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REANEY,
James▼
Crerar▼
Peacefully at Marian Villa, Mount Hope Centre, London, on Wednesday,
June 11, 2008, in his 82nd year. Survived by his wife Colleen
THIBAUDEAU; his son James Stewart
REANEY and his wife
Susan▼
WALLACE
of London and their daughter Elizabeth Wallace
REANEY in Seoul,
Korea;▼ his daughter Susan
REANEY and her husband Ian
CHUNN and
their daughter Edie Elizabeth Reaney
CHUNN of Vancouver; his
sister Wilma
McCAIG and brother Ron
COOKE.
Predeceased▼ by his
son John Andrew
REANEY (1966) and his parents James N.
REANEY
and Elizabeth
CRERAR.
Our▼ thanks to the kind and caring staff
and fellow residents of Marian Villa, to the many Friends who
visited Jamie, and to all who have been involved in his care.
A Celebration of Jamie's life will be held at Robinson Memorial
United Church, 1061 Richmond Street at Sherwood Avenue, London,
on Saturday, June 14 at 2: 00 p.m. A day of remembrance will take
place this summer. Cremation will be followed by a private interment
at Mt. Pleasant Cemetery, London. In lieu of flowers, please
consider an act of kindness to someone in need or make a contribution
to a charity of your choice. (www.HarrisFuneralHome.ca)
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REANEY,
James▲▼
Crerar▲▼
Peacefully at Marian Villa, Mount Hope Centre, London, on Wednesday,
June 11, 2008, in his 82nd year. Survived by his wife Colleen
THIBAUDEAU; his son James Stewart
REANEY and his wife
Susan▲
WALLACE
of London and their daughter Elizabeth Wallace
REANEY in Seoul,
Korea;▲ his daughter Susan
REANEY and her husband Ian
CHUNN and
their daughter Edie Elizabeth Reaney
CHUNN of Vancouver; his
sister Wilma
McCAIG and brother Ron
COOKE.
Predeceased▲ by his
son John Andrew
REANEY (1966) and his parents James N.
REANEY
and Elizabeth
CRERAR.
Our▲ thanks to the kind and caring staff
and fellow residents of Marian Villa, to the many Friends who
visited Jamie, and to all who have been involved in his care.
A Celebration of Jamie's life will be held at Robinson Memorial
United Church, 1061 Richmond Street at Sherwood Avenue, London,
on Saturday, June 14 at 2: 00 p.m. A day of remembrance will take
place this summer. Cremation will be followed by a private interment
at Mt. Pleasant Cemetery, London. In lieu of flowers, please
consider an act of kindness to someone in need or make a contribution
to a charity of your choice. (www.HarrisFuneralHome.ca)
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Author was 'one of the finest writers Canada has produced'
Long-time University of Western Ontario professor played with
form, voice and space on the page, the airwaves and the stage.
He rarely strayed from his regional roots
By Sandra MARTIN,
Page S7
Imagine a totally creative person - poet, playwright, short-story
writer, painter, pianist. That was James
REANEY, one of our most
diverse and prolific artists, a man whose virtuosity extended
from theatrical workshops with children to literary scholarship
in the academy. He played with form, voice and space on the page,
the airwaves and the stage. Like Alice Munro, he rarely strayed
from his physical roots in Southwestern Ontario, the source of
his inspiration.
"James REANEY did not fit any of the usual Canadian literary
moulds, which was one of the best things about him. He was a
mould-maker," said literary scholar Germaine Warkentin, the editor
of several critical volumes of his poetry and prose. Praising
him as "one of the finest writers Canada has produced," Prof. Warkentin
said: "He had an immense range - poetry both highly literary
and very simple, plays that any company could put on, whether
professional or community, opera librettos, and (early on) dazzling
short stories that upset a literary applecart that needed upsetting."
Margaret Atwood says he "was a true original," who was very "playful,
inventive, musical and theatrical." She still remembers seeing
him perform his early work, One Man Masque, when she was an undergraduate
at the University of Toronto in the late 1950s. "It was never
to be forgotten by anybody who saw it," she said. "The first
half was life and the second half death and, in order to make
the transition, he climbed into a coffin and came out wearing
goggles, furry driver's gloves and carrying a blue flashlight.
It was one of the strange, surreal moments of theatre," she added
- perhaps unnecessarily.
"In the late 19th century and through our own time, poetry got
lost in a march toward realism and prose," said Don Rubin, founding
editor of the Canadian Theatre Review and Director of York University's
Graduate
Program in Theatre Studies. "James
REANEY was one of
those few Western artists of the modern period - T.S. Eliot was
another - who sought to bring poetry back into the theatre. Neither
he nor Eliot succeeded, but what a glorious war
REANEY fought
for the art in Canada.
"His Donnellys trilogy is a mammoth achievement and one of the
major building blocks of the post-Centennial theatre in this
country," said Prof. Rubin. "It proved that poetry really did
have a place on our stages and it proved to
REANEY himself that
he actually had a place on our stages as well."
