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ECK o@ca.on.grey_county.owen_sound.the_sun_times 2007-08-22 published
CRUICKSHANK,
Howard
At Lee Manor in Owen Sound Tuesday morning August 21, 2007. Howard
CRUICKSHANK of R.R.#3, Allenford, in his 92nd year. After a valiant
struggle, Howard has gone home to be with his Lord. Beloved husband
of Edith (MacDONALD.)
Loved father of Barbara (Robert)
HUEHN
of Sauble Beach, Mary (Orville)
GUNSON of R.R.#3, Tara, Jean
(Phillip) HUTCHINS of Port Perry, Ruth
VAN
ECK of Bognor and
George CRUICKSHANK of Owen Sound. Lovingly remembered by his
nine grandchildren; David
GUNSON, Carol Ann
(GUNSON)
BERNARD,
Justin, Craig, Ryan, Tara and Paul
HUTCHINS, Jeffrey and Lisa
VAN
ECK and one great-granddaughter Emma
BERNARD. Dear brother
of Margaret (Charles)
MIZEN and Edith (Harry)
HUFFMAN.
Predeceased
by his parents Wesley and Mary
CRUICKSHANK, his son Gordon (1971,)
sisters Olive, Sadie and Marjorie and brothers Thorald, Leslie
and Kenneth. Friends may call at the Downs and son Funeral Home
Hepworth Thursday from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Funeral Service
will be conducted from the Hepworth Baptist Church Friday morning
at 11: 00 a.m. Interment Hillcrest Cemetery, Tara. Expression
of remembrance to The Gideons or Hepworth Baptist Church would
be appreciated. Messages of condolence for the family are welcome
at www.downsandsonfuneralhome.com. A tree will be planted in
the Memorial Forest of the Grey Sauble Conservation Foundation
in memory of Howard by the Downs and son Funeral Home.
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BELROSE,
Earl
Of Tobermory passed away surrounded by his family on Saturday,
September 22, 2007 in his 76th year. Cherished father of Holly
ECKENSWILLER and her husband Dave of Tobermory, Nick
BELROSE
of Wiarton, Shelley
McARTHUR and her husband Bryce of Tobermory
and Lynn BELROSE and his wife
Lorrie of Bobcaygeon. Special grandfather
to Matthew and his wife Noelle, Debbie, Michael and his wife
Felicia, Lori and her husband Mike, Angie and her husband Ronnie
and Troy, great-grandfather to Hunter, Houston, Sydney and Ronnie
and special uncle to Sheree. He will be sadly missed by his sister
Linda TUPLING and her husband Bruce of Erin, best friend Freida
Warder as well as his companion Sailor. Earl was predeceased
by his wife
Edna, parents Debra
(HOPKINS) and Wesley
BELROSE,
brothers Gordon, King, Albert, Herbie and Gerald and sisters
Gwen and Donna. Visitation will be held at the Light and Life Chapel,
Highway 6, Tobermory on Monday, September 24, 2007 from 2: 00 to
4: 00 and 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. where the funeral service to celebrate
Earl's life will be held on Tuesday, September 25, 2007 at 2: 00 p.m.
with Pastor Jerry
CLUBINE officiating. Interment Dunk's Bay Cemetery.
Donations made to the Lion's head Hospital would be appreciated
by the family as expressions of sympathy. Arrangements entrusted
to the George Funeral Home, Wiarton. Condolences may be sent
to the family at www.georgefuneralhome.com
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ECKER o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2007-06-12 published
Canada's youngest pilot was a natural flier who became a top
jet jockey
It was all he ever wanted to do, and in 1938, he became the youngest
licensed pilot in the country. He enlisted in the Royal Canadian
Air Force and later joined Trans Canada Airlines. When he finally
switched to jets, it was 'better than sex'
By F.F. LANGAN,
Special to The Globe and Mail, Page S9
Toronto -- Just hours before Allied troops landed on the beach
in Normandy on D-Day, Flying Officer Frank
VINES dropped 16 paratroopers
and four canisters of supplies behind German lines. Just a few
years earlier, he had been celebrated as Canada's youngest licensed
pilot.
