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ROBERTS,
Paige
Suddenly at Childrens Hospital of Western Ontario on Wednesday,
January 5, 2005. Paige
ROBERTS of London. Beloved infant daughter
of Jordan and Angela
ROBERTS. Dear sister of Jessica, Jacob and
Marshall. Dear granddaughter of Peter and Susan
ROBERTS,
Rosemary
ROBERTS and Detlef and Eleanor
VON
RUCZICKI. Dear great-granddaughter
of Grandma
HERTWIG. Dear niece of Marion and Shane
JONES,
Jennifer
and Willie
McGILL, Andrew
VON
RUCZICKI, Dwight and Stacy
ROBERTS,
Chris and Kelly
ROBERTS,
Garrett
ROBERTS, Curtis
ROBERTS, Dan
and Becky LOKER and Dwaine and Barb
HODGINS. Dear cousin of Austin
and Arden. Dear great-niece of Gabe
COLLIER and family, Brian
HERTWIG and family, Terry
HERTWIG and family and Karen
BLAAK
and family and many relatives in Germany. Friends will be received
by the family from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Sunday at the A. Millard
George Funeral Home, 60 Ridout Street South, London where the
funeral service will held in the chapel on Monday, January 10th
at 2: 30 p.m. Interment in Woodland Cemetery, London. As an expression
of sympathy memorial donations may be made to Childrens Hospital
of Western Ontario, c/o London Health Sciences Centre Foundation,
747 Baseline Road East, London, Ontario, N6C 2R6 or the charity
of your choice. On line condolences accepted at www.amgeorgefh.on.ca
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RENNENKAMPFF,
Elsbeth
Gabriele (von
STACKELBERG)
At McCormick Home, London, On Thursday, March 31, 2005. Elsbeth
Gabriele (von
STACKELBERG)
RENNENKAMPFF.
Beloved wife of the
late Ernest
RENNENKAMPFF. Dear mother of Otto
RENNENKAMPFF and
his wife Mary
Lou of Sudbury and Christina
VON
WAHL of London.
Also loved by her grandchildren, Peter
RENNENKAMPFF and his wife
Jovanna, Carol
HORN and her husband Blair, David
VON
WAHL and
his wife Susan,
Marie
MUX-
WAHL and her husband Julio, Nick
VON
WAHL and his wife
Judy and Andrea
VON
WAHL and her 8 great-grandchildren.
Friends will be received by the family one half hour prior to
the funeral service being conducted at Redeemer Evangelical Lutheran
Church, 1 Frank Place at Wellington Road, London on Monday April
4th at 1: 30 pm with Reverend Jeffrey
SMITH officiating. Interment
in Woodland Cemetery, London. As an expression of sympathy memorial
donations may be made to the Salvation Army, 281 Wellington Street,
London, Ontario N6B 2L4 or the Memorial Fund of Redeemer Evangelical
Lutheran Church, 1 Frank Place, London, Ontario N6C 1W1 On-line
condolences accepted at www.amgeorgefh.on.ca
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VON EUW, Velma Margaret (formerly
BROCK,
RIDDELL, née
ELGIE)
Velma Margaret
VON
EUW (formerly
ELGIE,
BROCK and
RIDDELL) at
Saint Marys Memorial Hospital on April 23, 2005 at the age of 91.
Daughter of the late John and Margaret
ELGIE. Survived by her
loving husband Frank
VON
EUW. Cherished mother of Jean and John
STERRITT of Wellburn and Verna and Howard
PRATT of Saint Marys.
Dear sister of Percy and Hazel
ELGIE of Saint Marys, Stuart and
Marguerite
ELGIE of Thamesford. Loving sister-in-law of Steve
LAZUK of London, Louis and Teresa
VON
EUW of Mitchell, Audrey
VON EUW, Joe and Wendy
VON
EUW all of Stratford, Hilda
VON
EUW
of Vancouver and Hanz and Elly
VON
EUW of Seaforth. Velma will
be remembered by 9 grandchildren and 22 great-grandchildren.
Predeceased by husbands Freeman
BROCK and William
RIDDELL, grand_son
Larry STERRITT, brothers Ralph
ELGIE in infancy and Ross
ELGIE,
sisters Jean
MURRELL,
Mary
LAZUK and brothers-in-law Jonis and
Toni VON
EUW.
Family and Friends will be received at the Andrew
L. Hodges Funeral Home, 47 Wellington St. South, Saint Marys (519-284-2820)
on Monday from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. The Funeral Service will be conducted
at the funeral home on Tuesday, April 26, 2005 at 11 a.m. with
Rev. Ken TAILOR/TAYLOR officiating. Interment in North Nissouri Cemetery.
Donations in Velma's memory may be made to the Canadian Cancer
Society or the charity of choice.
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SHAW,
Laura
Olivia (née
HAWES)
After a life of service to family and Friends, Laura Olivia
SHAW
(née HAWES) departed the body at Parkwood Hospital on Wednesday,
May 11th, 2005 in her 94th year. Beloved wife of the late Mr.
Charles Arthur
SHAW (1977.) Loving mother of Virginia
WOOD and
her late husband Keith and Sandra
MORRIS. Dear grandmother of
Laura GRAY/GREY
(John,)
Dale
WOOD (Christine,) Lynda
JACKSON, Shirley
MORRIS, Edward MORRIS, Celia
MORRIS, Eva
MORRIS (Allen
VON
BARGEN,
Christina FOWLER
(Neil.)
Great-grandmother of 23 and great-great-grandmother
of 5. Also survived by sister Virginia
ALWINE.
Will be missed
by many family and Friends. Predeceased by daughters Eloise
SHAW
and Beverly
NEFF. At
Laura's request, cremation has taken place.
A celebration of Laura's life will take place at a later date.
Memorial donations to the Theosophical Associates (799 Adelaide
St. North, London, Ontario N5Y 2L8) would honour the work that
Laura dedicated her life to.
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BATTY,
Edna
May "
Edie"
(BLACK)
At London Health Sciences Centre, Victoria Hospital, on Friday,
August 12, 2005, Edna May "Edie"
(BLACK)
BATTY of London, age
61 years. Beloved wife of Dave
BATTY. Dear mother of Debbie
FORWARD
and her husband Paul, Anne
ROWLES and her husband Rick, Mary
CROSSEN, and Connie
THWAITES and her husband Ken, all of London.
Dear sister of Norman
LAMB,
Ken
BLACK, Ruby
VON
GUNTEN and Betty
ROBERTS.
Predeceased by her brother Ralph
BLACK. Also loved by
her 13 grandchildren, 2 great-grandchildren and many other family
members. Friends will be received 2 hours prior to the funeral
service being conducted in the chapel of A. Millard George Funeral
Home, 60 Ridout Street South, London, on Wednesday, August 17th
at 2: 30 p.m. Interment in Woodland Cemetery, London. As expressions
of sympathy, memorial donations would be appreciated to the Heart
and Stroke Foundation of Ontario, 617 Wellington Street, London,
N6A 3R6. Online condolences accepted at www.amgeorgefh.on.ca.
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AUSTIN,
Arthur
Graham (1920-2005)
Peacefully at Royal City Manor in New Westminster, British Columbia
on January 26, 2005, in his 85th year. Graham
AUSTIN was born
in Calgary on August 13, 1920 to parents Arthur and Vera
AUSTIN.
