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Bonnell 2024 résidant dans la province Ontario pour le détail des funérailles.
Our Prince of Words
We said farewell on January 26th to our precious Bill, husband of Clare for 51 years, father to Suyin (DiPasquale) and Johnathan, father-in-law to Norm, Grandpa to Emma and William and brother to Pat and Doug (deceased).
Bill was born in Schumacher, now part of Timmins, and grew up with a love of ‘the bush’, moving regretfully to urban life in Richmond Hill when he was 11. During his life he experienced living in London (UK), Hong Kong and Chicago where he was involved in community development, and in Scarborough from 1985, settling happily in Cobourg in 2016. He always took care of his health from the age of 15 when he started a life-long practice of weight lifting. He was an honours philosophy graduate from Trent University.
Bill loved the magic of the written word his whole life. He was a master of the evocative metaphor and had several poems published in both UK and Canadian literary magazines. While caring for our domestic life, he wrote speeches, funding proposals, educational material and crime fiction for which he twice received honourable mention for the Golden Dagger Award. Macmillan Canada published a unique cookbook of recipes that he imagined Sherlock Holmes would have eaten on his adventures.
A deeply spiritual man his love of books included Buddhist writings of the Thai Forest tradition (along with anything WWI and WWII!). He practiced Tai Chi and meditation for several years and attended meditation retreats and writing workshops until the relentless march of Alzheimer’s took away his ability to read and write. Sometimes the energy demands of living were difficult for him but throughout his life his intelligent insightful mind, his kindness, playful sense of humour and his quiet patience have been a gift to our family.
A visitation will be held at MacCoubrey Funeral Home 30 King St. E., Cobourg on Sunday February 4, 2024 from 2 to 4 pm.
God give us each our own death,
the dying that proceeds from each of our lives:
the way we loved,
the meaning we made,
our need.
Rilke- The Book of Hours
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Décès pour la Ville:Cobourg, Province: Ontario
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