HOFFOS, Gordon April 15, 1920 - January 26, 2009 S/L Gordon Hoffos (RCAF. Ret.) was born near Assiniboia, Sask., the seventh of ten children raised by Norwegian-American immigrants Otto Hoffos and Anna Sivertson. As a teenager, he qualified as a movie projectionist, played minor league hockey and worked as a logger before joining the RCAF in 1942, transferring to the Fleet Air Arm of the Royal Navy and flying Seafires with 803 Squadron by the end of WWII. He married Carol Lamb, a nurse, in 1947, relinquishing a place in medical school to become a bush pilot for her brother, the legendary Manitoban frontiersman Tom Lamb. After five years in the north, Gordon re-joined in the RCAF in 1951, with postings to London, North Bay (where their daughter, Signe, was born), Cold Lake and Yuma before settling in Ottawa in 1959. During the Cold War, he inspected nuclear weapon facilities for NATO, and commanded a DEW Line station on Baffin Island. After completing a BA at Carleton University in 1968, he spent the last decade of his career with Canada Post. Gordon and Carol retired to a home they built near Farren Lake, then to the village of Westport, where they were active members of St. Paul's Anglican Church, and helped to revitalize Branch 542 of the Royal Canadian Legion. From their honeymoon in a two-seater Taylorcraft to a valedictory trip to Antarctica in 2005, they visited over 40 countries and every continent, and enjoyed nearly 30 years as winter residents of Ormond Beach, Florida, before Carol's death from ALS in 2006. Gordon died in the Great War Memorial Hospital, Perth, four months after diagnosis of lung cancer; contributions to the Great Ware Memorial Hospital Foundation or Canadian Cancer Society would be appreciated. A memorial service will be held in St. James Anglican Church, Westport on Saturday, April 25th, 2009. followed by a reception in the Westport Legion Branch 542. Interment of ashes will take place at the National Military Cemetery in Ottawa at a later date. Arrangements are in the care of Blair & Son Funeral Directors, Perth, 613-267-3765.