MEIER
MEIERS
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MEIJA
MEIJER
MEIKELJOHN
MEIKLE
MEINCKE
MEINZINGER
MEISELS
MEISLER
MEISSENHEIMER
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DICKERT,
Ida
Caroline
(MEIER)
Peacefully at Queensway Nursing Home, Hensall, Ida Caroline
(MEIER)
DICKERT of Hensall, formerly of Kippen, passed away on Friday,
April 4, 2008 in her 97th year. Beloved wife of the late Norman Wm.
DICKERT (1971.) Dear mother of Merle and the late Ken
McLELLAN
(1994.) Loving grandmother of Jill and Brian
KIPFER/KUEPFER and Robyn
and Dan KOEKKOEK and great-grandmother of Maegan
KIPFER/KUEPFER,
Scott
KIPFER/KUEPFER,
Stephanie
KOEKKOEK and Rachel
KOEKKOEK. Sadly missed
by her nieces and nephews. Predeceased by 2 brothers Harry and
Allan and 2 sisters Via and Ruth. Visitation in the Hensall Visitation
Chapel, 79 King St. on Sunday from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. where the funeral
service will be conducted on Monday, April 7, 2008 at 11 a.m.
Rev. Marybeth
WILSON officiating. Interment Hensall Union Cemetery.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Leukemia Association
or the Heart and Stroke Foundation. J.M. McBeath Funeral Home,
Zurich. Condolences forwarded through www.jmmcbeathfuneralhome.com
A tree will be planted as a living memorial for the late Ida
Dickert.
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MEIER o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2008-01-19 published
MAURER-
MEIER,
Elsa
Rosa - Estate of
Opening Of The Will
The following person, with her most recent residence in Zurich,
died on 18th August 2007:
Elsa Rosa MAURER-
MEIER, widowed, born on 20th August 1921 at
Meisterschwanden AG, Swiss citizen of Zollikofen BE, daughter
of Heinrich Albert
MEIER, born on 27th March 1887, and
of Maria
née GLOOR, born on 21st September 1892. The members of the parental
kinship came into consideration as the intestate heirs.
However, the deceased did dispose of her estate in full, by means
of the testamentary disposition, which was opened by the below-mentioned
court and which from a formal viewpoint is evidently valid, and
the deceased nominated appointed heiresses to the devolution
of the estate.
In accordance with the decree of the office of the sole judge
in inheritance matters, dated 23rd November 2007, the certificate
of inheritance is therefore issued to the appointed heiress in
their favour, provided that the intestate heirs do not raise
an objection to this - as defined by Art 559 Swiss Civil Code
- within one month of this notification being published, evidencing
their right of inheritance. The interstate heirs further have
the right - against evidence of their right of inheritance -
to examine the testamentary disposition at the court office of
the named sole judge and to request a copy of it. Any application
to the District Court of Zurich should be filed if possible in
on of the official Swiss languages (German, French, Italian)
or in English.
Zurich, 23rd November 2007
District Court Of Zurich
Office of the Sole Judge
in the Inheritance Matters
P.O. Box CH8026 Zurich
Page B23
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GERIS,
Harry
Suddenly on Wednesday, April 23, 2008, Mr. Harry
GERIS of London
at the age of 60. Beloved husband of Jo-Anne K. (Knight)
GERIS.
Loving father of Jason
GERIS and his wife
Shannon of California,
Shawn GERIS and his wife
Lynne of Mississauga, Ryan
GERIS and
his fiancee Sarah
MEIERS of Kitchener. Also loved by his 3 grandchildren,
Colby, Hadden and Montana. Dear brother of Bill, Bert, Hank,
Jane, Dorothy, Cathy
JONES and Jackie
McLEAN. Predeceased by
his brother Fred. Cherished son-in-law of Margaret Kathleen
KNIGHT.
Visitation will be held on Monday from 2: 00-4:00 and 7:00-9:00 p.m.
at the Westview Funeral Chapel, 709 Wonderland Road North, where
the funeral service will be conducted on Tuesday, April 29th,
2008 at 11: 00 a.m. Cremation to follow. In memory of Harry memorial
donations to the Heart and Stroke Foundation or the Crohn's Colitis
Foundation of Canada would be gratefully appreciated. Online
condolences may be sent to condolences@westviewfuneralchapel.com
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MEIGHEN o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2008-04-27 published
DILLON,
Colonel▼
Richard▼
Maurice,▼ CM, MC, ED, CD, LLD
Soldier, Engineer, Public Servant, Cabinetmaker, Sailor. Colonel
Richard Maurice
DILLON
Born▼
August 4, 1920. Died on April 23,
2008 at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, after a long
illness, borne with courage and his customary patience and grace.
Eldest son of Brigadier M. Murray
DILLON and Muriel
HICKS of
London, Ontario. He is survived by his beloved Elizabeth, his
wife of 63 years, and by his loving and grateful children, his
daughter Kelly
MEIGHEN and son-in-law Michael
MEIGHEN of Toronto,
his daughter Ann
DILLON and son-in-law Edmund
CAPE of West Vancouver,
and his daughter Katherine
DILLON of Toronto. Remembered with
great love and admiration by his seven grandchildren, Ted, Hugh
and Max MEIGHEN and Tony, David, Katherine and Hugh
CAPE whose
lives have been shaped by their grandfather's enthusiasm for
life's possibilities, his integrity and his wonderful sense of
fun. He is also survived by his sister, Shelagh
WATTERS and her
husband Neil of Cookstown, his sister Diana
JOHNSTON of Minden
and his brother Michael
DILLON of London. He was predeceased
by his brother John (1926,) brother-in-law Gerald
JOHNSTON and
his sister-in-law Maggie
DILLON. He joined The Royal Canadian
Regiment in 1939, serving overseas in Italy until wounded at
Ortona on Christmas Eve, 1943. For bravery in the field he was
awarded the Military Cross. A graduate of the University of Western
Ontario (B.A. Honours Mathematics, gold medalist) and the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology (M.Sc. Engineering), Richard began his
career as a civil engineer. In 1960 he was appointed the first
Dean of Engineering at the University of Western Ontario and
then moved, in 1971, to the Ontario government, serving as deputy
minister of a number of different ministries. He found many ways
to involve himself in the life of his community and his country.
In London he served as Chair of the United Way, as a church warden,
political organizer and confidante to John Robarts during his
tenure as Premier of Ontario. He contributed as well to more
distant communities through work with Canadian International
Development Agency in Thailand, as President of Professional
Engineers of Ontario, President of the Canadian Corps of Commissionaires
and as a founding director of The Schmeelk Canada Foundation.
