Known for his kindness and humility, the retired school janitor and SooToday cartoonist died this week
Over the years, Ron Moffatt's cartoons appeared in the Sault Star, Sault This Week and most recently, on SooToday.Many of us saw Ron's cartoons for what they were: smiling moments with a kind, humble and much-loved retired school janitor who delighted in making us laugh with his weekly Sunday Funny feature."It was in the recovery room that his heart gave out," his family wrote in his obituary. Moffatt kept on drawing comics for SooToday until the end.
Ron was aware I was a true-crime writer who had written a book about Steven Truscott . In his email, Ron explained that he too had been wrongly convicted of murder at age 14 in 1956. The more we communicated, the more I was convinced Ron was the “real deal” – someone who had suffered a terrible injustice that had been largely forgotten.
In addition to speaking with Ron, I tracked down newspaper stories, government reports, court and police documents and interviewed other people. Ron attended the official book launch on August 14, 2018 at Toronto Reference Library. There was an audible gasp from the crowd when I introduced him as a special surprise guest. Ron came to the front and talked about his run-in with the law, and the years it took for him to recover.
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