ZHANG o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2005-03-16 published
WONG,
Kam
Siu
It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our
mother/grandmother on Saturday, March 12, 2005. Devoted mother
of HoyShen and his wife
Tsui
Ngam
WONG and YukSim and her husband
Shek Kiu LAM.
She will be greatly missed and remembered by her
cherished grandchildren Sherman
LAM,
Susan and husband John
UKOS,
Soo Yee WONG and fiancé Ken
GREEN,
Sau
Looy
WONG, and Soo Hang
WONG.
Proud great-granny of Marissa, Emily and Lillian
UKOS.
Dear sister of the late Qi Fu and his wife Yet Woo Zhang. Beloved
aunt of Lisa and husband Ted
SETO,
Carmen and husband Ming
LU,
Sylvia ZHANG and Peter
ZHANG.
Great-aunt of Tommy
SETO, Elvis
and Esther
LU. A special po-po of Jean de Leon. Many thanks to
the caring and devoted staff of both The Heritage Nursing Home
and Kennedy Lodge Nursing Home. The family will receive Friends
at Pine Hills Chapel and Reception Centre, 625 Birchmount Road
(north of St. Clair Ave.), Toronto, 416-267-8229, on Thursday
March 17, 2005 from 6-9 p.m. Funeral Service will be held at
Pine Hills Chapel and Reception Centre on Friday, March 18, 2005
at 11 a.m. Memorial donations may be made to The Heritage Nursing
Home, 1195 Queen Street East, Toronto, M4M 1L6 or Kennedy Lodge
Nursing Home, 1400 Kennedy Road, Toronto, M1P 4V6.
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ZHANG o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2005-10-16 published
MANNING,
Norma
Joyce
(BROWN)
Peacefully at Headwaters Health Care Centre, Shelburne, on Saturday,
October 15, 2005, Norma Joyce
BROWN, in her 72nd year, beloved
wife of Don
MANNING,
Orangeville.
Loving mother of Mike
MANNING
and his wife
Bonnie
ZHANG,
Kevin
MANNING and his wife Jessica
DEVAAL. Dear sister of Don
BROWN and his wife
Sheila,
George
BROWN and his wife
Heather. Dear sister-in-law of Ila
MANNING,
Aileen SPEERS,
Bruce
MANNING and Bessie
FINES. Norma will be
sadly missed by her nieces, nephews, other relatives and many
Friends. The family will receive their Friends at the Egan Funeral
Home Baxter and Giles Chapel, 273 Broadway, Orangeville (519-941-2630)
Monday evening 7-9 o'clock. Funeral service will be held in the
chapel on Tuesday, October 18 at 11 o'clock. Followed by cremation.
If desired, memorial donations may be made to Headwaters Health
Care Foundation, 100 Rolling Hills Drive, Orangeville L9W 4X9
or the charity of your choice. Condolences for the family may
be offered at www.eganfuneralhome.com
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ZHENG o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2005-09-10 published
Accused in death released
Geun Chul LEE, 25, of Huron Street, is charged with manslaughter
and is free on $5,000 bail.
By Kelly PEDRO, and Peter
GEIGEN-
MILLER, Free Press Reporters
A man charged with manslaughter following a fight Thursday that
left a London man with fatal injuries was released on bail yesterday.
London police yesterday released the name of the 22-year-old
man, Kai ZHENG, who died Thursday in hospital after he was injured
outside his apartment building at 1128 Adelaide St. N.
Geun Chul LEE, 25, of Huron Street was held in custody after
he was arrested at his home Thursday and charged with manslaughter
in Zheng's death.
LEE and
ZHENG knew of each other but had never met, police said.
LEE was released yesterday on $5,000 bail during an appearance
in the Ontario Court of Justice.
Justice of the peace John
CARROLL ordered
LEE to surrender his
passport before his release.
CARROLL said
LEE must continue to live at his Huron Street residence,
report to London police every Sunday and is not to go within
a block of the Adelaide Street apartment building where the fight
occurred.
While out of custody, he is banned from possessing weapons of
any kind.
LEE replied with a soft-spoken "yes" when asked if he understood
the conditions of his release.
LEE's lawyer, Antin
JAREMCHUK, told
CARROLL that
LEE's family
is in Korea and his mother is flying to Canada to be with her
son.
LEE was ordered to return to court October 5.
ZHENG and a roommate moved into a sixth-floor apartment at 1128
Adelaide September 1.
Friends brought
ZHENG to Victoria Hospital after he was seriously
hurt in a fight with another person outside his apartment building.
Hospital staff then called police just before 6 a.m.
