Zurich Citizens News, 1965-02-04, Page 7THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4 1965
PAGE SEVEN
Deceased Rayfield Man Was Active
In Many Ways; Good Church Worker
There passed away in Clinton behind him a record of unstint-
Hospital on Thursday, January
21, a life-long resident of Stan-
ley Township in the person of
Edmund Alfred Westlake, in his
80th year. Born on January 27,
1885, be was the son of the late
Edmund Westlake and Eliza-
beth Smith, and spent all of his
earlier life on the farm on which
:he was born.
In December, 1912, he mar-
ried Maude M. Nicholson, who
predeceased him in November,
1921. In June, 1925, he married
Grace A. Penhale, who died in
August, 1959.
In 1938 he retired from farm
life and built a fine new home
in Bayfield where he resided
until the time of his death. He
had been in his usual health
until Tuesday when he suffered
a heavy stroke and was taken
to Clinton Hospital.
He was associated with the
Gospel Hall, Clinton.
He was always alert and took
an interest in all the activities
of the village, having served on
the school board and took a
very keen interest in the ceme-
tery company. He was elected
to that board in 1934 and was
president from 1942 to 1944, af-
ter which time he became sec-
retary -treasurer. In 1963 he re.
hired from that post, which he
felt he could no longer fill, ow-
ing to the winter weather con-
ditions and his own health. In
relinquishing this post he left Trenton.
ing service to the company in
contributing many hours of su-
persvision and work at the cern-
etery. He knew the place like
a book and due to his efforts
many relatives of plot owners
were contacted and the plots.
put on perpetual care. He took
great pride in having everything
in order and many a plot own-
er's wishes, expressed to him,
were carried out after they had
passed away. He made a chart
of the plan of the cemetery and
began recording the burials on
it in 1947.
He leaves to mourn one son,
Gladwin E., on the home farm,
and one granddaughter, Mrs.
Joe Chapman (Ann), and a great
granddaughter, Joanne, Goder-
ich; one sister, Mrs. Rosanna
Scotchmer, Bayfield, and one
brother, Thomas Westlake, Bay-
field.
Burial was from the West-
lake funeral home, Zurich, on
Sunday, January 24, 1965, with
interment in the Bayfield'Cem-
etery.
Pallbearers were Laurence
Talbot, Russell Grainger, Tom
Penhale, Bob Turner, Gordon
Westlake, Mose Martin.
Flower -bearers: Walter West-
lake and John Keys.
Those attending from a dis-
tance were: Mr. and Mrs. Laur-
ence Talbot, Ancaster; Mr. El-
gin Fassel, Milwaukee, Wis.;
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Deichert,
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With his usual superb sense ialist and part imp. He was
ruthless, and he wept easily.
He was a hundred other things,
just as contradictory.
of timing, Winston Churchill
chose to die during a rather
dull winter period when it was
possible to attract attention of
the entire world without fear of
anyone stealing the scene from
It was time to go. There is
nothing more pitiable than a
great man reduced to dotage
and senility. He was spared
this.
Despite the avalanche of an-
ecdotes and eulogies and re-
prints of his spechees, 1 don't
think there was deep and wide-
spread sorrow at his demise.
Certainly, there was none of
the heart -in -throat grief that ac-
companied the death of Presi-
dent Kennedy.
It was more of a nostalgic
sadness, a sense of the loss of
an institution. One can im-
agine the English feeling like
this when Queen Victoria died,
after 60 -odd years on the throne.
Quite a man was Sir Winston.
And just that. Not a super-
man, but a man.
And that was why he was
able to seize and shake and
straighten the hearts of the
free world, with his courage
and his tears, his defiance and
his prayers, ' during those days
when. Europe, and the world,
were threatened with "a thou-
sand years of darkness".
Most of us have several ele-
ments in our character. Church-
ill was a kaleidoscope of the
colors of life. He was reaction-
ary and reformer; he was earth-
ly realist and poet; he was
dreamer and doer; he was self -
fish and selfless; he was arro-
gant and humble. He was part
pirate, part phophet, part imper-
Bill McAdams Is
New President of
EUB Men's Group
Evangelical United Brithren
men elected Bill McAdams as
president for 1965, with Russell
Grainger as vice-president; El-
wood Truemner, secretary, and
Harold Finlay, treasurer, at the
January meeting held last Wed-
nesday night.
Interesting discussion on cur-
rent questions was led by the
Rev. M. Shatto, and actively
participated in by members and
guests.
Musical numbers were pre-
sented by Carold and Marilyn
Gascho and Don Oesch and Don
Truemner. A song -fest was led
by Leroy O'Brien with Mrs. Mil-
ton Oesch at the piano.
The next meeting is scheduled
for the second Wednesday in
February.
I was 19 when the "phoney
war" ended, and the German
legions smashed through Bel-
gium, and life suddenly became
very real. And I shall never
forget the thrill, the sense of
hope and of resolution, that
surged through us when the
lion's growl rasped ever the At-
lantic on the airwaves, "We
shall never surrender". It's dif-
ficult to realize that he was 65
then, an age when most men
are retiring from life and the
struggle.
I saw the old fire-eater once,
and was almost trampled to
death in the process. It was on
an airstrip in Normandy, in the
summer of 1944, a few weeks
after the invasion.
We were drawn up on parade
in the dust and heat, officers in
front, other ranks in the rear,
and we stood there, muttering
curses, for half an hour.
Suddenly a little two-seater
scout plane popped over the
horizon and squatted 60 feet in
front of us. The pilot climbed
out We could see his air-vice-
marshall's stripes and grumbled
our disgust for all brass. Then
the back cockpit opened and a
vast, cherubic visage, Ivith a
cigar in it, beamed at us.
He came out of the thing like
a baby whale coming out of a
chicken's egg. He stood on the
wing, grinning. He stuck up
two fingers in the world-famous
V-sign, but with just a sugges-
tion of the service -man's naugh-
ty gesture which looked much
the same but meant something
quite different.
Then he waved, an embrac-
ing
mbraceing wave that said, "Come on
in closer". Our total comple-
ment of officer pilots was al-
most wiped out when the rear
ranks surged through, around
and over us, to cluster within
touching distance of the old
war-horse.
He talked for five minutes,
earthly vocabulary Caesar em-
ployed when addressing his le-
gions. And then he was off,
the incredibly foolish and gal-
lant old man, hopping to an-
other airstrip, risking his skin
to have a look at us and let us
have a look at him.
And human he was! My fav-
orite story is the one involving
Lady Astor, the hard-nosed,
asp tongued old aristrocrat. She
became enraged during an ar-
gument with Churchill, and
fired what she thought was the
parting shot, "If you were my
husband, I'd poison your cof-
fee". To which the great man
replied promptly and politely,
"Madame, if you were my wife,
I'd drink it".
We shall not see his like
again.
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