James▲
(Jamie▲)
Crerar▲
REANEY was born on a farm in South Easthope
near Stratford, Ontario, in the middle 1920s. He was the only
son of James Nesbitt
REANEY and Elizabeth (née
CRERAR)
REANEY.
An imaginative and solitary child who believed that "metaphor
is reality," he absorbed the landscape, history and social networks
of Southwestern Ontario and made them central to his work. As
a child, he attended Elmhurst School, a country school near his
home, and studied piano with Cora B. Ahrens, one of first music
teachers to travel around Perth County giving lessons.
His parents separated and his mother remarried and had two other
children. It may have been his step-father who first told him,
when he was 10, the legend of the Black Donnellys, the Irish
immigrants who were massacred in their farmhouse near Lucan in
1880. This reimagined story inspired his famous trilogy of plays
in the 1970s.
For high school, he went to Stratford Vocational Institute in
nearby Stratford, entering in the year that the Second World
War began and graduating the same month the Allies invaded Normandy.
When asked why he began to write drama, Prof.
REANEY responded
that the impetus could have been "anything from a neurotic compulsion
to bore my community, to a healthy desire to do something that
my town could focus on, to things hidden deep in childhood like
toys, cardboard cut-out theatres in popcorn boxes and Christmas
stockings, and so on." In fact, he wrote his first play in high
school because it was expected of him - "they had a tradition
of producing plays."
He moved to Toronto in September, 1944, to study English literature
at the University of Toronto, graduating with a bachelor's degree
in 1948 and a master's degree the following year. At university,
he became involved in performance and writing and Friendships
with other literary and artistic types, including the anthologist
Robert
Weaver, the poet Colleen
THIBAUDEAU, and the musician
and composer John Beckwith, a lifelong friend and frequent collaborator.
They later wrote four operas together, and many other works in
which Prof. Beckwith set Prof.
REANEY's words to music.
"What I found working with him was that he always understood
musically what I was talking about, whereas a lot of writers
don't," said Prof. Beckwith. "He had a musical approach and was
very interested in opera literature, so it wasn't like starting
from square one."
The poet Earle Birney met him in the late 1940s at a party and
was enough taken by the experience that he noted: "He was still
a varsity sophomore, but a very unusual one. I've never forgotten
the impression he made on me that evening - a small packet of
firecrackers set alight, he went sizzling and leaping mischievously
from one guest to another, an excited child popping adult questions,
bounding into the kitchen and back to the hall, and continually
exploding with ideas, images and emotions. I thought him a marvellously
inventive Ariel, and still do."
At U of T, he was strongly influenced by Northrop Frye and Fearful
Symmetry, his book on the poetry of William Blake, which was
published in 1947. Even as an undergraduate, he was already writing
poetry and short stories. The first brought him acclaim, the
second notoriety. He was only 23 when he won the Governor-General's
Award in 1949 for his first collection of poems, The Red Heart.
A collage in which a young man tries to reconcile his childhood
memories with the harsh and often incomprehensible world of experience,
the volume contains 42 poems, written during his university days,
including The School Globe, in which the poet pictures himself
holding the "wrecked blue cardboard pumpkin" with its lines of
latitude and longitude, and laments the loss of the "fair fields
and lands" of his childhood. Here is how it ends: "If I raise
my hand/ No tall teacher will demand/ What I want./ But if someone
in authority/ Were here, I'd say/ Give me this old world back/
Whose husk I clasp/ And I'll give you in exchange/ The great
sad real one/ That's filled/ Not with a child's remembered and
pleasant skies/ But with blood, pus, death, stepmothers, and
lies./"
The year before, he had published a short story, The Box Social
in the Undergrad, the student magazine at University College.
The story, which is told from the point of view of Sylvia, a
young woman from a small community who has been impregnated and
abandoned by a local hero, has a surprising and disturbing payback
ending. When The Box Social, with its bold (for the times) messages
about illegitimate stillborn babies, was republished in New Liberty,
it ignited a firestorm of protest, including inflammatory letters
from 800 subscribers. The furor doused his prospects of becoming
editor of Undergrad.
The Bully, another short story he wrote about this time (contrasting
the etiquette rituals in high school with the pecking order in
a chicken coop), was included in an anthology edited by his friend
Robert Weaver in the late 1950s. Margaret Atwood read it as an
undergraduate at the University of Toronto and later included
it in The New Oxford Book of Canadian Short Stories, which she
edited with Mr. Weaver in 1987. In her introduction, Ms. Atwood
suggested that Prof.
REANEY anticipated what came to be called
Southern Ontario Gothic, a group of writers including Alice Munro,
Robertson Davies, Timothy Findley, Jane Urquhart and Barbara
Gowdy, who inhabit a literary landscape whose "main features
were defined earlier by James
REANEY." As for Prof.
REANEY's
influence on her own work, she said simply: "Without The Bully,
my fiction would have followed other paths. If there are such
things as 'key' reading experiences, The Bully was certainly
one of mine."