Throughout his life he worked passionately to promote the strengthening
of ties between English and French Canada and tried valiantly,
though largely unsuccessfully, to learn to speak French. He maintained
a lifelong association with the Royal Canadian Regiment, serving
as Colonel of the Regiment from 1993 until 1997. Appointed a
Member of the Order of Canada in 1986, he was a proud Canadian
whose record of service through his long and full life has been
an inspiring example and source of pride to his family, colleagues
and many Friends. Friends will be received at 4 Lamport Avenue,
Toronto (valet parking provided) on Sunday, April 27, 2008 between
2: 00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m. A funeral service will be held on Monday,
April 28, 2008 at 11: 30 a.m. at St. Clement's Church, 59 Briar
Hill Avenue, Toronto. If so desired, memorial donations may be
made to the Royal Canadian Regiment Education Fund for Children
of Fallen Soldiers (www.thercr.ca) or the University of Western
Ontario, c/o Foundation Western, Westminster College, Suite 110,
London Ontario, N6A 3K7. We would like to thank all those at
Sunnybrook who provided such exemplary care, Fred
GABY for his
wonderful companionship and Doctor Heather
GILLY for her counsel
and many kindnesses to Richard and his family.
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DILLON,
Colonel▲
Richard▲
Maurice,▲ CM, MC, ED, CD, LLD
Soldier, Engineer, Public Servant, Cabinetmaker, Sailor.
Born August 4, 1920. Died on April 23, 2008 at Sunnybrook Health
Sciences Centre, Toronto, after a long illness, borne with courage
and his customary patience and grace. Eldest
son of Brigadier
M. Murray DILLON and Muriel
HICKS of London, Ontario. He is survived
by his beloved Elizabeth, his wife of 63 years, and by his loving
and grateful children, his daughter Kelly
MEIGHEN and son-in-law
Michael MEIGHEN of Toronto, his daughter Ann
DILLON and son-in-law
Edmund CAPE of West Vancouver, and his daughter Katherine
DILLON
of Toronto. Remembered with great love and admiration by his
seven grandchildren, Ted, Hugh and Max
MEIGHEN and Tony, David,
Katherine and Hugh
CAPE whose lives have been shaped by their
grandfather's enthusiasm for life's possibilities, his integrity
and his wonderful sense of fun. He is also survived by his sister,
Shelagh WATTERS and her husband Neil of Cookstown, his sister
Diana JOHNSTON of Minden and his brother Michael
DILLON of London.
He was predeceased by his brother John (1926), brother-in-law
Gerald JOHNSTON and his sister-in-law Maggie
DILLON. He joined
the Royal Canadian Regiment in 1939, serving overseas in Italy
until wounded at Ortona on Christmas Eve, 1943. For bravery in
the field he was awarded the Military Cross. A graduate of the
University of Western Ontario (B.A. Honours Mathematics, gold
medallist) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.
Sc. Engineering), Richard began his career as a civil engineer.
In 1960 he was appointed the first Dean of Engineering at the
University of Western Ontario and then moved, in 1971, to the
Ontario government, serving as deputy minister of a number of
different ministries. He found many ways to involve himself in
the life of his community and his country. In London he served
as Chair of the United Way, as a church warden, political organizer
and confidante to John Robarts during his tenure as Premier of
Ontario. He contributed as well to more distant communities through
work with Canadian International Development Agency in Thailand,
as President of Professional Engineers of Ontario, President
of the Canadian Corps of Commissionaires and as a founding director
of The Schmeelk Canada Foundation. Throughout his life he worked
passionately to promote the strengthening of ties between English
and French Canada and tried valiantly, though largely unsuccessfully,
to learn to speak French. He maintained a lifelong association
with the Royal Canadian Regiment, serving as Colonel of the Regiment
from 1993 until 1997. Appointed a Member of the Order of Canada
in 1986, he was a proud Canadian whose record of service through
his long and full life has been an inspiring example and source
of pride to his family, colleagues and many Friends. Friends
will be received at 4 Lamport Avenue, Toronto (valet parking
provided) on Sunday, April 27, 2008 between 2: 00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m.
A funeral service will be held on Monday, April 28, 2008 at 11: 30 a.m.
at St. Clement's Church, 59 Briar Hill Avenue, Toronto. If so
desired, memorial donations may be made to the Royal Canadian
Regiment Education Fund for Children of Fallen Soldiers (www.thercr.ca)
or the University of Western Ontario, c/o Foundation Western,
Westminster College, Suite 110, London, Ontario, N6A 3K7. We
would like to thank all those at Sunnybrook who provided such
exemplary care, Fred
GABY for his wonderful companionship and
Dr. Heather
GILLY for her counsel and many kindnesses to Richard
and his family.
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The war hero who returned home to help forge a booming Ontario
As executive director of an Ontario Hydro task force, he drew
on all the skills he had accumulated as a soldier, a design engineer,
a dean in an academic bureaucracy and a consultant to government
By Sandra MARTIN,
Page▼
S12
Although he never held public office, Richard (Dick)
DILLON was
very much involved in the so-called London mafia that surrounded
and supported lawyer and politician John Robarts, who was premier
of Ontario from 1961-1971. Mostly they were, like Mr. Robarts,
veterans of the Second World War, graduates of the University
of Western Ontario, and lawyers, engineers and businessmen who
supported the Progressive Conservative Party.
In the late 1960s, there was a feeling in Ontario that government
was growing too fast and becoming both too powerful and too cumbersome.
There's nothing unusual in that sentiment, of course, or the
notion that the solution lies in public-private partnerships
and a reorganization of the civil service. What is slightly unusual
is that Mr. Robarts, himself, in the dying days of his administration,
actually did something about it by establishing Ontario's Committee
on Government Productivity. Ontario Hydro was such a powerful
entity that it was given its own sub-committee with the mandate
to examine ways that it might decentralize some of its operations,
based on the Hydro Quebec model.
Mr.
Robarts wanted Dick
DILLON to run Task Force Hydro. When
the appointment came before cabinet, it was questioned by Leslie
Rowntree, minister of financial and commercial affairs. "He could
be a little bit stuffy," said Darcy McKeough, who was then minister
of municipal affairs.
"We are wondering who this Richard M. Dillion is?" Mr. Rowntree
asked archly, according to Mr. McKeough. To which Mr. Robarts
replied: "He is the dean of engineering at the University of
Western Ontario, he is the past president of The London Club,
he is a past church warden at Bishop Cronyn Church and he is
a past president of the Progressive Conservative Association.
