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Tuesday, February 19, 2019

ETHEL JUDITH HAZLETT Obituary

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ETHEL JUDITH HAZLETT

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"Lynda and I have known Judy and Roger for many years from ..."
- Alan McKenzie

HAZLETT, ETHEL JUDITH Passed away on Friday, January 25, 2019. She was 69. Judy was born on August 14, 1949, in Natrona Heights, Pennsylvania, USA, to Samuel M. and Ethel J. Hazlett. She was a graduate of Greenville High School - having spent her junior year in Argentina and her senior year in Sweden as an exchange student. Judy graduated from Middlebury College a private liberal arts college in Middlebury Vermont. She began a teaching career in Swanton, Vermont - a small town on the Vermont/Quebec border. She later taught in Montreal, Quebec, and subsequently in Unionville, Ontario. She was named Teacher of the Year in Unionville a few years prior to her retirement. After leaving the school system, she continued her love of teaching by tutoring students in her home in suburban Toronto. She was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease at the age of 29 and spent 40 years coping with its progressive and devastating effects. She developed and presented educational programs for patients with Parkinsonism and for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police who encountered individuals with the disease. For these endeavors, she was awarded the prestigious Queen's Award in Canada. She was also involved in several research studies to advance the treatment of Parkinsonism. She accepted life's challenges with determination and enthusiasm. Judy spent summers at Chautauqua, New York and had a great love for the place and an appreciation for the artistic and religious programs offered there. Her many interests over the years included ballet, modern dance, ice skating, painting, flying, puppetry, set design and hiking. In 2005 a BRAVOfact! film was produced by Windborne Productions of the dance/theatre piece 'Impoverished Places'. In 2007, she hit the stage again. Judy was a guest artist in a dance/theatre piece entitled 'Me, Myself and I' in Motus O dance theatre's production 'PERSPECTIVES'. Judy's desire was to empower people who suffered from the disease and to also bring understanding to people who were unaware of the effects on the body and soul of people caught in its snare. She shared 37 years with her companion, Roger Buxton. He partnered with her many advocacy passions. They both were pilots and loved to fly. They also were avid hikers. The two of them made several trips exploring Baffin Island in the Canadian North. Roger preceded her in death in 2013. Judy had a strong Christian faith, and during her last difficult months, she expressed a conviction that she was ready to go home. Her church family in the Toronto area enabled her to continue to live independently over these last several years. Her family and large circle of friends will remember her as a strong, courageous woman who made a difference in many lives. She is survived by two brothers - Samuel M. Hazlett and his wife Margaret, of Indianapolis, Indiana, and William C. Hazlett and his wife DaVee, of Mercer, Pennsylvania along with several nieces and nephews. Those wishing to make a gift in Judy's memory are invited to do so to the Parkinson's Foundation at Parkinson.org, to Parkinson Canada at Parkinson.ca., or the Chautauqua Foundation at CHQ.org/ways-to-give. A memorial service is being planned for

Saturday, March 16th at The Olive Branch Community Church 175 Anderson Avenue, Markham, Ontario. The service will commence at 3:00 p.m.

Saturday, June 23, 2018

OBITUARY Lucy Maude Harris, 92, was the ‘wonder child’ who survived 11 days in Newfoundland’s snowy wilderness in 1936

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JOAN SULLIVAN

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Newfoundland’s “wonder child” was lost in the snowy woods for 10 nights and 11 days before she was finally found – amazingly, still alive. The 1936 misadventure made international headlines

On March 26, 1936, Lucy Maude Harris, aged 10, and her younger sister, Marjorie, 8, went trouting after attending school in their community of New Melbourne, Trinity Bay. They came to a brook runoff that Lucy could jump, but was too wide for Marjorie. Lucy sent her little sister home, and continued on by herself. Then she got disoriented in a sudden heavy fog.

At first, when she wasn’t home for supper, her family assumed she had gone to her Aunt Lizzie Wheeler’s house. But then they realized she wasn’t there either. A door-to-door search began, and then they searched by lantern-light.