After university, he travelled in France and then accepted at
job teaching at the University of Manitoba, a position he held
for a decade, from 1950-1960. He married his classmate Colleen
THIBAUDEAU on her birthday, December 29, 1951. They had three
children, James (1952), John (born in 1954; died of meningitis
in 1966) and Susan (1959), and combined family life and artistic
enterprise. As a poet she has published several volumes including
The Martha Landscapes, The Artemesia Book and The Patricia Album.
In the late 1950s, Prof.
REANEY took a two-year sabbatical to
return to the University of Toronto to complete his doctoral
dissertation on The Influence of Spenser on Yeats under Northrop
Frye, receiving his degree in 1958, the same year that he published
his second volume of poetry, A Suit of Nettles. That book, which
earned his second Governor-General's Award, drew upon his academic
work and echoed Spenser's The Shepheardes Calendar. Being himself,
however, he set his dozen pastoral ecologues, one for each calendar
month, in Southwestern Ontario and wrote from the perspective
of barnyard geese living through their life cycle from birth
to slaughter at Christmas time. The poems, which combine a variety
of poetic forms from allegorical to graphic, show him at his
quirky, inventive best.
The REANEYs returned to his creative heartland in 1960 when he
accepted an academic position at the University of Western Ontario
in London. The following decade was a kaleidoscope of literary
activity. In 1962, he published Twelve Letters to a Small Town,
a collection of a dozen lyric poems in which the poet recreates
the geography and social psychology of his home town of Stratford,
Ontario, in the era of the 1930s and 1940s in a mythological
form.
Living in London, teaching at the university, married to a poet,
surrounded by his own children, he began writing plays and books
for young people, creating and printing his own literary magazine,
Alphabet, on the iconography of the imagination, writing operas
and collaborating on setting his poems to music with his friend,
composer John Beckwith. He also began working in the theatre
with Prof. Beckwith's then wife, Pamela Terry. She organized
a public reading of A Suit of Nettles, and persuaded him to write
The Killdeer, which she then directed at Toronto's Coach House
Theatre. Reviews were mixed after the opening on January 13,
1960. Mavor Moore lauded it in The Telegram as a turning point
in Canadian dramatic history, while Nathan Cohen dismissed it
as "a desperately bad play" in The Star. Nevertheless, it won
a prize at the Dominion Drama Festival.
Prof. REANEY was experimenting with music, form, dialogue and
myth and creating his own way of expressing them. Night-blooming
Cereus and One-man Masque, which showed both the gentle pastoral
side of Prof.
REANEY and the sardonic darker side of his sensibility,
ran as a double bill in 1960 and were published in The Killdeer
and Other Plays in 1963. The plays and his book of poetry Twelve
Letters to a Small Town combined to earn him his third Governor-General's
award that year. Other plays followed: The Easter Egg; The Sun
and the Moon; three marionette plays (Apple Butter, Little Red-Riding
Hood and Aladdin and the Magic Lamp); Listen to the Wind, which
he also directed; and Colours in the Dark, which premiered at
the Avon Theatre at the Stratford Festival. He also developed
the Listener's Workshop and began working with child and adult
actors.
Having escaped from this swirl of creative activity to spend
a sabbatical year with his family in Victoria, about as far from
his creative landscape as he could go in Canada, Prof.
REANEY
began writing The Donnelly Trilogy. The three plays, Sticks and
Stones, The St. Nicholas Hotel, Wm. Donnelly, Prop., and Handcuffs,
form the pinnacle of Prof.
REANEY's work for the theatre. They
went through an extensive workshop process before they were premiered
at Tarragon Theatre in Toronto between 1973 and 1975 in productions
directed by Keith Turnbull. They revolve around a feud which
began in Tipperary in Ireland, was transplanted to Canada and
culminated in the murders of James Donnelly and five members
of his family near Lucan, Ontario. The material, which incorporated
kin, revenge, rural Ontario, myth, and the possibility of reworking
established views of innocence and guilt, was rich ore for Prof.
REANEY.
The middle play, St. Nicholas Hotel, won the Chalmers Award for
best Canadian Play in 1974, while the trilogy is listed by the
Oxford Dictionary of Plays as among the 1,000 most significant
plays of all time.
He never stopped writing, painting and creating. His final books
of poetry were Performance Poems (1990) and Souwesto Home (2005).
The Champlain Society published The Donnelly Documents: An Ontario
Vendetta, edited and with an introduction by Prof.
REANEY in
2004. Only this spring, the McMichael Gallery in Kleinberg, Ontario,
mounted The Iconography of the Imagination, more than 50 landscapes,
sketches and drawings that he had made between the 1940s and
the mid-1990s.
About five years ago, he was diagnosed with kidney disease. He
began having dialysis and eventually needed more medical care
than he could receive at home. Nevertheless, he kept on writing,
painting and editing, often with the help of Friends and colleagues.
Even in his last months, he was able "to make sounds and try
to shape them" on an electric keyboard, according to his son
James. And while the doctors said he had dementia, Prof.
