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KOWAL o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2008-03-04 published
WILKINS,
James
Roy
At Lambton Meadowview Villa, on Saturday, March 1, 2008. James
Roy WILKINS, 87 years, of Petrolia. Devoted husband of Irene
after 67 years of marriage. Dear father of Bob
WILKINS and his
wife Louise of Edmonton, Eileen
WALZ and her husband Robert of
Mississauga, Janet
KOWAL and her husband David of Calgary, Brian
WILKINS and his wife
Susan of Bright's Grove and a special friend
Margarethe
WILKINS of Sarnia. Dear Grampa to Reid
WILKINS of
Edmonton, Brianne
WILKINS and fiance Chris
BESTER of Ajax, Lindsay
WILKINS of Sarnia, Aaron
WALZ of Ottawa, Michael
WALZ of Mississauga
and John KOWAL of Calgary. Also survived by a sister Shirley
McCART of Ingersoll, a brother, David
WILKINS of Quebec, as well
as many nieces and nephews. Jim served his country during World
War 2 with the Royal Canadian Air Force and was a Dow Chemical
retiree with nearly 30 years of service. A private funeral service
will be held at the Needham-Jay Funeral Home, Petrolia (519-882-0100)
with Rev. Nancy
ADAM/ADAMS of Christ Anglican Church officiating.
Interment in Resurrection Cemetery, Sarnia. In lieu of flowers,
memorial donations may be made by cheque to the Christ Church
Bellringers or the Alzheimer Society of Sarnia-Lambton. Memories
and condolences may be sent on line at www.needhamjay.com
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KOWALCZYKE o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2008-06-14 published
Canada's dean of glaciology warned of coming climate change
Geological Survey of Canada expert studied ancient ice cores
and set the stage for the current focus on global warming. In
1969, he was part of a team that reached the North Pole on foot
By Ron CSILLAG,
Special to The Globe and Mail, Page S12
Toronto -- Glaciers spoke to Roy
KOERNER the way trees and rocks
speak to a shaman. Considered the dean of glaciology in Canada
and widely known as Fritz, Doctor
KOERNER likened the giant chunks
of ice to a museum. He considered them "the proverbial canary
in the coal mine, an early warning to the rest of the world of
the consequences that climate change is bringing," wrote Ed Struzik,
last year's Atkinson Fellow, in a harrowing newspaper series
on global warming.
For hidden in the layers of ice "is a record of every atmospheric
event of the past - summer melts, acid snow, cooling trends,
volcanic activity, industrial pollutants, even bomb testings.
"The deeper down you go, the farther you go back in time," Mr. Struzik
said, describing Doctor
KOERNER's regard for the treasure trove
of data in glaciers. "The more sophisticated the technology you
use to interpret the cores, the more detailed the information
you retrieve."
Dr. KOERNER's study of layers in ice cores to reconstruct climate
history of the last 11 millennia set the stage for the current
focus on climate change. And as an old-school explorer of both
polar ice caps, he was among just a handful of adventurers to
be awarded the Polar Medal with both Arctic and Antarctic clasps.
He was perhaps best known for one of the most audacious expeditions
of all time, showing the world that the intrepid explorers of
yore still existed, by crossing the icebound Arctic Ocean on
dog sled from Point Barrow, Alaska, to Vesle Tavleoya, a small
rocky island off the north coast of Svalbard in Norway.
He and three fellow British explorers - including the renowned
Sir Wally Herbert, who died a year ago - left with four dog teams
on February 21, 1968, arrived at the North Pole on April 5 the
next year (where they celebrated with tinned beef stew), and
finished on May 30, 1969. In all, they trekked 5,800 kilometres,
aided by periodic supply drops from Canadian Forces aircraft.
They endured marauding polar bears, man-eating crevasses, five
months of total darkness, and temperatures plunging to -50, a
feat that has never been repeated. The achievement was hailed
by British prime minister Harold Wilson as a "feat of endurance
and courage which ranks with any in polar history." Prince Phillip,
the group's patron, called it "among the greatest triumphs of
human skill and endurance."
Not only did Doctor
KOERNER and his team become the first people
ever to make the Arctic traversal, they may have been the first
humans to reach the North Pole by foot (where they also conducted
the first surface survey of the ice).
