KUBE o@ca.on.grey_county.owen_sound.the_sun_times 2008-07-03 published
SHERIDAN,
John
Wesley
John SHERIDAN of Grey Road 40 in the former Collingwood Township
passed away in Meaford on Wednesday, July 2, 2008 at the age
of 69. John was the beloved
son of Minnie
SHERIDAN of R.R.#2
Clarksburg and the late Hartley
SHERIDAN who predeceased him
in 1981. Loved brother of Rose (Jim)
KUBE of Sauble Beach and
Fay (Dale)
GRANT of Stirling and predeceased by a sister Susan
in 1971. Fondly remembered by several nieces, nephews and cousins.
Family will receive Friends at the Ferguson Funeral Home, The
Valley Chapel, in Thornbury on Friday from 2 to 4 and from 7 to
9 p.m. Funeral services will be conducted at Grace United Church
on Saturday July 5 at 11: 00 a.m. with interment to follow at
Thornbury-Clarksburg Union Cemetery. As your expression of sympathy,
donations to Meaford General Hospital Foundation, Grey Bruce
Regional Health Centre Foundation or a charity of your choice
would be appreciated.
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KUBELKA o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2008-02-19 published
HUDSON,
Shirley
Margaret (née
TURNER)
Peacefully, at Kensington Village Nursing Home on Monday, February 18,
2008, Shirley Margaret (née
TURNER)
HUDSON of London, formerly
of Thorndale. Beloved wife for 37 years of the late Herbert Kenneth
HUDSON (1976) and of the late Clinton E.
HUDSON (2000.) Loved
by her children Margaret and Jim
SMITH,
London;
Rhonda and Wallace
McLAY, London; John and Eleanor
HUDSON, Thorndale; and Donald
HUDSON and
Kay AHN,
Pickering.
She adored her 11 grandchildren Bruce
SMITH and
Heather McNEELY,
Greg and Cathy
SMITH, Krista and Glenn
GREENFIELD,
John and Melinda
McLAY,
Andrea and Chad
MORE, Jennifer and Eric
KUBELKA,
Steven HUDSON and Jennifer
DAYMENT, Mary
HUDSON and Mark
ADELSON,
Sarah and Adam
AFFLECK,
Adam
HUDSON, Ryan and Melissa
HUDSON and
her 13 great-grandchildren Megan and Kaitlin
SMITH,
Andrew,
Kinsey and
Christopher
GREENFIELD,
Hope,
Grace and John
McLAY, Kate and April
MORE,
Josie and Claire
KUBELKA and Braydon
AFFLECK. She is survived
by a daughter-in-law Nancy
HUDSON, a sister Joyce
ARMITAGE, a
sister-in-law Evelyn
TURNER and Clint's family Gary and Marsha
HUDSON and Sharon and Bob
THIBAULT.
She leaves many nieces, nephews,
cousins and Friends. Shirley was predeceased by her parents Wilbert and
Frances TURNER and by siblings Olive
ROBERTS,
Bruce
TURNER, Edna
Shoebottom, Grant
TURNER,
Maxine
Parkinson,
Una McLeod and sister-in-law
Mabelle Risdon. Shirley was born on October 13, 1918 in London
Township. In 1939 she married and moved to the first concession
of West Nissouri where she lived until her final home at Kensington
Village, London. Herbert and Shirley were active in the community
and church. Shirley loved to cook, garden, sew, do crafts but
her passion was her quilts and art projects. She also enjoyed
the outdoors. The family appreciates the care given to Shirley
during her stay at Kensington. She will be missed. Friends will
be received at the Logan Funeral Home, 371 Dundas St. (between
Waterloo and Colborne St.), on Wednesday from 2-4 and 6-9 p.m. Funeral
service will be conducted at Siloam United Church, 1240 Fanshawe
Park Rd. E., on Thursday, February 21, 2008, at 12: 30 p.m. with
Rev. Sheila
MacGREGOR officiating. Private family interment in
Saint_John's Cemetery, Arva. Donations to the Alzheimer Society,
555 Southdale Rd. E, Suite 100, London, Ontario, N6E 1A2 or Memorial
Fund at Siloam United Church would be appreciated by the family.
Online condolences can be expressed at www.loganfh.ca A tree
will be planted as a living memorial to Mrs. Shirley Margaret
HUDSON.
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KUBIAN o@ca.on.manitoulin.howland.little_current.manitoulin_expositor 2008-01-23 published
Anna May NOBLE
In loving memory of Anna May
NOBLE,
September 9, 1909 - January 20, 2008,
who died peacefully at the Manitoulin Health Centre on Sunday morning at
the age of 98. Predeceased by husband Donald
NOBLE (1988.) Loved mother
of Anne HOUSTON (husband Gary) of Almonte, Noreen
PARKINSON
(Blake
SAINT_JACQUES)
of Little Current, son-in-law Wesley
PARKINSON (predeceased.)