REANEY
was able to communicate with his family, even in his final days
- making a scowl, for example, when asked to create an image
in response to the name Nathan Cohen.
James REANEY, O.C. PhD, F.R.S.C., was born near Stratford, Ontario,
on September 1, 1926. He died at Marian Villa, Mount Hope Centre
in London, Ontario, on June 11, 2008. He was 81, and had been
suffering from kidney disease and dementia. He is survived by
Colleen THIBAUDEAU, his wife of more than 50 years, his children
James and Susan, two granddaughters, his two step-siblings and
his extended family. A celebration of his life will be held at
Robinson Memorial United Church in London on Sat. June 14.
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THIBAULT o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2008-02-19 published
HUDSON,
Shirley
Margaret (née
TURNER)
Peacefully, at Kensington Village Nursing Home on Monday, February 18,
2008, Shirley Margaret (née
TURNER)
HUDSON of London, formerly
of Thorndale. Beloved wife for 37 years of the late Herbert Kenneth
HUDSON (1976) and of the late Clinton E.
HUDSON (2000.) Loved
by her children Margaret and Jim
SMITH,
London;
Rhonda and Wallace
McLAY, London; John and Eleanor
HUDSON, Thorndale; and Donald
HUDSON and
Kay AHN,
Pickering.
She adored her 11 grandchildren Bruce
SMITH and
Heather McNEELY,
Greg and Cathy
SMITH, Krista and Glenn
GREENFIELD,
John and Melinda
McLAY,
Andrea and Chad
MORE, Jennifer and Eric
KUBELKA,
Steven HUDSON and Jennifer
DAYMENT, Mary
HUDSON and Mark
ADELSON,
Sarah and Adam
AFFLECK,
Adam
HUDSON, Ryan and Melissa
HUDSON and
her 13 great-grandchildren Megan and Kaitlin
SMITH,
Andrew,
Kinsey and
Christopher
GREENFIELD,
Hope,
Grace and John
McLAY, Kate and April
MORE,
Josie and Claire
KUBELKA and Braydon
AFFLECK. She is survived
by a daughter-in-law Nancy
HUDSON, a sister Joyce
ARMITAGE, a
sister-in-law Evelyn
TURNER and Clint's family Gary and Marsha
HUDSON and Sharon and Bob
THIBAULT.
She leaves many nieces, nephews,
cousins and Friends. Shirley was predeceased by her parents Wilbert and
Frances TURNER and by siblings Olive
ROBERTS,
Bruce
TURNER, Edna
Shoebottom, Grant
TURNER,
Maxine
Parkinson,
Una McLeod and sister-in-law
Mabelle Risdon. Shirley was born on October 13, 1918 in London
Township. In 1939 she married and moved to the first concession
of West Nissouri where she lived until her final home at Kensington
Village, London. Herbert and Shirley were active in the community
and church. Shirley loved to cook, garden, sew, do crafts but
her passion was her quilts and art projects. She also enjoyed
the outdoors. The family appreciates the care given to Shirley
during her stay at Kensington. She will be missed. Friends will
be received at the Logan Funeral Home, 371 Dundas St. (between
Waterloo and Colborne St.), on Wednesday from 2-4 and 6-9 p.m. Funeral
service will be conducted at Siloam United Church, 1240 Fanshawe
Park Rd. E., on Thursday, February 21, 2008, at 12: 30 p.m. with
Rev. Sheila
MacGREGOR officiating. Private family interment in
Saint_John's Cemetery, Arva. Donations to the Alzheimer Society,
555 Southdale Rd. E, Suite 100, London, Ontario, N6E 1A2 or Memorial
Fund at Siloam United Church would be appreciated by the family.
Online condolences can be expressed at www.loganfh.ca A tree
will be planted as a living memorial to Mrs. Shirley Margaret
HUDSON.
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DOUCETTE,
Joseph
Edward
Peacefully at Parkwood Hospital, on Tuesday, February 26, 2008,
Joseph Edward
DOUCETTE, at the age of 83 years, surrounded by
his loving family. He will be greatly missed by his wife Jeanne,
his four children, Pierrette
AGEN,
Michelle
JACKSON (Bradley)
of Panama City Beach, Florida; Richard of San Diego, California
and the late Suzanne
WHITE/WHYTE
(James;) and one grand_son Anthony
MacFARLANE and his life partner Martin
McGRENERE.
Also survived
by his brothers and sisters, Gerry of Rochester, Alberta; Tommy
(Patsy); Rodolphe (Madeleine); and Hubert, all of Toronto; Delima
NADON (late Albert) of Alban, Ontario; and Elizabeth "Betty"
SEGUIN (late Arthur) of Sudbury. Predeceased by his brothers
and sisters, Roseanna
HAMEL (late George
GAUTHIER and the late
Eddie HAMEL;)
Leone
THIBAULT (Rene) of Cobourg, Ontario; Euclide,
Fabiola; Georges (late Marie); Andre and Marie. Joseph was an
avid outdoorsman. He enjoyed fishing, hunting, walking and woodworking.
