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LAGEER o@ca.on.simcoe_county.nottawasaga.collingwood.the_connection 2008-02-01 published
Tara PARTON, 15, remembered as fighter
Became a spokesperson for Cystic Fibrosis cause
By John EDWARDS,
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Tara PARTON lived more than 5,734 days, and lived every one to.
the fullest
said an uncle this week as the family prepared for her funeral
Tuesday.
PARTON, who underwent a double-lung transplant in April 2005,
passed away last Friday morning at her Collingwood home with
her parents Doug and Shannon by her side. She was 15.
Tara was described by her uncle, Jeff
PARTON, as a courageous
individual, a fighter, who never let her health get her down.
Diagnosed with Cystic Fibrosis when she was three-months-old,
he said she always lived life to the fullest. He said the way
she accepted her mortality really impressed him.
"Her reality of the situation - she knew death was imminent and
she never wanted to go ahead and wallow in self pity" he said.
Jeff said his niece was artistic and an animal lover.
Sarah LAGEER has called Tara a friend since Grade 3 but started
spending a lot more time with her over the last three years.
"I would go see her every day after school," she said.
LAGEER said Tara was a loyal friend and a good listener.
"If I wasn't having a really good day, she would listen to me
and offer advice and it was usually pretty good advice
LAGEER
recalls.
She said some of her favourite times were swimming at the Young
Men's Christian Association or just talking.
"We would have sleepovers and stay up until 2 a.m. just talking
and watching movies," she said.
"She didn't really want (her condition) to take time away that
she could spend with her Friends,"
LAGEER said "She lived life
to the fullest"
Her uncle said the disease took hold over her in the last five
months and over the last several weeks she became ill.
"She struggled forward," he said. In an April 2006 Interview
Tara described herself as the survivor in a trio of young Cystic
Fibrosis patients who became closely bonded during their hospital
stays.
Her "long, hard wait" ended after 18 months on the transplant
list with her lungs down to just 20 per cent capacity.
"We made a pact, the last one here would live to become an old
lady," she recounted then. Her two Friends did not survive.
"I guess that is up to me now and I will do my best," she said.
"I do not know how long I will live, but I am grateful for my
second chance at life."
Tara became an advocate for Cystic Fibrosis and organ donations.
She is survived by her mother Shannon, father Doug, brother Cody
and sister Ashley, grandmother Shirley
PARTON, grandparents Mel
and Eleanor
MATHER and nephew Logan. She was predeceased by her
brother Ryan.
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LAGERWERF o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2008-02-29 published
ROOBOL,
Maria
Klazina "
Mary"
Peacefully, at Queensway Nursing Home, Hensall, on Thursday,
February 28, 2008, Maria Klazina "Mary"
ROOBOL of Hensall in
her 96th year. Beloved wife of the late Simon
ROOBOL (1994.)
Dear mother of Maja and Don
DODDS, R.R.#1 Seaforth. Loving grandmother
of Lynne and Ron
GODKIN,
Paul
DODDS, Joan and Brookes
PREWITT
and great-grandmother of Scott, Brent, Laura and Heather
GODKIN
and Wilson and Rebecca
PREWITT.
Sadly missed by her sister-in-law
Maartje ROOBOL and several cousins, nieces and nephews. Predeceased
by one sister Kryna
LAGERWERF and one brother Tony
GELDERLAND.
Visitation in the Hensall Visitation Chapel, 79 King St. Hensall
on Sunday from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. where the complete funeral service
will be conducted on Monday, March 3, 2008 at 2 p.m. Rev. Keith
LEWIS officiating. Spring interment McTaggart's Cemetery. Memorial
contributions may be made to the Heart and Stroke Foundation or
the Lung Association. J.M. McBeath Funeral Home, Zurich entrusted
with arrangements (519-236-4365) Condolences forwarded through
jmmcbeathfuneralhome.com A tree will be planted as a living memorial
of Mary ROOBOL
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LAGOGIANES o@ca.on.grey_county.owen_sound.the_sun_times 2008-03-08 published
TOMBROS,
Matina (née
MIRAS)
At the Grey Bruce Health Services in Owen Sound on Friday March 7,
2008. Matina (née
MIRAS) in her 82nd year, has now gone to meet
the Lord. Beloved wife of the late Peter
TOMBROS.
Loved mother
of Jim and his friend Debbie of Owen Sound, the late Maria
GAVARIS,
and Aphrodite (Dee) and her husband Mark
TURK of Bakersfield,
California.
Loved mother-in-law of Louis
GAVARIS of Owen Sound.
Proud grandmother of James, Georgina and her husband Stelios
DIMAKOS,
Peter and
Bethany.
Loving great-grandmother of Angelina.
Dear sister of James and Sofia
MIRAS and George and Betty
LAGOGIANES.
She will be fondly remembered by her extended family Jim, Pete
and Ted, Maria and her husband Steve
GAVARIS and their children
Nick and Sophia, Chris
GAVARIS and his wife
Shelley and their
children Jenna, Jordan, Alexia. Predeceased by her daughter Maria
(Mrs. Louis
GAVARIS.)
Friends may call at the Breckenridge-Ashcroft
Funeral Home on Monday from 2-4 p.m. and 7-9 p.m. A funeral service
will be held at the funeral home on Tuesday at 11 a.m. Interment
in Greenwood Cemetery. As an expression of sympathy, memorial
donations to the charity of your choice would be appreciated
by the family.
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LAGUNA o@ca.on.grey_county.owen_sound.the_sun_times 2008-06-27 published
HUTHART,
Florence
(KAY)
At Dufferin Oaks Nursing Home in Shelburne on Wednesday June 25,
2008. The former Florence
KAY, predeceased by her beloved husband
Norman Irvin
HUTHART
(February 23, 1989,) formerly of Thornbury,
at the age of 97. Loved mother of Jo and her husband Tony
LAGUNA
of Coral Springs, Florida; and John
HUTHART and his partner Ann
WILDMAN of Caledon. Sadly missed grandmother and great-grandmother
of Juan LAGUNA
(Shawn) of Redlands, California; Alex (Darlene)
LAGUNA and their children A.J., Jake and Max of Orlando, Florida
and Sue LAGUNA-
WHANG
(Jimmy) and their children Julian and Alexandria
of Charlotte, North Carolina. Funeral services, officiated by
Reverend
Canon
Stephen
HAIG, will be conducted at the Ferguson
Funeral Home, The Valley Chapel, 20 Alice St. E. in Thornbury
on Saturday, June 28 at 3 o'clock. Family will receive Friends
at the funeral home on Friday evening from 6 until 8 p.m. As
your expression of sympathy, donations to the Toronto Humane
Society would be appreciated. A family service of committal and
interment of Florence's cremated remains will be conducted at
Thornbury-Clarksburg Union Cemetery at a later date.
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