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WERT,
Walter
Ross, UE
Wally died peacefully April 23, 2008 in his 91st year. Born July 3,
1917 in Avonmore, Ontario, he graduated from Radio College, Toronto,
as a Commercial Radio Operator in 1937. During World War 2, Wally
served in the Royal Canadian Corps of Signals (#2 Special Wireless)
and was awarded a special mention in dispatches for his work
in Britain and Europe. He married Aleen (née
WALTON) in England
on July 31, 1943. At the end of the war, they settled into their
first home in Montreal, where later their three daughters were
born. Wally resumed work at RCA Victor, aligning and testing
the first television set built in Canada in 1948. In 1957 the
family moved to Chalk River, Ontario, where Wally designed and
built their home while working as an instruments technician at
Atomic Energy of Canada. For 18 years he partnered in 'Electronic
Services', a home-based radio and television repair business.
Wally retired in 1978 and two years later moved with Aleen to
White Rock, British Columbia, where he continued to document
his family genealogy until the end of his life. He self-published
two books of his family history and a third about his war experience
in Special Wireless. Wally was predeceased by daughter Joyce
(FAIRBANKS) in 1993, and is survived by wife
Aleen, daughters
Anne (Sze-Yin)
YUEN and Karen (John)
RICHARDSON, son-in-law Bryan
FAIRBANKS
(Rebecca,) 3 Fairbanks and 4 Yuen grandchildren, and
2 great-grandchildren. Cremation has taken place and a gathering
to celebrate Wally's life is planned for July 3, 2008, in Surrey,
British Columbia. In remembrance of Wally, his family requests
that donations be sent to White Rock Hospice Society, 15510 Russell
Ave, White Rock, British Columbia V4B 2R3 to be put towards construction
of a local hospice. Victory Memorial Park Funeral Centre 604-536-6522
www.victorymemorialpark.com
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YUEN o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2008-01-21 published
Innocent shooting victim 'worked hard'
By Michele
HENRY and Betsy
POWELL,
Crime
Reporters with files
by Joanna SMITH,
Donovan
VINCENT and Tonda
MacCHARLES.
Tomorrow would have been his last day on the job.
Hou Chang MAO, the city's second innocent victim of gun violence
in a week, was days away from ending his tenure in the fruit
and vegetable department of Fu Yao Supermarket when he was killed
by a stray bullet Thursday night.
MAO was stacking oranges on
a display outside the Gerrard St. E. store when he was caught
in the crossfire of a gun battle waged by two warring groups.
Described as honest, the kind of man who would pick only the
nicest fruit for his customers,
MAO 47, had worked at the small
but busy market in the heart of Chinatown east for about two
years -- ever since immigrating to Canada from Fuqing, a small
coastal town in China.
He quit earlier this week, a family friend said yesterday. The
father of two had agreed to stay until tomorrow due to his boss's
pleadings.
MAO quit because he didn't like working outside in the cold,
said the friend, who stopped by the family's home last night
and did not want to be named. "He was a very good person. He
worked hard and was kind to everyone. It's unbelievable "
Late yesterday evening, just feet from where
MAO was struck,
his younger brother met with local members of the Fuqing community
to discuss funeral arrangements.
Hou Tan MAO talked privately with about 10 others, in an inner
room at Fu Yao. He was appealing to people from his hometown
on behalf of
MAO's children, Zuo Xi, 22, and
Yun
Yam, 18, who
both immigrated to Canada in the past two years and lived with
their father in a house that sources said the father recently
purchased. Friends said
MAO's wife lives in China.
"They are really devastated," Jack
LI, president of the Fuqing
Association of Canada, said of the siblings while at Fu Yao last
night for the discussion. "It's a really, really big surprise
to us. It's a shock."
LI said he will post a plea in Chinese newspapers calling for
help for the family of Toronto's third homicide victim of 2008.
A bouquet of flowers tied to a pole outside the store, and bullet
holes in cars and on buildings on the north and south sides of
Gerrard, are reminders of the shooting.
People ducked for cover as the bullets flew, but
MAO was struck
in the torso. He staggered toward the brightly lit entrance of
the store where he worked and collapsed. He died later in Saint Michael's
Hospital.
While no weapons have been recovered, police said they found
two types of bullet casings at the scene of the shooting, which
began amid the dinnertime rush of shoppers, around 6 p.m. Officers
are searching for two male witnesses: seen leaving the scene shortly
after the gun battle in a silver car with a shiny round grille.
Homicide
Det.
Pauline
GRAY/GREY said police have more than 100 hours
of surveillance tape to go through and appealed for witnesses:
especially the two men, who are not considered suspects --
to come forward.
It's the second such murder in Toronto in less than a week. John
O'KEEFE, 42, a father of one, was shot last weekend as he walked
past the Brass Rail tavern on Yonge Street, just south of Bloor
St. Two men have been charged with first-degree murder.
Even though last month Brian
RAYBOULD, head of Toronto's homicide
squad, suggested the chances of being a homicide victim are minute
if you're not engaged in a criminal lifestyle, politicians yesterday
called for a handgun ban.
Mayor David Miller toured the area yesterday morning and said
he plans to ask Michael Wilson, Canada's ambassador to the U.S.,
for his assistance and will meet Monday with Ontario's new Attorney
General, Chris Bentley.
"One of the items on the agenda will be handguns and how we can
work together -- the province and the city of Toronto -- to deal
with this issue," Miller said yesterday. Miller and Premier Dalton
McGuinty want Ottawa to ban handguns.
The federal Tories say that won't address the "real problem."
"Handguns are already extremely tightly controlled," Public Safety
Minister Stockwell Day said in a written statement.
Irrespective of calls for a ban, Insp. Peter
YUEN of 55 Division,
which includes the Gerrard strip, said the area is peaceful,
not "crime-ridden," and still a safe place to shop, live and
work. "This is a very rare occurrence," he said.
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