O'DOHERTY o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2007-08-30 published
BURDO,
Mattéa O'Doherty
Born August 28, 2007 At 19: 46.
Welcome to the world! Congratulations to the proud new parents
Julie and Bruno Felicitations a la famille
O'DOHERTY
Auguri per
la famiglia
BURDO!
All your new Zios and Zias love you! Jon and
Nancy, Phil and Tilly, Michael, Emy and Barbara.
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O'DONNELL o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2007-12-04 published
CALLAGHAN,
George
Frederick
(June 19, 1929-December 2, 2007)
Fred passed away peacefully on December 2nd at his home in Rexdale,
Ontario.
Devoted husband of 50 years to Bernice (née
O'DONNELL.)
Loving father of Frank, Ann, Larry, Maureen, Mary, John, Valerie
and Barbara. Fondly remembered by daughter-in-law Christine and
sons-in-law Walter, Bruce, Bryan, Peter and Evan. Proud grandfather
of Lorelei, Audrey, Claire, Jack, Aedan, Colin, Gordie, Greg,
Tom, Lee, Neil and Mary. Fred will be sadly missed by his brothers
and sisters: Lillian, John, Frances, Everett, Frank, Mary, Jean
and Laura. Predeceased by brothers Jim, Harold and Ken. He will
also be missed by his many nieces and nephews. Fred was the first-born
child of Alberta (née
HOOD) and George
CALLAGHAN. He was born
in High River, Alberta and the family moved to Prince Edward
Island when he was seven years old. Fred moved to Toronto in
1951 and he worked for Canadian National Rail for more than 40 years.
His heart was always on the Island and Fred returned as often
as possible to visit his many relatives and Friends. The family
would like to express deepest gratitude to the doctors and nurses
at Etobicoke General Hospital and Princess Margaret Hospital.
In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Multiple Myeloma
Research Fund at Princess Margaret Hospital.
Fred will be missed by all who knew and loved him.
Visitation at the Neweduk Funeral Home, Kipling Chapel, 2058 Kipling
Ave. (North of Rexdale Blvd.) on Tuesday, December 4th from 2-4 p.m.
and 6-9 p.m. Funeral Mass at St. Benedict's Church, 2194 Kipling
Ave. on Wednesday, December 5th at 10 a.m.
Interment Queen of Heaven Cemetery.
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O'DONOGHUE o@ca.on.grey_county.owen_sound.the_sun_times 2007-07-20 published
BRUNK,
Nyle
H.
(World War 2 Veteran)
Peacefully at Lee Manor in Owen Sound on Thursday July 19, 2007.
In his 87th year, Nyle H.
BRUNK, loving husband of Marion
BRUNK
(née JONES) and the late Alma (née
HIPEL.)
Loving father of Sharon
and her husband John
DANILKO,
Beverley
O'DONOGHUE, Rodger and
his wife Jan,
Gwen and her husband Neil
LAMONT and Karen
MORRISON.
Loved grandfather and great-grandfather. Dear brother of Jean
(Mrs. Allan
BOWRING), Delmer
BRUNK and his wife Jean, Della (Mrs. Albert
WATTS), Helen (Mrs. John
GINGRICH), and Betty (Mrs. Bob
BORDER).
Brother-in-law of Sandra (Mrs. Ronald
BRUNK.)
Fondly remembered
by his nieces and nephews. Predeceased by his brother Ronald.
Following Nyle's request a celebration of life will be held at
a later date. As an expression of sympathy, memorial donations
to the Leprosy Foundation or to the charity of your choice would
be appreciated by the family and may be made by calling Breckenridge-Ashcroft
Funeral Home (519) 376-2326.
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O'DONOGHUE o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2007-07-02 published
She was the First Anglican woman elected a parish warden in Toronto
Raised in 11 foster homes, she became a teacher and counsellor
who championed the rights of aboriginal people, immigrants, gays,
the poor and the marginalized long before it was trendy
By Ron CSILLAG,
Special to The Globe and Mail, Page S10
Toronto -- You'd think being shunted from one foster home to
another would make a person hard. Helen
GOUGH -- born illegitimate
at a time when that was a stigma -- spent her childhood in no
fewer than 11 foster homes, and emerged a gentle but tenacious
advocate with an outsized social conscience that was fired by
her mentor, Jesus. "Whatever I did, I did it as a Christian,"
she wrote in the preface to her unpublished memoirs. "I was a
Jesus freak. I wanted to lead that kind of life."
In doing so, Ms.
GOUGH "turned the Gospels upside down [by] turning
those who were down, up," eulogized Rev. Sara
BOYLES, priest
at Ms. GOUGH's beloved Holy Trinity Church in downtown Toronto.
"Helen turned the world upside down."
She did that, against all odds, by excelling in the so-called
helping professions: Teaching, counselling and activism for aboriginal
people, immigrants, gays, the poor and the marginalized. She
stood up for their rights long before it was trendy, often forsaking
her own fragile psyche.
Far from being a household name, except perhaps within the Anglican
Church's more progressive elements in Toronto, Ms.
