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PEER,
Margaret “Marg” Roberta
(THOMAS)
Of Wiarton peacefully at Grey Bruce Health Services Wiarton on
Thursday,
March 13th, 2008. The former Margaret Roberta
THOMAS
in her 92nd year. Loving mother of Murray (Irene), of Owen Sound
Keith
(Sharon,) of R.R.#3 Owen Sound; Doreen (Bob
McLUHAN,) of
North Bay; and Norma (Joseph
DENOBLE,) of Kitchener. Cherished
grandmother of Mary Lou
HILLS,
Ian
PEER, Michele
MENG, Dwight
PEER, Leanne
McALLISTER, Nancy
LALANI, Keith
PEER Jr., Shawn
McLUHAN, Jeffrey
McLUHAN, Paul
McLUHAN, Heidi
McARTHUR, Melissa
DENOBLE and Nicole
DENOBLE.
Great-grandmother of 22; and great-great-grandmother
of 2. Devoted sister to Les
THOMAS, of Wiarton. Sadly missed
by her sisters-in-law Joanne and Audrey; and her many nieces
and nephews. Marg is predeceased by her husband Norman; four
brothers; four sisters; and a great-grandchild, Adam. She will
always be remembered for her quilting and knitting skills, and
especially for her biscuits, butter tarts and home-made bread.
Marg was a long time member of Bide-A-Wee, Saint_John's United
Church United Church Women, and the Limpert Lodge Seniors' Club.
Family invite Friends to call at the Thomas C. Whitcroft Funeral
Home and Chapel, Sauble Beach (519) 422-0041 on Friday, March 14,
2008 from 2: 00-4:00 and 7:00-9:00 p.m. A service to celebrate
Marg's life will be conducted from Saint_John's United Church,
Wiarton on Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Rev. Ed
LAKSMANIS
officiating. Interment in Eastnor Cemetery. Donations to Saint_John's
United Church, Pike Bay United Church, or the Bruce Peninsula
Health Services Foundation would be appreciated. In living memory
of Marg a Flowering Crabapple tree will be planted in the funeral
home meadow by the Thomas C. Whitcroft Funeral Home and Chapel.
Condolences may be expressed on-line at www.whitcroftfuneralhome.com
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McLUHAN o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2008-01-03 published
His landmark commission on drugs urged legalizing marijuana in
Already a respected legal scholar, he became an improbable counterculture
icon at the height of the hippy era by recommending leniency
and the decriminalization of recreational drugs
By Noreen SHANAHAN,
Special to The Globe and Mail, Page S6
Toronto -- Gerald LE
DAIN's respect for civil liberties went
so far as to rouse John Lennon and Yoko Ono from their bed. It
was 1969, the year of the couple's "bed-in for peace" at the
Queen
Elizabeth
Hotel in Montreal, and the year Judge LE
DAIN
began chairing the much-referenced but largely ignored Commission
of Inquiry into the Non-Medical Use of Drugs.
The Le Dain commission's final report was one of the most politically
explosive documents ever put before the federal government. The
commission held 46 days of public hearings, received 365 submissions
and heard from 12,000 people in about 30 cities and at more than
20 university campuses across the country. In its final report,
in 1973, the commission recommended decriminalizing marijuana
possession because the law-enforcement costs of prohibition were
too great, and suggested that Canada focus on frank education
rather than harsh penalization. It also recommended treatment
for heroin addiction and sharp warnings about nicotine and alcohol.
This was delivered at a time when hysteria about the evils of
pot was on everyone's lips and many parents wanted the law to
save their drug-addled teenagers.
The report also made Judge LE
DAIN something of an unlikely counterculture
icon and helped win him a place on the Supreme Court of Canada
during the formative years of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
Gerald LE DAIN was born in Montreal to Eric LE
DAIN and Antoinette
WHITHARD.
His younger brother, Bruce, went on to become one of
Canada's foremost impressionist landscape painters in the style
of A.Y. Jackson and Tom Thomson. Gerry graduated from West Hill
High School in 1942 and a year later, at 18, he joined the army
and became a gunner with the 7th Medium Regiment, Royal Canadian
Artillery, a unit that was in the thick of the fighting from
D-Day until the surrender of Germany in May of 1945.
