Family of
the Month
For December
2001
Bro.
Con and Dorothy Bach
Bro.
Con and Dorothy were married in St. Thomas Church in San Francisco in
1964. They have been members of St. Gregory the Great Church since 1998.
Previous to this they were members of St. John Vianney Church. Con was
born in Australia and came to Canada in 1948. He received his engineering
education at McGill in Montreal and is proud to be a Canadian. Con retired
in 1989 from Canadian National Railways (C.N.R.) after 25 years service.
He retired in Montreal from the position of Director of Operations
Research and Industrial Engineering. He worked out of the C.N.R.
headquarters in Montreal and his work involved traveling throughout all of
Canada on various projects.
Dorothy
grew up in Windsor where her two sisters are now living. She graduated as
a nurse from Hotel Dieu College of Nursing in Windsor. Before she was
married she worked as a nurse in Windsor, Detroit, Los Angles and San
Francisco. Dorothy and Con have two children.
FAMILY
MEMBERS:
JOSEPH(36)
is single and working as computer support technician in Vancouver. He had
graduated in electrical engineering from McGill in Montreal.
MARIE
(34) is married and has two daughters ages 3 years and 9 months. . She
graduated as a CMA (Certified Management Accountant) and practiced in
Toronto. Now she he is busy looking after her children and her husband in
Toronto.
Dorothy
had 3 sisters and many uncles and aunts who lived mostly in the
Detroit-Windsor area . She has many nephews, grand nieces, grand nephews
and a lot of cousins. She is blessed with a very large number of relatives
in this area as well as in Toronto, Peterborough and Ottawa.
PARISH
INVOLVEMENT:
Dorothy
and Con were actively involved in parish work when they were living in
Montreal. They worked to establish St. Edward the Confessor Mission in
Montreal in an area that was quite a distance from the parish church. This
enabled people in that area to walk to mass that was said in the local
catholic high school. Con became the first chairman of the mission’s
council. Dorothy was actively involved in the charitable work done by the
ladies auxiliary of the church. She served as president of the ladies
auxiliary for one year. She collected clothes for the poor that Dorothy
and Con would deliver to a center of distribution in downtown Montreal.
When they came to Windsor in 1993, the parish priest immediately got
Dorothy and Con to serve as Eucharistic Ministers. Con also helped the
priest in various repair work at the church. Con was involved in
organizing the knights and parish men to do a major repair of the pews in
the church that took about 4 months to complete.
COMMUNITY
WORK:
In
Montreal, Dorothy and Con were actively involved in community work.
Dorothy was a brownie leader. She organized a committee to bring bus
service into their neighborhood. She was a volunteer at the Garry Taylor
for the Mentally Impaired. Con was a director for swimming competition in
their local community pool.
Since
arriving in Windsor, Con served for a number of years as a director at the
condominium that they are living in. He was president of the Board of
Directors at the condominium for one of those years. He also served on
various committees at the condominium. Con was sued 4 years ago for
voluntary work that he did on one of these committees. This case has still
not been brought to trial. Unfortunately for us, Con and Dorothy
have had to curtail most of their voluntary community work until the
courts make their decision on the matter of a person being sued by an
organization for doing voluntary work for that same organization.
KNIGHTS
OF COLUMBUS INVOLVEMENT:
In
the previous council that Con belonged to, he served as an inside guard
and a trustee. He was also involved in selling the annual Good-Fellows
newspaper. Con transferred to our council 3 years ago. He volunteered to
work on the Website Committee a year ago. Since that time he has learned
how to develop a website and has done the design and computer programming
of our current web site for the Website Committee. Con regularly attends
council meeting and Dorothy and Con participate in many of our social
events.
The
council is proud to have Dorothy and Con and their family as members of
our great organization.
Keep
up the good work.
Fraternally
yours,
Reg.
Deshaies and John St. Pierre
Family
Co-Directors.
