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Donald Fraser Macdonald
August 10, 1933 - October 30, 2013
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<div itemprop="description">Donald Fraser Macdonald 1933-2013 <br />On the bright, sunny morning of October 30, 2013, Fraser left this life. Loved and loving, he leaves his wife, Judy. His legacy is in the love and pride he had in his children: Douglas, Nancy, Robert (Victoria) and in his grandchildren: Charlotte and Samantha Johnston, Jacob, Sofia, Charles, Natalia and Thomas Macdonald. He was predeceased by his parents Charles and Dr. Eva Macdonald and his brother James. He graduated from Western University&rsquo;s HBA program and had a 25 year career with IBM. Always approaching life and work with a curiosity and appetite for challenge- he took several foreign assignments with his young family, including Nigeria, New York and Mexico. Four years were also spent in Ottawa. In 1981, he started a second career in leasing computer solutions, happily working until Lewy Body dementia made this impossible. <br />Fraser loved life, his family and his friends. He grew up on Glengowan in Toronto, attending Blythwood PS and Lawrence Park Collegiate. He was a larger than life figure with a wonderful sense of humour, intelligent mind and loving spirit. He wore his heart on his sleeve and you always knew where you stood with him. He was a reader. He loved the Blue Jays. He loved Toronto but also the whole world with a curiosity that encouraged travel and relocation. He loved food and telling funny stories. He had the playfulness of a child but the wisdom of a man. He spent many summers of his life on Lake Simcoe as a young boy, a father and grandfather. He loved to swim, dance and tease the people he loved. If he adored you, you got a nickname or five. He was sought after by many for his humour, friendship and advice on both business and personal matters. He was fiery and impatient with small issues and steady, even and brilliant with life&rsquo;s greatest challenges. He loved to work and he loved to play. He rose at 5 most mornings to go to the gym and felt the rest of the household (world) should too. He played tennis and squash with passion and went nuts if you tried to cheat. He had a strong sense of right and wrong and always stood up for and fought for what he believed in. He was not afraid of change, adversity or even his illness, remarkably. <br />Throughout his life, his loving wife Judy, was always up to the challenge of the next adventure and approached his illness with the strength, courage, dignity and humour she approached everything in their lives. His illness brought out the best in old friends as well, who were always kind and inclusive in the early years of dementia. His last years were spent at Belmont House where the staff earned our undying appreciation and affection. In lieu of flowers, a donation to Belmont&rsquo;s Palliative Care Program would be appreciated by his family. (Please see link to charity at bottom of this page by clicking the &quot;Donations&quot; button.) <br />A service of remembrance for the life of Fraser will be held at the Mt. Pleasant Cemetery Visitation Centre Chapel, 375 Mount Pleasant Road, Toronto (east gate entrance, north of St Clair Ave., 416-485-5572) on Tuesday November 12, 2013. Visitation at 1:00pm, service of remembrance at 2:00pm. A reception will follow on site. <br /></div>