Press Release

For Immediate Release September 29, 2008

KLEES: David Teetzel Will Be Missed By All Who Knew Him

(Queen’s Park) Newmarket-Aurora MPP Frank Klees today made the following statement in the Legislature:

“Mr. Speaker, I rise today to pay tribute to David Blair Teetzel, who went to be with his Lord and Saviour September 22, 2008.

“Dave was supported throughout his seven month fight with cancer by his wife, Sharon, his parents, Donna and Carol Teetzel, brother Gord and sister Ruth. The memorial service held at the Crossland Church in Newmarket was an uplifting celebration of Dave’s life and an inspirational tribute to his courage and faith in his final days.

“Dave was an award-winning columnist and gifted writer. After graduating from Ryerson University, he began his career as a reporter and was editor of the York Region Media Group’s “Economist and Sun” until his illness. Editor-in-Chief Debora Kelly said this about her colleague Dave: “I know few men who are so truly kind and decent as Dave was. I respected his great intelligence, deep compassion and incredible work ethic. Not to mention his quick wit and self-deprecating sense of humour. He had us laughing many times a day.”

“And, Mr Speaker, I want to leave Honourable Members with Dave’s own words as a source of encouragement and testimony to the life and character of the man we honour today: ‘And much as I hate having cancer, it puts me alongside people who are facing what I’m facing, but aren’t armed with a saving knowledge of Jesus. If God put me here to give them hope, I’ll do that. I’ve heard it said that you see God working when you come to the end of yourself. That’s where I am, but praise God I’m not alone. Thank you all so much for standing beside Sharon and me through this time. God bless!”

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Frank Klees, MPP

Newmarket-Aurora

416 509 8999

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