He was a highly skilled tradesperson, having worked on numerous
Toronto landmarks. He was always proud of and steadfastly dedicated
to his family. The family wishes to extend their heartfelt thanks
to the staff of Parkwood Hospital-Palliative Care Unit for their
compassionate care and support. Visitation will be held on Thursday,
February 28, 2008 from 2: 00-4:00 and 7:00-9:00 p.m. at the Westview
Funeral Chapel, 709 Wonderland Road North, London, with prayers
at 7 p.m. and a legion service at 7: 30 p.m. A Funeral Mass will
be celebrated at Saint Peter's Basilica (Lady Chapel), 196 Dufferin
Ave, London on Friday, February 29, 2008, at 10: 00 a.m. In lieu
of flowers, donations may be made to the Parkwood Hospital -
Palliative Care Unit or to the Canadian Cancer Society. Online
condolences may be sent to condolences@westviewfuneralchapel.com
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Joseph
Dominic
Gerald
BELLAND
In Loving Memory of Joseph Dominic Gerald
BELLAND,
September 27, 1936 - June 1, 2008,
who died peacefully at the Mindemoya Hospital on Sunday at the age of 71 years.
Gerald worked as a warehouse supervisor for Falconbridge. Predeceased by parents
Dominic and Marcia (née
BARNES)
BELLAND.
Beloved husband of Claire of Billings Township,+ Manitoulin Is.
Loved father of Gerry (wife Denise) of Temiscaming, Robert (wife Krystine) of Barrie.
Cherished grandfather of James, Samantha and Robyn. Dear brother of Jeannette
DUBOIS,+
Theresa
Currie (predeceased,) Alphonse
of Armstrong Lake, Rene-Aime
DADEY (husband Lawrence predeceased) of Sandy Lake,
Man., Yvonne
CROTEAU (husband Frank) of Val Therese, Vera (friend Art
RIVERS)
and Ronald both of Sudbury. Remembered by Claire's family, John Junior
LOW/LOWE/LOUGH,
Dorina CHIZDA (predeceased) (Mike,) Doris
ALLAIN,
Marg FLESCH (predeceased,) Leonard
LOW/LOWE/LOUGH (wife
Raymone,)
Shirley THIBEAULT (husband Tony,) Rhea
HALL (husband Tom,) Eddie (wife
Janet,)
Henry LOW/LOWE/LOUGH (wife
Noella,)
Danny
LOW/LOWE/LOUGH (wife Kathy,)
Linda DAOUST (husband Willie,) Mary
LOW/LOWE/LOUGH,
Patsy LAFRAMBOISE (husband Pat,) Beverly
LOW/LOWE/LOUGH,
Micheal LOW/LOWE/LOUGH (wife
Pauly,)
Peter
LOW/LOWE/LOUGH,
and sister-in-law Lillian
LOW/LOWE/LOUGH (predeceased.)
Will be missed by many nieces and nephews. Family and Friends gathered from 10 am until
the Funeral Mass at 3: 00 pm at Our Lady of Canada Catholic Church, Mindemoya on
Tuesday, June 3, 2008. On Wednesday, June 4, 2008 family and Friends will gather
from 10 am until Funeral Mass at 1: 00 pm at Holy Redeemer Church, Bancroft Drive,
Sudbury. Cremation. Donations to Manitoulin Lodge, Alzheimers, or the Mindemoya
Hospital Aux would be greatly appreciated in Gerald's memory. Arrangements with
Island Funeral Home, Little Current
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BRIDGES,
Sister Jo-Anne (Frances) I.B.V.M.
Died peacefully at Sunnybrook Hospital, Toronto, on Tuesday,
March 4, 2008. Sr.
BRIDGES was in her 45th year as a member of
the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Loretto Sisters). Daughter
of the late Eric
BRIDGES and Iris Anna May
GAHAN.
Sr.
BRIDGES
is survived by her sister Diane Bridges
THICKE,
(Brian
THICKE,
M.D.,) brother John (Linda)
BRIDGES, nephew James
BRIDGES, aunt
Joyce CONRY and many cousins and dear Friends. Sr. Jo-Anne taught
at Loretto College School and Loretto Abbey for some years, then
assisted in the High School Library and served as Regional Archivist
for the I.B.V.M. Community. Friends may call at Loretto Abbey,
101 Mason Blvd. on Friday, March 7th from 2: 00-4:00 and 7:00-9:00 p.m.
Prayers will be at 7: 00 p.m. on Friday evening. Mass of Christian
Burial will be celebrated at Loretto Abbey Chapel, on Saturday,
March 8th at 10: 00 a.m. Interment at Mount Hope Cemetery.