He attended the University of Alberta, graduating in Commerce
and signed up as an officer in training in 1942. During his training
on the West Coast he courted his future wife, Audrey
PUTNAM of
Winnipeg, and was posted to England in the spring of 1943. Graham
served in the 5th Canadian Armoured Division as a Lieutenant
commanding a platoon of the 1st Canadian Motor Ambulance Convoy
evacuating wounded from the front. After the conclusion of the
Italian campaign Graham's unit was transferred to Northwest Europe
where he served with the Canadian Army in Holland. Upon Graham's
return to Canada in 1946 he married Audrey and settled in Calgary
where Graham obtained his Chartered Accountant's designation.
After working for some small companies engaged in oil and gas
exploration, Graham joined TransCanada Pipelines in 1954 as one
of the original employees. In 1956, Audrey, Graham and their
young family moved with TransCanada Pipelines to Toronto where
Graham was a key member of the team building the national pipeline.
Graham became Corporate Controller of TransCanada in 1971 and
was the first Canadian appointed as an officer to the American
Gas Association. Graham represented TransCanada Pipelines on
its first endeavours to develop the gas resources in the Arctic
and Mackenzie Valley delta and at the time of his retirement
in 1984 was Vice President and General Manager of one of the
company's diversified transmission operations. Graham was an
active member and committee volunteer at St. George's United
Church in Toronto, the Financial Executives Institute and enjoyed
entertaining his Friends and family at the family cottage on
Lake Muskoka. After retirement Graham remained active in volunteering
for several years as Treasurer of the Canadian National Institute
for the Blind. Graham was blessed with many dear Friends from
his youth, U of A, the Army, TransCanada and Muskoka. He loved
to cruise Lake Muskoka and was famous for his 'moose call' and
infectious laugh. His children have great memories of going on
day-long explorations of the three big lakes in the early days
with their Dad in his ten horsepower outboard. Graham was slowed
down with a stroke in 1989 but continued to live life as fully
as he could. In 2001, he and Audrey moved west again and settled
in New Westminster. Graham lost his beloved Audrey in 2002 and
missed her terribly but was buoyed by the support and comfort
of his family and Friends. Graham leaves his four children: Penny
NELSON (Paul), Joan
VON
ENGELBRECHTEN (Fred), Ron (Trudy) and
Paul
(Beth;) grandchildren Martha, Julia and Tristane
NELSON
Karl and Eric
VON
ENGELBRECHTEN; Danielle, Ryan and Tim
AUSTIN
and Alexander, Michelle and Natalie
AUSTIN; brother Douglas
AUSTIN
of Calgary and sister Madeline
FREEMAN of Toronto. Graham was
a fond brother-in-law to Jim and Bunny
PUTNAM,
Margaret
PUTNAM,
David and Carolyn
ELLIS and Mary
PUTNAM and remembered by numerous
nephews and nieces. A special note of thanks is extended by Graham's
family to Mary Ann Corona and all of the staff at Royal City Manor
for their wonderful care of Graham and Audrey over the years.
A memorial service will be held at Como Lake United Church, corner
of King Albert and Marmont streets, Coquitlam, British Columbia,
at 11: 00 am on Thursday February 3, 2005 with a reception to
follow. In lieu of flowers donations to the Canadian National
Institute for the Blind, 1929 Bayview Ave., Toronto, M4G 3E8
or if preferred to Central United Church, Calgary, Eglinton St.
George's United Church, Toronto, or to Como Lake United Church,
would be gratefully acknowledged.
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Nancy OAKES,
Heiress: 1924-2005
The Toronto-born socialite's courtroom testimony helped save
her playboy husband from the gallows. He had been accused in
the sensational 1943 murder of her father, the Ontario mining
magnate Harry
OAKES
By Tom HAWTHORN,
Special to The Globe and Mail, Saturday, February
19, 2005 - Page S9
A young Nancy
OAKES faced a tragedy beyond comprehension. Her
millionaire father, Sir Harry
OAKES, was bludgeoned and set afire
at his beachfront mansion in the Bahamas; her playboy husband,
a Mauritian-born count, was charged with the murder.
Police described to her in sordid detail a killing about which
they had no doubt as to guilt. The widow, Eunice Lady
OAKES,
believed police had fingered the culprit. The opinion was shared
by her peers in Bahamian high society, who at last found an excuse
for their lingering dislike of the foreigner with a French title.
In the face of overwhelming animosity, with evidence weighing
against her husband, Nancy
OAKES chose to believe the word of
the man with whom she had eloped a scant 14 months earlier. The
love affair scandalized her parents, who harboured great antipathy
for a son-in-law they suspected of being a gigolo and a gold
digger. The daughter's marriage put at risk her inheritance of
one of the world's greatest fortunes, created from gold found
in Northern Ontario.
Blessed with the good fortune to be born the beautiful daughter
of a multimillionaire, with auburn hair that turned heads at
the yacht club, Nancy
OAKES accepted the role of faithful and
trusting wife with a sang-froid beyond her years. She agreed
to be the final witness for the defence at her husband's trial.
Her testimony could determine his fate -- freedom, or the gallows.
She was just 19.
The murder and subsequent trial bumped war news from the front
page of newspapers around the English-speaking world in 1943.
The teenaged bride would forever after be known for what happened
in those days, a legacy that she would carry to her death, on
January 16 in London, at the age of 80.
The case has inspired a television mini-series, as well as Hollywood
films and several true-crime books. Novelists also have delighted
in the characters: a wealthy gold miner, his beautiful (but spoiled)
daughter, her louche lover, and, irresistibly, the Duke of Windsor,
the abdicated Edward VIII appointed governor of the colony, who
was to have golfed with Mr.
OAKES on the day of his murder and
whose inexplicable interference with the investigation raises
questions that remain unanswered to this day.
Born in Toronto, Nancy
OAKES was the first of Harry
OAKES's five
children. Their father was a gruff and irascible man whose ample
generosity did not always extend to his offspring.
Mr. OAKES, who was born and raised in Maine, quit medical school
as a young man to join the Klondike gold rush in 1898. He laboured
in poverty for years before staking a successful claim near Swastika,
Ontario He later sold his share in the claim to finance what
would become the greatest gold discovery in the Western Hemisphere,
the Lake Shore Mine at Kirkland Lake.
Soon, he was the richest man in the land, owning a lakeside chateau
near the mine as well as a hilltop estate on 20 acres overlooking
the Niagara River. These would be Nancy
OAKES's first homes.
In 1934, he abandoned Canada for the British West Indies to avoid
taxes levied on his great fortune by the Conservatives. Five
years later, he was granted a baronetcy by the king for his philanthropy.
His eldest daughter was schooled at Heathfield in Ascot, England
the Fermata in Aiken, S. C.; and the French School for Girls
in New York. She spent holidays with her family on the Bahamian
archipelago. On one of those visits she danced with Marie-Alfred
Fouquereaux DE
MARIGNY, known as Count
MARIGNY of Mauritius to
the newspapers and
as Freddie
MARIGNY to his Friends. Majestic
at 6-foot-5, dark-skinned from many hours aboard his yacht, he
was possessed of many flamboyant skills.
