TVO o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2006-05-25 published
Bernard OSTRY, 78, played key culture role
By Canadian Press, Thurs., May 25, 2006
Toronto -- Bernard
OSTRY, one of the most creative public servants
of his generation, died of cancer yesterday at 78.
Stylish, intellectual and visionary, he helped shape the country's
cultural infrastructure as a government official in Ottawa and
Toronto and, late in his career, as head of
TVOntario.
His recent gifts to the Royal Ontario Museum and the University
of Toronto's Massey College stand to enrich Toronto's cultural
life for years to come.
High Style: The Ostry Collection at the Royal Ontario Museum
was published last fall to catalogue the rich Art Deco and Art
Nouveau furniture collection
OSTRY and his wife, Sylvia, donated
to the museum.
"The Ostry collection was really what justified us being able
to create an all-new gallery on 20th-century design," Royal Ontario
Museum director William
THORSELL said yesterday, of a space to
open next year.
Massey College established the Bernard Ostry Foundation 1½ years
ago with $500,000 from paintings
OSTRY sold at auction.
At high school in Winnipeg,
OSTRY met his future wife, Sylvia
KNELMAN.
They studied at the University of Manitoba, did post-
graduate work in England, then took up senior public service
posts in Ottawa.
In 1970, OSTRY became assistant under-secretary of state, credited
with being the chief architect of a number of multicultural initiatives
under then prime minister Pierre Trudeau.
He later was secretary-general to the National Museums of Canada,
deputy minister of communications and Paris-based special adviser
to western Europe on culture and communications technology.
In a parallel career, Sylvia
OSTRY served as head of the Economic
Council of Canada and a director of the Paris-based Organization
for Economic Co-operation and Development.
"They made a very unusual and potent combination," said Allan
Gotlieb, former Canadian ambassador to Washington.
In 1985, after serving as deputy minister in three Ontario ministries,
OSTRY took charge of
TVO.
For seven years, he directed the educational
channel's huge growth in international deals and became one of
the country's most eloquent defenders of public broadcasting.
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TVO o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2006-03-15 published
Margaret GIBSON,
Writer: (1948-2006)
Author of Opium Dreams and The Butterfly Ward produced works
of singular vision, writes Sandra
MARTIN. It was an intense and
brilliant output that was too often sidelined by the march of
mental illness
By Sandra MARTIN,
Page▼ S9
There were many Margaret
GIBSONs and all of them were complicated.
She was like a prism that could shimmer with refracted brilliance
one moment and then fracture into dangerous shards the next.
As a writer, she was like a foreign correspondent reporting from
the front lines of insanity, taking readers places where most
of us have never been in collections of stories such as The Butterfly
Ward and Sweet Poison, screenplays such as Outrageous, Ada and
For the Love of Aaron and in her only published novel, Opium
Dreams, which won the Chapters/Books in Canada first-novel award
in 1997.
Although she self-diagnosed as autistic after she read Donna
Williams's memoir, Nobody Nowhere, Ms.
GIBSON was probably a
paranoid schizophrenic. In one of her "good" periods in the early
1990s she described what it felt like to have a mental illness.
"It is not so much that madness… is a muddied eyehole, but rather
it is seeing things too sharply, clearer than clear, a light
that fills up your eyeholes and is, in the end, blinding with
its visions."
Ms. GIBSON worked with some top literary editors, including Ellen
SELIGMAN at McClelland and Stewart, Phyllis
BRUCE at Harper Collins
and Barry CALLAGHAN of Exile Editions. "All writers write out
of their experiences, but this was like an open vein," said Mr.
CALLAGHAN.
"If ever a writer in this country hit on the terrors that seem
to strike at women who are defenceless and vulnerable," it was
Ms. GIBSON. "
She was frightening in her presence and she was
frightening in her work because she was really in touch with
the madness that was loose inside herself" and by extension,
in "metropolitan life." "Losing the words" to describe her terrors
was often a signal that her illness was on the march again. And
that made knowing Ms.
GIBSON a desperate struggle to keep her
afloat without being sucked into the whirlpool that was her life.
As her loyal friend, Shirley
FLAVELLE, said: "She was a 24/7
girl. You could only live with her when you were young."
Margaret Louise
GIBSON was the second of five children of Bell
Telephone engineer Dane
GIBSON and his wife
Audrey (neé
McCULLOUGH.)
