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Noreen (Hancock) King posted a condolence
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
To Beverley Baine, Be chance I saw your mother's obit in the Globe&Mail. I remember her reading it long ago. I knew you in Guelph for two years in the 50's. We were friends at high school. You and your mother were very good to me after moving to Guelph when my father died. We often walked to your house after school and had tea, etc. Your mother was a model of gracious style and culture. I recall thinking I would like to grow up to be as close to her as possible. We lost touch when my mother and I moved back to Kingston. I married after nursing school, moved to Calgary and have lived there for over 40 years. Presently I am in Toronto and going for knee replacement at Mt Sinai April 23. Daughter lives in T.O. and is anesthetist at Mt Sinai. She and family will be my support post-op. When I go to Flames hockey games in Calgary I often think of those days when I see Billy McCreary being the refereee. Carol Mcleod was his mother? It was good to hear of you and my sympathies to your family. Best wishes, Noreen Hancock
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Mary Armstrong on behalf of Margaret Ireland posted a condolence
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
delighted to read that your Mother led such a long and fruitful life - Mother and Eleanor had such fun together, spending many hours together making the teddy bears and volunteering at the Wellesley Hospital -also remember the beautiful doll house that your Mom and Dad loaned to us for our daughter- hope that it is still being enjoyed somewhere - sorry that we couldn't be there on Wed. as we've retired to Thornbury but we'll be thinking of you
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Janet Kirkconnell posted a condolence
Monday, March 31, 2008
To the family of Eleanor Baine: While we are unknown to each other, I felt I had to convey to you my condolences on the death of your mother. Your mother's photo at the top of the Globe obituaries on Saturday caught my eye: I was reminded of someone from my idyllic childhood summers at Sturgeon Point - someone whom my older sister and I knew only as "Shorty" Lucas. When I noted on reading further that your mother had been born a Lucas, and had grown up in Lindsay and spent her summers at Sturgeon Point, I came to the conclusion that she must have been his daughter, as she is the spitting image [for lack of a better description] of this wonderful man. My mother, Hope Kitchener-Kirkconnell died in 1986 [b. 1900], so I cannot consult her on this. My mother would have known your mother, as she left Lindsay only in August, 1930, when she married my father, Watson Kirkconnell, and she, too, spent every summer at the Point [which I also did, starting in 1937, until my grandfather, A.D. Kitchener, who was also from Lindsay and a friend of the Lucases, sold the place in the mid-fifties ... It is no longer there, the property taken over by one of the McLaughlin grandchildren, and the cottage demolished ... but happy memories are not to be demolished!]. The Lucas cottage was just a few properties down from my grandparents' place ... and I remember walking down there once in a while with grandpa. More often, I remember Mr. Lucas's laugh at our place. Your mother would have graduated from Lindsay Collegiate Institute, and have had my grandfather, T.A. Kirkconnell, who was the headmaster of the L.C.I. until his retirement in 1932, as mathematics teacher. I think the "acute intelligence and ... amazing vocabulary," as well as "her knowledge of the rules of grammar and punctuation" had their firm foundation in her superior Lindsay education, building on the home environment and her Lucas inheritance. Over the years, L.C.I. graduates from Grandpa Kirkconnell's day whom I have encountered have told me how they idolized him, and benefited greatly from their education, looking back on this time with nostalgia. Just as I do on those happy sun- [and sometimes rousing thunderstorm-] filled summers at Sturgeon Point, of which "Shorty" Lucas was an integral, and witty part. Once again, my sincere condolences on the loss of your mother, Janet Kirkconnell
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Robin and Maureen Ollerhead posted a condolence
Monday, March 31, 2008
Dear Bev, Barb, and John - We were sorry to read about your mother's recent passing. Your mother certainly had a long and productive life, and will be missed. I often think of your family when I drive past 15 Oxford Street - which is fairly often, since it is just across from the new library. ("new" in your Guelph experience!) We have been in your former Guelph home as guests of the Yerex family, who have lived there for many years. Which reminds me that "the brown cottage" at Sturgeon Point, built by your grandfather as I recall, and where we had many "fun times" together, is now also gone. Our thoughts are with you at this time, and we hope to see you again in happier circumstances! Robin and Maureen
