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About my father

Started by mathewi · 1 year ago

My father was a farm boy from Saskatchewan who became a fighter pilot and Lieutenant-Colonel in the Royal Canadian Air Force. He loved crossword puzzles and jazz music, and until he died in February, 1996 of lung and throat cancer he was learning about and enjoying the Internet.

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  • I was reading an investing web thread and some one posted a link to a tom petty song and i wondered if he was related to Dini Petty so i googled dini and got a link to your mothers university magazine and took a minute reading random alumni life updates and read of linda miles ingram had a brain tumour and was doing ok and i purely inquisitively wondered because it was years later if she was up to anything so igoogled her and then i got linked to this and when i read about your dad it brought a tear to my eye for my own dad had a similar walk with lungcancer and also loved crosswords and cutting wood. the internet is so weird and wonderful.

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