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Passed away at the Brantford General Hospital on February 26, 2021 in his 94th year. A long-time resident of St. George, Ontario. Survived by his loving wife Cecilia (Van der Werf) and his\u00a0three children Victor (Olive), Doug (Gayle) and Carol (Ron) Belair and numerous grandchildren\u00a0and great grandchildren.\u00a0Harry will be remembered for as the Founder of Witteveen Meats, St. George. As an active Life\u00a0Member of the St. George Lions club since 1952, he was a believer in supporting the local\u00a0community and served as a Councillor and Deputy Reeve of South Dumfries County Township\u00a0and then went on to serve as Warden of Brant County. He also served on the Brantford General\u00a0Hospital Board and was an active Life Member of the Brantford Club. His passion for life also\u00a0included his love of his native land Friesian Horses which he bred and raised during his\u00a0retirement years. He went on to serve as one of the Founding Directors of the Friesian Horse\u00a0Association of North America and in 2009 was inducted to the FHANA Hall of Fame.\u00a0Harry always took care of his family and has left many memories behind for all of them to\u00a0cherish. He will be deeply missed by all those that loved him.\u00a0As expressions of sympathy donations in Harry\u2019s memory may be made to: St Josephs Lifecare\u00a0Foundation, cremation has taken place. A family service will be held at a later date when we can all\u00a0gather once again.\u00a0Arrangements entrusted to McCleister Funeral Home, 495 Park Road N. Brantford. Condolences and memories may be shared with the family at\u00a0www.mccleisterfuneralhome.ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 1928 \u2013 2021 Passed away at the Brantford General Hospital on February 26, 2021 in his 94th year. A long-time resident of St. George, Ontario. Survived by his loving wife Cecilia (Van der Werf) and his\u00a0three children Victor (Olive), Doug (Gayle) and Carol (Ron) Belair and numerous grandchildren\u00a0and great grandchildren.\u00a0Harry will be remembered for as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":904,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ontariofriesianhorse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ontariofriesianhorse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ontariofriesianhorse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ontariofriesianhorse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ontariofriesianhorse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=777"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/ontariofriesianhorse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":903,"href":"http:\/\/ontariofriesianhorse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777\/revisions\/903"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ontariofriesianhorse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ontariofriesianhorse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ontariofriesianhorse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ontariofriesianhorse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}