GEALE
GEAR
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GEARY
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GEALE o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2008-04-05 published
HEWSON,
Elizabeth
Brock
Passed away quietly in her home on Thursday, March 27, 2008,
in her 91st year. She was the beloved daughter of the late Fred
and Jessie
HEWSON.
Predeceased by her brothers Frederic (Ted)
and Geale HEWSON and survived by a dear sister-in-law, Mrs. Geale
(Peg) HEWSON. Loving aunt of Beth
HEWSON (Tom
ZINK), Ric
HEWSON
(Dorothee RETTERATH), Margie (Dale)
LOUGHEED and Ben
HEWSON.
Adored great aunt of Sean (Erika), Jesse, Sandy (Amber), David,
Heather, Jody, Stephanie and Michael. Cherished great-grand aunt
of River GEALE.
Elizabeth, or Buzz, as she was affectionately known by her closest
of Friends, made lasting impressions throughout her lifetime.
Her exceptional organizational abilities were nurtured at an
early age and surfaced most prominently when she served as a
dietician in the Royal Canadian Air Force overseas from 1943-45.
This was followed by 38 dedicated years as a dietician at Burwash
Hall, Victoria University, University of Toronto. She retired
in 1983 to Niagara-on-the-Lake and more recently Virgil.
Buzz's modesty was outshone by her generosity, and she provided
much quiet support of many non-profit organizations throughout
her retirement years. As per Elizabeth's wishes, a private family
service will take place on April 12, 2008. Funeral arrangements
have been entrusted to the Niagara-on-the-Lake Chapel of the
Morgan Funeral Homes. In lieu of flowers, donations to the Niagara-on-the-Lake
Palliative Care, Pleasant Manor Retirement Village in Virgil,
or a charity of your choice would be appreciated by the family.
Online guest register at www.morganfuneral.com
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GEAR o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2008-05-08 published
WILKER,
Dorothy
Elaine (née
BALE)
78 of Tavistock passed away in Stratford General Hospital on
Wednesday, May 7, 2008. She was born in East Zorra Township,
Oxford County on June 23, 1929 a daughter of the late Allan and
Mabel (BIRCH)
BALE.
Dorothy was a piano teacher in Tavistock
for more than sixty years; was a member of Trinity Lutheran Church,
Sebastopol-Tavistock where she was a member of the Evangelical
Lutheran Women. She also played the pump organ for services at
the Historical Trinity Anglican Church in East Zorra. She had
good memories of the enjoyment she had during the years she was
farming with her husband Lloyd. She married Lloyd Henry
WILKER
at Trinity Anglican Church, East Zorra on August 25, 1951. He
died on May 11, 1985. Dorothy is the loved mother of Rosanne
and husband Bert
JALASJAA of Waterlooo, Richard and wife
Kathy
WILKER of Tavistock, Allan and wife
Barb
WILKER of Mitchell,
Linda and husband Perry Keller of Tavistok; grandmother of Kenneth
and Paul Brown, Jason and wife
Sherry
WILKER,
Todd and wife Amie
WILKER,
Heather
WILKER and fiance Darryl
GEAR, Luke and wife
Jen WILKER, Sara
WILKER and friend Dave
DEYOUNG, Karlie
WILKER
and friend George
BISAK,
Chad and Kaitlin
KELLER; great-grandmother
of four great-grandchildren; special friend and sister-in-law
of Helen McGREGOR of Tavistock and Dorothy
SCHAEFER of Kitchener.
She was predeceased by her sister, Margaret
BALE in infancy and
by brothers-in-law, Howard
McGREGOR and Ernie
SCHAEFER.
Relatives
and Friends will be received in the Francis Funeral Home, 77 Woodstock
Street North, Tavistock today (Thursday) from 7-9 p.m. and Friday
from 2-4 and 8-9 p.m. (note time). The funeral service will be
held in Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church, Sebastopol-Tavistock
on Saturday, May 10, 2008 at 2 p.m. The Rev. Richard P.
BROWN
will officiate. Interment in Trinity Evangelical Cemetery, Sebastopol-Tavistock.
As expressions of sympathy, donations to Trinity Evangelical
Lutheran Church Worship and Music or Tavistock Community Health
Inc. would be appreciated and may be made through the Francis
Funeral Home by calling 1-519-655-2431.
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GEARING o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2008-07-03 published
GEARING,
Helen
After a lengthy illness on July 1, 2008 at University Hospital.
