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David Mulholland
August 18, 2009
Dear Maureen,
My sincere condolences.
I don’t know if you ever knew this, but Bill was responsible for me having a writing career. In the summer of 1963, I wanted to become a disc jockey. I was working at a pedestrian job and had no money. Bill was running a branch of the National Institute of Broadcasting; he helped me at no charge.
That fall, when a position came open for a copywriter at CKOY, he had me write a few radio spots. He told me they were better than some of the stuff he’d read by agency copywriters. He set up an appointment for me with Station Manager Jack Daly. I got the job, discovered I loved to write, and that ended my desire to be a d.j. I’ve managed to make a good living as a writer for the past 45 years.
I’m sorry I didn’t know about his passing at the time. My thoughts are with you and your family.
Sincerely,
leslie lucas
July 29, 2009
Hi Maureen of the red hair...I did not see you and Bill often but every time was a great pleasure...take care and realize that wherever Bill went he was a giant
Les Lucas
Noreen Worth
July 23, 2009
Our thoughts are with you. Remember only the good die young that's what I kept telling myself about Mom. I was very shocked to hear from you. I wish we were closer, but give yourself and your family a hug for us.
Love Noreen & Brian & family
Rob Tripp
July 20, 2009
Maureen,
Please know that my thoughts and prayers are with you through this difficult time.
Our neighbourhood , extended community and our street will miss Bill’s presence. He has been such a role model to so many of us. I think back to the signs of early spring, knowing that summer is just around the corner as the pools starts to open, to the attentive yard work and the start of fall with the preparation for winter. It became clear that he enjoyed balance in life and lived each day to its fullest.
From our first meeting I was made to feel more than just a resident on a street. I learned the subtleness between a resident and a neighbour. He was to so many of us a teacher and the subtle things that I have picked up from him remain with me each day. His humour would become legendary and always there to put a smile on a persons face.
I feel that all of our lives were made the richer for his involvement and he will be missed in our neighbourhood.
Please accept my deepest condolences.
Rob Tripp
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David Barrow
July 15, 2009
Maureen and Family, please accept my heartfelt condolences on Bill's passing.
I worked with him at CKOY radio. He was one of many who welcomed me when I first came to Canada - "how sweet the hours we once enjoyed, how sweet their memory still".
My thoughts and prayers are with you during this difficult time. I pray that God will bless, comfort, and strengthen you all. May he rest in peace.
Joyce & David Barrow
Ottawa, Ontario
July 15, 2009
Dear Maureen,
So sorry to hear of Bill's passing. Have many great memories of the years when Bill was so active at the Board of Trade. He always gave his best.
My warm thoughts and deep sympathy to you and the family, Maureen.
Sincerely....Dodie Donnelly
Katy & John Tran
July 14, 2009
Dear Maureen,
Sad to hear of Bill's passing. Our deepest sympathies to you and your family.
We always enjoyed Bill's visits after his each hair cut for the last many years... Memories of Bill always kind and pleasant.
Brian Cowper
July 14, 2009
I will miss the click, click, click from my computer of his almost daily barrage of some of the best jokes the internet has to offer, painstakingly filtered, to always leave you anticipating what he has found this time . . . long gone are the days of having to fax these jokes to his countless friends.
Six years at Ottawa Cable working for Bill in my twenties gave me the sales savvy and worldly wisdom to successfully move onto other things. Perhaps it was the mandatory weekly sales meeting in the OC Boardroom during which time he would listen with us to motivational tapes of Zig Zigler, Earl Nightingale and Reinhold Niebuhr, tapes which Bill probably had listened to so often he probably knew sentence by sentence but still enjoyed.
Bill shared much with us: like his reasons for becoming a swimmer. Who that has sat in his office can forget his spray bottle of eyeglass cleaner and his ritual of cleaning his glasses when speaking with you? Who can forget 'the voice?'
I am a better person for having met, worked and been mentored by Bill Kincaid. He will be sadly missed by all who knew him.
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Brenda McNicholas
July 14, 2009
Maureen, Kim & Dean and family,
I have great memories of Bill and the entire family while growing up in Farm Point and always looked forward to the summer when you would all stay up at the cottage.
My thoughts go out to all of you at this very sad time.
Brenda (nee Pilon) McNicholas
Robin and Margaret Averill
July 14, 2009
Maureen and Family:
Our sincere condolences to you all at this sad time. I have fond memories of Bill when I was on the MD Telethon for many years, he was a perfect gentleman and a total professional, we'll all miss him.
July 13, 2009
Hello Maureen..My sincere condolences to you and your family on Bill's passing. Over the many years of contact with Bill he was always a very classy individual. It was a pleasure talking to Bill about anything but especially the broadcast and cable business where he made such an impact. His push to have an Ottawa portion of the MD Telethon will always be remembered.
I am a better person just by knowing Bill.
