NOURY o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2008-02-29 published
HOWARD,
Frank
On February 26th, 2008, in Guadalajara, Mexico, from the effects
of lung cancer. Frank, 77, was loved, and will be fondly remembered,
by his wife
Geraldine
CASTLE-
TRUDEL and her children Jennifer
(widow of Brigadier-General Marc
POULIOT, mother of Jessica and
Nicole,)
Nicholas (husband of Jennifer-Anne
McNEILL, father of
Noah,) Victoria
NOURY (mother of David and Erik) and Mellissa
(wife of Ian
HOLMES, mother of Oliver.) Also bereaved are his
daughters Virginia
HOWARD,
Susan (wife of Robin
LYNCH, mother
of Jessica and Alison,) Lisa (wife of Andrew
FOGARASIS, mother
of Peter and Alice,) Jennifer
HOWARD (married to Mary
SCOTT,)
and their mother Patricia, as well as many other relatives and
numerous Friends. When Frank retired from journalism on February 18,
1994, he was writing the Bureaucrats column in the Ottawa Citizen.
As a tribute, John Gray reminisced about Frank as a journalist
and friend for The Bureaucrats: Souvenir Edition. What John wrote
is as affectionately appropriate today as it was then: "Many,
many years ago when he was Canada's youngest city editor on Canada's
oldest daily newspaper, Frank
HOWARD taught me the rudiments
of journalism. For this I am grateful: it has kept me off the
streets in the intervening 30 odd years. Since then, however,
the HOWARD scorecard is a bit smudged. Early on, he set out to
save the country. He busied himself with the affairs of Quebec
and talked endlessly to those who would listen about the mystic
union of French and English Canada. He wanted to be, he said,
un interlocuteur valable. The rest is history - the immediate
birth of the Quebec separatist movement and the country's long
decline into the national toilet. So much for the joys of mysticism.
He was not much better outside Quebec. He travelled to Toronto
to be the best man at our wedding. This was much appreciated,
except that he insisted on playing the rustic, throwing himself
downstairs in full view of 50 people. Two days later, at what
was supposed to be a wedding party, he lectured another 50 people
for 4½ hours on the evils of contraception. A lot of people still
believe that I am a hideous judge of character. In the mid-1960s
he persuaded me that the Montreal Star was a wonderful place
to work. He left within a few weeks. And a few years later, of
course, the Montreal Star died. Through long and patient effort,
Frank was crucial in furthering a lifelong commitment of myself
and many others to beer and related pleasures. Later he renounced
the devil and all his works and he now looks upon the rest of
us with sad eyes and infinite pity and superiority. My own suspicion
is that this exalted moral plane from which he now views the
world is his own revenge for a lifetime of short jokes. Those
who know him will recognize in all this a desperate ring of truth.
However, I will say this for Frank. Over the years he has resisted
the temptation to teach me everything he knows about snooker.
Of such forbearance is great Friendship made."
In accordance with his wishes he has been cremated, and so "Adieu
kind friend, adieu…."
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NOUWENS o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2008-05-12 published
NOUWENS,
John▼
In loving memory of my dear husband John who passed away May 12,
1999. John, I always sit and think of you And the day you died
Lots of nights I dream of you And many nights I cry I thought
of you with love today But that is nothing new I thought about
you yesterday And the day before that too They say time heals
every thing But I know it isn't so Because it hurts so much today
As it did nine years ago Always loved, remembered and longed
for by wife Jean, children and 11 grandchildren.
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NOUWENS o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2008-05-12 published
NOUWENS,
John▲
Dad, there are many things we've learned from you, many things
you taught. But some of the most memorable ones are the things
you never knew left an impact. Here are a few: 1) Sing loudly,
smile too! 2) Let your garden have some freedom - loosen up!
3) Work hard, play harder! 4) If you laugh hard enough, coffee
can come out your nose! Thanks for the memories! We live in your
legacy! With love, Audrey, Andrew, Isaak, Jacob and Sammy
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