Royal LePage has lost two well-respected, long-time brokers/owners in recent months. Dale Tkatch, who owned Royal LePage Trinity Realty in Collingwood, Ont. died suddenly on June 18. He was 54. Josie Manna of Royal LePage Quest Realty in Orillia, Ont., lost her battle with multiple sclerosis on June 7. She was 49.
“It’s with heavy hearts we have said goodbye to two dear friends and well-respected leaders who have given so much of themselves to their communities and to the profession,” says Phil Soper, president and CEO at Royal LePage.
Dale Tkatch began his career in the 1980s, hired by Don Gallinger at MacKenzie-Gallinger, who saw Tkatch as a natural. “He was a true gentleman,” Gallinger told Simcoe.com. “He was at the height of ethics, the height of honesty and full of support for his fellow human beings.”
Under Tkatch’s leadership, Royal LePage Trinity excelled in community involvement, holding garage sales and events to fundraise for their local women’s shelter. Tkatch donned bright red high-heel shoes for the Walk A Mile In Her Shoes event in 2013.
Josie Manna founded Royal LePage Real Quest Realty. She wielded significant influence in organized real estate circles through involvement with the Ontario Real Estate Association and gave her time to the Orillia Soldiers’ Memorial Hospital and her children’s schools.
Manna is remembered as someone who lived her life with dignity, kindness and generosity toward others, says the Orillia Packet & Times.
