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Tony Ruffer ✵ 1970-1995

Name at birth:    Anthony Andreas Ruffer 
Date of birth:    25/07/70   
Place of birth:   New Westminster, BC. Canada 
Date of death:    21/08/1995 
Place of death:   White Rock, BC, Canada 
Place of burial:  Tony was cremated in White Rock, BC.
                  His ashes were placed in the ocean.

Submitted by: Angela and Petra Ruffer (exec@whistlerweb.com)

Requiem For Tony

Although we mourn his passing
Let us celebrate his life, Remembering all the good times
Of which his years were rife.

He had not an enemy,
For he made of each a friend,
He was a young free spirit,
Let not his memory end.

He so loved the great outdoors,
The high mountains and the seas,
His life shall be remembered
In the waves and in the trees.

And now we here are gathered
On the constant rolling sea
To let the winds and waves he loved
Care for him in eternity.

For Angela, Horst and Petra.
Tony, my Son we miss you so deeply, every day. forever Mom.
You are forever missed by: your Mom, your Dad, Your Sister Petra; Your Oma Hartl, und Oma Ruffer, Your Tante Beate, Tante Mary, Tante Sonya, Tante Ursula, Tante Irene, Onkel Richard, Onkel Otto, Onkel Franz, Onkel Heinz, Onkel Peter Ruffer, onkel Peter Kaufman, Cousin Rick, Cousin Heidi, Cousin Tina, Cousin Richy, Cousin Tommy, Cousin Chad and Cousin Ina.

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Mabel Theresa Phillips ✵ 1903-1998

Name at birth:    Mabel Theresa Perrin 
Date of birth:    20 August 1903 
Place of birth:   North Augusta, Ontario, Canada 
Date of death:    01 April 1998 
Place of death:   Nepean, Ontario, Canada 
Place of burial:  Zion Cemetery, Marmora Township, Malone, Ontario, Canada

Submitted by: Ralph S. W. Phillips (rphillip98@aol.com)

A true servant of the Lord
Blessed Assurance, Jesus is Mine!

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Gerald Edward Paige ✵ 1963-1994


Name at birth:	Gerald Edward Paige
Date of birth:	05 04 1963
Place of birth:	British Columbia, Canada
Date of death:	29 06 1994
Place of death:	Toronto, Canada
Resting place:	Ashes interred in Toronto
Submitted by:	Clinton Wood

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Justice Otto ✵ 1935-1995


Name at birth:	Justice Otto
Date of birth:	14 February 1935
Place of birth:	Aliwal-North, South Africa
Date of death:	30 May 1995
Place of death:	Ajax, Canada
Resting place:	Oshawa, Ontario, Canada
Submitted by:	Vince Otto (Jusotto@ibm.net)

In loving memory of my father,   
   
	Rev. J. Otto   
    
	Born: 14 February 1935    
	Died: 30 May 1995    
     
  "I fought the good fight, I ran    
  the race..."    
     
  You are the stars, you are    
  the evening breeze, you are     
  the fragrance of a wildflower,    
  because you are with God.

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Daniel McIlravey ✵ 1937-1996


Name at birth:	Daniel McIlravey
Date of birth:	27 01 1937
Place of birth:	Luton, England
Date of death:	22 12 1996
Place of death:	Dunnville, Ontario, Canada
Resting place:	Victoria Lawn Cemetery, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada
Submitted by:	Arlene McIlravey (Arlene@sympatico.ca)

Daniel McIlravey passed away Sunday December 22, 1996. President of Teamsters Union Local 879, Hamilton Ontario. President of Hamilton Port Council, Executive of Teamsters Joint Council no 52. Predeceased by his son Brett, Mother Ellen, Father Daniel, and sister Ellen Duffy. Survived by his loving wife Arlene, son Troy and daughters Shelly McCann, Dawn, Susan Duffin and Katherine. Proud grandfather of John McCann Jr., Connor and Quinn, Mackenzie, Andrew and his wee Angel Ainsley.

