ERICHSEN
ERICKSON
ERICSON
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COLE,
Isa
Erichsen "
Dale"
Died peacefully surrounded by her family on February 1 2007.
Loving mother of Zoe, Paul, Oliver and Tinsy. Grandmother of
five and Great-grandmother of two. Isa grew up in Forest Hill
in Toronto and loved spending her summers at the family cottage
in Go Home Bay owned by her grandparents, Frank and Isa
(McCURDY)
ERICHSEN-
BROWN.
She raised her family while living in New York
City, Amsterdam (Holland), Lillehammer (Norway), Paris (France),
5 other states in the U.S., Kwajalein (South Pacific) as well
as back in Toronto. For a time she was a newspaper reporter,
and was the host of Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's 'Thursday
Noon on the Square' radio show in the 1970's. A unique and innocent
soul, her love, wisdom and courage were inspiring and will be
missed. Gathering in her honour planned for July 14th 2: 00 p.m.
at the Vineyard in Beamsville. Lets celebrate her life as she
would have wished, with love and great stories. A postboard will
be setup for messages at the gathering, please email to rdrotos@yahoo.ca
for details call 905-563-3575.
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SWENSON,
Bernard "
Ben"
Veteran World War 2. Retired Businessman
Passed away at Good Samaritan Seniors Complex, Alliston, Ontario
on Monday, June 11, 2007, in his 92nd year. Beloved husband of
Lois PINGLE of Alliston, Ontario Loved father of Larry
SWENSON
and his wife Barbara Jane of New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, Sharon
SWENSON of Toronto, Ontario, Debbie and her husband Tom
HOGARTH
of Windsor, Ontario Loving grandpa of Stephanie and her husband
Andrew JONES,
Samantha
SWENSON, Alex and her husband Gord
HARTLEY,
Ainsley and Madison
HOGARTH. Dear brother of Mary and her husband
George HAIG and predeceased by Oscar
SWENSON,
John
SWENSON, Sophie
ERICKSON,
Carrie
PEARSON and Ingla
GROOME. Dear brother-in-law
of Edith BURR,
Phyllis
McROBBIE, Ann
SPICER, Bruce and Donna
PINGLE.
Ben will be fondly remembered by his nieces, nephews
and Friends. Resting at W. John Thomas Funeral Home, 244 Victoria
Street, E., Alliston on Wednesday, June 13, 2007 from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m.
Funeral Service will be held in the Chapel on Thursday, June 14,
2007 at 1: 30 p.m. If so desired, memorial donations to the Canadian
Diabetes Association or Canadian National Institute for the Blind
would be appreciated.
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McIVOR,
Frances
Elaine (née
KOCH)
'Fran' was born December 5, 1940 in Flin Flon, Manitoba, a daughter
to Ruth (née
ERICKSON) and Alfred
KOCH and sister to Elfreyda
and her husband Alex
MORRICE of Brooks, Alberta.
Fran passed away peacefully and in the company of her family
on Friday, June 15, 2007, in Meaford, Ontario in her 67th year.
She was the dear and beloved mother of David and his wife Deneen
of Loretto, Ontario, Erin and her husband Darrell
DENNIS of Clarksburg,
Ontario, Paige of Christie Beach, Ontario and Drew and his wife
Megan of Guelph, Ontario.
She will be the fondly missed Nana of her grandchildren Maxwell,
Madelaine, Benjamin, Ava, Cole and Naomi.
A private family service, officiated by Reverend Doctor Brian
GOODINGS,
was conducted on Monday, June 18, 2007 at the Ferguson Funeral
Home in Meaford with cremation following.
Deepest appreciation for donations to the Canadian Cancer Society.
