the Canadian, British and Hong Kong regiments surrendered
on Christmas Day, 1941, he was taken prisoner and spent the next
44 months in horrific conditions in Japanese PoW camps, including,
as a final torture, helping to dig a huge pit late in the war
to serve as a mass grave for himself and his fellow prisoners
if the feared Allied invasion occurred. His family knew he was
missing, but it was a long time before they had official word.
Meantime, Lt.
CAMBON's younger sister, Noreen, had finished high
school in Quebec City and moved to Hamilton to train as a nurse.
When she learned that Ken had been captured by the Japanese,
she quit nursing school and joined the Royal Canadian Air Force,
Women's Division. Trained as a radar specialist, she was stationed
in Newfoundland, then in Britain, where she sometimes met up
with her older sister. After the war, she trained as a nurse.
That left only the youngest
CAMBON in Quebec City. "I was only
about 7 years old when my brother and my two sisters left home
to serve in World War Two," said Austen. "Their absence serving
our country abroad for the next five years meant that I really
did not get to know them… until very much later on."
In May of 1943, Lt.
CAMBON's unit moved to the Basingstoke Neurological
and Plastic Surgery Hospital in Hackwood Park, on the estate
of Lord Camrose, with Lt. Macham as the "in charge" nurse. The
two Canadian nurses had become close Friends and, when Lt. Macham
was invited to Buckingham Palace in 1945 to receive the Royal
Red Cross Medal for her services during the war, she invited
Lt. CAMBON to accompany her.
It was also at Basingstoke that Lt.
CAMBON met her future husband,
Sergeant John
QUAIL. He was from Winnipeg and had gone overseas
as a motorcycle instructor with the Canadian Provost Corps, a
company of military police made up of volunteers from the Royal
Canadian
Mounted
Police. By all accounts, Sgt.
QUAIL was a bit
of a lad, a carefree adventurer more interested in a good time
than in treading the straight and narrow. He broke his wrist
in a motorcycle accident and ended up on Lt.
CAMBON's ward. "He
took a fancy to me," as she described it later. "We met over
a bedpan" is the way he liked to tell the tale.
They were married on December 11, 1943, in St. Stephen's Church
in Twickenham, Surrey. Her uncle, John
DUFFIELD, who had been
a chaplain in the First World War and had then become a canon
in the Church of England, officiated.
By this stage of the war, small contingents of Canadian nurses
were serving on the continent and Lt.
CAMBON wanted to join them.
As a married woman, however, she was refused permission to cross
the Channel. "They had made this ruling that you could not go
if you were married because they had too many girls becoming
pregnant who had got married," she told the Oakville Beaver in
1991. "It was a bit of a hassle sending them home, and all that
jazz."
In September of 1945, the
QUAILs returned to Canada. She and
Noreen were both still in uniform when their emaciated brother
stepped off a train in Quebec City, finally home from the war.
She had last seen him when he was 16. "When Ken left, he was
just a little guy, he was always kind of short, and I couldn't
believe how much he had grown even though he was malnourished,"
Margery QUAIL told the Oakville Beaver. "He would have been much
bigger had he had proper food," she said, ever the nurse. "It
was a great thing to see him back alive."
The QUAILs settled in Toronto. In the next five years, Ms.
QUAIL
had three babies - Susan, Judi and Charlie - each about two years
apart in age, followed after a gap of six years by David in 1957.
As Mr. QUAIL pursued various ventures from Vancouver to Toronto,
from starting a natural-sponge enterprise to selling paint and
cars to operating a tractor trailer across the country, Ms.
QUAIL
was the moral and financial backbone of the family, raising the
children and working as a nurse at Vancouver General Hospital,
and at Oakville Trafalgar Memorial Hospital. She finally agreed
to retire from nursing in 1986, at 68.
About five years ago, Ms.
QUAIL began to have memory problems,
similar to the dementia issues that affected Noreen and Ken,
who died of Alzheimer's disease a year ago. She and her husband
continued to live at home until she had a bad fall in 2003. They
moved into a retirement home in Oakville and remained together
until Mr. QUAIL died of prostate cancer in January of 2004. By
last summer, Ms.
QUAIL had lost her hearing. After breaking her
hip in a second fall, she moved, in August, into a veterans home
named in honour of her wartime nursing colleague, Dorothy Macham,
where she celebrated her 90th birthday a month ago with family,
Friends and a glass or two of white wine.
Margery Cambon
QUAIL was born in Quebec City on February 15,
1918. She died of complications from dementia at Sunnybrook Health
Sciences Centre in Toronto on March 21, 2008. She was 90. Predeceased
by her husband, John, and brother Kenneth
CAMBON,
Ms.
QUAIL is
survived by her children Susan, Judi, Charles and David. She
also leaves her sister Noreen and brother Austen, plus seven
grandchildren.
