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Connections 3

The Residents of Grove Park Home for Senior Citizens

Barrie, Ontario

A Christian Ministry

2003
-2012

Claude E. Cox, compiler

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Connections 3

The Residents of Grove Park Home for Senior Citizens

A Christian Ministry

2003
2012

Compiled by

Claude E. Cox

Parker Grove Enterprises • Barrie ON

Connections 3

The Residents of Grove Park Home for Senior Citizens

Barrie, Ontario

A Christian Ministry

2003
-2012 C opyright 2013.

Parker Grove* Enterprises.

Address all correspondence to:

Mr. Parker Grove

Suite A

Grove Park Home

234 Cook St.

Barrie ON L4M 4H5

November 11, 2013

This book about the residents of Grove Park Home

is dedicated to the staff who make it a place of caring and community.

Ex libris scientia;

ex vite sapientia.

From books

- knowledge; from life - wisdom.

Table of Contents

Preface

Sources

I.

The Grove Park Home Story: update 13

II.

The Residents 2003-2012 15

III.

Retirement Living 13-14, 385

IV.

Quotable Quotes 387

V. "Traces" (meditations) 391

Appendix I:

Additions to Connections and Connections 2 399

Appendix II:

Passages Jan. 1, 2003-Dec. 31, 2012 401

Statistics

411

Appendix III: GPH Veterans, as of Nov. 11, 2012

413

Selected Index

417

Compiler bio

423

Preface

The first

Connections

was so named because I was fascinated by the connections that have existed among residents. Such ties continue to emerge, even as people from different places and backgrounds come to live at Grove Park.

Readers will note that this book

is published under the auspices of Mr. Parker G ROVE, who has lived at GPH for many years. He is a larger-than-life person who is at the same time a creation of Diane Ferrier. Perhaps you will meet him some day. I am grateful to Diane for permission to use his name. Thanks are due to the Adminstrator of GPH, Terry Codling, who has supported this third volume of

Connections.

Both earlier volumes of

Connections

were printed at Action Print, Beamsville, by

Cecil Culley. Mr. C

ulley did a wonderful job producing those books, but he has now retired. Further, the size of

Connections 3

and the use of colour photographs has rendered this volunteer effort unaffordable in "hard copy," bu t lends itself well to the CD format.

Sources

The lifestories contained in

Connections 3

were compiled on the occasion of memorial services at GPH and were read publicly at that time. Families k indly provided this information and edited information that sometimes I had ga thered in conversation. The photo of Ruth Hickling and her family is from

Kith 'N Kin,

compiled and edited by Joanna McEwen, published by the Township of Oro, 1978.

August 1, 2013

I.

The Grove Park Home Story

The story of how GPH came to be built and its various stage s of development can be found in

Connections

(1968 -1998) and Connections 2 (1999-2002). The major expansion of 2002 -2004 was undertaken when Darryl Culley was Administrator. Darryl left to pursue his own business dreams, including Emergency Manag ement & Tr aining, Inc., which he established in 1998. In the fall of 2004 Terry Co dling, long -time Board member of GPH, became Administrator. In August 2013 Paul Taylor will succeed Terry, after an overlap of four months.

A few years ago John Henderson, GPH volun

teer, explained to me how GPH got its name.

How Grove Park Home got its name

GPH got its name on a Saturday afternoon, sometime between 1964 and 1966 while John Henderson and Wesley Jones (minister) were planting a cedar hedge at the churchbuilding nex t door. The church was called the "Barrie Church of Christ." There was nothing to the east of Cook St.: it was on the edg e of town. Wesley and others, like Clarence Rittenhouse, were thinking of building a retirement home. Would it be called "Barrie Retirement Home?" This seemed an uninspired name, so Wesley and John decided to call the church "Grove Park" Church of Christ, so that when the retirement home was built they could share the name "Grove Park." This story was related to me by John in the spr ing of 2008. John and his wife Una opened the Pizza Hut on Bayfield St. and have long been volunteers at GPH.

1. Retirement Living

From 2002

-2004 GPH was under renovation. The "new building" (Pine, Spruce, Willow) was constructed, the older sections got ai r -conditioning and a sprinkler system, the café area was built, Dr. McTurk's medical practice mov ed into GPH near the café, and what had formerly been Cedar wing became fourteen 14 apartment -type suites called Retirement Living. GPH proper grew from 93 reside nts to 143. Retirement Living is home to another fourteen people. Its residents have a private relationship with GPH and are not part of the C CAC placement programme. RL residents make a signifcant contribution to life at GPH.

Construction of Pine, S

pruce and Willow Building, fall 2002 15 II.

The Residents 2003-2012

The following residents lived at GPH between January 1, 2003 and Decembe r 31,

2012, ten years. These lifestories were compiled on the occasion of memo

rial services, so not included ar e the biographies of residents who arrived at GPH after Jan. 1, 2013 and who still live there. However, included are the lifesto ries of residents who lived at GPH before Jan. 1, 2013, but died before March 30 , 2013, the date that I retired as chaplain at GPH. The last lifestory entered here is that of

Marny Dignard.

Sigla:

• = resident was living at GPH on Jan. 1 st , 2003. Entry is to be found in

Connections or Connections 2.

•• = resident was living at GPH on Jan. 1 st , 2013. * = I conducted the fune ral / memorial service. /// = information unavailable

RL = Retirement Living resident

Second generation residents

: Eileen Brosko, Muriel Mattocks, Donald Webster,

Erma Dobson (daughter

-in-law of Ina Dobson); [RL] Nellie Seal's mother-in-law,

Alice S

EAL and [RL] Fern Ward's father, Albert MAW lived at GPH; Helen E

MERY'S uncle Walter HAVERCROFT lived at GPH.