Helen GEARING at the age of 83. Predeceased by her beloved husband
Roy (January 10, 2008). Much loved mother of Jacqueline and her
husband Mark
ELDRIDGE. Dear Nana of Joey and Kimberley
ELDRIDGE.
A very special thank you to the staff at Mt. Hope Long Term Care
for the love and dedication shown to Helen over the years. A graveside
service to be held on Saturday, July 5, 2008 at 11: 00 a.m. at
Forest Lawn Memorial Gardens, 1999 Dundas Street East, London
(Section Victory). Following the graveside service a reception
will be held at the Forest Lawn Memorial Chapel, west of the
cemetery grounds. Should Friends so desire, donations may be
made to the Mt. Hope Foundation. Online condolences may be made
at www.memorialfuneral.ca Arrangements entrusted to Memorial
Funeral Home 519-452-3770
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GEARING o@ca.on.simcoe_county.nottawasaga.collingwood.the_connection 2008-06-13 published
MacLEAN,
Doreen
Grace
Passed away peace fully on Friday June 6, 2008 in her 83rd year.
Previously deceased by her loving husband Gordon Stanley
MacLEAN.
Survived by daughters Sharon Elizabeth
McMASTER and Terry of
Kitchener, Linda Susan
GEARING and Christopher
JARVIS of Collingwood,
grandchildren Christina and Paulo
MONTEIRO and Andria Doreen
VANEZI, great-grandchildren Sophia Maria and Marcos Alexandre
of Kitchener. Cremation has taken place and services will be
held at the Stayner Cemetery on Wednesday June 11, 2008 at 2: 30 p.m.
In lieu of flowers donations can be made to the Collingwood and
District Humane Society or the Wasaga Peach Library. Friends
may visit Doreen's online book of memories at www.fawcettfuneralhomes.com
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GEARY o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2008-01-29 published
In building a national literary culture, he saw that 'writers
need an audience'
Technically a radio producer, he spent half a century nurturing
Canadian talent
By Sandra MARTIN,
Page S8
When Alice
LAIDLAW was a student at the University of Western
Ontario, she heard that somebody named Robert
WEAVER was buying
short stories and broadcasting them on the radio. After he bought
a story from a friend of hers, she wrote him a letter in 1951,
enclosing "The Strangers" and "The Widower." He suggested some
changes to the first story and offered to buy it.
"That was probably the greatest moment of my life," she said
in a telephone interview yesterday. Not only did she have a piece
accepted, but she "was going to be paid." And so began Mr.
WEAVER's
long relationship with the writer we now know as Alice
MUNRO.
But it wasn't just praise that she and so many other yearning
writers, including Mordecai Richler and Norman Levine, appreciated
from Mr. WEAVER, a radio producer, anthologist and magazine editor.
"He was always wonderful to work with because he didn't pull
any punches. Even after I was selling stories fairly regularly,
his criticisms were very valuable," Ms.
MUNRO said. "His approach
was always encouraging, businesslike - I think it was very Canadian.
It wasn't overly enthusiastic, but it accepted the fact that
this was important work to you and to him and we were bound to
do our best with it." This was very comforting to Ms.
MUNRO in
the days when she had "nobody else" beyond her first husband
to encourage her.
"He was the guy," Margaret Atwood said yesterday of Mr.
WEAVER,
one of Canadian literature's most formidable talent spotters
from the 1950s through the end of the last century. She recalled
reading one of his first anthologies of short fiction when she
was still in high school. "It was crucial for me because it told
me that there were [Canadian] writers." He broadcast some of
Ms. Atwood's early stories on Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Radio in the 1960s, and the two later worked together with editor
William Toye on two editions of The Oxford Book of Canadian Short
Stories in English (1986 and 1995). He was a "doll" to work with,
she said.
"He always concealed the extent to which he was well read and
literary," Ms. Atwood said, describing Mr.
WEAVER as self-effacing
and apparently untutored. "That was his front. Underneath he
was very smart and he had a very, very good ear," she said. "He
took a chance on unpublished writers and he understood that writers
need an audience - and he was providing that audience," through
radio programs such as Anthology and the short stories that he
collected and published in more than a dozen anthologies, including
five volumes of Canadian Short Stories published by Oxford University
Press.
Although technically a radio producer, Mr.