On June 6, 1944, Mr.
VINES was a transport pilot flying Dakotas,
the military version of the DC-3. On the night of June 5, he
had to wait until 11 p.m. to take off since the sky was still
bright at that time of year. The flight took 3½ hours and his
log book mentions being hit by machine-gun fire from the ground
along the way. His log also details another flight, on June 6,
during which he was hit by flak from a Royal Navy ship -- "a
small burst off the rear bulkhead" -- that damaged the tail of
the aircraft.
"After he dropped his cargo, the plane nosed down because it
had been hit in the elevator trim. They had to pull up so hard
on the yoke he felt his arms were going to fall off," said his
son, John VINES. "He could only do it for five minutes before
the co-pilot took over."
Years later, Mr.
VINES said he believed the drop zone was about
50 kilometres inland -- probably near the town of Caen in Normandy.
There were many other trips across the Channel during the Normandy
campaign. On June 20, he returned to France, this time landing
to pick up wounded soldiers. Margaret
ECKER, war correspondent
for Canadian Press, reported on the flight and the story appeared
on front pages back home.
"Six Canadian soldiers were among the first battle casualties
evacuated by air yesterday from the front line in Normandy to
emergency hospitals in England. Less than two hours after a big
transport plane lifted them from a casualty clearing station
on an airfield within range of sniper's guns, the men were in
bed in a tented air evacuation centre in the English countryside."
Ms. ECKER then listed the soldiers who were leaving France and
the pilots who were flying them.
"Among the men who fly the England-France route when it becomes
the milk run for carrying supplies across the Channel and bring
back the wounded are F.O. Frank
VINES, who took a planeload of
paratroops across the channel on D-Day."
Later that year, during the campaign in Northwestern Europe,
he was involved in dropping paratroops into Arnhem in Operation
Market Garden, the Allied military failure documented in the
movie A Bridge Too Far.
Although he was an experienced pilot before the Second World
War, Mr. VINES almost didn't get to fly in Europe. He was so
anxious to go overseas that he contrived to almost get himself
court-martialed. It worked.
His problem started when he joined the Royal Canadian Air Force.
At 19, he had been too good a pilot with too much flying experience
after having qualified for his pilot's licence when he was just
17 -- at the time, the youngest pilot in Canada.
He started pilot training at 14 at the Lambeth Flying Club outside
London, Ontario, and made his first solo flight six months later
in a De Havilland Moth biplane. He was ready to be granted his
pilot's licence when he was 15, but authorities made him wait,
saying he too young.
As a boy, he had been aviation crazy. He took his first flight
at the age of 6 when his parents, both English immigrants, took
back to England. There, he and his father went up in a plane
at Blackpool, the sea resort.
His father was a locomotive engineer with the Canadian Pacific
Railway and was transferred to Goderich, Ontario, where Frank
later went to high school. A friend, George
PARSONS, remembered
a peaceful, idyllic boyhood. Their only act of rebellion, he
said, was to occasionally skip school for a little snooker, a
game they played all their lives. By that time, Mr.
VINES and
his father were both learning how to fly. The pair used to drive
together to the flying school, but it was the son who received
his licence first.
Mr. VINES graduated from high school in June, 1940, 10 months
after war broke out. He promptly joined the Royal Canadian Air
Force, which was desperate for pilots and glad to have him. He
reported to the air base at Trenton, Ontario, the following month,
expecting to be sent overseas almost right away. Instead, because
of his flying experience, he was made an instructor.
He was eventually stationed at Windsor, Ontario, as part of the
Commonwealth Air Training Plan. As one of Canada's largest contributions
to the war, the program trained 200,000 pilots and air crew from
across the Commonwealth at airfields across the country.
The routine for Mr.
VINES involved taking young men and training
them to fly in a Fleet Finch biplane before moving on to more
advanced training, such as the more powerful single-wing Harvard.
"After six months of instructing, I thought anybody could do
it -- and wished they had. It was just the monotony of it. You'd
get a guy to where you thought he could fly and you'd lose him
[to an active posting]. Then you started all over again with
another bunch of students," Mr.
