flags-450x338The University of Guelph’s campus flags will be at half-mast Aug. 5 to mark the funeral service for a U of G professor.

Kees de Lange, a professor in the Department of Animal Biosciences, died Aug. 1. A visitation is set for Thursday, Aug. 4, from 6-9 p.m. at the Gilbert MacIntyre & Son Funeral Home, 1099 Gordon Street, Guelph. A funeral mass will be held Friday, Aug. 5, at 11 a.m. at Basilica of Our Lady Immaculate, 28 Norfolk Street, Guelph.

The University also mourns the passing of  Wendy Tompkins, who died July 29. She was a staff member in the Department of Athletics. Funeral services were held Aug. 2, and the University’s flags were lowered to half-mast Aug. 3 in her memory.

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