On May 19, 1942, two days after Nancy
OAKES attained her majority,
she was married to her dashing suitor by a county-court judge
in a ceremony in the Bronx. News of the elopement shocked her
parents, who disapproved of the groom, who, at 32, was already
twice divorced. (Sir Harry seemed to forget he was 48 when he
married Eunice
McINTYRE, 26, following a whirlwind romance.)
Relations were frosty.
On the morning of July 8, 1943, Sir Harry was discovered on his
back in bed in his second-floor chambers at Westbourne, a seaside
estate surrounded by hibiscus and bougainvillea. He was found
by his best friend, Harold
CHRISTIE, a wealthy real-estate agent
risen from poverty who was the baron's only house guest that
night.
As court would be told, Sir Harry's face was blackened by soot,
his groin and left hand burned. He had four small puncture wounds
above his left ear. Blood from his ear had dried across the bridge
of his nose. The body was covered in small pillow feathers, which
waved grotesquely from the stirrings in the room.
As governor, the Duke of Windsor decided not to entrust the investigation
into the murder of the colony's wealthiest citizen to the local
constabulary, nor to Scotland Yard. Instead, he called in two
detectives from nearby Miami. If the duke wished a quick resolution,
he got it. Within hours, the detectives arrested Mr. DE
MARIGNY,
announcing they had found his fingerprints on a Chinese bed screen
at the murder scene.
The count's wife, who, like her mother and siblings was in the
United States at the time of the killing, returned home convinced
of her spouse's innocence. She visited him in jail twice a week.
"I do all I can to make my husband comfortable," she told a reporter.
"I send linens and special dishes to him -- chicken and fish
and things like that. I suppose Freddie is what you'd call
a gourmet."
Meanwhile, Sir Harry's will was filed for probate shortly before
the opening of what was billed as the trial of the century. Rumours
of disinheritance proved wrong. The will, representing Nassau
holdings only, disposed of £3,671,700. The widow was awarded
one-third, with the remainder to be divided among the five children.
The countess was to receive two-fifteenths of her father's fortune
on turning 30, with an annual living allowance until then.
A Bahamas Supreme Court jury heard the Miami detectives present
the Crown's only physical evidence against the count, a single
print from the pinky finger of his right hand, introduced as
Exhibit J.
The count wept silently in the dock before composing himself
as his wife began testifying on November 9, 1943. She was dressed
in a black suit with white polka dots, wearing a white hat and
white gloves, "an appealing figure," one writer noted, "composed
but pale."
The defence wished to use her testimony to rebut the Crown's
suggested motive for murder.
"Mrs. DE MARIGNY," asked defence counsel, "at any time during
your married life has the accused ever attempted to obtain money
from you?"
"No," Nancy replied.
"Has the accused ever made a statement of hatred toward your
father?"
"No."
The defence had demolished earlier the Crown's fingerprint evidence,
proving the print had come not from the bed screen but likely
from an opaque drinking glass, or the cellophane wrap from a
pack of cigarettes. Both had been handed to the count by the
Miami detectives, raising questions as to their competence, if
not criminality.
The jury deliberated for one hour, 55 minutes before reaching
a verdict of not guilty on a 9-3 vote. The verdict was cheered
in the courtroom, yet the jury had also called for the count's
expulsion from the colony.
With the baron's estate tied up in court, the young couple auctioned
household goods to finance their exile in Cuba, where they stayed
with Ernest Hemingway.
By 1945, they had separated, the count signing an agreement reneging
on claims on her inheritance. He came to Montreal and enlisted
in the Canadian Army. In 1949, the New York Supreme Court ruled
the count's second divorce had not met statutory requirements
at the time he married the heiress. Their marriage was annulled.
In April, 1946, the heiress flew to Copenhagen after receiving
news of the death of Joergen Edsberg, a Danish Royal Air Force
pilot she planned to marry as soon as each obtained a divorce.
She arrived the day after a military funeral attended by the
pilot's wife and son, leaving a bouquet of lilacs at a grave
left open at the request of the pilot's mother.
Nancy OAKES's life was filled with tragic loss, her father's
savage murder being only the best known. An aunt drowned in the
sinking of the liner S.S. Mohawk off the New Jersey coast in
1935; a brother, William Pitt
OAKES, died of a heart attack complicated
by a liver ailment at 27 in 1958; brother Sydney, who inherited
Sir Harry's title, was killed at 39 in 1966 when his Sunbeam
Alpine failed to negotiate a curve. A sister, Shirley, spent
the final years of her life in a coma following an accident.
After the war, Nancy
OAKES provided fodder for gossip columnists
by being squired by dashing Hollywood stars. "Heiress Nancy
OAKES
and Philip Reed are Movietown's Big Talk," Walter Winchell wrote
in an item typical of what was also to be found under the bylines
of Dorothy Kilgallen and Hedda Hopper.
In a candlelight church ceremony performed by the Lord Bishop
of Nassau before a society crowd on December 29, 1952, Nancy
OAKES wed Baron Ernst Lyssardt
VON
HOYNINGEN-
HUENE of Oberammergau,
Germany, a union that would end in divorce less than four years
later.
On March 1, 1962, she married Patrick Claude Henry Tritton, a
Cambridge-educated importer of typewriters and firefighting equipment.
Her third wedding was held before a handful of close Friends
at the British ambassador's residence in Mexico City. Mr. Tritton
was said to have been the model for the Anthony Powell character
Dicky Umfraville, a likeable rogue.
After that marriage failed, she resumed using her second husband's
name, not discouraging the practice of being called the baroness.
Erle Stanley Gardner, the creator of Perry Mason, called the
baffling case "the greatest murder mystery of all time." Sent
by Time magazine to cover the trial, he maintained Sir Harry
was not killed in bed, but was moved there after death, as the
burns on the bedding did not match those on the body. As well,
the dried blood across the bridge of the nose indicated the body
had been rolled over after death. The writer raised the spectre
of the baron being tortured.
The murder has been attributed to a love triangle, to a voodoo
ritual killing, and to mobsters Meyer Lansky and Lucky Luciano,
whose dreams of casinos in the colony might have been thwarted
by the powerful Sir Harry. Even the Duke of Windsor is not above
suspicion.
Count DE MARIGNY, who died in Houston in 1998, wrote a book accusing
Mr. OAKES's best friend, Mr. Christie, later Sir Harold, of ordering
the murder. The crime remains unsolved 61 years after Nancy
OAKES
successfully asserted her husband's innocence.
Nancy Oakes
VON
HOYNINGEN-
HUENE was born in Toronto on May 17,
1924. She died in London on January 16, aged 80, and was buried
in Nassau, the Bahamas, on January 28. She leaves a son, Baron
Alexander VON
HOYNINGEN-
HUENE, known as Sasha; a daughter, Patricia
Oakes LEIGH-
WOOD; and a younger brother, Harry
OAKES.
