Passed peacefully away at the Veterans Wing at Sunnybrook Hospital, Toronto, ON on March 29, 2016. Bill was born at home at 28 Hamilton Street in St. John's Newfoundland on May 15, 1918 and named for his paternal grandfather. He was a graduate of Holy Cross School. Bill was predeceased by his parents William Francis Ennis and Mary Elizabeth "Lizzie" Ennis (nee Kerrivan), his eldest son Paul, his grandson Ryan and his siblings Ronald "Ron," George, Mary, Margaret "Marg," Kathleen "Kay" Walsh and Charles "Charlie." Leaving to mourn with fond and loving memories are his wife of 67 years Mary Ennis (nee Martin), his children Bill (Susan), Brian (Christine), George (Bradley), Mary Prete (Michael), Fabian (Kathleen), Barbara, his daughter-in-law Mary plus 19 grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. He will be lovingly remembered by many nephews and nieces. Bill was the last surviving Ennis who lived and fished for a living at Freshwater Bay just outside St. John's. The Ennis family had been present in Freshwater Bay for over 120 years. As a proud Newfoundlander, Bill at the age of 22 answered the call of his country in 1940 and enlisted with the 166th Newfoundland Regiment. He sever over five years of which two and one half were spent in action in Tunisia in North Africa to Italy. The Newfoundland Regiment participated in some of the bloodiest engagements between German and Allied forces (Longstop Hill, Ortona and Monte Cassino). Many of the friends Bill had known since childhood died on battlefields in Africa and Italy. He married Mary Martin on February 23, 1949 at the Oratory of the Convent of Mercy in St. John's. Bill and Mary were determined to be married as Newfoundlanders. Bill and Mary moved to Montreal in 1959 and then onto Toronto in 1960. Bill's love of camping and travel took him to many places in the United States, Israel, Italy and countries in South America and the Caribbean. The trip to Italy afforded Bill (then in his 80s) the opportunity to revisit the battlefields where the Newfoundland Regiment had fought and mourn his fallen comrades. A visitation was held at Turner & Porter, Neweduk Chapel, 1981 Dundas Street West, Mississauga, ON. L5K 1R2 on Thursday, Mary 31, 2016. A funeral service will be held at Merciful Redeemer Church, 2775 Erin Centre Blvd., Mississauga on Friday, April 1, 2016 at 2 pm. Private family internment service by the family will follow at Queen of Heaven Cemetery in Woodbridge, ON. In lieu of flowers, donations in Bill's memory may be made to Sunnybrook Foundation at www.donate.sunnybrook.ca, type in Veterans Centre Comfort Fund. To sign the online memorial guest book, please visit www.turnerporter.ca.