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Let me introduce you to  Louella Florence Rhude, she's the daughter of Lewis G Rhude and Florence Zettler - Lewis's 3x maternal grandparents are Samuel Whidden (1813) and Sophia Vincent (1824).

Louella married one Hector Joseph Lalande in 1957 at North Bay, Ontario.  Hector was the son of Emile Lalande and Dorina Demontigny and he was born on 24 Nov 1934 and passed away on 18 Aug 2010 in North Bay, Ontario.

He broke into the National Hockey League when he was 19 years old and was a centerman for the Chicago Blackhawks from 1955 to 1958 and ended NHL career with the Detroit Red Wings.  He rubbed shoulders with the likes of Bobby Hull and Elmer Vasko - all three were credited for the revitalization of the Hawks franchise around 1957.  After he left the NHL, he was considered a nomad and landed with the Hershey Bears of the AHL in 1958.  After hockey, he coached hockey and baseball and organized & coached sledge hockey for disabled athletes.

The Nugget, Tues, 24 Aug 2010
Funeral for Former NHLer Hec Lelande
A funeral service will be held today for Hector 'Hec' Lalande, who played 151 NHL games with the Chicago Blackhawks and Detroit Red Wings during his 15-year pro hockey career.

Lalande, who was inducted into the North Bay Sports Hall of Fame in 1986, died Wednesday at age 75.

Lalande broke into the NHL as a 19-year-old junior with the 1953-54 Chicago Blackhawks. He would go on to score 21 goals and 60 points in 151 games over three NHL seasons with the Blackhawks and Red Wings, before spending 12 more seasons of pro hockey in the AHL and Eastern Professional Hockey League.

Lalande started out in junior hockey in Belleville, after that city was recommended as "a good place to play" by North Bay's Don Hogan, who would later play against Lalande in the AHL and EPHL.

"He was a good centreman, a good playmaker," said Hogan, a fellow North Bay Sports Hall of Famer. "And he was a tough player. Nobody pushed him around."

Hogan spent three seasons with the AHL's Cleveland Barons facing off against Lalande, who was then playing for the Hershey Bears. Lalande captured two straight Calder Cups with Hershey in 1957-58 and 1958-59.

Lalande, whose brothers Harvey and Lionel are also recognized by the North Bay Sports Hall of Fame, was a teammate of Hogan's during summers playing fastball for North Bay Dairy.  "He was a good all-around athlete, a good ball player," Hogan said. "You could say he was an outstanding athlete."

Lalande's most productive seasons in pro hockey were with the Clinton Comets in 1963-64 and 1964-65, when he had back-to-back 100-point seasons and helped the team win a championship.

Family and friends will celebrate Lalande's life at 10:30 a.m. at Holy Name of Jesus Church.
 

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Newspaper - Evening Standard, Uniontown, PA; Thurs, 12 Dec 1957

Hockey players wear numbers because you can't always identify the body from the dental records