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GOWAN,
Wendy▼
Verline▼
(COOK)
On Saturday, May 10, 2008 at L.H.S.C. Wendy Verline
(COOK)
GOWAN,
in her 63rd year, passed away after a courageous battle with
cancer. Wendy is predeceased by her parents Stan and Julia
COOK.
Surviving are her brother Calvin (Bernadette) of Bridgewater,
Nova Scotia and sister Mary
COOK of London. She will be sadly
missed by her children Perry (Lisa)
McMILLAN of Dutton, Lisa
NEWMAN
(Randy▼
OSSELL) of Eagle, Les (Tonia)
CAMPBELL of Winnipeg,
Manitoba, Laura
CAMPBELL
(Trevor▼
ALVIS) of Boissevain, Manitoba
and grandchildren Jamie and Alicia
McMILLAN,
Adam▼ and Clarissa
NEWMAN, Randy
OSSEL Jr., Brice and Jenna
CAMPBELL, Delaney
ALVIS
and great-grand_son Trent
NEWMAN.
Also▼ left to mourn are her extended
family on Kiwanis Park Dr: Barney, Mike and Lori, Dave and Karen,
Chris and Andrew and niece Patti
KELLY. A heartfelt thank you
to Sandra ADAM/ADAMS and Wayne
ARNOLD for all the Friendship, compassion
and assistance given to Wendy and her family in their time of
need. Thanks also to Carol
WATSON of the Victorian Order of Nurses
for the extra care and concern given to our mother. A private
interment will be held at Fairview Cemetery, Dutton where Wendy
will be laid to rest with her grandparents John and Elizabeth
Cook. Arrangements entrusted to Arn Funeral Home, Dutton. Email
condolences arnfuneralhome2@bellnet.ca
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GOWAN,
Wendy▲
Verline▲
(COOK)
On Saturday, May 10, 2008 at L.H.S.C. Wendy Verline
(COOK)
GOWAN,
in her 63rd year, passed away after a courageous battle with
cancer. Wendy is predeceased by her parents Stan and Julia
COOK.
Surviving are her brother Calvin (Bernadette) of Bridgewater,
Nova Scotia and sister Mary
COOK of London. She will be sadly
missed by her children Perry (Lisa)
McMILLAN of Dutton, Lisa
NEWMAN
(Randy▲
OSSELL) of Eagle, Les (Tonia)
CAMPBELL of Winnipeg,
Manitoba, Laura
CAMPBELL
(Trevor▲
ALVIS) of Boissevain, Manitoba
and grandchildren Jamie and Alicia
McMILLAN,
Adam▲ and Clarissa
NEWMAN, Randy
OSSEL Jr., Brice and Jenna
CAMPBELL, Delaney
ALVIS
and great-grand_son Trent
NEWMAN.
Also▲ left to mourn are her extended
family on Kiwanis Park Dr: Barney, Mike and Lori, Dave and Karen,
Chris and Andrew and niece Patti
KELLY. A heartfelt thank you
to Sandra ADAM/ADAMS and Wayne
ARNOLD for all the Friendship, compassion
and assistance given to Wendy and her family in their time of
need. Thanks also to Carol
WATSON of the Victorian Order of Nurses
for the extra care and concern given to our mother. A private
interment will be held at Fairview Cemetery, Dutton where Wendy
will be laid to rest with her grandparents John and Elizabeth
Cook. Arrangements entrusted to Arn Funeral Home, Dutton. Email
condolences arnfuneralhome2@bellnet.ca
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OSSIPOFF,
Zoya
Great-grandmother, babushka, mother, artist, gardener, free spirit.
Born April 9, 1909, in Terijoki, Karelia, Finland (now Zelenogorsk,
Russia). Died March 12 in Sutton, Ontario, of old age, aged 98.
By Nadine Ryan
BANNERMAN,
Page L6
Zoya and her family evacuated to northern Finland during the
Second World War. Her father, who worked in Russia, returned
to collect important work and was not seen again. Zoya and her
sister, Nina, mourned his loss deeply. Eventually the family,
including their mother, Maria, settled in Helsinki.
In 1959, Zoya ended her marriage and immigrated to Canada. She
worked for a Toronto fur store for a number of years, bought
a house in the Beaches and paid the mortgage with rent from lodgers.
Zoya was both creative and pragmatic. At the end of her shift
at work she would collect scraps of fur to take home, and after
she retired she made herself a gorgeous fur coat. Always generous
with her time, possessions and talents, she also made coats for
family members.
Her house was a showcase for her artistic talents. She created
wild gardens outside, and populated the interior with original
paintings, sculptures and mosaics that she and her two daughters,
Zina and Olga, created. The decor changed frequently depending
on her interests. A lavender satin bedspread she'd made herself
turned up later as an elegant dress worn to a wedding.
One of Zoya's lodgers was Konstantin
YEGOROV, who needed a place
to stay after his marriage broke up. Kon and Zoya found they
shared many interests, and they remained loving companions until
he died at 87.
The peaceful life they enjoyed in their 60s - visiting with Friends,
attending the ballet and the opera, watching hockey - was interrupted
by the arrival of Kon's adolescent grandchildren, Nadine and
Danial, to live with them. Zoya generously cared for them, making
endless grilled cheese sandwiches and trying to get them to love
wild mushrooms and dandelions in their salads.
Once, when Zoya's grand_son Henry remarked in dismay, "Babushka,
there's a slug in my salad," she was unsympathetic. "You, big
strong boy, afraid of so little a thing from nature?" she said,
with a pronounced and endearing Russian accent that we remember
so well.
After Kon retired, they moved to Jackson's Point on Lake Simcoe.
Babushka loved to walk every day. She travelled to visit her
daughters, seven grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.
Youthful-looking and beautiful, she was healthy and strong. But
when she broke her leg recently and could no longer walk every
day, her spirit declined.
Known as "Cucoo" to Danial's children, she is much missed by
her family, Kon's family and all who knew her. Now, however,
as Danial said, she can again walk in her garden every day.
Nadine Ryan
BANNERMAN is Zoya's step-granddaughter.
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