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Tuesday, March 26, 2013 Trail Times
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OBITUARIES BEFUS (BITZ), ESTHER LYDIA — October 23, 1914 - March 15, 2013 Our dear “little Mom” has gone home to be with Jesus. Esther was predeceased by Adam, her husband of 58 years; her daughter Sharon Louise Graw; her infant great-granddaughter, Amanda Janette Oke; her parents Christina (Neumueller) and Jacob Bitz; her brothers Jacob Bitz, Philip Bitz, Johnny Bitz, Ray Bitz, Albert Bitz and Art Bitz; her sisters, Annie Hertz, Minnie Schlaht, Bertha Hahn and Martha Job. She is survived by her daughter Carol Joan Dieterman (Befus); her son-in-law Koert Dieterman (who she loved like a son); her brother Gust Bitz; her grandchildren, Barb Oke (Terry), Paul Dieterman, Barry Graw, Denise Kamieniecki (Wayne), Keith Graw (Arlene); her great- grandchildren, Ashley Carleton (Steve), Courtney Oke, Kalinda, Slayde and Vegas Kamieniecki and Koert Graw. Esther was born in South-Western Saskatchewan, and grew up on the family farm at Sandy Point, Saskatchewan. As a young girl she worked in Carbon, Alberta and then moved to Calgary where she met her husband, Adam. They married April 4, 1942. They raised their daughters there and after 58 years together, after the passing of her husband, she moved to Fruitvale, B.C., to be with her daughter and son-in-law. Her final years were spent at Columbia View Lodge, Trail, B.C. Through her married years she was a housewife. Her garden and flower beds were her pride and joy and the envy of the neighborhood. She also loved baking and the proper recipe of her famous chocolate cake has yet to be discovered. She loved her grandchildren and great- grandchildren dearly and had a great relationship with all of them. After Adam’s retirement they enjoyed travelling by bus tours in the U.S. and Canada and enjoyed seeing Disneyland, Vegas, Reno, Hawaii and Alaska. Esther will be cremated and a Memorial Service will be held at the Trail Alliance Church, 3365 Laburnum Drive on Wednesday, March 27 at 1:00 pm with Reverend Ken Siemens officiating. Following that, she will be taken to Calgary to be buried next to her husband at the Queens Park Cemetery following a service in the chapel there. Jordan Wren of Alternatives Funeral and Cremation Services™ has been entrusted with arrangements. Heartfelt thanks to Dr. E. McCoid for her loving and compassionate care and to the staff at Columbia View Lodge for making Mom’s last home a comfortable and loving one. As an expression of sympathy, donations in Esther’s name would be appreciated to either the Recreation Dept. of CVL at 2920 Laburnum Drive, Trail, V1R 4N2 or to the Trail Hospice Society at Suite 7, Kiro Wellness Centre, 1500 Columbia Avenue, Trail, V1R 1J9. You are invited to leave a personal message of condolence at the family’s online register at www.myalternatives.ca
LONG JOURNEY COMPLETE THE CANADIAN PRESS/ FRED CHARTRAND
Hundreds of supporters gather to welcome a group of young aboriginal people who arrived after they traveled 1,600 km on foot from the James Bay Cree community of Whapmagoostui, Quebec to arrive on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Monday.
ANTHONY LEWIS
Journalist was a Pulitzer Prize winner THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BOSTON - Two-time Pulitzer winner Anthony Lewis, whose New York Times column championed liberal causes for three decades, died Monday. He was 85. Lewis was married to Margaret Marshall, former chief justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. She retired in 2010 to spend more time with her husband after he was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. A court spokeswoman confirmed his death. Lewis worked for 32 years as a columnist for The New York Times, taking up causes such as free speech, human rights and constitutional law.
His Pulitzers came during his years as a reporter. He won his first in 1955 for defending a Navy civilian falsely accused of being a communist sympathizer, and he won again in 1963 for reporting on the Supreme Court. His acclaimed 1964 book, “Gideon’s Trumpet,” told the story of a petty thief whose fight for legal representation led to a landmark Supreme Court decision. Lewis saw himself as a defender of decency, respect for law and reason against a tide of religious fundamentalism and extreme nationalism. His columns railed against the Vietnam
War, Watergate, apartheid in South Africa and Israeli settlements in the West Bank and Gaza. He wrote his final “Abroad at Home” column for The Times on Dec. 15, 2001, warning against the U.S. fearfully surrendering its civil liberties in the wake of the terrorist attacks three months earlier. “The hard question is whether our commitment to law will survive the new sense of vulnerability that is with us all after Sept. 11,” he wrote. “It is easy to tolerate dissent when we feel safe.” Gail Collins, then the editorial page editor of the
Times, said when Lewis resigned that he had been an inspiration. “His fearlessness, the clarity of his writing and his commitment to human rights and civil liberties are legendary,” Collins said. “And he’s also one of the kindest people I have ever known.” “Gideon’s Trumpet” became a legal classic, telling the story of Clarence Earl Gideon, whose case resulted in the creation of the public defender systems across the nation. In Gideon v. Wainwright, the high court ruled that criminal defendants are entitled to a lawyer even if they cannot afford one.
JOE WEIDER
Bodybuilding guru helped promote Schwarzenegger THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES - Joe Weider, a legendary figure in bodybuilding who helped popularize the sport worldwide and played a key role in introducing a charismatic young weightlifter named Arnold Schwarzenegger to the world, died Saturday. Weider, who was born in Montreal, was 93. Weider’s publicist, Charlotte Parker, told The Associated Press that the bodybuilder, publisher and promoter died of heart failure at his home in Los Angeles’ San Fernando Valley. “I knew about Joe Weider
long before I met him,” Schwarzenegger, who tweeted the news of his old friend’s death, said in a lengthy statement posted on his website. “He was the godfather of fitness who told all of us to be somebody with a body. He taught us that through hard work and training we could all be champions.” A bodybuilder with an impressive physique himself, Weider became better known in later years as a behind-thescenes guru to the sport. He popularized bodybuilding and spread the message of health and fitness worldwide with such publications
as Muscle & Fitness, Flex and Shape. Schwarzenegger himself is the executive editor of Muscle & Fitness and Flex. He created one of bodybuilding’s pre-eminent events, the Mr. Olympia competition, in 1965, adding to it the Ms. Olympia contest in 1980. He also relentlessly promoted Schwarzenegger, who won the Mr. Olympia title a then-record seven times. “Every sport needs a hero, and I knew that Arnold was the right man,” he said. Weider brought Schwarzenegger to the United States early in his
career, where he helped train the future governor of California as well as aided him in getting into business. Schwarzenegger also said Weider helped land him his first movie role, in the forgettable film “Hercules in New York,” by passing off the Austrian-born weightlifter to the producers as a German Shakespearean actor. “Joe didn’t just inspire my earliest dreams; he made them come true the day he invited me to move to America to pursue my bodybuilding career,” the actor said in his statement. “I will never forget his generosity.”
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