{"id":1532,"date":"2019-11-20T20:25:08","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T00:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/?p=1532"},"modified":"2019-11-20T20:25:08","modified_gmt":"2019-11-21T00:25:08","slug":"rac-bulletin-former-rac-north-east-ontario-director-bill-unger-ve3xt-sk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/2019\/11\/20\/rac-bulletin-former-rac-north-east-ontario-director-bill-unger-ve3xt-sk\/","title":{"rendered":"[RAC-Bulletin] Former RAC North\/East Ontario Director Bill Unger, VE3XT SK"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Celebration of Life to be held Friday, November 22<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.rac.ca\/former-rac-north-east-ontario-director-bill-unger-ve3xt-sk\/<\/a><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

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Radio Amateurs of Canada has received the sad news that former RAC North\/East Ontario Regional Director Bill Unger, VE3XT, has become a Silent Key.<\/span><\/p>\n

The following information was extracted from the online\u00a0obituary<\/a>\u00a0notice.<\/span><\/p>\n

In addition to the volunteer activities described in the following obituary, Bill was also the Chair of the RAC Scholarship and Grant Program.<\/span><\/p>\n

A tribute article to Bill will be included in an upcoming issue of\u00a0The Canadian Amateur\u00a0<\/i>magazine.<\/span><\/p>\n

Glenn MacDonell, VE3XRA<\/i>
\nPresident,\u00a0Radio Amateurs of Canada<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

William Peter Unger, VE3XT SK\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

In his own words:<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cBill Unger, VE3XT, was born on March 9, 1954 to William Bernard and Monica Catherine (nee Boyle) in Fort William, Ontario.<\/span><\/p>\n

I died peacefully (hopefully) on November 16, 2019. I attended St. Martins, Westgate High School and graduated from Confederation College in the Electronics Technician Program in 1974.<\/span><\/p>\n

I am survived by my wife, confidant and best friend of over 25 years Rita Comuzzi. I\u2019m also leaving behind my children Suzanne Couturier (Ben) in Red Deer, John-Paul Unger and step-son David Gomez (Charlene) in Edmonton, Alberta. I am survived by three grandchildren Aidan, Myah and Layla Couturier in Red Deer whom I will miss dearly. I\u2019m also survived by my three siblings Cathy Babiak (Joe), Paul Unger (Lorie) London, Ontario and Mary Ann Unger.<\/span><\/p>\n

After graduation from Confederation College I worked for the Department of Communications (DOC) at the Thunder Bay monitoring station as a Radio Inspector. After four years with the DOC, I moved to the CBC as a Transmitter Technician and then onto TV Ontario as Supervisor of transmitter operations. In the year 2000 I came full circle returning to Confederation College to teach in the same program I graduated from years earlier retiring in 2011.<\/span><\/p>\n

I have been active in the Lakehead Amateur Radio Club for almost 50 years holding the Amateur Radio call signs VE3EFC and VE3XT. I was a Regional Director for Radio Amateurs of Canada from 1997 to 2004 which provided me ample opportunity for travel. Throughout these travels I was able to develop many lifelong friendships. In retirement I became active with the 55+ Centre as a member of the Amateur Radio Station there. I became President of the Board of Directors at the 55+ Centre in March 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n

My wishes are to not have a formal funeral but instead have a gathering of friends and family at a Celebration of Life to be held at The DaVinci Centre on Friday, November 22, from 11 am to 2 pm. My ashes will be interred at a later date.<\/span><\/p>\n

I want to thank my wife Rita and Doctors McCluskey, Anthes, Aseyev, Davis and the entire staff of 4 North at St. Joseph\u2019s Hospital for making the end of my life as good as it could have been.<\/span><\/p>\n

In lieu of flowers donations can be made to the\u00a0RAC Scholarship Fund<\/a>\u00a0via their website or the Northern Cancer Research Fund.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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  Celebration of Life to be held Friday, November 22 https:\/\/www.rac.ca\/former-rac-north-east-ontario-director-bill-unger-ve3xt-sk\/ For immediate release: Radio Amateurs of Canada has received the sad news that former RAC North\/East Ontario Regional Director Bill Unger, VE3XT, has become a Silent Key. The following Read more\u2026 <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1532"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1533,"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1532\/revisions\/1533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}