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ERICSON,
Doctor
Richard
V. (1948-2007)
After a long and difficult struggle with multiple health problems,
our dearest Richard died October 2, 2007 at age 59. Richard enjoyed
a long career making significant contributions as an eminent
scholar in the fields of Sociology, Criminology and Law. He was
appointed Professor of Criminology at the University of Toronto
in 2004, and has served as the Director of the Centre of Criminology
at that university since 2005. Between 1993 and 2003, Richard
was Principal of Green College and Professor of Law and Sociology
at the University of British Columbia. Prior to that he was Director
of the Centre of Criminology and Professor of Criminology and
Sociology at the University of Toronto. He held various visiting
positions at Cambridge and Oxford Universities, including an
appointment to All Souls College Oxford, as well as the University
of Edinburgh, London School of Economics, University of Paris X,
and Arizona State University. Richard was a Fellow of the Royal
Society of Canada and a Canada Council Killam Research Fellow
from 1998 to 2000. Over his career he made critical contributions
to knowledge in areas as diverse as young offenders, police work,
crime reporting by the media, risk and regulation, and insurance
and governance. Richard's proudest achievement was the development
of Green College at the University of British Columbia. Arriving
at little more than a construction site in 1993, he embraced
the role of builder, striving to create a positive, nurturing
and creative environment where young scholars and faculty members
from the university, and from around the world, could meet to
share ideas and collaborate in scholarly pursuits. Enabling and
watching young scholars grow in intellect and in personal confidence
was his greatest pleasure. Richard's integrity, dedication and
intellectual leadership will be sorely missed across the academic
community of colleagues and students he so enjoyed and sought
to serve. Our dearest Richard will be terribly missed by his
loving family, to whom he always gave generously, and for whom
he always sought to provide an enriching life: his wife of 38 years
Diana, his son Royal Canadian Mounted Police Constable Matt
ERICSON
(LeeAnn), his brother John (Joyce), sisters Elizabeth and Kristine
(Shabaz). He will also be missed by his extended family and many
Friends across Canada and around the world. He lived fully and
gave everything he had to give. A memorial service will be held
in the Hart House Debates Room at the University of Toronto at
2: 00 p.m. Thursday, October 25th, 2007. In lieu of flowers please
make a donation to the Richard V. Ericson Scholarship Fund. Details
can be found at www.criminology.utoronto.ca/ericsonfund.doc
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Criminologist identified boredom as the policeman's greatest
enemy
University of Toronto expert on crime and punishment took police
officers to task for pushing too much paper, for doing little
more than maintaining the status quo and for picking on 'pukers'
By Ron CSILLAG,
Special to The Globe and Mail, Page S10
Is being a police officer boring? Consider the startling research
on policing in Canada carried out in the 1980s by University
of Toronto criminologist Richard
ERICSON.
He found that the average number of reported crimes per police
officer in Canada was 30 in 1962, rising to 45 in 1977 - or about
one a week. He reported that officers on average spent about
half their time on the job doing paperwork, and reporting to
superiors about what they did with the other half.
He repeated what has virtually become an adage about police work
- that the worst part of being a police officer is boredom. The
police themselves, in his study, rated fewer than 7 per cent
of incidents they dealt with as "exciting."
In a subsequent book, he examined what policing really is about
in Canada and concluded that it is "concerned with the reproduction
of order." In other words, maintaining the status quo.
To illustrate (and here he probably won few police Friends),
he reported that a common diversion among officers was to pick
on "pukers" - young males of lower socioeconomic background -
and minorities of any sort. Patrol officers, Prof.
ERICSON said,
seemed to go out of their way to stop such people, run their
names through the national database and look for ways of laying
charges.
"The police sell themselves as crime fighters," Prof.
ERICSON
said in a 1984 interview, "but do not spend much time on this
activity, per se." The bulk of the patrol officer's time was
spent "doing nothing other than consuming the petrochemical energy
required to run an automobile and the psychic energy required
to deal with the boredom of it all."
Public Misinformed
Partly, he blamed a "relatively misinformed public" for buying
into the belief that cops are around-the-clock crime busters.
