VON o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-03-28 published
Manfred Friedrich
WIRTH
(November 17, 1913 - March 21, 2003)
Manfred died suddenly but peacefully exactly 1 year after his
beloved Lisl. He leaves behind sadly grieving son Alfred, daughter
Elizabeth (Lou
FAUTEUX,) grandchildren Elizabeth and Susan
WIRTH
(Ali POURAZIM,) and Eric
BRAND
(Anita) as well as sister Beate
FLUECK-
WIRTH, sister-in-law Marianne
MAYO and many devoted Friends
& relatives around the world. Manfred was born in Vienna, Austria
to Hofrat Dr. Alfred Ludwig
WIRTH and Beate Karola, née
PETRINI
VON
MONTEFERRI, and graduated with a PhD in law prior to his
23rd birthday. He was a director of the Austrian Steel Company
(VOEST) before emigrating to Canada post-war, and started his
Canadian working life at Algoma Steel Corporation in Sault Ste
Marie, Ontario. In 1958 he founded Wirth Limited (now Wirth Steel),
building the company into a major international trader. Since
1993 and until his death, he was President and Chief Executive
Officer of MF Wirth Rail Corp. Manfred loved the arts, especially
opera and the visual arts. He was also a history buff, and a
generous donor to McGill University, the University of Alberta
and Wilfred Laurier University as well as Arts Knowlton and other
Canadian institutions. He was a member of various clubs and societies,
a recipient of the Order of Austria, and a keen skier, swimmer
and golfer. A private farewell with immediate family has taken
place; a memorial service to celebrate his long and eventful
life will be held in Montreal at St.Andrew's-Dominion-Douglas
Church, 687 Roslyn Ave. Westmount, Quebec on Monday May 26, 2003
at 2: 00 P.M. Anyone desiring to make a donation in Manfred's
memory may wish to consider McGill University: Designation Faculty
of Music, 3605 de la Montagne, Montreal H3G 2M1, the Foundation
of the University Women's Club Montreal Inc, 3529 Atwater Avenue,
Montreal H3H 1Y2, or a charity of your choice. Condolences may
be sent to 24 Somerville Avenue, Montreal, Quebec H3Z 1J2
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VON o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-08-01 published
STOPPS,
Evelyn
(SCROGGIE)
After a short illness, died at St. Joseph's Health Centre on
July 30th, aged 80. Evelyn was born in Chatham, Ontario to George
E. SCROGGIE and the former Clarice Louis
VON
GUNTEN. Later Evelyn
won several scholarships at Westdale Collegiate Institute in
Hamilton enabling her to attend the University of Toronto, Victoria
College, for her B.A. degree after which she moved to the University
of Saskatchewan where she obtained an M.A in Physiology. Returning
to Ontario she obtained an M.D. in 1952 from the University of
Toronto, being one of only nine women in a class of 176.
In 1954 she married another physician, Jim
STOPPS.
The next few
years were devoted to raising a family of three girls. Winnie
is now an architect living in Boston. Jennie is an interior designer
in Toronto and Susan is a jeweller and silversmith also living
in Toronto. Evelyn developed a family practice in Bloor West
Village in Toronto while also working at Women's College Hospital
and The University of Toronto Health Centre. Evelyn died a much-loved
doctor, wife, mother and grandma. Her great joys were her patients,
her family (now including four grandchildren Max, Katy, Hannah
and Nicholas) and the world of nature. Funeral arrangements are
private and include a family gathering of remembrance at the
cottage.
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VON o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-11-25 published
In praise of humble, decent princess
By Anthony
REINHART,
Tuesday,
November 25, 2003 - Page A12
She took many a meal at Swiss Chalet, where she had her own booth
and the wait staff called her Candy Lady. Louise
LIEVEN, you
see, always had a handful of Werther's Originals for the people
she loved, and in her world, that meant just about everyone.
Others called her Mom, since Mrs.
LIEVEN was always ready with
a wise word or a $20 bill for a neighbour in need.
Few ever called her by her official title -- Her Serene Highness
Princess
Louise
Marie -- but then, neither did she. Mrs.
