Mark Sidney Laurie - George & Arlie Laurie's son

Mark Sidney Laurie was born to George and Arlie on 30 Mar 1954. He is the second child. He married Deborah Mae Crossen on Aug 2nd, 1975. They have three children, Clint and Sky and Sarah. Mark has been an airline pilot for years and currently resides in Phoenix.

Linda Joyanne Laurie Rempel - George & Arlie's daughter

Linda is the 1st child of George and Arlie Laurie. She was born 15 Mar 1949 in Vancouver, BC.

She remembers being so excited to go and visit her Waddell cousins in Ladner.

She married Philip Norman Rempel on Aug 8th, 1970. They had two children, Ryan and Jennifer. They have three grand children.

Unfortunately it was discovered that Phil had liver cancer on Jan 18, 2018. He died on 26 Mar 2018. He is missed by his family and friends.

James Randolph Laurie "Randy" - Bill & Norah's son

James Randolph Laurie "Randy" was the second son born to Bill and Norah Laurie on Aug 10, 1952. He was born in Magrath, Alberta.


He married Rosemary and they have two girls Mary and Bonnie.

Randy is now called James or Jim Laurie. He was called Randy while living with their grandfather James Mowatt in Magrath, Alberta. 

 

Robert Wayne Laurie "Robbie"- Bill & Norah's son

Robert Wayne Laurie was born on Mar 21, 1947 in Vancouver BC. He is Bill and Norah's first son.


Robbie is very talented especially in art. We are told he designed a very beautiful stained glass rose for a door.

Robert and CathyAnn married in about 1980. CathyAnn is a beautiful dancer and also plays a stand up bass in a Jazz Band and the vocalist as well.

Robbie and CathyAnn have three daughters. CathyAnn has a daughter from a previous marriage named KayDee. Then they had Miracle and Angel.

Bill Laurie with his granddaughters Miracle and Angel

Unfortunately, Robbie died in January of 2018 from a year and a half battle with cancer. They had been married for 38 years at the time of his passing.

KayDee has three sons.

Miracle married Christopher May and they are both actors. Chris just did a Westworld stint. Miracle just started her own production company.

Angel married Watson Bradshaw. She is a bookkeeper and he works in the Movie/TV union as a set building among other things. They are expecting their first child and were able to tell Robbie before he passed away. This will be the first Laurie grandchild in Uncle Bill's family. CathyAnn and her family are excited to welcome this little baby soon.

(updated May 2018)

Laurie and Jennifer Waddell - Gertie & Allard Waddell's son

Laurie Kenneth Waddell is the fourth and final child born to Gertie Laurie and Allard Waddell. He was born on the Dec 12th 1961 in Ladner, BC. He married Jennifer Halston.

The Laurie Waddell Family

L-R: Wyatt, Laurie, Jacob and Jennifer
some time in 2013

They have two sons, Wyatt and Jacob. Wyatt is currently doing very well on the Moto X circut.

Aug15, 2013 Wyatt at a Moto X meet 

in Walton, Ontario.

Phil and Connie Waddell - Gertie & Allard Waddell's son

Phillip James Alexander Waddell was the second child born to Gertie Laurie and Allard Waddell. He was born Apr 5th 1953 in Ladner BC. He married Connie and they built a log home on one corner of the Ocean View farm. They raise horses, ducks and kennel dogs among other things. They are avid hunters and spend time on hunting trips in the fall. Phil has a knack for telling stories.

Phil and Connie at home, 
Sep 1, 2013

Bev and Jim Mohorich - Gertie & Allard Waddell's daughter.

Beverley Jean Waddell is the oldest child of Allard and Gertie Laurie Waddell. She was born on the 24th of January 1947 in Ladner, BC. She married Jim Mohorich in 1966. Jim has worked with horses and was a Sulkie driver for years.

Jim and Bev at Phil's home on Sep 1, 2013

Jim and Bev have three daughters. Donna, Robyn and Jayme and six grandchildren.