"The general feeling is that crime is under the control of the
government as long as you keep giving tax dollars," he said.
The public's acceptance of this "creates a view among citizens
that they should be deferential to the police."
A year-long study done by his department of an Ontario police
force seemed to support that claim. It found "an amazing compliance"
by more than 400 citizens, who dutifully turned over files to
officers, remained in their presence even though not under arrest,
and rarely objected.
Complaining can be risky. In 1981-1982, he found that about one
third of all those who filed charges against Metro Toronto Police
officers were taken to court by the municipality's lawyers for
malicious prosecution. Only two were spared civil damages.
The time had come, he believed, for police officers to be treated
just as human beings, with citizens "criticizing them, questioning
them and resisting them."
A world-renowned criminologist who challenged assumptions, ruffled
feathers and put U of T's Centre of Criminology on the map, Prof.
ERICSON
was described by colleague David Garland of New York University
as "a serial specialist with the broadest of visions, a continually
curious scholar who became expert in one field after another."
Indeed a polymath, he became authoritative in several fields
relating to crime and society: Young offenders, detective work,
policing, defendants in the criminal process, crime reporting
in the media, risk, insurance and the regulation of financial
institutions, and surveillance. Lauded by scholars around the
world as creative, innovative, critical and highly rigorous -
and by students as a warm, wise and nurturing teacher - Prof.
ERICSON
authored, co-authored or edited 17 books on crime and punishment,
the first two when he was 27.
"He was a sociologist who took criminology as his chosen specialty
but who had an expansive view of what criminology should be and
whose work transformed the scope of that discipline," eulogized
Prof. Garland, who is considered the English-speaking world's
top criminal theorist. "He paid attention to complexity and to
detail. His research projects were large, ambitious undertakings
intended to address big theoretical questions."
Prof. ERICSON was educated at the Universities of Guelph and
Toronto, and received his doctorate from the University of Cambridge.
Most of his career was spent at U of T's Centre of Criminology,
where he became director in 1992. For a decade, he was the first
principal of Green College and professor of law and sociology
at the University of British Columbia, and then won an appointment
as professor of criminology at Oxford University, where he was
a fellow of All Souls College, among other foreign postings.
He returned to University of Toronto in 2004.
His work may have been big and theoretical, but it had real-world
relevance. He was known for offering a shocking new vision of
police work in which data gathered by law enforcement using surveillance
and other technologies is not only not protected, but brokered
to other institutions.
Links To Insurance
The police, he noted, have become information dealers to insurance
companies and health-and-welfare organizations whose operations
are based on knowledge of risk. These institutions, in turn,
influence the ways in which police officers think and act.
"It's fairly obvious, as any homeowner who's had a break-in knows,"
explained Mariana
VALVERDE, acting director for the Centre for
Criminology. "The only reason you call the police is to get a
report that you can then submit to the insurance [company]. You
don't actually expect the police to really find your lost CD
player."
It wasn't that Prof.
ERICSON had broken new ground. "It's just
that nobody studied how it works, and the tremendous importance
the police have by way of generating information for all sorts
of agencies," Prof.
VALVERDE said. "He put the work of police
forces in broader context."
Prof. ERICSON also conducted the first major sociological study
of the insurance industry, examining how it controls our institutions
and daily lives in ways that are largely invisible, and how it
functions as a kind of government beyond the state.
One alarming conclusion was that there's a lot less certainty
than people may think in the insurance business - the very industry
that is charged with transforming uncertainty into manageable
risk.
Post 9/11 security measures, he argued, include disturbing new
forms of "counter law" or "law against law," which criminalize
not only those who actually cause harm, but also those merely
suspected of being harmful.
Words such as vandalism are always being applied to youngsters
breaking windows but almost never to "large corporations polluting
the atmosphere… which in the aggregate is far greater."
