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DUFF,
Judith
A. (née
YALDEN-
THOMPSON/THOMSON/TOMPSON/TOMSON)
Peacefully at her home in Wellington after a lengthy battle with
cancer on Tuesday, June 21st, 2005. Beloved mother of Colin (Chinagi)
of Japan and Jennifer of Toronto. Dear sister of Peter (Susie)
and dear aunt to David. Loved grandmother of Allison. A true
lady, her sense of humour and warmth will be sadly missed and
lovingly remembered. Special thanks to Dr. Peter
JOHANNSSON,
Kathy SARTY
(Access
Centre) and all Victorian Order of Nurses
staff for the wonderful care. A Memorial Service will be held
and announced later in the summer. If desired, donations to the
Canadian Cancer Society would be appreciated by the family. Arrangements
entrusted to the Whattam Funeral Home, Picton. On line condolence
and donations at www.whattamfuneralhome.com
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YALE o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2005-07-21 published
SHAINHOUSE,
Louis
On Wednesday, July 20, 2005 at Sunnybrook Hospital. Louis
SHAINHOUSE
beloved husband of Aida. Loving father of Michael, and Deborah.
Dear brother and brother-in-law of Sam and Beatrice, the late
Rose and Irving
SILVERSTEIN, the late Oscar and Florence
SHAINHOUSE,
Rivie and the late Joe
COOPER, and Esther and the late Bernard
YALE.
Devoted grandfather of Jill and Marnie. Devoted uncle to
all his nieces and nephews. Special thanks to Lorie and Thita.
At Beth Tzedec Synagogue, 1700 Bathurst St. (Bathurst south of
Eglinton) for service on Thursday, July 21 at 12: 30 p.m. Interment
at Beth Tzedec Memorial Park. Shiva 3900 Yonge St. #502. If desired,
memorial donations may be made to The Louis Shainhouse Memorial
Foundation c/o The Benjamin Foundation, 3429 Bathurst St. Toronto,
Ontario M6A 2C3, 416-780-0324.
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YALE o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2005-06-18 published
JONES,
Elizabeth (née
HERBERT)
Peacefully, in Mississauga, Ontario, in her 99th year. Beloved
wife of the late Charles. Cherished mother of Elsie Elizabeth
YALE and her husband Robert. Beloved grandmother of Joanne
FLETCHER
and her husband Peter of Geneva, Switzerland, and Susan
TAILOR/TAYLOR
of Mississauga, Ontario. Great-grandmother to Jessica, Christopher
and Sarah, James, Ashleigh and Jillian. Great-great-grandmother
of Nathaniel. Memorial Service will be held at The Simple Alternative
Funeral Centre - Mississauga, 1535 South Gateway Road (Dixie
Rd., 2 lights south of Eglinton) 905-602-1580 on Wednesday, July
6, 2005 at 2 p.m.
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YALE o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2005-11-14 published
Linda HACKETT, 56: 'Upbeat' volunteer
Even chemotherapy couldn't dull Linda
HACKETT's appreciation
of life
Her many Friends recall an indomitable spirit
By Catherine
DUNPHY,
Lifelines
Linda HACKETT was just one of 375 volunteers who deliver 30,000
copies of Beach Metro News community newspaper. She'd been distributing
80 copies throughout 59 Edgewood, the low-rise apartment building
where she lived, since September, 2001 as reliable as rain.
The paper's general manager, Sheila
BLINOFF, had no idea
HACKETT
was blind until one day last spring when she showed up at the
office to have her picture taken for the paper with her new guide
dog Ginny.
"She was always so upbeat,"
BLINOFF said. "She told me it was
a good thing we were taking her picture that day when she had
her hair because she was starting a new round of chemotherapy
the next week."
It was not her first run-in with the disease. She beat back advanced
skin cancer in 1980 by having skin and muscle removed from her
shoulder, then fought breast cancer with a total mastectomy in
March, 2003, followed by chemo and radiation later that year.
When the cancer flared again the next summer, she signed on for
more chemotherapy. But on May 25 she was told her cancer was
back, and this time, it wouldn't be going away.
Nevertheless, two days later she attended the regular monthly
seniors' lunch program run by Meals Here and There, where she
announced it was Ginny's birthday, to great fanfare.
The next day she gamely went out in a borrowed wheelchair to
the annual Beaches Triangle neighbourhood garage sale, where
she scored a keyboard. She loved garage sales, but this purchase
was a special find for her because the chemo she had been undergoing
had left her fingers numb and she wanted to exercise them.
But that night -- May 28 -- she was felled by a massive stroke
and hospitalized again. In mid-June the doctors told her she
had three months to a year to live and would never walk again.
She immediately demanded physiotherapy to prove them wrong even
as she was admitted to Bridgepoint's palliative care ward. By
July she was organizing a Yahoo group to co-ordinate her visitors.
