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This is the very first 100th birthday that
I've ever attended and it was a beautiful day. Here are the pictures
I took at the event...
Alta Fern Crewe
The telegram from the Queen
From the Prime Minister of Canada
From the Premier of Ontario
And here is Fern Crewe cutting her birthday
cake :-)
Mother and daughter and on right the chef
And the waiter is from Chile
Fern Crewe's 100th Birthday Party, 31 October
2005
Back Row: Victoria, Craig, Michael, Morgana,
Robin, Dylan, Savannah, Grant, Vitorhya
Front Row: Alex & Ella, Verity & Olivia, Harold, Fern, Nola, Derby &
Devonshire
Friends of Fern
Crewe
are invited
to join the family in an Irish Wake, following the funeral, in the
Solarium at the Boulevard Club.
Alta Fern Gleeson Crewe
31 October 1905 – 17 February 2008
at the age
of 102 has gone to join her husband, Grant Crewe, her parents, Angus
Bruce Gleeson and Margaret Adelaide Peet, of South Buxton, her
granddaughter Kathleen, her brother Ivan Gleeson (Laura Gosnell) of
Chatham, sister Pearl (Bertram Wright) of Merlin, all her in-laws and
many others she knew and loved. Those who will miss her but celebrate
her life are her sister Ola (John Duncan) of Florida, and her only child
Nola Crewe and son-in-law Harold Nelson, her grandson Derbyshire Crewe,
his wife Vitoryha Shields, their children, Grant and Devon; Kathleen’s
two children, Savannah and Dylan; her granddaughter Morgana Crewe and
husband Michael Kozurok; her granddaughter Verity Crewe-Nelson and
husband Alexander Austriaco and their daughters, Ella and Olivia; her
granddaughter Victoria Crewe-Nelson, her husband Craig Moore and their
son Graeme; and many nephews and nieces.
A talented woman who loved and excelled in sports,
the Boulevard Club was her home away from home since 1932 (known then as
the Parkdale Canoe Club) when she married and moved to Toronto. Fern
enjoyed both work and play, and from her early days as a teacher in a
one-room schoolhouse, through a variety of careers, Fern returned to
work as a curling pro when her husband died in 1965 and continued
working until she was 85. Living independently in her Parkdale
apartment, bridge, curling, oil painting, bowling, travel and her family
occupied her years in retirement until at the age of 97 she moved to
Chester Village following a stroke.
She will
rest at the home of her daughter at 74 Riverdale Avenue, Toronto on
Wednesday 20 February 2008 and friends are invited to call between 2:00
and 9:00 p.m. Her funeral will take place at the Wycliffe College
Chapel, 5 Hoskin Avenue, Toronto at 11 a.m. on Thursday 21 February
2008. She will be interred with Grant at the Erie Cemetery, Wheatley,
Ontario.
Fern loved
flowers, but would also appreciate contributions to the Heart & Stroke
Fund in her memory. |