Is there anything else you would like to know, Mr. Rowntree?"
Clearly that was enough information for Mr. Rowntree, for the
appointment was duly made, but there was much more that Mr. Robarts
could have said about Mr.
DILLON - holder of the Military Cross
for bravery during the war, professional engineer with a gold
medal from University of Western Ontario and a graduate degree
from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, among other attributes.
What Mr. Robarts couldn't know, back in 1970, was the complex
role that Mr.
DILLON would later play as a deputy minister, volunteer,
and facilitator of bilingual education.
Born▲ in Simcoe, Ontario on August 4, 1920, Richard Maurice
DILLON
was the eldest of five children of Brigadier Marmaduke Murray
DILLON and his wife
Muriel (née
HICKS.)
His father was a soldier
and an engineer who won the Military Cross early in 1918 for
"conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty" as an officer of
the 1st Battalion, Canadian Machine Gun corps.
The DILLONs settled in London, Ontario, where Richard went to
local elementary schools and then London South Collegiate Institute.
As the son of a military family, he was encouraged to join the
army. He became a signaler in the Canadian Fusiliers when he
was 15 and received his commission as a second lieutenant in
the Canadian Officer's Training Corps in 1938 when he was a first-year
student at University of Western Ontario. He withdrew from university
a year later to enlist in the Canadian Active Service Force after
Canada declared war on Germany in September, 1939.
He joined The Royal Canadian Regiment in England in June, 1941.
He was in command of a bren-gun carrier platoon in the Allied
invasion of Sicily that began on July 10, 1943, with both amphibious
and airborne landings. Essentially, the Italians resisted the
invasion by retreating. The Germans would not be so compliant
further up the boot.
It was later that same month that Capt.
DILLON, like his father
before him, earned the Military Cross for distinguished and meritorious
service in battle. On July 23, 1943, two companies of The Royal
Canadian Regiment were ordered to skirt the town of Assoro, under
cover of darkness and attack it from the rear. Nothing went according
to plan: The commanding officer was killed, communications broke
down and Capt.
DILLON, with a section of carriers, was instrumental
in re-establishing contact with the beleaguered forward companies,
which were in disarray. According to his Military Cross citation,
he "led the carriers skillfully across difficult rocky and mountainous
country during daylight under constant observed enemy artillery,
mortar and machine gun fire, and through enemy patrols, contacted
the forward Companies and carried out his mission. The officer
displayed leadership and outstanding devotion to duty in carrying
out his difficult mission." The citation is signed by, among
others, Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, commander of the
Eighth Army.
Subsequently, he was given command of "A" Company and was wounded
on Christmas Day, 1943 when a grenade exploded beside him during
the battle of Ortona, a ferocious close-combat battle between
German paratroops and the 1st Canadian Infantry Division. He
was evacuated first to England and then to Canada and spent the
rest of the war teaching at the Army Staff College in Kingston,
Ontario Permanently deaf in his right ear, he would occasionally
scratch pieces of shrapnel from his scalp for the rest of his
life.
Throughout the war he had been corresponding with Elizabeth
DEMPSEY,
a young woman he had met at University of Western Ontario in
1938. She was engaged to a friend of his, and the three of them
palled around. Both men went overseas, but only Mr.
DILLON came
back. He and Miss
DEMPSEY were married in London, Ontario, on
April 21, 1945.
He returned to University of Western Ontario to complete his
interrupted undergraduate education and graduated in 1948 with
an honours degree in mathematics and the gold medal. He and his
wife then moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts., where Kelly, the
first of the
DILLONs' three daughters, was born and Mr.
DILLON
acquired a masters of science degree in civil engineering in
1950 at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
They returned to Canada where Mr.
DILLON worked briefly for Dominion
Bridge in Toronto before settling in London, Ontario That's where
daughters Ann and Katherine (Kate) were born and where Mr.
DILLON
joined M.M. Dillon and Co. (now Dillon Consulting), a firm of consulting
engineers that had been founded in January, 1946, by his father
and a colleague and fellow veteran, George
HUMPHRIES.
Besides
working in his father's firm as a design engineer, and later
as a partner and director, Mr.
DILLON also continued his military
career as a reservist.
He rejoined the Canadian Fusiliers as a company commander in
1946 and when it affiliated with The Royal Canadian Regiment
in November, 1954, he took command of the London and Oxford Fusiliers
(3rd Battalion, The Royal Canadian Regiment). Two years later,
he retired to the supplementary reserve. Ann
DILLON remembered
her father's peacetime military career in the eulogy she delivered
at his funeral by describing how "he would line up his three
girls, shiny fresh from their baths and in their pj's and do
his parade inspection," on Monday nights before he headed out,
in his uniform, for his weekly commitment to the militia.
"He would prod us here and there with his swagger stick and bark
out orders - shoulders back chest out… his final order was usually
'wipe that smile off your face' which produced huge laughter
and, which as far as I know, never made it into the military
lexicon," she said.
Monday-night drill was very different from the semi-annual Vimy
dinners that were always held on Fridays at the Legion because,
on Saturday mornings, Ms.
DILLON said of her parents "you approached
their bedroom at your peril: a toss-up between being overcome
with the fumes or deafened by the snoring." As the years passed,
the snoring, unimpeded by marital admonitions, probably grew
louder, as Mrs.
DILLON's hearing began to fail as well.
After nearly a decade working in his father's firm of consulting
engineers, including serving on the advisory committee to establish
an Engineering Department at University of Western Ontario, Mr.
DILLON
was asked to become the first dean of the Faculty of Engineering
Science. It was 1960 and he was 40. In Western's First Century,
by John Gwynne-Timothy, Mr.
DILLON was commended for his "energetic
direction" as dean in upping the quality of the undergraduate
program, developing a graduate and research program and enhancing
links with "the wider working world of industry and business."
Those links included serving as a project officer on the Science
Research and Development Committee for the Royal Commission on
Government Organization (the Glassco Commission), which recommended
a decentralized organizational model for the federal government.
He also went on a three-month Colombo Plan (a framework for bi-lateral
aid and technical assistance that came out of a Commonwealth
Conference of Foreign Ministers in Ceylon in 1950) mission in
1963 to Thailand to advise the government on engineering education.
From 1965-67, he was a member of the Ontario Advisory Committee
on Confederation, which was set up by Premier Robarts to advise
the government on issues such as bilingualism and multiculturalism
vis-à-vis the other provinces (especially Quebec) and the federal
government. After finishing this assignment, Mr.
