Bobby Shiry

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-401721

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Bob Shiry - 1934-2005 - "He must have been a gardener who cared a lot. Who weeded out the tears and grew a good crop. And we are so amazed! We're crippled and we're dazed … a gardener like that one, no one can replace." Elton John, Empty Garden. Some people are remembered for what they've said, others for what they've done. While Dad definitely had a way with words, it's his actions - the way he lived his life with such integrity and optimism and joy that we will remember most. Robert Earl Frank Shiry was a good man. He lived for seventy years. He worked for the K-W Record for 45 years but is life was with his family, a loving and caring husband, dad and papa. His passing has left us - his wife, Marcy; children, Brenda (Tim), Bobby (Angela), and Deb (Mike); grandchildren,, Brooklyn, Satchel, Kristin, Bryn, Dylan, Jazz, Wes - with heavy hearts, but even now the sadness at time, gives way to profound jo0y for having had lived our lives with such a strong, gentle, hopeful, happy wonderful man. - Peace - Please join us as we laugh and cry and remember Dad during visitation at the Edward R. Good Funeral Home, 171 King Street South, Waterloo on Thursday, April 21, 2005 (today) from 7-9 pm. A celebration of Bob's life will be held in the chapel of the funeral home on Friday, April 22 at 11 am with a reception to follow in the fireside reception room. Cremation and private family interment to follow at a later date. Donations in Bob's memory may be made to the Grand River Hospital Foundation or the Grand River Regional cancer Centre and can be arranged by calling the funeral home. - Note: Photo included with obit. See image file.

Unidentified Newspaper Obituary

Robert — Marceline "Marcy" Solomon. [Group Sheet]

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• FindAGrave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/165026121
• Residence: Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 47 Irvan St., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-38229
• Occupation: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Machinist, Foundry
• Residence: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evangelical
• Military: 1914, WW1; WW1, Service #751731

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Earl C. Shiry of 385 St Leger St. died Wednesday at K-W Hospital following a heart attack. He was 76. Born in Kitchener, he was a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. John Shiry. He retired in 1963 from the maintenance department at K-W Hospital after 19 years. He had formerly worked at Kaufman's Footwear Ltd. He attended St. Timothy United Church. He served in the First World War with the 118th Battalion. He was an active hockey player in his youth and played for the Kitchener Union Jacks. He was predeceased by one brother, Kenneth. Surviving are his wife, the former Gertrude (Dolly) Lang, whom he married in 1916; one son, Robert of Kitchener; two daughters, Mrs. David (Dorothy) Ratz of Kitchener and Mrs. George (Billie) Rumney of Toronto; one brother, Lloyd of Kitchener; two sisters, Mrs. Arthur (Laura) Slumkoski of Kitchener and Mrs. George (Ellen) Verary of Hamilton; nine grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. The body will be at the Ratz-Bechtel Funeral Home after noon Friday and where service will be conducted Saturday at 2 pm by Dr. E. E. Hallman. Burial will be in Woodland Cemetery. Donations to the Kitchener Branch of the Canadian Red Cross Society will be accepted as expressions of sympathy.

Kitchener-Waterloo Record 15 Jul 1971 pg 25

Earl married Gertrude Katharine "Dolly" Lang 1916. Gertrude (daughter of Albert Boehmer Lang and Amelia Grabenstaetter) was born 1895, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 22 Mar 1987, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried 24 Mar 1987, Woodland Cem., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Dolly Lang
• Name: Gertrude Katharine "Dolly" Shiry
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-141655
• Residence: 1907, 165 Courtland Ave. E., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1921, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada

