Avis de décès de Thomas-Butler-Maclachlan II - Nécrologie - MesAieux.com

MacLACHLAN Thomas Butler, II, MD, FRCSC, Member American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists August 3, 1924 November 17, 2008. A full life, well lived. It is with great sorrow that the family of Tom MacLachlan announce his peaceful passing, surrounded by members of his family, in Rapid City, South Dakota. Dad was born in St. Catharine's, Ontario to Thomas Butler and Ann Jane Jean MacLachlan (nee McCance). He grew up in Toronto and proudly enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force with his cousin Victor Bird in 1942, and served as an instrument mechanic. After the war ended, Dad attended medical school at the University of Toronto, graduating in 1952. At the University of Toronto, he met and married our Mom, Anne Kathleen Haskey in 1951, who was also in medical school. Following postgraduate studies and internship in Washington DC, from 1952-53, Mom and Dad moved to Sudbury then Wawa, Ontario (1953-1958) and practiced family medicine. In 1958, the family moved to Vancouver, British Columbia where Dad completed his medical training in Obstetrics and Gynecology. Soon after completing a Pharmacology Fellowship at the University of Alberta, Edmonton in 1964, Dad and Mom moved the family to Saskatoon. Dad worked tirelessly for 30 years as an Obstetrician and Gynecologist at the Royal University Hospital, and as a Teaching Professor at the College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan. Dad delivered countless babies, cared for many women with cancer, and taught medical students and O&G Residents. Dad was Head of the Department of O&G from 1967-1983 and retired Professor Emeritus from the College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan in 1991. We lost our Mom, Anne, in 1992 and our brother, Paul, in 1993. Soon after, Dad met a very remarkable lady who brought him great happiness, Doris Firor (nee Caverly) and they married in 1996. Tom was a steadfast member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and served in many positions in the church, and at the time of his passing had been an ordained Patriarch for the past 15 years. Tom is survived by his wife, Doris and his children; son Thomas III and his wife Laurie of Lethbridge, Alberta and their children, Jennifer, Ian and Brynn and her husband Matt; son Dr. Robert and his wife Dr. Sheila of Rapid City, South Dakota, and their children, Cameron, Elizabeth, Alana, Caleb, Aileen and Isabel; son Peter and his wife Tracy of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan and Peter's daughter Taylor-Anne; daughter Catherine and her husband John Gillard of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan; daughter Caroline and her husband Brian Beus of San Marcos, California and their children Chandler, Tyler and Catherine. He is also survived by his sister Luana and her husband M. Blaine Hofeling of Salt Lake City, Utah, and their children, Blaine T. Jr., David, Douglas, and Mark, and their families. Also surviving Tom are Doris' children, Carley Caverly of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan and her children Leon, Aaron and Madisson, Jonathan Firor of Burnaby, British Columbia and his son Christopher, and Per Firor of Brisbane, Austrailia and his wife Billie. In keeping with his wishes a private family gravesite service will be held at Woodlawn Cemetery.