But they couldn’t find her, and she couldn’t make her way home. In a 1999 article titled Finding Lucy Harris, in Sarscene magazine, Lucy recalled, “When it got dark I started to run. I know I lost my boots and my mitts while I was running and they say they found my belt too.” She was going in the wrong direction, on snow-covered ground.

At daybreak the church bells rang and the searchers now included wagonloads of men from nearby outports and the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary, who policed the shore at the time from their detachment in Old Perlican. Starting from the point where Marjorie had last seen Lucy, the searchers spread out eight to 12 feet apart, and walked eight kilometres out and back.

But there was no sign of the girl, who had only moved one step from where she’d dropped on her first night. She sat under a tree, by Lance Cove Pond, in her school clothes.

“I don’t really remember being scared,” she told the article’s author, Jennifer Reaney . “I remember singing and I know they printed in the newspapers that I said the birds kept me company.” She had no food. “I could only reach ahead of me with one hand, so I did eat some snow.

“But I couldn’t get up.”

She later told her daughter, Sharon Pynn, that she could sometimes hear searchers calling, but was too weak to respond.

March turned to April, and searchers began to fear that, at best, they were on a recovery mission. Still, they kept going.

On April 5, “13 men came on a truck, United [Church] men,” Steven Pynn, who was 17 when Lucy went missing, told Sarscene. “They came to Mr. Harris. He made them kneel in the road to pray. One of them, he was from Island Cove, said, ‘We’ll go and get her.’ They walked for an hour.” Then, Jack Johnson and Ches Harris, Lucy’s uncle, heard a remarkable sound.

“’Hello,’ a small voice said. ‘I’m the little girl who’s lost in the woods.’”

She was about four kilometres from where her sister had indicated they first entered the woods.

The men made a stretcher of their sheepskin coats and carried her home. The church bells rang for three hours in celebration.

But Lucy’s ordeal was not over. She lost both lower legs to frostbite, and spent 18 months recuperating in St. John’s, as the St. John’s-based Evening Telegram raised $3,000 to help her recovery (and concerned citizens staged a musical as a fundraiser).

Lucy Maude Harris, Newfoundland's ‘wonder child,’ ended up losing both legs to frostbite but this didn't hold her back.

COURTESY OF THE FAMILY

Her survival made headlines worldwide. At the time, The Lethbridge Herald reported: “Physicians examining … marvelled at the physical endurance powers of Newfoundland’s ‘wonder child.’“

“I had letters and dolls from England and Australia,” Lucy told Sarscene. “People in St. John’s would cook dinners and bring them to me. My nurse and doctor were very kind, but it was lonely as I wasn’t in a ward with other children.”

After leaving the hospital she was home-schooled until Grade 9.

There were no prosthetic limbs available for her at that time; but in her late teens she returned to the old General Hospital on Forest Road in St. John’s and was fitted with a pair of artificial legs and learned to walk again. She worked in St. John’s at the sanatorium in occupational therapy, and taught sewing – she was deftly “crafty”– and also volunteered, teaching Sunday School and knitting goods for NONIA.

Lucy Maude Harris was born Oct. 26, 1925, to Alexander and Amelia Harris. Her father fished and was a boat-builder and the family, like many at that time, grew gardens and kept animals. She was third oldest, with three brothers and three sisters.

She gave birth to a daughter in 1953. Being a single mother when such were rare impeded neither her spirits nor her inventiveness. They lived with Lucy’s parents; her brothers and their families lived nearby, and Ms. Pynn remembered lots of engaged, lively times as her mother baked cookies or cleared out the barn for her and her cousins to play in in summer. She and her mother also took regular summer trips by bus to St. John’s, by train across the island, and by plane to New Brunswick.

Ms. Harris was a collected, sociable person with no difficulty getting around, until vision problems encroached on her mobility later in life. “She was a beautiful woman,” said Harry Blackmore, founding director of the Search and Rescue Volunteer Association of Canada. “She remembered it all.”

Ms. Harris died on May 15, at the age of 92. She leaves two sisters, including Marjorie; her daughter, Sharon; son-in-law, Kevin; grandson, Colin; granddaughter, Megan; great-grandson, Alexander; and great-granddaughters, Isabella and Anastasia.