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ARKSEY,
William
Andrew "
Andy"
At Kingsway Lodge, Saint Marys on Sunday, April 13, 2008 William
Andrew (Andy)
ARKSEY of R.R.#1 Granton in his 88th year. Beloved
son of the late Freeman and Cora
(RINN)
ARKSEY.
Best friend and
special neighbour of Bill, Diane and Tanner
BLOM. A private graveside
service was held at Kirkton Union Cemetery on Monday with Pastor
Paul VOLLICK officiating. Donations to Saint Marys Memorial Hospital
would be appreciated. Haskett Funeral Home, Lucan (519) 227-4211
entrusted with arrangements. Condolences may be forwarded through
www.haskettfh.com.
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SCHROEDER,
Reverend
Stuart
J.
Died suddenly and peacefully on Friday morning June 20, 2008.
Beloved father of Erika, father-in-law of Mike, grandfather of
Ruby and Delilah, Fatherly guide to Rich and Boo, Brother of
Ted, Grant, and Mark, stepson of Alice, partner to Henriette
BLOM, and uncle to Aaron, Jake, Kayln, Jim, Dan, Molly, Michael,
Annie and Andrew. Stu was a mentor and treasured friend, a chaplain
and an advocate of those in need to the end. He will be greatly
missed by many, and in many ways. Visitation hours will be held
on Thursday, June 26 from 7-9 p.m. at the Ward Funeral Home on
2035 Weston Road (Weston and Lawrence), Toronto. Please bring
a picture of Stu, if you have one, and memories to share. An
additional visitation will be held on Friday, June 27 at 10 a.m.
at Advent Lutheran Church, 2800 Don Mills Road, Toronto, immediately
followed by a service at 11 a.m. to celebrate Stu's life and
ministry. A reception will follow at the church immediately after
the service to share remembrances. A celebration of Stu's life
will be held at the Dogfish Bar and Grill at Bluffers Park Marina,
Friday night, the 27th, beginning at 8 p.m. In lieu of flowers
the family requests that donations be made to Multifaith Services
and Supports, 76 Scarborough Heights Blvd., Scarborough, Ontario,
M1M 2V4.
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HEYWOOD,
Eldon
G.
At the Exeter Villa on Thursday, June 12, 2008 Eldon G.
HEYWOOD
of Exeter in his 90th year. Beloved husband of the late Alva
(ELLIOT/ELLIOTT)
HEYWOOD (2000.) Dear father and father-in-law of Eleanor
and Cy BLOMMAERT and Lester and Dianne
HEYWOOD all of Exeter,
Dorothy and Don
BRINTNELL of Wingham, Joan and David
GODDARD
of R.R.#2 Lucan and Dianne and Marty
BROWN of Arkona. Dear grandfather
of Julie and Greg, Alan and Julianne; Jeff and Jenni, Scott and
Angie, Shawn; Kim, Darlene and Allen, Jo-Ann and Tony; Chris
and Stephanie, Brad and Jody; Lisa and Scott, Tracy, Brent and
Lynn and Darren and MaryEllen, great-grandfather of 23 and great-great-grandfather
of 2. Dear brother and brother-in-law of Jack
HEYWOOD of London,
Bev and Diane
HEYWOOD of Windsor, Beatrice
HEYWOOD,
Lila
ELLIS,
Geneva ROWE and Mary
ELLIOT/ELLIOTT all of Exeter and Marion
ELLIOT/ELLIOTT
of London. Predeceased by a son William
HEYWOOD (1975,) a granddaughter
Leah GODDARD and his brothers Dalton, Raymond and Laverne. Friends
may call at the Haskett Funeral Home, 370 William Street, 1 west
of Main, Exeter on Friday 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. where the funeral
will be held on Saturday, June 14th at 2 p.m. with Bob
HEYWOOD
officiating. Interment Exeter Cemetery. Donations to the Exeter
Bible Chapel or the R.E. Pooley Branch #167, Exeter Legion would
be appreciated by the family. There will be a Legion service
in the funeral home Friday afternoon at 4: 15 p.m. Condolences
may be forwarded through and memorial picture board may be viewed
at www.haskettfh.com
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BALL,
Robert "
Bob"
Harvey
(January 1, 1929-February 28, 2008)
Bob died at home on Thursday morning, in the tender care of his
family. He was loved beyond telling by his wife and sweetheart
Janet (née
MORROW,) five grateful children, Timothy (d. 1984,)
David, Anna
GARDNER
(John
BROCKE,) Doug, and Nathan (Paula
KILCOYNE,)
as well as 15 beautiful grandchildren, two newly born great-grandchildren,
and the hundreds of people whose lives he touched. Born and raised
in Regina, Bob will be profoundly missed by his older siblings
from Saskatchewan and their extended families; Margaret
BLOMMAERT,
Jim BALL and Fran
APPERLY.
