WO Kenneth Robert "Ken" Fawcett (Ret'd)

    • WO Kenneth Robert "Ken" Fawcett (Ret'd)
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    We regret to advise of the death on 2 June 2003 of Warrant Officer Kenneth “Ken” Robert Fawcett, CD (Ret’d) in Ottawa ON at the age of 77 after a short illness.

    Ken was born in St Gregory, SK. He enlisted in the Canadian Army in March 1951 with the Army Survey Establishment as a Topographic Surveyor and Photogrammetrist. He participated on many survey parties in the 1950s doing chain traverses at Churchill MB; chain & barometer traverses at North Battleford and Prince Albert SK; and barometer traverses at Fort Coulonge QC, Sault Ste Marie and Sudbury ON, and Great Bear Lake and Nahanni Bute NWT. He subsequently worked in compilation, multiplex and stereo plotting. Ken retired from the Canadian Forces in March 1977.

    Friends may call at the Garden Chapel of Tubman Funeral Homes, 3440 Richmond Road, Nepean ON, on 5 June. A memorial service will be held in the chapel on 6 June. In lieu of flowers donations may be made to a charity of one’s choice. {gdFeb2016kh}