Gordon Clancy
Gordon Weber Clancy
Son of Gordon and Martha (Mills) Clancy. Born February 23rd, 1925 in Joggins, Nova Scotia and died April 2nd, 1977 in Toronto.
Gordon Webber Clancy was born on February 23, 1925 and passed away from a heart attack on April 2, 1977 at the age of 51. He was born in Joggins, Nova Scotia and moved to Timmins, Ontario as an infant where his dad operated a car repair business. Due to health issues for his mother the family decided to move to Toronto to obtain better medical attention when he was about 5 years old. Gordon was the only boy in a family with 5 sisters. Dorothy, and Ruth older and Bertha, Ruby and Joanne younger than him. When Gordon was 12 his father passed away from a heart attack. Gordon’s two older sisters quit high school to support the family and Gord took on many tasks at home as well. Gordie took his responsibilities as the man of the house very seriously. Even as a young boy he was always working. He had a paper route, delivered flyers, worked in a butcher shop; then in a meat processing plant (would never eat wieners again) and even picked tobacco one summer.
Gordie loved animals and was always bringing home stray dogs, and there were lots of them around. He would tell his mother that they had followed him home. As far as Aunt Ruby can remember they were kept and looked after. Gord went on to attend Central Tech High School and shortly after high school was successful in getting a job at Kodak in May of 1945 in the Power House. When growing up, his family lived in several rented houses until Gord graduated from high school and went to work. Gordon was able to help the family buy their first home at 27 Rusholme Road in Toronto. It was an attached home but quite nice with large rooms and suited the family well. Gordie put in a gas furnace instead of the coal one, so they never saw the coal men again. It was quite crowded for a few years with his 4 sisters sharing one room and Bill and Ruth and their 3 children in another room. Gord was married on August 24, 1957 to Marie MacKay Aitken at the age of 32. The best man was Joe Strain who was Gordon’s best friend since childhood. Groomsmen were Bill Killin (husband to his sister Ruth) and Jim Shepherd (husband to his sister Ruby). The matron of honour was Blanche Jayes who was a nursing friend from Red Deer Alberta.
They lived at the Rusholme Road home with Gordon’s mother for the first year of marriage and then moved to 111 Saturn Road in Etobicoke in 1958 which was on the outskirts of Toronto at the time and even had a small farm at the end of the street. When they first moved in, Joe and his family lived just up the street. Gordon’s mother lived with them for a couple of years before moving in with Joanie and George. Gordon and Marie had 4 sons. David Gordon was born on July 22, 1958, Norman Hugh born February 1, 1960, Ian Webber June 5, 1962 and Shawn Douglas October 25, 1965. Gordon was always renovating the home or working on old cars. Gordon was often called by friends or neighbours to help fix something in their home or lend a tool. He completed a night school program after High School and earned his stationary engineer designation. Soon after that he began his 32 years of working at the Power House at Kodak. He worked shift work at Kodak for the entire time he worked there. A workplace right out of a Dickens novel -dark, dirty, noisy and extremely hot in the summer.
Gord and Marie originally attended Renforth Baptist and then after a church “split”, they helped form and became very involved in the new church called Bethel Evangelical Baptist church. Gord was an usher, was on the building committee and was a church deacon for some years. Many of their church friends ended up being their closest friends and they would often have parties at their homes that all the kids got to attend as well. Gordon loved having people over at the home and would love to have sing songs often at those gatherings. The family would also go on camping trips with their church friends, even though he was more at home in the city going to Canadian Tire and Honest Ed’s looking for bargains, that often were given out to neighbours or he would bring home large quantities of used items from Salvation Army. Gordon enjoyed joking around and was often coming up with practical jokes to play on friends. In early spring one year he put in plastic tulips in all the neighbours gardens just after the snow was gone for the year. He also fancied himself as a barber and cut his boys hair until they were old enough to “escape” the clippers and pay for their own haircuts.
He had just turned 51 when he had a heart attack while working on a car in the family garage. He was taken to the hospital and had a second heart attack a couple of days later and died in Queensway Hospital in Etobicoke.