Cherished grandmother of Heather
LANG
(Glenn
KUBIAN,) Lianne
LANG (Jason
STEVENS), Rob
HOUSTON (Nathaly), Kelly
PARKINSON (predeceased), Darren
PARKINSON.
Special great grandmother of Erin and Haley
KUBIAN, Anna
STEVENS,
Mackenzie and Wade
HOUSTON. Dear sister of Willard and wife
Sadie
CARLISLE (both predeceased,) Evelyn (predeceased) and husband Ken
MURRAY.
Remembered by nieces and nephews. Family and Friends will gather to
celebrate Anna's life at 11 am on Thursday, January 24, 2008 at Island
Funeral
Home.
Reverend Faye
STEVENS officiating.
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KUBICKI o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2008-07-08 published
Successful filmmaker at National Film Board turned to a life
of crime writing
He worked on documentaries and television programs, and got to
know the Beatles and Bob Dylan, but longed to write fiction.
The result was award-winning short stories and a bidding war
over a first novel
By Noreen SHANAHAN,
Special to The Globe and Mail, Page S8
Toronto -- Film producer and record-label publicist Dennis
MURPHY
worked among stars, but he wasn't dazzled by them. His true ambition
was to write and publish Canadian crime fiction, and it was a
dream to which he held firm.
Writing fiction and doing his own thing was always on his mind,
even while working for Elektra Records and meeting the likes
of Bob Dylan, Judy Collins, Jim Morrison and the Beatles. The
same could be said of his time at the National Film Board, where
he had a hand in such documentaries and television programs as
Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould, Manufacturing Consent
and a portrait of the late Oscar Peterson titled In the Key of
Oscar.
In Canada, Mr.
MURPHY's work appeared on
TVOntario,
Canadian
Broadcasting Corporation, Global, History Television and The
Discovery Network. In the United States, it was seen on Court TV,
National Geographic and
PBS. In 1990, he was appointed executive
producer of National Film Board's Studio C in Montreal. A year
later, he became director of National Film Board's flagship Ontario
Centre, executive producing more than 100 documentary films.
"Dennis was brilliant at everything he tried," said friend Douglas
McARTHUR, a retired Globe and Mail reporter. "He had a zest for
life and Irish whisky."
Within a few short years of publishing crime fiction in such
notable places as Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Alfred Hitchcock
Magazine and Storyteller Magazine, he became one of Canada's
leading crime writers. Dead in the Water, a fictionalized account
of the death of painter Tom Thomson, won the Bloody Words crime
writers' award and Storyteller's annual Best Canadian Short Story
prize, and was short-listed for a Crime Writers of Canada Arthur
Ellis Award.
In 2005, he won the Storyteller prize for the second year running
with Death of a Drystone Wall, and with it scored one of two
nominations for that year's Arthur Ellis Short Story award. The
other nomination was for Sound of Silence. A year later, he won
the 2006 short story prize with Fuzzy Wuzzy, originally published
in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine.
After a bidding war between two publishers, Mr.
MURPHY signed
a contract last March with Harper-Collins Canada for his novel
Darkness at the Break of Noon. He borrowed the title from a Bob
Dylan lyric, so clearly some of the stars he had worked with
mattered to him more than he let on.
Dennis MURPHY grew up in Dundas, Ontario, loving the life of
a small-town boy. But when he was 14, darkness descended after
his 45-year-old father, Robert
MURPHY, died of a heart attack.
Dennis never got over the loss and always feared he, too, would
die young. This fear may have explained why he achieved so much
during his life.
In 1967, Mr.
MURPHY graduated from McMaster University in Hamilton
with a bachelor of arts in Irish literature. He was editor of
the school paper, a drummer in a rock band and in love with all
things Dylan. Bored one Christmastime, Mr.
MURPHY convinced a
group of Friends to go door-to-door "Dylan-ing." They greeted
people on their doorsteps with Blowin' in the Wind instead of
Come Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen.
After graduation, he was offered a teaching job in Ireland but
moved instead to New York, where he threw himself into the music
business. In 1971, he became the East Coast head of audio engineering
with Elektra Records, but he soon returned to Canada and established
Sundog Productions, based in Toronto and Vancouver. He produced
albums for singers Shirley Eikhard, Christopher Kearney, Ron
Nigrini and others. In 1976, he worked at the Canadian Broadcasting
Corporation as director of Ninety Minutes Live, hosted by Peter
Gzowski. He also worked on Take 30 and The Final Edition. As
a highly successful freelancer, Mr.
MURPHY's career took off
in all directions, resulting in a curriculum vitae more than
20 pages long.
"Whatever Dennis did, he would just completely obsess about it,
do everything he could, research it and just exhaust the subject
and then move on to something else," said his wife, Joanna
KUBICKI.
