ERB o@ca.on.grey_county.owen_sound.the_sun_times 2006-03-27 published
Folk fest director hanging it up
Summerfolk artistic director won't return after this summer
By Bill HENRY
A search begins this week for the next Summerfolk artistic director.
Liz HARVEY-
FOULDS, heading into her second festival this summer,
has told the Georgian Bay Folk Society board she won't apply
to renew her two-year contract.
Trying to program the music festival from her home near Thunder
Bay has been frustrating and difficult while teaching high school
full-time,
HARVEY-
FOULDS said in an interview Saturday.
When she took over the part-time contract position in the fall
of 2004 from Don
BIRD, who resigned after a dispute with the
board, HARVEY-
FOULDS was teaching part-time and planned to relocate
to Owen Sound and teach school here. She said she gave that idea
up after realizing she would lose seniority and have no job security.
“I've agonized and tossed and turned over this,”
HARVEY-
FOULDS
said as folk society volunteers set up for the annual Last Chance
Saloon concert and competitive audition for a main stage slot
this summer.
HARVEY-
FOULDS said the working relationship with the board has
been “terrific,” there's no controversy around her departure
and she regrets leaving after such a short time.
Folk society president Pam
HEARN-
ERB said the board appreciated
HARVEY-
FOULDS' early notice, which came weeks ago but was to
be made public in a media release today. No public announcement
was to be made Saturday during the Last Chance Saloon, which
also serves as a volunteer recognition party.
“I think Liz has been good for us. She had big shoes to fill
and we think she filled them well,”
HEARN-
ERB said.
“As a board we're totally fine with it. We appreciated her honesty
and we certainly appreciated her being here. We think she's been
really good for the organization.&rdquo
HARVEY-
FOULDS has programmed the Red Rocks folk festival for
several years as a volunteer, and plans to continue that. Her
first Summerfolk lineup was the 30th annual last August.
She assumed the role with a goal and a mandate to return the
event to its folk roots. She brought back mostly favourite acts
from the festival's history, with a mix of newer, younger folk
artists and a few veterans who had never played Summerfolk.
She said her plan then, and again this year, was to gather musicians
who knew one another or could work well enough together to mix
up entertaining and spontaneous music at the informal workshops,
which are more vital to the festival's success than spotlight
evening performances, she said.
“I tried not to focus on trying to prove anything to anybody,
because there was a lot of pressure I realized after the event
on me to prove that I could do it. I decided not to think about
that, but instead to think about a celebration of the festival's
past and the strengths of the community and making the weekend
a really wonderful experience.&rdquo
She said she was justifiably criticized by some last year for
hiring too few women, not enough country musicians, and especially
not enough world music. She's fixed that this year with a lineup
announced Saturday night which includes African guitarists, several
Cuban and Latin jazz groups, a long list of women songwriters
and singers, and several country music performers.
The lineup for the August 18, 19 and 20 festival at Kelso Beach
includes:
Plenty of Cuban, African and Latin American acts for world music
fans, including The African Guitar, Jane Bunnett and her band
of Cuban and Canadian jazz players, a 12-piece band from Cuba,
the Latin Jazz band Flamenco Caravan, and Latin jazz singer Eliana
Cuevas.
Prairie Oyster and Alan Rhody from Nashville for country fans.
A long list of women including Juno winner Lynn Miles, Mae Moore
with Lester Quitzau, blues singer Rita Chiarelli, The Anne Lindsay
Band, and Fig for A Kiss, featuring Sahra Featherstone.
Songwriters Bill Bourne; Alex Sinclair of Tamarack; Ottawa-area
newcomer Brock
ZEEMAN; and both Steve
DICKINSON and David
SEREDA
from the Owen Sound area, as well as Walkerton's Richard
KNECHTEL.
Groups include East Coast rockers and award winners Chucky Danger,
the Appalachian and Celtic influenced New England trio Crooked
Still and Winnipeg's D. Rangers, who mix Bluegrass and western
swing with a punk rock attitude.
Rob Elder and Friends, with Pete Devlin and Joel Morelli, who were
clear crowd favourites to win a main stage slot with their 15-minute
Last Chance Saloon performance Saturday night. It was the second
time Elder has won the event.
