RYK o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2006-04-28 published
LEFEVRE,
Rosie (née
LIERMAN)
Peacefully, with family by her side, at Maple Manor Nursing Home,
Tillsonburg, on Wednesday, April 26, 2006, Rosie
(LIERMAN)
LEFEVRE
in her 93rd year. Born in Gladstone, Michigan, January 3, 1914.
Dear daughter of the late Maurice
LIERMAN and the late former
Alberta DEWITT.
Rosie was a member of Saint Mary's R.C. Church,
Tillsonburg and Saint Mary's C.W.L. Beloved wife of the late Gaston
LEFEVRE (1990.) Survived by her devoted daughters Yvonne
BOSSY
and her husband Julien of Tillsonburg; Margaret
DODD and her
husband Andrew of Burlington; Patricia
COOPER DE
RYK and her
husband Bob of London; ten adoring grandchildren and twelve great-grandchildren
loving sister Margaret DE
CAP,
South
Middleton and sister-in-law
Mary LIERMAN,
Hamilton and many nieces and nephews. Predeceased
by her infant child, Mary and her daughter Elsie
JONES.
Heartfelt
thanks to the amazing nurses and caregivers at Maple Manor. Resting
at the Verhoeve Funeral Home, 262 Broadway, Tillsonburg until
Monday morning, May 1, 2006, thence to Saint Mary's R.C. Church,
Tillsonburg for Mass of A Christian Burial at 10: 00 a.m. by Rev. Fr. Matthew
GEORGE.
Interment in Tillsonburg Cemetery. As expressions of
sympathy, memorial donations (by cheque only) would be appreciated
to Saint Mary's Church or the Alzheimer Society. Visitation Sunday
2: 00-4:00 p.m. and 7:00-9:00 p.m. C.W.L. Prayers will be said
at 4: 00 p.m. on Sunday and Parish Prayers will be at 7:00 p.m.
on Sunday.
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RYKEN o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2006-05-27 published
FEDDEMA,
Jack▼ "
Jacob▼
Jan▼"
Surrounded by his loved ones, the Lord took home to be with Him
in glory, Jack (Jacob Jan)
FEDDEMA at Strathroy Middlesex General
Hospital on Wednesday, May 24, 2006 in his 72nd year, after a
courageous battle with a long illness. Beloved husband, for 48 years,
of Ann FEDDEMA of Strathroy. Loving father of Rick and Carmen
FEDDEMA of Calgary, Ken
FEDDEMA of Sarnia, Judy and Paul
RIVARD
of London, Anita
FEDDEMA of Sarnia and Cathy and Grant
LINNELL
of London and grandfather of Kayla, Curtis, Kevin and Carissa
FEDDEMA,
Joy▼ and Jenny
FEDDEMA, and David and Julie
LINNELL.
Dear brother of Sharon
FEDDEMA of London, John (pre-deceased)
and Grace FEDDEMA of Lynden, Washington, Peter and Marge
FEDDEMA
of Kitchener, Grace and Ipe
VANDER
DEEN of Strathroy, Ann and
Jan BERG of Guelph, Jane and
Ed RYKEN of Edmonton and Rienk and
Anne FEDDEMA of London. Visitation will be held at the Westmount
Christian Reformed Church, 405 Drury Lane, Strathroy on Saturday,
May 27 from 2-4 p.m. and Sunday, May 28 from 2-4 p.m. A funeral
service will be held at the church on Monday, May 29 at 2 p.m.
with Pastor Fred
VANDER
BERG officiating. Interment in Strathroy
Cemetery. In lieu of flowers donations to the Canadian Cancer
Society or the Christian Reformed World Relief Committee would
be appreciated by the family. Denning Bros. Funeral Home, Strathroy
entrusted with arrangements. (245-1023). A tree will be planted
as a living memorial to Jack.
