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ZEALLEY,
Mary
Lenore (née
BOYD) 1923-2003
Peacefully, surrounded by her three children, son-in-law Maurizio
and granddaughter Victoria, at The Baycrest Hospital on Sunday,
December 21, 2003. Mary Lenore
ZEALLEY (née
BOYD,) wife of the
late Kenneth Bramwell
ZEALLEY.
Loving mother of Jane Elizabeth
ADAMSON, wife of Andrew, Hartington, Ontario; Charlotte Ann
UNGER,
wife of Edward, Toronto; and John Kenneth
ANDREW, life-partner
of Maurizio, Toronto. Grandmother of Victoria
AUSTIN, wife of
Bruce; Sarah
NORMAN, wife of Jason. Great-grandmother of Jonathan
& Christopher
AUSTIN and Brock
NORMAN.
Sister of Nancy
REID,
wife of Jim; Eleanor
HOOD, wife of the late Duggan; and Carol
MacPHERSON, wife of John. She died as she had lived her life
- with dignity, passion, grace and courage. A person who loved
her city, all arts and culture, and her family and Friends. A
Memorial Service will be held at Bloor Street United Church (Bloor
Street West at Huron), Wednesday, December 24 at 2 p.m. A reception
will follow at the Church. Donations may be made to The Baycrest
Centre for Geriatric Care, 3560 Bathurst Street, Toronto M6A
2E1, or to Bloor Street United Church, 300 Bloor Street West,
Toronto M5S 1W3. Final resting place, Hillcrest Cemetery, Smiths
Falls, Ontario. The family wishes to express their deepest appreciation
for the compassionate care of the medical team at The Baycrest
Hospital, 6 East.
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ZEMAN o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-12-17 published
Life was good for
MAGNUSON
By Eric DUHATSCHEK,
With a report from Allan
MAKI Wednesday,
December 17, 2003 - Page S1
It was one of those "catching up with" features newspapers run
every so often. Last January, the Chicago Sun-Times profiled
Keith MAGNUSON, one of the most popular players ever to pull
on a Chicago Blackhawks sweater.
To the thousands who used to pack the old Chicago Stadium,
MAGNUSON's
ever-lasting appeal came from a rough-and-tumble playing style
that produced a cracked cheekbone, three knee injuries requiring
surgery, a torn Achilles' tendon, two broken ankles, a dislocated
elbow, three broken jaws, a broken vertebra, a broken wrist,
a dislocated shoulder, three missing teeth and more than 400
stitches.
MAGNUSON, after reflecting on his career, his hobbies and all
the aches and pains that resulted from a 10-year National Hockey
League career, observed: "Otherwise, I feel great. Cindy [his
wife] and I are real proud of our kids."
"Life is good,"
MAGNUSON concluded.
Life for
MAGNUSON ended at the age of 56 in a fatal automobile
accident on Monday afternoon as he was returning home from a
funeral for National Hockey League alumni association chairman
Keith McCREARY, who died last week of cancer.
MAGNUSON was the
passenger in a car driven by former National Hockey League player
Rob RAMAGE, the vice-chairman of the alumni association.
MAGNUSON played 589 National Hockey League games for the Blackhawks,
and on his retirement in October of 1979, he joined the team's
coaching staff, as an assistant to Eddie
JOHNSTON.
JOHNSTON,
now the Pittsburgh Penguins' assistant general manager, remembered
MAGNUSON yesterday as "the ultimate competitor. I mean, when
Keith MAGNUSON put on the skates on, you didn't just get 100
per cent, you got 110 per cent every night. He just played with
so much passion, it was unreal."
The
Blackhawks made it to the Stanley Cup final twice in
MAGNUSON's
career, in 1971 and 1973, losing both times to the Montreal Canadiens.
It was the heyday of hockey in Chicago. The Blackhawks had Dennis
and Bobby HULL, the legendary Stan
MIKITA and Tony
ESPOSITO,
a future Hall Of Fame member, in goal.
MAGNUSON's job was to
protect ESPOSITO, and he did it with a passion that
JOHNSTON
said was contagious in the Blackhawks' dressing room.
"What he always did very, very well was set the tone early in
the game. He let the opposition know that when you dropped the
puck in the game, "This was what you were going to see, guys,
for 60 minutes.' "
MAGNUSON, who most recently was the director of sales for Coca-Cola
Enterprises, grew up in Saskatoon as an all-round athlete. He
was a boyhood chum of former National Hockey League coach Dave
KING.
The two attended Churchill elementary school and used to
play 1-on-1 hockey:
KING as a forward and
MAGNUSON as a defenceman.