DILLON was seconded
in 1970, from his position as engineering dean at University
of Western Ontario, to become the executive director of the Task
Force Hydro Committee on Government Productivity, a task that
required all of the skills he had accumulated as a wartime soldier,
a design engineer, an aspirational dean in the academic bureaucracy
and a consultant to government.
To help Mr.
DILLON penetrate Hydro's monolithic culture, Mr. Robarts
arranged for him to attend the meetings of the Hydro Electric
Power Commission, "which was highly unusual [for an outsider],"
said Mr. McKeough. "George Gathercole, who was the chair, would
hold forth at great length and finally say, 'Is there anything
anybody else would like to say?' To which one of the other commissioners
would dutifully reply, 'No, George, you have said it all.' "
And so the meeting would end, but the tale lived on in Mr.
DILLON's
retelling.
From the task force, Mr.
DILLON was appointed deputy in Mr. McKeough's
Ministry of Energy in 1973. Mr. McKeough, a younger but stalwart
member of the London mafia, knew Mr.
DILLON well. "He was a very
bright person and an engineer and understood energy and was a
fan of Candu [a pressurized heavy-water reactor] and he knew
the inside of Hydro because of the task force."
In 1976, Mr.
DILLON moved from Energy to Resources Development
and then to Municipal Affairs and Housing before leaving the
civil service in 1982 to go back into business as a founding
partner of Alafin Consultants. Nevertheless, business was only
part of his life for the next 15 years, which was largely devoted
to volunteer work, to building dubiously road and sea-worthy
vehicles with his grandchildren and to serving his regiment.
He was appointed Honorary Lieutenant Colonel of the 4th Battalion,
the Royal Canadian Regiment, a rank he held from 1986 to 1993 and
then promoted to Colonel of the Regiment (of The Royal Canadian
Regiment), an honorary position he held from 1993 to 1997.
The Confederation debates of the 1960s and 1970s and the rise
of the Parti Québécois, which Rene Levesque led to power in the
Quebec provincial election in 1976, created linguistic aspirations
and prompted conciliatory gestures in Ontario. One of them involved
Mr. DILLON and Richard Schmeelk, a wealthy American banker who
had represented Salomon Brothers in Ontario since the mid 1950s.
After retiring as a senior executive from Salomon in 1986, Mr. Schmeelk
established the Schmeelk Canada Fellowship to create a better
understanding between English and French-Canadians. The idea,
which percolated at a dinner with Mr. McKeough, John Turner and
Mr. Schmeelk, was to have students from University of Western
Ontario and Laval University in Quebec City study at each other's
institutions. The initial capitalization of $1-million dollars
has more than doubled over the years and the program has expanded
to include the University of Calgary in Alberta and the University
of Montreal in Quebec. Mr.
DILLON was executive secretary from
1995 to 2001. "Dick was the guy who handled all the heavy duty
[lifting] over the years and made a great contribution to the
scholarship," said Mr. Schmeelk. "He went to all the meetings
and did a great job and was a great friend over the years."
In the late 1990s, Mr.
DILLON began to suffer from memory problems.
"My father was a wonderful dancer," said his daughter Kelly
MEIGHEN.
"He taught the three of us how to dance, and I can remember thinking
at my 50th birthday party [in November, 1999], that he no longer
knew how to dance."
Mrs. DILLON cared for her husband at home until finally, when
he could no longer recognize his loved ones and even a walk in
the garden could frighten him, she allowed him to be moved into
the veteran's wing at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre on November 8,
2006. Eighteen months later, two days after the
DILLONs' 63rd
wedding anniversary, he died there, surrounded by his family.
About an hour later, the chaplain and some of the nurses on duty
came into Mr.
DILLON's room at Sunnybrook. "The Chaplain read
some passages and said a prayer," said Ms.
MEIGHEN. "
Then she
looked at my mother and said: 'On behalf of the people of Canada
I want to thank you and your husband for his service to the country
and for the freedom we enjoy today.' And then, they placed the
flag over his body," said Ms.
MEIGHEN. "It was such a lovely
gesture that we were stunned."
Richard Maurice
DILLON, CM, MC, was born on August 4, 1920 in
Simcoe, Ontario He died of complications from Alzheimer's Disease
on April 23, 2008. He was 87. Mr.
DILLON is survived by his wife,
Elizabeth, his three daughters, and his seven grandchildren.
Predeceased by his brother, John, he also leaves sisters Shelagh
and Diana and his brother, Michael, and his extended family.
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HAGGINS-
LAPP,
Phyllis (née
HAGGINS) (1936-2008)
Phyllis HAGGINS-
LAPP passed away suddenly on February 12th at
only 71 years old. Phyllis was best known in the community of
Comox Valley, British Columbia as the Welcome Wagon Lady. Phyllis
will be deeply missed by her husband, David Henry
LAPP of British
Columbia and her daughter and friend, Andrea Corae
BRACKEN.
Phyllis
will be lovingly remembered by her sons: Kelly and Kevin
CASSIDY
and her granddaughter, Christina
CASSIDY.
Nanny will surely be
missed by the grand_sons she was so proud of: Matthew John
MEIJA
and Jeffery Howard
MEIJA.
She is also survived by her sisters:
Kay CAMPBELL, Barbara
GRANT, Roberta
McLEAN (née
HAGGINS) and
her brothers: Neville, Andrew and Wayne
HAGGINS, who reside in
Ontario and were born in Owen Sound. She was predeceased by her
brothers, Howard Jr.
HAGGINS and Charles
HAGGINS, and her parents,
Norma and Howard
HAGGINS of Owen Sound, Ontario. Phyllis was born
in Owen Sound and resided in Kitchener-Waterloo for many years.
Having resided in the Comox Valley on Vancouver Island for the
past 15 years, Phyllis loved this beautiful community and bloomed
in her position as a Welcome Wagon Representative. In 2006, she
was presented with an award for outstanding performance and community
service. Phyllis lived her life with confidence and energy. She
was a supportive mother and a devoted wife who has left a void
in many lives. A celebration of Phyllis' life will be held at
Piercy's Mt. Washington Funeral Home in Courtenay, British Columbia
on Monday, February 25th at 1: 00 p.m. In lieu of flowers, donations
may be made to the charity of your choice. Piercy's - Mt. Washington
Funeral Home in care of arrangements, 250-334-4464.
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MEYER,
Hugo (né
MEIJER)
Having lived a thankful life, Hugo was graciously and peacefully
lifted up to Heaven to His Blessed Saviour on Tuesday, April 22,
2008. Born in Ridderkerk, The Netherlands on February 24, 1923 to
the late Rutgeradus and Bastiaantje
(DEJONG)
MEIJER.
