PHILIP STEELE FOULDS

PHILIP STEELE FOULDS, DSC Lieutenant-Commander Royal Canadian Navy (R) 1918 - 2017 Phil passed away at St. Michael's Hospital on Tuesday, April 18, 2017 after a very short illness. Predeceased in 2013 by Louise (Matthew), his cherished wife of 71 years and by his brother Kenneth in 1998, he is survived by brother Derek, daughter Barbara Selley (David), grandson Chris Selley, and many Foulds and Strickland nieces and nephews, and their children. Born and raised in Toronto, Phil was educated at Upper Canada College and Trinity College at the University of Toronto, playing hockey for both. He enjoyed many summers at the family cottage on Go Home Bay. In World War II he served with distinction as a pilot in the Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm, logging 761 hours in Swordfish, Albacores and Avengers. Phil and Louise met at Trinity and were engaged before his deployment in 1940. When he was on leave in 1941, they were married in Louise's hometown of Kingsville where they eventually settled in the Matthew family farmhouse. Phil worked from 1948 to 1983 for Hiram Walker-Gooderham & Worts in Windsor, where he specialized in long-range planning, a role for which he was perfectly suited. He was the most organised person imaginable - each step of any activity meticulously described and scheduled. In the mid-1990s, Phil and Louise moved to Toronto to be closer to family members, living first at The Old Mill Towers, and, since 2012, at The Dunfield Retirement Residence. Lea Livelo, their unfailingly kind and empathetic friend and helper, was invaluable in their final years. We will gather to remember and honour Phil, an always courteous, kind, thoughtful and brave gentleman at the Morley Bedford Funeral Home, 159 Eglinton Avenue West, Toronto, (2 stoplights west of Yonge Street) on Saturday, April 29th at 2 p.m. No flowers, please. If you wish to remember him with a donation, please consider organizations that assist military veterans or merchant mariners, or the St. Michael's Hospital Foundation.