Critical Of Media
And there's the matter of how the media report crime. After six
months of studying how three Toronto newspapers - including The
Globe and Mail - covered some high-profile sexual assaults in
1982, he found the news outlets rarely questioned the prevailing
belief that it was up to women to curb their activities if they
wanted to avoid sexual attack.
The articles presented a central image that sexual assault "was
best controlled by having women take precautions that restricted
their freedom," the study said.
"By locating the problem with the victim and by not questioning
the cultural and social structures in general, and gender relations
in particular, the news accounts functioned to acknowledge the
existing order of values and social relations which perpetuate
the subordinate place of women. The newspapers arguably perpetuated
the views that it is something women do that contributes to attacks."
He rejected the old saw that journalists are mere observers.
"I don't see the media as being in any way outside the process
they are reporting on. The reporters, in the way they use sources,
are active players. They don't reflect reality, they help to
constitute the reality."
It seems incongruous that someone who tackled such bold subjects
was described as not especially outgoing, often to the point
of shyness. And despite being critical of police, his own son
became an Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer. "It was a very
proud moment in Richard's life when Matthew was sworn in," Prof.
VALVERDE
noted. "So it's not as though he disrespected police, or didn't
have an understanding of [their] day-to-day realities. I think
his sympathies were always with the rank and file."
Don't tell that to the Peel Regional Police force on Toronto's
western flank.
Perhaps the biggest stink Prof.
ERICSON raised was in one of
his books, Making Crime: A Study Of Detective Work, in which
he accused the police he was observing of routinely forging,
or "left-handing" the signatures of justices of the peace on
search warrants.
Force Not Named
The force he observed was unnamed in the book (though he dropped
one juicy hint by mentioning 19th-century British prime minister
Robert Peel in the first sentence). Peel Regional Police revealed
it was them, and went on the offensive.
"It wasn't a big deal because at that time, even when real signatures
were placed on warrants, the warrant approval process accomplished
little," recalled colleague Anthony Doob. "That was Richard's
point: Real signatures, fake signatures… it didn't matter."
It did to police in Peel, who called the book "a crock of garbage"
and said the force "seriously questions Prof.
ERICSON's bias
in policing." They also found evidence they said totally contradicted
his allegations.
As Prof. Doob recalled, one Wednesday afternoon in August, 1980,
two senior police officers visited the centre "and delivered
what we saw as a serious threat to get additional details about
activities described in the book. After Richard refused to answer
most of the questions that were put to him, we made the decision
that in order to protect the identity of the police officers
he had observed, his data had to be placed somewhere secure."
That somewhere was in the attic of Prof. Doob's ex-wife's grandmother's
cottage in rural New Hampshire. And Prof.
ERICSON, despite the
intimidation, stood his ground. "I'm not revealing sources,"
he said, "and if I did, I might as well pack in my books."
Richard Victor
ERICSON was born in Montreal on September 20,
1948. He died in Toronto on October 2, 2007, after succumbing
to multiple health problems. He was 59. He leaves Diana, his
wife of 38 years, and their son Matt. He also leaves his brother
John, and sisters Elizabeth and Kristine.
A memorial will take place at University of British Columbia's
Green College on Friday, November 23, at 2: 30 p.m.
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WHEELER,
Doctor
Douglas▼
K.
It is with great sadness we announce the passing of Doctor Douglas K.
WHEELER of Dundalk on Thursday, July 5, 2007 at home with his
family. Loving husband of Kim, devoted father of Caitlynn and
Lucas, master of Garfield and Odie. Doug will be missed by his
sister Betty
CURRAN of Petrolia, his sister-in-law Grace
WHEELER
of Sarnia, mother and father-in-law Jo and Ron
EADY of Niagara
Falls, sister-in-law Sandee (Tom)
GAYLOR, brother-in-law Bill
(Kern) EADY, nephews Mike (Jill,) Marty, Matt, Mitchell and Ryan,
nieces Tracey and Michelle, great-nephew Justin, great-nieces
Jessica, Natasha and Victoria. He was predeceased by his parents
Fred and Florence
(ALLINGHAM)
WHEELER, his brothers Ed, Charles
and Ralph WHEELER and brother-in-law Ken
CURRAN.