Beloved
husband for 56 years to the late Pearl
MEYER (2005.) Loving father
of the late Jean
MULLER (1998,) Linda and Jerry
VANMINNEN of
Chatham, George and Carol
MEYER of London, Harry
MEYER and Dawn
McKILLOP of Toronto, and Sylvia
RINTJEMA of Chatham. Loving grandfather
to 15 grandchildren and 16 great-grandchildren. Brother of Gerrit
(Rita) MEIJER of The Netherlands. Predeceased by two sisters
Plonie GROWNEWEG and Annie
VAN'TZELFDE.
Brother-in-law of Bas
and Rieka BAARS of Saint Thomas, and Marie, Jaan, Teu, and Janna
all of The Netherlands. Hugo immigrated to Canada in 1958 and
was a Mechanical Contractor in Chatham. He was also a Plumbing
Inspector in the Chatham area for a number of years. Hugo was
a longtime member of the Free Reformed Church, Chatham. Family
will receive Friends at the McKinlay Funeral Home, 459 St. Clair
Street, Chatham on Thursday from 6: 00-9:00 p.m. Funeral Service
will be held at Free Reformed Church, Gregory Doctor E., Chatham
on Friday, April 25, 2008 at 11: 00 a.m. with Elder Henry
ZUIDEMA
and Pastor Henry
BARTSCH officiating. Interment in Maple Leaf
Cemetery, Chatham. Donations in Hugo's honour to the Canadian
Cancer Society would be appreciated. Online condolences may be
left at www.mckinlayfuneralhome.com
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She turned the Gardiner Museum into a glittering, priceless gem
With the help of her wealthy stockbroker husband, she transformed
a hobby into a great ceramics collection, and then built a museum
to house it all opposite Toronto's Royal Ontario Museum
By Sandra MARTIN,
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Museum founder and philanthropist Helen
GARDINER had three lives:
before George, during George, and after George. The George was
George Ryerson
GARDINER, a business integrator, Harvard MBA
and stockbroker who founded Gardiner Group Capital, the country's
first discount brokerage, and was president of the Toronto Stock
Exchange.
Generally considered a business genius, he was a pioneer in the
oil-and-gas business, opened the first airport hotel in Canada,
was a key player in bringing Kentucky Fried Chicken north of
the 49th parallel, established Gardiner Farms, the racing stable
and breeding farm, and was one of the original members of the
syndicate that owned Northern Dancer. "He didn't start with nothing,"
a former business associate said, "but he multiplied it many
times over."
Ms. GARDINER, by contrast, came from humble circumstances, and
was a single parent working as a secretary in Mr.
GARDINER's
brokerage firm when they met. With Mr.
GARDINER's support, she
became a mature student at York University and took the decorative
arts course at Christie's in London, England. Having acquired
professional expertise - her impeccable eye for quality was innate
- she and her husband amassed a huge and very valuable collection
of porcelain and earthenware, then built a museum to house it.
Nevertheless, he was always the public face and voice of the
Gardiner
Museum.
After Mr.
GARDINER died in December, 1997, she
emerged as a fundraiser, philanthropist and connoisseur who transformed
the Gardiner from a mausoleum for a private collection into a
dynamic, innovative and internationally prized museum. She also
developed her own interests in the National Ballet School and
other art forms such as opera, becoming so fond of Wagner's Ring
Cycle that she was known as a "Ring" addict.
"The Gardiner Museum was her No. 1 passion, but the National
Ballet School was a close second," said Margaret McCain, former
chair of the board of the National Ballet School and former lieutenant-governor
of New Brunswick.
"Helen had moral integrity and she also had a lot of fortitude,"
said Ms. McCain, describing her friend as fun with a wonderful
laugh and a complete lack of pretension. "She was grounded and
she was able to hold on to her own identity even if she was in
George's shadow for a long time. There was a strength there and
I used to say, 'You are your own person, kind and gentle, but
strong inside.' "
Tony ARRELL, a former Chief Executive Officer of Gardiner Watson
and a director of Gardiner Group Capital said: "When you have
a tree growing under a big tree, the big tree shades the little
tree, but when you take the big tree out, the little tree can
grow up - and that is what has been happening with Helen. She
has proven to be a stronger character with a greater ability
than many people thought," he said. "There has been a lot more
to Helen GARDINER in the last 10 years than we ever knew before."
Helen Elizabeth
McMINN was born in Kirkland Lake, Ontario, the
year before the Second World War began. Her father Charles was
a carpenter at one of the gold mines, while her mother Helen
was a homemaker. The McMinns moved south to Toronto, where Mr.
McMINN
worked for General Electric at its Davenport Works until he retired.
Their two children, Helen and Bob, went to high school in Toronto,
and then Bob joined the military. Helen's daughter Lindy
BARROW,
who was born in 1958, lived with her grandparents until she was
10 while Ms.
McMINN, a single parent, worked at various jobs
in advertising and as a legal secretary to support her daughter
and save enough money to provide a home for them both.
In the second half of the 1960s, she met George
GARDINER when
she was hired as a secretary at Gardiner Watson, the stock brokerage
that he and a partner had founded just after the Second World
War. At the time, she was in her late 20s and Mr.
GARDINER (who
was known to enjoy, discreetly, the company of beautiful women)
was in his early 50s, married and the father of three children.
Not long before, in July, 1965, his formidable father Percy,
a financier, had died of a heart attack. This death may have
liberated Mr.
GARDINER, who had had a fractious relationship
with his father and had always felt the need to show that he
could be even more successful in business.
"He once said that Helen was the first person that he laid eyes
on as he was coming out from under this oppression that he had
been under for so many years," according to Gretchen
ROSS, a
long-time friend. Their relationship led to the breakup of Mr.
GARDINER's
marriage.
In the mid-1970s, they moved into a house on Old Forest Hill
Road in Toronto. He bought the property, razed the existing house
and built a new one with lead-lined walls - he had acute hearing
and didn't want to be disturbed by the neighbours. Mr.
GARDINER
and his first wife had bought some pre-Colombian earthenware
in South America, and he decided that he and Ms.
McMINN should
"collect something unique to make our house look lived in," she
said later. He wanted it to have "quality, individuality and
his personal stamp." Naively, as she later admitted, they hit
on ceramics.
Two years later, inflation was escalating. Mr.