Eventually,
MAGNUSON and four other teenagers from Saskatoon
earned scholarships at the University of Denver and helped the
Pioneers win two National Collegiate Athletic Association championships.
MAGNUSON and Tim
GOULD played every sport together and were also
teamed as defence partners.
"We never missed a shift," said
GOULD, whose wife, a nurse in
Calgary, woke him early yesterday to inform him of
MAGNUSON's
death. "He was the greatest guy and a good friend."
GOULD said he and
MAGNUSON used to dream up ways to get
MAGNUSON
to hockey, football and baseball games on Sunday.
MAGNUSON's parents were Baptists and considered the Sabbath a
day of rest. It became
GOULD's job to sneak into the
MAGNUSON
home while they were at church and take Keith's equipment to
the rink or the diamond.
"Of course, if we scored a goal or a run, our names would be
mentioned in the newspaper the next day,"
GOULD said. "But we
thought we were keeping it secret."
GOULD said
MAGNUSON was best known among his Friends for having
a poor memory. Once in Saskatoon,
MAGNUSON drove his dad's car
to the rink for a Blades game, only to drive home with a teammate,
the two of them completely immersed in the game they had just
played.
The next morning,
MAGNUSON's father asked where the car was.
"Keith had to run back to the rink to get it," said Dale
ZEMAN,
another of
MAGNUSON's former junior and college teammates. "There
was also the night Keith and I went bowling when we were freshmen
at Denver. We came out and couldn't find the car. It had rolled
backwards three blocks because Keith forgot to put it in park."
GOULD said: "He was awful forgetful. We're having a reunion in
June [for Denver University hockey] and we had a card printed
up, and Keith's quote on it was: 'I'm going to be there -- and
Cliff [KOROLL] is going to remind me.' The memories, that's what
get you through this."
MAGNUSON is survived by his wife, his daughter, Molly, and his
son, Kevin, a former University of Michigan defenceman who had
a tryout with the Blackhawks. Recently, after a short playing
career in the East Coast Hockey League, Kevin had gone back to
school for his law degree,
JOHNSTON said.
"To have something like this happen, this close to the holidays,
the timing couldn't be worse. It's never good, but geez, here
he is, going up there for a funeral for Keith
McCREARY and then
to have something like this happen.
"God, it's awful," he said. "We'll miss him. He was such a big
part of the community in Chicago, an icon. Everybody knew Keith
MAGNUSON.
It's an awful tragedy."
San Jose Sharks general manager Doug
WILSON, another of
MAGNUSON's
close Friends, was badly shaken by his former teammate's death.
WILSON said he thought of
MAGNUSON as something of a father figure.
"Keith has had a profound influence on my life." Really, all
I can say is, all my thoughts and prayers are with Cindy and
the kids right now."
Jim DEMARIA, the Blackhawks executive director of communications,
worked closely with
MAGNUSON in his role as the founder and president
of the Chicago alumni association.
"Any time you needed something, you could call Maggy,"
DEMARIA
said. "He was the first guy in line to help any kind of charity
you had. I mean, he was just that kind of person. And when the
team wasn't doing real well, he was down in the room, talking
to the coaches, telling the players, 'keep your chin up, keep
working, things will turn around.' He was a real positive guy."
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ZETTA o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-05-22 published
J. Grant MAXWELL
June 6, 1922 - May 16, 2003.
Grant died peacefully in Victoria on May 16th, 2003 in the presence
of loved ones. He is survived by his his loving and supportive
family; his devoted wife of 56 years, Vivian (née
MITCHENER)
five children; Anne, Victoria; Mary (Bill
ROBERTSON,)
Saskatoon
James (Marjory
PORTER), Victoria; Kathleen (Darrel
ANDERSON),
Victoria; and, Gregory (Carrie
HOLMQUIST,)
Saskatoon, eight grandchildren:
Joshua and Katie
PENDLETON;
Maxwell
BRANDEL; Kristin,
Melissa,
and Adam MAXWELL; and, Emily and Michael
MAXWELL;
Vivian's surviving
siblings Eileen and Cecil; and, numerous Friends across Canada,
U.S.A., and Holland. Grant was predeceased by his children Thomas
John, Christopher, and Christine, and by his parents Gilmour
and Bridgette
(ZETTA)
MAXWELL of Plenty, Saskatchewan.
Grant had a dignified and distinguished career and life. He was
born and raised on a farm near Plenty. After he finished high
school in Plenty, he attended Saint Thomas More College, at the
University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon. While at university,
he met Vivian and many life-long Friends. Grant graduated from
the U of S in 1944.
From 1944-45, he served in the Royal Canadian Navy Volunteer
Reserve on the Atlantic Seaboard. After completing his national
duty, he and Vivian married and he began his media career and
family.
