Listen: [audio:Pam-talk.mp3] While the church and the human rights commissions represented Dad’s vocation, his soul loved music and it played a substantial role in his life. He was well known for bursting out in song and loved to listen to … Continue reading →
HOLM, Flemming — 83, has written his last letter to the editor. He passed away in South Shore Regional Hospital on Thanksgiving Sunday, October 11, 2009, following a severe heart attack the day before. He was born in 1926 in … Continue reading →
Funeral services will be held on Saturday, October 17, 2009, at Trinity United Church in Mahone Bay. Cremation has taken place and the ashes will be interned at Abercrombie Cemetery (north of New Glasgow) on Sunday, October 18, tentatively at … Continue reading →
Flemming passed away on Thanksgiving Sunday. He had a remarkable day to that point, lucid, appreciative, occasionally in pain and sleepy, but knowing that it would soon be over. At one point during the morning, he asked if we shouldn’t … Continue reading →
Flemming had a very bad heart attack yesterday morning. He is in the ICU at South Shore Regional Hospital, very weak and not expected to recover. Dad has for years been very clear to everyone – relatives, friends, doctors, specialists … Continue reading →
Heather’s note: This is part 3 of a letter of reminiscences Flemming wrote to his 4 children in July 2009. 3. In July, 1996 , while I was living in retirement in Dartmouth and attending Port Wallis Church I had … Continue reading →
Heather’s note: This is part 2 of a letter of reminiscences that Flemming wrote to his children in July 2009. 2. In or about 1962 the Home Mission Board of the United Church invited Lester Settle and me to attend … Continue reading →
Heather’s note: This is an excerpt from a letter Dad wrote his 4 kids on July 21, 2009. I’m posting it in three parts. For me, this is a summer of remembering, of being remembered and reminded. Three adventures have … Continue reading →
The first video of a series, a collaboration with my daughter and grandson!
Continue reading →The debate concerning freedom of speech and the Human Rights Commissions rages on. I worked for the Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission for six years and for the Canadian Commission for twelve years, and retired in 1991, so I have … Continue reading →