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McCUTCHEON
-In memory of a dear mother, Ida Zella, who passed away August 26, 2001.
A little tribute small and tender
Just to say we still remember.
-Marilyn and Ross
MacFADDEN
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Clifton WARD
By Sheryl SPENCER
Monday,
May 5, 2003 - Page A18
Veteran, printer, father, stepfather, grandfather. Born March
19, 1913, in Surrey, England. Died December 3, 2002 in Barrie,
Ontario of natural causes, aged 89.
My Grandpa's early years were marked by the First World War.
His earliest memory was of being very afraid while travelling
with his mother by train to London; German zeppelins were trying
to bomb the train. My grandpa's father, Reuben
WARD, served in
that war.
After that war, Reuben
WARD took a position "in service" as a
chauffeur. Grandpa witnessed his father at the estate owner's
beck-and-call day and night, and at some point he realized that
should his father ever leave his job, their family would be out
of house and home. As a result, that my grandfather became a
lifelong socialist.
At the age of 14, my grandfather was apprenticed to the estate
manager. It was he who got Grandpa a job as a typist at the West
Surrey Farmers' Association in Guildford. Grandpa left the West
Surrey Farmers' Association as assistant manager in 1951.
As a young adult my Grandpa read everything he could get his
hands on; he played badminton and tennis; he bought himself a
motorcycle and became a trials rider; and he acquired an Austin
Ulster Healey sports car. Most importantly, my Grandpa learned
to dance. He said that there were not many things that he could
do really, really well, but dancing was one of them.
It was through playing badminton that Grandpa met Marion
WALTHER.
She was from a higher "class, " but they danced well together.
It was expected that they would marry, so they did.
When the Second World War broke out, my grandpa enlisted with
the Royal Air Force. He spent most of the war in North Africa
and felt that his greatest contribution was having taken part
in the Battle of El Alamein. During the war, Grandpa was often
under fire; his only injury, however, was a bone broken at the
top of his little finger. He felt that he was not spared death
for any special purpose; he was just lucky.
After the war, Grandpa and Marion settled into domestic life.
They bought a house and adopted two children, Leila and Paul.
In 1951, however, they decided to emigrate to Canada. Grandpa
found work in Barrie, Ontario, first at the Simcoe District Co-operative
and then in the commercial printing department of the Barrie
Examiner.
Grandpa and Marion divorced in 1962 and Grandpa moved to Toronto
and began a job with Web Offset, another printing company. He
took an apartment and met a woman who lived in the same building:
my grandmother, Sylvia
McFADDEN.
When my grandpa married my grandmother in 1965 he took on a huge,
ready-made family: my grandmother's seven children and what would
become (by my estimate) 27 grandchildren, 39 great-grandchildren
and eight great-great grandchildren.
Grandpa said that he found in my grandmother an anchor -- and
that commitment extended to all of us. My grandparents' home
was the central clearing depot of all family information. They
sent thousands of cards over the years, lent money, and offered
a spare room and a warm welcome to anyone who needed it. It was
remarkable enough when my grandmother was alive that no birthday
was ever forgotten; it was even more remarkable after her death
in 1992 that the cards kept coming.
My grandpa never intended to live to be 89. He missed my grandmother,
his sister, Doff, and his brother, Leslie, who all predeceased
him. He thought he was dying for many years before his courtship
with death was finally consummated. The love and support he and
my grandmother gave, these lie now within us, our gift to bestow
on the generations to come.
Sheryl is Clifton's granddaughter.
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Died
This
Day -- Norman (Red)
RYAN, 1936
Saturday, May 24, 2003 - Page F10
Career criminal born in Toronto in July, 1895; in First World
War, joined Canadian Army; deserted to commit numerous robberies
in Ontario, Quebec and the United States; captured and made spectacular
escape from Kingston Penitentiary; in 1923, recaptured in United
States and deported; sentenced to life imprisonment in Kingston
became model prisoner, the "darling" of prison reformer Agnes
McPHAIL and premier R.B.