GOUGH would
not have minded being labelled ordinary, though she was far from
it. "It's ordinary people, ordinary women, who have done much
of what it took to make this nation what it is," she stated not
long ago. "Ordinary people with extraordinary courage. Whatever
else I am, I'm a Canadian. I'm a Canadian woman."
She was the first woman elected a parish warden in the Anglican
Church of Canada's Toronto diocese, in 1971.
Her mother, also named Helen
GOUGH, play a pivotal role in her
fatherless and husbandless life. The elder Ms.
GOUGH, who died
in 1981, had been a Barnardo child, one of some 30,000 sick,
destitute or orphaned British children shipped to the colonies
as "seedling citizens of the British Empire" by English philanthropist
Thomas Barnardo to work on farms or as domestics. (Between 600 and
1,000 children were sent to Canada from the late 1800s to 1915.)
Helen senior, with still-fresh memories of time spent in an actual
English poorhouse, arrived in Southern Ontario in 1912 as a 10-year-old,
together with her younger brother, Arthur. She toiled as a servant
at seven different places until she turned 18, surviving on the
cheapest foods and not once being allowed to use an indoor toilet.
On her own in Toronto, she found work as a clerk at the Hospital
for Sick Children, and soon fell in with a crowd that included
a handsome, suave clothing salesman from Stratford. When she
became pregnant, he denied all knowledge of her, as advised by
his uncle, a judge. It wasn't until the younger Ms.
GOUGH was
in her late 40s that she discovered her father's identity; he
had become a fat drunk and died of a coronary when he was 60.
Too poor to raise her daughter, the elder Ms.
GOUGH, by this
time a live-in domestic, appealed to Catholic Children's Aid.
(The child's father was Catholic.) But if the agency took the
child in, she would be raised in an orphanage as a Roman Catholic.
Her mother declined. "It must have taken tremendous courage for
a woman to do that in 1930, and she was one of many who simply
refused," her daughter later wrote.
Instead, her mother turned to the Children's Aid Society, which
transferred the sickly baby to a woman whose sole task was to
nurse sick infants back to health. Then came long years of foster
care at nearly a dozen places, during which mother and daughter
saw each other only intermittently. By the age of eight, young
Helen had already attended Baptist, United and Roman Catholic
churches, but made up her mind that the Anglicans were for her.
She finally went to live with her mother when she was 15.
Ms. GOUGH's first taste of overt racism came while she worked
as a teenaged waitress one summer at the Pearson Hotel on Centre
Island. As she recalled, a short, self-important Englishman working
in the kitchen informed a Chinese dishwasher: "I'm not taking
any orders from a bloody Chink!" The Chinese man, a foot taller,
brought the dish he was holding down on the man's skull. The
plate shattered, and the blood coursed down the small man's head.
Both were fired, and the incident stayed with her forever.
She was 19 when she befriended Gerry
O'DONOGHUE of Toronto (later
Gerry RANSOM,) whose family adopted Ms.
GOUGH as one of their
own, and whose daughter Beverley was Ms.
GOUGH's goddaughter.
The same year, Ms.
GOUGH graduated from Toronto Teachers' College
and went to teach near Port Credit, Ontario That was followed
by four years of teaching status Indians and Métis at an "Indian
Day School" in Moose Lake, southeast of The Pas, Manitoba
Life was primitive and harsh, but for Ms.
GOUGH, it was happily
reminiscent of the Girl Guides camps she'd attended as a child.
The three teachers took turns doing the three main chores: one
week each on cooking, cleanup and "wood and water."
It was here that she became smitten with the shy aboriginal children,
and impressed with their determination to learn English. (There
is no mention in Ms.
GOUGH's memoirs of church-run residential
schools, where native children underwent horrific abuses that
led to multimillion-dollar legal payouts decades later.) After
teaching catechism and assisting with church services, she returned
to Toronto to deepen her spirituality by studying at the Anglican
Women's Training College. One summer, she took a job with the
federal government's Indian Affairs department teaching at an
Ojibwa-Cree settlement in Bearskin Lake, Ontario
In 1960, she began as an "Indian liaison worker" in the Toronto
diocese, helping aboriginals access "white" social service agencies.
It was half-time initially, "since no one really believed there
were Indians in Toronto," she would recall. She was a pioneer
of the first native centre in Toronto, and proudly outed a co-worker
who had referred to Ms.
GOUGH's client as "dirty and drunken&hellip
you know, a typical Indian."
The man who had made the remark "was not happy about being exposed,
but it was a great moment of insight for me," she remembered.
"It's important to speak truth to power when we are in positions
to do so. If we don't, who will?"
Around this time, Ms.
GOUGH noticed that she was prone to periodic
bouts of depression, preceded by highs that dropped to debilitating
lows, and an inability to control either. The condition led her
to years of psychotherapy and such treatments as psychodrama,
bioenergetics and Arthur Janov's primal therapy, during which
she began to face the pain of separation she'd experienced as
a child.
She went into social service work for the diocese, mainly on
housing conditions in Toronto, before returning to school at
35 to earn a B.A. at York University. She confessed that it was
the worst experience of her adult life. With a D average, "I
was so ashamed, I didn't go to my graduation or tell my mother
about it until much later." Despite that, she returned to York
a decade later to earn a master's degree in English, with honours,
and an essay prize.