Graduating from Scott Collegiate with
Honours, Bob began an agricultural degree at University of Saskatoon
before he followed a deeper call to sow seeds of the spirit and
till soil in the lives of people. After marrying Janet in 1952
he worked the gold mines in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories
and as a Fuller Brush Salesman to put himself through seminary
at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario with two infants.
As a Home Missions pastor with the Canadian Baptist Union, Bob
grew and nurtured young churches in the small towns of Kitimat
and Richmond, British Columbia, and Jasper, Alberta. His innovative
programming with young adults in the national park stood him
in good stead during his term on the pastoral team at First Baptist
Church, Calgary from 1971-1976 where he established the Burning
Bush Coffee House ministry for youth. Inspired in part by staying
as a family in a chalet at L'Abri in Switzerland in 1969, Bob
began dreaming and envisioning along with Janet, about creating
a hospitality based ecumenical renewal centre. King's Fold Retreat
Centre, located in the foothills of the Rockies celebrates its
30th anniversary this year and continues to be place of beauty,
peace and deep inspiration for people from all walks of life.
Bob was a master stained glass artist, a visionary, an entrepreneur,
a dreamer, a romantic, a barista, and a lover of life par excellence.
He will be celebrated at Central United Church, Calgary on Monday,
March 3 at 11: 00 a.m. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made
to King's Fold Retreat Centre, L'Arche Canada Foundation or the
Henri Nouwen Society.
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BLOMMERS o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2008-04-19 published
NAUTA,
Henry "
Harry,
Hidde"
Was called home to be with the Lord after a lengthy illness on
Wednesday, April 16, 2008 at the age of 80 years. Born in Surhuizum,
Friesland, Holland, on May 18, 1928. He came to Canada with his
parents Jakop and Wytscke "Louise"
(HOUWINK)
NAUTA in June 1947
Henry farmed most of his life in Raleigh Township until his passing.
He will be greatly missed by his partner and best friend of 22 years,
Gail CASHMAN.
Also sadly missed by brothers and sisters Abe and
Hilda NAUTA of Chatham, Ralph and Margaret
NAUTA, sister-in-law
Lisa, all of Merlin, sister-in-law Marie
NAUTA,
Ronnie and John
TIMMERMANS of Chatham, Joan and Gus
SONNEVELD,
John and Hermina
NAUTA
all of Blenheim, Hilda and Pete
BERGHUIS of Ingersoll, Clara and
Hank WOUDENBERG of London, Catherine and Marius
VERBEEK of Ridgetown,
and Ruth and Hunter
ODEN of Rochester Hills, Michigan. Predeceased
by his parents, sister Diana, (1989) brother-in-law Jerry
GRACIE,
(2001,) brothers Jake
NAUTA (1999) and Dick
NAUTA (2001.) Henry
will also be missed by his cousin Corrie
BLOMMERS of Chatham
and especially by all of his many nieces and nephews. Family
will receive Friends at Blenheim Community Funeral Home, 60 Stanley
Street, Blenheim on Sunday, April 20, 2008 from 2: 00-5:00 p.m.
Funeral Service from Christian Reformed Church, Blenheim, Monday,
April 21, 2008 at 11: 00 a.m. with Rev. Frank
DEBOER officiating.
Interment in Pardoville-Union Cemetery, Raleigh Township. Friends
wishing to make a memorial donation in memory of Henry are asked
to consider either the Canadian Cancer Society or the Heart and
Stroke Foundation. Donations by debit, Visa, MasterCard, cheque
or cash, may be made by contact the Blenheim Community Funeral
Home, 519-676-9200. Online condolences and donations may be left
at, www.blenheimcommunityfuneralhome.com
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REID,
Barbara (née
DUNN)
Passed away peacefully with her family by her side on Sunday,
April 20th, 2008. She fought cancer with unyielding courage for
three years while living life to the fullest with her husband,
family and many Friends. Barbara leaves behind a treasury of
special memories across her 74 years. She is survived by Angus,
her loving husband and partner of 47 wonderful years. Dear mom
to Marc (Michele,) Derek (Kellie,) Scott, Andrea (Jeff)
BEACH.
