UEBBING o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2006-10-02 published
LEBERT,
Julien
At Four Counties Health Services, Newbury, on Friday, September 29,
2006. Julien
LEBERT, 85 years, of Petrolia. Beloved husband of
the late Germaine (née
COMARTIN) (2000.) Dear father of Paul
and Karen LEBERT of Petrolia, Joanne
PHILLIPS of Saskatoon, Pat
REDICK of Alvinston, Gisele and Rick
DEW of Alvinston, Elaine
NEVE of Petrolia, Pierre and Lori
LEBERT of Petrolia, Angela
and Mark ANNETT of Wyoming and Doris and Dave
THROWER of Petrolia.
Dear brother of Aurele and Nadia
LEBERT of Miller Lake, Urbain
and Bernadette
LEBERT of Watford, Rosaire
LEBERT of Belle River,
Marie UEBBING of Michigan, and the late Zoville
GAGNIER,
Briget
DESMARAIS,
Gerard,
George, and Leo
LEBERT. Also survived by 20 grandchildren
and 14 great-grandchildren. Visitors will be received on Monday
from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. at the Needham-Jay Funeral Home,
where a prayer vigil will be held at 8: 45 p.m. The funeral mass
will be celebrated at St. Phillips Church, Petrolia, on Tuesday,
October 3, 2005 at 11: 00 a.m. Interment in Mount Calvary Cemetery,
Wyoming. As expressions of sympathy, memorial donations may be
made by cheque to the Canadian Cancer Society or the Heart and
Stroke Foundation of Ontario. Memories and condolences may be
sent on line at www.needhamjay.com
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UEBERHOLZ o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2006-09-28 published
Martin POYSER,
Hairdresser And Athlete: (1965-2006)
Hairstylist from Toronto's chic Yorkville who ran marathons to
raise money for children in undeveloped countries was felled
by a heart attack
By Alex DOBROTA,
Page S9
Toronto -- As Martin
POYSER finished the 2003 Chicago Marathon,
he had two reasons to feel proud: His effort had raised a hefty
sum for a children's charity and he had run his first big race.
On Sunday, the Toronto hairdresser ran his last. He died less
than a kilometre from the finish line.
He used his first attempt to raise money for a Paraguayan boy
and that thought pushed him to the end of the 41-kilometre route.
"Three-quarters of the way through, my legs were starting to
feel pretty tired," he told the Christian Children's Fund. "Then
the thought of my little guy crossed my mind and I said to myself:
'You know what? This is a good cause. I [have] to do this.' "
Mr. POYSER's death left empty his hairdresser chair at a high-scale
Yorkville salon, where he attracted a network of female confidants
who admired his tall, muscular frame. His clientele ranged from
the banker to the artist to the house wife. His gift for listening
made him privy to his clients' deepest secrets; he acted simultaneously
as a surrogate husband, a confidant and a workout mate. He was
known as "Uncle Martin" to their children.
Martin POYSER grew up in Stourbridge, a town in England's West
Midlands. He took up his first job at 10, as a milkman's helper.
Martin would run back and forth to the milk vehicle, carrying
carts and milk bottles across the streets of his town, said his
sister Tina
POYSER, who lives in England. While he enjoyed physical
activity, the boy always shunned team sports.
His father tried unsuccessfully to initiate him to football and
cricket. "I would be left watching the football and he would
go play on the swings," Trevor
POYSER recalled with a laugh.
As a boy, young Martin was dedicated to his two grandmothers.
He also preferred the company of a sister four years his senior
to that of other boys of his own age. Tina and Martin were inseparable.
The brother even followed his sister on her first date to a James
Bond movie. "Martin sat in between me and the guy all the way
through the film and kept his eyes on this guy every time he
tried to sneak his arm over Martin to touch mine," Ms.
POYSER
recalled. "He was determined he wasn't going to give up his place."
After he finished high school, Mr.
POYSER studied at a business
college for two years, but shrank at the thought of spending
his life in an office. At 18, he decided to step into his sister's
footsteps and enrolled in a hairdressing school.
After graduating, he spent two years tending the hair of vacationers
on a Mediterranean cruise ship and returned home with a passion
for travel. In the late 1980s, he decided to experience the bite
of a Canadian winter and moved to Collingwood, Ontario, to work
as a hairdresser.
"He was the type of guy who wanted to see the world," said Martin
KING,
Mr.
POYSER's life partner. "His initial plan was to spend
some time in Canada but he ended up staying."
Eventually, his hairdressing talents got him noticed by the André
Pierre hair salon in Toronto's Yorkville neighbourhood. He was
offered a job and quickly made a name for himself as a skilled
and versatile practitioner.
But it was his sense of humour and his knack for putting a client
at ease that made him popular with Yorkville denizens. It wasn't
long before his clients had to book several weeks in advance
to ensure a place on his busy agenda.
"Getting a haircut suddenly became this really fun experience
because the hairdresser was fabulously fun," said Michelle
JOHNSON,
a 38-year-old sculptor. "A really quirky laugh, and he [was]
very handsome, too."
Mr. POYSER and Ms.
JOHNSON became Friends shortly after the first
time she sat in his chair for a haircut in the early 1990s. They
would talk on the phone at least three times a week and see each
other almost daily over a glass of wine or a coffee. "I used
to call him so much sometimes, that I would call myself the 'nagging
wife.' "
She was not alone. More than a half-dozen clients and co-workers
called Mr.