Immediately after the war, he attended the military's ad hoc
Khaki University in England. One day, the school arranged a debate
with students of Westfield College, then a women-only college
associated with the University of London. During the event (debate
topic: a woman's place in the home,) he met Cynthia Emily
ROY
and, two weeks later, they became engaged. After being demobilized
from the army, she joined him in Montreal, where they married
and he set about finishing his education.
In 1949, he obtained a law degree from McGill University and
was called to the Quebec bar. He spent the following year at
a university in Lyons, where he gained his doctorate. On his
return from France, he joined the Montreal law firm of Walker,
Martineau, Chauvin, Walker and Allison and stayed three years until
he returned to McGill as a professor of constitutional and administrative
law. He also worked as counsel to Quebec's attorney-general on
constitutional cases.
In 1967, he left Montreal to become dean of Osgoode Hall Law
School, where, said colleague Harry Arthurs, he presided over
a revolution in Canadian legal education. "It was his responsibility
to persuade York University, the Law Society of Upper Canada,
and the world at large, that what we were doing was not only
the legitimate - not only the sensible - but the inevitable way
forward." It was during this time that Pierre Trudeau asked Judge
LE DAIN to chair the commission. He was, at 44, perfectly suited
to the job in many ways. By then, many young Canadians were indulging
in marijuana and other recreational drugs; as a university professor,
he was surrounded by many students who had at least given it
a try. And as the father of a large family, he was adept at bridging
the generation gap and responding empathetically. During the
time he chaired the commission, there were four full-fledged
teenagers, and one on the cusp, living in the LE
DAIN home.
The commissioners were asked to study the non-medical use of
sedative, stimulant, tranquillizing, hallucinogenic and other
psychotropic drugs or substances, including the experience of
users. At his first news conference in 1969, he announced that,
in the interest of research, he might experiment with the stuff
himself.
"We made it possible to talk about drugs openly," he later said
in an interview with The Globe and Mail. "In some of our early
hearings, especially in smaller communities, you could feel the
guilt that had been stored up around drugs. We also made it possible
for people to criticize their institutions, to challenge their
doctors, their school boards, their churches."
The Le Dain commission broke new ground in terms of taking the
show on the road, said Mel
GREEN, who worked as a sociologist
with Judge LE
DAIN at the time. Judge LE
DAIN redefined the nature
of a public inquiry by asking the public to directly participate,
he said. "The commission found little traction in terms of changes
in the law itself. … There was a cultural divide between conventional
attitudes and youth culture and I think the Le Dain commission
helped bridge that gap." Inspired by Judge LE
DAIN,
Mr.
GREEN
decided to switch careers and went to law school. He is now an
Ontario provincial court judge.
By early 1969, John Lennon and Yoko Ono had created a stir with
their public "bed-in" at a hotel in Amsterdam. On May 26, the
couple booked into Room 1742 at the Queen Elizabeth in Montreal.
To Judge LE
DAIN, they seemed to be just the kind of advocates
for youth the commission should hear from. A meeting was arranged
aboard a C.N. train in Montreal and, for 90 minutes, the couple
shared their views on the drug culture and the generation gap.
"This is the opportunity for Canada to lead the world," said
Mr. Lennon, referring to the Le Dain commission. "Canada's image
is just about getting groovy, you know." When it was over, Mr. Lennon
gave his phone number to members of the commission.
It was not always such clear sailing. Commissioners also had
to contend with a kind of "live bait" issue, where police were
arresting young people who braved the generational divide to
attend these public gatherings and tell their stories. In 1969,
the 16-year-old
son of communications theorist Marshall
McLUHAN
was arrested as he was leaving a coffee shop in Yorkville, Toronto's
then-hippy neighbourhood, where the commission was meeting. Michael
McLUHAN was convicted of criminal possession of a small amount
of hashish and sentenced to 60 days in jail; he ended up serving
30 days and was eventually pardoned.