Meantime, there was a flurry of action in Toronto: In 1968, she
was one of the original activists to develop Alexandra Park Co-op,
today a 410-unit housing project in downtown Toronto (she worked
alongside June Rowlands, who went on to become mayor of Toronto).
She then worked for the Young Women's Christian Association,
finding rooms for Caribbean domestics, before taking a job for
17 years with the Toronto Board of Education, working extensively
with immigrant parents. Her involvement with the Riverdale Intergenerational
Project brought seniors into schools as volunteers.
She embraced gay rights through what she called a particularly
Anglican resolution: "All may, none must and some ought." Tall,
gangly and sometimes physically awkward, she denied being a lesbian,
"although I feel more comfortable with women than men. If you
grow up in a series of homes, you don't learn to establish primary
relationships. There were boys I really liked but I saw myself
as plain. I was a wallflower at dances and very bookish. I made
good secondary relationships, but primary ones [were] much more
difficult."
In retirement, she seemed to accelerate, taking up travel, river
rafting, voice lessons and photography. She produced pictures
that testified to an almost child-like wonderment about the natural
world.
She saw her mission through a simple lens: If she was going to
do anything as a Christian, it was to respond to society's dispossessed.
"I was not there to hold office," she reasoned, "but to meet
people on the ground."
Helen
Noreen
Honora
GOUGH was born in Toronto on November 21,
1930, and died there of cancer on June 1, 2007. She was 76. According
to her wishes, only men washed her body prior to burial. She
leaves her adoptive family, the Ransoms, and many Friends and
admirers.
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ODONOGHUE o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2007-08-15 published
HUDSON,
Mary
Louise (née
O'BRIEN)
(April 19, 1915-November 15, 2006)
Peacefully, at Sunnybrook Hospital, Toronto, at the age of 91.
Beloved wife and 'Pal' of the late William George
HUDSON, devoted
mother of Robert (Nicole
FLORENT) of Kingston and Roger of California.
Loving ' Mama' of Danielle (Ken
SULLIVAN,)
Lindsay
(Jennifer
MALLON), Graham and Nadine (Jeffery
HUDDLESTON). She was the
daughter of Henry Benjamin
O'BRIEN and Mary
(ODONOGHUE)
O'BRIEN,
both deceased. Sister of Ernestine (Brooklyn, New York) and Irene
(Toronto); also sister to Henry Jr., Frances, Ann, James (Jim),
and Frank, who predeceased her. Aunt to many nieces and nephews
in Toronto, Kingston, Halifax and New York, particularly Alma
(Jinny) and Matti
AHOLA and their children to whom she was very
close over the years. She was born in Barbados; her parents immigrated
to Canada and settled in Toronto when she was an infant. Her
father operated a number of businesses, including a shoemaking
and leather store at York and Front streets, on the site of the
current Royal York Hotel. She started her career as a legal secretary,
then became a homemaker and later, general secretary. A feisty,
determined woman, she was a resident of Randolph Road (Leaside),
since 1943. The memorial service will be held on Saturday, August
18 at 1600 hours at Leaside United Church, 822 Millwood Road,
East York. Cremation has taken place, and her ashes will be entered
beside Bill's at Mount Pleasant Cemetery. If desired, memorial
donations may be made to Leaside United Church or the Alzheimer
Society.
The family is grateful to Sgt. Larry
STORTZ,
Toronto
Police, to Noreen
DAWE and David
McFARLANE, Sunnybrook Psychogeriatric
Program and
to Det. Dianne
McCARTHY,
Kingston
Police.
Expressions
of sympathy may be sent to Doctor Robert W.
HUDSON,
Etherington
Hall, Queen's University, 94 Stuart Street, Kingston, Ontario,
K7L 3N6 or hudsonr@queensu.ca.
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O'DONOGHUE o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2007-12-28 published
MacKENZIE,
James
Carroll
Through his marriage to Rosemary Beatrice LA
PRAIRIE (deceased,)
a member of the La Prairie clan, son-in-law of "Lap" and Beatrice
LA PRAIRIE and brother-in-law to Jacqueline La Praire
O'DONOGHUE
and Paul, Jules, Richard, Leon, Carl, Clifford and George LA
PRAIRIE.
Father to Jamie, Rosemary, Karen, Malcolm, Paul, Fraser,
Laurie, Jennifer, Moira, Megan, Stuart, Lesley, Blair, father-in-law
to their 11 spouses, grandfather to 41 and great-grandmother
to a few more, in addition to being uncle to about 120 in the
La Prairie clan. Jim was born in Toronto,
son of Colin and Catherine
MacKENZIE and a brother to Marguerite, Faustina and Leo. He graduated
from the University of Toronto and had a professional career
in Toronto, McMasterville, P.Q., Boston and Rochester, New York.
Visitation will be on Sunday, December 30 from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.
at the Anthony Funeral Home, Monroe Ave., Rochester and Funeral
Service at 11 a.m. December 31st at Saint Thomas More Church, East
Ave., Rochester.
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