L-R: Robyn, Jayme and Donna

Donna has three children, Robert (Robbie), Sarah and Benjamin. 

Robyn has three children as well, Brendon, Aaron and Lucas.

Jayme just got married in 2013 to Paul Cameron of Ontario.

L-R: Brendon, Lucas, Aaron, Robbie Sarah 

with Ben in front.

The Laurie brothers and Alberta Baseball 1953 - 1956

There is a website for Western Canada Baseball and they have provided the following information. It was compiled by Jay-Dell Mah who played baseball and then was a sports broadcaster. It is quite the website and we are grateful for his excellent help in identifying our Laurie boys and their teams. His information is as follows.

http://www.attheplate.com/

this information all comes from newspaper clippings so there may be more information out there somewhere but this is what we have so far.

1953 Bob playing with a Junior team, Taber Fireman according to a newspaper clipping, maybe the name changed by the next year or there were other teams.

1954 Bob, Gord, Dan playing with Taber Merchant Juniors who won their league and then went  went to the Alberta Jr. final losing to the Tofield Legionnaires in the final game.

1955 Gord plays with Taber Merchant Jrs
         Danny plays with Warner of the Sunshine League        
         Bob plays with Granum White Sox of the Foothills-Weatbelt League.

1956 Bob and Gordon playing for Taber Merchants of the Big 5 League (this must have been a senior league because they played against the Vauxhall Jets who won the league that year

1957 Dan and Gord played for the Vauxhall Jets :  Baker Vern P, Cleland Dennis, Cleland Roy LHP/MGR, Haugen John, Laurie Danny, Laurie Gord, Rhodes Dusty

1959 Dan played on an Southeastern All Star team
1962 Bob played for the Vauxhall Jets
1965 Bob played for the Brooks Lions

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Bob was a catcher, Dan played third base and outfield and Gordie was a shortstop.

In 1954 the three brothers, Bob, Dan and Gord Laurie played for the Taber Merchant Juniors. They won the Southern Alberta Championship and were featured in the Taber Times on Sep 16th, 1954. They went on to the Provincial Playoffs at Trochu, Alberta but lost the championship to Tofield.

It is very interesting to read the roster below and see what the boys excelled in. Bob was the team captain for this team.

Here is a photo of this same team that was in Bob's box of photos. Dan has one where his kids used photoshop to insert him into this photo. He was out working on a farm and couldn't make it back in time for the team photo. Aunt Ruth Konno Laurie was able to identify these team members.

Taber Merchant Juniors in 1954:

Back Row L-R: Harry McKibbon coach, Harry Sekiya, Ray Whitehead, Mr Savage, Casey Anderson, Larry Anderson, Lynn Layton, Ross McKibbon, Dickie Wiest, Van Duncombe

Front Row L-R: Bob Laurie, Charlie Wentz, Gordie Laurie, Bill Burge, Bill Tanaguchi and Lyle Howg.

Bat boy Johnny Konno in front.
(Missing from the photo are Dan Laurie, Bob Furakowa, Sat Muriyama, Marvin baker and Ralph Maier)
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In 1955 Bob was too old for the Juniors team and called up to the Granum White Socks in the Foothills-Wheatbelt League. He is first mentioned on June 26th when "Bob Laurie, in his first league action, had 4 singles."

Bob as a catcher.

The 1955 Granum White Sox Team

Front row: Roy Johnson, Frank Stone, Tedd Bogal, Gordie Vejprava, Jim MacDonald, Steve Odney, TBA, Jocko Tarnava, Lee Wesley Back row: George Wesley, Bill Fennessy, Gordie Wesley, Jack Altman, Darwin Walkingshaw, Don Johnson, Al Malarchuck, Bill Kucheran, Earl Ingarfield, Willie Walasko. (Photo courtesy Jack Altman) 

We think TBA on the front row is Bob.

