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st weekeme3 f8rwwfjwap f obituary ed raymer fondly remembered by many edwin raymer a man known for his kindness his zeal for life and his exemplary christian faith died early wednesday evening at markhamstouffville hospi tal he had been fighting a courageous battle with cancer since last fall raymer who turned 90 last month lived in stouffville for the past eight years he had been active during much of that time as a volunteer driver with the canadian cancer society and the local aphasia centre making as many as 300 runs a year a member of the gideon society for almost 50 years raymer was involved in dis tributing the scriptures into local schools until shortly before he became ill last year bora on the family farm in markham and raised in dick son hill raymer attended the dickson hill public school which was eventually moved to black creek pioneer vil lage where it now stands he worked on the farm before moving to toronto in 1935 when he began a 35 year asso ciation with the wt rawleigh co he was that companys sales manage for eastern canada for 20 years a posting which resulted in his moving to montreal in 1944 upon his retirement he began a second career in real estate in the montreal area working until the mid 1980s he returned to stouffville in 1987 after the passing of his wife of 59 years elda victoria raymer raymer had no children of his own but took great delight in his nieces nephews and cousins many of whom live in the markhamstouffville uxbridge area he had 17 great great nieces and nephews he would visit rela tives across north america and maintained an ever grow ing list of friends his hospital room was filled with cards and momentoes from the endless stream of visitors he received while there raymers fervent religious faith defined his everyday approach to life he is remem bered by friends and relatives as a committed caring christ ian who was devoted to inter denominational understand ing he lived his life as a christ ian should live his life said ollie wilson of uxbridge a cousin to raymer he was a person who reached out to everyone because he had no family of his own he was a very kind godly and generous man and he was always thinking of others said vera moyer of dickson hill whose husband warren is a cousin to raymer he ed raymer with the stained glass he commissioned in memory of his wife lived his christian life without preaching he was a walking example fellow gideon cyril back of stouffvilles parkview village said raymer was dedicated to the cause of the gideons he was our oldest member and he attended all the meetings said back he was a great man to have visit the schools of all denominations raymer was the son of the late wesley and phoebe moyer raymer he was pre deceased by brothers russell and lome and by his sister olive webb the funeral for raymer is to be held at 11 am this morn ing at the stouffville mission ary church out of the mouths of babes by joan ransberry staff reporter kindergarten students from goodwood public school have got all the answers the tribune dropped into the school recently and asked a few questions johnny hutchinson everyone had an answer here are the questions and answers what do you want to be when you grow up johnny hutchinson said im going to be a cir cus player i will do the jug gling the circus pays 20 bucks anhour jasmine mathews said im growing up to be a doc tor except doctors dont make much money ill get my mom to keep giving me food jodi potter said im going to be a veterinarian ill give the pets a checkup but i dont know how to tell if a cat is sick bret klages said a police officer i will catch bad men and put them in jail i wont care what hap pens to them in jail where did the stars come from meghan bradbury said the moon has something to do with it something makes the stars disappear in the day time nobody knows what does it bret klages jasmine mathews jodi potter meghan bradbury public meeting to be held march 7 on lake water proj ect by joan ransberry staff reporter the proposed ballantraemusselman lake water project will be the subject of a public meeting slated for march 7 at 7 pm the information meeting expected to attract a large crowd will be held in the ballantrae community centre on tuesday ward 2 councillor ed lyons got full council sup port when he presented a motion calling for the public review of the plan to have a communal water system for ballantrae and musselman lake its expected that staff from the town of whitchurch-stouf- fville the region of york and project consultants will all be on hand to answer questions lyons said i would recommend that other members of council attend this meeting to become better informed about the water project he added also lyons has notified merlin dewing municipalitys chief administrative officer that he wants staff to look into debentur- ing the whole water project including the cost of frontage to the residents lyons wants staff to look into a connection system from the municipal property to residents homes or the resident could be left with the option to pay for the connection from municipal property to the connection within his own home said lyons in his appeal lyons said he wants the water tower built close to the well claiming it would be more cost effective people who do not belong to the local improvement area of the water project should pay or contribute their fair share to the water project in which case helping to reduce the cost to all res idents said lyons in other words no one gets a free ride he added in early november area residents learned that if whitchurch- stouffville council agreed to go along with the project york region would assume the well and tower costs for the mussel- man lake ballantrae water system if it was constructed this would take 21 million off the 8million price tag and reduce residents assessment rate from 1385 per foot of frontage to 769 watch for these flyers on saturday february 18 1995 biway ultramart ashbrooks 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