LEO o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2008-07-12 published
LEO,
Peter▼
Natalie
Passed away peacefully in his sleep at Parkwood Hospital on July 11,
2008. Loving husband, friend, and companion of Veronica
(LAROCQUE)
proud father of Peter and Marianne; grandfather of Cheyenne and
Jareth.
Predeceased by his parents Samuel and Kathleen
(BERNARDO,)
and brothers Patrick, Victor, James and Fiorindo. Born on Christmas
Day in 1920 Peter was a devout Catholic, a World War 2 naval
veteran and long-time employee of Canada Post. The family invites
relatives and Friends to share memories and celebrate Peter's
life at John T. Donohue Funeral Home, 362 Waterloo Street at
King Street, on Tuesday from 2-4 and 7-9 o'clock. Funeral Mass
at Saint Mary's Church, 345 Lyle Street, on Wednesday morning at
11 o'clock. Interment in Saint Peter's Cemetery. In lieu of flowers
donations to the Canadian Diabetes Association would be appreciated.
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LEO o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2008-07-19 published
LEO,
Peter▲
N.
Thank you from the
LEO family Veronica, Peter, Marianne, Cheyenne
and Jareth would like to express their gratitude for the help,
comfort and good wishes they received following the death of
Peter N. LEO on Friday July 11th, 2008. We wouldn't have made
it through the last week without the love and support of good
family and Friends who came to the visitation and funeral. We
appreciate all the cards of condolence and flowers, as well as
the mass intentions and charitable donations made on behalf of
our husband and father. Special thanks to the staff at Donohue
Funeral Home, the Knights of Columbus, and the clergy and Catholic
Women's League at Saint Mary's Peter would have loved his send
off.
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LEON o@ca.on.manitoulin.howland.little_current.manitoulin_expositor 2008-12-17 published
Gloria Cecilia
BARTER (née
LEON)
Born March 31, 1926, slipped away peacefully November 18, 2008 in Cape
Town, South Africa. Artist, philanthropist, counsellor, friend,
entrepreneur, humorist, Jill-of-all-trades, musician, diplomat,
matriarch. Beloved wife of Peter: cherished mother of Colleen, Anthony,
Lari-Anne and Marck: adored granny of Cary, Brian, Adam, Arran and Seth:
most recently great gran of Callista. A memorial gathering was held
Saturday, November 22 at 4 pm for family and close Friends at the Round
House Restaurant in Camps Bay, Cape Town. In lieu of flowers, donations
may be made to Cotlands Baby Sanctuary, Somerset West, Cape Town, P.O.
Box 3377, Somerset West, 7129.
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LEON o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2008-03-20 published
GORDON,
Louis
On Wednesday, March 19, 2008 at Sunnybrook Hospital. Louis
GORDON
loving father of Hope Leon. Devoted grandfather of Erica
LEON,
and Michael
LEON. A graveside service will be held on Friday,
March 21, 2008 at 11: 30 a.m. at the Junction Synagogue section
of Lambton Cemetery. Memorial donations may be made to the Ontario
Heart and Stroke Foundation, 416-489-7100.
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LEONARD o@ca.on.grey_county.owen_sound.the_sun_times 2008-01-05 published
HELLYER,
Darlene
Marie (née
KARN)
Peacefully with her family by her side, at the Grey Bruce Health
Services in Owen Sound, on Friday morning, January 4th, 2008.
Darlene Marie
HELLYER (née
KARN,) of Owen Sound, in her 50th
year. Dearly beloved wife of William (Bill)
HELLYER.
Loving mother
of Jason (Nicole)
HELLYER, of Wiarton and Justin (Trina)
HELLYER,
of Hepworth. Proud grandmother of William, Makayla and Trey
HELLYER.