LIEVEN,
who died a week ago at 90, knew more than most about hardship
and humility, and to her mind, deeds carried more weight than
words.
Her impact on those close to her was evident yesterday, when
about 100 people crammed a Toronto funeral chapel to pay tribute
to the Latvian-born woman who came by her title through marriage
to her "Prince Johnny" -- Charles Jean Christophe
LIEVEN -- in
Toronto in the late 1970s.
"She embraced people without regard for their racial or ethnic
background," Mrs.
LIEVEN's niece, Laila
EBERHARDT, told the gathered
crowd, many of them neighbours from the East York high-rise where
she died last week.
Mrs. LIEVEN's appreciation for decency was hard won.
Born in 1913 to a wealthy family, the young Louise
VON
DZIENGEL
enjoyed a privileged upbringing in Riga, the Baltic nation's
capital, and counted young Prince John
LIEVEN among many Friends.
She married another man, however, and as the winds of war blew
across Europe, gave birth to a daughter in March, 1940.
Everything changed three months later, when Stalin's Red Army
rolled into Latvia, made it a Soviet republic, and began deporting
the upper classes to Russia -- people like the
VON
DZIENGELs
and the LIEVENs, who shared a Germanic background and Christian
faith.
Louise's father sought refuge in Germany, while her mother and
aunt stayed behind to mind the family assets. Her father soon
died of a heart attack, while her mother and aunt were shipped
to Siberia.
Fearing for the life of her child, she left her husband and fled
with the baby to Sweden -- only to lose her little girl to pneumonia
months later.
"Louise was alone, in a foreign land, without any means of supporting
herself," Ms.
EBERHARDT told the congregation yesterday. "But
Louise was a survivor."
As the war raged, she continued to drift farther from her Eastern
European home, to Denmark, then to Spain, Argentina and Mexico
in the years that followed. She was working alone as a seamstress
in Mexico City when her mother, released after 15 years in a
Siberian prison camp, joined her.
When her mother died, Louise "was looking to reconnect and reach
out to people dear to her," and that's when she learned, from
a friend in Germany, that John
LIEVEN was living in Toronto.
She contacted him and learned he, too, had his first marriage
blown in separate directions by the Second World War. The prince
visited Mexico and the rest was history: the pair, well into
their 60s by then, fell madly in love. They settled in Toronto,
where John was a salesman for a food distributor.
Mrs. LIEVEN lost her prince in December, 1996, after a series
of strokes. But she did not lose her love of people.
That much was apparent at yesterday's funeral, where 10 people
shared their thoughts of Mrs.
LIEVEN.
One neighbour spoke of the coffee parties she organized for the
building's seniors last winter, and how she'd always kiss him
on both cheeks, one for him, the other for his wife. Another
recalled how she bought Christmas gifts for three young boys
whose father had died. A woman, widowed around the same time
as Mrs. LIEVEN, talked about how they'd meet each afternoon for
mutual support: "We'd have a little drink and we'd settle all
the world's problems," she said.
And Sandy SRIPATHY, her neighbour across the hall, talked through
tears about the lady she called Mom.
A few weeks ago, Mrs.
LIEVEN confided that she might not make
it to Christmas, as she was feeling ill.
She told Mrs.
SRIPATHY to watch her door, and to check on her
if the newspaper was still hanging from the knob by late morning.
Last
Tuesday,
Mrs.
SRIPATHY watched the princess fetch her paper
as usual, but later that day, she learned that her neighbour
had died.
After a brief reception upstairs, the guests filed from the funeral
home, but not before making one last stop: at a crystal candy
bowl, perched by the door.
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VON o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-12-06 published
Died
This
Day -- Nils
VON
SCHOULTZ, 1838
Saturday, December 6, 2003 - Page F10
Revolutionary and soldier born in Finland; led rebel forces in
Battle of Windmill near Prescott, Ontario, one month previously
hanged at Fort Henry with eight others; gallant to the last,
his will provided 400 pounds for the widows and orphans of Canadian
militiamen killed in the fighting.
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