"He lived for writing. When he wasn't writing, you could see
him, the wheels were spinning - he was creating stories in his
head."
Of all the genres, it was crime writing that appealed to him
most, she said. Several filing cabinets bulging with stories
were a testament to that.
Ms. KUBICKI met Mr.
MURPHY at
TVO in 1980. She was working in
the arts department and he was freelancing. They came together
over shared misery, commiserating about the abrupt ends to their
previous relationships. He had a white dog; she had a white cat.
Neither could find a place to rent, so they bought a house together
in Toronto's Riverdale neighbourhood. It worked out so well that
they married a couple of years later. In 1983, the circle was
completed with the birth of their son, Adam.
Around that time, Mr.
MURPHY began longing to return to the kind
of small-town pleasures he knew as a child and to raise Adam
in some place similar. He convinced Ms.
KUBICKI to move to an
old Victorian house in Stouffville, Ontario He not only excelled
at his work but he was also an impressive community member. He
became a scout leader, played on a baseball team, organized a
music festival and was appointed to the Stouffville parks and
recreation advisory board.
He started his own television production company, Anagraph Inc.
He did some of his best thinking on the backed-up Don Valley
Parkway while commuting to Toronto. But, true to form, he soon
grew bored took a job in 1990 with the National Film Board in
Montreal. The family lived in Hudson, Quebec, during the famous
Mohawk land dispute in Oka, just across the river. Traffic jams
were soon replaced with tanks on Main Street and disturbing newscasts.
Out of this, Mr.
MURPHY made the documentary Acts of Defiance,
in support of land-rights issues.
The National Film Board transferred him to Toronto and the family
moved back into their house in Stouffville. There, he continued
quietly writing. In 1992, Ms.
KUBICKI's longing to live in Toronto
landed them in a house in the Beaches neighbourhood and an introduction,
for Mr. MURPHY, to a gathering of writers at The Feathers pub
on Kingston Road. He decided to get serious, and joined Crime
Writers of Canada.
He also decided to try his hand at travel writing, and contacted
his friend Mr.
McARTHUR, who was then acting travel editor at
The Globe. He submitted an account of his quest to find the perfect
omelette pan in Paris.
"I thought it was really good, but I was afraid I might be prejudiced
because he was a friend, so I showed it to some other editors,"
said Mr. McARTHUR. "
They liked it too, and it ran as a travel
front. The next week, I had a phone call from a professor at
a journalism school somewhere in the southern U.S. He wanted
to use it in his classes as an example of how to write a perfect
travel story."
Toronto mystery writer Peter
ROBINSON lived around the corner
from Mr. MURPHY. He was also a crony at The Feathers and the
two men frequently talked about crime writing over a pint or
two. Mr. ROBINSON recognized his friend's passion and his excellent
storytelling skills. He became a mentor to him. Around this time,
Mr. MURPHY started to publish award-winning short stories, as
well as starting on a book.
"The novel was his dream, and it's hard to get over the cruel
irony that he should be taken away so soon after finding out
that it was going to be published," Mr.
ROBINSON said. "But Dennis
was a polisher, a perfectionist. It was hard for him to let go
of a piece of writing because he knew there was always more he
could do to make it even better."
Mr. MURPHY also published a poem in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine
called Final Escape.
"If a short story can be deemed a process of finite literary
craft, then a poem is a word sculpture," Mr.
MURPHY told Poe's
Deadly Daughters, a blog for mystery aficionados. "It also elevated
me instantly to the precious (to me) category of published poet,
something that, as yet, has impressed no one who reads my curriculum
vitae."
Scottish mystery writer Ian Rankin, who liked the poem, sent
Mr. MURPHY a book that he dedicated to "the crime poet."
Mr. MURPHY, who until earlier this year taught broadcasting and
film studies at Centennial College in Toronto, frequently steered
his crime-writing into Canadian history. Without being preachy,
the stories often packed a political punch. "I don't set out
to make a bald-headed statement, just to write a story with a
crime at its centre that has something to do with our world,"
he said. "I've been making documentary films for a long time
and I suppose my feelings about issues are always there and ready
(and more than willing) to be tapped."
Many of his killers were highly moral human beings who had been
wronged, or who had committed crimes that readers might condone
or even approve, he said. For instance, in Dead in the Water,
Tom Thomson is killed by a local guide who feels his home in
Algonquin Park has been stolen by "the painter" who sees only
wind-bent trees and broken beaver dams. The story ends with these
lines: "If I hadn't killed the painter, he'd be forgotten, too."
Darkness at the Break of Noon will be published in February.
Dennis MURPHY was born September 6, 1943, in Hamilton. He died
June 15, 2008, in Toronto of lung cancer. He was 64. He is survived
by his wife, Joanna
KUBICKI, and their son, Adam
MURPHY.
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