Marie-Andrée Bertrand, one of the Le Dain commissioners, remembers
those days and the difficulties in protecting witnesses. "Some
of us went to [then-solicitor-general Pierre] Goyer and we said,
'Call off your gendarmes, monsieur!' and went to Trudeau, and
it was slightly more calm after that," she told the Ottawa Citizen
in 2003. "Imagine if Monsieur Lennon had been arrested or harassed.
What a humiliation that would have been for all of us."
Although the commission's recommendations were never followed,
there were significant changes in the public attitude toward
drugs and in lighter sentences being handed down to offenders.
At a time when the generation gap was described as a gulf, Judge
LE DAIN had gained the respect of both sides of the drug-use
argument. In a 1988 Globe and Mail column, Michael
VALPY described
him as a quiet, intellectual, spiritually minded academic who
earned the praise of young people, the social agencies and the
scientific community. "His commission acquired the reputation
of being the most hard-working, open-minded and widely respected
ever to tackle a major national problem."
In 1975, Judge LE
DAIN was appointed to the Federal Court of
Appeal and the Court Martial Appeal Court. He remained there
until May of 1984, when Mr. Trudeau appointed him to the Supreme
Court.
His tenure at the court during the early years of the Charter
proved to be, in some ways, a trial by fire not only for him
but for the other eight justices as well. A 1988 Globe and Mail
article described a series of crises that nearly exhausted the
court as a result of a backlog of Charter cases. At the time,
it was referred to by political scientist Peter Russell as "A
terrible rash of injuries" similar to the kind experienced by
beleaguered players on a hockey team.
Not surprisingly, Judge LE
DAIN was one of the members of the
court who struggled most during this time. As a result, he stayed
only five years before an emotional breakdown brought about his
retirement in 1988. Even so, he left his mark on Charter decisions.
One example was the case of R. v. Therens (1985). The issue was
whether a drunk driver could evade conviction on the grounds
that police had violated his Charter rights by not informing
him of his right to call a lawyer before compelling him to take
a breathalyzer test. Judge LE
DAIN's former law clerk, Bruce
RYDER, recalls that he struggled painfully over the case - partly
because it recalled the death of his daughter Jacqueline a decade
earlier from an automobile accident.
"As he spoke, he was pounding himself so hard in the chest I
thought he might knock himself over. He took a deep breath, and
we returned to our work." In the end, Judge LE
DAIN crafted an
opinion that did right by the victims of highway accidents and
by the Charter. In memorable language, he affirmed that the enactment
of the Charter signalled a new era in the protection of fundamental
rights and freedoms.
"Out of complexity and nuance, he produced masterfully succinct
statements of the law," said Mr.
RYDER.
In his retirement, Judge LE
DAIN worked on a range of projects,
including preparing his papers for the national archives and
meticulously crafting his memoirs. But his early retirement continued
to be plagued by personal tragedy: first with his wife Cynthia's
death in 1995 of cancer, then his daughter Catherine's death
of pneumonia in 1998.
In 1990, the U.S. Drug Policy Alliance instituted an award in
Gerald LE DAIN's name, to be given to individuals involved in
law who have worked within official institutions "when extremist
pressures dominate government policies." The influential organization
includes law-enforcement officials, academics, professionals,
health-care workers, drug users and former users. "We sought
to name the awards after our heroes," said founder Arnold Trebach.
"Gerald LE
DAIN was certainly one of them. Few people realize
the level of hate directed at drug users and drug policy reformers
decades ago."
Judge LE DAIN, the first Canadian to be so honoured, had earlier
been made a companion of the Order of Canada.
Gerald Eric LE
DAIN was born on November 27, 1924, in Montreal.
He died in his sleep at home on December 18, 2007. He was 83.
He is survived by his son Eric and daughters Barbara, Jennifer
and Caroline. He was predeceased by his wife, Cynthia, and by
daughters Jacqueline and Catherine.
Correction - Friday, January 4, 2007
The majority of the Le Dain Commission on the non-medical use
of drugs recommended in 1973 that possession of cannabis should
cease to be a criminal offence but that sale and distribution
of cannabis should remain a crime. Incorrect information appeared
in a headline in yesterday's paper.