"Were they really the first to reach the [North] Pole?" wondered
the Ottawa Citizen. "Probably. U.S. Navy explorer Robert Peary
had made the same claim 60 years earlier, but later examinations
of his diary and other evidence has led researchers to suspect
he was never closer to the Pole than eight kilometres and probably
much further."
A self-effacing, irreverent man with an indomitable spirit and
seemingly indestructible runner's body, Doctor
KOERNER sounded concerns
about shrinking glaciers and a warming Arctic long before the
current preoccupation with climate change.
By studying oxygen isotopes and the thickness of summer melt
layers, he and his fellow scientists demonstrated three decades
ago that while the warmest summers occurred 10,000 years ago
and the coldest only 150 years ago, the summers over the past
century have been the warmest in the past 1,000 years.
However, "he wasn't an alarmist," noted Geoff Green, founder
of Students on Ice, an award-winning organization based in Gatineau,
Quebec, that takes teenagers on learning expeditions to the Arctic
and Antarctic.
"He said, 'here's my data from 40 years and here's the trend,'
recalled Mr. Green, who accompanied Doctor
KOERNER on 10 expeditions
to both poles." He let others use that as a baseline for a lot
of the understanding of how our climate is changing. He didn't
have an agenda. He was a scientist - a giant in his field. He
was one of the greatest polar explorers of our time."
Possessed of an arid English wit, Doctor
KOERNER described himself
as a "relic" of the British Empire. The youngest of three sons
born to a housewife and a dock worker in the busy British naval
port of Portsmouth, he studied geography at the University of
Sheffield, where he graduated in 1954. He taught briefly, but
a wanderlust he developed as a young fan of exotic travel prompted
him to set sail in 1957 for Hope Bay, Antarctica, as a meteorologist
with the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey, now the British
Antarctic Survey.
"It was a dog-sledding base," he would recall, "and we travelled
up and down the peninsula and, of course, you are surrounded
by glaciers, so naturally I got very interested."
He spent the next 2½ years as senior meteorologist and glaciologist
near the northern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula. For his work
there, he received the Polar Medal from the Queen.
In 1961, already known as a top glaciologist, he joined an expedition
to Devon Island in the Northwest Territories, where he spent
two years studying the ice cap. His work earned him a doctorate
from the London School of Economics, and laid the foundation
for his later research elsewhere in the Canadian Arctic.
As part of an annual Arctic ritual, Doctor
KOERNER returned to Devon
Island about a year ago, looked out over Jones Sound, which separates
Devon from Ellesmere Island, and noticed that it was ice-free.
"I began my career in glaciology on Devon," he rued to Mr. Struzik.
"I never thought I'd ever see that part of the Arctic Ocean open
so early in the year."
In 1963, he joined the geography department of Ohio State University's
Institute of Polar Studies as a research associate, where he
concentrated on glaciers, but also on analysis of snow stratigraphy,
or layering. For that work, he later received the United States
Antarctic Service Medal.
Following his epic trans-Arctic crossing, for which he received
the second clasp to his Polar Medal, Doctor
KOERNER joined the Department
of Energy, Mines and Resources in Ottawa as a research scientist
and head of the Ice Core Laboratory. According to his son Justin,
he chose to settle in Canada partly because the government had
acquired the equipment needed for deep drilling of ice cores.
With it, he could bore down 300 metres to the 100,000-year-old
bedrock under the Agassiz ice cap on Ellesmere Island. Those
results, which showed that summers were indeed getting warmer,
were in general agreement with results from similar work in Greenland,
where glaciers were melting twice as fast as previously believed.
Dr. KOERNER was also part of the department's Polar Continental
Shelf Project, which studied the mass balance of Arctic glaciers
and past climate through ice-core analysis, but also helped define
exactly where the polar continental shelf was in an effort to
establish Canada's sovereignty claims in the High Arctic.
He studied the ice caps on four islands: Devon, Meighen, Ellesmere
and Melville Island, thus spanning all the climate regions of
the Canadian Arctic. As his long-time friend and colleague David
Fisher wrote in the London Times a few days ago, "his approach
to polar science was direct, critical and focused on the essentials."