She grew up on a small rural property on what was then the eastern
edge of Scarborough, Ontario, on land her father, an air force
tail gunner in the Second World War, had been able to buy with
a veteran's grant. Her older sister Dana was bright, gregarious
and an excellent student. Her twin sisters, Lenore and Deirdre,
were a younger playful unit. Margaret, or Margie as her family
called her, was the solitary dreamy one.
"We were a typical Canadian family except that there was one
daughter who was always ill, her whole life," said Deirdre
GIBSON,
a planner. Margaret
GIBSON herself once said that "colours hurt"
when she was a child. "A leaf was a kaleidoscope," she said.
"Starting kindergarten damn near killed me. But I was never lonely
I'm a one-piece band." Puberty is difficult for most adolescents
but for Ms.
GIBSON it was catastrophic. Always withdrawn, she
started slashing her arms and eventually attempted suicide. She
spent about a year at the Homewood Health Centre in Guelph, Ontario,
experiences that she would later use as a trigger for her fiction.
After she was released, her parents sold the beloved family property
and moved to a housing development so she could start "over again"
in a fresh environment.
The new school was even more disaffecting than the old one, but
Margaret did make Friends with two alienated classmates, Shirley
FLAVELLE and Craig Russell
EADIE. He later became well known
as the female impersonator, Craig
RUSSELL. A bisexual, he was
addicted to drug and drinks and died of an Aids-related stroke
in 1990.
In September of 1971, Ms.
GIBSON married Stuart
GILBOORD, a young
man she had met briefly six years earlier through her father.
"She was damn interesting to talk with," Mr.
GILBOORD said, adding
that she was an attractive woman who wore heavy makeup as a defence
against the world. Their son Aaron was born on November 22, 1972.
At the time, Ms.
GIBSON's psychiatrist was encouraging her to
write as therapy. "I would come home from work and we would talk
for three or four hours about her writing," said Mr.
GILBOORD.
Her concentration was all-consuming and obsessive and she used
phrases that were brilliant, but the process was "draining."
Mr. GILBOORD took some of his wife's stories to a script supervisor
he knew at
TVOntario.
She showed them to Michael
MacKLEM of Oberon
Press in Ottawa. Ms.
GIBSON's stories subsequently appeared in
Oberon's annual Best Canadian Stories anthologies and in a solo
collection, The Butterfly Ward, under her married name, Margaret
Gibson GILBOORD.
(She and Mr.
GILBOORD, who now works for a call
centre, divorced when their son was a toddler.)
Reviews were exultant. William
FRENCH, then literary editor of
The Globe and Mail, described her as a "writer of burning intensity
and rare vision, an accomplished explorer of hidden caves of
the mind." This debut shared the City of Toronto Book Award in
1977 with Margaret Atwood's Lady Oracle.
Meanwhile, Ms.
GIBSON's story Making It (from The Butterfly Ward)
about her Friendship with Craig
RUSSELL was made into the low-budget
film Outrageous. Starring Mr.
RUSSELL as himself and Hollis
McLAREN
as Ms. GIBSON, it was the hit of the 1977 Toronto film festival.
Former Chatelaine editor Rona Maynard was a young writer at Flare
magazine at the time. Intrigued by both Ms.
GIBSON and The Butterfly
Ward, she began writing a profile of the "hot" writer. "She had
a deep Lauren Bacall voice, kohl-rimmed eyes, an air of world-weary
glamour," smoked long black cigarettes in a holder and "had a
burning passion for language unlike anything I have ever seen,"
said Ms. Maynard.
The two women became Friends, but when the profile was about
to be published, Ms.
GIBSON had her lawyer send a threatening
letter to the magazine, and "so she dropped out of my life."
At the time, Ms.
GIBSON was also immersed in a bitter custody
battle with her former husband. She turned some of that experience
into Sweet Poison, a collection of stories published by Phyllis
Bruce at HarperCollins. Another story was turned into the television
movie, For the Love of Aaron.
Mr. GILBOORD provides a convincing anti-story to Ms.
GIBSON's
claims of abuse, saying that he and his father-in-law were in
constant communication with each other and with child-welfare
officials trying to protect Aaron and manage Ms.
GIBSON's erratic
behaviour.
"She tried the best she could to raise me," said Aaron
GILBOORD,
who is now 33 and living with his wife and three sons in Manitoba,
where he works as a juvenile counsellor with young offenders.