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McLUHAN o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2008-04-05 published
McLUHAN,
Corinne (born
LEWIS)
(April 11, 1912-April 4, 2008)
Died peacefully of natural causes at her home in Wychwood Park
surrounded by her family. She was the beloved and loving wife
and confidante of the late Marshall
McLUHAN (1980;) dear sister
of the late Carolyn Lewis
WEINMAN (1996;) devoted and loving
mother of Eric (Sabina
ELLIS), Mary, Teri, Stephanie (Niels
ORTVED),
Elizabeth (Don
MYERS,) and Michael (Danuta
VALLEAU;) proud grandmother
of Jennifer Colton
THEUT,
Emily McLuhan
BOMS, Anna and Andrew
McLUHAN,
Claire and Madeleine McLuhan
MYERS, Arthur,
Mark,▼ and
Gwendolyn McLUHAN; and great-grandmother of Olivia, Charlotte,
and Gillian.
Corinne was known for her beauty, grace, intelligence, wit, and
Southern charm. She embraced life fully and enjoyed many rich
experiences and wonderful Friendships along the way. Born in
Fort Worth, Texas, Corinne proudly remained an American all her
life. She graduated from Texas Christian University and went
on to do graduate work in theatre at the leading drama school
of the day, Pasadena Playhouse in Pasadena, California. It was
there that she met her future husband, Marshall
McLUHAN, a graduate
student at Cambridge University in England, who had travelled
to Pasadena to visit his mother, a drama coach at the Playhouse.
The family wishes to extend its heartfelt thanks to Doctor Wendy
BROWN, for her years of unflagging and tender care, and to special
caregivers Sally, Bona, Tasie, Amy, and particularly Cynthia,
who has stayed at Corinne's side day and night for the last four
years.
There will be a funeral mass at Holy Rosary Church, 354 St. Clair
Avenue West on Monday April 7 at 1: 30 p.m.
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McLUHAN o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2008-04-19 published
She was Marshall
McLUHAN's great love ardent defender, supporter
and critic
An aspiring actress from a privileged Texas family, she was swept
off her feet by a young Canadian academic who would lay the cornerstone
of modern media theory. She later edited his first big book
By Lisa FITTERMAN,
Special to The Globe and Mail, Page S11
When she was young, Corinne Lewis
McLUHAN won a Mary Pickford
look-alike contest, but woe betide any person who assumed that
there wasn't much more to her than masses of dark hair, a wide
smile and a disarming southern drawl. For Mrs.
McLUHAN, actress,
English teacher and wife to the unbending, irascible and brilliant
Marshall, looks were just the medium in which she packaged a
sharp intellect, a steely will and enough spirit to elope with
a man who did not impress her upon first introduction.
"He was six-feet, two-inches, thin, with a little moustache,"
she once told a television interviewer. "He was very self-contained
and very British, all with this peculiar Canadian accent. I thought
he was the strangest duck I'd ever met!"
No one in her family, at least, ever envisioned her, a southern
belle from Fort Worth, Texas, falling in mad love with a skinny,
awkward academic from Edmonton with a penchant for poetry. After
all, she was a direct descendant of one of Fort Worth's founders,
while her great-grandfather had been the state's first carriage
manufacturer and her own father, Charles Wallace
LEWIS, provided
a more-than-comfortable living for his family as the chief financial
officer of the local Swift and Company packing plant. From her
father, young Corinne learned to how to shoot and hunt, while
her mother, the feisty Corinne Keller
LEWIS, raised her and older
sister, Carolyn, in the tradition of the Daughters of the American
Revolution, complete with its motto of "God, Home and Country."
In this rarefied world, scholastic excellence was lauded, as
was churchgoing and the pursuit of hobbies such as theatre. In
high school, young Corinne was always a top student but she was
also a key member of the drama club called the Vagabond Players,
both directing and performing in plays such as Seven Keys to
Baldpate, a whodunit by George M. Cohan for which the tagline
was "Mystery writer and blonde… too scared to kiss… in mansion
of fear!" In The Constant Wife, an extramarital farce by W. Somerset
Maugham, she played Martha Culver, a prickly, cynical spinster
who doesn't trust men one bit.
After graduating from high school in 1930, she was offered scholarships
to several universities elsewhere in Texas, but her parents pressed
her to remain in Fort Worth, where she attended Texas Christian
University, completing a degree in general arts and pursuing
her interest in drama. She also won poetry-recitation contests
and honed her talent for public speaking.