WEAVER's real métier
was broader and deeper. Essentially, he was a literary editor
who was obsessed with discovering new talent and nurturing it
by providing outlets and markets. Almost unconsciously, he was
also building an audience and a literary culture as he traversed
the country, meeting with writers and the staff at local Canadian
Broadcasting Corporation stations, serving as both a talent scout
and a bridge-builder between Toronto and the regions.
He would hold impromptu salons in hotel rooms, where he puffed
on his pipe, chatted with writers and swallowed an inordinate
amount of hard liquor, while conversation swirled around him.
He never seemed drunk - "not ever," according to Ms. Atwood -
but he must have had a hollow leg, according to people who knew
him in those days. While he could be a stern critic, he also
bought less than stellar work from good writers who were broke
and in need of a commission.
Robert Leigh
WEAVER was born in Niagara Falls, Ontario, on January 21,
1921. His father, Walter
WEAVER, was a doctor and a widower with
one daughter when he married Jessie
GEARY, the daughter of a
local historian who had written books about the War of 1812.
Bob was their first child, followed two years later by Grace,
so he grew up sandwiched between two sisters in a small town
that had a patina of sophistication from its powerful tourist
attraction.
Although he loved sports and remained a hockey and football fan
all of his life, he was not much of an athlete, according to
his biographer Elaine Kalman Naves in Robert Weaver: Godfather
of Canadian Literature. Reading was an early pleasure, but one
that he realized also had a seriousness of purpose - especially
in a family in which reading "was part of the process of being
human." The public library, which he frequented from the time
he was in grade school, alternately sated and aroused his appetite
for books.
His father died in 1931, when Bob was 10, just as the Depression
was beginning to wreak its economic havoc. Two years later, an
impoverished Mrs.
WEAVER moved with her children to Toronto,
where they settled in a rooming house owned by four of her late
husband's sisters near the University of Toronto. Bob went to
high school at Lawrence Park Collegiate, but he was a desultory
student who was much more interested in reading and learning
on his own than being taught by "unmarried, frumpish, middle-aged
women." He graduated from high school in 1938 and got a job at
the Dominion Bank on the corner of Avenue Road and Davenport,
delivering bank drafts and picking up deposits from local businessmen.
In 1942, he tried to enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force,
but failed an examination and switched to the army. He was stationed
near Kingston, but was never sent overseas. The army did what
it did for so many veterans: It gave him the opportunity to attend
university, through the financial support of its veterans' aid
program.
He entered University College at the University of Toronto in
1944, when he was 23 and mature enough to realize how lucky he
was to be alive and involved in an expansive scholarly and social
environment inhabited by the likes of Northrop Frye and Morley
Callaghan. He joined the staff of The Varsity, edited the University
College magazine in his second year, made Friends with three
nascent literary talents - Henry Kreisel, James Reaney and Colleen
Thibodeau - and became a force in The Modern Letters Club, a
group that was agitating to bring the study of literature into
the modern world. He was writing fiction, poetry and prose himself,
but even then, with the help of some blunt comments from Mr. Reaney,
he realized that his real talent lay in editing.
After graduating with a bachelor's degree in philosophy and English,
he joined the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. as a program organizer
in the Talks and Public Affairs Department in November, 1948.
He was given a 15-minute program niche on Friday evenings called
Canadian Short Stories and a magazine-style show of arts reviews
called Critically Speaking. These were the outlets that he used
to create both a home and an audience for new writers as well
as established ones, such as Malcolm Lowry and Sinclair Ross.
And he raised the rates from $35 to $50 for any stories he broadcast.
A year later he began editing (with Helen James, his radio producer)
an anthology of stories that they had broadcast on Canadian Short
Stories and thereby provided his writers with a crossover audience
from radio to print. That first anthology included stories by
Mr.
Ross,
Hugh Garner and Ethel Wilson. By 1954, Mr.
WEAVER had
persuaded his bosses to let him produce Anthology, a 30-minute
literary magazine. It first aired on October 19, 1954, with a
lineup that included The Secret of the Kugel, a short story by
an expatriate Montreal writer in London: Mr. Richler.
Anthology broadcast literary fiction by scads of writers who
are now famous, including Austin Clarke, Leonard Cohen, Timothy
Findley, Margaret Laurence, Gwendolyn MacEwen, Michael Ondaatje,
Alistair MacLeod, Brian Moore, Al Purdy and Jane Rule. By 1968,
the program had been extended to a 60-minute format and moved
from Tuesday to Saturday evenings. According to Ms. Kalman Naves,
Anthology regularly drew an audience of more than 50,000 listeners,
"a figure that probably exceeded the combined readership of all
the little magazines in the country at the time."