Sister to Tom (Grace), and twin Howard (Liz), and sister-in-law
to Jim and Pert, Dorothy and Trevor, and Peggy. Proud and adoring
grandma of Danielle, Jonathon, Jacob, Laura, Cassandra, MacKenzie,
Emily and Jack. Endearing and spirited aunt to her nieces and
nephews. Fun-loving, quick-witted and energetic, Barbara's spirit
and verve would light up the room, especially when filled with
her large circle of Friends and family. Barbara loved to travel,
entertain, play golf and bridge, and treasured her relationships
with loved ones in Toronto, Sarasota, Montreal, Ottawa, Winnipeg,
Burlington, hometown Alliston and beyond. The family expresses
sincere appreciation to Doctor John
BLONDAL and the nurses in the
Oncology Clinic at Saint_Joseph's Hospital. Their care, dedication
and treatment helped to extend Barbara's life for three meaningful
years, a gift that Barbara and those around her cherished. We
would also like to thank Doctor David
SWARTZ and the caregivers
from Community Care Access Centre for the compassion provided
during Barbara's latter days. Friends may join us as we celebrate
Barbara's life at the Turner and Porter Yorke Chapel, 2357 Bloor
Street West, at Windermere, on Tuesday, April 22nd from 7-9 p.m.,
and on Wednesday April 23rd from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. Funeral Service
to be held at Kingsway-Lambton United Church, 85 The Kingsway,
on Thursday, April 24th at 2 p.m., followed by a reception at
Lambton Golf Club. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made
to The Saint_Joseph's Hospital Foundation www.donations.stjoe.on.ca
or The Daily Bread Food Bank www.dailybread.ca
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BLONDEAU o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2008-03-01 published
BROCK,
Stanley
E., B.A. Hon., F.S.A., C.M. (1912-2008)
It is with deep sadness that we announce the passing of Stanley E.
BROCK on February 21, 2008. He is survived by his wife
Gertrude
BLONDEAU; their children Donald of Montreal; Alan (Judy) of Okanagan
Falls, British Columbia and Joyann (Robert
GUAY) of Beaconsfield
and five cherished grandchildren; Maxwell, Samara, Deena, Jennifer
and Patrick. He was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba and attended the
University of Manitoba where he was awarded the Governor General's
Gold Medal for Academic Achievement. The Canadian Red Cross Society
named him an Honorary Member for Services Rendered. He was recognized
by the Ordre de Merite de la Culture Francaise for exemplary
integration into the Francophone Community. In 1978 the Governor
General of Canada presented him as a Member of the Order of Canada.
An actuary by profession, he moved to Quebec City in the mid-1930s
where he joined the Industrial Life Insurance Company, a very
small and unknown company. Over the next 42 years he was instrumental
in the successful development of this organization and completed
his career as President. Today Industrial-Alliance is one of
the largest companies in the insurance and financial services
field in Canada. Throughout his career he remained actively involved
in community services. In 1956, he founded, as President, the
first Readaptation Clinic for Handicapped Persons in Quebec.
In 1961, as President of the Canadian Red Cross in Quebec City,
he helped to construct and fund the first Blood Transfusion Center.
He served as President and member of the Board of the Jeffrey
Hale Hospital over a 20-year period. He was also President of
the campaign that raised the funds required to construct the
Y.M.C.A. building on Holland Avenue and similarly led other campaigns
in support of various charitable causes. A long time active member
of the Rotary Club, he was named Honorary Member for his devotion
to the Club's activities in support of handicapped persons. Amongst
Friends, he would often talk about the stroke of good luck that
brought him to Quebec City - a beautiful, fascinating and most
desirable city in which to live. Living in a bilingual and highly
cultured atmosphere was a source of personal enrichment for him.
In his opinion, any sportsman would find it difficult to find
a better environment offering close at hand the opportunity to
participate in a variety of outdoor activities. His sporting
activities included golf, curling, fishing, skiing, and hunting.
A favourite activity was breaking fresh trails in snow covered
mountainous areas on his snowmobile. He was a founding director
and President of Cap Rouge Golf Club and had long memberships
at Royal Quebec Golf Club, Atlantis Golf Club in Florida, and
the Quebec Garrison Club. At the family's request a private memorial
service was conducted in Quebec City. In remembrance, charitable
donations can be made to Chalmers-Wesley United Church, 78 Ste-Ursule,
Quebec, Quebec G1R 4E8.
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BLONDIN o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2008-01-12 published
MARTENS,
Margaret
Louise
Eleanor (née
HOUSTON)
Of Regina
With great sadness, the family wishes to announce the passing
of Louise, dear mother and grandmother on Sunday January 6, 2008
at the age of 92 years, with her grand_son at her side, after
a brief illness and her half-century-long battle with osteo-arthritis.
Her memory will linger in our hearts forever. Louise was predeceased
by her husband Ernest Allen
MARTENS in 1953 (b. family homestead,
Main
Center,
Saskatchewan,) her parents, Kate Matilda
GARDINER
in 1960 (b. family farm, Westbrook, Ontario) and Arthur Russell
HOUSTON in 1966 (b., family homestead, Starbuck, Manitoba,) her
maternal grandparents, Charlotte Eleanor
LEONARD in 1916 (b. Westbrook,
Ontario) and Jacob James
GARDINER in 1923 (b. family homestead,
Westbrook,
Ontario,) her paternal grandparents, Margaret
McBURNEY
in 1943 (b. Beverly, Ontario) and Robert
HOUSTON,
Sr. in 1934
(b. Lesmahagow, Scotland). A true Canadian with deep roots here,
Louise is a descendant of a family (Leonard/Chilton) who came
to North America in 1620 on the Mayflower, and she is also a
descendant of another family (McDonell) of United Empire Loyalists.