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THIEL o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2008-02-21 published
WALKER-
THIEL, Mary Avis Ann (formerly
WALKER, née
SIMMONS)
Suddenly as a result of a motor vehicle collision on Tuesday,
February 19, 2008, Mary Avis Ann
(SIMMONS)
WALKER-
THIEL of R.R.#3,
Zurich in her 54th year. Loved daughter of Gordon and Georgina
SIMMONS and daughter-in-law of Stewart and the late Alice
THIEL.
Beloved wife of Hubert
THIEL and the late Richard
WALKER (1989.)
Dear mother of Jennette
WALKER of Zurich, Sarah
WALKER of London,
Michael and Meaghan
THIEL of Orono, Janet and Damion Willert
of R.R.3 Zurich, Matthew
THIEL and Katherine
THIEL at home. Loving
grandmother of Ashton, Olivia and Ethan
WILLERT. Dear sister
and sister-in-law of Gordon
SIMMONS,
Michael and Heather
SIMMONS,
Patrick and Cathy
SIMMONS,
Brian and Bev
SIMMONS, Eunice and
Doug TAILOR/TAYLOR,
Gerry and Diane
THIEL, Ken and Donna
THIEL and Sue
and Andy MARKSON.
Sadly missed by many nieces, nephews, great-nieces
and great-nephews. Predeceased by sons John and Evan (1989),
daughter Charlotte in infancy, sister-in-law Beth
SIMMONS, brother-in-law
Michael WALKER and Richard's parents Neil and Helen
WALKER.
Visitation
in the J.M. McBeath Funeral Home, 49 Goshen Street North, Zurich
on Sunday from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. The Funeral Service will be conducted
in Saint Peter's Lutheran Church, Zurich on Monday, February 25,
2008 at 11 a.m. Pastor Ann
KRUEGER officiating. Interment Saint Peter's
Lutheran Cemetery. Memorial contributions may be made to The
Alzheimer Society, Saint Peter's Lutheran Church or a charity of
ones choice. Condolences forwarded through jmmcbeathfuneralhome.com
A tree will be planted as a living memorial to Mary
WALKER-
THIEL
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SIMMONS,
Gordon
P.
At the Woodstock General Hospital on Saturday, February 23, 2008.
Gordon P. SIMMONS of Woodstock in his 89th year. Beloved husband
of Georgina "Ina" E. (née
COLLINS)
SIMMONS for nearly 65 years.
Dear father of Archdeacon Gordon
SIMMONS of Sarnia, Patrick
SIMMONS
and his wife
Kathryn of Ingersoll, Michael
SIMMONS and his wife
Heather, Brian
SIMMONS and his wife
Beverly all of Woodstock
and father-in-law of Hubert
THIEL of Zurich. Loved grandfather
of thirteen grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren. Predeceased
by his daughter Mary
WALKER-
THIEL (2008,) daughter-in-law Beth
SIMMONS (1994,) son-in-law Richard
WALKER (1989,) grandchildren
John, Charlotte, and Evan, brothers Cecil and Douglas
SIMMONS
and sisters Florence
OLMSTEAD and Edith
WEIR.
Gordon was a Past
Grand Noble of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, past member
of the Ancient Mystic Order of Samaritans, Past President of
the Canadian Autoworkers Union Local 636 Retirees, served overseas
during World War 2 and a longtime member of the Royal Canadian
Legion Br. #55, Woodstock. Friends may call at the Longworth
Funeral Home, 845 Devonshire Avenue, Woodstock 519-539-0004 on
Wednesday February 27, 2008 from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. A funeral service
to celebrate Gordon's Life will be held at the Christ Church
Anglican Oxford Centre on Thursday at 1: 30 p.m. with Rev. Bruce
GENGE officiating. Interment later in the Anglican Cemetery.
Contribution to the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario, Alzheimer
Society, Canadian Cancer Society or the Christ Church Anglican
Oxford Centre would be appreciated. Online condolences at www.longworthfuneralhome.com
An Odd Fellow service under the auspice of the Independent Order
of Odd Fellow #269 will be held at the funeral home on Wednesday
evening at 6: 15 p.m. A legion service under the auspices of Royal
Canadian Legion Br. #55, Woodstock will be held at the funeral
home on Wednesday evening at 6: 30 p.m.
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THIEL o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2008-03-12 published
KOYLE,
Elizabeth
(THIEL)
At Extendicare Nursing Home, London, on Sunday March 9, 2008.
Elizabeth
(THIEL)
KOYLE of London in her 90th year. Beloved wife
of the late Ellison F.
KOYLE (1975.) Loving mother of Judy (Norm,)
Doug (Betty), Pat (late Mike) and David (Arlene). Proud grandmother
of Kristina, Jim, Steve, Dan, Kellie, Terry, Chris and Kevin.
