This morning i got a shocking news. One of the OpenOffice.org's Documentation Project Co-Lead, Gerry Singleton has passed away due of heart attack on May 12th in a Toronto hospital. We never expected this kind of news, but it's a fact. Gerry Singleton was an active developers who are mainly working with Documentation projects, mostly maintaining Setup Guides 2.x along with Marko and currently planning to update the User Guide. He became the co-lead on Documentation project since May of 2004 along with Scott Carr and both of them have done a great efforts on this project. His absence will be a great loss to the project.
He's one of the developers who helped me when i started the OOo's Documentation project to learn new things (CVS, Issue Tracker, etc). Without him, i wouldn't be able to contribute to the OOo projects. I really thanked you for that and i will never forget what you have done in the past.
My condolences to his family. Good bye Gerry and Thank You.....
I am Gerry's niece. Here is his obit.
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SINGLETON, Gerry Roderick Suddenly, in his 63rd year, at York-Finch Hospital on Saturday, May 12, 2007. Beloved husband of Irena (Sutherland); father of Jerith Sykes (Donald) and Renee Singleton (Jason Cliff). Proud grandfather of Natalie Cliff-Singleton and expected grandson. Survived by his brother Ross (Arla) of Thunder Bay, Ontario. Also survived by many in-laws, nieces, nephews and cousins. Ger was especially fond of his cousin Beverley Bailey who, along with Ross, gave unstinting support during his mother's final illness last month and to Rena. Son of the late Roderick and Rosanna May (Bradley) Singleton. Ger grew up in Willowdale where he attended McKee Public School and Earl Haig Collegiate. An alumnus of Ryerson University, Ger graduated in Electrical Engineering in 1969. He worked for Canadian General Electric, babysitting the newly installed computer-radio system at the Jarvis Street Toronto Police Headquarters and later worked for Sun Microsystems. While raising his children, Ger, who was gifted with a beautiful singing voice, became interested in performing and soon joined church choirs and local amateur groups such as the Toronto Opera Repertoire and Coro Verdi. Ger was a loving and sensitive man, gentled by middle age. He was outstanding in the nursing care he gave to his mother-in-law when dying of cancer in his home and in the compassion shown to his own mother during her lengthy illness. Ger freely acknowledged that he suffered from bipolar disorder, a condition tbat sometimes led his wife to remind him that he was ''the love of my life; heart of my heart; and bane of my existence''. A memorial service will be held in the chapel in St. James' Cemetery (Parliament St., south of Bloor St. E.) at 10 a.m. on Friday, May 18, 2007, followed by interment of the cremated remains in the nearby Roddy family plot. In Ger's memory, the family would appreciate donations to the Heart and Stroke Foundation or to the Freeman Centre for Palliative Care, North York General Hospital, 4001 Leslie Street, Toronto, ON, M2K 1E1.
Thanks for the information
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