BENNETT; in July, 1935, won parole
for 10 months, toured as spokesman for prison reform while secretly
re-establishing underworld contacts; killed in shootout with
police while robbing Sarnia, Ontario, liquor store of $394.
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Marion CHAMBERS
By Rosemary, Colin and Maralee
CHAMBERS,
Wednesday,
November
19, 2003 - Page A22
Mother, grandmother, wife and partner, teacher, friend, community
activist. Born July 23, 1928, in Massey, Ontario Died June 22
in Guelph, Ontario, aged 74.
It seemed fitting that Marion
CHAMBERS won the 1994 Ontario New
Democratic Party's Agnes MacPhail award for pioneering women.
Like MacPHAIL,
Marion's roots were in Ontario's Grey County.
And like MacPHAIL, she lived life with a strong commitment to
social justice, equality and activism.
Born in Massey, Ontario, in 1928, Marion
McKESSOCK grew up on
a farm in the Depression era. As a child she was a strong student
with a flair for reading, creative writing and drama. Marion
aspired to be a journalist but as there were few women in the
profession at that time, her guidance counsellor (later known
to Canadians as Olive
DIEFENBAKER) steered her toward teaching.
It was a good match. As a teacher, parent and friend, Marion
had never-ending patience, an enthusiasm for knowledge, a keen
analytical mind and an ability to bring out the best in people.
Marion taught in Inglewood, Guelph and Forest Hill while completing
her B.A. at Queen's University during the summers. Her first
love as a teacher was English literature and drama and she won
awards for her student productions. Even after her formal teaching
career ended, Marion continued to pursue English and drama on
a volunteer basis. She taught English as a second language to
two Vietnamese families who settled in the Erin area and wrote
and directed an annual Christmas pageant for the children of
Friends and neighbours.
Marion met Cecil, her husband of 46 years, when she taught his
younger sister.
Along with their children, Rosemary, Colin and Maralee, they
settled in Erin Township. Their busy lives were balanced by gorgeous
fall colour, serene winter walks, spring carpets of trilliums
and summers of gardening.
While at home caring for her young family, Marion became very
involved in her community. She served on the boards of her local
arts council, library, home and school association, parks and
recreation association, United Church and on the Wellington Dufferin
Health Council. Marion was elected to Erin Village Council in
1975 and her many contributions to the community were officially
recognized when she was awarded Erin's Citizen of the Year Award.
A long-time member and supporter of the New Democratic Party,
Marion became increasingly involved in the party in the late
1970s and early 1980s. She managed campaigns, twice sought election
to the Ontario Legislature, served on the Ontario New Democratic
Party Executive and was party president from 1982-1984.
Marion loved ideas and debate and was well known for putting
her beliefs into action. She was often ahead of her time: recycling
long before it was common, offering her own home as a "safe house"
before such alternatives were available locally, expressing written
dissent in 1988 when her United Church Board voted to deny the
ordination of gays and lesbians. She encouraged her children
in their studies and careers and enjoyed the lively discussions
that ensued when five opinionated family members and frequent
guests met around the dinner table.
Marion greeted everyone she met with a warm and engaging smile.
Family and Friends looked to her for support.
Marion would have been humbled by the dedicated group of caregivers
who were by her side as Alzheimer's disease took its toll. Her
husband Cecil, her children and grandchildren, extended family
and Friends provided exemplary care and support. As one friend
noted in a letter to the family, "great love begets great love."
Rosemary, Colin and Maralee are Marion's children.
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Mary Boyle
HUDSON
By Mary Jean
McFALL
Wednesday,
September 10, 2003 - Page A24
Wife, mother, grandmother, community leader, cattlewoman, Scotch
aficionado. Born January 10, 1931, in Hamilton, Ontario; died
June 29 in Lyn, Ontario, of pancreatic cancer, aged 72.