Also loved by her great-grandchildren J.D., Darren, Beth, Samantha,
Broden, Nichole, Brenden, Kaitlyn, Aiden, Aurora and Kyle. Will
be missed by daughter-in-law Diana. Friends will be received
by the family from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. Friday, at the A. Millard
George Funeral Home, 60 Ridout Street South, London where the
funeral service will be conducted in the chapel on Saturday March 15th,
2008 at 1: 00 p.m. Interment in Woodland Cemetery, London. Donations
may be made to the London Regional Cancer Program, 747 Baseline
Road East, London, Ontario N6C 2R6. Online condolences accepted
at www.amgfh.com
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THIEL o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2008-03-12 published
VINCENT,
Ira "
Jake"
Peacefully, at South Huron Hospital, Exeter, Monday, March 10,
2008, one day after celebrating his 90th birthday, Ira "Jake"
VINCENT of Grand Bend. Loved "Unc" of Joe and Kathy
DUMIGAN,
Marg MILLER and Dan
STANLAKE,
Gayle and Scott
MacGREGOR, Karen
and Randy THIEL,
Eldon and Fran
BULLOCK, Donna and Russ
THOMPSON/THOMSON/TOMPSON/TOMSON,
John and Sharon
BULLOCK,
Betty
GILL, Shirley and Gord
GOTELAER,
Georgina and Ron
DESJARDINE,
Fredricka and Ed
HUNTER, Gordon
and Louise
TEETZEL.
Remembered by his many great-nieces, nephews
and their families. Predeceased by his parents Norman and Mabel
(DUNCAN)
VINCENT, sisters Dorothy
BULLOCK, Viola
TEETZEL, Minerva
PRANCE and Evelyn
DUMIGAN.
Resting at the T. Harry Hoffman and
Sons Funeral Home, Dashwood, with visitation Thursday 2 to 4 p.m.
and 7 to 9 p.m. The Funeral Service will be held at the Church
of God, Grand Bend, Friday, March 14, 2008 at 11 a.m. The Rev. Art
KRUEGER officiating. Interment Grand Bend Cemetery. If desired,
memorial donations to the Church of God, Blue Water Rest Home
or charity of choice would be appreciated. Condolences at www.hoffmanfuneralhome.com
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THIEL o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2008-03-29 published
WALKER-
THIEL,
Mary
The family of the late Mary
WALKER-
THIEL would like to express
a sincere thank-you to all who have helped us during our time
of tragedy. Thank-you to all who were at the scene of the accident,
to the ambulance attendants, to the Exeter Firefighters and to
the Ontario Provincial Police, especially Pat
ARMSTRONG.
Thank-you
to the staff at South Huron Hospital for your caring and empathetic
kindness, especially to Doctor
FARRELL,
Nancy
HODGERT, Marg
WILLIAMSON,
and Sherri
LEIS.
Thank-you to the Victim Service Response Teams
in Huron and Oxford Counties for all of your support. Thank-you
to the staff at London Health Sciences Centre Trauma Unit for
your compassionate care, especially Karen
PIERRE,
Lisa
HARKNESS,
Deb, Ashley and Macy. Thank-you to all who sent flowers, food,
cards, or made donations. The support from the community has
been incredible. Thank-you to everyone who assisted with the
beautiful service, especially Mark
HEIMRICH and Bob
KREUGER for
the sound system and to the First Zurich Scouts and Guiders for
the Honor Guard. Thank-you to Joyce
McBETH and staff, the Zurich
Arena staff, and to the Evangelical Lutheran Women ladies group
for the luncheon. Also a special thank-you to Hay Mutual Insurance
Company and to our family's employers. Thank-you most of all
to Pastor Ann
KREUGER for your dedication and words of compassion,
we would not be getting through this without you. Thank-you to
those we may have forgotten to name. May the Lord bless you all.
Hub and the Simmons-
WALKER-
THIEL families.
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BLAKE,
Gladys
Eileen
A resident of Wallaceburg, passed away peacefully on Thursday,
June 26, 2008 in her 91st year. Gladys is the daughter of the
late Clayton and Charlotte
(DRUER)
BROWN and John
EVANS.
Beloved
wife of the late Michael C.
BLAKE
(January 2000.) Loving mother
and mother-in-law of Michael
BLAKE of McGregor, Gary and Donna
of Bayfield, Fred and Myrna
BLAKE of Wallaceburg and Judy
BLAKE
and William
THIELENS of Wallaceburg. Dear grandmother of Michael
BLAKE
Jr. and Laurie
CAMPBELL, Mary and Tony
PICCININ, Christopher
and Siobhan
BLAKE, Kari Lynn
BLAKE and Ron
KIRKORIAN, Mark
BLAKE
and Nancy, Cindy and Paul
CONTE,
Ryan and Denise
BLAKE and Dawn
and Dan TOMS and 12 great-grandchildren. Grandmother-in-law of
Bonny BUTLER.
Sister-in-law of Bella
BROWN and brother of the
late Fred BROWN.