VINES told author Ted Barris
for the book Behind the Glory.
Despite the monotony of flight training, it could still be dangerous
- many students and instructors were killed in flying accidents.
After a couple of years doing it, Mr.
VINES seemed no closer
to being posted to an overseas squadron. So he and a friend took
action.
"Frank and I got in a couple of Fleets and flew low formation
over the Dominion Day event," Brick Bradford told Mr. Barris.
"We did a slow roll and a couple of loops over the park" near
the St. Clair River. Below them, senior Royal Canadian Air Force
officers stood on a reviewing stand, outraged at the antics.
The pilots' purpose was to let the brass know they were anxious
to get overseas.
According to Mr.
PARSONS, however, the incident had an even more
dramatic effect.
"The way Frank told me was a little different," Mr.
PARSONS said.
"They flew their planes under the Ambassador Bridge between Windsor
and Detroit. While the stunt demanded some skill, Royal Canadian
Air Force brass saw it as reckless and the two of them were almost
court-martialled."
But the flying partners got the desired result and were soon
sent on real missions. For Mr.
VINES, that meant flying Hudson
bombers out of Halifax on anti-submarine missions, and then a
sea voyage to England, before being posted to Gibraltar. He was
assigned to 233 Squadron of the Royal Air Force, where he flew
Hudsons against U-boats in the Atlantic.
Nine months later, he transferred to Transport Command, flying
Dakotas from a base in Wiltshire in southwestern England. It
was from there that he so often crossed the English Channel to
France. In January of 1945, he joined Ferry Command and delivered
bombers and Dakotas across the Atlantic to bases in Scotland
and Cairo. He did that until August, 1945.
When the war ended, he
VINES returned to Canada and joined Trans-Canada
Airlines, the forerunner of Air Canada. He started in May of
1946, flying Lockheed Lodestars, DC-3s and larger DC-4 airliners.
At that time, Ottawa introduced a new pilot rating called the
Airline
Transport
Pilot Licence. Mr.
VINES's number was 000002,
meaning he was the second pilot in Canada to get it. "He used
to say the person with licence 000001 was the man from the Department
of Transport who certified him," his son said.
In 1948, he left Trans-Canada Airlines and became a private pilot
for Massey Harris, the tractor manufacturer. Flying Lockheed
Lodestars and the amphibious Grumman Goose, among other aircraft,
his passengers were almost always all directors and executives
of the firm.
He stayed with Massey Harris until 1954, when he became chief
pilot for Pittsburgh Plate and Glass, Canada. There, he flew
everything from a DC-3 to a keenly anticipated DH-125 jet. "I
asked him what the new jet was like," his son recalled. "He thought
for a moment and replied, 'John, It's better than sex.' " Pittsburgh
Plate and Glass cut back on its corporate jet fleet in the recession
of 1981, after which Mr.
VINES freelanced as a corporate pilot.
In retirement, he owned a couple of sailboats and was an active
sailor until a couple of years ago. Although he was a methodical
man when it came to flying and sailing, he had a whimsical side
otherwise - he had a storehouse of hundreds of jokes in his memory,
and was always telling funny stories.
Frank William
VINES was born on February 18, 1921, in Toronto.
He died at Oakville, Ontario, on May 25, 2007, of emphysema,
although he gave up smoking 30 years ago. He was 86. He is survived
by his wife Helen and his son John.
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ECKERSLEY o@ca.on.grey_county.owen_sound.the_sun_times 2007-01-08 published
ECKERSLEY,
Dennis
Lee
(November 23, 1950-January 8th, 2004)
Memories of Lee never fade.
Mum and Dad, Sisters Lyn and Kim and their families. Lee's wife Della
and children Tristan, Siena and Randal.
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ECKERT o@ca.on.manitoulin.howland.little_current.manitoulin_expositor 2007-01-10 published
Flora
Kathleen
(Kay)
McALLISTER
In loving memory of Flora Kathleen (Kay)
McALLISTER,
September 15, 1923 - December 28, 2006.