A A

DAMS, Edith "Lorraine" Farrell

01/11/1915-14/04/2012

B. in Toronto, daughter of Thomas and Rhoda Farrell. Lorraine's father died at age 39 of gall-bladder illness. She was six and had two sisters, Margaret and Violet. Her mother remarried, to her father's best friend, who had been divorced. He died at age 58 and her mother in her 7 0s. Lorraine married Sydney Adams and together they raised Lynda (m. Bill Zariwny). Lynda has four sons (Chris, Rick, Jason, David) and Lorrain e kept up an active relationship with them and their children. Mr. Adams died ca. 2001. She came to live at GPH in 2004 and during that time kept up activities, remained a person of kindness and good humour. Lorraine at a great age took an 16 interest in others, including me, and our families. She always liked " the Report from the Backyard," with which I began my Wed. Bible study. Once she was late, hurried in, and asked, "Did

I miss the report from the backyard?"

Mrs. Adams had a nephew, Bob Lagase, who had a farm near Meaford some fifty and more years ago. Lorraine was cremated and is interred with her husband at Prospect

Cemetery, Toronto.

GPH: 05/07/2004

•• A

DAMS, Muriel

GPH: - A1152

•• A

IKIN, Sandra

GPH: - A1148

A

LLAN, Lucille

29/10/1916-28/08/2004

Mrs. Allan has two sons: David, in Barrie; Don, in Wasaga Beach. There may be other family.

GPH: 23/07/2004

•• A

LLAN, Valerie

GPH: - M1230

A

LLARD, Dorothy Alice Sutton

29/03/1920-27/12/2010

Sister to Florence G

OVER. Dorothy was one of the most witty residents

ever to live at GPH. Fiesty, funny, understated, always with a quip that was one step ahead of you - and then we'd have a great laugh! She endeared herself to us all. Her nephew Brian gave a eulogy at her memorial service that catches this element of her personality. At the same time, it reveals the remarkable relationship that Dorothy had with her sister Florence. Thanks to Brian for letting us have this. Bri an's remarks about his aunt Dorothy: the beginning "Dorothy was b or n in London. T he family home was on Clarke Road, k nown then as Clarke Side Road.

Family photographs show

a very happy childhood. Like many new Canadians, her father fell in love with the landscape being celebrated by the Group of Seven.

There are photograp

hs of Dorothy with her family - her parents, brother Harold, a nd sisters Ethel and Florence - at Banff, Jasper, Lake

Louise and Georgian Bay

While it was obvi

ously a happy family, Aunt Dot wa s always in the middle of the group, with the biggest smile.

Sutton family life

17 Theirs was a close family, one that valued compassion for others. There are family stories about how, during the Great Depression, our grandparents' home was known as a pla ce where hungry strangers could count on having a hot meal. But the story that Aunt Dot and my mother most often repeated was about a visit from hungry relatives, which necessitated the martyrdom of a family pet who also happened to be a turkey.

The Sutt

on family also valued hard work and being of good humour, although not always at the same time!

Late in life, Aunt Dot still referred to m

y mother as "the parlour sister someone who would happi ly entertain guests while she, Aunt Dot, toiled away in the k itchen

But even that mild reproach was

delivered in good humour. You see, there was humour in almost everything Aunt Dot did.

Marriage to Tom; pets; the nicknames

Eventually, Aunt Dot met the love of her life, Thomas Allard. He was a dashing veteran of WWII whom my mother described as looking quite a bit like Errol

Flynn.

I don't think Aunt Do

t disagreed with her on that.

Only in recent y

ears did

I learn that at first

their relationship was a challenge to my grandparents. You see,

Uncle Tom

was a divorc ed Roman Catholic.

That can't have gone over well at the

Orange Lodge.

After living in an apartment that she described as being so close to the tracks that the whole thing shook when a train went by, Aunt Dot and Uncle Tom moved to

1813 Royal Crescent,

Lo ndon, in 1947

They weren't

alone at 1813 Royal

Crescent.

It is a Sutton family

trait to love animals, especially dogs. Aunt Dot was no exception. Along the way, there were Scottish Terriers - Jock, Angus and Mistea; West Highland White Terriers - Tammy and Piper; and a Miniature

Schnauzer

- Whimsey.

Aunt Dot spent most of her working life as the s

ecretary to the Postmaster in

London.

Uncle Tom worked for t

he Department of Public Works.

They never had

children of their own, but were a devoted aunt and uncle to Elda, Jim, Carolyn and me (Brian). Early in our lives, Jim, Carolyn and I were lucky enough to live a few doors away from Aunt Dot and

Uncle Tom, on Royal Crescent.

Later, we

moved to Merlin Crescent, but that was just around the corner.

In time we left

London, as Dad's career in the federal public service took us to Delaware, Toronto, Southampton, Geraldton, Orillia, Peterborough and then back to Toronto. Visits from Aunt Dot and Uncle Tom were a special treat, and 1813

Royal Crescent was a home away fro

m home, a constant in our nomadic lives.

And for a number of reasons

- the fact that they were not only sisters, but lifelong best friends, the similarity of their appearances, and the similarity of their personalities - it was almost impossible to think of Mom without thinking of Aunt

Dot, and vice versa.

Without taking anything away from Mom, Aunt Dot was like a second mother to us. 18 Un cle Tom was fond of nicknames.

For reasons that I will never

know, Mom was "Sister Taylor

Dad was "Jackson,"

Jim was "Jimbo

Carolyn was "Creosote" (a

chemical used on railroad ties), and I was "Byron Bog" (a local swamp).

Those Christmas presents

Each year while growing up, Christmas gifts from Aunt Dot and Uncle Tom were anxiously ant icipated, especially by Jim and me. I can't really remember anything that Elda and Carolyn got.quotesdbs_dbs26.pdfusesText_32

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