For all that Mary
HUDSON cultivated her Scottish roots and was
a keen royalist, she loved her country well. Never one for southern
beach holidays, she preferred a visit to the polar bears in Churchill,
Manitoba
Mary's father, Edward
MORWICK, was a Westinghouse engineer in
Hamilton,
Ontario; her mother, Anne
HAMILTON, was a Scottish
émigrée. The family brought mementoes from Scotland -- a tartan
rug, a travelling trunk -- which had been handed down over the
generations; Mary considered herself not the owner but the custodian
of these pieces, which she has since entrusted to her children.
After Hamilton's Westdale Collegiate, Mary studied home economics
at Macdonald Institute at the University of Guelph. In 1956,
responding to a Globe and Mail ad for a high school home economics
teacher in Brockville, Ontario, Mary set off in her Nash Metropolitan
hardtop. Joe
HUDSON, a local farmer and eligible bachelor took
note; his nieces always said Mary seemed like a movie star. The
city girl married the country boy in 1958, and traded her hardtop
for a station wagon. Then she and Joe began a life that would
allow Mary to make her home in the tiny village of Lyn, and to
see her country and the world.
Mary and Joe raised five children, with the best fundamentals
she could offer: She taught them to remember where they came
from and she encouraged them to be citizens of the world. She
helped found and maintain a local library; established a swimming
program; and worked with her United Church, the Fulford Home
for Women and the Brockville Hospital, where she not only sat
on the board of governors, she also took the wagon around to
bring chocolate bars and newspapers to patients.
Mary's passions included a penchant for early morning royal weddings
on the television. A founding member of the Brockville An Quaiche
society, a club that appreciates the merits of good single malt
scotch, she had a taste for a "wee dram."
Together, Mary and Joe built Joe's business, Burnbrae Farms,
into a dynamic agricultural enterprise. In 1978, her Christmas
gift from Joe started her on her herd of Aberdeen Angus cattle.
In 1995, several of her cows won championship ribbons at the
Royal Winter Fair in Toronto.
Mary was a mother to many; privately, she lived a public life.
Her door was open without the need to knock. Known as the best
cook on the Lyn Road, she made jams in a copper kettle brought
from Scotland. I remember Mom supervising church turkey dinners,
using a three-foot masher to deal with all the potatoes.
She also produced baby quilts; the last was for Evelyn Mary Morwick
ROGAN, her granddaughter who was born 16 days after Mom died.
The crowd at her funeral was so large that we had to enlist the
Ontario Provincial Police to handle the traffic. After the service,
we walked from the church to the cemetery, with Mary's Clydesdale
horses leading the way. When Rob
MILLER, the self-declared piper
for the clan, reached the top of the hill by the cemetery, he
stopped for a moment to talk with the Ontario Provincial Police
officer, and they looked down at the hundreds of people walking
in the procession. "With all this activity you'd think the Queen
had died," said the officer. Rob responded, "She has."
Mary is survived by her husband, Joe, her sister, Helen
MORWICK,
her children, Helen Anne, Mary Jean, Ted, Susan and Margaret,
their spouses, and nine grandchildren. She loved them all.
Mary
Jean is Mary
HUDSON's daughter.
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KEARNS,
Thomas
Joseph
Tom died peacefully at North York General Hospital on February
9, 2003, following a brief illness, in his 96th year. Beloved
husband of Edith
KEARNS, and the late Anne
KEARNS (1979.) Tom
will be greatly missed by his son Dr. Terrence
KEARNS
(Linda)
and his daughter Colleen
DODDS, and Edith's children Bob
McFARLAND
(Pat,) and Jayne
CHALLONER
(Jim.) He leaves behind six grandchildren
Glen KEARNS (Shelly), Chris
KEARNS (Nancy), Tim
KEARNS (Kim),
Darlene KINGSTONE (Brian), Denise
DODDS (Wayne), Catherine
DODDS
(Lee), and seven great-grandchildren. The family extends thanks
to Dr. RUMBLE,
Dr.
SOMMERFIELD, and the excellent nursing staff
at North York General Hospital. Friends may call at the Trull
'North Toronto' Funeral Home and Cremation Centre, 2704 Yonge
Street (5 blocks south of Lawrence), on Wednesday from 2-4 and
7-9 p.m. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at Blessed
Sacrament Church (Yonge Street south of Lawrence), on Thursday
morning February 13, 2003 at 10 o'clock. Interment Holy Cross
Cemetery. Donations to the charity of your choice would be appreciated.