Georgian Bay Folk Society policies require the board to advertise
the artistic director position every two years. Advertisements
will go out immediately with plans to fill the position by June
and have both new and current artistic directors at this year's
festival for a smooth transition.
Both the director and the president said Saturday there are clear
and obvious advantages for whoever programs the festival to reside
in the local community.
“I don't want to say that they should hire someone who lives
in the community. That's not my place to say,”
HARVEY-
FOULDS
said. “I don't think it's necessary to run the festival for the
person to be here, but for me, if I'm the artistic director I
need to be here. I need to be part of the community.&rdquo
When it became clear moving to Owen Sound was off, she said she
bowed out of the position.
HEARN-
ERB believes the job should go to someone living in the
area.
“But that's not necessarily what the board will decide to do,&rdquo
she said Saturday. “I think it's important to be involved in
the community. Summerfolk is a community event. It really is
and I think it's important for the person that's in charge of
that aspect of it to understand the community.&rdquo
Only three of more than 30 candidates to replace
BIRD were Grey-Bruce
residents.
BIRD lives in Toronto but was originally from Owen Sound and
maintained a local connection during his 10-year tenure and was
able to attend almost every board meeting,
HEARN-
ERB said.
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ERB o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2006-01-03 published
FULTON,
Grace
Lillian (née
MOLSON)
At Bluewater Health - C.E.E. Site, Petrolia, on Sunday, January
1, 2006. Grace Lillian
FULTON (née
MOLSON,) 81 years, of Fiddick's
Nursing Home, Petrolia and formerly of Sarnia. Beloved wife of
the late Alex
FULTON (1978.) Dear mother of Connie and John
JEPSON
of Vancouver, British Columbia, Terry and Barbara
FULTON of Petrolia,
Brian FULTON of Sarnia and Sandra and Gary
GOW of Cranbrook,
British Columbia. Dear grandmother of Heather, Jason, Shaun and
Christopher
FULTON and step-grandmother of Adrienne, Erica and
Andrew WARDER. Dear Sister of Melville and Marie
MOLSON of Pembroke,
Barbara and Bob
ERB of Kingston and Joan
MOLSON of Ottawa. Predeceased
by a daughter-in-law, Patricia
FULTON (1994.) The funeral service
will be held at the Needham-Jay Funeral Home, Petrolia, on Wednesday,
January 4, 2006 at 1: 30 p.m. with visitation from 12:30 p.m.
to service time. Reverend Dr. Robert M.
GIBSON will officiate. Interment
in Lakeview Cemetery, Sarnia. As expressions of sympathy, memorial
donations may be made by cheque to the St. Paul's United Church
Building Fund. Memories and condolences may be sent on line at
www.needhamjay.com
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ERB o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2006-04-18 published
READY,
Phoebe
Grace (née
WORDEN)
Peacefully at Hillside Manor, R.R.#5, Stratford on Sunday, April 16,
2006 Phoebe Grace
(WORDEN)
READY in her 90th year. Born in Downie
Township, a life-long resident of the Saint Marys area. Beloved
wife of the late Lloyd
READY (1994.) Also predeceased by a son
Douglas (2000,) her parents W.J. and Annie
(ERB)
WORDEN, brother
and sister-in-law John and Merle
WORDEN, brother-in-law Neil
McKAY, brother-in-law and sister-in-law Jack and Sue
READY, brother-in-law
Charlie READY and a great-grand-daughter of Ireland. Mother of
John
(Barbara) of Kitchener, Burton (Ara
JANE) of Saint Marys,
Grace MANTLE of Calgary. Mother-in-law of Shirley
REABURN of
Sauble Beach. Grandmother of Jane and Jerry, Brent, Michael and
Lorraine, David and Judith, Kathy and Rick, Jody and Kevin, Steve
and Kim, Geoffrey and Jolan, Gillian and Kirby and thirteen great-grandchildren.
Sister of Mary
McKAY of Stratford and Annie
WORDEN of Kingsway
Lodge and sister-in-law of Reta
READY of Saint Marys and Dorothy
BECHTEL of Kitchener. Resting at the L.A. Ball Funeral Chapel,
7 Water Street North, Saint Marys on Tuesday from 2-4 p.m. and
7-9 p.m. The funeral service will be held at Saint Marys United
Church (85 Church Street South) on Wednesday April 19, 2006 at
11 a.m. with Rev. Dr. Richard
BOTT and Mr. Andreas
THIEL officiating.
