My father, Clyde Charles Magee, was born September 7th, 1915 at Toronto, County of York, Ontario, Canada. His parents were Nina Harriet Henrietta Darlington and George Avery Magee. He grew up in Toronto.
In 1934 he met my mother, Elisabeth Jane Blackstock, (she went by Jane all her life). In 1937 they became engaged and married June 30, 1939 in the Church of the Transfiguration on Manor Road East, Toronto. They were married by Canon Wasson. They made their home in Toronto until my Dad joined the R.C.A.F. They were married until my mother's death March 30, 1980. They had been married forty-one years and had two sons and a daughter.
Clyde and Jane's youngest son, Paul Sheridan Magee, died tragically April 10th, 1981 just one year after the sudden death of his wife and companion. Clyde and Jane had been deeply devoted to one another from the day they met forty-seven years previous. These losses were devastating for my father. My elder brother, David Clyde Magee and myself also felt these losses.
As sometimes happens, out of loneliness and fatigue, my father married quickly a second time to Helene Birrenbach Wittig. Shortly after their marriage on May 18, 1981, it was learned that Helene was suffering from cancer. She passed away in Guelph, Ontario six years and a half years later. Helene left a young teenage son, Ruben, by a previous marriage and Ruben is honoring her memory by recording her story, that for a time, also included my father.
My father died suddenly of a heart attack and complications of Parkinson's Disease on September 12th, 1989 in his home in Guelph, Ontario, Canada, at the age of seventy-four.
He had served as an Air Gunner and Pathfinder during W.W. II and was awarded the D.F.C. with Bar and the CD medal. Following the War, Dad spent time studying at the University of Toronto but missed his life as a pilot and remustered in the R.C.A.F. It became his career as a pilot and senior officer.
Following retirement from the Air Force he had a second career with the Ontario Ministry of Colleges and Universities. Upon his final retirement, Clyde and Jane settled in Fergus, Ontario. His wife Jane had been his strength and constant support throughout their life together, and they had been devoted to one another and to their children.
Their eldest son, David Clyde Magee, b. Sept. 17(?), 1948 in Toronto and d. Sept.23, 2009 in Ottawa, Ontario. My parents and brothers live on in their children, grandchildren and g. grandchildren. Mom & Dad's motto was, "From little acorns, mighty oak trees grow". A cluster of oak leaves has been engraved on my family's tombstone in Guelph, Ontario.
Lizzie Kunde 
Kathy Pinna 
