Clive Theodore Richard Burge

I had the great pleasure to work with Clive at Vifor. His outstanding knowledge, his openness, his friendliness, paired with his honesty was an honor to experience!
I miss our exchange that we kept beyond work. It’s too sad that you my friend had to “celebrate” your 80th birthday in heaven. My deepest condolences to the family!
Michael

To the family and friends of Clive:
Just last year I was reminded of him when I randomly heard the name Clive and tonight, I happen to stumble upon the primaries from the state of Iowa one of the cities voting was “Clive, Iowa” this once again triggered many fond memories of Clive Your father, husband, and grandfather. So I had to try and find him searching through LinkedIn, and then just googling his name, with the name of his most recent company, sadly to find his obituary.

I had the pleasure of meeting Clive in 1989 when I became a member of Connaught Novo Nordisk sales team and trained extensively with him for two weeks in Toronto. His kind, caring and gregarious personality was infectious and all eight of us who were in training became quite fond of him. I learned a lot from Clive, as did we all. He was one of the most intelligent people I have ever met and he loved to teach and disseminate his knowledge to others and he was exceptional at it.

Early on in the two week course, all eight of us training felt like we were a part of his family. He just had a great way of making you feel at home, and he truly cared about you.

Following the course and just before the national sales meeting I took it upon myself to have T-shirts printed with his caricature on them saying, as I hope you may have seen and remember:
“We survived Clive

April 89”

I was the one that got up and presented the T-shirt to him at our national awards banquet and all eight of us that were on the course stood 4 on either side of him sporting the same T-shirt as he grinned from ear to ear in heartfelt appreciation. I will never forget how much of a kick he got out of that. It still is today one of my fondest memories of my 16 years in the pharmaceutical industry.

I unfortunately, didn’t stay with the company much more than two years as I was offered a substantial job with Glaxo and moved on. And as we spread our wings and accept positions elsewhere, we must leave some friends behind. I don’t think I have spoken to him since March 1992, but I wanted you all to know that I’ve never forgotten him and his great sense of humor, and his vast intelligence including his mastery of the English language. He was one of a kind and I am sure he will live on in all of you with the many memories you have.

I would love to hear from you if you so, choose and have the time.
My deepest condolences for the loss of a life well lived!
Kindest regards.
Paul McCarthy
Fredericton New Brunswick

My sincere condolences to Jane and family. I had the pleasure to meet Clive and work with him as a colleague at Vifor Pharma. He was deeply curious and intellectual and a fountain of deep information about nearly everything and which he shared openly and generously. I will miss his smile, his wit and his gentle and caring ways. Rest in peace my friend and God bless.

Some people truly do sparkle! I had the pleasure of working with Clive from 2001 to 2003. He had a way of teaching with a smile and a story.
He will be missed.

I had the chance to get to know Clive in 2008 during our fist business meeting at Vifor Pharma. From the first moment it was clear that Clive was unique. I appreciated his special spirit and sensitivity. Besides the hard work, we could enjoy some great team-events in Switzerland and later on, we still kept in touch.
I never met his family, but I know that you meant a lot to him.
What a loss – how sad.
My sincere condolences

I first met Clive in 2001. He was working at a pharma company in Burnaby and commuting each day from the Island. This required very early starts, cycling to the ferry and then picking up a car on the other side. And he did this for years! I had the pleasure of working with Clive until 2020, and was fortunate enough to stay in contact with him once he’d retired. I’ve lost count of all the eye rolls he caused us and the many adventures we had as we travelled together. He was a very special person and will be greatly missed. My sincere condolences go to the entire family and our thoughts are with you at this very difficult time.

I had the pleasure of working with Clive since 2006. I’ll always remember him for his wonderful/terrible puns.
My sincere condolences to your family.

More than twenty years ago, Clive helped more than a dozen stressed and beleaguered Greater Victoria families to secure much-needed respite care for their special-needs children. His efforts led to the founding of Children’s Respite Support Society and MiMi’s House in Saanich, and he remained a Director of the Society up to his passing. His keen intelligence, gentle humor, wit and wisdom, along with his ready willingness to fight the good fight for a just cause are irreplaceable and will be sorely missed by the CRSS Directors and the MiMi’s House families.

Charles R. Card
Secretary, Children’s Respite Support Society