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Roderick 'Rod' Purton
October 10, 1919 - July 19, 2014
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<div itemprop="description">PURTON, Roderick Herbert (Rod) <br />October 10, 1919 - July 19, 2014 <br /> <br />Died at his home in Ottawa a week after attending the joyous wedding of his youngest grandson. Rod was the centre of every family occasion and the lynch pin of a large family who loved him and knew his support. <br /> <br />Rod was the second of the three children born in Winnipeg to Herbert and Annie Margaret (nee McLauchlan) Purton. Mary and Dugald predeceased him. <br /> <br />He was also predeceased by his beloved first wife, Laverne Pearl (nee Ambrose), and leaves to mourn their children, Raymond (Brenda), Dennis (Linda), and Judy (Rick), grandchildren, Christopher, Brian (Sun Mie), Fiona, Sarah (Jeremy), Judy (Daniel), Kenny (Merel), Emera (Antonio), Bradley (Lauryn), and Alice, and great grandchildren, Sophie, Ian, Ethan, Andrew and Chase. <br /> <br />Rod is also remembered with great affection by his second family of 53 years, wife Betty (nee Hale), step-children, Clint (Carolyn) and Christine, grandchild Alana (Warren), and great-grandchildren, Eli and Kobe. <br /> <br />Rod served with the Royal Canadian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers Corps and had a long career in the Public Service. In a retirement that spanned more than a third of his life, he turned his hand, with consummate skill, to gardening, woodworking, and bread, pie, and cookie making. He could and did fix anything. The cottage he designed, built and maintained over many years with his wife, Betty, and his sons, Ray and Dennis, continues to be a refuge for his family. There were few who knew him who did not benefit from one or other of his many skills and hobbies. He will be missed by his neighbors (among them Patrick and Nanou), his bridge club, the monthly Racetrack breakfast club, his friends in the Shriners and the Masonic Lodge, and by the residents of Bridlewood Residence, where he spent his last two winters. <br /> <br />Friends may pay respects at the Kelly Funeral Home, Walkley Chapel, 1255 Walkley Road, Ottawa (613-731-1255) on Saturday from 1:00 p.m. until time of memorial service in the chapel at 2:00 p.m. Inurnment at Capital Funeral Home &amp; Cemetery. <br /> <br />As an expression of sympathy donations may be made to CNIB, in Rod&rsquo;s memory.</div>