Throughout, she had any number of gentleman callers, but she
wasn't at all interested in living what she knew for the rest
of her life. Rather, she decided to pursue her dramatic studies
further, ending up in Pasadena, California, which had a well-regarded
theatre school. There, a meeting with a teacher would change
her life forever: Elsie
McLUHAN,
Marshall's▲ mother and a force
in her own right, had arrived to run a class after directing
at a theatre in Detroit. At once, she decided the younger woman
was the perfect match for her intellectual son, who was coming
to visit her.
"She told me he was very handsome," Mrs.
McLUHAN recalled in
a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation radio documentary. "She invited
me over a lot and generally promoted our togetherness."
As part of their courtship, he would pick her up in Pasadena
and drive to the countryside, where they'd lie on the grass and
read poetry to each other. They hadn't been going together for
very long when Marshall, who was working on his master's degree
at Cambridge University, had to go back. He proposed marriage.
She responded by suggesting that they write to each other for
a while first. "But no, he wanted me to go with him or forget
about it," she would say in another documentary about her husband.
"I wasn't used to this kind of treatment. What made this man
tick?"
In the end, she said yes. On August 4, 1939, they tied the knot
she telegraphed her family the news only after the deed was done.
"Mother knew they'd never accept him," said Stephanie
McLUHAN,
the fourth of the couple's six children. "Her family never particularly
accepted him. Texas and Canada are still pretty different."
The newlyweds honeymooned in prewar Venice, sailing through the
canals with gondoliers singing at the tops of their voices -
until they descended one morning from their hotel room to learn
that war appeared imminent. Their next stop was Paris, but they
soon felt compelled to leave there, too; as Mrs.
McLUHAN quickly
packed, her husband ventured out to get provisions.
"He came with a bottle of Benedictine and a basket of pastries,"
she recalled in the same documentary. "We took the last train
out of Paris and a boat across the Channel, which was crammed
to the gills. We were the only ones with any food or drink on
hand. We arrived in London the night before the war was declared,
and then went down to Cambridge where we stayed for the year."
He got his master's in January, 1940, and though he would begin
his doctoral dissertation soon after, the outbreak of war led
the university to grant him permission to complete it in North
America; it would be granted three years later without him having
to travel back to make a defence. The couple sailed for the United
States, stopping in St. Louis for a year because he had to work
at a local university.
In 1944, they moved to Windsor, Ontario, where Doctor
McLUHAN taught
at Assumption College. Two years later, he joined the faculty
at Saint Michael's College in Toronto. In the 1950s, he began to
give the Communication and Culture seminars that would lead to
the establishment, in 1963, of the Centre for Culture and Technology
the university did so because, by then, Doctor
McLUHAN was so famous
he was receiving tempting offers from other institutions.
Mrs. McLUHAN was her husband's most ardent defender, fan, critic,
editor and love. A staunch patriotism, an even stauncher faith
in God (like Doctor
McLUHAN, she was a convert to Catholicism) and
an impish sense of fun would help guide her throughout her life,
through the raising of six children and through the leaner years
before her husband gained renown. She never renounced her U.S.
citizenship and prayed regularly, while author B.W. Powe, who
first met her in 1978 at a Christmas party at the
McLUHAN home
in Toronto's tony Wychwood Park, recalls that she was in the
kitchen, spiking the punch with lots of alcohol.
"She poured and sang," Mr. Powe wrote in an e-mail. "You must
picture her: tall, elegant, with a Texan drawl and that bright,
broad smile, much laughter in her face. There she was, singing
and pouring in the alcohol so that we, Marshall's grads, would
no doubt happily reel out into the good Christmas night."
The McLUHANs were devoted parents, although Stephanie
McLUHAN
speculates that her mother's experience as a stage director must
have helped, for it was she who did most of the day-to-day raising
of her and her siblings, of listening, disciplining, bandaging
and counselling. Her husband may have popularized terms and phrases
such as "global village" and "the medium is the message" but
he was stymied by the sheer noise of children, sometimes even
retreating to a table in the backyard when weather permitted
so he could work in peace and quiet.