Do not stand by my grave and weep;
I am not there. I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow
I am the diamond glints in the snow
I am the sunlight on ripened grain
I am the gentle autumn’s rain
When you awaken in the mornings hush
I am the swift uplifting rush
Of quiet birds in circled flight
I am the soft stars that shine at night
Do not stand at my grave and cry
I am not there .I did not die.

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Shelly Stokoe ✵ 1967 – 2014 (Daughter)

Jerry Earle Mathias ✵ 1945-1995


Name at birth:	JERRY EARLE MATHIAS
Date of birth:	25/06/1945
Place of birth:	HUNTSVILLE ONTARIO
Date of death:	13/11/1995
Place of death:	THORNHILL ONTARIO
Resting place:	BARRIE CREMATORIUM IN ONTARIO
Submitted by:	TONYA ELIZABETH MATHIAS(NURSE91113288@aol.com)

“DID YOU EVER KNOW THAT YOU’RE MY HERO

AND EVERYTHING I’D LIKE TO BE
I COULD FLY HIGHER THAN AN EAGLE
‘CAUSE YOU ARE THE WIND BENEATH MY WINGS”

“I WILL FOREVER LOVE YOU DAD, AS YOU WERE
THE GREATEST GIFT ANY GIRL COULD HAVE EVER HAD”.

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Sharon Alynne Mair ✵ 1956-1998

Name at birth:    Sharon Alynne McDonald 
Date of birth:    October 6 1956 
Place of birth:   Sault Ste. Marie  Canada 
Date of death:    January 31 1998 
Place of death:   Sault Ste. Marie  Canada 
Place of burial:  Port Finley Cemetery, St. Joe's Island.
                 (Near Sault Ste. Marie) Ontario Canda

Submitted by: Sasha Mair (Jessica_Rabbit01@hotmail.com)

The woman being reconized is my mother. She was deaf. But didn’t need ears to be the perfect mom. She graduated Valedictorian of her class in the Belleville School for the Deaf. She had so much love and was one of the most well loved people in her life time. Over 1,500 people came to the funeral. She was beautiful and understanding. And was always there. When she died she was only 41. Right now I am 15.
No one can know how much I need her guidance and miss her. We weren’t expecting her to die. She had a brain haemmorrhage.
At the funeral I did not cry. I didn’t cry until that March. We have a memorial bowl for her every may in her name. I’d give my heart to see her again. Even hell is worth seeing her again. She was one of those people. Her heart was so pure so loving. She didn’t deserve to die. It wasn’t her time. I can feel that. I loved her with all my heart. If you (the reader) knew her you would’ve loved her too. I’ve written a poem in her memory. This winter I have written a sum of 56 poems. Here is one of them.

THE TEARS I KNOW

Her love was something to look forward to,
It was something that I once knew,
The feel of her love in my heart,
Is something that will never part,
Her heart always in the right place,
The glow of love in her face,
The warmth in her eyes,
While she wiped away my cries,
My heart’s pain will not cease,
But in time will decease,
Every so often I’ll think of my mother,
And know there is no other.

I hope you read this. And if you ever see a person signing. Please think of the woman who acheived it all.

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Michael Lynch ✵ 1944-1991


Name at birth:	Michael Lynch
Date of birth:	20/08/1944
Place of birth:	Dunn, North Carolina, USA
Date of death:	09/07/1991
Place of death:	Toronto, Canada
Resting place:	Toronto, Canada
Submitted by:	Gerald Hannon (gerald.hannon@sympatico.ca)

