It's like losing a father all over again, says Bob Mahon. 'Wednesday night I get the call that he was passed on. It was a shock, although he was 101.' From pjackson_nl
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“Wednesday night I get the call that he was passed on. It was a shock, although he was 101,” he said.On Saturday, Bill Saunders of St. John's was man of the centurySaunders’ father, William Sr., was a member of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment during the First World War, and fought in the Battle of Somme.
“I was still young, but I remember he came home on leave, but did not let my parents know he was coming,” Chafe said during her brother’s 100th birthday party in 2021. “He arrived at the house in the middle of the night and knocked on the door. I remember the screams of joy when my mother and father went to the door.”“As far as we were concerned, you were shooting at a plane, and you had to forget that there was someone in it,” he once told The Telegram in an interview.
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