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Marilyn
Joanne
(Mandy)
BELLEROSE
In loving memory Marilyn Joanne (Mandy)
BELLEROSE,
September 30, 1941 to December 15, 2003.
Mandy BELLEROSE, a resident of Providence Bay, died at the Mindemoya
Hospital on Monday, December 15, 2003 at the age of 62 years.
She was born in Carnarvon Township, daughter of the late Albert and Anne
(McFARLANE)
DAVIS.
Mandy had worked with the developmentally
handicapped for over 15 years. She enjoyed bingo, going to the
casinos, crosswords and knitting. Her greatest love and the most
pleasure she had in her life was her family. Although she will be
sadly missed, many fond memories will be cherished by her entire family and Friends.
Dearly loved wife of Donald
BELLEROSE, loving and loved mother of
Kelly SMITH and his wife
Marie of Hensall, Debbie
WHITE/WHYTE and her
husband David of Brampton and Ray
SMITH of Providence Bay and
step-children Dawn of Sault Ste. Marie, Michael and his wife Terry of
Sudbury and Darrin and partner Shawna of Sault Ste Marie. Proud
grandmother of Kasaundra, Tiffany, Kristi, Melissa and Bryan. Dear
sister of John
DAVIS, and his wife
Cindy of Spring Bay. Fondly
remembered by several nieces and nephews, and many cousins and
Friends.
Predeceased by infant daughter Mary Ann
HEBERT and brother Joseph Morlyn
DAVIS.
Friends may call at the Lady of Canada Catholic Church, Mindemoya
after 7 p.m. on Wednesday, December 17, 2003. The funeral service
will be conducted at the church on Thursday, December 18, at 3: 00
p.m. with Father Robert Foliot officiating. Interment in Providence
Bay Cemetery. Culgin Funeral Home.
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CAIN,
Thomas
Henry
At St. Joseph's Villa, Dundas, 18 February 2003, of cancer. Professor
of English literature at McMaster University for 31 years, Tom
had a keen interest in teaching undergraduates to write lucid
prose, and was author of Common Sense About Writing (1967). The
methods in this manual were conceived and developed while an
instructor at Yale University, and arise from the rigors of the
old Ontario school curriculum of which he was a beneficiary.
Author of Praise in The Fairie Queene (1978), and numerous related
articles, he began his scholarly interest in Edmund Spenser while
an undergraduate at Victoria College, University of Toronto
his graduate degrees were from the Universities of Toronto and
Wisconsin. He was a regular church organist from his boyhood,
until in 1967 he joined the choir of St. James' Anglican Church
in Dundas under the direction of Richard
BIRNEY-
SMITH, in whose
Te Deum Singers he also sang from 1972 until his health began
to fail in 1997. In 1976 he joined Saint John's Anglican Church
in Ancaster, where he sang in the choir for 22 years, and enjoyed
a central role in designing its organ in 1988. His hymn text,
'Eternal Lord of Love, Behold Your Church, ' written for the
Episcopal Church's Hymnal (1982), is included in Roman Catholic
and Lutheran hymnals, and the 1998 hymnal in present use in the
Anglican Church of Canada. A gardener of great knowledge and
experience, he shared this interest information and particularly
plants generously. Throughout his life, he enjoyed deep Friendships
with animals. He found a great store of patience and humour to
confront the illness which ended his life. He is survived by
his widow, Emily
CAIN, of Jerseyville; his son, Patrick
CAIN,
of Toronto, and his sister, Catherine
MacFARLANE, of Maple, who
wish to thank McMaster University Medical Centre and St. Joseph's
Villa staff for their care and compassion. Requiem Eucharist
at Saint John's Anglican Church, 272 Wilson St. (at Halson St.),
in Ancaster, on Saturday, March 1 at 10: 30 a.m. (casual clothes)
reception to follow in Saint John's parish hall (on Halson St.).
