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Ronald Francis MacLean
May 4, 1922 - November 30, 2015
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<div itemprop="description">Ronald Francis MacLean -Passed away on Monday November 30, 2015 at Oakville Trafalgar Memorial Hospital, Oakville, ON at age 93. Beloved husband of Lila Catherine (nee MacDonald). Loving father of Ronald Joseph and his wife Cari (Vaselenak). Ron spent 32 years in the Canadian Military, 5 with the army during WWII and the remaining 27 with the Air Force. He was transferred to Canadian Forces Number 1 Air Division Metz , France in July 1957. Ron worked in the communications centre housed in the 350 year old Chateau de Mercy. The St. John the Baptist Roman Catholic Church was part of the complex, and it was there that on July 15, 1959 Ron married a fellow Cape Bretoner who had also joined our armed forces. Lila MacDonald, Born January 2, 1926 in Iona. There was no hospital in Metz, so military wives were sent to nearby air bases to have babies. Ron and Lila chose the hospital at Air Division 3 Fighter Wing Zweibrucken, Germany to have their only child. Ronald Joseph Corbett MacLean was born April 12, 1960. Ron Sr was transferred back to Canada in 1962 and the MacLean&rsquo;s enjoyed stops in Halifax, Victoria, Whitehorse and Mill Cove NS before Ron Sr. retired to Alberta in 1971. Ron spent the next 15 years as a radio operator at RCMP &ldquo;K&quot; Division in Red Deer AB and following his second retirement in 1986, he dedicated himself to the Knights of Columbus .A private service has taken place. As expressions of sympathy, donations to the Oakville Hospital Foundation or the Kidney Foundation would be appreciated by the family.</div>