{"id":74347,"date":"2020-04-20T12:00:19","date_gmt":"2020-04-20T16:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/?p=74347"},"modified":"2020-05-08T11:34:41","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T15:34:41","slug":"thistle-fred-age-81-listowel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/obituaries\/2020\/04\/thistle-fred-age-81-listowel\/","title":{"rendered":"Thistle, Fred (Age 80, Listowel)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-74348 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.briwebapp.net\/2020\/04\/d156f894-thistlef-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Thistle, Fred\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>With heavy hearts and grave sadness that we announce the that Frederick Thistle of Listowel passed away at Palmerston &amp; District Hospital in his 81<sup>st<\/sup>\u00a0year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fred leaves behind his wife of 56 years Ella (Kr\u00fcger) Thistle.\u00a0 Loving father of Susan &amp; Kevin P. Lynch of Waterloo.\u00a0 Grandfather of Michael William Grace of Waterloo, Natasha (Grace) &amp; Scott Detweiler of Elmira, and Christopher &amp; Marcedes Grace of Walton.\u00a0 Great-grandfather of Colby and Brooklyn Detweiler of Elmira, and Mason, Sophia, Cohen, Dawsyn, and Austin Grace of Walton.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fred is survived by brothers Ken (Diana) McLeod, Alex (Delphine) McLeod, George (Mary) McLeod and by one sister Susan (George) Campbell. Fred was predeceased by his mother Nellie Victoria Bishop, brothers Ernest (Emma) McLeod, Charles (Ann) McLeod and by sisters Geneva (Jim) Brown, Rose (Jim) Funderburke and Sheila Petrie.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Frederick served in the Canadian military from Nov. 1959 until his honourable discharge in June 1969.\u00a0 He and his wife Ella returned to Canada with their daughter Susan where they built their family life.\u00a0 Fred will be forever remembered for the love of his daughter, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and of course the Toronto Maple Leafs.\u00a0 You will forever be in our hearts and very dearly missed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Private family arrangements have been entrusted to Eaton Funeral Home, Listowel and a celebration of Fred\u2019s life will be held at a later date. Memorial donations to Sunbeam Centre or Kids Ability would be appreciated.\u00a0Online condolences may be left at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eatonfuneralhome.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/www.eatonfuneralhome.ca&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1587484241582000&amp;usg=AFQjCNF9DcJPrgbXJ1YsDuBRLwYVpAQ2sw\">www.eatonfuneralhome.ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With heavy hearts and grave sadness that we announce the that Frederick Thistle of Listowel passed away at Palmerston &amp; District Hospital in his 81st\u00a0year. Fred leaves behind his wife of 56 years Ella (Kr\u00fcger) Thistle.\u00a0 Loving father of Susan &amp; Kevin P. Lynch of Waterloo.\u00a0 Grandfather of Michael William Grace of Waterloo, Natasha (Grace)","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[3683,288,3811,7,3810],"class_list":["post-74347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries","tag-april-2020","tag-eaton-fuenral-home","tag-fred","tag-listowel","tag-thistle"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-24 03:09:39","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/cknx.ca\/obituaries\/2020\/04\/thistle-fred-age-81-listowel\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74347"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74641,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74347\/revisions\/74641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}