He left home when he was 16, but remained in touch with his mother
and his father. Ms.
GIBSON wrote a poem about her son, when he
was 5, saying in part, "and to phone the doctor when I a.m. crazed
and always you bring my pill bottles/offering them up with renewed
hope each time." The poem appeared in Aurora: New Canadian Writing,
edited by Morris Wolfe. By the late 1980s, Ms.
GIBSON was living
in a subsidized unit in a housing co-op. That's how she met her
second husband, Juris
RASA, an architectural draughtsman who
was living in the same development. Apparently, she showed up
at his door one day to ask for bandages because her fingers were
bleeding from banging on the keys on her typewriter. Eventually,
they moved in together and married. He helped her learn to use
a computer and to make the transition from short stories to the
longer form of the novel.
Her literary Friends, including the late Timothy Findlay and
his partner, screenwriter William Whitehead, and journalist June
Callwood helped her get grants to support her writing and introduced
her to agent Dean Cooke, who agreed to represent her in the early
1990s. He believes that Mr.
RASA made it possible for her to
write Opium Dreams, the novel that Ellen Seligman published at
McClelland and Stewart.
"I was always amazed by her stamina and staying power because
I anticipated the editing of the book would be hard for her,"
said Ms. Seligman, who came to treasure their long conversations
on the telephone. "I think writing sustained her, more so than
any other form of nourishment."
The novel was a literary success, but Ms.
GIBSON was sinking
again into mental illness. She and Mr.
RASA separated in the
late 1990s after she repeatedly accused him of trying to murder
her. He died about a year ago. Ms. Maynard had reconnected with
Ms. GIBSON in the mid 1990s during one of her many episodes of
instability and formed an unofficial support group with Mr. Cooke,
Mr. Wolfe and Ms. Callwood. "She was getting farther and farther
away from reality," said Ms. Maynard.
About four years ago, Ms.
GIBSON was diagnosed with an aggressive
breast cancer. She was seeing an oncologist, but stopped chemotherapy,
probably because she was afraid of the side effects of her complex
combination of medications.
Margaret Louise
GIBSON was born in Scarborough, Ontario, on June 4,
1948. She died of metastasized breast cancer in the Palliative
Care Unit at St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto on February 25,
2006. She was 57. She is survived by her son Aaron, his wife
Jennifer LAMBERT, their sons Logan, Drew and Ayden, and her three
sisters Dana, Lenore and Deirdre and their families.
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TVO o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2006-03-23 published
McGILLIVRAY,
Derek
Richard
Passed away suddenly of heart failure at his residence in Toronto
on March 19, 2006, age 64 years. Beloved husband and best friend
of Heather (née
LING) and proud and loving father of Craig, Elissa
(Josh RANDELL) and Kate. He is survived in British Columbia by
his brother Brett (Carol Ann
GLOVER) and sisters Fawn (Jim)
KNOX
and Vicki (Doug)
McKEE.
Also survived in Prince Edward Island
by his mother-in-law Dorothy (Baker
LING)
ROPER, brother-in-law
Dr.
Don
(Mary K)
LING and sister-in-law Karen (Lornie)
WOOD.
Graduate of University of British Columbia (B.A.) and Carleton
(M.A. Canadian Studies.) A job at
TVOntario in 1972 began his
long-standing involvement in the Canadian television industry,
primarily with his own company, Ironstar Communications. Upon
retiring, Derek fulfilled the dream of a family trip to Africa
and a successful assault of Mt. Kilimanjaro. Well known as a
"people person", he will be greatly missed as a warm and loving
family-man, a true friend, a respected businessman, an exceptional
athlete, a fount of historical and geographical knowledge, and
with a fondness for things Scottish, especially celebrating in
the tradition of Robbie Burns. Friends may call at the Turner
and Porter Yorke Chapel, 2357 Bloor St. W., at Windermere, east
of the Jane subway, from 6-9 p.m. on Friday. Funeral Service
will be held at 2 p.m. on Saturday, March 25, 2006 at Runnymede
United Church, 432 Runnymede Rd., Toronto. If desired, donations
may be made to the Heart and Stroke Foundation. Condolences may
be sent to yorkechapel@turnerporter.ca
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TVO o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2006-04-21 published
Suzanne ROCHON-
BURNETT,
Broadcaster: (1935-2006)
Articulate, bilingual and passionate, she became the owner of
a commercial radio station -- the first aboriginal to do so in
Canada, writes Sandra
MARTIN. It turned out to be a powerhouse
enterprise
By Sandra MARTIN,
Page▲ S9
Suzanne ROCHON-
BURNETT had more "firsts" in her life than most
people have fingers. The first aboriginal woman to own and operate
a commercial radio station and the first woman to be inducted
into the Canadian Aboriginal Business Hall of Fame, she had many
other achievements, including membership in the Orders of Ontario
and Canada and an honorary doctorate from Brock University.
