DREYER, Frederick August…At Freeport Hospital, Kitchener, on Friday, January 20, 2012 Frederick Dreyer in his 80th year. Loving husband of the late Elizabeth Dreyer (2008). Dear father of Anne Dreyer and her husband Michael Weatherill of Horsham, England and Ted Dreyer and his wife Johanna of Waterloo. Beloved grandfather of Amelia, Evan and Maeve. Cremation has taken place. As an expression of sympathy donations to the Canadian Cancer Society, 123 St. George Street, London ON N6A 3A1 would be appreciated. Online condolences at www.amgfh.com (A. Millard George Funeral Home entrusted with arrangements, 519-433-5184)
I had Mr. Dreyer as a history professor and knew Fred as a neighbour in Wortley Village.In the former instance he was serious and scholarly and,in the latter, amusing and witty – and in all instances he was a pleasure to be around. My condolences to the family.
Linda Sabathy-Judd
January 23, 2012 at 10:32 am
Prof. Fred Dreyer was my mentor, PhD adviser, colleague, and good friend for nearly 30 years. I valued his tutelage and friendship greatly. To my husband, Jack, Fred was also a valued client. Jack and I will cherish the memory of Fred and will miss his humour and profound intellect which stimulated many a conversation around our dining room tables over the years. We extend our deepest sympathy to the Dreyer family.
Janelle Mellamphy
January 23, 2012 at 11:22 am
Dear Anne and Teddy, I am so very sorry to hear about your father’s passing, especially so quickly after your mother’s. Your family makes up such a large part of my fondest childhood memories, and your Dad will always be remembered for his fantastic laugh and his ongoing Dan Mellamphy’s Zoo elementary school carpool poetry. He was really a lovely person, as was your mum. This must be a terrible time for you and your families; please know that prayers and good wishes are coming your way from Montreal.
Peter and Hilary Neary
January 23, 2012 at 1:03 pm
We send the Dreyer family our sincerest condolences as we remember a life well lived. Requiescat in Pace.
Peter and Hilary Neary.
Marguerite Van Die
January 23, 2012 at 3:20 pm
Fred Dreyer was a wonderful resource and mentor in the early 1980s while I worked on a doctoral dissertation at UWO on 19th-century Methodism in Canada. I so appreciated his provocative and witty style and his considerable erudition. He provided a blast of fresh air to the rather predictable literature. He will be missed. My sincere condolences to the family.
Mirjana & Dimitry Pospielovsky
January 23, 2012 at 5:02 pm
Dear Anne and Ted,
Sincere condolances to you and your family at passing of your father. Fred will be greatly missed, a loyal friend and colleague, a most wonderful person.
Eternal memory!
Dimitry and Mirjana Pospielovsky
Richard Blais
January 23, 2012 at 7:19 pm
I can’t say, Carmen and I, how much we will miss him. His visit, at the chalet, every morning, to have his coffee and rebuild the world was a very happy part of our life. Summers will never be the same! How many discussions will never come around between a very british protestant and a very bad catholic? So much fun yet to come will not take place?
Julianne et Jean-Christophe Blais Slattery
January 23, 2012 at 9:05 pm
Nous sommes très attristés du départ de Monsieur Fred. Nos séjours au chalet ne seront plus les mêmes sans ses visites, ses longues conversations, ses éclats de rire et ses marches de santé dans le rang. Vous nous manquerez beaucoup.
William and Eva Kuhn
January 23, 2012 at 11:39 pm
Fred Dreyer was most kind and helpful to me as a graduate student in the 1970s. It is from those times that I have fond memories of conversations and our fishing trips to Lake Timiskaming in Quebec and northern Ontario.
Dennis Slattery
January 24, 2012 at 11:46 am
Who will stand in my corner against the french. Your passing leaves a hurtful void at the Blais chalet. All of baie trepanier mourns your passing.
Adieu mon ami
Bob and Midge Heighway
January 24, 2012 at 1:43 pm
Dear Anne and Ted,
Our deepest sympathy to you and your families.
We are sorry for your loss.
