Things have been rather quiet for awhile around here but in January of this year we lost a dear and great friend. Mr Bill Sedgwick of Kirkland Lake has passed away due to illnesses that he has been dealing with for awhile now.
Even though Bill has been confined to his house for a few years, it hasn't dampened his spirit. He has always been cheerful and a joy to be around when we either go to visit him or do his usual weekly shopping trip for him and ourselves.
I have known Bill since about 1989 when I first started to work for Supreme TV in Kirkland Lake,Ontario. My family and I had moved from Southern Ontario to a small village called Matachewan, just 40 miles west of Kirkland Lake, out in the bush remote from most civilization. This village is a mining community built up to accomodate men and their families as they worked for a mine in the area. Because of my occupation, I had to work for a tv and appliance sales and service business wherever I could find one that needed a tv technician. When we moved north in 1988, I did work for a business in Englehart but the owner did not do very well so I ended up leaving him in February 1989 and working from home until June of 1989 when I started working for Supreme TV and driving 75 miles round trip back and forth to work. This lasted for six years until 1995 when I had a severe accident on off time and I have not worked for anyone since then.
Back to the subject of this posting. When I worked for Supremes, I ran their service shop about one block south of their main store. People would bring their sets to me so I could work on them there and, hopefully, send them back home in good working order. I did have a young man working with me part time in between his college course he was taking.
I had a lot of hours of working in this shop by myself and a lot of time I found it quite boring so I would put on my coat and march down to the main store and to the back so I could sit and chat with Bill for a period of time until I either had to go back to work or figured I should look like I was working.
Time went on working for Supreme's until 1995 when they suffered from a large fire in the main store and another store attached to the side of the main store. In August of that year I had the accident which took me out of circulation, as far as being employed by anyone so I have been on disability pension since then until I turned 65 and now am on senior's old age pension.
Bill stayed with Supreme's after the fire until a few years later when he stopped working because of health problems and just stayed at home not working. In later years, Bill had two hip replacements in Toronto and this did help him to get around but he never did fully get back to normal mobility and well as suffering from Diabetes and heart troubles until this January when he passed away from health related problems. Bill is going to be sorely missed by his many friends and family.
Life does go on and we have to learn to carry on with or without our loved ones. God Bless you Bill, will look forward to seeing you in the future.
Wilf Blakey
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