Articulate, bilingual and female, she was an obvious candidate
for community and cultural boards in the postfeminist, multicultural,
postconstitutional Canada of the 1980s and 1990s. What mattered,
though, was what she brought to these privileged positions: passion,
experience, advocacy, business acumen and commercial success
as a broadcaster and the Chief Executive Officer of her own business.
Cultural advocate Nalini Stewart, who met her after both women
were appointed to the Canada Council in 1998, remembers Ms.
ROCHON-
BURNETT
quoting Métis leader Louis Riel at her first board meeting: "My
people will sleep for one hundred years, but when they awake,
it will be the artists who will fuel their spirits."
This statement, which Ms.
ROCHON-
BURNETT repeated frequently,
was like a mantra. "She was a very passionate advocate, but she
was not strident," said Ms. Stewart, who credits Ms.
ROCHON-
BURNETT
with pressing the council to hire more aboriginal arts officers.
"She was always educating us… and I felt very enriched by all
the things I learned from her."
"Suzanne was a grand lady who brought enormous pride to her people,"
said Tony BELCOURT, president of the Métis Nation of Ontario.
Having known her since 1972, he said she was like a sister to
him. "She met every challenge head-on, persevered and was successful
in everything she touched -- in business, in the arts, in communications,
public service and in life. She gave 110 per cent."
Suzanne ROCHON-
BURNETT was born in the Laurentians, north of
Montreal in the middle of the Depression, the only daughter and
middle child of Achille Joseph and Jeanne Marie
BURNETT (née
FILLION.)
She was proud of her Métis heritage, which she could
trace back through both sides of her family. She loved to tell
stories about how her grandmother made and sold hats to supplement
her income after she was widowed in her 40s, with 12 children
to raise and a farm to run. Her mother carried on the artisan
tradition by designing sweaters, hiring local women to knit them
and then selling the finished product to tourists. At 7, Ms.
ROCHON-
BURNETT
was hard at work as a courier, delivering wool to knitters and
picking up the finished pieces to take back to her mother to
assemble into sweaters.
Her parents sent her to boarding school at Pensionnat des Saint-Anges,
a convent in Saint_Jérome, Quebec, where the nuns rapped her knuckles
if she didn't attend to lessons or speak clearly in class. Decades
later, she told an interviewer that her parents had warned her
before she left home to keep her Indian blood a secret because
"it doesn't show." She believed her parents were trying to protect
her, but it left her "wondering what was wrong with it."
After the convent, she went to Proulx Business College to learn
typing and shorthand. The job choices in her community in the
1950s were few: "The bank, the Bell, or the mill." She wasn't
interested in the first two, so she applied for a job as a secretary,
but the mill owner rejected her, saying she was too talented.
According to Ms.
ROCHON-
BURNETT, he called her father and said,
"don't let her work in this small town. It will bury her." Instead,
the mill owner introduced Ms.
ROCHON-
BURNETT to the manager of
CKJL-AM (now
CJER-AM,) a radio station that had opened in Saint_Jerome
in 1952. The manager was so impressed with her diction and pronunciation
that he gave her a job.
Later, Ms.
ROCHON-
BURNETT credited her knuckle-rapping nuns for
getting her a start as a broadcaster. But it was her own drive,
journalistic talents and easy charm that won her a job as host,
producer and public relations director of the station when she
was 19, a position she held for six years. During this time,
she also repackaged some of her programs for other stations around
the province, took night classes in public relations and marketing
at McGill University, and began working as a freelance journalist
in print as well as broadcast.
With her striking colouring -- pale skin and chestnut hair and
dark eyes -- she also found work as a model, becoming "the face"
of the Montreal Royals baseball team and appearing in commercials
on television. She made the most of the hedonism of the 1960s
travelling around Europe working as a freelance print and
broadcast journalist, living for a time in Paris, where she was
said to have stayed in Edith Piaf's apartment and made Friends
with Jacques Brel, hooking up with Gypsies in Spain and acting
in commercials for NBC in New York.