Midge and Bob Heighway
Tom Heighway
January 24, 2012 at 4:20 pm
Anne and Ted, please accept my deppest sympathy on the recent death of your Dad. I have thought of your family often as I have the picture that Cliff drew at the Wortley Rd Corner…It is such a great picture of your Dad.
We will remember him fondly.
With Sympathy
Tom
Monda Halpern
January 24, 2012 at 8:29 pm
I am very sorry for your loss. Professor Dreyer was my professor at Western in 1986/87 for a graduate course in British History. I remember his passion for Edmund Burke and John Wesley! But, mostly, I remember his passion for life – his gregarious personality, and his big smile and laugh. His students will remember him with much fondness. Please know that we are thinking of him.
Monda Halpern
Assistant Professor, History
The University of western Ontario
Lisa Shepherd & Dave Dougherty
January 24, 2012 at 9:00 pm
We were saddened to learn of the passing of Dr. Dreyer. He was a delightful neighbour and a true gentleman . Our entire family enjoyed our many conversations over the years. Our thoughts are with your family.
jean perron
January 24, 2012 at 11:32 pm
jean perron .tuesday january 24 2012. i heard the bad news today. the baie trepanier is like a small family and you have been part of it for a long time.what a joy to talk to you in summer days. GOODBYE MR.FRED
Gordon Duncan
January 25, 2012 at 9:07 pm
I was saddened to hear of Fred’s death. As Minister of Visitation for Calvary United Church I officiated at Betty’s funeral and through that connection I had some very interesting conversations with Fred; particularly about his wide knowledge of the Methodist Church, and its relationship with the Moravian Church through John and Charles Wesley, founding spirits of the Methodist movement. What a sharp mind he had for historical details. Periodically I phoned him just to check on his health and simply say “hello”. I regret that I did not follow an nudge to phone before Christmas. Our sincere sympathy to you in the loss of a great mind.
Kenji and Minako Nakajima
January 26, 2012 at 12:01 pm
Professor Fred Dreyer
We miss you. We thank for your longtime friendship. Your gentle voice and smile are left in our heart forever. The sincere condolence to the family.
Kenji and Minako
from Kyoto, Japan
Michael Carrier
January 27, 2012 at 11:15 am
I was very saddened to here that your Dad had passed away. I was a grad student of Fred’s in the early 70s. He was such a wonderful, kind teacher: he made us feel respected and he always engaged us in lively historical debates. We were often invited over to your house on Wortley Road for class gatherings, and we even went fishing together. He will be greatly missed by us, his students.
Chris Speed
January 27, 2012 at 12:05 pm
Prof. Dreyer was such a pleasure to work with when he was in the Department of History and he will be missed by many. I am so sorry for your loss.
Paul Webb, Department of History, King's University College
January 30, 2012 at 9:42 pm
I have been most distressed to learn of this. Fred was my MA thesis supervisor in 1967, where I learned so much about Burke and Bentham that I have never felt the need to revisit either. Fred remained a mentor, especially in my first fumbling years as a lecturer. As others have remarked, his dry and penetrating wit was ever a delight. I am much saddened by his passing, and I send sincere condolences to all his family.
Maeve weatherill
May 4, 2022 at 1:47 pm
he was a amazing grand gather and sparked my great love of history
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I had Mr. Dreyer as a history professor and knew Fred as a neighbour in Wortley Village.In the former instance he was serious and scholarly and,in the latter, amusing and witty – and in all instances he was a pleasure to be around. My condolences to the family.
Prof. Fred Dreyer was my mentor, PhD adviser, colleague, and good friend for nearly 30 years. I valued his tutelage and friendship greatly. To my husband, Jack, Fred was also a valued client. Jack and I will cherish the memory of Fred and will miss his humour and profound intellect which stimulated many a conversation around our dining room tables over the years. We extend our deepest sympathy to the Dreyer family.
Dear Anne and Teddy, I am so very sorry to hear about your father’s passing, especially so quickly after your mother’s. Your family makes up such a large part of my fondest childhood memories, and your Dad will always be remembered for his fantastic laugh and his ongoing Dan Mellamphy’s Zoo elementary school carpool poetry. He was really a lovely person, as was your mum. This must be a terrible time for you and your families; please know that prayers and good wishes are coming your way from Montreal.