During his time in Ottawa, Doctor
KOERNER taught geography at Carleton
University. Over the course of his career, he published more
than 70 scientific papers and book chapters, mainly in the field
of glaciology. He was also active in the early stirrings of the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which, along with
Al Gore, was awarded last year's Nobel Peace Prize.
He took his work seriously but not himself. On field trips with
Students on Ice, "he was the king of irreverence," Mr. Green
recalled. "The kids absolutely adored him. He had a way of educating
and inspiring and entertaining that was quite unique. He was
the only guy I knew who could make a graph hilarious."
In 1979, Doctor
KOERNER was named head of the Geological Survey
of Canada's glaciology group, where he continued to work until
his formal retirement in 1999. Until this year, he was the Canadian
representative to the International Arctic Science Committee.
His final research interest was on reductions in acid snow due
to our declining use of sulphates, a result that he identified
as part of the global warming equation, according to Natural
Resources Canada.
But no matter how reserved he was, he could not hide his concern
over climate trends. "When you add up all of these unusual things
we've been seeing in the Arctic over the past few years," he
said last year, "you really realize just how warm things are
getting up there."
Down below, too. In his early days in Antarctica, he was honoured
for his work with the naming of his own topographical feature
- Koerner Rock, a 600-metre-high stone mountain near Hope Bay.
Over the years, the glacial ice has since melted to the extent
that there are now three Koerner Rocks.
Mr.
Green wants to see a glacier named after Doctor
KOERNER in the
Canadian Arctic, and plans to keep alive a project of Doctor
KOERNER's
that Ottawa approved just recently, in which two Inuit youth
from Grise Fiord, Nunavut, Canada's most northern settlement,
will be taken on a trip to Antarctica this December to do some
ice coring.
Roy
Martindale
(Fritz)
KOERNER was born in Portsmouth, England,
on July 6, 1932, and died in Ottawa on May 26, 2008, after cutting
short his last Arctic trip due to colon cancer. He was 75. His
wife, Anna (née
KOWALCZYKE) died in 1989. He leaves his children
Eva, Davina, Kristina and Justin.
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KOWALESKI o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2008-03-29 published
CABAK,
Frank
John
It is with profound sadness that we announce the passing of Frank
John CABAK in his 87th year. He died peacefully, with his family
by his side at Parkwood Hospital, Complex Care on Friday, March 28,
2008. Frank has gone to join his beloved wife of sixty years,
Blanche VAN
PRAET (2004.) Leaving to mourn are his cherished
son, Donald and his wife
Nancy
RAYE.
Loving brother of Ed and
Jeanette SALTARSKI and Joseph
SALTARSKI
(Gladys) all of London,
Ontario.
Predeceased by his sister, Stella
KOWALESKI and brothers
Albert (Helen) and John (Helen)
CABAK.
Frank will be sadly missed
by his brother-in-law Camiel
VAN
PRAET and his wife
Mariea of
Sarasota, Florida, and his sister-in-law Frankaileen
SCULLY of
Wallaceburg, Ontario. Step grandfather of Lisa
DUBE (Matthew)
and Curtis
MORRIS, and step great-grandfather of five. Frank
leaves many happy and fond memories with his many nieces and
nephews. Our family would like to extend sincere thanks to the
many caregivers and Friends who performed many acts of kindness
for our father during the last few years. And so, Dad's chapter
in the book of life has come to an end. His was a life well lived,
full of hard work, hard play and many many sports. His wisdom,
counsel, and balance will be sadly missed by all who touched
his life. As is the case of a child and his father it is impossible
to remember a time when he was not there and that will make his
absence even more pronounced. He advised, supported, provided
for and yes on occasion corrected me. His commitment to his family
was total, unreserved and it never wavered. Friends and family
will be received at John T. Donohue Funeral Home, on Sunday evening
from 6-9 o'clock. Funeral Mass will be held at Saint Martin of
Tours Church, 46 Cathcart Street at Duchess, on Monday afternoon
at 1 o'clock. Interment in Saint Peter's Cemetery. Prayers Sunday
evening at 6 o'clock. As an expression of sympathy, donations
to the ALS Society, the Canadian Cancer Society or the charity
of your choice would be appreciated by the family.