Interment will be in Saint Marys Cemetery. Donations to Saint Marys
United Church, Alzheimer Society or the charity of one's own
choice would be appreciated as expressions of sympathy.
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ERB o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2006-06-02 published
RENNING,
Jeremy
On Tuesday, May 30, 2006 at Weyburn, Saskatchewan, Jeremy
RENNING,
24, of Weyburn, and formerly of R.R.#4, Seaforth. Cherished son
of Maureen
(ERB) and Ken
RENNING of R.R.#4, Seaforth. Loving
Daddy of Dakota. Lovingly remembered by his sister Paula (Jamie)
RENNING-
O'BRIEN of Vanastra, three brothers Ron
RENNING,
Tom
RENNING and Josh
RENNING, all at home, and his step-sister Katrina
ROBERTS of Texas. Loved uncle of two special nephews, Bailley
and Brayden. Dearly loved grand_son of Roy and Lenore
ERB of Zurich,
Tom and Noella
TRIEBNER of Exeter and Ron and Val
RENNING of
Guelph. Dear nephew of Marvin
ERB,
Martha
(Johnathan) A AT-
MMENSAH,
Murray ERB, Matthew (Janet)
ERB, Mark
ERB, Bill (Darlene)
RENNING,
Alan (Denean)
RENNING and Denise (Andrew)
TROYER.
Also missed
by his cousins. Welcomed into rest by his grandmother Doreen
ERB (1991.) Family will receive Friends at the Whitney-Ribey
Funeral Home, 87 Goderich Street West, Seaforth, on Monday from
2-4 and 7-9 p.m. Funeral service will be held at the Zurich Mennonite
Church, Zurich, on Tuesday, June 6 at 2 p.m. Interment Zurich
Mennonite Cemetery. Condolences at www.whitneyribey funeralhome.com.
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ERB o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2006-06-07 published
ERB
GINGERICH,
Carol (née
ERB)
Peacefully at South Huron Hospital, Exeter, on Monday, June 5,
2006, Carol
ERB
GINGERICH, of Zurich, in her 67th year. Beloved
wife of the late Rev. Cyril K.
GINGERICH (1999.) Dear sister
and sister-in-law of Delphine and Melvin
ZEHR, of Kitchener,
Joy and Cornelius
KLASSEN, of Vineland, Eleanor and Orland
JANTZI/YANTZI,
of Waterloo, Kathryn and Paul
STECKLE, of R.R.#2 Zurich, Charles
and Tanya ERB, of Zurich, Marjorie
STECKLE, of Tavistock, Philip
and Laurie
ERB, of Zurich, Audrey
GINGERICH, of Magnetawan, Cleve
and Margaret
GINGERICH, of Grand Bend, Gloria and Wally
DIRKS,
of Petersburg and Pearl and Andrew
KIPFER/KUEPFER, of New Hamburg. Survived
by many nieces, nephews, great nieces and great nephews. Predeceased
by her parents Gordon and Mabel
(JANTZI/YANTZI)
ERB, brothers-in-law
Gerald STECKLE,
Victor
GINGERICH and Gerald
GINGERICH and one
niece Connie
STECKLE.
Visitation in the J.M. McBeath Funeral
Home, 49 Goshen St. N., Zurich on Thursday and Friday from 2-4 and
7-9 p.m. The funeral service will be conducted on Saturday, June 10,
2006 at 10: 00 a.m. in the Zurich Mennonite Church. Pastor Phil
WAGLER officiating. Cremation. Private family interment Zurich
Mennonite Cemetery. Memorial contributions may be made to the
Carol Erb Gingerich Scholarship Fund, C.B.M.I.; or the Zurich
Mennonite Church Mission Fund. Condolences may be forwarded to
www.jmmcbeathfuneralhome.com. A tree will be planted as a living
memorial to Carol
ERB
GINGERICH.
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ERB o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2006-06-23 published
COOK,
Janet "
Jenny" (née
CONNELL)
At Woodstock General Hospital on Thursday, June 22, 2006, Janet
"Jenny" COOK (née
CONNELL) of Woodstock in her 88th year. Beloved
wife of the late John
COOK (1992.) Cherished mother of John L.
