Famille Winery, 11 Dudley Park Lane, Falmouth. Windsor - Wednesday, Jat 1 pm at Windsor United Church, 613 King Street, Windsor. Paul's United Church, 173 Old SambroRoad, Halifax. We will be celebrating our Dad, Opa, Grampy and Great-Grampy in two special places that were near to his heart. Arrangements are under the care of the Lindsay Windsor Funeral Home, 194 King Street, P.O. The family offers very special thanks to the staff of Dykeland Lodge for their loving care of our Dad over these past few years. Doug was predeceased by his father, William (“Bill”) Olie, his mother Elizabeth (“Pearl”) (Kidston), two sisters, Joan, and Judy (Benson), and his wife, Joyce.Throughout his life, he was a member of the United Church of Canada, the Progressive Conservative Party of Nova Scotia, and the Imperial Order of Oddfellows. He is survived by his children, David, Lisa, Bruce, and Jason (Andrea Clarke,) granddaughters Jessica McDonald (Leighton Gingrich), Taylor, Rebekah and their mother Cathy Longaphy, great-grandsons Garrett and William McDonald, sister in law Marilyn Saulnier (Sandy), nephew Peter Benson and niece Dawn Petitpas. Doug returned to Halifax for several years to live with his daughter, and then resided at Parkland, in Clayton Park, before settling in at Dykeland Lodge, back in his second hometown, Windsor. After Joyce passed in 2004, Doug moved back to live at Bramber, where he stayed for the next eight years in the summers, until he required regular personal care. Doug finally accepted retirement at age 74 and cared for Joyce during her illness. Doug went on to work as the maintenance supervisor for Windsor United Church while he and Joyce lived nearby on King Street. After a time, he worked for Atlantic Gardens with his daughter, delivering plants all over the Maritimes. He went back to school at age 65 and got his commercial truck driving certificate and drove for a company that moved medical waste. He worked clearing brush under power lines and installing community mailboxes with his great friend and brother in law, Sandy Saulnier. Doug was a master at reinventing himself and enjoyed many careers after most would have retired. After the sale of Birchlee Court, the couple relocated to Windsor, where Doug, working with his sons, lovingly renovated a century home which he and Joyce then operated as Meander Inn Bed & Breakfast for nearly ten years in a multi-generational household. In 1973, Doug and Joyce bought a parcel of land in Bramber, Hants Co., and put in a mobile home as a cottage, which is where Doug often said he spent his happiest years. During these years Doug and his father owned and operated Birchlee Court Mobile Home Park in Harrietsfield. They lived in a house on Linden Lane in the subdivision until 1988, where they raised a daughter and three sons. In 1959 he met and married his wife, Joyce Elizabeth (Nickerson). Paul’s United Church, Elizabeth Sutherland School and Leiblin Park Subdivision in Spryfield as well as several other projects. From 1954 – 1961 he worked for his father in Olie Construction Ltd., which built the first St. After working with his grandfather, Arthur Kidston, he briefly moved to Oshawa, Ontario, where he was employed by General Motors, before returning to his beloved home province. He also saw service in the Royal Canadian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (Reserve) postwar. Doug was born in Spryfield, Nova Scotia, and went to school there, and served in Civil Defense and the Navy Cadets during World War II. Builder, entrepreneur, gardener, genealogist and historian much-loved brother, husband, father, grandfather and great-grandfather. If you've been using KAYAK successfully up until now, try closing your browser and starting again.S eptem~ Douglas "Doug" William Olie, age 89, of Windsor and Spryfield, passed away on Saturday, in the Dykeland Lodge, Windsor. Please send us a message and we'll try to figure out what went wrong. Probably something about the web browser you are using made KAYAK think you are a bot. They tend to try to cram large suitcases in the overhead bin, and they prattle on about celebrities they know while you are trying to watch the movie. For example, we don't want bots running about trying to book airline tickets. Bots are generally a good thing, but some web pages are for humans only. KAYAK uses bots to search for travel deals. Search engines like Google use robots to build up search results. What is a bot?Ī bot, or robot, or crawler is software that visits web sites and collects data from them without a human present. If you are seeing this page, it means that KAYAK thinks you are a "bot," and the page you were trying to get to is only useful for humans.
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