Doug's▼ patients
were his first priority but he did find fime for his boat in
the summer, his snowmobile in the winter and the cottage year
round. He was a fan of hockey and was passionate about his role
as trainer for the Dundalk Storm Minor Hockey Team. He loved
travelling, was a scholar of history, and could be persuaded
to play the occasional game of cards. Friends called at the McMillan
and Jack Funeral Home, 291 Main St. E., Dundalk on Sunday from
2-4 and 7-9 p.m. The funeral service was conducted on Monday,
July 9, 2007 at 11 a.m. at the Dundalk United Church, Main Street,
Dundalk with Rev. Janet
ERIKSEN officiating. Pallbearers were
Marty CURRAN, Michael
CURRAN, Matthew
CURRAN, Bill
EADY, Tom
WOOD,
Tyler
BRICK. Interment followed at the Dundalk Cemetery.
Those who wish may make memorial donations to Centre Grey Hospital,
Markdale - Building Fund; Dundalk Mihor Hockey or the charity
of your choice.
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WHEELER,
Doug▲
The family wishes to express their sincere thanks to Friends,
relatives, neighbours and patients for their many acts of kindness,
food, cards, floral tributes and donations following the loss
of their beloved Doug. Special thanks to Rev. Janet
ERIKSEN for
her words of comfort; Audrey
OLDFIELD for her gift of music
the United Church Women for the luncheon served; the McMillan
and Jack Funeral Home for their guidance and support; Kim and
Michelle for their continued commitment to our patients and to
Dr. WINFIELD, the physicians and staff of Markdale Hospital for
their wonderful care and making it possible for Doug to come
home. Your care and support is greatly appreciated and will be
remembered always. Caitlynn, Lucas and Kim.
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KEATING,
Mary▼
We would like to say thank you to the people who gave donations
to charities and also for flowers and to all the people who sent
sympathy cards at the time our of our mother Mary's death. Thanks
also to the pallbearers, flower bearers, Mary Nicholls for the
comforting music, Rev. Janet
ERIKSEN for the beautiful celebration
of life service and
to Tammi DAVIS for the beautiful eulogy for
her grandmother. Once again thanks to Norman
JACK for all his
help and kind words at the time of our mother's death.
- Gwen and Arlene and families
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KEATING,
Mary▲
Celena (née
WILTSHIRE)
Mary Celena
(WILTSHIRE)
Keating passed away at Grey Bruce Health
Services on Tuesday, July 3, 2007 in her 91st year.
Mary was born on December 22, 1916 to Sam and Katie
(ARMSTRONG)
WILTSHIRE.
She got her education at S.S.#8 Proton School. On
October 18, 1939 she married Mel
KEATING and they settled down
farming on the 16th Concession, Proton. In 1942 a daughter Gwen
arrived and in 1945 another daughter, Arlene, completed the family.
Later in life Mel and Mary retired to Dundalk. Mel passed away
on April 4, 1992.
Mary was involved with the United Church Women of Bethel and
later became a lifetime member. She was also involved with the
Dundalk Senior's Club, she also helped organize senior trips.
She became a lifetime member of this club too. She loved to quilt
and knit and was an avid card player. She loved to be involved
with her family and kept up to date with her great-grandchildren's
achievements.
Mary▲ was the loving wife of the late Mel
KEATING. Cherished mother
of Gwen and Arlene (Art)
LOVE.
Devoted grandmother of Tammi (Todd)
DAVIS, Heather (Brian)
GRACE and Paul (Terri)
GREENSIDES and
a very proud great-grandmother of Stephanie, Natalie, Bradley,
McKenzie, Jaime, Mark, Dawn, Liam and Caleb. She is survived
by two sisters-in-law, Joyce
KEATING and Anne
KEATING.