COOK and his wife
Mary of Woodstock and Ann
PETZ and her husband
Eric of Burlington. Loving grandmother of Aveleigh
COOK of Houston,
Texas, Susan
TURKALJ
(Vince) of Waterloo, Elizabeth "Buffy"
ERB
(Trevor) of London, and Derek
PETZ
(Sylvia) of Burlington and
great grandmother of Nicholas, Mathew and Brooke. Dear sister
of Jean SHEDDEN of Paisley, Scotland and Lily
FERGUSON of New
Zealand and beloved aunt of Valerie
EASTON
(Wally) of Woodstock.
Janet was a long-time member of Knox Presbyterian Church. Friends
will be received at the Smith-LeRoy Funeral Home, 69 Wellington
Street North, Woodstock on Sunday, 2-5 p.m. Funeral service in
the chapel on Monday, June 26, 2006 at 11: 00 a.m. with Rev. Glenn
KUKKOLA officiating. Cremation followed by interment later at
the Presbyterian Cemetery. If desired, memorial donations to
the Knox Presbyterian Church Memorial Fund would be appreciated.
Smith-LeRoy, (519) 537-3611. Personal condolences may be sent
at www.smithleroy.com
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ERB o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2006-12-12 published
RICHARDS,
Dennis
Gerald
Surrounded by his family at Bluewater Health Palliative Care
Unit
Sarnia on Sunday, December 10th, 2006 Dennis Gerald
RICHARDS
of Forest, age 57. Beloved husband of Liz
(ERB) and special father
of Melanie and Rob
WESTER and Wendy
RICHARDS all of Windsor.
Cherished grandfather of Sarah and Alex. Loving
son of Doris
(Pegg) and Gerald
RICHARDS. Dear brother of Sharron and Dave
CHAMBERLAIN all of Forest. Brother-in-law of Ralph and Barb
ERB
of Sault Ste. Marie. Remembered by nieces Cindy, Deb and Laurie,
Stephanie and Melissa. Resting at the Gilpin Funeral Chapel,
Forest for Funeral Service on Wednesday, December 13th at 1 p.m.
Rev. Cathy
LARMOND officiating. Interment Beechwood Cemetery.
Visitation 2 hours prior to service. Memorial donations to the
Cancer Society (Pancreatic) Diabetes Association, Bluewater Palliative
Care gratefully acknowledged. gilpinfuneralchapel @execulink.com
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ERB o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2006-03-20 published
SCOTT,
Gladys
(YEOMANS)
On Saturday, March 18, 2006 at her residence. Gladys
(YEOMANS)
SCOTT age 78 years of Elmira formerly of England. Beloved wife
of Derek SCOTT. Dear mother of Jennifer and Stuart
GILBY of Nova
Scotia, Timothy and Sue
SCOTT of Aurora, Christopher and Nikki
SCOTT
of Caledon, Rosemary and Grant
ERB of Elmira. Also, lovingly remembered
by her grandchildren Nigel (Kelly), Megan, Gordon, Catherine,
Wayne and Benjamin; Jeffrey, Adam, April and Julie; Elizabeth and Jeremy
and her great grand_son Ian Alexander. Sister of Barbara and Chris
HUTTON of Merritt, British Columbia, Christine and Malcolm
LAWRENSON
of Leicester, England and Carol and Reg
HARRIS of Graftey Green,
England. Gladys was a friend to many. Always active, she was
a gourmet with flair, painting and globe-trotting were among
her passions. Warmly remembered by her clients as a tireless
advocate for their real estate needs. Gladys lived with grace
to the end. The family will receive Friends and relatives at
the Dreisinger Funeral Home, Elmira on Tuesday from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m.
where funeral service will be held in the funeral home chapel
on Wednesday, March 22, 2006 at 11: 00 a.m. with Rev. Hans
BORCH
officiating followed by interment in Elmira Union Cemetery. In
her memory, donations to Breast Cancer Research and Education Fund
would be appreciated by the family as expressions of sympathy.
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ERB o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2006-07-15 published
Carol ERB-
GINGERICH,
Aid
Worker (1939-2006)
To the fierce tribesman of Afghanistan, she was the 'vision woman'
and was left to do her work unmolested. For years, she helped
restore the sight of thousands of people in East Africa, Ethiopia,
and Central Asia
By F.F. LANGAN,
Special to The Globe and Mail, Page S9
Toronto -- Carol
ERB-
GINGERICH left the security of life in small-town
Ontario to help people in some of the most desperate places in
the world. She chose to work in countries that were not only
poor, but often destabilized by wars, famine and drought.
