GEORGE ROBERT TATLOCK

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GEORGE ROBERT TATLOCK Peacefully, on Monday, October 9, 2006, George Robert Tatlock passed away. George was born in Winnipeg on January 4, 1914, the eldest of three children. He lived his entire life in North and East Kildonan. He generously gave of his time to the community embracing the following important responsibilities: President Angus McKay Home and School Assn., President E.K. Scholarship Foundation, President Kildonan Ski Club, Master Kildonan Masonic Lodge and District Governor Toastmaster International. George was an insurance broker with AON Reed Stenhouse and was Past-President of the prestigious Insurance Brokers Association of Manitoba. As a result of mergers, his 49 years of business life was with the same company - all the 49 years located at Portage and Main. George was particularly active in the Winnipeg Jaycees (Junior Chamber of Commerce). He was editor of their national magazine ACTION and Vice-President for Committees in Jaycees International. During the 1950s and 1960s he attended every annual World Congress, meeting some prominent figures including Pope Pius IX, Japan's Crown Prince (now Emperor), President Eisenhower and the Governor of Hong Kong. George was an adventurous traveler, taking him to all corners of the world. He carried the Maple Leaf from the tropical green jungles of Peru to its once hidden mountain pinnacle Inca city of Machu Picchu - thence in his travels to the serenity of (Lord) Kitchener's Island in the Nile River in Egypt, across the scorched Sahara sands to the ancient, once educational city of Timbuktu - and onward to the mythical Lost Garden of Eden in the Seychelles Islands. George was an enthusiastic canoeist and a founding member of Kildonan Canoe Club. With fellow paddler Ralph Lowl, they twice paddled down the turbulent Columbia River from Revelstoke in British Columbia to the Grand Coulee Dam in Washington State. For more than 20 years Tatlock's Travels appeared in the Elmwood Herald and Seniors Today papers, presenting interesting stories of his travels for the public to enjoy. In the early 1950s George made several full length 16 mm colour movie travelogues of his round-the-world travels, which were widely shown to audiences in Manitoba. George retired in 1979 and turned his travel experiences into escorting tour groups to the Orient, Southeast Asia and Nepal. George possessed a lifetime's desire to travel to the earth's four corners - this he did, including the in-betweens . George was predeceased by his beloved wife Jean and by his sister Margaret. George will be lovingly remembered and profoundly missed by his daughter Margaret, brother John (Lynne) of Washington, DC and many other relatives and numerous friends. A memorial service will be held at 1:00 p.m. on Friday, October 13, at John Black Memorial United Church, 898 Henderson Highway. Private family interment at Chapel Lawn Memorial Gardens will precede. In lieu of flowers, if friends so desire, donations may be made in George's memory to the charity of their choice. We love you and miss you, dearest George Arrangements entrusted to: Chapel Lawn Memorial Gardens 982-8100

As published in Winnipeg Free Press on Oct 11, 2006