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SHIRY, Mrs. Gertrude (Earl) - Peacefully, at Cambridge Memorial Hospital, on Sunday, March 22, 1987, Gertrude (Dolly) Catherine Lang, age 91 years, formerly of 385 St. Leger St., Kitchener. Mrs. Shiry was a member of Benton St. Baptist Church. Beloved wife of the late Earl C. Shiry who predeceased her in 1971; dear mother of Mrs. Dorothy Ratz and Billie (Mrs. George Rumney), Robert and his wife Marcy, all of Kitchener; sister of Leonard Lang of Waterloo, Mildred (Mrs. Wilfred Hamacher) of St. Clements and Delores (Mrs. Ed Gaiser) of Waterloo. Lovingly remembered by her nine grandchildren, Jill (Mrs. Ed Lewis), Tom, Dan and Jeff Anderson, Susan (Mrs. Ron Mark) and David Ratz, Debra, Bob and Brenda Shiry and her eight great-grandchildren, Cheryl, Jennie, Kathleen, Wesley, Charles, Laura, Jaclyn and Tim. Predeceased by her parents; three sisters, Mrs. Hazel Wuest, Mrs. Irene Rickert and Mrs. Lorraine Heintzman and son-in-law, David Ratz on March 12, 1987. A private family service was held in the Ratz-Bechtel Chapel, 621 King St. W., Kitchener, on Tuesday (today). Rev. James Reese and Rev. Vern Black officiated. Interment was in Woodland cemetery.

Kitchener-Waterloo Record 24 Mar 1987 pg D 21

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• Name: John Scheirich
• Eby ID Number: 00100-5580
• Residence: 1871, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Mennonite
• Occupation: 1901, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Labourer
• Occupation: 1921, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Plumber, Retail
• Residence: 1921, 48 Irvin St., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1921, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evangelical

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John Scheirich, "was born January 28th, 1868. He is married to Barbara Shantz. They reside in Berlin and have a family of one son named Kenneth O."

Eby, Ezra E. (1895). A biographical history of Waterloo township and other townships of the county: being a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin: as also much other unpublished historical information chiefly of a local character. Berlin [Kitchener, Ont.]: [s.n.].

John married Barbara Ellen Shantz 23 Dec 1890, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Barbara (daughter of Schantz, daughter of Abraham C. Shantz and Catharine Goetz) was born 12 Aug 1872, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 17 Mar 1945, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Woodland Cem., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Barbara Ellen Shiry
• Eby ID Number: 00110-6698.5
• Residence: 1891, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Mennonite
• Residence: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evangelical
• Residence: 1921, 48 Irvin St., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1921, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evangelical

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• Business: Raymond's Sewing Machines, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-154601
• Residence: 1861, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Baptist
• Residence: 1871, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Baptist
• Residence: 1880, Rochester, Monroe, New York, United States

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ALBERT LANG

The death occurred at the K-W Hospital yesterday, Feb. 10^th of Albert B. Lang, aged 60 years. He is survived by his wife, formerly Minnie Sherein, and six children, the latter all under age. There survives also three daughters by his first marriage, Mrs. M.B. Rickert, Mrs. J. H. Wuest and Mrs. E.C. Shiry, all of this city. Two brothers also survive, Rev. Herman Lang of Ashtabula, Ohio. Elwin N. Lang of New Kensington Pa., and two sisters, Mrs. (Rev.) W.A. Schoen and Mrs. W. T. Haigh, of New Kensington, Pa. The funeral will take place on Saturday afternoon at 2: 30 p.m. from the residence of J. H. Wuest, 161 Queen St. North to Mount Hope Cemetery.

[It is to be noted that Albert is buried in an unmarked grave beside his two sons, Irwin and Joseph. Albert's plot is beside his Mother Elisabetha Boehmer Lang. Grave site confirmed Sept. 22 2003. Bev Moulton Albert Lang had a store called Raymond's Sewing Machines. This was located on Benton St. Berlin (Kitchener), beside Dunke's Grocery Store. He was a agent for Raymond's Sewing machines, he also sold sheet music and piano's. Albert played the organ for the silent movies in Berlin.]

Berlin Daily Telegraph 11 Feb 1921 pg 4

Albert — Amelia Grabenstaetter. Amelia was born 27 Jun 1867, Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA; died 6 Feb 1901, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Amelia Lang
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-110651