She is survived by her sons Geoffrey of Westport, Ontario, and
James
(Lorena
May
BLONDIN) of Regina, and her grandchildren,
Robert and Miranda. Louise was the daughter of a Canadian Pacific
Railway station-agent and was born in the station-house in Perdue,
Saskatchewan, in 1915. Her early schooling was there, and her
piano-lessons only a short ride away over the rails to Saskatoon
where she subsequently attended the University of Saskatchewan
(Home Economics), and later on, business school in London, Ontario.
With a young family to support, Louise returned to work (Government
of Saskatchewan), finally retiring in 1982. Where did the time
go? She will be remembered for her independence and her dedication
and generosity to her family, Friends and co-workers. She loved
Rachmaninoff; but despised country-music. She was her own woman
to the end. A memorial service will be held at Speers Funeral
Chapel, 2136 College Avenue, Regina, Saturday, January 12, 2008
at 1: 30 p.m.; coffee and tea to follow at the Family Centre.
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MARTIN,
Louis (1935-2008)
At Pavillon Alfred-Desrochers, on January 22, 2008, following
a long illness passed away Louis
MARTIN, journalist. He leaves
to mourn his wife, Hélène
FILION, his three sons and daughters-in-law,
Nicolas (Élise
DESJARDINS,)
Stéphane
(Maya
HARTLEY) and Alexis
(Claire GEOFFRION,) his grandchildren: Béatrice, Gabrielle, Laurent,
Zoé and Éloi.
son of the late Joséphine
DÉCARY and the late Hector
MARTIN, he was the brother of Fernande (Pierre
JUNEAU,) the late
Suzanne (the late Pierre
BLONDIN,) the late Denise (Francis
CORBETT,)
Yves (Louise-Marie
CHOUINARD,)
Geneviève
(Gilles
BEAUSOLEIL,)
Françoise (André
LAMY,)
Luc
(Louise
BOUCHARD,) Hélène (Michel
BRÛLÉ.) He also leaves to mourn his sisters-in-law and his brother-in-law
from the Filion family, as well as many nephews, nieces, grandnephews,
grand-nieces. The family will receive condolences on Friday,
January 25, 2008 from 6 to 10 p.m. and Saturday, January 26 starting
at 9: 30 a.m. at: Alfred Dallaire Memoria 1111, Laurier West,
Outremont www.memoria.ca 514-277-7778 Valet Parking where at
11 a.m. a memorial ceremony will be held. The family would like
to thank the management and the staff of Pavillon Alfred-Desrochers
for the excellent care provided to Louis. In memory of Louis,
donations to the Institut universitaire de gériatrie de Montréal
would be appreciated.
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BLOOM o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2008-06-07 published
BLOOM,
Lyda
A.
(SINCLAIR)
Formerly of R.R.#3 Bothwell and St. Andrews Residence, Chatham,
passed away peacefully at the Village Nursing Home, Ridgetown
on Thursday June 5, 2008 at the age of 105. Beloved wife of the
late Wm. BLOOM (1968.) Loving mother of Dorothy
DARK and her
late husband Raymond of Ridgetown, Mary Louise
BUTLER and her
husband Lee of London, Marjorie
HAWTHORNE and her husband Jim
of R.R.#2 Blenheim, John
BLOOM and his wife
Shirley of R.R.#3
Bothwell. Loving grandmother of Brenda
WRIGHT, Robert
BLOOM,
Cathy SMITH, Kim NETO, Carolyn
VAN
DER
PAELT,
Brian
BUTLER, Karen
ANDERSON, Trudy
BUTLER, Jim
HAWTHORNE Jr., Michael
HAWTHORNE,
Mark HAWTHORNE, and Rob
HAWTHORNE.
Sadly missed by 24 great-grandchildren.
Predeceased by grand_sons Lyle
DARK (1980,) Gary
DARK (1987,)
a sister Edna
McGILLIVRAY (1999,) and brothers Leonard
SINCLAIR
(1939,) Walter
SINCLAIR (1979) and James
SINCLAIR (1998.) Also
survived by several nieces and nephews. The Bloom family will
receive Friends at the Badder and Robinson Funeral Home, 211 Elm
Street, Bothwell on Sunday June 8, 2008 from 12: 30 p.m. until the
time of the funeral service at 2: 30 p.m. with Rev. Annalee
KERR
of the Bothwell United Church officiating. Interment McLean Cemetery.