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KOWALEWSKI o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2008-07-19 published
MILLER,
Lois
Mary (née
TOMKINS)
(August 29, 1916-July 12, 2008)
Lovingly and tenderly supported by family and caregivers at Toronto
Western Hospital, Lois passed away peacefully to her heavenly
journey on Saturday July 12th in her 92nd year. She was the treasured
sweetheart of the late S. Dickson
MILLER and a loving partner
of the late Doug
STEVENS; cherished mother of Catherine
MILLER
(Cliff KACHALUBA,)
Marnie
(John
KOWALEWSKI,) Bruce (Ginny,) and
Peter (Celeste); devoted Nana to Camille, Andrew, Scott, Stephanie
(Paul), James, Kristen (Andre), Alicia (John) and Stephen; great-grandmother
to Kaiya.
Lois's life was defined by her love of family, Friends and faith
in God. She will be remembered for many things: devoted to her
parents, notable Lisgar (Ottawa) graduate, Queen's graduate (Arts
'39) and one of Queen's first two female cheerleaders, a loving
mother, grandmother and wife, an activist through her volunteer
and professional work, and a woman always progressive in her
thinking: a woman of grace and quiet strength.
In recent days confronted with failing health she continued to
be independent, thoughtful and loving to family and her support
team. She maintained her amazing sense of humour and even while
facing her final days she possessed the strength and faith to
graciously accept God's master plan for her.
Lois's example of living with integrity, wisdom and love continues
to inspire and guide us.
As she wished, a private family service has been held and a Memorial
Service to celebrate her life will be held Monday August 25th,
1 p.m. at the Morley Bedford Funeral Home, 159 Eglinton Ave.
West, Toronto (2 lights west of Yonge St.). Her family will be
present to welcome you during the hour before the service and
the reception following.
In lieu of flowers in Lois's memory you may consider contributions
to a charity of your choice or to one of her favorites: Big Sisters
of Ontario, Richmond Hill or Forest Hill United Church, Queens
University or Young Women's Christian Association National Office.
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KOWALIK o@ca.on.grey_county.owen_sound.the_sun_times 2008-05-20 published
DESCHAMPS,
Leo
Alexander
At Grey-Bruce Health Services in Southampton, on Saturday, May 17th,
2008, at the age of 76 years, Leo
DESCHAMPS of Port Elgin. Beloved
husband of the former Patricia
MOORE.
Father of Leo and Shelley
of British Columbia, Timothy of Southampton, Dennis of Paisley,
Sandra and Ray of Cambridge, Janice and her husband Dave
COOK
of Paisley, and Heather
SEAHAVER of Port Elgin, Grandpa to Alacea,
Ami, Kristopher, Jessica, Melissa, Caitlyn, Kurtis, Toni, Kyle,
Jaymie, Samantha and Catherine, Great-grandpa of Maya, Luke H.,
Sarah and Luke. Brother of Joan and her husband Chuck
SCHOOLEY
of Crystal Beach, Shirley and her husband Mike
KOWALIK of Guelph,
Thelma and her husband Walter
CROZIER of Fort Erie, Ronnie of
Crystal Beach, Denzil and his wife Sally of Port Colborne, Barb
and her husband Ellis
STOUGHTON of Crystal Beach, Bernie and
his friend Sharon
BAUNTROG of Cambridge, Rene and his wife
Pauline
of Caledonia, Linda
LEGAULT and her partner Roger
BARTHE of Niagara
Falls, and Michael and his partner Joanne
GIBBS of Hamilton.
Surviving also is one sister-in-law Rita
DESCHAMPS of Buffalo,
New York. Predeceased by his parents Leandre and Sarah (Sadie)
DESCHAMPS, and by his brothers Desi and Wilmer. Friends may call
at the W. Kent Milroy Port Elgin Chapel, 510 Mill Street, Port Elgin
(Town of Saugeen Shores) from 2: 00 to 4:00 and 7:00 to 9:00 p.m.