GARDINER, an astute
and thrifty businessman, read an article asserting that Chinese
and European porcelain were outperforming stocks, bonds and real
estate, and he decided it was time to turn their hobby into an
investment. Helen, who had been studying as a mature student
at York University since 1974, switched tacks and went to London
in 1978 to take Christie's Fine Arts Course. A year later, she
was both an expert and a qualified dealer who could buy ceramics
at wholesale prices.
Their first mature purchase was a hand-painted, highly decorated
yellow tea-and-chocolate service made in 1740 by Meissen, the
earliest factory in Europe to produce hard-paste porcelain. On
the advice of a Sotheby's porcelain expert, Helen had gone to
see the 50-piece set, complete with its original leather travelling
case, at Winifred Williams Antiques on Bury Street in London.
She persuaded Mr.
GARDINER to look at the Meissen service and
to meet dealer Robert Williams. Without telling her, he bought
the service. And so the Gardiners began their long association
with Mr. Williams and transformed themselves into serious collectors.
As she said later, "Bob taught me how to really look at things.
He was generous with his knowledge and showed me how to identify
artists and factories by the distinctive characteristics of their
work."
From Meissen, the couple began accumulating works made by Du
Paquier, the second factory in Europe to produce hard-paste porcelain
in the 18th century, and pieces called Hausmaler, a term used
to describe ceramics decorated by studio artists who painted
or redecorated porcelain produced by factories such as Meissen
or Du Paquier. As always, they kept a judicious eye on their
passions and their bottom line, collecting Du Paquier because
it was undervalued, and Hausmaler for its variety, eccentric
charm and the stories about subterfuge, espionage and larceny
swirling around the pieces - how artists "acquired" undecorated
wares from the studios that employed them and then painted them
with their own designs.
During her Christie's course in London, Helen was seduced by
the lush sensual colours and painterly decoration of Italian
Maiolica.
She took Mr.
GARDINER to see the Maiolica collection
at the Victoria and Albert Museum in South Kensington and he
too was entranced. Encouraged by a lull in the market for Maiolica,
Mr. GARDINER began buying at auction or through their retinue
of international dealers.
By the early 1980s, the Gardiners - they had married on July 11,
1981, at least a dozen years after they first met - were running
out of display and storage room in their home. With the help
of entertainment lawyer and ceramics collector Aaron
MILRAD,
the determined and persuasive Mr.
GARDINER set about acquiring
the land and the political approvals to establish his own museum.
In 1981, the Ontario government, led by premier Bill Davis, unanimously
passed Bill 183 to create The George R. Gardiner Museum of Ceramic
Art as an independent, public institution. Doctor Murray Ross helped
the Gardiners acquire a tennis court on the east side of Queen's
Park, directly opposite the Royal Ontario Museum, from the University
of Toronto. Mr.
GARDINER paid $500,000 to lease the land for
99 years.
Three years later, architect Keith
WAGLAND and designer Robert
MEIKELJOHN's $6-million building was ready. The George R. Gardiner
Museum, showcasing some 3,000 objets valued at between $16-million
and $25-million from the Gardiners' personal collection, officially
opened on Saturday, March 3, 1984, with an additional $2.5-million
operating grant from its benefactors to celebrate the occasion.
Initially, the Gardiners were as naive about operating a museum
as they had been about ceramics. They didn't have nearly enough
staff, went through three directors in their first year and underestimated
their operating and exhibition costs. After unsuccessfully petitioning
the Liberal provincial government for more money, the museum
was advised by premier David Peterson to merge with the Royal
Ontario Museum in 1987. "I have learned it is very, very difficult
to compete with other museums," Mr.
GARDINER, a man known for
his independence, said at an emotional press conference called
to announce the merger.
"The government decided we needed the Royal Ontario Museum's
management expertise," Ms.
GARDINER told The Globe in 2006. But
it wasn't always a comfortable relationship. For an independent
museum to be put under the control of another much larger one
was akin to an adult daughter moving back into her parents' house
with her children after a messy divorce.
The Royal Ontario Museum saw the Gardiner as an adjunct, housing
yet another of its many collections, but the Gardiner longed
to flex its curatorial wings. Mr.
GARDINER, who was succeeded
as chair of the board by his wife in 1994, bought back the museum's
independence with a $15-million endowment (raising his investment
in his own museum to about $50-million). It was announced in
January, 1997, just 11 months before Mr.
GARDINER died of complications
from arthritis and heart disease.
The strain of caring for her husband in his last years when he
was ill and "difficult" and dealing with his estate after his
death made her so nervous that her throat muscles tightened up
and she had trouble speaking above a whisper, Ms. Ross said.
It was only recently that doctors found a solution - periodic
shots of Botox and a regime of throat exercises - that enabled
Ms. GARDINER to speak normally again.
In the decade of her widowhood, Ms.
GARDINER threw herself into
the museum and into the National Ballet School, where she had
sat on the board since 1990. "She invested a lot more than money
- she invested herself in the life of the school and the lives
of the students," said Ms. McCain. "She took on a student and
stayed with that student and became a mentor and a guide and
a friend."
Under Ms. GARDINER's direction, the museum built up its membership
lists again and stretched beyond the personal vision of its founders.
The Gardiner began accepting other collections, such as Doctor Hans
Syz's German porcelain and Murray and Ann Bell's trove of Chinese
blue-and-white porcelain. It expanded its mandate to include
modern and contemporary pieces from collectors, such as Mr.
MILRAD,
and began organizing exhibitions of work by living artists.
Ms. GARDINER was chair until 1999 and vice-chair for the next
two years, during which time the museum received a Lieutenant-Governor's
Award for the Arts for building private sector and community
support, showing fiscal responsibility and expanding its audience
(from 20,000 to 60,000 visitors annually), using pottery classes
for children and exhibitions such as Maya Universe, Miro: Playing
with Fire and Harlequin Unmasked. In 2002, she accepted the position
of honorary chair and led the museum's fundraising and expansion
campaign to raise $12.8-million from the private sector, in addition
to $6-million in grants from the Ontario and Canadian governments.
The museum closed from 2004 to 2006 for a nearly $20-million
renovation undertaken by Kuwabara, Payne, McKenna and Blumberg
Architects. The renovation added a glass-encased third floor,
restaurant and roof terraces, increased exhibition space by 50 per
cent, added a research library and expanded the museum shop and
the basement studio to accommodate artists in residence and more
pottery classes.
"In the last 10 years, she started to develop her own interests
and her own ability to reach out for things that she would never
have looked at before. And then she got sick," said Mr.