Son of Gordon and Martha (Mills) Clancy. Born February 23rd, 1925 in Joggins, Nova Scotia and died April 2nd, 1977 in Toronto.
Gordon Webber Clancy was born on February 23, 1925 and passed away from a heart attack on April 2, 1977 at the age of 51. He was born in Joggins, Nova Scotia and moved to Timmins, Ontario as an infant where his dad operated a car repair business. Due to health issues for his mother the family decided to move to Toronto to obtain better medical attention when he was about 5 years old. Gordon was the only boy in a family with 5 sisters. Dorothy, and Ruth older and Bertha, Ruby and Joanne younger than him. When Gordon was 12 his father passed away from a heart attack. Gordon’s two older sisters quit high school to support the family and Gord took on many tasks at home as well. Gordie took his responsibilities as the man of the house very seriously. Even as a young boy he was always working. He had a paper route, delivered flyers, worked in a butcher shop; then in a meat processing plant (would never eat wieners again) and even picked tobacco one summer.
Gordie loved animals and was always bringing home stray dogs, and there were lots of them around. He would tell his mother that they had followed him home. As far as Aunt Ruby can remember they were kept and looked after. Gord went on to attend Central Tech High School and shortly after high school was successful in getting a job at Kodak in May of 1945 in the Power House. When growing up, his family lived in several rented houses until Gord graduated from high school and went to work. Gordon was able to help the family buy their first home at 27 Rusholme Road in Toronto. It was an attached home but quite nice with large rooms and suited the family well. Gordie put in a gas furnace instead of the coal one, so they never saw the coal men again. It was quite crowded for a few years with his 4 sisters sharing one room and Bill and Ruth and their 3 children in another room. Gord was married on August 24, 1957 to Marie MacKay Aitken at the age of 32. The best man was Joe Strain who was Gordon’s best friend since childhood. Groomsmen were Bill Killin (husband to his sister Ruth) and Jim Shepherd (husband to his sister Ruby). The matron of honour was Blanche Jayes who was a nursing friend from Red Deer Alberta.
They lived at the Rusholme Road home with Gordon’s mother for the first year of marriage and then moved to 111 Saturn Road in Etobicoke in 1958 which was on the outskirts of Toronto at the time and even had a small farm at the end of the street. When they first moved in, Joe and his family lived just up the street. Gordon’s mother lived with them for a couple of years before moving in with Joanie and George. Gordon and Marie had 4 sons. David Gordon was born on July 22, 1958, Norman Hugh born February 1, 1960, Ian Webber June 5, 1962 and Shawn Douglas October 25, 1965. Gordon was always renovating the home or working on old cars. Gordon was often called by friends or neighbours to help fix something in their home or lend a tool. He completed a night school program after High School and earned his stationary engineer designation. Soon after that he began his 32 years of working at the Power House at Kodak. He worked shift work at Kodak for the entire time he worked there. A workplace right out of a Dickens novel -dark, dirty, noisy and extremely hot in the summer.
Gord and Marie originally attended Renforth Baptist and then after a church “split”, they helped form and became very involved in the new church called Bethel Evangelical Baptist church. Gord was an usher, was on the building committee and was a church deacon for some years. Many of their church friends ended up being their closest friends and they would often have parties at their homes that all the kids got to attend as well. Gordon loved having people over at the home and would love to have sing songs often at those gatherings. The family would also go on camping trips with their church friends, even though he was more at home in the city going to Canadian Tire and Honest Ed’s looking for bargains, that often were given out to neighbours or he would bring home large quantities of used items from Salvation Army. Gordon enjoyed joking around and was often coming up with practical jokes to play on friends. In early spring one year he put in plastic tulips in all the neighbours gardens just after the snow was gone for the year. He also fancied himself as a barber and cut his boys hair until they were old enough to “escape” the clippers and pay for their own haircuts.
He had just turned 51 when he had a heart attack while working on a car in the family garage. He was taken to the hospital and had a second heart attack a couple of days later and died in Queensway Hospital in Etobicoke.
