{"id":163,"date":"2015-04-16T22:16:55","date_gmt":"2015-04-16T22:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucemore.ca\/west\/?page_id=163"},"modified":"2017-09-20T19:05:42","modified_gmt":"2017-09-20T19:05:42","slug":"ken-irene","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/brucemore.ca\/west\/ken-irene\/","title":{"rendered":"Ken & Irene"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"kenirene\"<\/a>Ken was born September 25, 1916 in Edmonton, Alberta and Irene was born in Gretna, Manitoba on October 21, 1921.\u00a0 They both died in Kelowna, British Columbia.\u00a0 Ken died on March 3, 2001, a few months after they moved to Hawthorn Park and Irene on January 28, 2003. Mom and Dad were married in Sarnia, Ontario on December 21, 1944.\u00a0 In 1950 Ken, Irene and Ruth lived in California in the San Francisco Bay area.\u00a0 They moved to Corunna, Ontario around 1952 where they lived on the refinery.\u00a0 I remember Dad taking me for walks along the huge pipes that surrounded the area.\u00a0 The refinery was on the St. Clair River and I remember Grandpa coming to visit and taking me down to the river to play in the water. \u00a0 In 1954 we moved to Sarnia, Ontario.\u00a0 It was a wonderful place to be a child with Lake Huron close by and lots of space to roam and play.<\/p>\n

In 1956, Linda was born and by 1959 we had moved to Toronto, Ontario.\u00a0 During this time Dad worked for Canadian Oil (White Rose) and by 1961 was Vice-President of the company. Throughout these years I remember many family trips to Florida in the late winter and I can recall Grandpa being present on some of these trips.\u00a0 I remember the hours that he would spend walking on the beach and I can still remember the little shell lamp that he bought me when we stopped at Stuckey\u2019s.\u00a0 In 1962, Shell took over Canadian Oil and Dad became Vice-President of the Shell Oil Company of Canada.\u00a0 As a result we moved to Voorschoten, Netherlands in 1963 for about 9 months and spent about 3 months in London, England while Dad spent time at the Shell head offices in Den Haag and London.\u00a0 After the amazing time spent in Europe, we returned to Toronto where Dad and Mom continued to live until the early 1980\u2019s when they retired to Kelowna.\u00a0 When Dad left Shell Oil he worked as a consultant for many years and was involved with a variety of projects.\u00a0 He also spent time as the President of the Ontario chapter of the Canadian Cancer Society.\u00a0 Mom was involved with a variety of volunteer activities such as the Toronto Symphony and the International Students organization.\u00a0 Dad and Mom both enjoyed playing bridge and golf.\u00a0 Dad was an extremely enthusiastic golfer.\u00a0 Even when his vision was failing and he needed some assistance to know where his golf ball landed, he loved getting out to play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ken was born September 25, 1916 in Edmonton, Alberta and Irene was born in Gretna, Manitoba on October 21, 1921.\u00a0 They both died in Kelowna, British Columbia.\u00a0 Ken died on March 3, 2001, a few months after they moved to Hawthorn Park and Irene on January 28, 2003. Mom and Dad were married in Sarnia, … Continue reading Ken & Irene<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-163","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucemore.ca\/west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucemore.ca\/west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucemore.ca\/west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucemore.ca\/west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucemore.ca\/west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/brucemore.ca\/west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1487,"href":"https:\/\/brucemore.ca\/west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/163\/revisions\/1487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucemore.ca\/west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}