POYSER their confidant. Around 1996, when he quit
his job at André Pierre, many of them followed him to his new
workplace, Hair Excel on Cumberland Street.
During Mr.
POYSER's shifts, the salon became a meeting place
filled with the chatter and laughter.
"Martin was my husband No. 2," said his colleague, Jeanette
UEBERHOLZ,
38. "He filled in the parts that my husband couldn't."
He routinely took her out on dance nights and lent himself to
the role of a playmate for her two daughters. He even accompanied
Ms. UEBERHOLZ to her prenatal classes, Ms.
JOHNSON said.
For Mr. POYSER, who was never a father, his Friends filled the
gap of the family he left behind in England. They would religiously
attend the parties he threw at his Riverdale house on Easter,
Thanksgiving and during the summer season to drink and eat heartily.
At one of these parties, Mr.
POYSER turned the vegetable drawer
of his refrigerator into a massive sangria pitcher.
In 2003, Mr.
POYSER decided to leave his Friends for a month
to backpack across Myanmar, formerly known as Burma. He wanted
to witness how people lived in the South-Asian country governed
by a military regime.
When he returned to Toronto, moved by his experiences, he contacted
the Christian Children's Fund and ended up sponsoring Enrique,
a seven-year-old boy who lived with 20 family members in a three-bedroom
house in a Paraguay village. The money Mr.
POYSER raised in Chicago
funded another bedroom for Enrique's home and a water pump for
the community. Altogether, he raised $3,000 to improve the boy's
squalid living conditions.
"The part he liked best is that they used some of the money to
buy the little boy a bicycle," Ms.
JOHNSON said.
Mr. POYSER continued running, though his marathons in 2004, 2005 and
2006 were not meant as fundraisers.
He trained with his Friends, running along Lakeshore Boulevard.
The group used to stop at a coffee shop on Queen Street East
for a latté.
His partner, Mr.
KING, never really liked his new activity because
he knew Mr.
POYSER had a bad knee, but he also knew he could
not be dissuaded.
His father had also tried. "At the age of 41, it's old to do
that," Trevor
POYSER told his son.
"Dad, you need to get more exercise," the son answered back.
On Sunday, as Mr.
POYSER attempted to finish half the 41-kilometre
distance of the Scotia Bank Toronto Waterfront Marathon, he collapsed
on the corner of Wellington and Bay streets, within 800 metres
of the finish line.
Martin POYSER was born February 11, 1965, in Stourbridge, England.
He died of a heart attack Sunday in Toronto. He is survived by
his sister, Tina, his mother, Christine Bunn, and his father,
Trevor POYSER. He also leaves his partner, Martin King.
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UELI o@ca.on.grey_county.owen_sound.the_sun_times 2006-01-05 published
PRINGLE,
John
Roy "
Jack"
Passed away in Dryden, Ontario surrounded by his family on December
28, 2005. Beloved husband of Frances. Dear father of Karyl (Hans
UELI)
MULLER-
PRINGLE of Switzerland, Nancy (Ford)
LAKE of Minesing,
Ontario, John (Marit)
PRINGLE of Sweden and David (Laurie)
PRINGLE
of Sioux Lookout, Ontario. Grandfather of Franzika, Benjamin,
Megan, Scott, Meredith, Sarah, David, Emily, Eric, Aneita and
Alina.
Fondly remembered by sister Ruth
BRADY
(Greg,) sister-in-law
Marlene, special cousin Ivan
MATCHES
(Verna) and many special nieces
and nephews. Predeceased by brothers Bob and Glen. Funeral service
took place on December 31, 2005 at the Dryden United Church.
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UETZ o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2006-06-17 published
GERMAN,
William "
Bill"
Was surrounded by loving family at his Arnstein home when he
peacefully entered into communion with his Lord on Friday, June 16,
2006. Bill was the beloved husband of Benedikta "Bennie"
(UETZ-
PRINZ.)
He was the loving father of Fred (Joanne) of Calgary, Debbie
(Wayne McDOUGAL) of Blyth, Gary (Lorraine) of Medicine Hat, Norman
(Bev) of Angus, Richard "Dee" of Parry Sound, Kim (Mark
VANMAELE)
of Courtland, Karen of Novar, Billy Joe (Tammy) of Gravenhurst,
Dana
(Alisha) of Calgary and step-father of Sybil (Kevin
COSTELLO)
of Welland, Hans
UETZ
(Stacey) of North Bay and Robert
UETZ (Carol)
of Innisville. He was the proud grandfather of 26 grandchildren
and 3 great-grandchildren. Bill was the dear brother of Helen
(Gerald HORLOR) of London, Mary (Gord
WILLIAMS) of Grand Bend,
Karen (Doug
COURTNEY) of Grand Bend and was predeceased by sisters
Ebba (the late Jack
EXLEY), Greta
GARNET, and Ella
DENNCOTT (the
late Gord). He was predeceased by his first wife Isabelle and
is survived by his second wife Anne. The family will receive
visitors at Arnstein Baptist Church, on Sunday from 2: 00 to 4:00 and
7: 00 to 9:00 p.m. and Monday from 10:00 to 11:00 a.m. The funeral
service will be conducted in the church on Monday at 11: 00 a.m.
Interment Arnstein Cemetery. if desired, memorial donations may
be made to Arnstein Baptist Church. For more information, to
make a donation, or request a Memory Card, please call the Paul
Funeral Home, Powassan, 705-724-2024.
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