Friends may call at the Haycock-Cavanagh Funeral
Home, 409 Nelson Street in Wallaceburg from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m.
on Friday. Parish Prayers will be at 7 p.m. The Funeral Mass
of the Resurrection will be celebrated by Fr. Phillip
JOSEPH
at Our Lady Help of Christians Church on Saturday, June 28 at
11 a.m. The interment will follow at Riverview Cemetery. If desired,
remembrances to the Magnetic Resonance Imager Campaign or the
Canadian National Institute for the Blind may be left at the
funeral home. 519.627.3231. E-mail condolences may be sent to
gblake@cavanaghfuneralhome.ca
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THIERLING,
Ursula
Margarete
Klara
Ursula THIERLING of Meaford passed away at Central Place Retirement
Community in Owen Sound on Saturday February 9, 2008 at the age
of 86. Predeceased by her beloved husband Albert Gerhard
THIERLING
of Meaford on February 23, 2006 and by their daughter Bärbel
Renate
Hanna in infancy. Dear sister of Inge
HANKEL of Germany
and sister-in-law of Lin of Myrtle Beach, and Renate and Ruth,
both of Germany. Fondly remembered by several nieces and nephews
and their families. Cremation has taken place and a memorial
service, officiated by Reverend Judith
OLIVER, will be conducted
at the Ferguson Funeral Home, 48 Boucher St. E., in Meaford on
Friday, February 29, 2008 at 1 p.m. Interment of Ursula's cremated
remains will be conducted at Lakeview Cemetery in Meaford at
a later date in the spring. As your expression of sympathy, donations
to the Meaford Hospital Foundation or a charity of choice would
be appreciated.
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THIERS o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2008-03-19 published
CAMPBELL,
Jim
Anarchist, prison activist, hippie, partner, friend, son, brother,
uncle. Born November 20, 1949, in Shelburne, Ontario Died September 17,
2007, in Maynooth, Ontario, of a heart attack, aged 57.
By Richard
SWIFT and Julie
THIERS,
Page L6
Jim was born the fourth of six children on a family farm near
Orangeville, Ontario He always loved hard work - he used to wake
up early to feed the animals before heading off to a one-room
schoolhouse.
Jim was the first in his family to attend university, studying
math at the University of Waterloo. Although a bright student,
he was drawn to the idealism of the Sixties. He became a hippie,
organizing food co-ops, student housing co-ops and countless
other projects. In 1978, 11 students bought a 250-acre farm in
eastern Ontario and started one of several hippie communes in
the Bancroft area, Dragonfly farm, which still operates.
Jim eventually moved to Toronto. His primary passion was prison
work. He wrote regularly to inmates and developed magazines written
by prisoners seeking a voice from inside institutions in Canada
and the United States.
Jim was also involved in the anarchist movement, always busy
doing mailings, organizing events and writing. His tiny, one-bedroom
apartment in a downtown Toronto housing co-op was the site of
many of his vegetarian meals and meetings of left-wing activists.
Jim returned to regular contact with his family a decade ago.
He often teased (or was teased by) his four sisters, and loved
to visit his 90-year-old mother Ivadell, whose sharp wit and
memory no offspring can rival.
Jim was proud that his mother led five generations of family,
and always showed the photos of all five generations to visiting
Friends.
Although a hippie and an anarchist, Jim moved seamlessly between
divergent worlds. Occasionally he could be spotted in his City
of Toronto uniform, surprising his political Friends.
He worked for 25 years as a garbage collector, bridge maintenance
worker, water meter reader and finally supervisor. His Friends
and colleagues speak of his humour, clumsiness, ability to see
problems from many perspectives, and fairness to workers.
After 25 years of activism, Jim decided to settle down. He found
the love of his life, Julie, and they planned for retirement
in their log house on 40 acres of bush near Algonquin Park. Jim
loved his vegetable garden, chopping firewood, hiking, snowshoeing
and cutting new walking trails.
One day, while cycling with Julie, he suddenly fell off his bicycle.
His heart could not be revived. Perhaps it had done enough work
already.
Jim will be remembered for his keen intelligence, big laugh and
gummy smile, his long, lanky body, ability to find humour in
any situation, kindness to anyone on the outside and dedication
to social justice.
Richard SWIFT is Jim's friend and neighbour and Julie
THIERS
is Jim's partner.
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THISTLE o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2008-04-19 published
PARKER,
Ann (née
ROGERS)
Passed away at the Hastings Manor Nursing Home, Belleville, on
Friday
April 18th, 2008. Ann
PARKER of Belleville, formerly of
Woodstock, at the age of 83. Daughter of the late Frank and Beatrix
ROGERS.
Beloved wife of the late Maurice
PARKER. Loving mother
of Anne THISTLE
(Bruce
Alexander) of Belleville, Phyrne
PARKER
of Toronto and Dave
PARKER
(Ann) of Woodstock. Dear grandmother
of Allen, Frank (Donna), Paul, David (Jenn), Joanna (Garry) and
Bryan and great-grandmother of 8. A Memorial Service will be
held at the John R. Bush Funeral Home, 80 Highland Ave, Belleville
(613-968-5588) on Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008 at 12 p.m. Visitation
will be from 11-12 p.m. Cremation. Donations to the Alzheimer
Society would be appreciated by the family. Online condolences
www.quintefuneralcentres.com
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