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CLARK,
Betty
A. (née
ROSS) R.N.
A resident of Dresden, passed away with dignity at the C.K.H.A.
Public General Campus, on Saturday, April 19, 2008 at the age
of 61. Born in Chatham, loving daughter of Winnifred
ROSS of
Wabash and the late Howard
ROSS (1999.) Beloved wife of the late
Wayne CLARK (1996.) Loving mother of Amanda
CLARK of R.R.#3 Dresden
and the late Nathan
CLARK (1982.) Sadly missed by her faithful
companion Blu. Dear sister of Judy and Glenn
JOHNSTON of Toronto,
Allan and Lynne
ROSS of Wabash. Dear and special friend of Bob
LANGSTAFF of Dresden. Dear sister-in-law of Dale
CLARK
(Penny)
and Beryl BURGESS.
Loving aunt of David (Nancy,) Steven (Rachel,)
Susan ROSS, Lindsay, Emily, and Alex
JOHNSTON, Lynne
BURGESS
(Steven RODEN), Cindy (Gary
HOTTOT), Dennis, (Lynn
ULCH), Stephen
(Lynn) and Jennifer
CLARK.
Family and Friends will be received
at Badder Funeral Home and Reception Centre, 679 North Street, Dresden
on Monday, April 21, 2008 from 2-4 p.m. and 7-9 p.m. The funeral
service will be held in the chapel of the funeral home on Tuesday,
April 22, 2008 at 11: 00 a.m. with Rev. Annalee
KERR of the Wabash
United Church officiating. Cremation with Interment in Dresden
Cemetery. Donations may be made at the funeral home by cheque
to Childcan. Online condolences and donations may be left at
our website www.badderfuneralhome.com "A tree will be planted
in memory of Betty
CLARK in the Badder and Robinson Memorial Forest,
Mosa Twp".
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ULCH o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2008-05-21 published
BELL,
Earl
Laverne
Peacefully at home on May 20th, 2008, Mr. Earl Laverne
BELL of
London after a courageous battle with cancer. Beloved husband
of Shani, father of Susan (David), step-father of Wesley (Marsha),
Ashley and Shelby. Loving grandfather to 6 grandchildren. Predeceased
by parents Glenn and Ruby
BELL.
Brother of Robert (Marlene, 2006,)
Gerald (1965,) Marion (Ron,) Mervyn (Maria) and Mildred
ULCH.
Survived by many nieces and nephews. Earl was owner of the St.
Regis Tavern for 27 years. He will be missed by all who knew
him. Visitation will be held at Trinity United Church (76 Doulton
Street, London, on Hale St. one block south of Dundas St.) on Friday,
May 23, 2008 from 1 p.m. until the time of service at 3 p.m.
In memory of Earl, contributions to the Community Care Access
Centre or the Victorian Order of Nurses would be greatly appreciated.
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ULETT o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2008-06-07 published
LUXFORD-
MATTE,
Linda (née
LUXFORD)
Peacefully surrounded by her family at University Hospital on
Friday, June 6, 2008 in her 50th year. Beloved wife of the late
John MATTE. Dear mother of Andrea
MATTE and her husband Marlon
RICHARDS, and son Stephen
MATTE.
Loving grandmother of Zaria
ULETT.
Much loved daughter of Frank and Betty
LUXFORD. Dear sister
of Cheryl LUXFORD and James
LUXFORD.
Linda will be fondly remembered
by her extended family and many Friends. A memorial service will
be conducted on Tuesday, June 10 at 2: 00 p.m. in the Chapel of
Mount Hope, 21 Grosvenor Street at Richmond. Cremation with interment
at a later date. Memorial contributions to the Saint_Joseph's Health
Care Foundation would be gratefully acknowledged. (www.HarrisFuneralHome.ca)
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ULMER o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2008-05-20 published
ULMER,
Josef
Formerly of Neustadt. At Kensington Village Nursing Home, London
on Monday, May 19, 2008 in his 89th year. Husband of the late
Elizabeth
(TEMPER)
ULMER and father of Helga
CAIRNS and her husband
Wayne of Point Clark, Erwin
ULMER and his wife
June of Brighton,
Peter ULMER and his wife
Cheryl of London, Joe
ULMER
Jr. of Ajax,
Anne BURT and her husband Brian of London and Barbara
BALL and
her husband David of South Carolina. Brother of John
ULMER of
Durham. Remembered by 11 grandchildren and 2 great-grandchildren
and 1 great-great-grandchild. Predeceased by his sister Magdelena
SITTER and his sister-in-law Inge
ULMER.
Friends may call at
Saint Paul's Lutheran Church, Neustadt on Wednesday, May 21 for
visitation from 12: 00 noon until the time of funeral service
at 2: 00 p.m. Interment in Saint Paul's Lutheran Cemetery, Neustadt.