Dear sister of Marilyn (Ben)
BROWN, of Petawawa, Larry (Marilyn)
KARN, of Windsor, Leone
RINGEL, of Owen Sound, Linda (Al)
LEONARD,
of Windsor, Phyllis
VAN-
NIEDEK, of Kingston, Jerry (Barb)
KARN,
of Windsor, Jack (Anne)
KARN, of Fergus, Karen (Bill)
JONES,
of Shallow Lake, Sharen (Wayne)
HEWITSON, of Walter's Falls,
Terry
(Lynn
Stewart)
KARN, of Shallow Lake and Sammie (Paula
McGUINNESS)
KARN, of Shallow Lake. Dear daughter-in-law of Mary
HELLYER of Wiarton. Darlene will be sadly missed by her in-laws,
Carol (Ron)
BAIN, of Wiarton, Nancy (Rick)
THOMPSON/THOMSON/TOMPSON/TOMSON, of Lion's
Head, Jim (Carol
SPRUNG)
HELLYER, Kathy (Rick)
GLASSCO, Ray (Debbie)
HELLYER, Tracy (Jim)
PORTER and Penny (Brian)
MEPSTED, all of
Wiarton.
Predeceased by her parents, Sam and Elda
KARN and her
father-in-law, Roy
HELLYER.
Friends may call at the Brian E.
Wood Funeral Home, 250 - 14th Street West, Owen Sound, Ontario
(519-376-7492) on Sunday evening from 7: 00-9:00 p.m. only. A Funeral
Service for Darlene
HELLYER will be held in the Funeral Home
Chapel on Monday, January 7th, 2008 at 11: 00 a.m. Interment in
Greenwood Cemetery. If so desired, the family would appreciate
donations to the Canadian Cancer Society, as your expression
of sympathy.
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LEONARD o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2008-02-19 published
CRANE,
Cecil
Phillip
Dad's struggles are over and he has peace and rest at last. On
Saturday, February 16th, 2008 at Alexandra Hospital, Cecil Phillip
CRANE of Ingersoll passed away in his 84th year. Beloved husband
of Ilene for 57 years. Loving father of Tom
CRANE
(Barb,)
Bonnie
RIBARIC,
Harold
CRANE (Sandie) of Ingersoll, Dan
CRANE (Joanne)
of Beachville, Nancy
LEONARD, and Pat
CATTELL
(Dave) of London.
Dear grandfather of Darryl (Lisa), Mel, Colleen, Chloe, Karlo,
Matt, Josh, Tina, Aidan, Zach, Courtney, Katelynne and his latest
joy, great-grand_son Nathan. Dear brother of Molly
LANDON,
Dorothy
HUDSON (John), Bernice
MITCHELL (Bill), Mary
KNEAVES, Jack
CRANE,
and the late Albert
CRANE
(Joyce.) He will be sadly missed and
fondly remembered by many nieces, nephews and Friends. Cecil
was a member of the Royal Canadian Legion, the Woodstock Navy
Club, and the Optimist Club. Cecil was the Canadian five pin
singles champion in 1963. He retired from Ingersoll Machine after
over 40 years and also served on the Ingersoll Fire Dept. for
25 years. Friends will be received by the#2 hours prior
to the funeral service which will be held at Ingersoll's Baptist
Church (Thames Street, Ingersoll) on Wednesday, February 20th,
2008 at 1: 00 p.m. Interment at Oxford Memorial Park Cemetery
in Woodstock. In memory of Cecil, contributions to the Canadian
National Institute for the Blind or the Ingersoll Fire Dept.
would be greatly appreciated.
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LEONARD o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2008-03-17 published
MAYO,
Ernest "
Red"
At Bluewater Health - Norman Site, Sarnia, on Sunday, March 16,
2008. Ernest "Red"
MAYO, 86 years, of Sarnia and formerly of
Wyoming.
Beloved husband of the late Elsie
MAYO (née
LEONARD)
(2006) Dear father of Leonard and Marti
MAYO of Reno, Nevada
and Sandra
HOSKIN of Innisfail, Alberta. Dear grandfather of
Robert and Heather
MCINNES/MCINNIS and Keith and Melissa
MCINNES/MCINNIS.
Dear
great-grandfather of Kaelin, Danika and Joshua
MCINNES/MCINNIS.
Also
survived by a nephew, Harold
HILL of Sarnia and a special niece,
Nancy FREER of Corunna. Predeceased by a brother, William
MAYO
and two sisters, Ruby
DEACON and Myrtle
HILL.