Donations may be made at the funeral home by cheque to the Chatham-Kent
Health Alliance Magnetic Resonance Imager Campaign or the Bothwell
United Church. Online condolences and donations may be left at
our website www.badderfuneralhome.com. "A tree will be planted
in memory of Lyda
BLOOM in the Bladder and Robinson Memorial Forest,
Mosa Twp."
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WEINSTEIN,
Percy
In a room filled with love, and his family close by, Percy passed
away quietly and peacefully on Sunday, January 27, 2008. Beloved
husband of Myrna for 51 wonderful years. Adored father and father-in-law
of Karen WEINSTEIN and Jason
HANSON, and Deedee
WEINSTEIN.
Incredibly
loved grandfather of Alexander, Lily, Harry, Molly, Russell,
Riley, and Ian. Dear brother and brother-in-law of Seymour and
Risa WEINSTEIN,
Vera and the late Max
WEINSTEIN, Faigie and the
late Joe WEINSTEIN,
Beenie
ALTER, the late Tillie and Sam
BLOOM,
and Sonny and Rhoda
WEINSTEIN. At
Holy
Blossom
Temple, 1950 Bathurst
Street (south of Eglinton), for service on Wednesday, January 30th
at 12: 00 noon. Interment Beth Tzedec Memorial Park. In loving
memory of Percy, donations may be made to The Percy Weinstein
Research Fund c/o The Baycrest Centre Foundation 416-785-2875
or to The Princess Margaret Hospital Foundation 416-946-6560.
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BLOOM,
Philip "
Phil"
Henry
On Saturday, February 9, 2008 at North York General Hospital.
Phil BLOOM beloved husband, best friend and partner of Ida for
58 years. Dear brother and brother-in-law Rita and the late Harold
KORENBLUM, and the late Max, and Lillian
LAUFMAN and William
BLOOM.
Devoted uncle to his many nephews and nieces, great-nephews
and great-nieces, and great-great-nephews and great-great-nieces
and his circle of true Friends. Phil was the Chief Executive
Officer of Manleigh Mens Apparel Limited for over 35 years. At
Benjamin's Park Memorial Chapel, 2401 Steeles Avenue West (3 lights
west of Dufferin) for service on Monday, February 11th at 2: 30 p.m.
Interment Beth Sholom Synagogue section of Mt. Sinai Memorial
Park. Shiva 65 Spring Garden Avenue #510, from 2: 00 p.m. daily.
Memorial donations may be made to the Philip Henry Bloom Memorial
Fund c/o the Benjamin Foundation, 3429 Bathurst Street, Toronto,
Ontario, M6A 2C3, 416-780-0324, or www.benjamins.ca.
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BLOOM o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2008-03-18 published
BLOOM,
Kay
See BROOKS,
Kay▼
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BLOOM o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2008-03-18 published
BROOKS,
Kay▲ (formerly
BLOOM)
Beloved wife of the late Jerry
BROOKS and the late Joe
BLOOM,
beloved mother of Lynn (Dave)
SHILMAN and Martin. Devoted grandmother
and great-grandmother. Treasured sister of Frances
FOGLE and
Molly Goldenberg
LUTREN; in L.A. after a lengthy illness. Shiva
in Toronto beginning Wednesday, March 19 at 4 p.m. Daily after
1 p.m. until Tuesday (25th) morning, 59 Admiral Road (north off
Lowther, west of Bedford). Prayers 7 p.m.
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BLOOM,
Lillian
Evelyn
On April 22, 2008, at the age of 98. Miss
BLOOM was born in Whitney,
Ontario on November 9, 1909, the only child of Emily
KOSMACK
and William
BLOOM.
The family moved to Wainwright, Alberta in
1912, when the town was in its beginnings. Miss
BLOOM was a graduate
of Wainwright High School, the University of Alberta in arts
and education, and the Toronto Conservatory of Music in piano
forte. She began her career as a high school teacher in Canmore,
Alberta, moving later to Athabasca, Alberta, and finally to her
hometown where she taught for ten years. There she was active
in the musical life of the United Church as organist and choir
leader. In 1955, with her father, she moved to Newmarket, Ontario.
In 1956 they came to Whitby, where Miss
BLOOM taught at Henry
Street
High
School until her retirement in 1975. Miss
BLOOM spoke
of teaching as "my whole life". Retirement was not easy. However
she travelled widely, and of recent years enjoyed walking, gardening,
reading, channel 17, and concert series in Toronto. According
to her wishes, there will be no funeral. Her ashes will be interred
in the family plot at Grace Lutheran Cemetery at Eganville, Ontario.