A print, radio, and television, journalist for over fifty years,
Grant's extensive career reflected his social conscience and
ecumenical beliefs. He began his career as a radio news reporter
and assistant news director with
CFQC
Radio (1946-48.) Moving
on to newspaper journalism with the Saskatoon Star Phoenix (1949-59),
he was a senior reporter and feature writer, and then the chief
editorial writer for the newspaper.
Grant's deep religious faith guided him down a path that utilized
his journalistic expertise while nurturing his spirit. From 1960-68,
he was the Lay Director at the Saskatoon Catholic Centre. He
was also a regular columnist with several Catholic newspapers,
including the Prairie Messenger, Canadian Register, Western Catholic
Reporter, and Our Family, between 1959-69. In the same time period,
Grant and Vivian were the Canadian couple on the international
writing committee of the Christian Family Movement based in Chicago.
In 1967 Grant with Vivian were the Canadian delegates to the
International Lay Congress of the Catholic Church. Between 1962-68,
Grant was a regular panelist on the
CFQC-television show ''In
the Public Interest,'' and a Saskatchewan correspondent to the
Globe and Mail.
In 1969 Grant and Vivian and family moved from Saskatoon to Ottawa
where Grant had accepted a position as Co-Director, and later
Director, of the Social Action Office, Canadian Conference of
Catholic Bishops. While working at this position from 1969 -
77, Grant researched, advised, and prepared draft policy statements
on national, social and religious issues, including Project Feedback,
a qualitative ''sounding at the grassroots'' of religious beliefs
and church concerns across Canada. Also during this time (1972-75),
Grant was a Canadian consultant with the International Pontificial
Commission for Justice and Peace, Vatican City: Grant and Vivian
met Pope Paul 6th while in Rome.
From 1977-81, Grant worked in Ottawa as a freelance journalist
and consultant for numerous and varied clients such as the Department
of the Secretary of State, the Canadian Human Rights Commission,
the Conserver Society Project of the Science Council of Canada,
the Vanier Institute of the Family, and the Committee of National
Voluntary Organizations. During this time, he wrote the book
Assignment in Chekiang detailing the 1902 - 54 experience of
the Scarborough Foreign Mission Society in China.
In 1981, Grant and Vivian moved from Ottawa to Toronto. From
1981-86, Grant served as founding editor of ''Compass, '' a national
magazine published by the Jesuits of English-speaking Canada.
During this time, he was also a member of the writing team for
''Living with Christ, '' a monthly missalette of scriptural texts
and commentary circulated to most Catholic parishes across Canada.
In 1986, Grant and Vivian left Toronto and semi-retired in Victoria,
British Columbia. Grant's faith and desire to write kept him involved
in several projects. In 1987 - 88 Grant wrote At Your Service:
Stories of Canadians In Missions. From 1989-91, he co-edited
Forward in the Spirit, a popular history of the ''People Synod''
published by the Catholic Diocese of Victoria. From 1992 - 94
he co-wrote and edited a book entitled Healing Journeys: The
Ka Ka Wis Experience, which described the history of the Aboriginal
residential counseling centre for the Ka Ka Wis Family Development
Centre, Meares Island, B.C.
Throughout his life, Grant was also actively involved in his
communities. He was an executive member of the Saskatchewan Association
for Human Rights; the Saskatchewan Association for Adult Education
a founding member of the Downtown Churches' Association of Victoria
an occasional commentator on Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Radio, Western Region; and a speaker at national, regional, and
local events on both civic and religious topics.
Grant spent over twenty happy summers at Emma Lake with Vivian,
his family, and many visiting Friends.
A respected journalist and community volunteer, Grant always
made time for family and Friends. He was a loving husband, intellectual
companion, and graceful dance partner to Vivian; a gentle, fair
and compassionate teacher to his children; an affectionate, singing,
cartoon-drawing storyteller to his grandchildren; and was warm
and accepting of his relatives. He was a stimulating conversationalist
and a loyal friend. Grant will be greatly missed by all until
we meet his gentle soul again.
There will be a prayer service in Saskatoon at St. Philip's Church
at 1902 Munroe Avenue (at Taylor Street) at 7 p.m. on Thursday,
May 22, 2003.
The funeral and celebration of Grant's life will be held in Saskatoon
at St. Philip's Church at 1902 Munroe Avenue at Taylor Street
at 10 a.m. on Friday, May 213, 2003. A memorial celebration will
be held in Victoria in the fall of 2003, and prior notice will
be provided in this paper. In lieu of flowers, donations may
be made to Development and Peace and/or the Friendship Inn, Saskatoon.
Arrangements are entrusted to the Saskatoon Funeral (306-244-5577).
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