ZHENG later died of his injuries, making him the 12th homicide
victim in London this year.
Police are still awaiting autopsy results to determine his cause
of death.
ZHENG had applied to Fanshawe College, but hadn't completed registration
and had not attended classes.
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ZHENG o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2005-09-26 published
Homicide No. 13
By Kelly PEDRO,
Free
Press
Crime
Reporter
A Toronto-area man faces a second-degree murder charge after
one man was shot to death and another injured in a pub parking
lot early yesterday.
Dwayne PITTER, 23, of Vaughan, was charged yesterday with second-degree
murder and attempted murder in connection with London's record
13th homicide.
PITTER is to appear in a London court today.
Joshua Kenneth
WILLIAMS, 22, of the London area, was shot in
the torso outside the Roxbury Pub and Grill at 1165 Oxford St.
E. at 2: 20 a.m.
He died later.
Three people, including
PITTER, were taken into custody. The
other two were released, police said last night.
Detectives scoured the lot yesterday as they wrestled with a
skyrocketing number of homicides this year.
Neighbours said they saw a crowd leave the bar about 2: 30 a.m.,
then heard screaming.
"I heard the gunshots and I saw someone go down. I thought it
was firecrackers," said a woman who was standing outside the
Roxbury near a variety store at the time. She did want to give
her name.
"I heard two shots and I ran into the (variety) store."
Police said a dispute outside the bar led to the shooting.
Police and paramedics arrived to find
WILLIAMS seriously hurt
and another man shot in the arm. The second man was treated and
released from hospital.
Police have recovered a handgun and are not looking for any more
weapons, said Det. Andrew
WHITFORD.
It's unclear whether
WILLIAMS, the injured man and the three
people in custody had just left the Roxbury when the shooting
happened, WHITFORD said.
But there were about 40 people in the parking lot when a disagreement
broke out, he said. Police are still probing the cause of the
dispute.
WHITFORD said many witnesses: have come forward and bar staff
have co-operated.
Roxbury staff declined comment yesterday.
Neighbours have complained of fights and loud noise after the
bar's closing time.
"It's scary," said Brenda
PARSONS, who lives in a nearby townhouse
complex. "You don't need television to live in this neighbourhood.
There's enough entertainment outside."
PARSONS said she thinks police should patrol the area more regularly
on Friday and Saturday nights.
The parking lot is the same one in which Ryan
VLAAD, 26, died
after being punched in the head during an early morning brawl
in July 2002.
Ward 3 Coun. Bernie
MacDONALD said he's fielded complaints from
neighbours who have had beer bottles thrown at their houses and
on their property after 2 a.m. and have heard fights breaking
out.
"This has been an ongoing thing with the residents," he said.
The concerns were passed on to police and
MacDONALD thought the
problems had been quelled until he heard about yesterday's shooting.
But MacDONALD said he thinks drugs are the "root evil" behind
violence and shootings in the city this year.
"Until we cut the flow of drugs, we're going to see this and
it's going to continue to rise," he said.
Police said they don't know whether drugs were involved in the
fatal shooting.
Officers blocked off a large section of the strip mall, which
also houses a Sport Mart, Goodwill, variety store, karate school
and Tim Hortons.
A green Jeep and a black car also were taped off, though police
wouldn't say why.
A shell casing and knife were visible at the scene.
A green camouflage hat, grey T-shirt, plastic beer cups, a cigarette
pack and a lighter were strewn near what appeared to be a bloody
stain near the black car.
Forensic detectives picked through the evidence and used a fire
department aerial truck to photograph and videotape the lot.
An autopsy will be conducted today to determine the cause of
death.
Other London Slayings This Year
- January 9: Laura
WILSON, 20, was found stabbed on Thistledown
Way. Her ex-boyfriend is charged with first-degree murder.
- February 14: Kenneth Michael
BANNON, 41, was found dead in
an Albert Street apartment. Brenda
JOHN, 43, is charged with
manslaughter.
- March 30: James
BLAIR, 20, was stabbed outside an Oakville
Avenue apartment building. Mwangi
GETHIGA, 18, is charged with
second-degree murder.
- April 22: Wilford
BEBEE, 65, was stabbed outside his McNay
Street home. His stepson is charged with second-degree murder.
- May 2: An infant was found dead in a home on Four Oaks Crescent.
Katherine PECKHAM, 25, is charged with manslaughter.
- June 23: John
MARYS, 71, was stabbed in his William Street
apartment. Godwin
GRIXTI, 53, is charged first-degree murder.
- June 27: Halina
CZUBA, 37, her daughter, Julia, 13, and son,
Michal, 5, were stabbed in their 682 Princess Ave. home. Frank
GREDA, 40, was also found dead in the house from a self-inflicted
gunshot wound.