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SIRSLY,
Claude
Eugene
It is with deep sadness that Claude's family announces his sudden
death on Thursday, May 8, 2008 as a result of complications from
surgery. Claude was 59 years of age, and was predeceased by his
parents, Joseph and Antoinette
(FICHERA.) He leaves, in sorrow
and bewilderment, his wife
Christena
(KEON,) his brother and
sister-in-law, Tony and Carol-Ann
(TETRAULT,) and his nieces,
Francesca and Dominique. Claude was always close to his wife's
family - his sister-in-law, Mary
KEON and her partner Lewis
McCALL
his brothers-in-law, Jim
KEON and his wife
Kathleen
(BAKTIS)
and David KEON and his wife
Jane
(BLOOMER.) He enjoyed following
the progress of his nieces and nephews by marriage: Jody and
Holly KEON;
David
KEON Jr., his wife
Linda and their children
Kaitlyn and D.J.; Anne Marie and Jim
NEMETT and their children,
Laura and Liam; Kathleen and Joe
ZOLDOS, and their son Michael
Tim and Sheila
KEON and their sons, Patrick and Benjamen. Claude
was passionate about everything he undertook, but particularly
focused his attention on the three 'C's': cooking - he was an
exceptional cook and enjoyed entertaining Friends and family
construction - he had a talent for creating solutions to complicated
problems in the apartment and at the cottage in Magog; and Christena
- he advised her on her career and life choices throughout their
Friendship of 39 years and their marriage of 32 years. One day,
we will be able to make sense of losing this insightful, kind
and considerate husband and friend. We will keep the faith until
that day. There will be visitation at the Centre Funeraire Cote-desNeiges,
4525 chemin de la Cote-des-Neiges, 1-888-3426565 on Wednesday,
May 14, 2008 from 17: 00 to 21:00. The funeral will take place
on Thursday, May 15, 2008 at 10: 30 at St. Patrick's Basilica,
460 Boulevard Rene-Levesque West. Should you wish, donations
in Claude's memory may be made to the Heart and Stroke Foundation
of Canada.
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BURK/BURKE,
Howard
William (1928-2008)
Passed away April 21, 2008 at his home in Kitchener. Lovingly
cared for in his final weeks by his children: Valerie (Rick)
TURNER, Bonnie (Rod)
DOUGHERTY, Laurie Burke (Gary)
VERBAAS,
Helena (Bob)
CAMPBELL,
Nancy
BURK/BURKE (Ernie,)
Vince and Charlie
BURK/BURKE
(Barbara.) Survived by his life friend, Blanche
(HUBACHECK)
BURK/BURKE, his siblings Vivian (Jerry)
LAPENSEE, Gladys (Alex)
MUISE,
Eleta (Robert)
THOMPSON/THOMSON/TOMPSON/TOMSON,
Mavis
(Bill)
HAMILTON, Kenneth (Betty,)
Mary (Roger)
PARENT, Stephen (Jackie), Ruth, Shirley (Robert)
WALKER and Joan. Remembered with a smile as a one-of-a-kind grandpa
by his thirteen grandchildren, Christopher, Steven (Niki), Shawna,
Brett, Elizabeth, Cameron, Michael, Patrick, Nick, Lauren, Anna,
Katie and Marshall. Pre-deceased by his infant daughter Leslie
Ann (1963,) his parents William and Esther
(CAMERON,) his brothers
Edmond, Arthur (Bea), Harold, Ronald (Sheila) and his sister
Dorothea (Stan)
COLBRAN.
The
BURK/BURKE children thank Doctor
BLOOMFIELD,
Dr. KONTAKOS and Nurse Joan for their care and kindness to our
dad. At Howard's request, there is no memorial service. Cremation
has taken place.
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HARVEY, Pansy Florence Bridget "June" (née
CROSS)
Passed away peacefully on Tuesday April 8, 2008 at the Parkwood
Hospital,
London.
Pansy (June)
HARVEY formerly of Port Rowan
in her 89th year. Beloved wife of the late John
HARVEY who predeceased
her November 12, 1994. Loving mother of Lorraine and husband George
BLOOMFIELD of R.R.#1 Nobel, Valerie and husband Tom
DURSTON of
R.R.#2 Mt. Elgin and Charlene and husband Kim
BROWN of R.R.#3 Port
Rowan.
She is survived by her step-son Wayne
MUTCH and wife
Kay
of R.R.#1 Woodstock and by her sister Shirley and husband Peter
MORGAN of Purley, England. She was predeceased by her son Gary,
brother Peter, sisters Betty and Eileen. Pansy served in the Royal
Air Force during World War 2 and was a member of the Royal Canadian
Legion Branch 379, Port Rowan. A past director of the Oxford
Dorland Aires. Relatives and Friends may call at the Jeffrey W.