Kay McALLISTER, a resident of the Pioneer Manor, Sudbury, and formerly of Spring Bay, died at
the Laurentian Site of the Manor on Thursday, December 28, 2006 at the age of 83 years.
She▼ was born at Spring Bay, daughter of the late George and Margaret
McCOLEMAN)
CAMPBELL.
Kay enjoyed quilting and had spent much of her life working alongside Gordon on
their farm. Her greatest joy and pleasure was her family. She was a devoted wife, mother
and grandmother, and had dedicated her life to her family. Many wonderful memories will be
cherished by all. Kay was predeceased by her beloved husband Gordon, June 2, 2001. Dearly
loved and loving mother of Larry and Shirley of Naughton, Linda
McLEAN and Peter
HALL of
Copper Cliff, Jack and Terri of Massey and Ron of Copper Cliff. Proud grandmother of Anita
and Gerry, Tom, Tammy and Brian, Darren and Zacha, Darcy, Brad and Marie, Becky, Brenna and
Ashley and great grandchildren Anthony, Johnny, Sarah, Aiden, Mickie Lynn and Casey.
Dear sister of Annabelle
McCORMICK of Gore Bay, Eileen and Roy
MORAN of Toronto, Ken and
Doreen CAMPBELL of Spring Bay, Doug and Monica
CAMPBELL of Toronto. Predeceased by sisters
Julie WEST, Lois JONES, Wanda
ANDERSON, Verzella
JEFFKINS and Betty
JEFFKINS. Also survived
by several nieces and nephews. Friends called at the Culgin Funeral Home on Tuesday after
7.00 p.m. The funeral service was conducted in the Wm. G. Turner Chapel on Wednesday,
January 3, 2007 at 11.00 a.m. with Reverend Mary Jo
ECKERT
TRACY officiating. Interment in
Grimesthorpe Cemetery. In remembrance, donations to the Alzheimers Society would be appreciated.
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ECKERT o@ca.on.manitoulin.howland.little_current.manitoulin_expositor 2007-01-10 published
Annabelle Margaret
McCORMICK
In loving memory of Annabelle Margaret
McCORMICK, a resident of the Manitoulin Lodge,
Gore Bay and formerly of Spring Bay. Annabelle
McCORMICK died at the Lodge on Wednesday, January 3, 2007 at the age of 80 years.
She▲ was born at Spring Bay, daughter of the late George and Margaret
(McCOLEMAN)
CAMPBELL.
Belle enjoyed quilting and spending time with family. She was married twice. Her first
husband Russell
KENNEDY predeceased in 1960. She later married Clarence
McCORMICK who predeceased
in 1989. Dearly loved mother of Doug and his wife
Vicki
KENNEDY of Spring Bay.
Loved grandmother of Douglas and Erica, Cheryl and Darryl and Margaret and great
grandchildren Wyatt, Sonja, Johannes, Hunter, Brookelynn, Noah, Kylie, Devon and Jaime.
Dear sister of Eileen and Roy
MORAN of Toronto, Ken and Doreen
CAMPBELL of Spring Bay and
Doug and Monica
CAMPBELL of Toronto. Predeceased by sisters Kay
McALLISTER
(December 28, 2006), Julie WEST, Lois JONES, Wanda
ANDERSON, Verzella
JEFFKINS and Betty
JEFFKINS.
Also survived by several nieces and nephews. Friends called at the Culgin Funeral Home on
Thursday after 7.00 p.m. The funeral service was conducted in the William G. Turner Chapel
on Friday, January 5, 2007 at 11.00 a.m. With Reverend Mary Jo
ECKERT
TRACY officiating.
Interment in Grimesthorpe Cemetery.
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ECKERT o@ca.on.manitoulin.howland.little_current.manitoulin_expositor 2007-01-17 published
William Delanore
CRONK
Del CRONK, a resident of Billings Township, died at home on Sunday, January 14, 2007 at the age of 61 years.
He was born in Kagawong,
son of the late John and Laurinda
(ORR)
CRONK. He drove truck most
of his life, with imperial Oil for over 20 years, and for commercial Transport, Day Transport
and lastly Manitoulin Transport. Del loved the outdoors, hunting, fishing and golfing.