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GERTLER,
Jeffrey
Lee
January 18, 2005
After a recurrence of brain cancer, despite the best of care
at the Clinique de Genolier, Switzerland, and the constant support
of family, colleagues and Friends, his courage and morale undiminished,
on January 18, 2005 he was taken from his wife, Ann Stewart
GERTLER
their sons Marin (fiancée Rocio
LASTRAS) and Joshua; his parents,
Maynard and Ann Straus
GERTLER; brothers and sisters-in-law,
Michael (JoAnn
JAFFE,)
Alfred
(Kathryn
MacRAE,) Franklin (Catherine
OLIVER) and Edward (Mary-Jo
LOW/LOWE/LOUGH;) sisters-in-law, Cynthia
VON
MAERESTETTEN and Rowena
STEWARD/STEWART/STUART; mother-in-law, Thisbe
STEWARD/STEWART/STUART
nieces, Lisa and Jardena; nephews, Mark, Maxim, Will, Leo, Nicholas,
John Nathaniel and Theo; beloved family member, Doris
WINKLER
and his extended family in Ottawa, Toronto, New York, California,
England and Scotland who survive him to celebrate his 51 productive
years. He was born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, among the
Plain People, where his college-teaching parents chose to farm.
But his education was to begin at Darwin House, Cambridge, England
(when they resumed research interrupted by service in the wartime
administrations and army (Maynard) of Franklin D. Roosevelt and
Harry S. Truman) -- to be continued largely at St. George's School,
Montreal. His further development was associated with training
institutes in non-violence and peace research, fostered by the
Canadian Peace Research Institute and sponsored by the Canadian
Friends Service Committee and the Canadian National Commission
of United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.
He was a "resource person" for the 1970 and 1971 high school
peace workshops which took place at Grindstone Island on Big
Rideau Lake, Portland, Ontario, the former summer home of Admiral
Sir
Charles
Edmund
KINGSMILL (first director of the Royal Canadian
Navy) and his family, and loaned by his heirs for that purpose.
Jeffrey's professional skills were acquired at Swarthmore College,
Pennsylvania, by a B.A., with emphasis on contemporary political
economy, history and French (Université de Grenoble), by study
at the Institute of Comparative International Law, Paris, on
Regulation of International Business Transactions, by a J.D.
at the University of San Diego, California, an
LLM from Georgetown
University, Washington, D.C., and by work with the Commonwealth
Secretariat, London, the U.S. International Trade Commission,
and the Office of the United States Trade Representative, among
others. A member of the California and District of Columbia bars
and of the American Society for International Law, he entered
his latest field of activity through applications to United Nations
and United Nations-affiliated agencies. Invited to Geneva by
the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, he was employed by
them in 1988, and stayed on when the General Agreement on Tariffs
and Trade evolved into the World Trade Organization in 1995.
As Senior Counsellor in the Legal Affairs Division, he was active
in the elaboration of dispute settlement procedures, in panels
pertaining to the admission of countries, such as China, to the
World Trade Organization, in work, duty travel and conferences
on four continents, including university-sponsored speaking engagements
on various aspects of globalization: human rights, labour, environment
and living conditions, as well as trade. Jeffrey gravitated toward
work in the public interest by an early internship with the Environmental
Defense Fund of Washington, D.C., and by a spell as Special Assistant
to the Rector of the United Nations University of Tokyo. Not
incidentally, his two non-professional affiliations in 1988 at
the time of joining the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
were with the Lawyers Alliance for Nuclear Arms Control, and
Friends of the Earth. He delighted in sailing off Norfolk, England,
on Lakes Ontario and Champlain, the Caribbean, the Mediterranean,
the Chesapeake with his wife Ann and boys, from their first home
at Shady Side, near Annapolis, Maryland, and Lake Geneva (Léman).
He loved life and knew well what to do with it, was an enthusiastic
skiier and swimmer, an accomplished photographer, a keen gardener
and family farmer, in Ontario, and an excellent cook. At various
times he played the recorder, violin and guitar. Family meant
the world to him, and his children were his greatest joy. Facing
final illness, his supreme regret was the prospect that he might
not be around to share in their lives, to support them, and to
help celebrate their accomplishments. The warmest of farewells
were given him at the Temple de Genolier above Lake Geneva, January
24, on a sunny day, emblazoned by fresh snow and invigorated
by the mountain air. In addition to his wife, sons and brothers,
some 150 Friends and colleagues were in attendance, many from
the World Trade Organization, the United Nations family, the
International School of Geneva, the United Nations High Commission
for Refugees, Femmes Pour la Paix, and the International Peace
Bureau. Following cremation, Jeffrey's remains will be interred
near his home in Divonne les Bains, France. Contact with the
family in Montreal may be had through Franklin
GERTLER, at Aldred
Building, 507 Place d'Armes, Suite 1200, Montreal, Québec, Canada
H2Y 2W8; telephone (514) 842-0748; e-mail: franklin@gertlerlex.ca,
or Maynard and Ann
GERTLER, at 482 Strathcona Avenue, Westmount,
Québec, Canada H3Y 2X1; telephone (514) 933-7913; fax (514) 933-1702
e-mail: ann.maynard.gertler@videotron.ca (and Box #58, Williamstown,
Ontario, Canada K0C 2J0; telephone (613) 347-3505.
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VON
RICHTHOFEN, Baroness Gisela (née Countess
VON
EINSIEDEL)
On April 4, 2005 in her Toronto home, surrounded by family. Born
on July 25, 1909 in Creba, Saxony, Germany as Chancellor Otto
VON
BISMARCK's first great-grandchild, and was in 1931 the youngest
woman ever to graduate from the University of Berlin Law School.
Immigrated to Canada in 1951. Pre-deceased in 2000 by her dearly
loved husband of 56 years, Baron Wolfgang
VON
RICHTHOFEN.
Beloved
beyond measure by children Christiane
PHILIPP (Karl-Reinhard,)
Veronika VON NOSTITZ-
TAIT/TAITE/TATE, Manfred
VON
NOSTITZ-
WALLWITZ (Judith),
Carmen VON
RICHTHOFEN, Nikolaus
VON
RICHTHOFEN (Donna
APRILE),
Micaela VON
RICHTHOFEN.
Also survived by a brother Count Heinrich
VON
EINSIEDEL (Helga). Grandchildren: Gisela
PHILIPP (deceased),
Maximilian
PHILIPP (Susanne), Juliane
WALDMANN (Ulf), Zoë
VON
NOSTITZ-TAIT/TAITE/TATE, Godfrey VON NOSTITZ-
TAIT, Kaspar
VON
NOSTITZ-
WALLWITZ,
Otto VON NOSTITZ-
WALLWITZ, Emma
VON
RICHTHOFEN. Great-grandchildren:
Conrad WALDMANN, Anton
WALDMANN, Paula
WALDMANN, Enno
PHILIPP.
Nephews: Gisbert
VON
EINSIEDEL, Sebastian
VON
EINSIEDEL, Dominik
VON
EINSIEDEL, Daniel
VON
RICHTHOFEN. Cremation and private family
tribute. In lieu of flowers, please donate to The Temmy Latner
Centre For Palliative Care, Mount Sinai Hospital Foundation of
Toronto, 600 University Avenue, Suite 218, Toronto, Ontario M5G
1X5.
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BERNARDO,
Frances▼
Agnes▼
(BERRIGAN)
Passed peacefully in her 89th year reuniting with her life long
love Salvatore. In the company of her children she slipped away
from asthma and respiratory complications. Frances was the foundation
upon which her family was built. She gave them roots and she
gave them wings remarked family friend Fr. Paul of St. Gabriel's
Parish. A pillar of quiet strength with a wicked sense of humour
she guided with common sense wisdom and an infinite reservoir
of love. She was an example of dignity and grace. Frances is
survived by her daughter Donnamarie
McGOVERN
(Paul,▼) daughter
Joanne HALE
(Robert▼) and son Paul
BERNARD (Christane
VON
KLEIST.)