Al Uhryniw
Ned Kelly
July 13, 2009
I met Bill and Maureen during a short visit to Ottawa in the seventies. It was a case of instant rapport and Bill gave me a truly generous and warm Canadian welcome. Our friendship, cemented over the years via the internet, will always be treasured. My love and sympathy to Maureen.
Nancy Campbell
July 13, 2009
Dear Maureen, and all your family,
Please know that you are in our thoughts at this very sad time. Memories of Bill will always live on.
Yours was one of the happiest marriages
and it was always great fun to be with you on our visits to Ottawa.
Love from Jack and Nancy
Gil Wright
July 13, 2009
Dear Maureen,
Bill lived, loved, laughed and cried, sang and then left. What he left matters. He joked, helped, encouraged and mentored with that Irish twinkle in his eyes. If you didn't get it, he wouldn't explain ... just smile. From our days together at CKPM in 1965 'til now, he was an unofficial big brother to me. Much loved, he died too soon. My thoughts are with you as always. We miss him too.
July 12, 2009
Sorry to hear of Bill's passing...Always enjoyed working the md telethons with Bill and Maureen...and the general.I am sure the course up above has good starting times for Bill...Gordon Breen-Ottawa
Kathleen Pontefract
July 12, 2009
dear Maureen, Our sincerest condolences on Bills passing. He was always a special friend to Chewy. We are greatly sadden on losing a wonderful neighbour.
Our thoughts are with you. Kathleen, Tom and Chewy.
July 12, 2009
Dear Maureen
We are thinking of the kindness, friendship and generosity that you and Bill have shown our family over the past few years. We are grateful to have known him and cherish the memories.
Charles, Palmer, Kim and Randy
Cindy Jones
July 12, 2009
Kim Lamb and Family,
My sincere condolences to you and your family. I still remember the time your dad took a whole gang of us from CIBC for dinner. It was such a thoughtful thing to do. May your fond memories bring you comfort.
Cindy (Baker) Jones
Edward Lee
July 11, 2009
My condolences to the family of Bill Kincaid.I had dealings with Bill in the early sixties at the National Institute of broadcasting.And in Later Years at Ottawa Cable Renfrew site.He was indeed a boon the the community as well as to the family.
May he now rest in peace and May God be with those who Mourn at this sad time
Kim Aker
July 11, 2009
Dear Maureen,
My deepest sympathies to you and the family. Uncle Don had shared recently about the special time he was able to share with both of you. I so enjoyed our last visit at Don's Christmas party two years ago and I know how much Bill will be missed by many. May your memories bring more smiles than tears as time passes.
Kim (Jackie's daughter)
Randy Terpstra
July 10, 2009
So sorry to hear of Bill's passing. His is one of the names which I connect with the original CFMO 93.9...what a great station that was...also sadly missed.
I send my deepest sympathies to the Kincaid family, his friends and those at CFRA who have had the pleasure of working with Bill.
Bryan Fuller
July 10, 2009
To the Kincaid family. Sorry to hear about Bill, I worked with him at Ottawa Cable, and on the Telethones. Bill rest in peace, now and forever more.
Don Williams
July 10, 2009
Hi: I am another one of Bills buddies from his days at the High School of Commerce and later we did a weekend show at CKPM to-gether. He always did his utmost to keep me in stitches and was usually very successful. Very good and funny friend. It seems like yesterday and obviously it was many years ago now. Rest now in peace,Billy.
bev stewart
July 10, 2009
Dear Kim and family,
So very sorry to hear of your loss.
Bev (Joncas) Stewart (formally of CIBC)
Marlene O'Neil
July 9, 2009
Dear Maureen - our sincere condolences to you and your family on the sudden loss of Bill. Thinking of you at this time and may you rejoice in the years of memories you can cherish and hold. - Family of Jack O'Neil
Ray Lemire
July 9, 2009
I was saddened to hear of Bill's recent passing. Bill and I go back quite a few years from our working association at Skyline Cablevision to my privilege of working directly for him in the sales department at Ottawa Cablevision. Bill and I would often chit-chat on the loading dock at
OCL,exchanging jokes and stories and upon leaving would always tell me to keep my "powder dry". He was a fine gentleman and a great human being. To Maureen, his children and grand-children I offer my sincere condolences.
Issie Hoffman
July 9, 2009
The good lord gives life and he takes it away as well.
The one thing nobody can take away is all the wonderful memories.
Joanne Milne
July 9, 2009
Dear Maureen,
I have very fond memories of Bill and yourself from my days at Rideau view. I was very sad to hear of the passing of your dear Bill. My thoughts and prayers are with you.
Bill Polsky
July 9, 2009
To me Bill was one of the two or three real friends a man has in his lifetime.
William Kincaid
July 9, 2009
Dear Maureen & Family so sorry to hear of your loss, Bill was a wonderful person he will be missed by all of us who knew him. Our prayers are with you and your family. God bless you all.John and Audrey Denofrio and Family
Claude Bennett
July 9, 2009
Maureen: I am so sad to readof Bill's passing. Having know Bill from High School days and on many stops along lifes road of his career and mine all memorable. To you and the family members I wish to offer my condolences and trust that Lord will bless you.
