HEALE, Robert Beaumont Hamel
Death Notice - Toronto Star, January 22, 2000 - Section A, Page 24
Bob of Cannington, ON, formerly of Richmond, QC, born in St. John's, NF, entered into rest at Ross Memorial Hospital, Lindsay on Wedneday, January 19, 2000 in his 84th year. Beloved husband of Maisie (Parsons) Heale and loving father of Bob and wife Verna'lyn' (Morrow) of Port Perry, Shirley and husband Elmer Cain of Kelowna, BC, and Gordon of Ayer's Cliff, QC. Dearly remembered by grandchildren: Bob (Nancy Elifritz) and Tom Heale; Tracy (Jeremy Lutz), Terry (Janet Piper) and Heather Cain; great-grandchildren: Nathan, Gavin and Alison Lutz; sisters: Laura (the late George Findlay & Russell Ross), Pearl (the late Danny Guegueirre & Albert Johnson) and Marj (Donald Bruce); sister-in-law Betty (Woodfield) Heale, and many nieces and nephews, also numerous relatives in Bryant's Cove and St. John's, NF. Predeceased by parents John Walter Clarke and Mabel Carter (Bishop) Heale, brother Walter Herbert and infant sister Ethel Frances. Life member of the Royal Canadian Legion. Regimental No. 100 of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment, WWII. Funeral service in the Chapel of Thorne Funeral Home in Cannington on Saturday, January 22, at 2:00 p.m. Friends will be received at 1:00 p.m. Cremation. Memorial donations may be made to the Heart and Stroke Foundation.
(I have been told that he was a Captain at the time of his discharge but I can't find any paper work to confirm or deny that fact. A picture of him appears in "More Fighting Newfoundlanders" on Page 528 (the picture was courtesy of the Daily News) and has his rank as a Lieutenant at the time. He is in the back row on the right.
To explain his middle names, he was named after an Uncle Robert William Heale who was wounded at Beaumont Hamel on July 1, 1916 and died the 3rd. My father-in-law was born in October of 1916 shortly after his father received news of his brothers death.)