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Colin Freel- Lives Lived

Colin Roy Freel: Burger king. Optimist. Dad. Grandpa. Born March 5, 1937, in Hamilton; died Aug. 18, 2024, in Toronto, of dementia; aged 87. If laughter truly is the best medicine, then the world lost a beloved healer with the death of Colin Freel. Colin was the only child of Elmer and Marjorie Freel, who met…

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Karen Honor Calvert- Lives Lived

Sister, mother, nana, wife, gourmet cook, bridge player, world traveller, civil servant. Born in Brampton, Ontario on April 22, 1941.  Died on August 19th, 2012 in Mississauga, of cancer, age 71. Karen was the beloved second sister, in a close-knit family of seven daughters. She was born to Jack and Jeanne Calvert, greenhouse farmers, in…

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Grandma Hill- Lives Lived

Mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, sister, aunt, gourmet cook, avid reader. Born April 16, 1915, in Toledo, Ohio. Died April 22 in Toronto of natural causes, aged 95. Elizabeth Jane Fraser, known as Betty Jane, was born in Toledo, Ohio, the middle of three children of Canadians John Beverley Fraser and Elizabeth Webber How. Betty Jane’s father…

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