She was proud to have the love of her grandchildren Jim and John
McGOVERN, Michele
MCINNES/MCINNIS, Christina
McGOVERN, Denise
HALE, Evan
and Janelle
BERNARDO and her great grandchildren Taylor, Britney
and Ashley
McGOVERN,
Madison▼ and Caralee
McGOVERN, Alexander,
Adam and Olivia
MacDONALD,
Shanna,▼ and Angel
MCINNES/MCINNIS, step great
grandchildren Meghan and Sarah
McINNNES and her new friend and
companion Alicia
DUNN.
Friends▼ may visit at the Jerrett Funeral
Home, 6191 Yonge St. (2 lights south of Steeles) on Tuesday,
May 24, 2005 from 2 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m. Funeral Mass will take
place at St. Gabriel's Parish, 650 Sheppard Ave. E. (east of
Bavyiew Ave.) on Wednesday at 10 a.m. Interment Holy Cross Cemetery.
In her memory, donations to the Lung Association would be appreciated.
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Gisela VON
RICHTHOFEN,
Aristocrat,
Farmer: 1909-2005
Born into German nobility, she grew up within a stone's throw
of the Kaiser, experienced life under the Nazis and then emigrated
to Canada where she became a three-time Ontario dressage champion
By F.F. LANGAN,
Special to The Globe and Mail Thursday, June
2, 2005, Page S9
Baroness Gisela
VON
RICHTHOFEN was born into the German aristocracy,
but spent more than half her life in Canada, much of it on a
farm outside Toronto. The freedom of the rural life in Canada
was in sharp contrast to the world into which she born.
She lived for all but 8½ years of the 20th century. Just her
name, VON
RICHTHOFEN, provides a hint of her life. Manfred
VON
RICHTHOFEN, known as the Red Baron, was the top fighter pilot
of the First World War. But when the famous
VON
RICHTHOFEN was
killed in April of 1918, Gisela was just 8 years old and knew
as much about the Red Baron as any other German child. He was
a cousin of her future husband.
She was born Countess Gisela
VON
EINSIEDEL, one notch up from
a baroness on the nobility scale. She was the first great-grandchild
of Prince Otto
VON
BISMARCK, the Iron Chancellor who forged the
German Empire in the mid 19th century.
The wars of the 20th century shaped her life. Her father survived
the First World War; other members of her family did not. One
brother was killed in France in 1940. Another brother, a fighter
pilot, was shot down three times, the last time over Stalingrad
in 1942. He was taken prisoner by the Russians and did not return
to Germany until 1951.
As the wife of a diplomat she was a witness to the intrigue of
the Second World War. Her first husband was posted to Warsaw
before the start of the war and then to Paris during the German
occupation. One of her close Friends -- and godfather to her
son Manfred -- was Adam
VON
TROTT, the diplomat executed for
his part in the failed plot to kill Adolf Hitler in 1944.
Gisela grew up on an estate in Saxony near Berlin. One of her
neighbours was the German empress. When she was about 8 years
old, one of Gisela's Friends dared her to climb the wall to the
estate next door. Her pluck impressed the empress and she was
invited to tea.
At the start of the First World War she saw her father off with
his cavalry regiment, though she was more interested in the horses.
"I was 5 years old and I went with my mother to the barracks
and saw him go off to war," she wrote years later. "The horses
being loaded on the train was what fascinated me. I was too young
to have a perspective of what the war meant."
She spent the war on an agricultural estate near Heidelberg.
After the war, her father worked as an estate manager and then
for an agricultural-equipment firm. During the 1920's, Germany
was ravaged by a post-war economic collapse and her family lost
much of their land. Instead, Gisela went to university and, at
22, was the youngest woman to graduate from the University of
Berlin law school. She didn't practise long since the Nazis came
to power in 1933 and they didn't approve of women in professions.
In 1936, she married a diplomat, Oswalt
VON
NOSTITZ, and had
the first of six children. After the fall of France in 1940,
she moved with him to Paris but during that time the marriage
collapsed. She soon wed Baron Wolfgang
VON
RICHTHOFEN, an officer
in General
GUDERIAN's tank regiment who, before the war, had
owned an art gallery in Berlin.
By the time the final months of the Second World came around,
Gisela and her three children were staying on the Bismarck estate
of Varzin in Pomerania and feared the approach of the Soviet
army. Her husband Wolfgang, with the help of her ex-husband,
managed to get a car with Japanese diplomatic licence plates
(there were almost no civilian cars on the road) and mounted
a rescue mission. The baron slipped away from his post for several
days (an act punishable by firing squad), and used formaldehyde
to fuel the car, since gasoline was impossible to find.
"My stepfather was Absent Without Leave and he had to use the
back roads to avoid Gestapo checkpoints," recalls Manfred
VON
NOSTITZ, who went on to a career in the Canadian diplomatic service
as high commissioner to Malaysia and ambassador to Pakistan and
Thailand. "In Berlin we experienced some of the heaviest bombing.
My mother was always very cool under pressure. At one stage she
moved us from one shelter just before it was destroyed by bombs."
Life in Germany after the war was harsh. The
VON
RICHTHOFEN family
was homeless, being from what would soon be called East Germany.
For a while, they lived in rooms in a small castle in Ramholz
with a friend from Baron
VON
RICHTHOFEN's regiment. At school,
the children were harassed.
"I remember my mother once saw a chicken roaming free, grabbed
it, killed it and cooked it for us. For the most part, we survived
on cabbage, which I still can't stand," said Mr.
VON
NOSTITZ.
The VON
RICHTHOFENs decided to emigrate. "My parents didn't feel
at home in western Germany. They said they saw former Nazis in
positions of authority, people like lawyers and doctors, and
didn't want us growing up with them," said Carmen
VON
RICHTHOFEN.
In 1951, the family bought an 80 hectare farm near Campbellville
outside Toronto and arrived with little money. Mrs.
VON
RICHTHOFEN,
as she was almost always called in Canada, set out to make her
new life a success. Later, her husband concentrated on training
race horses, but at first they ran a mixed farm with everything
from dairy cattle to field crops and chickens. She took night
courses at the Ontario Agricultural College in nearby Guelph.
Along the way, Micaela, the last of her children, was born.
Her mother, Bismarck's grand-daughter, also lived in the house.
Mrs. VON
RICHTHOFEN cooked for 10 people and sewed clothes for
her children and for herself. Yet, for all that, her years on
the farm were among her happiest. For one thing, it meant a renewal
of her love for horses. In the early days on the farm, she jogged
trotters up and down Guelph Line, then a dirt road with little
traffic and at age 50 she taught herself dressage.
From 1964 to 67, she won three Ontario dressage championships.
She continued riding until she was 84. On her 75th birthday,
her daughters Carmen and Micaela worked for hours posing her
on a horse in her dressage outfit. The idea was to mirror a photograph
taken of her ancestor Otto
VON
BISMARCK on his 75th birthday.
Mrs. VON
RICHTHOFEN and her husband left their farm in 1985 and
moved to Toronto.
Gisela Sybille Frieda Else Marguerite
VON
EINSIEDEL was born
in Creba, Saxony, Germany, on July 25, 1909. She died in Toronto
on April 4, 2005. She leaves her children Christine, Veronika
and Manfred
VON
NOSTITZ and Carmen, Nikolaus and Micaela
VON
RICHTHOFEN.