We send the Dreyer family our sincerest condolences as we remember a life well lived. Requiescat in Pace.
Peter and Hilary Neary.
Fred Dreyer was a wonderful resource and mentor in the early 1980s while I worked on a doctoral dissertation at UWO on 19th-century Methodism in Canada. I so appreciated his provocative and witty style and his considerable erudition. He provided a blast of fresh air to the rather predictable literature. He will be missed. My sincere condolences to the family.
Dear Anne and Ted,
Sincere condolances to you and your family at passing of your father. Fred will be greatly missed, a loyal friend and colleague, a most wonderful person.
Eternal memory!
Dimitry and Mirjana Pospielovsky
I can’t say, Carmen and I, how much we will miss him. His visit, at the chalet, every morning, to have his coffee and rebuild the world was a very happy part of our life. Summers will never be the same! How many discussions will never come around between a very british protestant and a very bad catholic? So much fun yet to come will not take place?
Nous sommes très attristés du départ de Monsieur Fred. Nos séjours au chalet ne seront plus les mêmes sans ses visites, ses longues conversations, ses éclats de rire et ses marches de santé dans le rang. Vous nous manquerez beaucoup.
Fred Dreyer was most kind and helpful to me as a graduate student in the 1970s. It is from those times that I have fond memories of conversations and our fishing trips to Lake Timiskaming in Quebec and northern Ontario.
Who will stand in my corner against the french. Your passing leaves a hurtful void at the Blais chalet. All of baie trepanier mourns your passing.
Adieu mon ami
Dear Anne and Ted,
Our deepest sympathy to you and your families.
We are sorry for your loss.
Midge and Bob Heighway
Anne and Ted, please accept my deppest sympathy on the recent death of your Dad. I have thought of your family often as I have the picture that Cliff drew at the Wortley Rd Corner…It is such a great picture of your Dad.
We will remember him fondly.
With Sympathy
Tom
I am very sorry for your loss. Professor Dreyer was my professor at Western in 1986/87 for a graduate course in British History. I remember his passion for Edmund Burke and John Wesley! But, mostly, I remember his passion for life – his gregarious personality, and his big smile and laugh. His students will remember him with much fondness. Please know that we are thinking of him.
Monda Halpern
Assistant Professor, History
The University of western Ontario
We were saddened to learn of the passing of Dr. Dreyer. He was a delightful neighbour and a true gentleman . Our entire family enjoyed our many conversations over the years. Our thoughts are with your family.
jean perron .tuesday january 24 2012. i heard the bad news today. the baie trepanier is like a small family and you have been part of it for a long time.what a joy to talk to you in summer days. GOODBYE MR.FRED
I was saddened to hear of Fred’s death. As Minister of Visitation for Calvary United Church I officiated at Betty’s funeral and through that connection I had some very interesting conversations with Fred; particularly about his wide knowledge of the Methodist Church, and its relationship with the Moravian Church through John and Charles Wesley, founding spirits of the Methodist movement. What a sharp mind he had for historical details. Periodically I phoned him just to check on his health and simply say “hello”. I regret that I did not follow an nudge to phone before Christmas. Our sincere sympathy to you in the loss of a great mind.
Professor Fred Dreyer
We miss you. We thank for your longtime friendship. Your gentle voice and smile are left in our heart forever. The sincere condolence to the family.
Kenji and Minako
from Kyoto, Japan
I was very saddened to here that your Dad had passed away. I was a grad student of Fred’s in the early 70s. He was such a wonderful, kind teacher: he made us feel respected and he always engaged us in lively historical debates. We were often invited over to your house on Wortley Road for class gatherings, and we even went fishing together. He will be greatly missed by us, his students.
Prof. Dreyer was such a pleasure to work with when he was in the Department of History and he will be missed by many. I am so sorry for your loss.
I have been most distressed to learn of this. Fred was my MA thesis supervisor in 1967, where I learned so much about Burke and Bentham that I have never felt the need to revisit either. Fred remained a mentor, especially in my first fumbling years as a lecturer. As others have remarked, his dry and penetrating wit was ever a delight. I am much saddened by his passing, and I send sincere condolences to all his family.
he was a amazing grand gather and sparked my great love of history