At a 1999 international search-and-rescue conference in St. John’s, her story was told to searchers from around the world. She was also reunited with her nurse from her long hospitalization, Mrs. McNamara. Lucy’s obituary asked that in lieu of flowers, donations be made to the New Melbourne cemetery or search-and-rescue efforts. Eight of her pallbearers were from search-and-rescue organizations, including Mr. Blackmore.

“Her survival is very unusual,” he said. “It was extraordinary.”

”I think the best message that comes out of Mom’s story,” Ms. Pynn told The St. John’s Telegram, “is not to give up hope.”

Tuesday, October 11, 2016

Irene Piche obit 20161005 born 19270103

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We are all saddened by the loss of our oldest matriarch within our family

Irene Piche

PICHE, Irene - Of Espanola passed away at the Espanola Regional Hospital on Wednesday, October 5, 2016 at the age of 89 years. Beloved wife of the late Stephen Piche (1986). Dear daughter of the late Daniel & Margaret (née Pindus) Tomchyshen. Loving mother of Ron (wife Mary), Vic (wife Karen), Stephanie Constantineau, Garry (partner Rose Marie), David (partner Laurie) all of Espanola, Donald of Lively, Sharon Porteous of McKerrow & the late Gerald Piche (2009). Will be sadly missed by 17 grandchildren, many, many great-grandchildren & 1 great-great-grandchildren. Very dear sister of Victoria Strauss of Selkirk, Manitoba & Olga Klewchuk & Daniel Tomchyshen both of Yorkton, Saskatchewan. Friends may call at the Bourcier Funeral Home, Espanola on Friday, October 7th from 7 - 9 p.m. Funeral Mass at St. Jude Roman Catholic Church, Espanola on Saturday, October 8th at 10:00 a.m. with Father Raymond officiating. Interment in the Espanola Cemetery. If so desired, Memorial tributes may be made to the Espanola Hospital Foundation. Arrangements by BOURCIER FUNERAL HOME LTD., Espanola .13104773

Monday, July 21, 2014

Catherine "Kate" McGrath nee Sharkey

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Friday, July 26, 2013

Marie Jeanne (nee Delisle) Paradis Auge - 99 years young

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Marie Jeanne (nee Delisle) Paradis Auge

AUGE, Marie Jeanne (nee Delisle) Paradis - Of Espanola passed away at her home with family at her side on Monday July 22, 2013 at the age of 98. Beloved wife of the late Remie Paradis (1978) and the late Albert Auge (1997). Dear daughter of the late Pierre and Almais (nee Proteau) Delisle. Loving mother of Marie Roy (husband Paul) of Cambridge, Rose Landry (husband Andre), Albert (wife Therese), Eva (late husband Tony Laurin), Cecile Auge (husband Francois), May Mirault (husband Noel), Jeannette Rodrigue (husband Benoit), Rita Poirier (husband Andre), Pierre (wife Phyllis), and Pierrette Mckechnie (husband Allan) all of Espanola. Loving stepmother of Regis Auge of Hanmer, Francois Auge (wife Cecile) of Espanola, Wilfred Auge (wife Rita) of Espanola, Henri Auge (wife Mary) of Woodstock, Rene Auge of Espanola, Alphonse Auge (wife Debbie) of Kitchener, Marie Longe (husband Carl) of Fort McMurray AB, Lucille Vancamp (husband Ray) of Fort McMurray AB, Camil Auge of Sudbury and the late Rita VanAllen (husband John). Cherished grandmother of 38 grandchildren, 62 great grandchildren, and 17 great great grandchildren. Dear sister of the late Wilfred, Pierre, Baptiste, Omer, Marie Rose Aubrey, Rugelle, Marie Anne Roussel, Armand, Louis, and Edward. Will also be sadly missed my many friends and relatives. A visitation will be on Wednesday July 24, from 2-4 & 7-9 PM at the BOURCIER FUNERAL HOME , Espanola . Funeral Mass on Thursday July 25, at St. Jude R.C.C. with Fr. Gilles Grandmont officiating. Cremation to follow with the burial of ashes on Saturday July 27 in the Espanola Cemetery. If so desired, donations to the Northern Cancer Research Foundation would be appreciated.12514453

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