MILRAD,
vice-chair of the board. "She had an integrity that was recognized
and it is going to be extremely difficult for us to raise the
kind of money that she was able to raise through her contacts
and her own strength of character."
Falling terminally ill was a shock to Ms.
GARDINER, who had always
planned to live well into her 90s, just as her mother has done.
In the first week of May, she was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.
After seeking treatment at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore, Ms.
GARDINER
began a rigorous course of chemotherapy. But she soon decided
to suspend treatment, since it wasn't working and it was making
her feel very ill. Instead, she let "nature take its course,"
as she told her Friends and family.
Helen Elizabeth
GARDINER, C.M., was born in Kirkland Lake, Ontario,
on July 18, 1938. She died of pancreatic cancer at the family
farm in Caledon East on July 22, 2008. She was 70. Predeceased
by husband George
GARDINER, she is survived by daughter Lindy
BARROW, mother Helen
McMINN, brother Bob
McMINN and extended
family.
The funeral will take place on Monday, July 28, at 11 a.m. in
Toronto's Saint_James Cathedral.
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MEIKLE,
Helen▼
Patricia▼ (née
MULCAIR)
It is with great sadness that the children and sisters of Pat
MEIKLE announce her death, on March 10th, 2008 in Toronto after
a year-long illness. Pat was born in Montreal on February 14th,
1924 and grew up in Westmount, Québec. She graduated from Saint
Paul's Academy in 1941, and from the Mother House Secretarial
College in 1942. Following graduation, she took a position as
legal secretary at the Montreal firm of Montgomery McMichael
(now Ogilvy Renault), where she worked until her marriage to
the late James Edward
MEIKLE on September 18th, 1952. Pat pursued
her chosen career as wife, mother and grandmother, with kindness,
common sense, humour and great deal of devotion, for 56 years.
She was much loved, and will be greatly missed, by her sisters
Barbara MULCAIR and Sister Anne-Marie
MULCAIR, CND; her children
Victoria, Susan and Ross
COYLES,
Jamie,▼
Heather▼ and Adrian
JOHNSON,
Thomas and Melanie
ROCKLIFF,
Gregory▼ and Rachel
JEWELL; and her
grandchildren Jamie, Gillian, Kieran, Devon, Natasha, Dunham
and Jackson; and by her Friends. Friends may call on Wednesday,
March 12, 2008 from 5-8 p.m. at the R.S. Kane Funeral Home (6150 Yonge
Street, at Goulding, south of Steeles). A Funeral Mass will be
celebrated on Thursday, March 13, 2008 at 2: 00 p.m. at Blessed
Trinity Roman Catholic Church (3220 Bayview Avenue). A reception
will follow at the home of Heather
MEIKLE and Adrian
JOHNSON.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Alzheimer Society.
Condolences www.rskane.ca R.S. Kane 416-221-1159
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MEIKLE,
Helen▲
Patricia▲ (née
MULCAIR)
It is with great sadness that the children and sisters of Pat
MEIKLE announce her death, on March 10th, 2008 in Toronto after
a year-long illness. Pat was born in Montreal on February 14th,
1924 and grew up in Westmount, Québec. She graduated from Saint
Paul's Academy in 1941, and from the Mother House Secretarial
College in 1942. Following graduation, she took a position as
legal secretary at the Montreal firm of Montgomery McMichael
(now Ogilvy Renault), where she worked until her marriage to
the late James Edward
MEIKLE on September 18th, 1952. Pat pursued
her chosen career as wife, mother and grandmother, with kindness,
common sense, humour and a great deal of devotion, for 56 years.
She was much loved, and will be greatly missed, by her sisters
Barbara MULCAIR and Sister Anne-Marie
MULCAIR, CND; her children
Victoria, Susan and Ross
COYLES,
Jamie,▲
Heather▲ and Adrian
JOHNSON,
Thomas and Melanie
ROCKLIFF,
Gregory▲ and Rachel
JEWELL; and her
grandchildren Jamie, Gillian, Kieran, Devon, Natasha, Dunham
and Jackson; and by her Friends. Friends may call on Wednesday,
March 12, 2008 from 5-8 p.m. at the R.S. Kane Funeral Home (6150 Yonge
Street, at Goulding, south of Steeles). A Funeral Mass will be
celebrated on Thursday, March 13, 2008 at 2: 00 p.m. at Blessed
Trinity Roman Catholic Church (3220 Bayview Avenue). A reception
will follow at the home of Heather
MEIKLE and Adrian
JOHNSON.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Alzheimer Society.
Condolences www.rskane.ca
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MEINCKE,
Lois
Emma (née
McQUIGGAN)
Surrounded by her loving family, passed away peacefully, on Saturday,
July 12, 2008 at Trinity Village, at the age of 74. Beloved wife
and soulmate of Paul for 49 years. Cherished mother of Debra
Lynn, Gregory Paul, and Jeffrey Mark. Grandmother of Ryan, Tara,
Hunter, Madison, and Sean Gregory. Stepsister of Ray, Bev, Roy
and Jack KENNEDY.
Niece of Irene
MARCUS. Predeceased by her parents
Morley and Edna
McQUIGGAN, stepfather Robert
KENNEDY, and brother
Fred McQUIGGAN.
Lois' family will receive relatives and Friends
on Saturday, July 26, 2008 from 11-11: 45 a.m. at the Henry Walser
Funeral Home, 507 Frederick Street, Kitchener, 519-749-8467, followed
by a memorial service in the chapel at 12 p.m. As expressions
of sympathy, donations to the Heart and Stroke Foundation or
the Alzheimer Society would be appreciated by the family (cards
available at the funeral home). Visit www.henrywalser.com for
Lois' memorial.
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MEINZINGER o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2008-02-23 published
PINCHES,
Russell▼ "
Russ▼"
John▼
Of London in his 80th year, passed away at London Health Sciences
Centre - University Hospital on Thursday February 21, 2008. Dear
husband of the late Pauline
PINCHES (2004.) Loving father of
Melodie LUMLEY and her husband Shawn of London and Arthur
PINCHES
and his wife Linda of Toronto. Also survived by his sisters Francis
Grace MEINZINGER of Toronto, Helen Mary
WURSTER of Winnipeg and
Jean Ruth MEINZINGER of Grand Rapids, Michigan and Brothers Charles
Robert PINCHES and his wife
Mona▼ of Exeter and Tom Samuel
PINCHES
and his wife Joyce of Belmont. Predeceased by his brother Arthur
William PINCHES,
The▼ family will receive Friends from 6: 00 p.m.
to 7: 00 p.m. on Tuesday February 26, 2008 at the A. Millard George
Funeral Home, 60 Ridout Street South, London where a Legion Service
will be conducted in the chapel under the auspices of the Royal
Canadian Legion, Duchess of Kent, Branch 263, Colour Guard, followed
by a Funeral Service officiated by Archdeacon Ken
ANDERSON.