By 1974, Mr.
WEAVER was head of Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Radio Arts. Four years later, Howard Engel became the producer
of Anthology and Mr.
WEAVER moved up the hierarchy again to become
executive producer, literary projects. A decade later, he published
The Anthology anthology to commemorate the program's 30th anniversary.
It finally went off the air when budget cuts squeezed Mr.
WEAVER
into early retirement in 1985, although he continued to have
an office at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation until 2002,
when he was 81.
In 1956, he approached Ivon Owen, the managing editor of Oxford
University Press and an acquaintance from university days, about
starting a literary quarterly. Mr. Owen brought Mr. Toye, another
editor from Oxford, to the initial lunch. The three men were
soon joined by Kildare Dobbs, then an editor at Macmillan, poet
Anne Wilkinson and Millar MacLure, an English professor at the
U of T, with all of the editors working for free, although contributors
were paid. Nominally a collective, Mr.
WEAVER's strong editorial
hand was evident until Tamarack folded in 1982.
Mr. WEAVER and his first wife, Mary
McKELLAR (now
COUTTS,) divorced
in the mid-1960s and he married Audrey
MacKELLAR in December,
1968. She became the mother of his two children, David and Janice.
In 1979, he suffered a couple of strokes, which slowed him down,
but didn't deter him from developing another literary bastion:
the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Literary Competition. As
he explained to his biographer: "I think I was always coming
up with new things to do because I was afraid that some of the
things we were doing would come to an end and then… how do you
feed writers and keep going?"
There were 3,000 submissions the first year, an outpouring that
has continued over the decades. The Canada Council became a partner
in 1997 and began providing the prize money for what is now called
the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Literary Awards/Prix Littéraires
Radio-Canada. Winning entries are published in English and French
in enRoute magazine and broadcast on Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Radio.
Robert Leigh
WEAVER was born January 21, 1921, in Niagara Falls,
Ontario He died January 26, 2008, in the Toronto East General
Hospital from complications from pneumonia. He was 87. Mr.
WEAVER
is survived by his second wife, Audrey, children David and Janice,
and younger sister Grace. A private family service is planned.
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GEAUVREAU o@ca.on.grey_county.owen_sound.the_sun_times 2008-02-07 published
TIBOR,
Robert “Bob” Joseph
Of Oliphant, peacefully at Grey Bruce Health Services Owen Sound
on Tuesday, February 5th, 2008. Robert Joseph
TIBOR at the age
of 70 years. Loving husband of Annette (née
SHEARON.)
Cherished
father of Bonnie
GEAUVREAU,
Brad
(Lynne)
TIBOR, both of Windsor
Kim (Geoff
ROCHELEAU) of Mount Brydges; Michelle
TIBOR
(Rob
GROULX,)
of Sauble Beach; and Monica (Blair
TUCK,) of Windsor. Much loved
grandfather to Teri-Lyn, Kristine, Jonathan, Gordie, Abbey, Jessica,
Michael, Elizabeth, Jaqueline, Skye, Sadie, Brandon and Brittney.
Brother of Irene
JOHNSTONE, of Windsor. Predeceased by his parents
Joseph and Elizabeth, and his sister Betty
BURKOSKI.
Brother-in-law
of Dennis BURKOSKI,
Vincent
SHEARON, Maureen
McRAE, and Sharon
“Tootsie”
THRASHER.
Father-in-law of Rick
GEAUVREAU. Best friend
of Howard and Irene
BARKER.
Bob will also be sadly missed by
Pete and Jodi Mountain; Jay and Judy Jasper; Kevin and Annie
Kaposy; Everett, Todd and Bill Arnold; Shirley Kowch; and Mike
and Helen. “Mr. Fix-it” will be forever missed by his best buddy
Brodie. Bob retired after 44 years from Windsor Tool and Die.
Family invite Friends to gather with them for a time of visitation
at the Thomas C. Whitcroft Funeral Home and Chapel, Sauble Beach
(519) 422-0041 on Thursday, February 7th, 2008 from 6: 00-9:00 p.m.
Further visitation and funeral service will be conducted in Windsor.
Donations to the Salvation Army or Habitat for Humanity would
be greatly appreciated. In living memory of Bob a Red Oak tree
will be planted in the funeral home meadow by the Thomas C. Whitcroft
Funeral Home and Chapel. Condolences may be expressed on-line at
www.whitcroftfuneralhome.com
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