"They expected us to excel," said Stephanie, who now runs the
Canada Institute program for the Washington, D.C.-based Woodrow
Wilson International Center for Scholars. "Mom was a voracious
reader and a real confidante to my father. She edited his first
major book, The Gutenberg Galaxy. Dad was a stellar verbal person
but when he sat down to write, he needed help.
"They had a real partnership in addition to marriage," she continued.
"Dad just adored her."
In 1979, Doctor
McLUHAN suffered a stroke that robbed him of his
ability to speak, read and write. While it broke his wife's heart
that they couldn't continue the intellectual discussions they'd
been having ever since they first met, they continued with their
regular walks around Wychwood Park. She would guide him and he'd
stay fast by her side - just like it had always been.
Corinne Lewis
McLUHAN was born April 11, 1912, in Fort Worth,
Texas She died April 4, 2008, of natural causes at her home in
Toronto. She was 95. She leaves her children: Eric, Mary, Teri,
Stephanie, Elizabeth and Michael. She also leaves grandchildren
Jennifer Colton
THUET,
Emily McLuhan
BOMS, Anna and Andrew
McLUHAN,
Claire and Madeleine McLuhan
MYERS and Arthur, Mark and Gwendolyn
McLUHAN, and her great-grandchildren, Olivia, Charlotte and Gillian.
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McCLURE o@ca.on.grey_county.owen_sound.the_sun_times 2008-04-07 published
MOONEY,
Doctor
Alfred
Henry, D.V.M.
Passed away on Saturday, April 5th, 2008. Doctor Alfred Henry
MOONEY,
of Durham, in his 90th year. Beloved husband of the late Marie
DWYER.
Loving father of Agnes and her husband Kent
BENSON of
Kenilworth and Eileen and her husband Conrad
ELVIDGE of Durham.
Fondly remembered by his 4 grand_sons and his one great-grand_son.
Dear brother of Margaret
McCLURE of Paisley. Dearly loved uncle
of Yvonne GONDER and family. Predeceased by his son William
MOONEY
and his sister Irene
McTEER.
Friends may call at the McCulloch-Watson
Funeral Home, Durham on Monday evening from 6-9 p.m. A private
family service will be held at the Funeral Home. As an expression
of sympathy, memorial donations to the Grey Bruce Animal Shelter
or the DCHCF -- Durham Hospital would be appreciated by the
family.
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McCLURE o@ca.on.grey_county.owen_sound.the_sun_times 2008-04-26 published
VIRTUE,
Cecil
John
At the South Bruce Grey Health Centre in Chesley on Friday April 25,
2008. Cecil
VIRTUE, formerly of Tara in his 87th year. Beloved
husband of the late former Gertrude
McARTHUR. Dear companion
of Dorothy
LOUCKS of Elgin Abbey, Chesley. Father of Iona and
her husband Bob
McCLURE of Pike Lake and Gerry and his wife
Jackie
of Alberta. Also survived by grandchildren Brad and Rod
McCLURE,
Cheryl BOYCHUK
(McCLURE) and Wayne, Tim, Terry and Gerri
VIRTUE
and 11 great-grandchildren. Dear brother of Iola
BEIRNES and
her husband Earl of Sauble Beach and brother-in-law of Alma
VIRTUE
of Port Elgin. Predeceased by brothers Arley, Jim, Russell and
Harry. Friends may call at the Paul H. Eagleson Funeral Home
in Tara on Tuesday April 29, 2008 from 7: 00 to 9:00 p.m. The
funeral sevices will be held in the Chapel on Wednesday, April 30,
2008 at 11 a.m. Interment in Hillcrest Cemetery, Tara. In lieu
of flowers, memorial donations to the Ontario Heart and Stroke
Foundation would be appreciated. Condolences may be expressed
online at www.paulheaglesonfuneralhome.ca
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McCLURE o@ca.on.grey_county.owen_sound.the_sun_times 2008-05-07 published
EMPTAGE,
Marcella "
Mary"
Sarah (née
McCLURE)
Marcella 'Mary' Sarah
EMPTAGE, beloved wife of Elgin
EMPTAGE,
formerly of Meaford, passed away peacefully at Georgian Heights
in Owen Sound where they had been currently residing, on Monday
May 5, 2008, at the age of 91. Born in Trafalgar, Mary was the
daughter of the late William and Olive (née
JOHNSTONE)
McCLURE.
