EBY o@ca.on.grey_county.owen_sound.the_sun_times 2005-03-05 published
Former Owen Sound mayor dies
Bob RUTHERFORD served the city for nearly 30 years
By Jonathon
JACKSON,
Saturday,
March 05, 2005
Bob RUTHERFORD, whose career in municipal politics spanned nearly
30 years and included 16 years as Owen Sound's mayor, has died.
He was 76.
Mayor Ruth
LOVELL announced his death Friday during council's
budget deliberations.
Mr. RUTHERFORD had been in Owen Sound hospital for a few weeks
before he died there. The nature of his illness was not announced.
“I will certainly remember him as a very effective and personable
mayor,”
LOVELL said Friday. “He will be a person who is very
missed.&rdquo
“He just loved this community,” said Coun. Arlene
WRIGHT, who
worked with Mr.
RUTHERFORD at Rutherford Signs for 20 years.
“A true politician, dedicated,” summed up Gail
NORRIS, who has
worked for six Owen Sound mayors. “When he talked, people listened
to him.&rdquo
Mr. RUTHERFORD was first elected to city council in 1962 and
became mayor in 1965. He served in that position until being
defeated in 1974 by Warren
LOUGHEED.
Mr.
RUTHERFORD returned
to office in 1976, ousting
LOUGHEED in the next election.
He was mayor until 1982, when he was defeated largely due to
his support for what was then a controversial plan to replace
the city's downtown arena with what is now called the Harry Lumley
Bayshore Community Centre.
After the arena was condemned due to a structural problem, Mr.
RUTHERFORD engineered a deal with A and P to build a new grocery
store on the site of the old arena. He then helped push through
an application which helped the new community centre qualify
for an expiring grant program with only one day to spare.
But in a time of soaring interest rates and a poor economy, fears
of higher taxes because of the Bayshore's cost resulted in Mr.
RUTHERFORD's defeat and the election of Ovid
JACKSON as mayor.
“The most wonderful thing that I ever got for the city... was
the thing that killed me,” Mr.
RUTHERFORD said on election night
in 1982.
“I have no regrets. I would not have changed anything along the
way.&rdquo
NORRIS, who still works in the mayor's office, recalls clearly
a conversation she and Mr.
RUTHERFORD had which she thinks says
a lot about him.
“ ‘Gail, I'm going to vote that we build the Bayshore because
the grants are available now and we need a new arena.' But he
said, ‘I can tell you, I'll probably lose the election, ' ” she
said. “What always amazed me was the day they opened the building
and Bob was a guest, they gave him a standing ovation. You know,
he had the vision.&rdquo
In 1985, as he had done in 1976, he challenged the man who had
defeated him.
JACKSON won re-election and Mr.
RUTHERFORD vowed
he was done with politics.
“I'm finished,” he said at the time. “I'll never run as a candidate
again.&rdquo
It was a promise he didn't keep. He ran for a spot on city council
in 1988, finished fifth in a field of 11 and served Owen Sound
for three more years.
WRIGHT, who at one time was also Mr.
RUTHERFORD's neighbour,
said she always appreciated how he was a blue-collar worker who
slipped comfortably into the mayor's chair.
“He was just an all-round guy and very well liked.&rdquo
He was president of the Association of Municipalities of Ontario
in his final term on council, she noted, and he always kept abreast
of goings-on at city hall. In fact, he dropped into city hall
a year ago during budget deliberations.
NORRIS visited Mr.
RUTHERFORD last Sunday, shortly after she'd
heard he was in the hospital.
“We had a nice visit but I knew that he was extremely ill...
But he still had the twinkle in his eye and the smiles.&rdquo
The arrival of some of Owen Sound's industrial plants also coincided
with Mr. RUTHERFORD's terms of office,
NORRIS added.
The family released a list of 18 clubs and boards to which Mr.
RUTHERFORD belonged, ranging from the board of governors at Georgian
College to the North Star Masonic Lodge to the Owen Sound Jaycees.
His family declined to comment on Mr.
RUTHERFORD's passing in
a note sent from Breckenridge-Ashcroft Funeral Home.
In an interview on the eve of the 2000 municipal election, Mr.
RUTHERFORD reflected on his political life.
“I had love for the city and I wanted to get involved,” said
Mr. RUTHERFORD, who owned a downtown sign business for many years.
“I was fortunate enough to be able to have the time, as my father
and my stepbrother both said they'd run the shop while I worked
at running the city.
“It's something you really have to love and enjoy, because you
do take a lot of criticism. You're close to the people. They
can pick up the phone and phone you and tell you what they think.&rdquo
He tried unsuccessfully to unseat both Progressive Conservative
member of Parliament Gus
MITGES and Liberal member of provincial
parliament Eddie
SARGENT.
SARGENT had preceded him as mayor.
“I ran against Eddie a couple of times, but that's what you call
ass-burning learning,” he said with a laugh.
Robert Edward
RUTHERFORD is survived by his wife, Shirley J.