The funeral service
will be held at the Wyoming Chapel, Broadway Street, Wyoming, on
Wednesday,
March 19, 2008 at 1: 00 p.m., with Rev. Kelvin
TOFFELMIRE
of Wyoming United Church officiating. Visitors will be received
on Wednesday from 12 noon until service time at 1: 00 p.m. Interment
of cremated remains in Wyoming Cemetery. As expressions of sympathy,
memorial donations may be made by cheque to the charity of you
choice. Memories and condolences may be sent on line at www.needhamjay.com
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LEONARD 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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LEONARD o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2008-02-02 published
DUDER,
Joyce
Mary
Peacefully at home on January 31, 2008 at the age of 90. Beloved
wife of the late Edward, dear mother of Gillian
HUNTLEY (the
late Merv,) Louise
WRIGHT
(Rodger) and Michael
DUDER (Joan.)
Loving grandmother of Ted
WRIGHT, Sarah Wright
LEONARD, Rob
HUNTLEY
and Nicholas, Michelle and Julia
DUDER. A private memorial service
will be held at a future date. In lieu of flowers, donations
to the charity of your choice would be appreciated. Humphrey
Funeral Home is overseeing the arrangements.
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LEONARD o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2008-02-18 published
LEONARD,
Adelene
Esther (née
SMITH)
Passed away at the White Eagle Residence, Toronto, on February 13,
2008, at the age of 94. Beloved mother of Bruce (Gale) and Barbara,
all of Toronto, wife of the late Etheridge W.
LEONARD
(Oak
Bank,
Manitoba,) and sister of the late Reginald
SMITH
(Winnipeg.)
She is fondly remembered by Jean
SMITH
(Winnipeg,) Betty-June
and Phil HALEY (Toronto), Evelyn
HENDERSON (Ottawa), Wesley
LEONARD
(Simcoe), other members of her extended family and many Friends.
The daughter of Hylton and Maud
SMITH,
Adelene was born and raised
in Minnedosa, Manitoba. She had a lifelong passion for music
and was a talented pianist. She achieved the highest level of
accomplishment in piano teaching at the Royal Conservatory of
Music. She was also very active in the Girl Guide movement before
moving to Winnipeg to begin her teaching career. She and Etheridge
married in 1943 and five years later they moved to Oak Bank,
Manitoba, where they spent the rest of their 53-year marriage.
She taught piano in Oak Bank for several years before returning
to teaching school in Winnipeg. While continuing to teach, she
studied at the University of Winnipeg, graduating with a B.A.
in 1972. Many years at Sisler High School rounded out her teaching
career. Adelene was always active in the Oak Bank United Church,
where she served as choir leader, organist, board member and
in many other capacities. She was also an early member of The
Costume Museum of Canada. In 2001, she reluctantly said goodbye
to her many Friends in Manitoba and moved to Toronto to be closer
to her children. A memorial service will be held at the Oak Bank
United Church, Oak Bank, Manitoba at 11 a.m. on February 23 with
the Rev. Dawn Ballantine-Dickson officiating. Cremation has taken
place. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the charity
of your choice. For all the care Adelene received during her
years in Toronto, the family wishes to thank the staff at the
White Eagle Residence, and to express heartfelt gratitude to
Deanna Derksen and Michelle Doucette whose visits brightened
so many of her days.
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LEONARD o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2008-07-16 published
Academic became a religious triple threat
Denied the voice she sought in Catholicism, she converted, then
mentored hundreds of other women
By Ron CSILLAG,
Special to The Globe and Mail, Page S8
Joanne McWILLIAM felt she was outside her beloved church, looking
in. Faced with the lifelong prospect of being denied the voice
and role she sought in Roman Catholicism, she found an alternate
route. She became an Anglican and a priest.
A religious pioneer and predictor of change who mentored and
encouraged hundreds of women in academia and the priesthood,
Dr. McWILLIAM tallied several milestones: She was the first woman
to earn a doctorate in theology from the University of Toronto's
Saint Michael's College; the first ordained woman to receive tenure
on the divinity faculty at U of T's Trinity College; and the
first Canadian woman elected president of the American Theological
Society.
She was recalled as a warm, self-effacing woman, but serious
about many things: teaching, her church and advancing the cause
of women, both in her field and beyond. Her son, Gonzalo
DUARTE,
recalled a T-shirt his mother bought him in 1977 bearing the
words: "Men of quality are not threatened by women for equality."
It was a message she carried and heeded throughout her life.
