Frederick George “Fred” Williams, 80, of 551 Riverview Dr., Fort Frances, Ont., passed away Monday, April 13, 1998 at La Verendrye General Hospital. He was born Sept. 4, 1917 in Liverpool, England to the late James and Margaret Williams. Mr. Williams immigrated to Canada at the age of five with […]
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Marjorie Christina Martin, 85, of Rainycrest Home for the Aged, 550 Osborne St., Fort Frances, Ont., passed away at her residence Sunday, April 12, 1998. She was born July 19, 1912 in Devlin, Ont. to the late John and Olive Matheson. Mrs. Martin had lived in the Rainy River District […]
Mary Marie Arch, 93, of Nestor Falls, Ont., formally of International Falls, Mn., passed away Saturday, April 11, 1998 in Newmarket, Ont. after a brief illness. Mary was born Sept. 5, 1904 in Minneapolis, Mn. She moved to the International Falls area in the late 1920s. Born Mary Marie Brollard, […]
Gladys Smith, 47, of Devlin, Ont., will be resting in peace in heaven as she passed away peacefully Thursday, April 9, 1998 at La Verendrye General Hospital in Fort Frances, Ont. Gladys was born April 9, 1951 in Fort Frances, where she was raised. In 1968, she met her husband, […]
Richard Gordon Cooper passed away peacefully at Ladysmith General Hospital on April 5, 1998. He was born in Emo, Ont. in 1910, where he lived until he joined the navy in the Second World War. Gordon served as radar operator on corvette duty on the North Atlantic for three-and-a-half years. […]
Editor: I would like to use your letters column to publicly thank everyone who has expressed their love and concern for my son, Lantana Wind Dancer, whose story was told in last week’s Fort Frances Times (“Toddler survives dog attack”). I’d thank all in person but there are so many […]
Oops, let me rephrase that. Daylight Saving Time is great. Getting that extra hour of sunlight in the evening does marvels for the soul gripped with the last vestiges of the winter blahs–even if this winter wasn’t particularly long, or cold, or plagued by repeated snow shovelling. What I detest […]
The woodcock is a funny-looking bird–hard to see, hard to shoot, and with a lot of its sense organs out of place. The woodcock is a mottled brown colour, much like that of dead leaves. You can almost step on him before he roars up in your face and disappears […]
Arnold Gerhard Kaemingh, 52, of 24 Armstrong Pl., Fort Frances, Ont., passed away Tuesday, April 7, 1998 at the Port Arthur General Hospital in Thunder Bay, Ont. He was born Sept. 19, 1945 in Barchem, Gelderland, Holland. Arnold went home to be with his Lord, peacefully after a courageous battle […]
Suddenly on April 6, 1998, Harvey Donald Halverson passed away doing what he enjoyed the most, ice fishing on Crow Lake. Harvey is survived by his wife of 43 years, Esther (Jackson), and his daughters, Glenda (Norbert) Dufresne, Sandra Engstrom (Robert Faulds), Camilla Halverson (Cal Madden), and Colleen Halverson (Peter […]
Edward Ernest “Ed” Watts, 40, of West Bay, Ont., and formerly of Emo, Ont., passed away suddenly Saturday, April 4, 1998 at West Bay. Ed was born March 1, 1958 in Thunder Bay, Ont. but was raised and educated in Finland, Ont. In his younger years, Ed worked in the […]
