Mike and Cathy Butler (Family friend)

Entered August 30, 2025 from St Thomas

Wishing you strength and peace as you journey through this time of loss. Our hearts go out to you.

Danusia Suchocki Dziedzic (Family friend and neighbour)

Entered September 3, 2025 from Nawbrook Road

Thank you for being such a wonderful friend to my late parents, Kay and Eugene Dziedzic, and especially to me.
❤️

Eulogy TADEUSZ KURZAWA
He was a hard-working man who survived many trials and tribulations.
Born and raised on a farm in Poland forcibly taken by cattle car with his family to Siberia. As a teenager, he survived cold, hunger temporary blindness and deprivation: His father and younger sister did not. Joining the military under age, fighting with the free polish under British command through Jordan, Iran, Egypt, and finally the final assault on the Nazis on Monte Casino he survived.
Taken to England after the war, working in factories, he encountering prejudice but to be fair also kindness and compassion, he survived. He met his wife Marisia a Polish refugee under British protection from Uganda, had a baby boy and moved to Montreal. Just having learned English and not speaking French Montreal was not conducive to a productive work life. The family moved to Toronto. He took any job that was offered and eventually landed in Canada Packers working in meat cutting in the freezing cold day after day. Toronto was good to him and the family together with friends and families from similar backgrounds he not only survived but thrived.
He was unstoppable even in retirement. He showed his love with his work. For examples while my families first house was being constructed my dad and I returned every night to improve on the house by adding what seemed like thousands of nails in the structure. I remember him driving from Toronto to North Bay at our second house; to paint our house and he drove back to Toronto the same day. Similarly, when my family moved to St Catharines, he drove to the house for weeks: he was already in his 80’s, to construct a pergola in our backyard.
Joining St Stanislaus Polish church in downtown Toronto, he was for over 30 years a volunteer and an active member of the choir, respected by his fellow choir members and the priests. His best days were filled with raising his voice to the glory of God.
Seventy-five years of marriage 4 grandchildren 9 great grandchildren, a loving wife son and daughter in law he has left his legacy. My dad was a hard-working man, who now rests print peacefully in the hands of God.
We are grateful for his time on this earth.
George {Jerzy) Kurzawa