Barb, I learned of Donny's passing last night when my son Tim called to let me know. It leaves me with a heavy heart but I know that you both raised a loving family and valued your time together. Donnie and I were best friends in Sea Cadets, Diving and swimming qulaifications at the YMCA and summer lifeguarding. We even had a one year contract, with the School Board, for cleaning the Bayside Junior High on Jean Street for one year and did the Canada Dry Wherehouse for two years. In 1956 four of us from #9 Royal Canadian Sea Cadet Corps Rodney, took the train to Sydney, Cape Breton, for the sea cadet camp. They had a boxing competiton and Donny, or as we called him, Big Boo, knocked his Cape Breton rival right out of the ring. In the sailing competion, as the Leading Seaman, I was the coxswain but Donnie, Charlie Pickard and Eugene Oleary handeled the sails so well that we won the Atlantic Sea Cadet Championship for #9 Rodney RCSCC. |It was a proud moment for all of us. Barb, you were there for part of it. I've missed him for years but I miss him more now that he is gone and that we both missed too many past years. to reunite. In loving memory, Jim