Spring bulb flowers will be gratefully accepted at the church
or parish hall. Please send donations in lieu of flowers to St.
John's Church (music programme), 272 Wilson Street, Ancaster, Ontario
L9G 2B9.
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McFARLANE o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-03-08 published
JAMIESON,
Joseph
Thoburn
Died suddenly, February 25, 2003, in hospital, at Cranbrook,
British Columbia. Beloved and loving husband of Ellen Cameron
(McFARLANE,) his wife of 45 years. Sadly missed by his two sons,
Joseph Alexander (Alec); and Michael Douglas (Laura
SALEM), cherished
''Papa'' of Kathleen all of Calgary. Lovingly remembered by his
sister Norah (wife of the late Don
CARR,)
Manotick,
Ontario
brother, William R. (Pamela
MacDOWELL,)
Rideau
Ferry,
Ontario.
Predeceased by his sister Catherine E.
DAVIDSON,
Aberdeen,
Scotland.
''Uncle Joe'' will be forever loved and never forgotten by his
nieces and nephews Susan
WINTER
(Bill;)
Mary
McLAUGHLIN (Peter)
and Shannon; Scott (Joanne), Jacqueline and William; Jane Jamieson
and other nieces and nephews. Predeceased by very special grandniece
Lindsey WINTER.
Born at Almonte, Ontario, January 24, 1927, son
of the late William Algernon and Catherine Isobel
(COCHRAN)
JAMIESON.
Primary and secondary education at Almonte. Graduated, as a Textile
Engineer, from Philadelphia Institute of Technology, 1949. Moved
west to British Columbia upon his retirement, in 1991. Following
a productive 26 year career, with Canadian General Tower Ltd.
of Cambridge Ontario, Joe and Ellen spent many happy years at
Nelson, Marysville and Cranbrook, British Columbia. Traveling
with Ellen he enjoyed frequent trips back to visit their special
Friends in Ontario. Joe seemed to particularly look forward to
his fall hunting excursions to visit the Happy Hopeful Hunt Club
on Pakenham Mountain. Family members and close Friends have been
recipient of the product of his sculpted wood bird carving endeavors
of his retirement years. Joe will live forever within the hearts
of those of us who loved him. Missed by many.
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Leafs trusted their doctor
Talented M.D. specialized in hand surgery. 'He had a unique technical
approach. That's what made him different from other surgeons.'
By Carol COOPER
Special to The Globe and Mail Saturday, May 3,
2003 - Page F10
Nothing about Jim
MURRAY's hands indicated that he was a surgeon.
Large and gnarled with undulating fingernails, those hands played
bagpipes, patched up Toronto Maple Leafs and Team Canada players
and restored form and function to other hands.
Dr. MURRAY, a plastic surgeon who was the first Canadian doctor
to devote his practice to hand surgery, died last month at the
age of 82.
"His hands looked more like those of a prize fighter than a surgeon.
His fingers were bent, "said Robert
McFARLANE, a retired plastic
surgeon with a special interest in hands and a close friend of
Dr. MURRAY. "It didn't seem to make a difference. He had tremendous
skill."
In 1983, Dr.
MURRAY brought together plastic and orthopedic surgeons
to form a hand unit at Toronto's Sunnybrook Health Science Centre,
the city's first. "His concept was to pull together the expertise
of different surgeons, "said Paul
BINHAMMER, once a student
of Dr. MURRAY and now a plastic surgeon at the hospital, now
part of the Sunnybrook and Women's College Health Sciences Centre.
Dr. MURRAY assembled a highly skilled team. Among them were orthopedic
surgeon Robert
McMURTRY, who went on to become dean of medicine
at the University of Western Ontario, and plastic surgeon and
nerve expert Susan
MacKINNON, who is now a professor in the United
States.
But before rising to prominence in the field of hand surgery,
Dr. MURRAY gained fame in hockey circles. Serving as one of the
Toronto Maple Leafs team doctors from 1948 to 1964, he was greatly
trusted by players. When cut during games on the road, they left
their wounds unstitched until he could tend to them at home.
