Richard Bruce Penton, 1950, age 27
Name:
Richard Bruce Penton
Sex:
Male
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Mother:
Headstone of R. Bruce Penton
Birth:
Aug 19, 1923
Mimico, Ontario, Canada1
Occupation:
Medical Doctor, Coroner
Residence:
Nov 27, 1991 (age 68)
St. Catharines, Niagara, Ontario, Canada2
Address: Lot 6, Concession 4 - 1676 Fourth Avenue
Death:
Nov 27, 1991 (age 68)
Hamilton, Wentworth, Ontario, Canada2
Address: Hamilton General Hospital
Burial:
Nov 30, 1991
Victoria Lawn Cemetery, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada
Family of Richard Bruce Penton and Blanche Miller
Spouse: Blanche Miller
Spouse:
Children:
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Children:
Spouse: Kathleen Sonja Pauline Dominic
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Marriage:
Jul 6, 1991 (age 67)
St Johns Anglican Church, Port Dalhousie, ON
Hamilton Spectator
29 November 1991
MD was first regional coroner in Niagara
A FIGHTER and a renegade was how he once described himself, but Dr. Bruce Penton was remembered yesterday as a soft-spoken, co-operative professional by police and medical colleagues.
Dr. Penton, Niagara's first regional coroner, died Wednesday at Hamilton General Hospital. He was 68.
"I've always found him to be an excellent coroner, very dedicated to the coroner's profession," said Niagara police Staff Superintendent Dave Gittings.
"Very soft spoken. You know he wasn't flamboyant at all."
Still, Dr. Penton, who retired as regional coroner in 1988, wasn't a pushover in his job of working with police investigating sudden deaths such as traffic accidents, homicides and suicides.
During his career he fined a juror for not attending a coroner's inquest, sometimes chastised lawyers for their behavior and cited a mayor and police chief for contempt of court. He even cancelled an inquest in the 1960s when he learned the jury was pulled from an unemployment line - saying such a jury would not be representative of the community.
Mentor
Niagara's current regional coroner, Dr. Bonnie Porter, called Dr. Penton a "mentor" who helped her in her work as a Hamilton coroner in the 1980s.
"Well-known and well-respected, he will be greatly missed," Dr. Porter said.
"He was always very supportive and very helpful. I considered him a friend and I will miss him."
Dr. Penton received his medical degree from the University of Toronto in 1950 and was appointed coroner of Lincoln County in 1958. He became Niagara's first chief regional coroner in 1975 - a position that also placed him in charge of about 40 coroners in Hamilton-Wentworth, Haldimand-Norfolk and Brant. He was also chief of medical staff at St. Catharines General Hospital form 1969 to 1970.
Dr. Penton served in the Royal Canadian Air Force during the Second World War and served with the Canadian Medical Corps in Korea in 1951. He left the military with the rank of major.
He was also a member of professional organizations including the Ontario Coroners' Association, the Canadian Society of Forensic Science and the Canadian Institute of Law and Medicine.
Dr. Penton is survived by ...<edited for privacy reasons>
Registration # 1923-05-071907.
Death Hamilton, Wentworth, Ontario, Canada (Hamilton General Hospital) 27 Nov 1991 Richard Bruce Penton
Death Hamilton, Wentworth, Ontario, Canada (Hamilton General Hospital) 27 Nov 1991 Richard Bruce Penton, (1991 066547).
Death
Reference: 1991 066547
Other info: SIN: 429 291 156
Death date: 27 Nov 1991
Death address: Hamilton General Hospital
Death place: Hamilton, Wentworth, Ontario, Canada
Name: Richard Bruce Penton
Sex: Male
Occupation: Medical Doctor: General Practitioner, Surgeon & Coroner
Residence place: St. Catharines, Niagara, Ontario, Canada
Residence address: Lot 6, Concession 4 - 1676 Fourth Avenue
Age: 68
Date of birth: 19 Aug 1923
Birth place: Mimico, Ontario, Canada
Marital status: Married
Father: William Leigh Penton
Mother: Vera Winnifred McBean
Spouse: Kathleen Sonja Pauline (Kathy) Dominic
Informant description: Wife
Informant residence place: St. Catharines, Niagara, Ontario, Canada
Informant residence address: 1676 Fourth Avenue
Date registered: 29 Nov 1991
Registrar: B. Stadnyk
News item in Toronto Daily Star, pg. 20, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, February 21, 1945
News item in Toronto Daily Star, pg. 20, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, February 21, 1945.
RICHARD PENTON WEDS MISS BLANCHE MILLER
Miss Blanche Miller and L.A.C. Richard Bruce Penton, R.C.A.F., were married by Rev. Sextus Stiles in St. Olaves Anglican church, Feb. 17. The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Miller, St. Catharines. The groom, stationed at Camp Borden, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Leigh Penton, St. Clarens Ave. Stuart Roseveare played wedding music. Given in marriage by her father, the bride wore a torso gown of white satin with long train. It was fashioned with a high neckline, net yoke and princess skirt. Her long tulle veil fell from a headdress of pearls and she carried red roses and while Calla lilies. Mrs. Christine Penton, matron-of-honor, wore a gown of forget-me-not blue taffeta. The bridesmaids, Miss Shirley Bell and Miss Gloria Trevenna, were in dawn rose gowns matching the matrons-of-honor. The shade of their hats harmonized with their dresses and they carried pink carnations, white sweet peas and babys breath. Sergt. John Johnson, R.C.A.F., was best man, and guests were ushered by John Strathearn, Stkr, Robert Miller, R.C.N., brides brother. At a reception held at the home of the grooms aunt, Mrs. Walter S. McBean, Grenadier Heights, the brides mother received wearing a street-length mauve crepe dress with black accessories and corsage of yellow roses. The grooms mother, also receiving, was in a street-length navy blue dress with black accessories. She wore a corsage of red roses. For the wedding trip to the U.S., the bride changed to a green dressmaker suit with brown accessories and brown muskrat coat. The couple will live in Toronto.
Proceedings in The Globe and Mail, pg. 45, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, February 1, 1968
Proceedings in The Globe and Mail, pg. 45, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, February 1, 1968.