RUTHERFORD (née
EBY,) was father of Ross
WARD and his wife
Penny,
Brent RUTHERFORD,
Catherine and her husband Bob
WEBBER and Rahnda
YULE. He leaves eight grandchildren and two great-grandchildren,
his brother Tim
RUTHERFORD and his wife
Violet.
Predeceased by
his brothers Paul, Jerry and Peter.
A private family service has been held. Friends are invited to
a come-and-go reception in the Bay Room of the Harry Lumley Bayshore
Community Centre from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday, March 13. Donations
to the Grey Bruce Regional Health Centre Foundation M.R.I. fund
or to the Shriner's Hospital were what Mr.
RUTHERFORD wished.
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EBY o@ca.on.grey_county.owen_sound.the_sun_times 2005-11-30 published
GALBRAITH, Ann Patricia Galbraith (née
COLEMAN)
Passed away suddenly at her residence in Corbeil, Ontario on
Saturday, November 19th, 2005. She will be greatly missed by
her husband, James
GALBRAITH and her children, Rod
GALBRAITH
and his wife, Sue, of Calgary and Kim
SHERGOLD and her husband,
Dave, of Corbeil. Lovingly remembered by her five granddaughters,
Tammy, Claudette, Sherry, Amanda and Patricia and by her twelve
great-grandchildren. Ann will be sadly missed by her sisters,
Kathleen EBY and her husband, David, of Wiarton; Lorna
FORBES,
of Fergus; and Betty
MacDONALD and her husband, Don, of Kemble.
Predeceased by her youngest child, James Barry
GALBRAITH; her
parents, Gordon and Edith (née
SCOTT)
COLEMAN; and her sister,
Mona DAWSON.
Interment will be held in the spring. Memorial donations
may be made in memory of Ann to the Tony Stacey Centre for Veterans,
59 Lawson Road, Toronto, Ontario. M1C 2J1
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EBY o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2005-01-14 published
SIMPSON,
Eric
Lloyd
Eric Lloyd
SIMPSON, 64, formerly of LaGrange, Illinois, died
Monday, January 3, 2005 in the Allegheny Hospital, Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania. Born in Petrolia, Ontario, Canada, he was the son
of the late Stewart Scott and Flora May
(McNEIL)
SIMPSON. He
was a truck driver for many years for Mrs. Smith's Pie Co. in
Pottstown and for the last 27 years an owner operator leased
to various trucking companies in Chicago, Illinois, most recently
to Big Red Trucking. Surviving are a wife, Mary
(SAZMA)
SIMPSON
of LaGrange, Illinois; two daughters: Erica Lee wife of Everett
EBY,
Stevens,▼
Pennsylvania and Joann wife of Lem
MOORE of Boyertown
one son, Eric Scott
SIMPSON of Pigeon Forge, Tennessee; three
grandchildren: Charlee
MOORE of Boyertown, Carissa
EBY of Stevens,
and Taylor Scott
HUNTER of Stevens. He is also survived by several
first cousins in the Alvington area. Interment took place on
January 8, 2005 at Resurrection Cemetery, Burbank Illinois. The
family invites you to share in a Memorial Celebration of his
life on Saturday, January 29, 2005 at 2 p.m. at the Elks Lodge,
61 High Street, Pottstown, Pennsylvania. A luncheon will follow.
For more information, please call 717-336-3154. In lieu of flowers,
donations may be made in his memory to The Make-A-Wish Foundation
of Susquehanna Valley, 1861 Charter Lane, Suite 107, Lancaster,
Pennsylvania 17601.
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EBY o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2005-01-27 published
EBY,
Stephen▲ "
Steve▲"
John
Stephen▲
(Steve▲)
John
EBY, at 52 years of age passed away at University
Hospital surrounded by his loving family, Janet, daughter Veronica
and son-in-law Mike and daughter Heather. Also survived by his
mother and father, Grant and Jeanne, his sisters Linda and Gale
and brother Chris and a few of his good Friends. Everyone will
miss him greatly. A memorial service will be held on Sunday,
January 30, 2005 in the hall of Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church
at, 1057 Oxford Street East, from 2 to 5 p.m. As expressions
of sympathy donations to the Liver Foundation would be appreciated.
Forest City Cremation Services, 675-0772.
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EBY o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2005-11-26 published
EBY,
Margaret
Cavell (née
ROWE)
Peacefully at Campbellford Memorial Hospital on Friday November
25, 2005. Margaret Cavell
EBY (née
ROWE) of Campbellford, formerly
of Toronto, in her 91st year. Beloved wife of the late George
and youngest sister of Anna
LOVATT and Mona
DOUGHTY.
Forever
remembered and loved by daughter Linda
McLENNAN, son-in-law John
and by devoted grandchildren Jason and Andrea. She will be greatly
missed by her many family members and Friends. Sincere thanks
to the staff of Campbellford Memorial Hospital. Memorial donations
may be made to the Heart and Stroke Foundation. Private interment
to be held in Toronto at a later date. Arrangements entrusted
to the Brett "Havelock" Chapel (705-778-2231). "In remembering,
we keep what is best as treasures forever"
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