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Obituary in Victoria Times:
Wachter, Blair Tolmie
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WACHTER, Blair Tolmie Blair Tolmie Wachter, beloved husband, father and
grandfather, died after complications from multiple myeloma at the
University of Utah Hospital in Salt Lake City, Utah, on June 12, 2005. Blair
was born March 5, 1935, in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, to Tolmie
Joseph Wachter and Joyce Winifred Lillian nee Smith. He was the first of
five children. Blair attended grade school in Victoria, and high school in
Metchosin, British Columbia. Blair studied two years at Victoria College and
continued his studies at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver,
BC, where he received his Medical Doctorate. In 1960, he married Ann-Mari
Wallen and they moved to New York where Blair worked as an anesthesiologist
for 43 years. Blair began his career at Meadowbrook Hospital (now Nassau
County Medical Center) on Long Island, New York. In 1975, he became a full
time partner of the Department of Anesthesia at Brunswick Hospital in
Amityville, NY, and served as President of the Medical staff at Brunswick
until 1980. Blair was an avid fisherman, skier, and outdoorsman. The Wachter
family spent summers on Long Island Sound and winters in the Catskill
Mountains. In 1973, Blair bought property in Middleburgh, NY, and together
with his family maintained a home and small horse farm there for 30 years.
Blair retired from medical practice in 2003 due to health difficulties and
moved to Holladay, Utah. Blair Wachter is survived by his wife, Ann-Mari;
their daughter, Nanette Mari Wachter, and her husband, Kelvin Arthur
Nahrwold, who reside in Middleburgh, NY; their son, Tolmie Erik Wachter, and
his wife, Kristina Gibby Wachter, and three grandchildren, residing in
Holladay, Utah; a brother, Bernard Wachter, in Victoria, British Columbia; a
sister, Carole Wells, in Metchosin, BC; and a sister, Daphne Feusier, in
Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. He was predeceased by his brother Bruce Wachter of
Metchosin, BC, in 1994. A family memorial service was held on Saturday, June
18, at the Wachter home in Holladay, Utah. 101333
Published in the Victoria Times-Colonist on 6/19/2005.
-- Tolmie Wachter
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