Back in Canada, she converted a Laurentian lodge into a successful
art gallery. She sold the business after she met and married
Gordon BURNETT, owner of
CHOW-AM in Welland, Ontario, in 1967.
They soon had a baby daughter, Michèle-Elise
BURNETT.
The family
moved to St. Catharines, where Ms.
ROCHON-
BURNETT was a full-time
mother and volunteer for several years. One day, after dropping
her daughter at school, she was struck by the empty hours in
her days. "I'm 40 years old. I'm going to be 60 one day and I'm
going to turn around and say 'what have I done with my life,'
" she told Niagara magazine in May, 2005.
She came up with Chansons à la Française, a program idea that
she turned into a one-hour show on
CHOW that quickly expanded
into two, and then four hours. The Ontario Ministry of Culture
sponsored its distribution to more than 20 AM and FM radio stations
in the province. That led to frequent invitations to appear as
a commentator on francophone and Québécois talent on Canadian
Broadcasting Corporation Radio's Morningside, first when Harry
Brown was a host and then with Don Harron.
In the recession of the early 1990s, her husband's AM radio station
was gasping for survival. In 1995, she formed a company, R.B. Communications,
and bought her husband's firm Wellport Broadcasting Ltd., and
became the owner of a commercial radio station -- the first aboriginal
to do so in this country. She was 60 years old and her husband
was 75. Ms.
ROCHON-
BURNETT knew that having an FM frequency was
essential for the station's success and she also knew that there
was a licence for an FM frequency -- 97.1 -- available from the
Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission.
"I looked at my mom and she looked at me and we said: 'Okay,
let's go for it,'" said her daughter Michèle-Elise
BURNETT, who
was then 28 and in the business, having studied radio and television
arts at Ryerson in Toronto. They won the licence in 1997, and
launched a new format country music station they called Spirit
91.7 F.M. "It was a powerhouse," said Ms.
BURNETT. "We became
the second-most powerful station in the market, and very competitive."
Beginning in the 1980s, Ms.
ROCHON-
BURNETT had begun sitting
on the boards of community native and arts and culture organizations,
including the Canadian Native foundation for the Arts,
TVOntario,
the Métis Nation of Ontario, the Canada Council for the Arts
and Brock University. At one time, she was working on six major
boards simultaneously.
About three years ago, Ms.
ROCHON-
BURNETT was having trouble
breathing. She was diagnosed with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis,
a progressive scarring of the lungs that makes it increasingly
difficult for them to transfer oxygen into the bloodstream. There
is no cure and treatment options are negligible. Ms.
ROCHON-
BURNETT
applied for a lung transplant, but she was an unsuitable candidate.
She sold the station in 2004, but continued her advocacy work.
About a year ago, she and her husband, who had led separate lives
for some time, separated. Their daughter said that the radio
station was the last thing her parents had in common. After it
was sold, they divorced.
Ms. ROCHON-
BURNETT made her last public appearance in February
when she was the first woman to be inducted into the Canadian
Council for Aboriginal Business Hall of Fame. Still beautiful,
her shoulder-length black hair still shiny, she made a joke about
her "leash." It was a reference to the portable oxygen tank held
by her 12-year-old grand_son, who had designed a backpack to make
it easier for her to carry it around. Always intuitive, she spoke
as though she were making a farewell speech, rather than accepting
an award. "When you start reliving your life, you realize you
don't really have any worries about dying because it is part
of life," she said. "I am here to let you know that my life was
good. It was full of challenges, but it was a great life." Referring
to the many boards on which she served, she was grateful that
"her dreams had become a reality" and that she had had the opportunity
to work with people who had "the same belief in aboriginal capacity
and power."
Suzanne ROCHON-
BURNETT was born on March 10, 1935, in Mont Rolland,
Quebec She died in Welland, Ontario, of a brain hemorrhage on
April 2, 2006. She was 71.
She is survived by her daughter Michéle-Elise
BURNETT and her
husband Bill
REICH and two grand_sons. She also leaves her former
husband, Gordon
BURNETT.
There will be a traditional ceremony
and celebration of her life on May 7 at 2 p.m. at the Pond Inlet
at Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario
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TVO o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2006-07-17 published
MOE,
Roy
Ingram
By Glenda MacNAUGHTON;
Avery
HAINES, Page
A14
Husband, father, grandfather, television pioneer. Born December 25,
1920 in Aylmer, Ontario Died April 17 at home in Gilford, Ontario,
of natural causes, aged 85.
