Charles Robert BALFOUR

Passed away on Thursday, June 27, 2002, at the Civic Hospital surrounded by his family in his 84th year. Son of the late Col. W.M. Balfour DSO OBE and Grace Jardine Balfour MBE who moved to California in 1946 from Corner Brook NFLD. Major Balfour, CD joined the Canadian Survey Regiment, Royal Canadian Artillery in Montreal in November 1939. He was an Honour graduate of Corner Brook Public School in 1936. He completed his apprenticeship as a surveyor draftsman in the Bowaters Papermill Engineering Department before leaving to volunteer in Montreal. He served 5 years in the Canadian Army; overseas in England, landing in Normandy, participating at Falaise, the campaign in Holland, the crossing of the Rhine and in the occupation of Germany. After the war he continued his service at many postings in Canada, the Pentagon in Washington, Vietnam and at National Defense Headquarters in Ottawa. Following his retirement from the Artillery in 1968 he served as Executive Secretary Treasurer with the Canadian Corps of Commissionaires at their National Headquarters in Ottawa. He was predeceased by his first wife Jean (Morey) of Deer Lake, NFLD in 1971. He is survived by his loving wife Elsie (Fletcher) Balfour, his children LCol Robert Morey Balfour, David Walter and Danielle Balfour, Captain Virginia Lee Balfour, Ian Craig Balfour, his grandchildren Andrew and Jennifer and their mother Betty Ann Roe, Emily and her mother Mary Balfour, and David and Danielle's children Michele and Natalie McGarry-Balfour, all residing in Ottawa. Also survived by his sisters Grace Brooking Mann RN and Willard Mann of Birmingham, Alabama, Margaret Marchant RN of Modesto, California and sister-in-law Marjorie (Morey) and Jim Young of Toronto. He will also be missed by Elsie's family; Mrs. Orla (Bill) Fletcher, Isobel and John Thon, Jack and Doris Fletcher, Clara Webb, Lila Sinfield, Ernest and Ruth Fletcher, Bert and Shirley Fletcher, Clifford Fletcher, Monique Fletcher, Stu and Bev Fletcher, and their children and grandchildren. Friends may visit at the Central Chapel of Hulse, Playfair & McGarry, 315 McLeod Street, Ottawa on Sunday, June 30th from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. and Monday, July 1st from 10 a.m. until Service in the Chapel at 1 p.m. Officiating, Reverend Mary-Elsie Fletcher Wolf. Cremation and interment at Beechwood Cemetery. would be greatly appreciated by the family. The Ottawa Citizen, 29-06-2002