She spent 20 years in the field -- and another 13 in Canada --
helping tens of thousands of children and adults avoid blindness
and curing people who were otherwise destined to lose their sight
due to otherwise preventable disease.
Ms. ERB-
GINGERICH lived most of her time overseas in Afghanistan
and Ethiopia. In both places she found herself in the middle
of a war zone and each time was forced to leave.
Her longest tour of duty was in Afghanistan. She first went there
in 1975 with the Christian Blind Mission International. The group
had an arrangement with Muslim authorities there: They could
do medical work, but they must not to try to convert anyone to
Christianity.
She worked for almost 10 years in Afghanistan, living in Kabul
near the mission's main clinic, but also travelling to remote
parts of the country where she saw hundreds of people a day for
treatment of eye diseases.
"She would go out into tribal areas, which were quite dangerous.
The tribes knew she was the vision woman and left her alone."
said Dave McComiskey, the executive director of Christian Blind
Mission International Canada. "She was very brave."
The Christian Blind Mission describes itself as "the leading
agency in the world preventing and curing blindness as well as
enabling people with disabilities in the poorest countries of
the world, regardless of race, gender, age or religion." It has
performed six million cataract operations and runs 1,000 programs
in 102 countries.
Although untrained in medicine, Ms.
ERB-
GINGERICH learned how
to help patients in the clinics. While she made her opinions
known if she disagreed with how the organization was being run,
she went out of her way to be kind to the people she was helping.
One day in Afghanistan, a widow invited her to her home for dinner
after Ms. ERB-
GINGERICH had treated one of her children. However,
the Canadian aid worker had to put off the visit for two or three
days. Ms. ERB-
GINGERICH later told her family that the woman
was poor beyond the imaginings of Canadians, but had spent her
money on an egg. She had cooked it and put it aside on a window
ledge. When the Canadian aid worker arrived days later, it was
still there, covered in flies.
"She prayed that she wouldn't be sick as she ate it, not wanting
to hurt the woman's feelings and knowing what a sacrifice she
had made to cook her the meal," her brother, Phil
ERB, said.
"She managed to get through it."
In 1979, the former Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan and many
aid workers packed up and left. Ms.
ERB-
GINGERICH was determined
to stay, and continued her work. However, in 1981, after two
of its workers were slain, the charity recalled its staff and
Ms. ERB-
GINGERICH returned to Canada.
Carol ERB was born into a Mennonite family near Goderich in Southwestern
Ontario. Her brother said the family was religious, but not strict.
"We're of Amish descent but we have cars, use electricity and
drive tractors," Mr.
ERB said. "Carol didn't force her beliefs
on anyone, but she was a religious person and had an extremely
strong faith."
Young Carol lived an idyllic rural life, working on the family
dairy farm. She went to high school at Clinton Collegiate Institute
and afterward started work at Gingerich Sales and Service, an
appliance dealer in nearby Zurich. A Gingerich son would become
her husband several years later.
One
Sunday in 1972, Ms.
ERB went to the Mennonite service at
her local church and heard a sermon about how people should try
to make a difference in the world. She was so moved by the message
that, first, she volunteered with the Mennonite Central Committee
in Canada, and then worked for the Christian Blind Mission overseas.
Her first overseas job came in 1975 when she was made an assistant
to the medical director of the Noor Eye Institute. Funded in
part by Queen Noor of Jordan, the agency helped people in poor
countries, many of them Muslim. She soon started working in the
clinics in the field.
Most eye diseases people suffer from in poor countries are easily
treatable, such as river blindness, which is caused by a parasitical
worm that is spread by a fly, which breeds in fast-flowing rivers.
The fly transmits the disease when it bites humans, inserting
the eggs under the skin that produce thousands of larvae, which
spread throughout the body, including the eyes.
Another disease is trachoma, which spreads easily within families.
Infection commonly occurs in childhood and eventually causes
the eyelashes to turn inward, scarring the cornea.
Cataracts are also commonplace. One of the basic treatments for
children is a capsule of vitamin A, which lasts for three months
and protects against cataracts.
Through the charity, Ms.