"He'd come at you with those fingers and they were just so big,
you'd wonder how he was ever able to stitch as neat as he did,"
said former Leaf defenceman Bobby
BAUN, who played professional
hockey for 17 years.
Mr. BAUN estimates that Dr.
MURRAY put in half of his 143 career
stitches.
Under instructions from Leaf owner Conn
SMYTHE, injured players
were not to be rushed back into the lineup, according to Hugh
SMYTHE, another Leaf doctor and Mr.
SMYTHE's son. "This was a
heavy and not always popular role, "he said.
During the 1964 Stanley Cup finals, it became especially challenging.
Entering Game 6, the Detroit Red Wings led the series against
the Leafs 3-2. Playing in Detroit on April 23, with the scored
tied at 3-3 in the third period, Mr.
BAUN first was hit on his
right leg by a slapshot from Gordie
HOWE and then, after a faceoff,
spun on the leg, which gave way.
X-rays delayed at Mr.
BAUN's insistence showed a small broken
bone, just above the ankle. He spent six weeks in a cast.
But that came after the series ended. During its sixth game,
Mr. BAUN was tended to by Dr.
MURRAY and other team doctors.
After being carried off the ice, he asked Dr.
MURRAY if he could
hurt his leg any more. The doctor replied no. "Having someone
like Jim tell me that, I could believe him, "Mr.
BAUN said.
With his leg taped and frozen, Mr.
BAUN continued playing. Within
the first two minutes of the first overtime period, he scored
the winning goal and kept the Leafs in the series.
Mr. BAUN didn't miss a shift during Game 7, and neither did teammate
Red KELLY, who had torn knee ligaments during the previous game.
The Leafs won the seventh game 4-0 and the Stanley Cup, their
third in a row and their fifth during Dr.
MURRAY's time with
the team.
That year, Dr.
MURRAY resigned and 20 years later joked to The
Toronto Star that it was he who had led them to the five Stanley
Cups.
If he took the connection between his presence and the Leafs'
wins lightly, Punch
IMLACH, then the team's coach, did not. Mr.
IMLACH had become convinced that Dr.
MURRAY brought the team
good luck, the doctor told the Star in a 1972 story.
The newspaper was interviewing Dr.
MURRAY about his appointment
as a doctor to Team Canada for the Canada-Russia hockey series.
In the article headlined "Good luck charm for Team Canada, "
he recalled how during the 1967 Stanley Cup playoffs, Mr.
IMLACH
invited him to a Leaf game in Chicago, believing that he would
bring the team good luck.
"If it had been anybody else but Punch, I'd have dismissed it
as a joke. But he really needed to win and he honestly believed
my presence would make a difference, "Dr.
MURRAY was quoted
as saying.
The
Leafs won not only that game, but, with Dr.
MURRAY in attendance
for the remainder of the series, the Stanley Cup. The Leafs haven't
won a Stanley Cup since.
And the Star's headline proved prophetic. Team Canada won the
Canada-Russia series when Paul
HENDERSON scored with 34 seconds
left in the eighth game.
Born in Toronto on May 14, 1920, James Findlay
MURRAY was the
youngest of three children. His father ran a store at Yonge and
Queen Streets in downtown Toronto and died before the birth of
his third child.
Dr. MURRAY attributed his curvy fingernails to his mother's malnutrition
when she was pregnant with him, said his youngest son Hugh. Within
a few years, she had remarried, and his stepfather helped to
raise him.
An avid athlete, Dr.
MURRAY played football during his high school
and university days, so much so that once, when forbidden by
his mother to play for his high-school team because he had had
pneumonia, he practised and played in secret.
That lasted until his picture appeared in the Star running for
a touchdown. He was immediately placed on the disabled list.
Awarded the George Biggs trophy for sportsmanship, leadership
and scholarship, Dr.
MURRAY graduated from medical school in
1943 and spent two years in the Royal Canadian Medical Corps,
finishing as a captain.
