He completed his bachelor’s degree at University of Toronto, ON, before they were married in 1970. In 1966, he came to Canada as a student at University of Windsor in Ontario where he met his wife Resela. Joseph showed his fierce independence and resilience living with Parkinson’s disease for almost 20 years.īorn on February 20, 1946, Mayaro Bay, Trinidad and Tobago, Joseph left for Hong Kong at age 12 for high school. Joseph Wong-Sing passed away peacefully and unexpectedly on July 2, 2022, at the age of 76, at Vancouver General Hospital, BC. Michael the Archangel Church 9387 Holmes Street, Burnaby.ĭr. He will be dearly missed by all those who knew him.įuneral Mass: 10:30 am on Wednesday, Jat St.
He was a Fourth Degree Knight and Grand Knight.īill was a well-liked, easygoing, family man with a strong Catholic faith. Bill joined the Knights of Columbus and helped with organizing parish and community events. Michael the Archangel Church since the 1990s. Francis de Sales Church in the 1970s-80s and St. At 58, he retired after 42.5 years with CNR and joined the Canadian National Pensioners Association.īill and Kay were active parishioners at St. In his 30s, he worked in CNR management and was transferred to Vancouver with his family. In his 20s, he married his wife Kay and had three children. In his teens, Bill lived in Edmonton and began a lifelong career with the Canadian National Railway. He is survived by his wife of 66 years Catherine “Kay” Blair children Joyce (Richard), Robert (Allison) and Bradley (Lilly) and grandchildren Cheryl, Charlene, Jocelyn, David and Michael. William “Bill” Blair passed away on July 4, 2022, shortly after his 90th birthday. Seymour Road in North Vancouver on Tuesday July 26 at 11am. In his final months, he was sure to let others know: “I’ve had a good life.”Ī funeral mass will be held at St. Norm never forgot his humble beginnings and always had a strong sense of being blessed in life with cherished family and friends. Pius X, and supported many charitable causes. He and Maureen were very active in their parish, St. He never hesitated to offer whatever help that was needed to whomever needed it. Norm is best remembered as a selfless man who greatly valued friends and family. He had a longtime passion for Hastings Park Horse-racing and eventually co-owned his own racehorse.
He was happy tinkering around his house and painting whatever he could find in need of a fresh coat. He read his daily newspapers, stayed on top of everything, and expected opinions to be respectful, smart and well-informed. It was rarely a quiet table and that’s what he liked most about having everyone around him though he always managed to sneak away to decompress for his 8PM bath. During his youth, he formed life-long friends through the CYO and “the Beavers”(a neighbourhood group of ‘Eastend Boys’ who he enjoyed lunches with over many years.) Norm went on to have a very successful career working his way up from a clerk for CP Rail to being a manager/shareholder of Taiga Forests Products.įor 61 years of marriage, Norm was rarely without Maureen at their family home of the past 60 years in Blueridge, North Van where they raised their five children Marianne (Dennis), Norm Jr.(Joy), Joe (Janine), Tim, Suzy and welcomed seven grandchildren into the family Richard (Vanessa), Chantelle (TJ), Kylie (Nic), Noah (Van), Kalina, Kyan, Taryn.įrom his seat at the Sunday dinner table, Norm would enjoy watching his large brood talk and debate. He worked at Campbell’s Hardware to help support his mother, Mary. At the age of four, Norm lost his father, John. He grew up in East Vancouver with his older siblings Don, Louie, Pat, Jack and beloved sister Mary, all predeceased. Norman Morrison passed away at the age of 87 in the early hours of July 11, 2022, at the side of his beloved wife Maureen at home in North Vancouver. 9, 1951 predeceased by her mother, Marianna (nee STERZ), in 1994, and her father, Erich Vetter (1938), both born in Breslau Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated on August 3, 2022, at Guardian Angels Parish, at 11:00am.” “Michaela Vetter was born May 30, 1934, in Breslau, Germany (now Wroclaw, Poland), arrived in Saint John, NB, Canada on Feb.