Dr. McWILLIAM was a kind of religious triple threat. As a trained
philosopher, theologian and priest, she had a wide knowledge
of secular thought, of Christianity (especially its early development)
and of what it takes to shepherd a congregation - all within
a liberal framework. "She understood deep traditions very thoroughly,
yet could advance new developments without fear," said Canon
Alyson BARNETT-
COWAN, a friend and colleague.
A tolerant woman, she had a healthy respect for those of other
denominations and faiths. "She didn't have a proselytizing bone
in her body," said her son, Sean
DEWART. "
She was not remotely
judgmental."
An internationally acknowledged expert on the theology of St. Augustine,
Dr. McWILLIAM's specialty was patristic studies, which focuses
on the early church fathers. She wrote or co-wrote dozens of
books, articles and book chapters on Augustine, feminist theology
and Christology, the study of Jesus's divine nature.
For 15 years, she was a single mother and pursued her academic
credentials while raising four children, who recognize today
that she was a tireless advocate for women's rights who established
herself as a major figure in a largely male domain, yet devoted
years to studying the harsh patriarchy of the early Christian
church.
Dr. McWILLIAM was raised in an ecumenical environment. She was
the only child born to an electrical engineer who'd been a sapper
during the First World War - a Catholic who had known discrimination
in Toronto - and a stay-at-home mother who converted to Catholicism
from the Presbyterian church. It was an arrangement that was
deemed controversial in its day.
Their daughter graduated in philosophy and history from the University
of Toronto in 1951, earning the Cardinal Mercier Medal in Philosophy,
and completed a master's degree in the subject in 1953.
The next year, she married Leslie
DEWART, who was born in Spain
and raised in Cuba. His medical studies were interrupted by a
strike, so in the early 1940s, at 19, he came to Canada to join
the Royal Canadian Air Force. He flew reconnaissance missions
over the North Atlantic and went on to teach philosophy at Saint Michael's
College. The couple divorced in 1972.
During the mid-1950s, Doctor
McWILLIAM held a variety of jobs. She
taught high school and lectured in philosophy at the University
of Detroit. For a brief time, she was a reporter at the Toronto
Star, covering "magistrate's court," but grew disenchanted. "She
felt she was too much the observer and not enough of a participant,"
said daughter Elizabeth
DEWART.
She returned to school and earned a second master's degree, this
one in theology, from Saint Michael's College in 1966, followed
two years later with a doctorate in theology, also from Saint Michael's.
"She was an unbelievably hard worker," said Ms.
DEWART.
Over the ensuing years, she held several teaching positions at
Saint Michael's College, the Toronto School of Theology and the
University of Toronto's religious studies department, which she
chaired for two terms.
But something was gnawing at her. She never voiced an outright
disappointment in the Catholic Church, but "she felt things needed
to change… that she didn't have a voice," said one of her former
doctoral students, Ellen
LEONARD of the Sisters of Saint_Joseph.
She found that voice in the Anglican Church of Canada, whose
synod on whether to ordain women she addressed in 1975 as a Catholic
theologian. The following year, in November, the church ordained
its first female priest.
"I remember her telling me that she was leaving the [Catholic]
church," Ms.
DEWART recalled. "It was so solemn. She didn't see
the opportunity to become a priest. That was a huge decision
for her."
Dr. McWILLIAM became a deacon in the Anglican Church in 1987,
the year she married Peter
SLATER, an Anglican priest and fellow
theologian, and was ordained a priest the next year, at the age
of 60. For one thing, she felt it was important for female students
to have a female priest on the faculty.
While continuing to teach, transferring from the Catholic Saint Michael's
College to the divinity faculty at Trinity College, Canada's
oldest Anglican theological school, she served as honorary assistant
at Toronto's Christ Church Deer Park. In 1997, she was appointed
by Michael Peers, then leader of the Anglican Church of Canada,
to a high-level review of central religious issues. The first
Primate's Theological Commission, which lasted until 2003, produced
three workbooks to assist the church on "fundamental theological
questions."
She addressed such matters as the nature of God. The Christian
tradition of labelling the members of the Trinity - the Father,
the son and the Holy Spirit - as "persons," was "on the whole
a bad decision," she wrote (noting that Augustine and many others
have said so) "because when we use it, we cannot but think of
human persons, and attribute the characteristics of human personhood
to God."
The Trinity "is a mystery and cannot be explained in any rational
way."