After a year of general practice in Belleville, Ontario, he trained
in plastic surgery at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto
with A. W.
FARMER, whom many consider to be the father of Canadian
hand surgery.
A humble man, who drove less-than-fancy cars, Dr.
MURRAY was
known for his ability to relate to everyone. "He was a doctor
and an esteemed member of society, but it didn't matter to him,"
Hugh MURRAY said. "He considered himself an everyday person.
He was as comfortable, if not more comfortable, dealing with
just working guys."
In 1953, Dr.
MURRAY joined the Toronto East General and Orthopedic
Hospital as head of plastic surgery and organized a specialized
hand clinic, according to Bernd
NEU, another former student of
Dr. MURRAY and now a plastic surgeon at North York General Hospital.
"It's because the hand is such an important part of the body,
not just physically, but aesthetically, "Dr.
MURRAY, a specialist
in soft tissue and the reconstruction of flexor tendons, said
in 1984 to explain the dedication of hand surgeons.
In 1983, Dr.
MURRAY left Toronto East General, where he had been
surgeon-in-chief since 1976, to head the hand unit at Sunnybrook
Medical Centre, taking a cut in pay to do so.
At the time, plastic surgeons could earn $2,000 for a face-lift
and $106.50 for a carpal-tunnel release.
Dr. MURRAY derived great satisfaction from the help his hands
gave others. Once in a clinic at Toronto East General, he and
Dr. NEU came upon a patient with only a thumb and little finger
on one hand.
"This is a wonderful hand, "he told Dr.
NEU. "
Look at how dirty
and callused it is."
After several surgeries, Dr.
MURRAY had restored the worker's
hand to the point where the man could use it once again to earn
a living.
"What to other people would look like a devastating loss, to
Dr. MURRAY and the patient, this was a hand to be proud of,
Dr. NEU said.
As a hand consultant beginning in 1974 at the Downsview Rehabilitation
Centre of the Workers' Compensation Board, Dr.
MURRAY treated
those injured in industrial accidents, often surmounting language
barriers to do so.
"He could speak to them [the patients] in basic English, so they
could understand how seriously he took their problems, and how
everything was being done that could be done for them, "Dr.
NEU said.
In a 1996 letter to Dr.
MURRAY, another of his former residents
recalled how once on rounds, the doctor lifted the sheets to
examine a paraplegic patient, only to find the man soiled. Instead
of calling for hospital staff to clean the man, Dr.
MURRAY performed
the task himself.
"That little lesson reminded me that being a doctor is not just
being a cutter, "the physician wrote.
Not only did he have a natural way with people, Dr.
MURRAY was
a gifted surgeon.
"He was a talented person with original ways of doing things,"
Dr. McFARLANE said. "He had a unique technical approach. That's
what made him different from other surgeons."
Appointed a lecturer at the University of Toronto in 1953, Dr.
MURRAY was first an assistant and associate professor, becoming
a full professor in 1979. He developed the first hand surgery
fellowship training program in Canada in 1981, Dr.
NEU said.
As well as teaching at the university, Dr.
MURRAY trained surgeons
during two trips to Southeast Asia as a volunteer with Cooperative
for American Relief Everywhere, Inc. Medico and led a group of
hand surgeons to study techniques in micro-surgery in China during
the late 1970s.
At the medical meetings Dr.
MURRAY often attended, he impressed
Dr. McFARLANE with his ability to discuss surgery. "He had a
very common-sense approach to a surgical problem, and when everyone
had something to say about a problem, he would get up and clarify
it very nicely, "Dr.
McFARLANE said.
A founder of
MANUS
Canada, a society of hand surgeons, once a
president of the Canadian Society of Plastic Surgeons and the
American
Society for Surgery of the Hand, Dr.
MURRAY was honoured
by the U.S. society at "Murray Day" in 1990 with tributes from
past presidents.
Stricken with Alzheimer's disease toward the end of his life,
Dr. MURRAY died in Collingwood, Ontario, on April 4. He leaves
his wife of 57 years, Shirley, and his children, John, Bill,
Claire and Hugh.