Her husband died in 2000.
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WAENGLER, Ernst "Ernest" G., Dr. Iur (Feb. 12, 1917-June 26,
On Sunday, June 26, 2005 in his 89th year. After enjoying a Bloody
Caesar and lunch at home while awaiting a visit from old Friends
his heart simply stopped. Immediate attempts by his caregiver
and paramedics failed to revive him. His wife Sheila was at his
side, his lover of fiftyfour years. The
son of Dr. Fritz and
Edith WAENGLER, he was born in Vienna, Austria February 12, 1917.
He attended the Schotten Gymnasium where classmates recalled
he was the tallest in the class, the worst in gymnastics and
the funniest. In the spring of 1939 upon receiving a Dr. of Laws
Degree from Vienna University with his call up for the German
army he surreptitiously left for Paris and London. In 1940 with
the enemy at the door the British Interned all 'enemy aliens'
whether they were a threat or not and Ernst was rounded up and
shipped to the Isle of Man and then to Canada. Among the Internees
was Crown Prince Friedrich of Prussia and the former chef of
the Ritz in London. So the internees ate royally on army rations.
In 1941 they were released in Canada where he has lived ever
since. He did panel shows on Canadian Broadcasting Corporation,
wrote original scripts and English adaptations of German language
scripts. He also did drama reviews for the Globe and Mail and tried
his hand at directing which is where he met his future wife,
Sheila CRAIG who was an actress. He also wrote for MacLeans,
the Telegram and economic articles for the Financial Post. From
1981 to 1996 he was the Canadian Correspondent for the Neue Zuercher
Zeitung based in Zurich writing Economic and political Analyses.
During this time he traveled, often with his wife to some 65
countries as a foreign corespondent. He leaves his sister Ina
and her husband Dipl. Ing Dr. Rolf
VON
PARTL, his nephew Hubert
VON
PARTL (his wife, daughter and grand nephew,) his nieces Edith
and Irene VON
PARTL; his brother-in-law Dr. Ronald R.
TASKER
and his children Moira, James, Ronald and Alison
TASKER; his
brother-in-law James B.
CRAIG, his wife
Lise and James' children
Bruce, Tara, Sheila and D'Arcy, as well as many Friends and his
beloved caregiver Hilda
ZEPEDA.
Service to he held on Thursday,
June 30th, 2005 at 11 a.m. at Mt. Pleasant Cemetery and Crematorium,
Carfrae Chapel (375 Mt. Pleasant Rd., west side). In lieu of
flowers a donation to your local Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals or a charity of your choice would be appreciated.
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VON
KUSTER,
Clifford, 2000 -- Died This Day
Thursday, November 3, 2005, Page S7
Musician and teacher born on June 2, 1921, in Turtleford, Saskatchewan.
Always fascinated by music, he took piano lessons at the age
of 5 and contemplated a career in music. After service in the
Second World War, he enrolled at the University of Toronto, where
he graduated with a bachelor of music degree in 1949. He also
studied at the Toronto Conservatory of Music, later known as
the Royal Conservatory of Music, and abroad. In 1952, he was
hired by the Music Teachers' College in London, Ontario, and
became principal when the college affiliated with the University
of Western Ontario in 1960. In 1968, he became the first dean
of the faculty of music at the university.
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Bob MacWILLIAM,
Aviator: (1937-2005)
Pilot became aviation detective who sifted through the evidence
for royal commissions that investigated two fatal air crashes
By Danny GALLAGHER,
Special to The Globe and Mail, Friday, November
4, 2005, Page S7
Toronto -- As a young child, Bob
MacWILLIAM loved to build model
airplanes. He realized his boyhood dream of becoming a pilot,
logging more than 20,000 hours with the Royal Canadian Air Force,
Qantas and Air Canada.
Air
Canada thought so much of Mr.
MacWILLIAM, he was hired to
be a trainer and check pilot. His expertise also made him a renowned
hired hand at special hearings, commissions and tribunals. When
fatal air crashes took place in Cranbook, British Columbia, and
in Dryden, Ontario, Mr.
MacWILLIAM was hired as a technical adviser
to the royal commissions of inquiry.
Mr. MacWILLIAM joined the Royal Canadian Air Force in the mid-1950s
and stayed for 10 years. He flew CF-100s, all-weather fighter
planes, in Baden-Solingen, Germany, during the Cold War of the
late 1950s. He married his wife, Nancy, an Royal Canadian Air
Force nurse, while posted in Germany.
In 1962, he completed his flight instructor's course. "I used
to envy Bob a lot because he loved his job so much," his widow
said.
He retired with the notion of joining Air Canada but there were
no openings, so he headed to Sydney and flew for Qantas, Australia's
national airline. Less than two years later, Air Canada offered
him a job. For the next 31 years, he flew as captain of the Airbus
A-320, Boeing 767 and 727, and was chief instructor for the 727.
Along the way, Mr.
MacWILLIAM helped design and implement the
pilots' safety awareness program for Air Canada, a scheme that
includes a system of anonymous incident reporting.
His expertise was also required when Transport Canada, through
initiatives of Canadian prime minister Pierre Trudeau and transport
minister Otto Lang, came up with the idea that air traffic controllers
should be bilingual. Mr.
MacWILLIAM was appointed technical representative
for the Canadian Airline Pilots' Association at a commission
of inquiry. His report to members was unflattering.
"French is not the international language of the air," Mr.
MacWILLIAM
said. "Imposing the use of two languages into air traffic control...
constitutes a degradation in the safety of the Canadian air traffic
control system. To impose, for political reasons only, the use
of another language into that environment is irresponsible."
His remarks made their way to the 1976 annual meeting of the
International Federation of Airline Pilots' Associations, where
they were endorsed by 65 member countries. Because of that, Canadian
Airline Pilots' Association declared Canada's air traffic control
system unreliable and
on June 19, 1976, the pilots went on strike.
Air traffic controllers had already declared job action and for
nine days nothing moved at Canada's airports.
"Bob was my technical safety expert from 1974-78 when I was president
of Canadian Airline Pilots' Association," said Ken
MALEY, then
a senior captain with Canadian Pacific. "Trudeau was interested
in bilingualizing everything in Canada. Bob and I and the pilots
wouldn't accept this idea. The issue festered for about 18 months
and we drew the line and decided to close Canadian air space
for safety reasons. I felt it wasn't safe for the pilots to fly
when we didn't know if the air traffic controllers were working
or not working."
On February 11, 1978, a Pacific West Airlines Boeing 737 crashed
at the airport in Cranbook, British Columbia, while trying to
avoid a giant snow blower. Forty-two people died and Mr.
MacWILLIAM
was made the senior technical adviser at the ensuing Dubin royal
commission of inquiry. In his report, Mr. Justice Charles
DUBIN
criticized the Ministry of Transport for its procedures regarding
clearing aircraft to land at airports that do not have a control
tower. He also was critical of the fact that the company operating
manuals and training did not inform pilots that once the "reverse
thrust" was applied after landing, the throttles could not be
advanced to take-off position for a "go around." Much of the
technical data had originated with Mr.
MacWILLIAM.