Interment▼
at Mount Pleasant Cemetery. As an expression of sympathy, memorial
donations may be made to the Arthritis Society, 400 York Street,
Suite 204, London, N6B 3N2. Online condolences accepted at www.amgeorgefh.on.ca
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PINCHES,
Russell▲ "
Russ▲"
John▲
Of London in his 80th year, passed away at London Health Sciences
Centre - University Hospital on Thursday February 21, 2008. Dear
husband of the late Pauline
PINCHES (2004.) Loving father of
Melodie LUMLEY and her husband Shawn of London and Arthur
PINCHES
and his wife Linda of Toronto. Also survived by his sisters Francis
Grace MEINZINGER of Toronto, Helen Mary
WURSTER of Winnipeg and
Jean Ruth MEINZINGER of Grand Rapids, Michigan and Brothers Charles
Robert PINCHES and his wife
Mona▲ of Exeter and Tom Samuel
PINCHES
and his wife Joyce of Belmont. Predeceased by his brother Arthur
William PINCHES,
The▲ family will receive Friends from 6: 00 p.m.
to 7: 00 p.m. on Tuesday February 26, 2008 at the A. Millard George
Funeral Home, 60 Ridout Street South, London where a Legion Service,
under the auspices of the Royal Canadian Legion, Duchess of Kent,
Branch 263, Colour Guard, will be held in the chapel, at 7: 00 p.m.
followed by a complete Funeral Service at 7: 15 p.m. officiated
by Archdeacon Ken
ANDERSON.
Interment▲ at Mount Pleasant Cemetery.
As an expression of sympathy, memorial donations may be made
to the Arthritis Society, 400 York Street, Suite 204, London,
N6B 3N2. Online condolences accepted at www.amgeorgefh.on.ca
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SCHWARTZ-
SCHAFFEL,
Gigi
On Thursday, April 24, 2008. Devoted daughter of Samuel and Sally.
Beloved partner of Michael
HABERMAN.
Loving mother and mother-in-law
of Jason SCHWARTZ and Shirley
MEISELS, and Carrie and Jeremy
WREFORD. Dear sister and sister-in-law of Bonnie and Hank
KOCH,
Michael and Moira
SCHAFFEL, and Robert and Esther
SCHAFFEL.
Devoted
Bubbie of Lili. Service was held at Benjamin's Park Memorial
Chapel, on Friday, April 25, 2008. Interment Community section
of Pardes Shalom Cemetery. Shiva 15 Topham Crescent, Richmond
Hill. Memorial donations may be made to the Gigi Schwartz-Schaffel
Memorial Fund c/o the Benjamin Foundation, 3429 Bathurst Street,
Toronto, M6A 2C3, or www.benjamins.ca
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DAVIDSON,
Raymond
Giacomo
It is with profound sorrow that we announce the passing of Ray
DAVIDSON on February 8, 2008, after a brave encounter with cancer.
Beloved husband and dearest friend of Judith
POE.
Loving father
of Raymond Jr. and his wife
Carla of Oakville, Celia
MARGISON
and her husband Ted of Los Angeles, and Lisa
DAVIDSON and her
husband Dan Bell of San Diego. Devoted grandfather of Troy
DAVIDSON,
Cynthia DAVIDSON,
Tyler
MARGISON and Dylan
BELL. Brother of James
DAVIDSON and his wife
Vici of Duncan, British Columbia and the
late Norman and Better
DAVIDSON of Calgary. Brother-in-law to
Penny MEISLER and the late David
MEISLER of Chicago. Ray will
also be sadly missed by his beloved aunt, Audrey
FORZANI of Calgary,
his dear Friends Kelly Akers and Bill Hall and their daughter
Alex and his many cousins, nieces and nephews. Born in Calgary,
the son of the late James and Julietta
DAVIDSON,
Ray studied
voice and piano at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto
and at Gonzaga University in Washington. Winner of the Simpson's
'Red Feather Revue', and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's
'Opportunity Knocks', and 'Singing Stars of Tomorrow' in the
1950's, Ray went on to sing with the Canadian Opera Company and
later as a solo entertainer throughout Canada and Europe. He
brought joy to all with whom he shared his music and, through
his music and our memories, he will always be in our hearts and
lives. Our thanks to Ivy
LUNT and Rohit
TAMHANE for their kindness
to Ray and his family. Donations to the Princess Margaret Hospital
Foundation would be appreciated by the family as your expression
of sympathy. Friends may visit at the Rosar-Morrison Funeral
Home and Chapel, 467 Sherbourne Street (south of Wellesley) on
Wednesday, February 13, 2008 from 7-9 p.m. Mass of the Resurrection
will be celebrated on Thursday at Saint Michael's Cathedral (Bond and
Shuter) at 10 a.m. Interment to follow at Mt. Hope Cemetery.
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YOUNG,
Jack
J.
On Wednesday, June 18, 2008 at North York General Hospital. Jack
YOUNG, beloved husband of Estelle. Loving father and father-in-law
of Arthur YOUNG and Linda
MEISSENHEIMER, Errol and Lorna, Karen
and Gerald
GALL of Edmonton, and David and Ellen. Dear brother
and brother-in-law of John and Helen, Jennie and Bernat
GOLDBERGER,
Dora BROMSTEIN,
Gail
WISE, Shirley and the late Sam
YOUNG and
the late Frimit
YASHINSKY,
Fanny
HOLTZMAN, Sadie
MYERS, and Libby
(Waese) REIS.
Devoted grandfather of Aaron, Evan
YOUNG and Amrit
BAINS;
Melanie,
Wendy and Andrew
GALL; Sara, Cory, and Alycia
YOUNG.
Devoted great-grandfather of Owen Jacob. At Benjamin's
Park Memorial Chapel, 2401 Steeles Avenue West (three lights
west of Dufferin) for service on Friday, June 20th at 11: 30 a.m.
Interment Beth David B'nai Israel Synagogue section of Pardes
Shalom Cemetery. Shiva 126 Laurelcrest Avenue. Memorial donations
may be made to the Jack Young Memorial Fund, c/o The Benjamin
Foundation, 3429 Bathurst Street, Toronto, M6A 2C3, 416-780-0324
or at www.benjamins.ca
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