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O'CONNOR,
Audrey
Albina (née
McAULEY)
Died peacefully at sunrise on May 23, 2003, having just turned
83. Survived by her loving daughter Susan
O'CONNOR, son-in-law
Ken WAXMAN, and her sister Gretchen
MacFARLANE
(Murray) of Saint
John, New Brunswick Fondly remembered by her dear friend Marguerite
GULDE
(Hans,) and her late brother Vincent's children. Predeceased
by her husband Leo
O'CONNOR.
Born in Centreville, New Brunswick,
Audrey lived for many years in Ottawa until moving to Toronto
in 1964. An enthusiastic traveller and creative, independent
spirit, Audrey was the first of her contemporaries to return
to the workforce in the early 1960s. Originally a teacher in
a one-room schoolhouse, Audrey worked for many years in royalties
administration for two major record companies. After ''retirement''
she held several jobs, but particularly enjoyed one with a small
property management company. Cremation has taken place. Friends
are invited to celebrate Audrey's life with Ken and Susan at
home on Tuesday, May 27 after 5 p.m. Special thanks to the thoughtful
and accommodating staff of Toronto East General Hospital (B-5)
for their care and compassion.
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McFARLANE,
Geoffrey
Bruce (1951 -- 2003)
Died suddenly, on September 5th, 2003, after a short, fierce
struggle with cancer, borne with bravery and dignity. He was
the much loved eldest
son of Isabel and the late Dr. Douglas
McFARLANE.
Geoffrey will be remembered always by his siblings
Paul (Sue), Kim
NIKALSON, Perci, Breck, Dr. Rene and Connie
his nieces and nephews Daley, Kelda, Colin, Kaarina, Fraser,
Amica, Sophie and Emmett; his aunt Mrs. Norma
REISS
(Claude)
and uncle Dr. Bruce
McFARLANE
(Connie,) and, of course, his Friends.
Special thanks to the medical team at St. Michael's Hospital
for their knowledge and sensitivity. Funeral service will be
at St. Leonard's Anglican Church (Wanless and Yonge), on Friday,
September 12 at 3 p.m. The family will be at home for Friends
after the service at 71 Buckingham Avenue. No flowers please,
but if desired, donations would be appreciated to the Toronto
Humane Society.
Rest in peace, Geoffrey
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William
James "
Alvin"
GLASBY
In loving memory of William James "Alvin"
GLASBY who passed away peacefully
at Mindemoya Hospital on Friday, April 25, 2003 at the age of 86 years.
Predeceased by his beloved wife
Elaine (née
SLOAN.)
Loved by his
children Dorothy of Little Current, Edward and his wife Diane of
Tehkummah, Lorraine and her husband Roger Pyette of Manitowaning and
Janet (predeceased.) Dear grandfather of Tracy and Vickie
PYETTE,
Dianne and her husband Neil
DEBASSIGE and Carolyn
GLASBY.
Fondly
remembered by sisters and brothers Norma
JOHNS (husband Harold
predeceased) of Sault Ste. Marie, Marion
ELLIOT/ELLIOTT (husband Howard
predeceased) of Mindemoya, Lyle (wife Rosie predeceased) of Spring
Bay, Eldin of Providence Bay, Harold and his wife Shirley of
Sudbury.
Will be missed by in-laws: Helen
HANN of Mulberry, Indiana
Echo and Ray
McFAUL of Havelock, Phyllis and Jim
MUNRO of Kagawong,
Stan and Ada
SLOAN of North Bay, John and Evelyn
SLOAN of Kincardine,
Murray and Sheila
SLOAN of Rossland, BC and Jacinthe
SLOAN of
Montreal. Uncle of many nieces and nephews.
Visitation was held at Mindemoya United Church from 7-9 pm on Sunday,
April 27, 2003. Funeral Service was held on Monday, April 28, 2003
at Mindemoya United Church. Burial in Mindemoya Cemetery.
Arrangements in care of Island Funeral Home, Little Current.
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