Formerly of Hammonds Plains, Ken passed away peacefully on March 31, 2021 in Edmonton, Alta. He was born in 1931 in Gateshead, England. He was a marine engineer and began his career as an apprentice in the shipyards of Tyne and Wear, England. This was followed by a number of years in the British Merchant Navy, which he left as a chief engineer in 1960 when he moved to Canada for a position with Transport Canada in Quebec. He was a surveyor for Lloyd's Register in the Atlantic region's shipyards for many years before a transfer to Thailand in 1992.
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