To Beverly and family.
Jan and I send our sincerest condolences to all who knew and loved Gus. We first met Gus on Island 86 in the Big Rideau where he worked on maintenance of the Bauer cottage. Carl and Marie Bauer loved him for his work ethic, his carpentry skills and all around Jack of all trades abilities. We came to thoroughly enjoy his friendliness, great sense of humour and his dogs who he loved dearly. Jan and I came to depend on him for his annual report during the winter on how safe the ice on the lake was for our annual winter holiday at our cottage on the island and his annual prediction of when the ice on the lake would go out in the spring permitting us to open the cottage as early as possible. When he and Bev moved to Van Leek Hill area in retirement we had the pleasure of visiting them for a day and experience the pride Gus took in his family, the land, his horses, his buggies and carriages and the outbuildings he had built on the property. Gus and Bev’s hospitality extended to our granddaughters and us that visit was simply marvellous.
Be assured he was one of a kind and he will be missed!