She was predeceased by her brother James William
McCLURE.
Mary
will be fondly remembered as a dear sister-in-law by Margaret
“Peggy”
MARSHALL of Owen Sound, and Pearl
EMPTAGE of Blind River
and as a dear aunt by her several nieces and their families.
Funeral services will be conducted at the Ferguson Funeral Home,
48 Boucher St. E., Meaford, N4L 1B9 (519-538-1320) on Wednesday
May 7 at 3: 30 p.m. with interment to follow at Lakeview Cemetery.
Visiting at the funeral home the hour prior to service. As your
expression of sympathy, donations to Great Lakes Christian College
or a charity of your choice would be appreciated and may be made
through the funeral home to whom arrangements have been entrusted.
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McCLURE o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2008-06-09 published
DALTON,
Robert
A.
At Seaforth Manor Nursing Home on Saturday, June 7, 2008, Robert A.
DALTON of Hullett Township, in his 82nd year. Beloved husband
of Dorothy
(McCLURE)
DALTON for over 58 years. Dear father of
Blanche COADY of Mitchell, Carl (Kelly)
DALTON and his wife
Sharon
of R.R.#1, Londesborough and Kathy and her husband Ron
WARD of
Staffa.
Loving grandfather of Jamie (Jennifer)
DALTON,
Jason
DALTON (Pat
CAMPBELL), Kelly-Ann
DALTON, Jennifer
WARD (Rick
KERR) and Michael
WARD and great-grandfather of Niamh
DALTON
and Cameron
KERR.
Remembered by brother Murray (Dick)
DALTON
and his wife
Janet, sister Doris
MUIR, sister-in-law Mavis
DALTON
and brother-in-law Walter
McCLURE, all of Seaforth, and Fern
McCLURE of Egmondville. Also survived by many nieces and nephews
and great-nieces and great-nephews. Predeceased by his parents
Carl and Janet
(SMITH)
DALTON, brothers Percy
DALTON and Doug
DALTON and brother-in-law Dave
MUIR.
Family will receive Friends
at the Whitney-Ribey Funeral Home, 87 Goderich Street West, Seaforth
on Monday from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. The funeral service will be held
at Northside United Church on Tuesday, June 10 at 2: 00 p.m. Rev. John
GOULD will officiate. Interment Maitlandbank Cemetery, Seaforth.
Memorial donations to Canadian Cancer Society, Canadian Diabetes
Association or Cavan United Church, Winthrop appreciated. Condolences
at www.whitneyribeyfuneralhome.com
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JAMIESON, Dorothy Elizabeth "Betty" (formerly
McLACHLIN, née
WICKENS)
(March 28th, 1918-February 10th, 2008)
Dorothy
Elizabeth
Wickens McLachlin
JAMIESON passed away peacefully
at the Sarcee Hospice in Calgary on Sunday, February 10, 2008
in her 90th year. Betty will be lovingly remembered by her five
children: Mary
GISH of Lacombe, Pam
McLACHLIN of Edmonton, Stephen
McLACHLIN of Calgary, Sandy (James)
McCLURE of Calgary, and Craig
JAMIESON
(Denise) of Boise, Idaho. Betty was the loving grandmother
of her eight grandchildren: Corey
GISH
(Shawn
RICE) of Lacombe,
Chad (Michelle)
GISH of Olds, Samantha
BALL
(Mark) of Brampton,
Ontario, James
BALL of Edmonton, Brett (Laurie)
McCLURE of Calgary,
Grant (Rebecca)
McCLURE of Victoria, Megan
McCLURE of Cape Town,
South Africa, and Alisha
JAMIESON of Boise, Idaho. Betty was
very proud of her seven great-grandchildren Catherine, Lewis,
Jada, Jared, Morgan, Sasha and Aiden. She is also survived by
three sisters-in-law: Norma
WICKENS of Toronto, Audrey
McLACHLIN
of London, Ontario and Joan
McCOMBE of Penticton. She also had
many nieces and nephews as well as a life's journey of Friends.