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RYKEN o@ca.on.middlesex_county.strathroy.age_dispatch 2006-05-30 published
FEDDEMA,
Jack▲
Jan▲
The
Lord took home to be with Him in glory Jack Jan
FEDDEMA at
Strathroy Middlesex General Hospital, on Wednesday, May 24, 2006,
in his 72nd year. Beloved husband for 48 years of Ann
FEDDEMA
of Strathroy. Loving father of Rick and Carmen
FEDDEMA of Calgary,
Ken FEDDEMA of Sarnia, Judy and Paul
RIVARD of London, Anita
FEDDEMA of Sarnia, and Cathy and Grant
LINNELL of London and
grandfather of Kayla, Curtis, Kevin, and Carissa
FEDDEMA;
Joy▲
and Jenny FEDDEMA; and David and Julie
LINNELL. Dear brother
of Sharon FEDDEMA of London, the late John and Grace
FEDDEMA
of Lynden, Washington; Peter and Marge
FEDDEMA of Kitchener,
Grace and Ipe
VANDER
DEEN of Strathroy, Ann and Jan
BERG of Guelph,
Jane and
Ed RYKEN of Edmonton, and Rienk and Anne
FEDDEMA of
London. Visitation was held at the Westmount Christian Reformed
Church, Strathroy, on Saturday, May 27 from 2-4 p.m. and Sunday,
from 2-4 p.m. A funeral service was held at the church on Monday,
May 29 at 2 p.m. with Pastor Fred
VANDER
BERG officiating. Interment
in Strathroy Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, donations to the Canadian
Cancer Society or the Christian Reformed World Relief Committee
would be appreciated by the family. A tree will be planted as
a living memorial to Jack.
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RYKENS o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2006-01-16 published
Henry KOCK, 53: Consummate tree hugger
Horticulturalist instrumental in saving the elm
His own garden a testament to his passion for nature
By Catherine
DUNPHY,
Obituary
Writer
It's difficult to think of someone 6-foot-4 as a wood sprite,
but that was Henry
KOCK. Or perhaps he was better catalogued
as our very own Johnny Appleseed -- only the seeds he was spreading
belonged to the majestic elm, whose distinctive silhouette is
reappearing throughout the province thanks to him.
He was the public face of the University of Guelph's Arboretum
and what a face that was. Normally staid journalists would
wax poetic after encounters with the
KOCK charisma: "With eyes
the colour of dark moss, a graying black beard that birds could
nest in, and a tall angular body, he reminded me of the Green
Man, the pagan god of woodlands," the Toronto Star's Cameron
SMITH wrote in 1998.
KOCK could enchant. His seasonal pruning courses were always
sold out. His slide-show presentations -- culled from the tens
of thousands of slides he'd taken and which he gave to any group
that asked for them -- were inspirational.
"He was such a talented communicator. People would leave the
show in tears," said Dave
MARTIN,
KOCK's brother-in-law and energy
co-ordinator of Greenpeace.
KOCK made it easy to believe -- as he did -- that nature is often
better left alone, our native plants are glorious species, pesticides
kill, suburban lawns are an aberration -- he used to call them
"intensive care units" -- and most of all, that nothing exists
in isolation.
It's why he demonstrated with his homemade signs against the
war in Iraq and attended every International Women's Day march
in Toronto for the past 15 years, traditionally toasting that
day's end sharing a bottle of wine with his wife, Anne
HANSEN,
on the Toronto Islands.
In addition to creating the Elm Recovery Project, he founded
Guelph's Hillside Folk Festival, he helped start its local food
co-op, the Guelph Environmental Watchdog group and the local
branch of the Peace Petition caravan campaign. He was on the
board of the Ontario Public Research Group. It was his idea to
have the university host an annual organic food conference that
has become the most important in Canada, if not North America.
KOCK, along with
HANSEN, was a vegetarian, car-free, bought second-hand
and only when necessary, and washed and reused plastic bags.
Their home in an older Guelph suburb was kept at a sweater temperature
but was known throughout town for its traffic-stopping front
garden of conifers and ferns and wild strawberry cover, the sunflowers
that lined the road, the old bicycle tube that hung from the
branch of a tree. There wasn't an inch of grass, but there were
some 400 species of native plants and trees.
KOCK called it his "hotel of the trees" and used to say it was
a "bed and breakfast" for the 75 species of birds that visited
his yard. He created his own forest in the backyard with rain
water collected in barrels, a pond he and
MARTIN spent four days
digging out, and an old submerged bathtub he and Hansen would
loll in on hot summer days.
