219 The Royal Canadian Legion MANITOBA & NORTHWESTERN ONTARIO COMMAND www.mbnwo.ca WILLIAMS (KOLISNYK), Mary WWII Mary was born in the Ukraine in 1924 and in 1929 she moved to Canada and settled in on the family farm in Scalter, Manitoba. When she was eighteen, in 1942, she joined the Army and took her basic training, which included small arms range courses and trained to become a cook at Fort Garry Barracks. Private Mary Williams passed her cooking tests and became a cook at the Sargent’s Mess in 1943, where she met and married Sargent Parker Williams in 1944. After being discharged, the couple moved to Pine River, Manitoba. They raised three boys there and moved to Winnipeg in 1955 and added two more sons to their family. During civilian life, Mary worked as a waitress and in housekeeping and in her retirement she still enjoyed cooking and took in some casino gaming as well as the weekly bingos. She also enjoyed spending time with her children, grandchildren and her great-grandchildren. Mary passed away in 2017 at the age of 93. ZEBINSKI, Michael WWII Michael was born in Goner, Manitoba in 1915. He enlisted in the Armoured Corps in the fall of 1941. He was a driver instructor at Borden and Dundurn as Sgt. He took a rank reduction and transferred to Calgary Highlanders. He received a head wound in Holland and was discharged in January 1946. He served in Canada, England and Holland during World War II. Michael passed away in 1996. ZOLINSKI, Darrell S. PEACETIME Darrell was born in 1964 and grew up in Winnipeg. He joined the Canadian Army in 1985 as a Radio Operator and began a full and distinguished military career with PPCLI Signals, Kingston 38 unit. His domestic postings were in Borden, Germany, Kingston, and Thunder Bay. From there, he deployed to numerous international tours including Niscosia, Cypress; Lahr, Germany; Visoko, Bosnia and Herzegovina; Qunaytirah, Syria; and Kabul, Afghanistan. He retired in 2013. Darrell was a member of the Legion Branch 5, Thunder Bay from 2013 to 2015 and Arborg Legion from 2015 until his death in 2017.
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