Memorial donations to Hanover and District Hospital or Heart
and Stroke Foundation would be appreciated and may be made through
the Garrett Funeral Chapel, Neustadt.
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ULMER o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2008-01-30 published
ULMER,
Konrad▼ - Estate of
Notice To Creditors And Others
All▼ claims against the Estate of Konrad
ULMER, carrying on business
in the Province of Ontario, who died on or about September 9,
2006, are required to be filed with the undersigned on or before
the 14th day of March, 2008, after which date the estate will
be distributed having regard only to claims then received.
Dated this 30th day of January, 2008
Aird and Berlis LLP, Barristers and Solicitors, 181 Bay Street,
Suite 1800, Box 754, Toronto, Ontario M5J 2T9
Lorna SCHOENROTH,
Solicitor▼ for the Estate Trustee
Page B11
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ULMER o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2008-02-06 published
ULMER,
Konrad▲▼ - Estate of
Notice To Creditors And Others
All▲▼ claims against the Estate of Konrad
ULMER, carrying on business
in the Province of Ontario, who died on or about September 9,
2006, are required to be filed with the undersigned on or before
the 14th day of March, 2008, after which date the estate will
be distributed having regard only to claims then received.
Dated this 30th day of January, 2008
Aird and Berlis LLP, Barristers and Solicitors, 181 Bay Street,
Suite 1800, Box 754, Toronto, Ontario M5J 2T9
Lorna SCHOENROTH,
Solicitor▲▼ for the Estate Trustee
Page B10
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ULMER,
Konrad▲ - Estate of
Notice To Creditors And Others
All▲ claims against the Estate of Konrad
ULMER, carrying on business
in the Province of Ontario, who died on or about September 9,
2006, are required to be filed with the undersigned on or before
the 14th day of March, 2008, after which date the estate will
be distributed having regard only to claims then received.
Dated this 30th day of January, 2008
Aird and Berlis LLP, Barristers and Solicitors, 181 Bay Street,
Suite 1800, Box 754, Toronto, Ontario M5J 2T9
Lorna SCHOENROTH,
Solicitor▲ for the Estate Trustee
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ULRICH o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2008-03-21 published
FISHER,
William
Frederick "
Bill"
Founder And Chairman Emeritus Of Fishercast Global Corporation
(Formerly Fisher Gauge Ltd.)
On Wednesday, March 19, 2008, in his 91st year. Beloved husband
of Shirley
(ORDE.)
Loving father of Paul, Douglas and his wife
Michele, Susanne
MATHERS and her friend Robert
CALVER and Jane
ULRICH and her husband Todd. Loved grandfather of Eric, Mandy,
Andrew and Andrea Fisher, Jordan and Mary
FISHER and Blake and
Devon ULRICH. Dear brother of Eileen
REED and her husband Bram
of Pickering. Brother-inlaw of Jean
FISHER and Dorothy
FISHER.
Predeceased by sister Jessie
FISHER and brothers Chester and
Frank. Uncle of many nieces and nephews. Bill will be lovingly
remembered by his family, Friends and business associates inter
nationally. Friends will be received at the Comstock Funeral
Home and Cremation Centre, 356 Rubidge Street, Peterborough on
Monday, March 24th, 2008 from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. A funeral service
will be held at Murray Street, Baptist Church, Peterborough on Tuesday,
March 25th at 1: 30 p.m., Ray
HENDRIKS officiating. Interment
Little Lake Cemetery, Peterborough. In memory of Bill, donations
to United Way of Peterborough, The James Fund or Rhema Christian
School would be appreciated by the family.
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Tool maker became an inventor to found a firm that led the world
After apprenticing at General Electric in Peterborough, Ontario,
he went out on his own and developed a process that was soon
in demand. At its peak, his company had five plants in the U.S.,
Canada, and Britain
By Allison
LAWLOR,
Special to The Globe and Mail, Page S9
Halifax -- An industrial innovator whose mind never seemed to
sleep, William (Bill)
FISHER created machines that have been
used to make everything from monopoly pieces and bicycle gears,
to car parts and the blades for jet engines.
A tool maker by trade, Mr.
FISHER founded Peterborough, Ontario-based
FisherCast Global, previously known as Fisher Gauge, in 1942.
Over the next few decades he turned it into an international
player specializing in precision die casting, which involves
forcing melted metal at high speed into exactly-designed moulds.
At its peak, the company had more than 700 employees and five
plants in Canada, Britain and the United States.
"He was so passionate about what he did," said his daughter Jane
ULRICH.
Mr. FISHER wasn't just passionate about his job. He was a perfectionist,
who often got his best ideas in the middle of the night. He never
went far from his work. Initially, he lived across the street
from the Fisher Gauge plant, and later in a house behind the
plant. The installation was just 30 metres from his backdoor,
so it wasn't a surprise for employees working the night shift
to see him hunched over the drafting table in his office at 3 a.m.
