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wWY'F E MýR~WBDNE8MAY, JUY 1,J9934GE 7 PAGE SE.VEN In'respect -of an, ordinary Man Ho was my father-in-law. Firet of ail. To lothers, ho was fýther, grandfather, uncle, brother, brother-in-law, cousin, comrade in arma, neighbourfellow AA member, friend. o As a father-in-law, ho was cWallenging, funiny, joyous, confulsing9, welcoming, quarreleome, a crusty rnpwith a maihaIlow heart. grHo feared the. strango, -and sometimes strangors, yet would b. the firat to offer help to a Iost stray. Was ho somoone special? By today's measure of greatness, no, ho was an "ordimr, everyday, Canadian." That in itsolf made him spocial. Ho died last Thursday in Princess Margaret_____________ ____________________ Hospital in Toronto, a soldier who fought to the end but lost that one last battie, ,as muet wo ail But ho lost it with only one weapon remaining - dignity - and that___ ho kept to the end. We buried hlm Monday beside hie wife of 46 years ini a cemeteiy in Clwalottetown,, Prince Edward Island. Froda had died lasIt December, at a time when Teed was too battered-by hie own ilinese to see her home. But on Monday, hby a tattered tarp covering a moumd of red, red -soil, a young man clad in a kilt piped out Amazing Grace. Teed had returned home. Hio nicknamo, Teedy, was* tagged on him when'hie youngest brother was a toddler and couldn't pronounce Sweety. The naine stuck This, in a time and place when people were known more by nicknames than by Christan naines. ie brothers: Tuddy, Googe, Buzzy, PLiddin', Art, Roiy The one sister in this bunch was called -- what elso? - Sie.Am Ho could trace bis Canadian roots back one.Eme hundred and fifty years on one side, and two hundred and flfty on the other. Ho was born fify-three years after Confederation. Yet, ho nover overcame hie frustration at bein A unable to pin down proof positive of bis paterna l I grandfather's birth, life, death. Records of 'Black Neil' Macinnon are scanty. Several times in past years, FMH AT MEOLE 0D LTD , .JVNE 327,19«2 Teed was sure ho hal pinned hlm down.Bach effort Fire destrcyed the. main bmfling et4his cannmg acOeyesashad in 193 by, Metcalfa feU short. Foods. In 1943,, the. fatory was purhased by Stokely Van, Camp which ciiazqgd its nome to During the Second World War, Teed and hie six CoMFCOd5 in the. 1980a. I. pleut on Breck Ot. N. c1 mi1990 brothers served in the Canadian uniform at the saine timo. The oni casualty, John Roland, died a few monthe after the war of tuberculosis. It was a cruel as the tuneral Procession goesb otoev'11n And how aIl traffic - witli theexception of on. h~bcue cf ti.rp ncos nti.nma fhfdrenatteding SehoaL visitor from Maine -- wil ,pull over until the Procession passes. And construction workers will lay down thoir tools and doff their hardhats i a salute. This is how they treat strangor and friend alike. No 100 YEAES AGO wonder Teedy called thIIsa hie home. No wonder, from the Frday, Julyl1, 1892 edition d the. his wish was tobe buriedthere, ina Plot bought andW11YHOIL paid for on hie second last journey home, six years M * m10 dg ag h beea faid he alingaletlie traha ut 1t Whitb earlier.Jae h mwukMbatri gewUg amth rcsa S ity The. wonder is ho hadnt fobowed hie heart there* Lt. Col.Michael 0Monovan > e reb*ring afte rp5yea r leadng -tii 34th Battalion cf year earier.miitiate tii. Niagara camp. terribly.lie.Axidraw IK Rmis seling all-wool cSarptsfS- 12-V42cents par yard. Ishail miss hlm ___________________________________