When a young, inexperienced nurse confessed she didn't know what
to do with a blind patient,
HACKETT said to her: "We have a hug."
But she knew she was slipping away.
"Colleen, I don't want to die," she told her friend Colleen
PEACOCK,
who heads Meals Here and There, where
HACKETT used to do volunteer
office work.
HACKETT's husband, Craig
NEWMAN, moved into her room to be with
her in the last few weeks. He slept on a chair at nights, going
home during the day only to care for Ginny.
"Linda was scared," he said. "I would be too, to be blind and
not be able to see if a nurse went by, to ask for help. She would
have done it for me."
She died September 22 at 56. Her death stunned her Friends. If
anyone was going to beat cancer, they thought, it would be her.
She kept telling them she would. "I'm a fighter," she'd say.
"They (doctors) don't know me, I'm going to beat this."
Of course, a lot of courageous people dealing with a cancer diagnosis
say words like that. But they aren't
HACKETT, who'd had to fight
for everything in her life, including being able to stay in her
adopted homeland of Canada. Not only did she win that battle,
she also exacted in the process a promise from a cabinet minister
to change the law.
Fighting back, fighting hard, had been her credo, or maybe her
mantra, certainly her modus operandi since she was 10 months
old and had both her eyes removed when retinal blastoma robbed
her of her eyesight.
She was a timid girl from La Jolla hanging around the University
of California's Berkeley campus when Mike
YALE first met her
in 1968. He, too, was blind but, unlike her at the time, he was
a firebrand.
YALE was a journalist and activist involved in the
free speech, anti-war movements who was visiting Berkeley after
moving to Toronto and being accepted into law school.
"Lynn was shy. I don't think she had finished high school and
didn't have a lot of prospects. She did a lot of babysitting
then," YALE recalled.
Her abusive father had left when she was still a toddler; her
mother was an invalid and she had been raised by protective grandparents.
So he was shocked to find
HACKETT on his Toronto doorstep six
weeks later. They were together three years, during which time
HACKETT got her first guide dog and they spent a year living
and working a farm with sighted Friends.
They had broken up -- but remained good Friends -- when
HACKETT
got a letter from the immigration appeal board telling her she
couldn't stay in Canada because she was an epileptic.
YALE leapt
into action, phoning 23 members of Parliament over one weekend
at their homes or their offices. The late Alexander
ROSS, who
wrote a city column for this newspaper, also championed her cause.
"The
Immigration
Appeal Board has decided that Lynn
HACKETT must
be deported and it makes me ashamed of my country," he wrote
in November, 1972.
"The maddening thing is," he wrote in the same column, "she was
disqualified on grounds which even department officials agree
are obsolete -- the prohibition against epilepsy, a condition
which Lynn admits to, but which doesn't bother her."
When the smoke cleared,
HACKETT was deported November 9, but
allowed back into Canada 24 hours later on a special visa granted
to her by then-Immigration Minister Bryce
MacKASEY, who vowed
to lift the immigration ban on epileptics during the next session
of Parliament. "I made it. I'm really home," she told a Toronto
Star reporter.
Then she proceeded to make quite a life for herself. After working
for $75 a week doing telephone customer relations with the Capitol
Record Club, she moved to A and M Records and then to a position
as an overseas telephone operator with Bell. She took up bicycle
riding with the Tandem Bicycle Club for fun, belonged to a ham
radio club, made jewellery and loved camping. With Yale, she
was involved in starting Blind Organization of Ontario with Self
Help Tactics in 1975.
"The whole point of The Blind Organization of Ontario with Self
Help Tactics was to educate blind people to stand on their own
feet and fight for themselves," he said.
When she was laid off from Bell in 2000, she began volunteering.
She helped sort shoes to be sent to Cuba for one charity and,
in 2002, she brought her Braille writer to
PEACOCK's office to
take down phone messages. Soon she was reminding clients of the
dinners and scheduling rides.
"She had it all organized on thick cardboard,"
PEACOCK said.
"I was amazed. After a while I forgot she was blind."
She never missed the movie night at her church, Glen Rhodes United.
The minister there, Susan
THOMPSON/THOMSON/TOMPSON/TOMSON, was thrilled when
HACKETT
brought Ginny to the Sunday school and agreed to read at a special
Lent candlelight service called Service of Shadows.
"I called Lynn and dictated the reading to her, she wrote it
down in Braille, learned it and that night, out of the shadows,
light appeared and her beautiful voice filled the room,"
THOMPSON/THOMSON/TOMPSON/TOMSON
said. "It was magical."
THOMPSON/THOMSON/TOMPSON/TOMSON led the funeral service and
PEACOCK provided a final
resting place for their friend in her family's plot in nearby
Saint John's Cemetery. Donations for a marker can be sent to Susan.
J. THOMPSON/THOMSON/TOMPSON/TOMSON, c/o Glen Rhodes United Church, 1470 Gerrard St.
E., Toronto.
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