"He would get these brain waves at ungodly hours," Ms. Ulrich
said. "His mind was always going."
One of the secrets to his success was an absence of stress. "He
didn't worry because he wasn't in it for the money," she said.
"He just never dreamed it [the company] would get to the size
it did. It was so much bigger than he thought it would become."
He often said that if things didn't work out, he could always
get a job again at Canadian General Electric Company (now GE
Canada), where he started his career.
Born in England' industrial Midlands, Mr.
FISHER fell in love
with tools as a child and dreamed of following in his father's
footsteps. His father, Fred, was a tool maker first in Britain
and later in Canada. In 1923, the family emigrated to Canada
and settled in Peterborough, where the elder Mr.
FISHER got a
job at Westclox, the makers of the Big Ben and Baby Ben alarm
clocks.
Bill FISHER's dream came true. He left high school at 15 and
apprenticed at General Electric. Earning 15 cents an hour, he
learned what he called "the industrial facts of life." Within
10 years he was making gauges and other components for GE equipment
destined for the front lines in the Second World War.
Mr. FISHER's first workshop was in an old chicken coop located
behind his family home. He then moved his shop into the basement,
just metres from his mother's laundry area.
After founding Fisher Gauge, he initially designed and manufactured
tools and gauges for other companies in town. Early on, Canadian
General Electric asked him to tackle the problem of attaching
a disk to a thin shaft. It was just the kind of challenge he
liked. His answer was to develop a hot-chamber, die-casting system
that joined the two components with injected molten metal to
precise tolerances. In the end, the assembly formed the core
of an electric watt-hour meter.
By the mid-1950s, the North American meter industry had adopted
the process. During the next 20 years, Mr.
FISHER travelled the
world, selling machines to leading meter companies. He continued
to work on developing the process for a wide range of applications.
In the late 1950s, both the telephone and automotive industries
were looking for metal parts cast in zinc alloy, which led the
company to adapt its hot-chamber, die-casting system and produce
proprietary zinc alloy.
As Mr. FISHER's business grew, he asked his brothers Frank and
Chester, who also apprenticed as tool makers at GE, to join him.
(Interestingly, their father also signed on as a tool maker after
retiring from Westclox.)
In 1954, Chester took over the management of Fisher Gauge, while
Bill focused on what he loved best: finding solutions to problems.
"He was more of an innovator and an inventor," said Greg
WALLING,
current president of FisherCast Global. "He wasn't a paper pusher."
Mr. FISHER was the first to admit that selling was not his strong
point.
"I was the world's worst salesman. I'd just go in and talk technically,"
he once said. Even so, the approach often worked. "If you can
solve the problem for them, they don't care whether you're a
salesman or not."
Fisher Gauge saw huge growth with the sale of zinc castings.
In 1964, it opened a casting factory in Watertown, New York and
the company went on to ship billions of castings for use in everything
from car doors and games to window fixtures and telephone cables.
In parallel with the growth of the casting business, Mr.
FISHER
ventured into the aviation industry. In 1960, General Electric
engineers in Massachusetts invited him to help with the machining
of jet-engine blades. He came up with a solution in which the
blade is encapsulated in zinc, and the capsule allows it to be
gripped without damage for machining. The capsule is broken off
when machining is complete. Later, when Rolls Royce engineers
were struggling to make blades for the first Concorde passenger
jet, Mr. FISHER was called to Scotland.
A precise man, Mr.
FISHER loved his daily routines. He walked
home every day for lunch and would follow his meal with a 30-minute
nap, always making sure he did not sleep for a minute more or
less.
A modest, unassuming man, Mr.
FISHER's only real luxury was his
12-metre cabin cruiser which he loved to tour Georgian Bay in
every summer with his wife Shirley. The one trip he never got
to do was to take his boat to Florida. Seldom absent for more
than a two weeks, he just couldn't pull himself away from his
shop for the three weeks required to cruise south on the Intracoastal
Waterway.
The last of the
FISHER brothers, he retired in 1998. (Chester
had died of cancer in 1992, and Frank died from a bee sting at
36.) He himself suffered a series of strokes and then a heart
attack. For all that, he moved no further away than the house
over the back fence. From there, he would watch FisherCast employees
take their coffee breaks. Knowing they had 11-minute breaks,
he would time them. If he saw some taking 13 or 14 minutes he
would ask that his daughter Jane, who sits on the company's board
of directors, talk to their managers about the problem. The company
remains family-owned, but professionally managed.
Mr. FISHER received many awards during his career, and in 1986
he received an honorary law degree from Trent University.
William Fredrick
FISHER was born on December 18, 1917, in Birmingham,
England, and died on March 19, 2008, in Peterborough, Ontario
He was 90, and suffered from congestive heart failure. He leaves
his wife, Shirley, and his children Paul, Douglas, Susanne and
Jane. He also leaves his sister, Eileen, eight grandchildren
and several nieces and nephews.
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