- June 28: Yorn
MEY was slain in her Chippewa Drive home. Her
husband is charged with second-degree murder.
- August 5: Stephen
CORMACK, 45, was stabbed after a botched
robbery in a Huron Street apartment. Dameon
LODGE, 24, is charged
with manslaughter.
- September 8: A fight involving two men left Kai
ZHENG, 22,
dead outside 1128 Adelaide St. N. Geun Chul
LEE, 25, is charged
with manslaughter.
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ZHENG o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2005-04-01 published
MATHERS,
Herbert
Sloane
Passed away peacefully in his home, on Tuesday, March 29th, 2005,
in his 93rd year. Born in Montreal on December 8th, 1912 to William
MATHERS and Elizabeth
SLOANE.
Beloved husband of the late Madeleine
PICHE.
Loving father of Bev
MATHERS-
HALL and her husband Doug
HALL.
Loved by his two grandchildren Tyler and Trever. Predeceased
by his younger brother Bill
MATHERS. Survived by his two younger
sisters Helen
PARKER and Ruth
TRENHOLME.
Uncle to Lynda
RICHARDSON,
Barbara EVANS,
William
MATHERS and Robert
MATHERS. During his
68 year career Dad was very well known in the Canadian motion
picture industry. The family wish to thank Marika
PERLMAN for
her devotion, great companionship and exceptional care she gave
to Dad over the last 5 years. Sincere thanks are also extended
to the We Care Staff: Pam, Karen, Andrew, Shiv; Stephanie from
St. Elizabeth's and Dr.
ZHENG for their care and compassion.
Family and Friends will miss Dad and he will always be in our
hearts. Private family burial. A celebration in honour of Dad's
life will be held at a later date. In lieu of flowers, the family
would appreciate donations to the Canadian Picture Pioneers (the
Movie Industry Charity) and may be made by phoning 416-368-1139.
Funeral arrangements have been entrusted to the Trull Funeral
Home and Cremation Centre, 416-488-1101.
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ZHI o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2005-07-11 published
Jim FERGUSON, 65: 'Dad' to 200 kids
Household of five off spring enriched with foster kids
Jim FERGUSON 'always had time for us'
By Catherine
DUNPHY,
Obituary
Writer
Jim FERGUSON was an ordinary guy with a passion for soccer --
but because he was from Scotland he called it football -- a love
of and pocket full of chocolate buttons, a particular Scottish
brand of sweets, and a hobby involving the building and maintenance
of a backyard fish pond at his Ajax home. In other words, nothing
special.
But try telling that to the more than 200 children to whom he
and his wife Audrey were foster parents.
Ken ZHI, 21, adored the man he called "Bond" after the James
Bond movies both loved watching together. Now a student at Humber
College taking architectural technology, he was 13 and his brother
8 when the two came to live with the
FERGUSONs.
Neither boy could
speak a word of English when they arrived, but the
FERGUSONs
made them feel like family.
"He was more than a dad to me,"
ZHI said. "He kept his promises
to me more than my father, who was too busy with business for
me. Bond always had time for us."
FERGUSON died June 1 of cancer. He was 65. At the time of his
death, there were four foster children -- boys -- living with
them. There still are.
"The kids have been wonderful," Audrey
FERGUSON said. "They've
taken over watering plants, emptying the dishwasher, the little
things."
ZHI was still living in the
FERGUSON home when Jim
FERGUSON was
diagnosed 3 1/2 years ago. At one point they all believed he
had only 24 hours to live. "We never considered stopping having
foster children," Audrey said. "Ken was wonderful; he was here
then and he took over."
It was 1977 and the youngest of the
FERGUSONs' five biological
children -- Karen, Kim, Keith, Kirsty and Karl -- was 8 when
one of the kids came home from school with a pamphlet calling
for people to become foster parents.
"I didn't know at that point that you got paid for it -- about
$5 or $7 a day at the time, I think," Audrey said. "We were very
poor, but I thought our kids aren't that bad, maybe we can take
another."
The family was living then in a rented four-bedroom Agincourt
townhouse. A house painter by trade in his native Edinburgh as
well as a onetime semi-pro soccer player, Jim
FERGUSON had succumbed
to his wanderlust and immigrated to Canada in 1969, where he
went to work in the factory of a large engineering firm here.
(Later he worked 25 years for General Motors until his retirement
14 years ago.) The family had no car and
FERGUSON kept in shape
by running to and from his job.
For three years the
FERGUSONs had lived in a four-bedroom Ontario
Housing unit.