on Wednesday, May 21st, 2008. Funeral mass will be celebrated
in Saint_Joseph's Roman Catholic Church, Port Elgin on Thursday
at 11: 00 a.m. with Father Peter
MEYER officiating. Interment
Sanctuary Park Cemetery. Memorial contributions to the Alzheimer
Society or the Ontario Heart and Stroke Foundation would be appreciated
as expressions of sympathy. Portrait and memorial online at www.milroyfuneralhomes.com
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KOWALINSKI o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2008-06-29 published
GILL,
Doctor
James "
Jim"
Peacefully at Woodingford Lodge, Woodstock on Friday, June 27,
2008, Doctor James (Jim)
GILL, formerly of Ingersoll, in his 88th
year. Beloved husband of Nola, and dearly loved father of Don
and his wife
Cathy of Kinnelon, New Jersey, Kathy
SMIT of Ingersoll,
and Barbara
KOWALINSKI and her husband Doug of Beeton. Dear grandpa
of Bryan and Carolyn
GILL,
Adam and Brandon
SMIT and Eric and
Michael KOWALINSKI.
Predeceased by his brother William Edward
(Ted.) Dear brother-in-law of Ray and Ivan
PERKINS.
Jim was a
veterinarian in the Ingersoll community for 50 years. His work
was a labour of love. He was a proud alumnus of the University
of Guelph, and a member of Saint Paul's Presbyterian Church and
the Kiwanis Club of Ingersoll. Cremation has taken place. Visitation
will be held at the McBeath-Dynes Funeral Home, 246 Thames St. S.,
Ingersoll on Wednesday, July 2nd from 7-9 p.m. Memorial Service
will be held at Saint Paul's Presbyterian Church, 56 Thames St. S.,
Ingersoll on Thursday, July 3, 2008 at 2: 00 p.m. with Rev. Dr. Lonnie
ATKINSON officiating. Those who wish may make memorial donations
to the Alzheimer's Society or Saint Paul's Presbyterian Church,
Ingersoll. The family would like to thank Doctor Carter and the
staff of Woodingford Lodge for their kind care of their father
over the past few years, as well as those family and Friends
for their faithful visits.
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KOWALSKI o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2008-05-28 published
DONALDSON,
Sophia "Vi"
Surrounded by family on Sunday, May 25, 2008 at the age of 86.
Beloved wife of the late James (1999). Loving mother of Gregory
"Harry" of Calgary, Peter and his wife
Pauline,
Margo
(SALTS,)
Alan, and Shawn
(METCALF) and her husband Ian
MacDONALD all of
Sarnia.
Proud grandmother of Corry
SALTS and Jessica
(SALTS)
Odrcich (Peter), Carrie (Garreth
BALFE) and Greg
DONALDSON, Wesley
(Janet JACKSON,)
Joseph and Laura
METCALF. Dearest sister of
Rose KRUPPER, Sister Josephine
KOWALSKI, Ann (George)
LEHTO,
and Roman KOWALSKI.
Also survived by many nieces and nephews.
Predeceased by sons James and Bruce and brothers Joseph, Michael
and Peter KOWALSKI. A lover of music, Vi played trumpet in an
all girls traveling orchestra in the 1930s and 1940s. Vi was
a longtime member of Sacred Heart Catholic Women's League and
volunteered with Sarnia's Meals on Wheels for many years. She
will be sadly missed by her favourite cat, Gus. Vi was passionate
about gardening and a talented quilter and will be most remembered
as a gifted baker and pastry maker. Visitation will be held at
the McKenzie and Blundy Funeral Home and Cremation Centre, 431 N. Christina
Street, Sarnia (519-244-3131), on Thursday from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m.
where prayers will be offered at 8: 30 p.m. Mass of Christian
Burial will be celebrated by Fr. Len
DESJARDINS at Sacred Heart
Church at 11: 30 a.m. on Friday, May 30, 2008. Cremation to follow
with private family interment at Our Lady of Mercy Cemetery at
a later date. As an expression of sympathy, Friends who wish
may send memorial donations to the Canadian Cancer Society, 714 Lite
Street, Sarnia, N7V 1A6. Messages of condolence and memories may
be left at www.mckenzieblundy.com A tree will be planted in memory
of Vi DONALDSON in the McKenzie and Blundy Memorial Forest. Dedication
service Sunday, September 21, 2008 at 2: 00 p.m. at the Wawanosh
Wetlands Conservation Area.
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