Roy Ingram
MOE was born at Christmas, a nice little present for
his folks. He was a gift that kept on giving, especially for
his sister Barbara who came along 18 months later. Barbara calls
Roy her hero, the one who didn't say much but who was always
there when needed. Their childhood was marked by many ups and
downs complicated by their mother's chronic illness. There were
lots of moves. To Port Dover for fresher air. To Port Bruce --
and back to Aylmer.
When Roy and Barbara were teenagers, they moved to Galt. Roy
soon settled into high-school and was becoming known for his
talent at the arena, not for hockey -- but for dancing on roller
skates. Roy was a regular Fred Astaire on wheels, tossing the
girls up in the air and over his shoulder like a pro. Some Toronto
scouts even asked him to perform in the big city.
Unfortunately, this did not prove to be Roy's ticket to the Sports
Hall of Fame. But it did usher in a passion for mastering all
kinds of sports throughout his life. Swimming, water skiing,
sailing, golf, downhill and cross-country skiing. And, at the
age of 78, he took up surfing (the Internet, that is).
Shortly after the start of the Second World War, Roy joined the
air force. Five years of war service in England gave Roy an appreciation
for lots of things: Teamwork, dedication, patience and just plain
being alive. Roy always said he was glad he turned down the chance
to be a tail-gunner and opted for the job of radar operator.
Back at home Roy worked for
CHUM
Radio and later the pioneer
television station Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Toronto
he also met and married Norene. They soon had a family of three
and were living in the one of the first suburbs of Toronto, Don
Mills.
By 1971, Roy was on his own again, he called on Lucille
ESSAM.
They married in October 1971 and Roy became Dad to a second family
two teenagers, Doug and Lee and nine-year-old Steven.
Roy was handsome. His co-workers called him the Silver Bullet
because of his trademark silver locks, which had appeared when
he was in his late twenties.
Roy was proud to have done technical production in the early
days of Canadian Broadcasting Corporation television. Everything
was live, no retakes. Over the course of 25 years he did The
Hit Parade, The Tommy Hunter Show, Royal visits, broadcasts of
the Olympics, skating championships, the first live broadcast
from the Arctic and Hockey Night in Canada with Foster Hewitt.
Retirement from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation only lasted
so long and he was lured back to the bright lights, this time
at TVO.
Finally retiring for good Roy used his spare time to
travel, fix the house, build a garden and help Lucille look after
her dad.
As Roy's eyesight diminished to almost zero, he learned to make
the disability disappear. He sat at his computer and felt his
way along the keyboard to keep in touch with the rest of the
world. If he couldn't read the fine print, so what? The world
still offered Benny Goodman's big-band sound. There were still
people to love, dogs to pat, squirrels to feed, chocolates to
eat and maybe even a trip to try on something new at Eddie Bauer.
So much do, so little time.
Quiet fellows can sometimes be overlooked if they just quickly
pass you by. But gems like Roy just grow on you. And in his case,
familiarity breeds respect, admiration and love. Roy was a keeper
weren't we lucky to have kept him for so many wonderful years?
Glenda is Roy's sister-in-law, Avery his daughter-in-law.
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TVO o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2006-02-07 published
CLARKE,
Inez
Peacefully on Monday, February 6, 2006. Loving mother of John
and his wife Veronica. Dear sister of Lynette and her husband
Paul STADLER,
Colleen and her husband the late Ed
PILCHUK and
Ashley and his wife Adrienne. Loving aunt of 11 nieces and nephews.
Inez will be sadly missed by all of her relatives and Friends.
Inez brought a great deal of joy to her fellow co-workers at
TVO and her numerous Bridge students and partners. The family
will receive Friends at the Ogden Funeral Home, 4164 Sheppard
Ave. East, Agincourt (east of Kennedy Rd.) on Wednesday from
3-5 and 7-9 p.m. For funeral service information please contact
the Ogden Funeral Home, 416-293-5211. Cremation to follow. Special
thanks to the staff in Palliative Care at Toronto Grace Hospital.
If desired, memorial donations may be made to the Toronto Grace
Hosptial Foundation. Father in Thy gracious keeping, Leave we
now our loved one sleeping.
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