Michael Lynch: Gay activist, poet, academic, editor from 1981 of the international Gay Studies Newsletter; active in many community efforts (The Gay Alliance Toward Equality [before he’d ever had sex with a man]; the Committee to Defend John Damien; Gay Fathers of Toronto; Whitman in Ontario Conference, 1980; Wilde ’82; Sex and the State, 1985). For many years a frequent writer for The Body Politic, a gay liberation magazine in Toronto. Wrote on many subjects, but his early pieces on AIDS (“Living with Kaposi’s,” paired with a piece by his friend Bill Lewis in a 10-page feature on AIDS) were particularly important. They contributed to the more humane, less panic-driven approach to the disease in Canada. Michael was later a founder of the AIDS Committee of Toronto (1983), AIDS Action Now! and the Toronto AIDS Memorial (from 1988), the Toronto Centre for Lesbian and Gay Studies (1990), and Gay Fathers Toronto. His collection of poems, These Waves of Dying Friends, was published in 1989. Michael died of the disease in 1991. His son, Stefan Lynch, lives in San Francisco, and carries on his father’s activism—he has been very involved in COLAGE, an organization for the children of lesbian and gay parents.

Michael could play as avidly as he worked, and would want to be remembered as (probably) the first gay academic ever to be a nude centre-fold subject for bothHoncho and Mandate, and as a sweaty, shirtless 5 a.m. reveller at Stages (Toronto), The Saint (New York) and the Ice Palace (Fire Island). He spent hours, too, at his grand piano and harpsichord, honing his style for Bach or Schubert, or accompanying friends’ renditions of the classics of torch. And he loved to host. Many friendships were celebrated over intimate dinners he cooked with panache, and at lavish soirees where he presided as “diva divine.”

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Larry Liorti ✵ 1959-1997

Name at birth:     
Date of birth:    15/05/59 
Place of birth:   Toronto, Canada 
Date of death:    25/03/97 
Place of death:   Burks’ Falls, Canada 
Place of burial:  Assumption Cemetery, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

Submitted by: Anna Liorti (cirtem1@aol.com)

My dear brother, Larry, almost a year has gone by since
that terrible accident. When you left us on that day, I
never would have imagined that it would be the last time
we would see your smile. The last time we would hear you
talk, the last time you would say “don’t worry I’ll fix it”.

I will never forget the moment I got the call that you had
died, I couldn’t believe it, I didn’t understand it. How
could something so horrible happen to us. It couldn’t be
real. I went through this year in a state of shock with a
terrible feeling of waiting. Always waiting for you to walk
back into my life.

Your beautiful daughters are growing up, Michelle and
Gabrielle are now four and are as energetic as ever.
Victoria is now seven and looks exactly like you. You would
be proud of your girls, I can only wish that you were here
to watch them grow, and be here for all the special times.

I can only imagine what God had in mind for you to take
you away so suddenly at such a young age and away from
your family. I pray that one day we will all be together
again in a better place. Until then you will be in my
heart and in my thoughts.

I Love You Forever…..your little sister.

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Eunice Robin Nabwami Kiggundu ✵ 1952-1995


Name at birth:	Eunice Robin Nabwami
Date of birth:	30 Nov 1952
Place of birth:	Mugongo, Natete, Kampala, Uganda
Date of death:	03 Oct 1995
Place of death:	Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Resting place:	Pinecrest Cemetery, Ottawa
Submitted by:	Mathias Muleme (mule2750@mach1.wlu.ca)

Aunt Eunice was the loving and loved wife of Dr. Moses Kiggundu of Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, mother of son Andrew J. and daughter Jacqueline C. Kiggundu. She survived by sisters Jessica and Susan and brothers Sam, Willy and Godfrey Lumala, all of Kampala. Born to the late Mr. Samuel Lumala and Mrs. Margaret Lumala of Mugongo, Natete, Kampala, Uganda. Aunt Eunice was someone who never failed to bring a smile to the face of anyone she met. Her determination is shown by her achievement of a Bachelor of Arts Degree from the University of Ottawa in 1994. After a four-year battle with cancer, she died peacefully at the Elizabeth Bruyere Health centre in Ottawa on the morning of October 3, 1995.

We love you Aunt Eunice, may you rest in Eternal Peace.

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