But KOCK was running out of time. He had been diagnosed in July
2004, with glioblastoma multiforme, a particularly virulent form
of brain cancer, and although he left the Arboretum, for the
next 16 months he saw Friends, hiked with
HANSEN, took his annual
birding trip and rode his bicycle to Guelph's Saturday farmers'
market. He spent his last month in hospital tended to by family
and Friends. On December 22, about 70 of them gathered in the
cold outside his second-floor window to sing Christmas carols.
KOCK was 53 when he died Christmas morning. His family placed
an elm wreath on his chest.
HANSEN covered him with paper hearts
and threaded cedar, rosemary sprigs and paperwhites throughout
his great beard. They rented the biggest hall in town, but it
couldn't accommodate all of the 600 people who showed up for
his memorial service.
An article in the Guelph Mercury two days after his death noted
that KOCK "managed to touch thousands of lives locally and across
Canada through his efforts to protect the environment." The same
paper had published an earlier editorial about
KOCK, entitled
"The city will not forget."
He was born in Canada's chemical valley -- in Bright's Grove,
outside Sarnia -- into a family that had run nurseries in Holland
for generations. His pacifist parents came to Canada in 1950
after surviving wartime occupation, eventually starting a nursery.
"Henry would say it was in his blood," said Dave
MARTIN, who
married KOCK's sister Irene, who died four years ago in a car
accident.
KOCK graduated from the University of Guelph in 1977, but he
didn't want to work in the family business -- or in any nursery
for that matter. He'd already started taking a machinist's course
when then Arboretum curator John
AMBROSE hired him in 1981 to
be a technician.
"I had heard about him,"
AMBROSE recalled. "I knew he had a different
outlook on everything, but it was more than that. He was a special
person. Any time you started talking to Henry about something,
it was always connected to a bigger Earth issue."
Said his sister, Helen
RYKENS, "
Trees were his passion and he
could run courses that promoted gardening he felt was better
for the planet."
KOCK's idea of recreation was hiking, camping and white-water
rafting, and it was on an Algonquin camping trip that he met
HANSEN.
"He was wearing mismatched shoes and so was I and we both noticed
it," she recalled. "Within 24 hours, we knew we were partners."
HANSEN continued to live and work in Toronto, moving permanently
to Guelph only after
KOCK's diagnosis.
She is organizing a springtime bike ride for
KOCK, during which
she will bring home his ashes.
"I'm going to return some of them to the trees he nurtured and
who nurtured him during his illness," she said. Others will be
scattered in the wilderness.
Then there will be a party for him in their backyard. " I'm going
to make as big a deal as I can out of this because I think Henry
would approve of people eating and drinking and enjoying his
backyard."
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RYKSEN o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2006-07-17 published
HAKKENBERG,
Tyssyna "
Tina"
Antonia
At Caressant Care Nursing Home, Woodstock on Saturday July 15,
2006, Tyssyna (Tina) Antonia
HAKKENBERG formerly of Norwich in
her 79th year. Beloved wife of Ben
HAKKENBERG.
Loving mother
of Trudy and Carl
VAN
BRUGGE of Burgessville, John and Barb of
Salford, Peter and Kim of Albania, Gina and Wim
LIGTENBERG of
Lisse, Holland, Wilma and Dick
VAN'T
FOORT of Norwich, Tineke
and Kees BAAIJ of Lisse, Holland, Jane and Gary
RYKSEN of Norwich,
Anna-Marie and Bill
VAN
WINGERDEN of Sunnyside, Washington. She
will be missed by her 44 grandchildren and 18 great-grandchildren.
Sister of Willy and Arie
ADVOKAAT, sister-in-law of Fake
KOENS,
all of Holland. Predeceased by a granddaughter Lygina
GEERTRUIDA
(1991,) brother Arie and sister-in-law Annie
MIDDELKOOP, and
a sister Corrie
KOENS.
Friends will be received at The Arn-Lockie
Funeral Home, 45 Main St. W., Norwich on Tuesday 2-4 and 7-9 p.m.
Funeral service will be held at the Netherlands Reformed Congregation,
Norwich on Wednesday July 19th at 2 p.m. D.V. Rev. J.
SPAANS
officiating. Interment Norwich Cemetery. As expressions of sympathy,
donations may be made to Alzheimer Society. On-line condolences
at www.arn-lockiefuneralhome.com. Arn-Lockie (519) 863-3020.
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