She was
predeceased by her parents Sam and Katie
(ARMSTRONG)
WILTSHIRE,
two brothers Earl (Erma) and George
WILTSHIRE and son-in-law
Donald GREENSIDES and several sisters-in-law and brothers-in-law.
The family received Friends and family on July 5 from 10: 30 a.m.
to 12 followed by the funeral.
Rev. Janet
ERIKSEN very fittingly gave a Celebration of Life
service and Tammi
DAVIS' gave a beautiful eulogy for her grandmother.
Mary NICHOLLS played some beautiful music during the funeral.
The pallbearers were Todd
DAVIS, Brian
GRACE, Paul
GREENSIDES,
Bradley ACHESON,
Dan and Rob
LOVE. The flower-bearers were Heather
GRACE,
Stephanie and Natalie
ACHESON and Janice
LOVE.
Interment took place at Dundalk Cemetery.
"Dear Mom, you are not forgotten, though on earth you are no
more. Still in memory you are with us, as you always were before."
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ROCKETT,
George
Thank you to all our family, Friends and neighbours for your
support, floral tributes, donations and for attending the memorial
service for the life of George
ROCKETT.
Special appreciation
to Rev. Janet
ERIKSEN of Dundalk United Church for the comforting
service. To the Dundalk United Church ladies for the lunch provided,
and to the staff of McMillan and Jack Funeral Home for their
kindness.
- Dawn, Lisa, Tony and Kim.
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ACHESON,
Lorne
Victor
On August 1, 2007, a funeral service was held to celebrate the
86 year life of Lorne Victor Acheson who passed away suddenly
on July 28, 2007.
Lorne was born and raised on a farm in Proton Township and as
a boy, he attended S.S.#2 School sometimes known as the "Acheson
School" until old enough to work on the farm. In 1942, he, along
with his father, Stanley
ACHESON, took over a live-stock trucking
business that Lorne would continue to operate for 54 years.
On July 7, 1951, Lorne married Roma
CHANDLER who had moved to
the area as a high school mathematics teacher. Having been raised
in the rather nomadic home of a United Church minister, Roma
often commented that she never really had a permanent home until
she met and married Lorne and adopted Dundalk as her home. Lorne
and Roma raised a family of four children: Edward (Ted), Kenneth,
Elizabeth (Beth), and Joyce. Roma passed away on November 24,
1979 after a lengthy battle with cancer and Lorne was to continue
his life's journey on his own.
He continued on his own but definitely not alone While he kept
busy at his trucking business, he also volunteered for years
with the Dundalk Agricultural Society, as well as maintaining
his involvement with the Dundalk Lions Club up until the time
of his death. In his later years, he became a' "special friend"
with Doris
LANGDON and together they enjoyed two sets of in-laws,
cousins and grandchildren. "Aunt" Doris was certainly the tonic
that added years to his life.
Reverend Janet
ERIKSEN officiated a service that was held in
a packed church on a beautiful late summer day. Reverend Janet
delivered the eulogy. Gospel readings were done by Lorne's granddaughters
Olivia and Holly
ACHESON.
Olivia remembered a story of Grandpa,
when learning that Olivia was going to England to study Archeology,
telling her that there were lots of potatoes in Badjeros that
needed digging. Jim
DOLMER shared memories of "Uncle Lorne" when
Jim was growing up and Janine
GOSTICK shared her memories of
"Grandpa." Ian
LEITH played a lovely rendition of "Whispering
Hope", Lorne's favourite gospel tune. Pallbearers were grand_sons
Ted CLARKE, Allan
CLARKE, Robert
CLARKE, Jesse
ACHESON, Steven
GOSTICK,
Kevin
ACHESON, and Ryan
ALDCORN. Flowerbearers were
granddaughters Olivia
ACHESON,
Holly
ACHESON, Melissa
ACHESON,
Heather ACHESON, Janine
GOSTICK, Jackie
CLARKE, Carlene
ALDCORN,
Randi ALDCORN, and Emily
PHILLIPS.
