BarTalk June 1999
Volume 11, Number 3

Tollestrup, Jon Frederick
Jon Tollestrup of North Vancouver, BC passed away on April 17, 1999. He was inspirational to everyone at his firm in his fight against prostate cancer for the past four years. Jon was called to the BC Bar in 1967 and practiced with Lang Michener Lawrence & Shaw in the area of civil litigation since 1969.

His wife, Jane, and children, Jonathan, Sally, Meren, Sunny, Ben and Sara have requested that in lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Palliative Care Unit at Lions Gate Hospital or to the Prostate Cancer Research Centre. As a husband, father, partner and friend, he will be deeply missed.

Tupper, David Wilson Hibbert, QC
David Tupper, QC passed away in UBC Hospital on February 18 of this year. His widow, Jacqueline wrote the following:

“David loved his law practice and those friends he gained both in his practice and from his practice. He believed in the system and his part in it. David also credited his secretaries with keeping him on track. David and I were married following the death of his first wife Joan, and in 1986/87 together we enjoyed his year as Treasurer of the Law Society and traveled across Canada with everyone being so warm to David and his bride. Such a fine note to complete his legal career.

I have received many personal messages from his colleagues and clients who felt David was their mentor and looked to him for practical and appropriate solutions and he rarely failed to do anything asked of him. David was said to be a gentle giant of a man, a civilized man and an honourable man. He was all of those and so much more to me and many others here and around the world. It has been comforting to hear such love and admiration of the man I knew to be so tender and caring, the best friend and partner to me and many others throughout his life and career.

Thank you everyone in the legal fraternity profession, his good friends, and colleagues for making his life such a delight for him to look back over with great pleasure these last few years.”

This article was published in the June 1999 issue of BarTalk and is subject to the copyright by the British Columbia Branch of the Canadian Bar Association, 2005, all rights reserved.