An optimist, she felt the global Anglican communion will weather
its spasm over homosexuality and avoid schism. She cited examples
of other threats to unity - slavery and the place of women -
that failed to split the church.
Dr. McWILLIAM taught for five years at the Episcopal Church's
General Theology Seminary in New York, the first woman to hold
a chair in dogmatic theology. Back in Canada, she contributed
to the decision in 2001 to provide joint recognition to Anglican-Lutheran
ordinations in this country.
Health conscious before it was fashionable, she ingested plain
yogurt and chicken livers for breakfast. But a regular tipple
of sherry was never turned aside. Minutes after doctors informed
her that her cancer was untreatable, she asked her daughter Leslie
to drop by for a glass, reasoning that "there's no point allowing
life to go completely to the dogs."
Still with sherry, just a few weeks before her death, she insisted
that her son Sean pour from an older bottle. When he asked why
he shouldn't open the fine new one he had just bought, she replied,
"I'm saving it!"
She died a week before the worldwide Anglican church voted to
allow women to serve as bishops.
Joanne Elizabeth
McWILLIAM was born in Toronto on December 10,
1928, and died there of cancer, nine years after the first diagnosis,
on July 1, 2008. She was 79. She leaves husband C. Peter
SLATER,
children Leslie
GIRODAY,
Elizabeth
DEWART, Sean
DEWART and Gonzalo
DUARTE, and 12 grandchildren.
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LEONARD o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2008-01-28 published
LEONARD,
Diane (née
McKAY)
Peacefully at home, surrounded by her loved ones, after a long
battle with cancer, characterized by tremendous courage and resolve,
on Sunday, January 27, 2008, in her 58th year. Diane, beloved
wife of Ray. Loving mother of Scott, Samantha, and Ben. Dear
daughter of Edward and the late Annie
McKAY.
Twin sister of Danny
and sister of Jaqueline. Friends may call at Trinity Anglican
Church (79 Victoria Street, west of Yonge, south of Wellington,
Aurora), from 7-9 p.m. Thursday. Funeral Service in the Church
Friday morning at 11 a.m. Cremation. In lieu of flowers, donations
to the Southlake Cancer Care would be thankfully appreciated.
Arrangements entrusted to Thompson Funeral Home, Aurora, 905-727-5421.
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LEONARD o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2008-03-11 published
PUPULIN,
Eva
Maria
Peacefully with courage and grace at Huntsville Hospital on Saturday,
March 8, 2008 in her 70th year. Predeceased by her husband, Bruno
(2000.) Beloved mother of Linda
BOUCHER and husband Luc; Marie
PALOZZI and husband Nick; Jerry
PUPULIN and wife
Darlene.
Cherished
grandmother of Sarah, Luke, Hilary, Michele, Lisa, Angela and
Andre. Great-grandmother of Nicholas, Andrew and Jenna. Remembered
by special people in her life, Karen
PUPULIN,
Ruth
LEONARD, Diane
BENNETT and Anne
DONKERFGOED.
The family would like to extend
our gratitude to the Special Care Unit and the Staff of the East
Wing of Huntsville Hospital, Mount Sinai Hospital and Princess
Margaret Hospital. In lieu of flowers, donations in Eva's memory
can be made to Mount Sinai or Princess Margaret Hospital. At
our mother's request, there will be no memorial service. The
family would like to thank everyone for their support and prayers.
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LEONARD o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2008-03-14 published
LEONARD,
Molly
Molly will be remembered especially for her accomplishments as
a Figure Skater with Barbara Ann
SCOTT, subsequently a Music
Teacher and a Pianist, with even the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra.
Jack and Molly shared a successful family business for 25 years.
Their love is now reunited. Peacefully after a battle with cancer
at the Trillium Health Centre Mississauga on Thursday, March 13,
2008. Beloved wife of the late Jack, dearest mum of Suzanne,
Richard, Mark, Hughie and Molly-Anne (Lococo). Grandmother to
Mathew and April. Friends may call at the funeral home of Skinner and
Middlebrook Ltd., 128 Lakeshore Rd. E. (one block west of Hurontario
St.) Mississauga on Monday from 2-4 p.m. and 6-8 p.m. Service
in the chapel on Tuesday, March 18, 2008 at 11 a.m. Private family
interment at Springcreek Cemetery to follow the service.
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