He will be sadly missed, but many memories will be cherished. Del is survived by dearest
friend Ethel
BOWERMAN of Mindemoya, brothers Mark of Billings Township , Ross (Marilyn
WYERS)
of Billings Township , Charles (Chris
RACEY) of Gore Bay and sisters
Laura MULVILLE
(Ron
THORNTON) of Gravenhurst, Gladys
BELAND (Clifford) of
Sudbury, Peggy
THIBAULT
(Earl
DAHL) of Sudbury and Mary Ellen
THOMPSON/THOMSON/TOMPSON/TOMSON (Ron) of Sault
+ Sainte Marie. Predeceased by brothers Thomas and Billy. Also survived by many nieces and
nephews. Friends called at the Culgin Funeral Home Tuesday. The funeral service will be
conducted in the William G. Turner Chapel on Wednesday, January 17, 2007 at 11.00 am with
Reverend
Mary Jo
ECKERT
TRACY officiating. Cremation to follow. In remembrance, donations
to the Cancer Society would be appreciated.
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ECKHARDT o@ca.on.grey_county.artemesia.flesherton.the_flesherton_advance 2007-09-19 published
QUARRIER,
Lucy
Viola (née
ROBBINS)
Graduated to her heavenly home at Grey Gables, Markdale on Tuesday,
September 11, 2007. Lucy Viola
(ROBBINS)
QUARRIER, formerly of
Mount
Forest, in her 93rd year. Loved mother of Betty
KEATING
(Garry) of R.R.#4 Orangeville Diane
McDONALD
(Dave) of R.R.#1
Formosa and Peter
QUARRIER
(Pam) of Calgary. Loving grandmother
of Becki and Ashlee
QUARRIER. Dear sister of Mitch
ROBBINS
(Evelyn)
of Hanover. Sister-in-law of Jean
ROBBINS of Owen Sound. Fondly
remembered by many nieces and nephews. Predeceased by her parents
Peter and Sarah
ROBBINS and sisters and brothers Evelyn (Bill)
MAY, Vera (Earl)
GRAY/GREY, Mel (Gladys)
ROBBINS, Norm (Gladys)
ROBBINS,
Doris (Andris)
ECKHARDT, Ross (June)
ROBBINS, Elmer Peter (Audrey)
ROBBINS and Don
ROBBINS.
Dearly loved by former students, Friends
and caregivers. Friends called at the Hendrick Funeral Home,
Mount Forest on Friday from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. A Celebration of
Lucy's Life was held at the Hendrick Funeral Home on Saturday,
September 15 at 3 p.m. Interment at Maplewood Cemetery. Memorial
donations to the Alzheimer's Society or the charity of one's
choice would be appreciated by the family. Online condolences
may be made at www.hendrickfuneralhome.com.
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ECKHARDT o@ca.on.grey_county.owen_sound.the_sun_times 2007-12-04 published
MOORE,
Thomas
Glen
Passed away at Rockwood Terrace, Durham on Sunday, December 2nd,
2007 in his 90th year. Thomas Glen
MOORE, beloved
son of the
late Thomas and Christina
MOORE, of Glenelg Township. Uncle of
Mary and John
McNAIRNEY of Winnipeg, James G.
BRISCO and Teresa
SPENCER of Delta, British Columbia and Robin
BRISCO and Dave
HEISER of Fort McMurray, also four grand-nieces and nephews.
Also survived by his brother-in-law, Jim
BRISCO and his wife
Donna of Winnipeg. He was predeceased by two sisters: Esther
MOORE and Mary (Mrs. J.
BRISCO.)
Friends for many years of Don
ECKHARDT and Jake
PENNER. A Celebration of Glen's Life will be
held at the Durham Presbyterian Church on Thursday, December 6th
at 12 noon, with visitation from 10: 30 a.m. until the time of
the service. Spring interment at Durham Cemetery. As an expression
of sympathy, memorial donations to the Durham Presbyterian Church
Celebration and Memorial Fund would be appreciated. Arrangements
entrusted to the McCulloch-Watson Funeral Home, Durham.
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