Special music was provided
by Mary NICHOLLS, Dundalk United Church Choir, and Ian
LEITH.
It is very hard to capsulize 86 years in a few paragraphs. A brief
summary was included in the funeral service bulletin, simply
titled:
Our Dad
A simple man in the best sense of the description. A humble man.
A kind, loving and caring husband and father. A man who wanted
only what he needed and needed little. Born and raised on a farm
during the Depression, he was blessed with an inherent humility
that, over his lifetime, became a more rare trait in people.
Obviously we have no recollection of him as a youngster, only
stories heard.
He loved the farm life. As hard-scrabble a life as it seems to
us, he took pride (the little he had) in a job well done. He
loved a new-born calf, a fat steer, a "hot" market, a fast trotter,
and the smell of alfalfa curing in the windrow.
He loved his community and never yearned to move on to better
opportunities elsewhere but rather to help improve the community
he was in. As somewhat of a creature of habit, he loved his special
places and routines. Anyone who knew him always knew where he
could be found. Early mornings in his later years would find
him at the Highway 10 Breakfast Club. On Sunday morning, he could
be found in the same pew down to the left of the minister. On
Tuesday morning he could be found at the Keady Auction Market
in the same seat down to the left of the auctioneer. Just as
he had been during his fifty-four year career as a live stock
trucker, he continued to be a "morning person" in his retirement.
He loved his church as any devout Christian would. Most of all,
he loved his family. He loved family gatherings with a Sunday
afternoon picnic on the front lawn. He loved his parents, his
siblings, his wife, his special friend and her extended family
and he loved us. He loved his many Friends that he met along
the way. If you are reading this, should know that you were one
of them.
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NEUMANN,
Siegfried
We would like to say a sincere thank you to everyone who expressed
their sympathy at the time of our sudden loss of Siegfried. Thank
you to all our Friends, family and neighbours for your floral
tributes, cards, visits, food, phone calls, and donations to
charities. Special thanks to the Emergency Medical Services Team
and Dundalk Fire Department for their very quick response and
dedicated efforts. To our weekend neighbours Ed and Carol
PALOZZI,
words cannot describe our gratefulness for your support that
night. To Rev. Janet
ERIKSEN and Norm
JACK for your professional,
patient, and compassionate service at this very difficult time.
To the United Church Women for preparing and serving lunch following
the service. A kind thank you to Rhonda at ABC Flowers for
that extra effort you do for us. Thank you to Muriel
GILLIES
for finding an answer for the many questions she was asked. Your
kindnesses and support at this time is greatly appreciated.
- Francis NEUMANN,
Liane and Tom
GILLIES, Tina and Paul
LISANTI,
and Families.
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NEWMAN,
Eva
Martha (née
CAMPBELL)
Passed away peacefully at Aurora Resthaven on Friday, December 14,
2007 in her 94th year. Formerly of Amica, Markham and
of North
York.
Eva, beloved wife of the late Donald
NEWMAN.
Devoted member
of Douglas (Margaret) of Niagara-on-the-Lake; David of St. Catharines
Nancy (Ralph
ERIKSEN) of Aurora. Proud grandmother to Don (Heather
MOLINA); Andrew (fiancée Tessa
KING); Pamela (Gerard)
PERREIRA
Jamie; Doug; and Bethany. Loving sister to Alice
IRVINE;
Elsie
CLARK; Pearl (Bob)
MacLEOD; Bob (Gwen)
CAMPBELL; and predeceased
by Ken CAMPBELL;
Jean
CURTIS; and Bill
CAMPBELL. Eva will be
fondly remembered by her nieces and nephews. The family is appreciative
of the care by the staff of Aurora Resthaven. A family celebration
of Eva's life will take place at a later date. Arrangements entrusted
to Thompson Funeral Home, 905-727-5421, Aurora.
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