"Jim was very old-fashioned. He wouldn't let me work," his wife
said, until she insisted the family move from what she considered
to be a bad environment for her children to the Agincourt apartment
and then to their first home in Markham. Audrey
FERGUSON worked
part-time in the morning or afternoon, and all five kids worked
after school at a local pizzeria at one time or another to get
what they needed.
"We all played competitive hockey and soccer," said daughter
Kim FERGUSON, recalling how her parents were at all of their
tournaments in the United States.
Their first foster child was a 10-year-old named Tanya, who became
Friends with the
FERGUSONs' biological daughter Kirsty. After
Tanya came baby Michael, who was very sickly. "I thought he'd
never live," Audrey said.
"He was crying, crying, crying," said Kim, now a social worker.
"Dad took him and soon both of them fell asleep in the chair."
Jim and Audrey
FERGUSON had to team feed one pair of very weak
twins who required an ounce of formula per hour; she would feed
and he would take them in turn to burp them, even after he had
warned his wife against taking in babies, telling her he knew
she would have trouble giving them up when they were adopted.
He was right.
"It was heartbreaking when they left," Audrey recalled. She used
to take a pill and go to her bedroom, where she would "cry it
out" cradling the child's pyjamas or some other item she'd deliberately
kept as a memento. Her husband was also upset, but he was the
one who "got on with it," cooking one of his everything-in-the-pot
spaghetti dinners for the other children and running the house.
"Jim handled it better, but he felt it with a lot of the kids,"
she said.
They fought to keep Jessie, who had come to them as a 4-day-old
newborn. "I just loved this child. We tried to cancel the meeting.
It was pure panic," Audrey recalled, but when they met her prospective
adoptive parents, they had to admit she was going to a fine home.
Jessie's mother has made a point of keeping in touch with the
FERGUSONs, recently inviting Audrey to Jessie's Grade 8 graduation.
But not all of the children were compliant and loving. There
have been temper tantrums, punching, screaming and spitting in
their home. At one point Audrey was black and blue from her knees
to her toes because of being kicked. One child stole all of Audrey's
rings -- Jim gave her a diamond at the birth of each of their
children -- and gave them to his father, who then pawned them.
"They lost all the jewellery, but they kept those kids," said
daughter Karen
KETTUNEN, herself a foster mother.
"It's a difficult time for a lot of the kids; they miss their
parents," Audrey said. "All you can do is sit and comfort them."
And that is what Jim
FERGUSON did.
Unassuming, laid-back and accepting of who they were, he would
watch television with the children, quietly and inevitably winning
their trust.
son Keith remembered his father lying on the floor in their television
room, holding the family's pet budgies. "The kids loved that."
In recent years, the family stopped taking in babies and had
been fostering older children, all boys. They took to calling
the FERGUSONs, who have 10 biological grandchildren, Grandpa
and Grandma as well.
FERGUSON often took them golfing. After retirement, he returned
to Scotland for visits twice a year and transformed the living
room of the house into what he called the Edinburgh room, with
photos and memorabilia from his hometown. But he spent most of
his time in the kids' television room or downstairs playing pool
with them.
They'd just do normal, family-type things together.
Ken ZHI remembered buying fish for the fish pond and chasing
out a bat that was trapped in the basement, laughing but scared
at the same time, too, then being thrilled when he and his brother
were the ones who caught it.
"He used to say to me that we were more than a family to them,"
he said.
Jim FERGUSON was buried wearing a watch
ZHI gave him at his first
Christmas with the family.
His death hit the
FERGUSONs' foster kids hard. One of the boys
living with them stopped eating, another was visibly upset.
"Poor wee soul," said Audrey, who wants to continue being a foster
parent for at least a few more years. "I assured them nothing
will change."
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ZHU o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2005-02-22 published
PITTS,
Donald
Travis
Donald Travis
PITTS passed away Saturday, February 19, 2005,
at Lakeridge Hospital in Oshawa, after a courageous battle with
Pancreatic Cancer. Cherished husband of Jenny
ZHU.
Much loved
son of Don
PITTS,
Lynne and Pat
PSIHOGIOS. Brother of Lucas
PITTS
(Lisa.)
Grandson of Lydia and the late Lloyd
KENNEDY, and Alice
and the late Maurice
PITTS. A very special thanks to Auntie Sharon
and Uncle Terry, Auntie Helen and Uncle Jeff for being there
for the past year. Travis' strength and sense of humour kept
us all going. A celebration of Travis' life will be held at 359
Harmony Rd. S., in Oshawa, on Saturday, February 26, 2005, at
2: 00pm. Travis-See you on the other side.
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