"The people involved with that inquiry thought the world of Bob,"
said Fred VON
VEH, then legal adviser to transport minister Don
MAZANKOWSKI.
In 1989, Mr.
MacWILLIAM served a similar role after an Air Ontario
Fokker F-28 jet crashed in Dryden in March of that year, killing
24 people. The plane had been headed for Winnipeg but crashed
shortly after takeoff. It had sat on a runway under an accumulation
of snow and then tried to get airborne. The crash prompted another
royal commission, one headed by Mr. Justice Virgil
MOSHANSKY.
The inquiry became the definitive study on the problems of deicing
aircraft. Among its recommendations, the report said planes should
be deiced at the gate holding area and then the process repeated
before they queue for takeoff.
"Bob was very helpful... really smart. He brought a lot of expertise
to the table," Judge
MOSHANSKY said from Calgary.
After he retired, Mr.
MacWILLIAM formed Macavia Aviation Consultants
and was president of both the Canadian International Air Show
and the Canadian National Exhibition.
Bob MacWILLIAM was born October 26, 1937, in Salisbury, New Brunswick
He died of respiratory failure stemming from pulmonary fibrosis
on July 22, 2005, in Toronto. He is survived by his wife Nancy,
sister Valerie, daughter Barbara and sons Casey and Michael.
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SCOTT,
Eric
Cameron, B.A.Sc.
Passed away in Ottawa on December 20, 2005. Dear husband of Jane
GOODCHILD.
Loving father of David
SCOTT (Laura
CUPPER) Carleton
Place, Sandie
STINSON (Allan) North Bay, Brian
SCOTT (Evelyn
VON
MICHALOFSKI) Belleville and Glen
SCOTT (Kim
ROSENTRETER)
Calgary.
Proud grandfather of Katie and Margaret
SCOTT;
Carrie,
Scott, Julie and Travis
STINSON;
Olive
SCOTT; Joelle,
Jeremy
and Benjamin
SCOTT.
Special grandfather of Reyna
URIARTE. Born
in Picton, Ontario, May 24, 1926.
son of the late Ella Mae
BONGARD
and Wilfred Ernest
SCOTT.
Predeceased by his brother and friend
Sherman. Engineer, banker, fisherman, clarinettist and book editor.
Eric graduated as a Civil Engineer from the University of Toronto
in 1949. During his career he worked for Canadian International
Paper, Canadian Industries Limited, The Engineering Institute
of Canada and 25 years with the Industrial Development Bank,
later to be the Federal Business Development Bank. He cherished
the many Friendships across Canada from those years. Friends
may visit at the West Chapel of Hulse, Playfair and McGarry,
150 Woodroffe Avenue at Richmond Road, Ottawa on Saturday January
7, 2006 from 1: 00 p.m. until service time in the Chapel at 2:30
p.m. As an expression of sympathy, memorial contributions to
the charity of one's choice would be appreciated. Condolences/donations
at mcgarryfamily.ca
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VERSLYPPE, Sr. Mary Joseph Julia, R.S.G.
Peacefully at the Convent of the Good Shepherd, after a long
illness. Sister made her profession as a Sister of Our Lady of
Charity of the Good Shepherd May 19, 1938 in Halifax, Nova Scotia,
serving in Winnipeg, Sudbury, Windsor and Toronto. Daughter of
the late Cyril
VERSLYPPE and Adronie
(BRACKEZ.)
Sister is survived
by her nieces, Mrs. Mary
BRUNETTE and Mrs. Frances
VON
WALLEGHEM
and her nephew, Mr. Tony
SENDEN of Winnipeg. Friends may call
at the Ward Funeral Home, 2035 Weston Rd. (north of Lawrence
Ave.), Weston, 416-241-4618. Visitation at the Convent of the
Good Shepherd, 25 Good Shepherd Court on Sunday 7-9 p.m. Funeral
Mass will be held on Monday, March 14, 2005 at 10 a.m. at the
Good Shepherd Chapel, 416-787-4285. Interment to follow at Mt.
Hope Cemetery.
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GUNTHER,
Carl Coord-Julius
Karl Coord-Julius
VON
GUENTHER,
August 3, 1929, died peacefully
at Toronto Grace Hospital on March 29, 2005. Carl, loving husband
of Ursula-Ruth, beloved father and father-in-law of Carmen (Christian)
and Kevin GILBERT,
Cherry and Kevin
FLEMING/FLEMMING of Dartmouth, Nova
Scotia, Carol and Richard
MOORE of Yellowknife, N.W.T. Proud
grandfather of Evan, Hannah, Chloe and Richard Jr. Loved brother
of Mareke, predeceased by sister Ingrid. Carl will be missed
by his family and Friends at the Long Branch Legion, and various
acquaintances from his colourful and interesting life. Carl served
as a Medic in the Canadian Armed Forces prior to graduating from
Ryerson and working for the Etobicoke Public Heath Department,
which he then retired from in 1993 after 25 years. Before immigrating
to Canada, he also served in the British Royal Navy after leaving
Germany as a young man after World War 2. His services to H.R.H.
were greatly valued and he was consistently well respected in
any field that he applied himself to. He bravely chose not to
battle the cancer that eventually took his life, and he will
be deeply and sadly missed by all who knew him. Private Cremation
will take place on Tuesday, April 5th at Carl's request. In memory,
contributions to the Salvation Army Toronto Grace Hospital would
be appreciated. To send expressions of sympathy or make a donation,
visit: www.hoglefuneralhomes.com
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BERNARDO,
Frances▲▼
Agnes▲▼
(BERRIGAN)
Passed peacefully in her 89th year, reuniting with her life long
love Salvatore. In the company of her children she slipped away
from asthma and respiratory complications. Frances was the foundation
upon which her family was built. "She gave them roots and she
gave them wings" remarked family friend Fr. Paul of St. Gabriel's
Parish. A pillar of quiet strength with a wicked sense of humour
she guided with common sense wisdom and an infinite reservoir
of love. She was an example of dignity and grace. Frances is
survived by her daughter Donnamarie
McGOVERN
(Paul,▲▼) daughter
Joanne HALE
(Robert▲▼) and son Paul
BERNARD (Christane
VON
KLEIST.)
She was proud to have the love of her grandchildren Jim and John
McGOVERN, Michele
MCINNES/MCINNIS, Christina
McGOVERN, Denise
HALE, Evan
and Janelle
BERNARDO and her great-grandchildren Taylor, Britney
and Ashley
McGOVERN,
Madison▲▼ and Caralee
McGOVERN, Alexander,
Adam and Olivia
MacDONALD,
Shanna,▲▼ and Angel
MCINNES/MCINNIS, step-great-grandchildren
Meghan and Sarah
MCINNES/MCINNIS and her new friend and companion Alicia
DUNN.
Friends▲▼ may visit at the Jerrett Funeral Home, 6191 Yonge
St. (2 lights south of Steeles) on Tuesday, May 24, 2005 from
2 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m. Funeral Mass will take place at St. Gabriel's
Parish, 650 Sheppard Ave. E. (east of Bayview Ave.) on Wednesday
at 10: 00 a.m. Interment Holy Cross Cemetery. In her memory, donations
to the Lung Association would be appreciated.