ERB-
GINGERICH would arrange for cataract
operations at a cost of $33 for a lens, an impossible amount
for most people in countries such as Afghanistan and Ethiopia
where the average person earns about $3 a day.
While Ms. ERB-
GINGERICH was in Muslim countries she tried to
keep to local customs, dressing modestly and covering her hair.
For all that, she did allow that some of attitudes toward women
bothered her.
"She was a little bit of a rebel," said her brother, remembering
his sister's quick wit. "Once, an Afghan man asked her why her
face wasn't covered. She said she felt like telling him if she
had a face like his she would cover it up."
On another occasion in Kabul, a taxi driver was taking her to
an eye clinic when he was stopped by a policemen who threatened
him and took his receipts for the day. Ms.
ERB-
GINGERICH, who
spoke the language, asked the officers to stop but they ignored
her. Later, when she arrived at the clinic she paid the taxi
driver his fare, plus the amount the police had taken from him.
The taxi driver burst into tears and asked her, "Why are you
doing this for me?" She replied, "Because God loves you."
After she returned to Canada from Afghanistan in 1981 she renewed
her Friendship with Cyril
GINGERICH, whose family ran the store
where she had once worked. The couple married in December of
1983. Rather than return to life at the store, Cyril joined his
wife on her missions to combat blindness and
in January of 1984
they spent their honeymoon travelling to Ethiopia.
Once there, the pair worked out of Addis Ababa as regional representatives
of the Christian Blind Mission International. With Ethiopia as
a base, they supported and worked in clinics throughout East
Africa, helping more than 40 Christian Blind Mission International
projects. They remained until 1991, when rebels overthrew the
Ethiopian government.
"Carol and Cyril were in the middle of the fighting and, once
again, she found herself forced out of a country where she wanted
to work," Mr. McComiskey said.
Eight years later, her husband died suddenly and Ms.
ERB-
GINGERICH
decided to return to work in Pakistan and Afghanistan. She continued
to work in clinics helping the blind, but also became more intensely
involved in the lives of some Afghan families.
"She met some Afghan refugees who were frightened of the Taliban
and had fled to Pakistan. One of them had been beaten because
his beard wasn't long enough," Mr.
ERB said. "She helped two
families of refugees come to Canada. They are still here and
leading productive lives."
Two days after the September 11, 2001, attacks in the United
States, Ms.
ERB-
GINGERICH was removed from Peshawar in Pakistan.
The next year, she returned to Afghanistan and was shocked by
what she found.
"As I write this report, I'm in Kabul, a city where 58 per cent
of the people have not lived longer than five years. It's a city
of refugees… It's over 28 years since I first arrived in this
beautiful country. There are no landmarks that I recognize because
so many areas are completely bombed out. As I walked through
my former place of work, which was once a beautiful 100-bed eye
hospital, I wept."
One of the last things Ms.
ERB-
GINGERICH did was to organize
a conference in Kabul to launch an eye-care program aimed at
abolishing preventable blindness in Afghanistan by the year 2020.
Throughout her decades of work in poor countries, Ms.
ERB-
GINGERICH
lived a simple, austere life. Her brother remembered she had
a favourite aphorism: "God will never ask you how many clothes
you have in your closet. But he'll ask you how many people you
helped to clothe."
Carol ERB-
GINGERICH was born on October 23, 1939, in Stanley
Township, Ontario She died of cancer in Zurich, Ontario, on June 5,
2006. She leaves five sisters, including her twin, and two brothers.
Christian Blind Mission International Canada has named a scholarship
fund in her honour.
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ERB o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2006-03-16 published
CALLUM,
Elaine
Simone
(WAITE)
Peacefully passed away on Monday, March 13, 2006 at Scarborough
Centenary
Hospital.
Loving wife of Stewart M.
CALLUM and mother
of Robert S.
CALLUM and wife
Joanne, loving and caring grandmother
to Justin and Ryan, and dear friend of Colleen
ERB. A wonderful
volunteer at Guildwood Extendicare Nursing Home. A memorial service
will be held on Saturday, March 18, 2006 at 1: 00 p.m. at the
Giffen-Mack "Scarborough" Funeral Home and Cremation Centre, 4115 Lawrence
Ave. E., West Hill, 416-281-6800. In lieu of flowers, remembrances
may be made to the Canadian Cancer Society.
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