 (a newspaper article that Gordie had says that the Granum White Sox manager "Wesley had acquired highly rated Bob Laurie of Taber to handle his catching chores. Laurie has starred for the last four years with the Taber Juniors, provincial finalists last year." this means he would have started in 1951 when he was 18 maybe) 

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This is Danny at bat. I'm not sure which year or team it was for or where the photo was taken.
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In 1956 Gord and Bob played together for the same team, the Taber Merchants.

In 1957 Dan and Gord played for the Vauxhall Jets.

At some point of time Bob played for this team. We have learned that they are the Beaverlodge Royals but we can't put a date to these photos but it may have been in 1957, 1958 or 1959. They came from the Bob's box of photos. At this point Bob had moved to Beaverlodge where Bev was from. He was a player coach in 1959 and was Coach of the year according to a newspaper article in Aug of 1959.

In 1959 Dan was played on the Southeastern Allstars in a tournament against the Cold Lake Cardinals.

in 1962 Bob is playing on the Vauxhall Jets

In 1965 we find Bob playing on a baseball team in Brooks, called the Brooks Lions, with Dusty Rhodes. Dusty was a pitcher for the Vauxhall Jets and had known Bob for a long time. Bob was working as a parts man at the time for the John Deere dealership in Brooks. They also had a bowling team that Bob and Dusty played on with Johnny Penner and Stevee Safranavich called the Zippy Cats after the name of Steve's company.

Dusty Rhodes tells us that sometimes the boys were called up to play in certain games with a team or in a tournament. Bob played in a tournament in Kamloops with the Central Alberta All Star team on one of these occasions. They played against a Vancouver Ramada Inn team that was a 3A team and made up mostly of Mounties.

On another occaision Bob, Dusty, Neil Anderson and Dennis were hired by Vaushall to play in a tournament in Kimberley. Dusty was a pitcher but had his left wrist in a cast and was supposed to play in a championship game for his team the next day so they told him he couldn't pitch. Well the game started going badly and he couldn't stand it anymore and begged to be put in. Bob was the catcher and had played with Dusty a lot but on this time it was different. Dusty threw the first pitch and then Bob called for a curve ball. Dusty threw that one and then Bob got up and said, "I can't catch for you today, you are gonna hurt someone." According to Dusty he was too hot that night. However, Dusty says that Bobby, as he called him, was a top notch catcher!

Alice's 50th High School Reunion Trip - Jun 1995

Alice wanted to go to her High School Reunion so we all thought it was a great idea and it became a girls trip. While there we went to visit Aunti Gert and the Waddell family. We had a fun time with the Waddell families.

 L-R: Bev Waddell Mohorich, Gertie Laurie Waddell, 

Alice Laurie Saunders and Marilynne Saunders MacDonald

Back L-R: April B Saunders Allyson S Cichy, Bev W Mohorich, 

Cyndi Saunders, Karina Z Saunders, Marilynne S McDonald 

Front L-R: Allard Waddell, Gertie L Waddell, Alice L Saunders 

L-R: Holly Rae who was about 4, Lynn McInnes Waddell, Russell playing shy, 

Troy and Rick Waddell

We got to meet Rick's family who live close by.

29 Oct 1986 Robert "Bob" Laurie's Funeral

Bob died in Estevan, Saskatchewan on Oct 26th 1986 but the funeral was in Taber on the 29th and he is buried in the Taber Memorial Gardens to the left of his parents sites.

This photo was taken in 1986 after Bob Laurie's Funeral.

Back Row L-R: Alice Laurie Saunders, Trent Laurie, Janne Laurie Parascak, Gordie Laurie, Bev Laurie, Kathy Laurie, Randy Laurie, Ruthanne Saunders, Gordon Saunders Middle Row L-R: Mike Saunders, Allyson Saunders Cichy, April Bodily Saunders, Debbie Laurie, Gertie Laurie Waddell Front Row L-R: Marilynne Saunders MacDonald, Mike and April's girls Victoria and Meghan, Bev Waddell Mohorich, Ruth Konno Laurie