{"id":5378,"date":"2014-08-27T13:39:55","date_gmt":"2014-08-27T11:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/?p=5378"},"modified":"2014-08-27T13:39:55","modified_gmt":"2014-08-27T11:39:55","slug":"death-of-robert-gagnon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/2014\/08\/27\/death-of-robert-gagnon\/","title":{"rendered":"Death of Robert Gagnon"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Robert<\/a>\"Robert<\/a>Lieutenant Colonel (retired), <\/em>Robert Gagnon<\/em> passed away at the age of 81 after a short illness, on June 28, 2014 at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute.<\/em><\/span><\/address>\n
Bob was ordained a ‘White Father of Africa’ in 1958 (01-02-1958) and served as a missionary in Malawi for 8 years. He then served as an RC Chaplin in the Canadian Forces on numerous bases until his retirement in 1992.<\/em><\/span><\/address>\n
The Funeral took place on the 2nd<\/sup> July 2014 and a Memorial Mass was held on Thursday July 3rd<\/sup> in St. Joseph’s Church, Ottawa, Canada. <\/em><\/span><\/address>\n
See the PDF file for more details<\/em><\/span><\/a><\/address>\n
\u201cLife is good.\u201d That phrase popped out of Bob Gagnon\u2019s mouth so often, it struck many people as a \u201chave-a-nice day\u201d pleasantry. But those close to Bob knew that his habitual greeting meant something. His words were a purposeful affirmation that good will ultimately prevail, and that, as one friend noted at his wake, \u201cLife is inherently good, worth the effort, and worth preserving.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/address>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lieutenant Colonel (retired), Robert Gagnon passed away at the age of 81 after a short illness, on June 28, 2014 at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute. Bob was ordained a ‘White Father of Africa’ in 1958 (01-02-1958) and served as a missionary in Malawi for 8 years. He then served as an RC Chaplin […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22],"tags":[1239],"class_list":["post-5378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-robert-gagnon"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}