How They Lived
Many people will have seen — or own — artworks by Suzanne Barrow.
Suzanne, who died on Jan. 20, loved her husband, but he just edged out her love for art.
She began painting in Winnipeg and continued after retiring to Gimli. Her art, which was especially known for depicting beautiful sky scenes, was a fixture at the Gimli Art Club on the waterfront and in the annual Wave art tour in the Interlake.
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Read more about Suzanne.
Mitch Davidson played several sports but he loved volleyball above all.
Mitch, who was 67 when he died on Jan. 31, not only played the sport, but he went on to become an international referee.
He was a referee at both the London and the Beijing Olympics.
Read more about Mitch.
Dr. Norman Goldberg was a much-loved pediatrician for decades.
Norman, who died on Jan. 4 at 76 years of age, not only treated children, but was also a founder of the local Ronald McDonald House and served on other boards including the Manitoba and Canadian Pediatric Societies, the Society for Manitobans with Disabilities (now Manitoba Possible), and the Learning Disabilities Association of Manitoba.
And, for his young patients who had problems sleeping at night, he invented and prescribed “monster spray” which they could use to spray under their beds.
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Frank DeCock developed muscular dystrophy while a teen but didn’t let it stop him.
Frank, who was 86 when he died in November, was a lab technician when he realized he wanted to go back to school to study hospital administration.
He managed hospitals in Rosthern, Saskatchewan, and then Swan River before joining the Manitoba Health Services Commission. He rose to be associate deputy minister of health and then-Premier Gary Filmon appointed him deputy health minister.
After retiring, Frank acted as a consultant with a new Winnipeg Regional Health Authority health system support facility, volunteered with an organization connecting senior executives with First Nation businesses, and was interim CEO of Jocelyn House.
Read more about Frank.
Mel Belluk first taught as a teacher in one-room schoolhouses in Victoria Beach and Garson.
Mel, who died on Jan. 28, at 95, went on to become principal at Springfield Collegiate, Radisson Elementary, and Murdoch MacKay Collegiate.
He taught his staff non-violent communication and was known for taking shotguns and knives away from angry students without even thinking of calling the RCMP.
Read more about Mel.
Isaac Gotfried lived to almost 100, but he could have died as a teen.
That’s because Isaac, who died on Feb. 3, was in several Nazi concentration camps — escaping one — during the Second World War.
He even testified against his Nazi captors at the Buchenwald trials in Dachau in 1947.
Isaac later came to Canada and, after retiring from London Life, he went on to speak to more than 25,000 Canadians in schools, museums, and at conferences about the horrors of the Holocaust.
Read more about Isaac.
Marston Grindey worked for the Manitoba government for 40 years.
Marston, who was 80 when he died on Jan. 29, did various jobs to fund his studies at university, and first became a social worker in Dauphin.
He then became a probation officer and, after getting his Master of Social Work, later became executive director of Addictions Foundation of Manitoba, Western Regional Operations in Brandon, and then executive director of Manitoba Justice’s Regional Courts in Brandon.
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Until next time, I hope you continue to write your own life’s story.
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