Betty was predeceased by her first husband Allan (Mac)
McLACHLIN
in 1977, her second husband Ian
JAMIESON in 1999, her parents
Cora (1956) and Stephen
WICKENS (1973,) her sisters Kathleen
(1931) and Phyllis (2003) and her brother Ewart (2005). Betty
led an exciting life filled with family and Friends. She lived
many places in the world with her husband Mac when he was transferred
often as a petroleum engineer with Shell Canada, always making
a home for her family in each new place. She was a Life Member
of the Girl Guides of Canada having filled roles as troop leader
in many communities and on provincial executives. She sang with
the Sweet Adeline choruses in Edmonton, Calgary and Nanaimo.
She was committed to many charity organizations over the years.
She and her second husband, Ian, became Snowbirds living in Sun
City, Arizona and loving golf, the climate and their many Friends
as only retirees can do. Betty was currently living in Calgary
and had made many wonderful Friends in her new home. Betty always
had time for her family and Friends. Throughout her life, she
loved well and was, in turn, well-loved by everyone who knew
her. Betty had a quick sense of humour, which so many of us will
remember and cherish. A Celebration of Betty's life will be held
at First Memorial Funeral Services, 240-17th Avenue S.W., Calgary,
Alberta on Friday, February 15th, 2008 at 11: 00 a.m. A small
tea will be held afterwards. The Family would like to thank Doctor Jamieson
of the Foothills Hospital and all the wonderful nursing and administrative
staff in Unit 72. In addition, we thank everyone at the Sarcee
Hospice. With their care, love and support of not only our Mother
but also all of our Family, they helped us through this difficult
time with grace, dignity and understanding. If Friends so desire,
tributes in memory of Betty
JAMIESON may be made directly to
The Sarcee Hospice, 3504 - 29th Street S.W., Calgary, Alberta,
T3E 2L3 or to The Juvenile Diabetes Foundation of Canada, Calgary
Chapter, #417, 5920-1A Street S.W., Calgary, Alberta, T2H 0G3.
Arrangements and Cremation in care of First Memorial Funeral Services
Directors, Phone (403) 216-2222 www.firstmemorialfuneral.com
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SMITH,
Grace
Evalyn (née
McCLURE)
Passed away in Victoria on January 7th, 2008, at the age of 87.
A well-known Victoria artist famous for portraits of people and
pets. Her soft voice and pleasant smile will be missed by all.
Predeceased by grand_son David, sisters Laura, Ruth and brother
David. Survived by her husband Arnell, son Drew, daughter Avril,
8 grandchildren, 15 great-grandchildren, 1 great-great-granddaughter,
2 nieces, 3 nephews and sister Edith. Celebration of life will
be held at First Memorial, 4725 Falaise Drive, Victoria, British
Columbia at 2 p.m., April 12, 2008. In lieu of flowers, donations
may be made to the Alzheimer's Society.
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McLURG,
A.
James "
Jim"
With great sadness, A. James (Jim)
McLURG died at Tillsonburg
Hospital on February 25, 2008 in his 79th year. Born in London,
Ontario.
Predeceased by his wife, Mary
McLURG (1986.) Dear father
of Suzanne
TURNER
(Jerry) of Tillsonburg, David
McLURG (Vera)
of Arizona. Grandad to Allison and twins, Kyle and Logan. Step
grandfather to Kelly
TURNER
(Mike) and
Great
Papa to Jason, Kiara
and Kirstin. Jim was an avid reader with particular interest
in architecture and history. Many thanks to Doctor
SOHLA,
Community
Care Access Centre, Home Care and 2 South Tillsonburg District
Memorial Hospital for their support and care. Donations to The
Canadian Cancer Society appreciated in lieu of flowers. A Memorial
Reception will be held on Saturday, March 1st at the Delta Armouries,
325 Dundas Street, London from 2: 00-5:00 p.m. Arrangements entrusted
to Ostrander's Funeral Home, 43 Bidwell St. Tillsonburg (519 842-5221)
Personal condolences may be sent to www.ostrandersfuneralhome.com
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