Kenneth Elliot

Kenneth Frank Elliot of Oakville, Ontario, on Saturday September 24, 2011, peacefully at Oakville Trafalgar Memorial Hospital of complications from pneumonia. Age 86. Born May 28, 1925 in St. Lambert, Quebec. Predeceased by his wife Ethel Jeanie (Jean) Elliot (nee Annand) August 2, 1983. Loving dad of Susan Elliot-Lethbridge and her husband Jeffrey Lethbridge of Burlington, Ontario, and Scott Elliot and his wife Yvonne Elliot (nee Fillier) of London, Ontario. Proud granddad of Thomas Lethbridge and Rachel Lethbridge, and Erica Elliot and Lauren Elliot. Leaves to mourn his sister Grace (Cookie) Peto and her husband Edwin (Bud) Peto of Etobicoke. Predeceased by his sisters Bernice, Eileen, Statia, and Rae, and brothers Norman, Roland, Donald, and Reed. Ken was especially fond of his nieces and nephews, Jeanie Annand, Joanie Annand, Bruce Elliot, Eula Joyce Elliot, Donald Smith, Gary Smith, Judy Shambrook and her husband Bill, Donna Fisher and her husband Steve, Reed Smiley and his wife Heather, Brian Peto and his wife Corrie, Lance Peto and his wife Kathryn, Sandra Elliot and her husband Kirk Reid, Statia Elliot and her husband Brian Flynn. Will be sadly missed by the Lethbridge family and the Fillier family.
Ken played a lot of bingo the last several years at Delta Mayfair Bingo on Speers Road. The family is grateful for their staff, who have been Ken’s guardian angels, especially Carole, Bonnie and Brandon. Ken achieved his boyhood dream to teach high school history and English in his hometown school, Chambly County High, in St. Lambert, Quebec. Ken and Jean met teaching at Chambly County High in 1951 and married in 1954. They moved to Uxbridge, Ontario in 1955 to teach in the local high school, and then to Oakville, Ontario in 1957, where Ken was a Halton District School Board employee for 28 years. He also was a proud contributor to the establishment of Sheridan College of Applied Arts and Technology. Hand picked and hired by the College’s first president John (Jack) M. Porter as chief librarian, Ken established and ran the Brampton campus library from the college’s opening in 1967 to 1970, and then ran the Oakville campus library from 1970 to 1975, when he returned to the Halton Board.
Cremation has taken place, with a private interment at a later date.
Friends and family are invited to visit at Ward Funeral Home, 109 Reynolds Street, Oakville (905-844-3221) on Friday September 30, 2011 from 4 pm to 6 pm, and 7 pm to 9 pm. Visitation continues Saturday October 1, 2011 from 11 am until the time of a Celebration of Life Service at 12 noon in the Funeral Home Chapel. Luncheon immediately following. In lieu of flowers, donations to the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario, or a charity of your choice, would be appreciated by the family.
Please visit a Book of Memories at www.wardfuneralhome.com