FONES
FONGER
FONSECA
FONTAINE
FONTE
FONES o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2008-05-30 published
FONES,
Eileen
Dorothy
(November 27, 1929-May 30, 2006)
To know her was to love her Both for family and friend; And the
sweetness of her memory, Time can neither dim nor end. Always
remembered, forever loved by Lynda, Gordon and family.
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FONGER o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2008-05-21 published
CASE,
Lorne
Oscar
Passed away at Haldimand War Memorial Hospital, Dunnville, with
his family by his side, on Sunday, May 18, 2008 in his 52nd year.
Loving friend and fiance of Carolyn
BOREHAM.
Most beloved father
of Shannon
CASE and Byron
TOPP,
Crystal and Barry
LEWIS, and
Lacey and Dreshad
CULVER. Cherished and teasing grampa of Hope
and Braidon. Dearest and most loved
son of Jean
HAILSTONE.
Dearly
loved brother of Mary Anne and George
SKINNER,
Shirley
GREGORY
and Ruth and Mike
HUSTON.
Predeceased by his father Levi (Pat)
CASE (1966,) brother-in-law Fred
FONGER (1970,) sister Donna
GREGSON (2002,) step-father Glenn
MILLS (2002) and brother-in-law
Paul GREGORY (1999.) Visitation will be held at Denning Bros.
Funeral Home, Strathroy on Thursday, May 22 from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m.
where a funeral service will be held on Friday, May 23 at 11 a.m.
with Rev. Kathy
FRASER officiating. Interment to follow in Appin
Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Canadian
Cancer Society or your charity of choice would be appreciated.
A tree will be planted as a living memorial to Lorne.
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FONSECA o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2008-03-06 published
An $8,000 bill to pay before he rests in peace
Neither landlady nor man's family can afford to send body home
By Anthony
REINHART,
Page A1
Toronto -- After working each day to build houses he couldn't
afford, Alvaro Vargas
FONSECA would lay his body down in a small,
rented room in Toronto.
Today, Mr.
FONSECA's corpse lies at a west-end funeral home,
in a lonely state of limbo, where it will stay until someone
pays $8,000 to send it home to Costa Rica.
Mr. FONSECA, 38, was among the estimated 20,000 illegal immigrants
working in greater Toronto's construction industry when a heart
attack felled him on a Mississauga job site on February 25.
With no loved ones in Canada to claim him, it fell to his landlady,
Cristina CARBALLO, to have his body taken to a funeral home while
she conferred by telephone with his distraught relatives in the
Central American country.
Trouble is, neither Ms.
CARBALLO nor Mr.
FONSECA's family can
afford the $8,000 cost to send his remains home.
The situation is particularly distressing to Ms.
CARBALLO, who
now finds herself on a financial hook for a second time for trying
to do right by Mr.
FONSECA.
The first time was in July of 2006, when she borrowed $2,000
in cash and put up $6,000 against the value of her modest Toronto
home to bail Mr.
FONSECA out of immigration detention, where
he was awaiting deportation. She had never met him, but had learned
of his plight though her brother, an acquaintance.
Upon Mr. FONSECA's release, Ms.
CARBALLO rented him a room in
her basement for $400 a month, while he worked as a framer and
chipped away at the paperwork to obtain legal status.
Since Mr. FONSECA's death 10 days ago, she has asked Citizenship
and Immigration Canada to return the $2,000 in bail money so
that she can apply it to the cost of shipping his remains, but
was told she must first provide a death certificate - then wait,
possibly months - for her request to wind through the bureaucracy.
"I just want to help," said Ms.
CARBALLO, 45, who came legally
to Canada from El Salvador 20 years ago and now runs her own
beauty salon. A single mother of three, she sympathized with
Mr. FONSECA, who was sending money home to his three children.
His co-workers at a Brampton-based contracting firm have set
up a fund in hopes of covering the body transport costs, to which
Local 183 of the Labourers' International Union of North America
has made a "substantial donation," Michael
O'BRIEN, a union official,
said yesterday.
Roger NAIR, a customer and friend of Ms.
CARBALLO, has also come
to her aid. Mr.
NAIR, who runs a film production company and,
by coincidence, is working on a project about the hidden lives
of refugees in Toronto, has arranged for a lawyer to make inquiries
with the immigration department, free of charge, on her behalf.
A Citizenship and Immigration department spokesman, citing privacy
rules, declined to comment on Mr.
FONSECA's case.
Beyond the specifics of government policy, Mr.
NAIR finds sad
irony in what he sees as a lack of official concern for the fate
of the dead man's remains, or for Ms.
CARBALLO, whose only motive
was to help another human being.
"The Canadian government would have stepped up to the plate to
deport this guy in two seconds, and sent him back and paid for
his flight," Mr.
NAIR said. "Now the guy is dead, so what are
we doing? Are we just going to leave him to rot?"
Ms. CARBALLO, who could have walked away but chose not to, is
"actually getting penalized for helping someone."
As for Canada, Mr.
NAIR struggled with disquieting thoughts about
a country that so often fancies itself a paragon of decency in
a cold world.
"I take it that we have become so uncompassionate about people
around us," he said. "We don't see that everybody's got a life,
and they have a family, and we can't see beyond our noses.
"We're a well-to-do country. I don't think it's right."
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FONTAINE o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2008-05-01 published
PATTERSON,
John
Carmen
Passed away peacefully at home Strathroy on Tuesday, April 29,
2008, in his 65th year.
son of Helen
THYNNE and the late Clarence
PATTERSON.
