Monday, January 14, 2019

John Marinzel ~ January 28, 1955 - December 21, 2018


As time goes on, this is becoming more and more like an obituary column. This time it is John Marinzel who passed away from cancer four days before Christmas in 2018. He was in the same photo club as I was at OCHS and was photo editor of the yearbook. He owned some serious photography equipment back in the day. Helga his sister was in the senior years when I first came to OCHS.

Here is his elegant obituary:

In memory of
John Marinzel
January 28, 1955 -  December 21, 2018

Every exit is an entry somewhere else 
- Tom Stoppard 

On Friday, December 21, 2018, John Joseph Marinzel, age 63, passed away peacefully at the Lakeridge Hospital from cancer. He was the beloved son of the late Theresa and Joseph Marinzel. John will be lovingly remembered by his wife of 41 years, Sylvie, as well as his sister, Helga, his niece, Mara, and all family and friends.

Visitation will be held at the Thornton Funeral Centre (1200 Thornton Road North, Oshawa 905-579-6787) on Thursday January 3, 2019 at 10 am, followed by a service at 11 am.

Donations can be made to The Canadian Cancer Society or the charity of your choice.

I can’t go on 
You must go on 
I’ll go on 
- Samuel Beckett


in pace requiescat 

Joanne Bond was editor of the 1972 yearbook and she sends this along:

The text on the page reads (in an ee cummings fashion with little capitalization and punctuation):

remember the guy that always see at dances, at basketball, football, soccer, track and field, and volleyball games? who is always burdened down with a black camera case that houses a fantastic camera? and pops out of nowhere to snap candid pictures of students and staff so that your yearbook can be packed with photos to help us keep our memories of all those games and events and who is therefore, left out of the picture all of the time because he is on the wrong side of the camera? well, we do and on your behalf and ours we would like to dedicate this page to that guy, as our tribute of thanks.

Thanks Joanne.