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John Kemper Obituary

KEMPER, John Howard Howard was born in Nanaimo on November 4, 1913 and passed away peacefully in Victoria on January 31, 2006. He was a devoted husband, father and grandfather and will be deeply missed by his wife of 64 years, Janet. He is also survived by his son, Bryan (Lynne) and his daughters Marion, Catherine (Graham) and Shannon (Bob) and grandchildren Alana, Todd and Serena. He was predeceased by his brother, Dean and leaves behind his sisters Constance Munro and Verlie Carney (Bob) and many nieces and nephews. Howard received his BASc from UBC in 1939 and was recruited by Defense Industries Limited and went on to complete a successful career with Domtar in Montreal. His love of music, literature and art and his woodworking skills live on in his children and grandchildren. The family wishes to express their gratitude to Dr. Sears and Dr Rosenberg and to the wonderful staff of Glenwarren Lodge for their compassionate care. In lieu of flowers donations to the Alzheimer's Society of BC would be appreciated. A celebration of Howard's life will be held on February 10th from 2-4 at his home, #12 4630 Lochside Drive. 203293

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Published by The Times Colonist from Feb. 4 to Feb. 5, 2006.

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Michel Gérin

February 7, 2006

My condolances to Janet and Howard's family. Howard has had a significant influence on me as I was a junior Professor at Université de Montréal working on the Montreal occupational cancer project directed by Jack Siemiatycki. He helped us put some science and realism in the "guesswork" involved in assessing past exposures of workers to potential carcinogens. We published with him as a coauthor a paper in 1985 in the Journal of Occupational Medicine. I also remember fondly conversations on art and music, and he was also interested in the hot political context in Quebec and Canada at the time, always with a very open mind.



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Denis Begin

February 7, 2006

My sincere condolence to Howard Kemper's family. I worked with Howard from 1982 to 1986 on Jack Siemiatycki's research team (Jack was professor at Armand-Frappier Institute in Laval (Quebec) at that time. He is now at Universite de Montreal). Howard and I shared the same office which was located at IRSST (505, De Maisonneuve Street West, 11th Floor). Howard had retired from Domtar and worked with Jack's team on an epidemiological research project concerning occupational cancer in relation to chemical exposure. I learned a lot from Howard's experience at Domtar. His knowledge of the canadian chemical industry in the 1940s, 1950s, 1960s and 1970s served us well as we had to reconstruct past occupational chemical exposure of workers with cancer. I will always remember Howard as a kind, thoughtful and affable individual.



Sincerely,



Denis Begin, chemist and industrial hygienist

Universite de Montreal

Pat and David Livingstone

February 7, 2006

Dear Janet, Meg called to let us know of Howard's death. Our sincere sympathy to you and all the family.I know you will miss him very much. Our love and prayers to you all. And I hope you are better healthwise than you were when we talked at Christmas,Love Pat and David

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