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Verby, Joyce (nee Machan): CCHS C'58 Surrounded by her loving family, Joyce passed away peacefully at her home on September 15, 2011 at the age of 71. Formerly of St. Lambert, Quebec and Kitchener , she was a resident of Elmira and wintered in Yuma , Arizona .
Beloved wife of 48 years to Ed. Loving mother to Catharine and her husband Robert Voisin and cherished grandmother of Amanda and Erin Voisin, all of Kitchener . Dear sister of Sherry C'59 and Bill MacKellar C'59 of Michigan and sister-in-law of Norma and George Fuller of Burlington , and Irene Verby of Toronto .
Joyce was predeceased by her infant stillborn daughters and her parents, John and Thelma Machan.
She was a member of St. Teresa RC Church, Elmira , volunteered for Our Lady of Grace School, a former Brown Owl at St. Francis and a member of the Power and Sail Squadron.
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FREDERICK ROSS WALLACE
1933-2011
Peacefully, surrounded by family at the Montreal Neurological Hospital on September 18, 2011, after many years of health challenges that he faced with courage and optimism.
Ross leaves his dearly beloved wife of 55 years, Dale (Morrison); his cherished children, Kathryn (Bill Toohey), Peter (Susan Galardo), Sharon (Yves Paquette), and Mark (Josée Boudreau); and adored grandchildren, Steven & Craig Toohey, Leah Wallace, Anne-Marie, Caroline, Samuel & Genevive Paquette, and Kelsey & Matthew Wallace. Dear brother of Cynthia (late Andrew Seath), the late Kenneth (Linda Blair), brother-in-law Don Morrison (Caroline Knight), and many nieces and nephews.
Ross' father George Kenneth Wallace founded the family business Wallace Garage Ltd. Following his death, Ross and his late brother Ken operated the business until they retired in 1994.
Ross was an active member of the St. Lambert Community Sports Association and president of the St. Lambert Minor Hockey Association for many years. He was also an active member of the St. Lambert United Church, serving on many committees including Chairman of the Board of Trustees.
ELLIOT, Kenneth Frank
Kenneth Frank Elliot of Oakville, Ontario,
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Ken Elliot
former CCHS teacher |
on Saturday September 24, 2011, peacefully at Oakville Trafalgar Memorial Hospital of complications from pneumonia. Age 86. Born May 28, 1925 in St. Lambert, Quebec.
Predeceased by his wife Ethel Jeanie (Jean) Elliot (nee Annand) August 2, 1983. Loving dad of Susan Elliot-Lethbridge and her husband Jeffrey Lethbridge of Burlington, Ontario, and Scott Elliot and his wife Yvonne Elliot (nee Fillier) of London, Ontario. Proud granddad of Thomas Lethbridge and Rachel Lethbridge, and Erica Elliot and Lauren Elliot. Leaves to mourn his sister Grace (Cookie) Peto and her husband Edwin (Bud) Peto of Etobicoke. Predeceased by his sisters Bernice, Eileen, Statia, and Rae, and brothers Norman, Roland, Donald, and Reed. Ken was especially fond of his nieces and nephews, Jeanie Annand, Joanie Annand, Bruce Elliot, Eula Joyce Elliot, Donald Smith, Gary Smith, Judy Shambrook and her husband Bill, Donna Fisher and her husband Steve, Reed Smiley and his wife Heather, Brian Peto and his wife Corrie, Lance Peto and his wife Kathryn, Sandra Elliot and her husband Kirk Reid, Statia Elliot and her husband Brian Flynn. Will be sadly missed by the Lethbridge family and the Fillier family. Ken played a lot of bingo the last several years at Delta Matfair Bingo on Speers Road. The family is grateful for their staff, who have been Ken's guardian angels, especially Carole, Bonnie and Brandon. Ken achieved his boyhood dream to teach high school history and English in his hometown school, Chambly County High, in St. Lambert, Quebec. Ken and Jean met teaching at Chambly County High in 1951 and married in 1954. They moved to Uxbridge, Ontario in 1955 to teach in the local high school, and then to Oakville, Ontario in 1957, where Ken was a Halton District School Board employee for 28 years. He also was a proud contributor to the establishment of Sheridan College of Applied Arts and Technology. Hand picked and hired by the College's first president John (Jack) M. Porter as chief librarian, Ken established and ran the Brampton campus library from the college's opening in 1967 to 1970, and then ran the Oakville campus library from 1970 to 1975, when he returned to the Halton Board. |
The CCHS & CA Alumni Association is pleased to announce the appointment of Natalie Beauchamp C'92 to the Board of Directors.