Doug Torrance
July 8, 2009
Such a shock! With the grief, go the wonderful years full of memories and thanksgiving for having known Bill. The Telethon volunteers were enriched by his presence year after year. His kindness, thoughtfulness and love will long be remembered. Our thoughts and prayers to the family. Doug Torrance/Rev.Pauline A. Marks-Torrance, Rocanville Sask.
July 8, 2009
*Gone, but not forgotten*...
Rememberd by daughters Melanee Faye Kincaid (Howells) and Karen Lee Kincaid (Tupechka)
Carey/Tom McCormick
July 8, 2009
We've lost a friend; but thank goodness for the great memories of the humour, parties, march-pasts and friendship.
Those memories will help to relieve our grief.
Our thoughts and prayers are with you and your family.
love; Carey and Tom
Pat McGrath
July 8, 2009
Maureen,
Dearest thoughts of you as you mourn for Bill. You were such good partners in life and his memories will last forever.
Pat McGrath
(British Information Service 1959 - how time passes - I remember Kimberley's birth & your joy then.)
Lisa Bullee
July 8, 2009
My deepest sympathies to Maureen and family. Bill was always one of my favourite people. He had the most wonderful attitude on life and people. He was without doubt the best boss I ever had. I am heart broken over the very sad news.
Mike Marask
July 8, 2009
Our deepest sympathy to Maureen and your family. Bill was such a nice gentleman. He will certainly be missed.
Marlene & Mike
Sue Robertson
July 8, 2009
I have wonderful memories of Bill at Ottawa Cable where I worked for many many years. I often repeat some of the stories he would tell, they always bring a smile to my face and a chuckle to those I tell.
My condelences and prayers go out to his family.
Lorri and Robbie Roblin
July 8, 2009
Dear Maureen and family, I'm so sorry for your loss. My thoughts and prayers are with you. Bill is one of the kindest and funniest men I'll ever meet. I will miss him.
John Henderson
July 8, 2009
Bill was one of the main reasons why I got into radio. He influenced many broadcasters. My condolences to his family.
July 8, 2009
Maureen, we join you and your family in mourning the loss of Bill... to us a good friend and neighbour... and special Poppa to Rupert.
Our thoughts are with you at this time... and always.
With Love,
Gerry, Rae and Rupert
Christine Rhodes
July 8, 2009
Maureen,
Deepest sympathies.
Love always,
Christine
Peter & Joan Valdstyn
July 8, 2009
Dear Maureen & family,
Please accept our deepest condolences on your loss. Bill will be greatly missed. Our thoughts and prayers are with you.
Peter & Joan Valdstyn
Brigitte Pickwick
July 8, 2009
To Maureen and Family
My heart is heavy with sorrow, Bill left us way too soon and so very fast. Bill will be sorely missed by all his friends at the Rideau View Country Club, where he was a member for over 30 years. I will keep on looking for your e-mails Bill, your never ending sense of humour. You rest in the arms of the angels now. The candle of our friendship keeps burning, forever
Love you more
Brigitte
Treichel
July 8, 2009
Condolences to Maureen and the family.
Bert & Shirley Treichel
Nancy James
July 8, 2009
Dear Mrs. Kincaid & family
I was disheartened to find out of Mr. Kincaids' passing. I enjoyed him as a very lovely man with lots of stories to tell. He had a gentle personality and was a wonderful man to be around. I always enjoyed it when he came into the office; the both of you always brightened the day. I will miss him very much. There are just some people who light up the world around them and he was one of them. I pray that the days ahead will have enough joy to aford you and that it will hold you up in this difficult season. I pray God's peace as you grieve and miss him, but that you will always remember all the wonderful times you had as a couple and as a family. I will keep in touch to see how your doing.
Nancy James
Allan Weatherall
July 8, 2009
Many fine memories of working with Bill at Ottawa Cable ... Jerry lewis Telethons included.
I also volunteered with him with The Salvation Army. He was always there when someone needed assistance in some way.
Wil miss you Bill.
Sue Patterson
July 8, 2009
To Bill's family
I am so sorry to hear that Bill was ill recently and passed on, he was such a nice man. I worked for Ottawa Cable for 21 years and know he was a special person. Always friendly and pleasant to talk to. I am sure he will be missed by family & friends.
My sincere condolences.
Ray O'Brien
July 8, 2009
Maureen, my heart goes out to you, your children and grand children. Bill was such a great community leader and a great friend to so many people. Bill provided great support to me when I lost my beloved wife last year but then that's a Bill.
I cherish my last meeting with Bill when he came out to Rideau View a couple of weeks ago for lunch.
Again my thoughts are with you and your family.
July 8, 2009
Bill was a dear friend. He was a fellow Broadcaster. And I just thought of it, we never did get a Golf date we promised eah othera long time ago.
Maureen, my sincere condolences.
Don Leger
erin borthwick
July 8, 2009
you are in our thoughts and prayers.love paul erin and family
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