Glendinning Funeral Home, 36 Front Street, Port Rowan on Thursday
from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. Funeral Service will be conducted at the
Port Rowan Mennonite Brethren Church on Friday April 11, 2008
at 11: 00 a.m. Interment in Pleasantview Cemetery, Curries. A Legion
Memorial Service will be conducted at the funeral home Thursday
at 6: 45 p.m. under the Auspices of Port Rowan Legion Branch #374.
In lieu of flowers, donations to the Parkwood Hospital Veterans
Wing or Heart and Stroke Foundation (cheques accepted) would be
appreciated by the family.
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KIRKHAM,
Marjorie
Irene (née
BARRATT)
Peacefully on Wednesday January 2, 2008 at the General and Marine
Hospital, Collingwood in her 84th year. Marjorie of Wasaga Beach,
beloved wife of Douglas for over 64 years. Loving mother of Sharon
and her husband Monty
BLOOMFIELD, the late Donald and his wife
Lynn and Robert and his wife Anne. Cherished grandmother of Barbara
and Michelle
KIRKHAM and proud great-grandmother of Alyssa
CONTE.
Survived by brother Robert
BARRATT and sisters Betty
FERADAY
and Jeanne
SHOREY.
The family wishes to thank the staff at the
General and Marine Hospital and Doctor Michael
LEWIN for their care
of Marjorie and her family. Private family arrangements. Remembrances
to the General and Marine Hospital Foundation or the Sunnybrook
Health Science Centre Foundation would be appreciated. Arrangements
under the direction of Carruthers and Davidson Funeral Home -Wasaga
Beach Chapel (705-429-8766).
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BLOOMFIELD o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2008-02-16 published
ARMSTRONG,
Gwen
Of Amherstview, Ontario. Peacefully, after a long struggle with
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, at Kingston General Hospital,
on Thursday, February 14, 2008. Gwen (née
BLOOMFIELD,) loving
wife of the late George
ARMSTRONG (died 1991.) Dear mother of
Joan ARMSTRONG
(Mike
JENKINS) and Elaine
ARMSTRONG, both of Kingston.
Dear sister of Alice
WASHINGTON of Gravenhurst, Margaret
EDWARDS
of Toronto, and the late George
BLOOMFIELD,
Mabel
BJERKNES and
Bill BLOOMFIELD.
Much loved aunt of many nieces and nephews.
Longtime house mother to Queen's Medical students at Medical
House, Kingston. Resting at the James Reid Funeral Home, 1900 John
Counter Boulevard, Kingston, where Friends and family will be
received Sunday 2-4 p.m. and Monday 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. and one
hour prior to the service. Funeral Service in the chapel Tuesday,
February 19 at 2: 45 p.m. Interment Cataraqui Cemetery. As expressions
of sympathy, the family would appreciate donations be made to
U.H.K.F. (University Hospital's Kingston Foundation) (to be directed
to research), 366 King Street East, Suite 201, Kingston, Ontario
K7K 6Y3.
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BLOOMFIELD o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2008-04-26 published
BROWN,
Doris
On Friday, April 25, 2008 in Glasgow, Scotland. Doris
BROWN,
beloved wife of the late Harry Louis
BROWN.
Loving mother of
Barbara KERBEL and David May, and the late David
BROWN.
Dear
sister of Rita and Edward
BLOOMFIELD.
Devoted grandmother of
Lauren KERBEL, and Lawrence and Andrew
BROWN.
Funeral service
to take place in Glasgow, Scotland on Monday, April 28, 2008.
Donations may be made to the Doris Brown Memorial Fund c/o The
Benjamin Foundation, 3429 Bathurst Street, Toronto, M6A 2C3,
416-780-0324, www.benjamins.ca
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MEREDITH,
James
Maxwell
Peacefully on June 19, 2008 at Hotel-Dieu Grace Hospital, Windsor,
in his 91st year. Father to Robert and his wife
Carol
MEREDITH
of London, Ontario, grandfather to Susan (David)
FISH,
Karen
(Andrew) BLOTT, Heather (Christian
LEMASSIF)
MEREDITH, Robert
(Kenzie) MEREDITH, great-grandfather of five. Jim will also be
missed by his sister Madge
SHIPSHEE of California, and brother
Dr.
Ray
(Marion)
MEREDITH of London. He was predeceased by brothers
Eldon and Donald and sister Edith
HARDACRE.
Born
July 7, 1917
in Sombra Township to Allan and Myrtle
(KINCAID)
MEREDITH,
Jim
sang in the Windsor Light Opera, was an avid pilot and master
gardener, and had diverse interests from the environment to astronomy.
He worked as a custom builder in Windsor. His memorial service
will be held at the Thomas L. DeBurger Funeral Home, 620 Cross
Street, Dresden, on Saturday June 28 with visitation at 1: 00 p.m.,
service at 2: 00 p.m. Rev. Sherry
THOMAS officiating. Interment
in Dresden Cemetery. Online condolences may be made at www.deburgerfuneralhome.com
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