Beloved husband of Judy
(OSBORNE.) Loving father of
Jackie PATTERSON,
Leslie
LAWRENCE (Trevor) and Joey
PATTERSON.
Loving
Papa of Brooke, Bryson and Morgan
PATTERSON and Michael
LAWRENCE. Survived by brother Bob Patterson (Donna,) brother-in-law
Joe OSBORNE
(Carol) and sister-in-law Jill
OSBORNE. Visitation
will be held at Bethel Baptist Church, (264 Princess Street,
Strathroy) on Saturday, May 3, 2008 from 1-3 p.m. with a Memorial
Service following at 3 p.m. with Doctor Ed
FONTAINE and Pastor Roger
GAST officiating. In memory of Carmen donations may be made to
the Bethel Baptist Church Building Fund. A Masonic Memorial Service
will be held at 12: 30 p.m. from the church. Denning Bros. Funeral
Home, Strathroy entrusted with arrangements 519-245-1023. A tree
will be planted as a living memorial to Carmen.
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FONTAINE o@ca.on.simcoe_county.nottawasaga.stayner.stayner_sun 2008-01-09 published
GOSS,
Albert
John
Thomas
Peacefully following a long battle with lung disease on Wednesday
January 2, 2008 at the General and Marine Hospital, Collingwood
in his 72nd year. Tom of Wasaga Beach, formerly of Georgetown,
beloved husband of Bev for over 50 years. Loving father of Phillip
and his wife
Janet,
Karen and her husband Fred
McDONALD,
Linda
GOSS and her husband André
FONTAINE and Lorraine
GOSS and her
boyfriend Ryan
CARNEY. Dear Gramps of Freddy, Stanley, Patrick,
Matthew and Julie. Dear son of Doris and the late Bert
GOSS.
Brother of Doug and his partner Doreen
WILSON,
Larry and his
wife Sylvia
KING,
Carol and her late husband John
MARTIN and
Janice GOSS and her partner John
DENOTTBECK.
Tom will be missed
by Bev's siblings Fran
O'DONOHOE,
Paul,
David,
Peter and Stephen
ENGLAND and their families, by Bev's Aunt and Uncle Betty and
Nelson READER and their family and by his nieces, nephews and
many good Friends. Tom was retired from Air Canada and was an
active member of the Wasaga Beach Men's Probus and Woodworker's
Club. Friends were received at the Carruthers and Davidson Funeral
Home, 509 River Road West, Wasaga Beach (E. Of Zoo Park) (705-429-8766)
from 7-9 p.m. on Friday. Funeral Service was held in the Chapel
on Saturday January 5, 2008 at 11 o'clock. Spring Interment Stayner
Union Cemetery. Remembrances to The Lung Association would be
appreciated by the family. For more information or to sign the
online guest book, log on to www.carruthersdavidson.com.
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FONTE o@ca.on.grey_county.owen_sound.the_sun_times 2008-02-23 published
BYE,
Jean▼
Marjorie▼ (née
GRUNSELL)
Peacefully at the Grey Bruce Health Services in Owen Sound on
her mother's birthday Friday February 22, 2008. In her 92nd year,
Jean Marjorie
BYE (née
GRUNSELL,) beloved wife of the late Lester J.
BYE.
Loving▼ mother of John
BYE and his late wife
Barbara,▼
Mary▼
and her husband John
COLLIER and Kathryn and her husband Martin
ROACH.
Loving▼ grandmother of Melissa
BYE, Amy and her husband
Lenny FONTE, Sarah
COLLIER and James
WOOD, and Martha
COLLIER.
Loved great-grandmother of Anthony and Haly. Fondly remembered
by nieces and nephews. Predeceased by three sisters Alma (Mrs. John
BUIE,)
Dorothy and Irene
GRUNSELL. Friends may call at the Breckenridge-Ashcroft
Funeral Home on Friday February 29 from 2 to 4 p.m. and 7 to
9 p.m. A funeral service will be conducted at the Trinity United
Church,
Annan on Saturday morning at 11 a.m. Rev. Hugh
McDONALD
officiating. Spring interment in Annan Cemetery. As an expression
of sympathy, memorial donations to the Grey Bruce Regional Health
Centre Foundation or to Trinity United Church, Annan would be
appreciated by the family.
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FONTE o@ca.on.grey_county.owen_sound.the_sun_times 2008-02-29 published
BYE,
Jean▲
Marjorie▲ (née
GRUNSELL)
Peacefully at the Grey Bruce Health Services in Owen Sound on
her mother's birthday Friday, February 22, 2008. In her 92nd
year, Jean Marjorie
BYE (née
GRUNSELL,) beloved wife of the late
Lester J. BYE.
Loving▲ mother of John
BYE and his late wife
Barbara,▲
Mary and her husband John
COLLIER and Kathryn and her husband
Martin ROACH.
Loving▲ grandmother of Melissa
BYE, Amy and her
husband Lenny
FONTE,
Sarah
COLLIER and James
WOOD, and Martha
COLLIER.
Loved great-grandmother of Anthony and Haly. Fondly
remembered by nieces and nephews. Predeceased by three sisters
Alma (Mrs. John
BUIE), Dorothy and Irene
GRUNSELL. Friends may
call at the Breckenridge-Ashcroft Funeral Home on Friday February 29
from 2 to 4 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m. A funeral service will be conducted
at the Trinity United Church, Annan on Saturday morning at 11 a.m.
Rev. Hugh McDONALD officiating. Spring interment in Annan Cemetery.
As an expression of sympathy, memorial donations to the Grey
Bruce Regional Health Centre Foundation or to Trinity United
Church, Annan would be appreciated by the family.
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