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BERNARDO,
Frances▲
Agnes▲
(BERRIGAN)
Passed peacefully in her 89th year, reuniting with her life long
love Salvatore. In the company of her children she slipped away
from asthma and respiratory complications. Frances was the foundation
upon which her family was built. "She gave them roots and she
gave them wings" remarked family friend Fr. Paul of St. Gabriel's
Parish. A pillar of quiet strength with a wicked sense of humour
she guided with common sense wisdom and an infinite reservoir
of love. She was an example of dignity and grace. Frances is
survived by her daughter Donnamarie
McGOVERN
(Paul,▲) daughter
Joanne HALE
(Robert▲) and son Paul
BERNARD (Christane
VON
KLEIST.)
She was proud to have the love of her grandchildren Jim and John
McGOVERN, Michele
MCINNES/MCINNIS, Christina
McGOVERN, Denise
HALE, Evan
and Janelle
BERNARD and her great-grandchildren Taylor, Brittany
and Ashley
McGOVERN,
Madison▲ and Caralee
McGOVERN, Alexander,
Adam and Olivia
MacDONALD,
Shanna,▲ and Angela
MCINNES/MCINNIS, step-great-grandchildren
Meaghan and Sarah
MCINNES/MCINNIS and her new friend and companion Alicia
DUNN.
Friends▲ may visit at the Jerrett Funeral Home, 6191 Yonge
St. (2 lights south of Steeles) on Tuesday, May 24, 2005 from
2 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m. Funeral Mass will take place at St. Gabriel's
Parish, 650 Sheppard Ave. E. (east of Bayview Ave.) on Wednesday
at 10: 00 a.m. Interment Holy Cross Cemetery. In her memory, donations
to the Lung Association would be appreciated.
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KOSTKA,
Tina
Marie (née
HARPER)
Passed away suddenly on Friday September 9th, 2005. Loving mother
of Lee-Ann and Kimberly. Dearly missed by her sister Kathy and
her husband
VON
MacDONALD.
Caring aunt of Melanie, Tara, Philip
and Trevor. Beloved daughter of Jack
HARPER and the late Bertha
HARPER.
Tina will be missed by her family, Friends and co-workers.
Friends may call at the Giffen-Mack "Danforth" Funeral Home and
Cremation Centre, 2570 Danforth Ave. (at Main St. subway), 416-698-3121
on Monday, September 12, 2005 from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. Service in
the Giffen-Mack Chapel on Tuesday at 11 a.m. Cremation to follow.
Memorial donations can be made to the Arthritis Society.
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LINDOP,
Elsie
Gwendolyn
Sybil (née
SHRIBBS)
Peacefully in her sleep at Friendly Manor, Deseronto, July 30,
2005, in her 92nd year. Beloved wife of the late George Norman
(1995.) Predeceased by her parents Elsie and Reginald
SHRIBBS,
her sister Honor
LEMON and survived by sisters Betty
DICKSON/DIXON of
Napanee and June
NEEDHAM of Montreal. Loved and loving mother
of daughters Wendy
CONLON of Napanee and Mary
SHAW
(John) of
Kitchener. Cherished Grandma of Jeff
CONLON
(Sylvia) of Brampton,
Joy SHIMANUKI
(Hideyuki) of Japan, Werner
VON
GOTSCHL and Susan
SHAW of Kitchener. Dear Gammie to Chloe, Nicholas and Jeffrey
CONLON,
Kaede and Emily
SHIMANUKI. Cremation has taken place
and a Memorial Service will be held at a later date. Donations
in Sybil's memory to Etobicoke Services for Seniors, 1447 Royal
York Road, Etobicoke, M9P 3V8 would be appreciated by the family.
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VON
HASSELBACH,
Sophia
Barbara
Born and passed away on Saturday, October 1, 2005. First born
for Drew and Carolyn. Our instant angel will be greatly missed
by her loving family. Special thanks to the obstetrical staff
of North York General Hospital for their care and compassion.
Funeral Mass will be held on Wednesday, October 5 at 10 a.m.
at Holy Rosary Church (354 St. Clair Ave. W.). Interment to follow.
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KULMIZ,
Lothar "
Luke"
Passed away peacefully and in gratitude on Monday, December 5th,
2005 at age 58. Cherished husband of Margaret Osmond
VON
KULMIZ.
Beloved son of Leonhard and the late Eva. Devoted father of Nicole,
Elise, Lucas and step-father of Trevor. Proud grandpa of Keegan.
Loving brother of Paul and his wife Maureen. His spiritual generosity
touched the lives of all he knew. Visitation will be held on
Monday, December 12th, 2005 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. and 7 p.m.
to 9 p.m. at the Pine Hills Visitation, Chapel and Reception
Centre (625 Birchmount Road, 416-267-8229). A funeral service
to celebrate Luke's life will be held at a later date. If desired,
donations can be made to the M.D.S. Foundation. Visit www.etouch.ca
for further details. Frater Ave Atque Valle
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BREESE,
Thomas
Samuel
Suddenly at the Norfolk General Hospital, Simcoe on Sunday, October
9th, 2005 in his 49th year. Dear husband of Kimberley
BREESE
(née BLOYE) of LaSalette. Loving father of Derek, Valerie and
Rachel BREESE still at home. Beloved
son of Jack and Betty
BREESE
and brother to Pam
CHASE, all of Toronto. Dear son-in-law of
John BLOYE and his wife, the late Shirley (2005.) Brother-in-law
of Don BLOYE (Sue), Linda
VONA (Mark), Barry
BLOYE - predeceased
(Gale,) and Carol
COLLIER
(Bill.)
Terrific uncle to many nieces
and nephews; and special friend to Pam
COLUMBUS.
Predeceased
by his brother-in-law Steve
BLOYE.
Tom loved kids and spent much
of his time coaching children in minor sports. He will be sadly
missed by all who knew him. Friends are invited to share their
memories of Tom with his family at the Jason Smith Funeral Chapel,
689 Norfolk St. North, Simcoe, Ontario N3Y 3R3, 519-426-0199
for visitation on Thursday, October 13th, 2005 from 12 noon to
2 p.m. A funeral service will be held in the chapel following
visitation at 2: 00 p.m. with Reverend Ron
ASHTON officiating.
Private family interment of ashes at a later date. In lieu of
flowers, memorial donations payable to Ronald McDonald House
would be gratefully acknowledged by the family. Online condolences
at www.smithfuneralchapel.com
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MERCER-
ANDERSON,
Kim
Louise
It is with great sadness the family of Kim Louise
MERCER-
ANDERSON,
announce her sudden passing on Friday, December 31st, 2004, in
her 47th year. Loving and cherished mother of Derek and Myles
MERCER.
Beloved wife of Raymond
ANDERSON. Daughter of the late
William MERCER (1975.) Survived by loving mother Noella
MERCER.
Dear sister of Michele
CALDWELL,
Dawn
JARVIS, Terri
VONWOLFF,
Dale MERCER and Lisa
KEANE.
Also survived by several nieces and
nephews. Visitation will be held on Tuesday from 2: 00-4:00 and
7: 00-9:00 p.m. at Forest Lawn Memorial Chapel, 1997 Dundas Street
East, where the funeral service will be conducted on Wednesday,
January 5th, 2005 at 1: 00 p.m. Cremation to follow. Those wishing
to make a donation in memory of Kim are asked to consider Wellspring
London and Region. Westview Funeral Chapel (641-1793) entrusted
with arrangements.
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