Charles Burgess
Charles Charles and Ruth
Charles, or as he was called most times Charley, was a very quitet guy not speaking much unless he was spoken to. It was very hard to get to know anything about Charley because he never volunteered any information. Charley married Ruth Hartleib of Waterloo Ont. Ruth lived on the opposite side of Elizabeth Ziegler School in Waterloo, and her younger Brother Dennis went to school with Rosemary, Max, and myself. Dennis was about a year younger than me, and so was in the class between Max and myself in school. We were a few years in school before we even found out that Dennis was related to us. Charles and Ruth had two children Mary-Lou, and Brenda. Charles went through the second war unharmed, and the above picture on a tank, or armoured car is of him. Charley was killed in a traffic accident on the 401 highway on the way to visit his mom in Port Hope. Ruth eventually died as well, of cancer I think and it was as indirectly as a result of that, I found Irvin Beare my friend from the orphanage that I had been searching for for years. When Ruth died, about fifteen years ago I was at the cottage hunting, and wasn't told about it until Emile came up a few days later. He told me about meeting Dennis Hartleib at the funeral, and that Dennis said we should drop in to see him when we were in Waterloo. It had been so long since talking to Dennis that it took me a few minutes to realize who he was. This was interesting because I had wanted to try and re-establish myself with some old school friends who I had lost touch with. We did go down to the Market in Kitchener one day and dropped in on Dennis and his family, and talked about our old school chums, and I told him if he ever run into Irvin Beare to let me know, or get a phone number. Irvin unbeknown-st to us was retired from the RCN, and was living in Ottawa, and when his mother died in Waterloo came down for the funeral, and contacted Dennis. Dennis told Irvin that I had been trying to get in touch, with him and got Ivins phone number in Ottawa and called me with it. I called Irvin and that is the start of another story. We did contact Dennis again but he was strangely stand offish, and so never spoke to him again until Elizabeth Zielger's 75th Anniversary, at which time he seems to be still stand offish. I won't interject my self where I am not wanted, so I guess that is that for Dennis. It was a good thing to meet him though because of his information about Irvin which I really wanted, and our being able to get together again.
As I said in the beginning it was very hard to get to know much about Charley, or the way, or what he even felt about things, if we had been drinkers we might have found out a little more, because one trait that all the Burgess men had was that they were drinkers, to a fault.
Charles, or as he was called most times Charley, was a very quitet guy not speaking much unless he was spoken to. It was very hard to get to know anything about Charley because he never volunteered any information. Charley married Ruth Hartleib of Waterloo Ont. Ruth lived on the opposite side of Elizabeth Ziegler School in Waterloo, and her younger Brother Dennis went to school with Rosemary, Max, and myself. Dennis was about a year younger than me, and so was in the class between Max and myself in school. We were a few years in school before we even found out that Dennis was related to us. Charles and Ruth had two children Mary-Lou, and Brenda. Charles went through the second war unharmed, and the above picture on a tank, or armoured car is of him. Charley was killed in a traffic accident on the 401 highway on the way to visit his mom in Port Hope. Ruth eventually died as well, of cancer I think and it was as indirectly as a result of that, I found Irvin Beare my friend from the orphanage that I had been searching for for years. When Ruth died, about fifteen years ago I was at the cottage hunting, and wasn't told about it until Emile came up a few days later. He told me about meeting Dennis Hartleib at the funeral, and that Dennis said we should drop in to see him when we were in Waterloo. It had been so long since talking to Dennis that it took me a few minutes to realize who he was. This was interesting because I had wanted to try and re-establish myself with some old school friends who I had lost touch with. We did go down to the Market in Kitchener one day and dropped in on Dennis and his family, and talked about our old school chums, and I told him if he ever run into Irvin Beare to let me know, or get a phone number. Irvin unbeknown-st to us was retired from the RCN, and was living in Ottawa, and when his mother died in Waterloo came down for the funeral, and contacted Dennis. Dennis told Irvin that I had been trying to get in touch, with him and got Ivins phone number in Ottawa and called me with it. I called Irvin and that is the start of another story. We did contact Dennis again but he was strangely stand offish, and so never spoke to him again until Elizabeth Zielger's 75th Anniversary, at which time he seems to be still stand offish. I won't interject my self where I am not wanted, so I guess that is that for Dennis. It was a good thing to meet him though because of his information about Irvin which I really wanted, and our being able to get together again.As I said in the beginning it was very hard to get to know much about Charley, or the way, or what he even felt about things, if we had been drinkers we might have found out a little more, because one trait that all the Burgess men had was that they were drinkers, to a fault.
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