Page B4 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, July 7, 1993

McKeown detied the |

Norman

NeKeown St, a Ter-

race resident since

1956, passed away
peacefully on Sunday morning,

June 27 at Mills Memorial Hospi- _

tal.

James Gim): Sr. was bor in
1907 at Portgienone, a small town
in Northern Ireland. Incidentally,
this is the same-towi—in-wiiich
Timothy Eaton was born,

Jim came from a family of
seven children - six boys and one
girl His sisier and one brother
still live in Ireland. SS

Jim did all of his schooling in
Poriglénone, and graduated from
the Ballymena Academy.

Jim was a man with vi-
sion, ambition and
determination.. He was 4
hard-nosed. businessman,
but also @ very kind and
loving father and husband.

Al the age of 19, Jim decided to
immigrate to Canada; He first
stopped in Toronto, where he ob-
tained employment at the Eatons
store. Jim claimed he worked at
Eatons.untit they. tried to promote
him. Not wanting to be tied down
to an important position .at this
time, he -left Canada for the
United States, where he’ ‘worked

at various: jobs. while travelling

throughout the country. -
After about five years in the
U.S. he came back to Canada

and settled i in Alberta, He worked
as a cattle buyer until 1939, when
the war broke out,

Jim was sent to Prince Rupert,
where he obtained employment at
the docks as a crane operator for
the U.S. engineering department.
‘Due to a heart problem, Jim could
not go into active service.

The move to Prince Rupert
proved to be ; a very good ome, as
this was where he-met his wife to
be, Peggy Traquair. Peggy was
working 88.2 nurse, Jim, Who...
never wasted much. ‘time _making

“Here 'n
There”

by Yvonne Moen

vory brief courtship. The couple
was married June 25, 1943 at the
United Church in Prince Rupert.

In 1946, Jim decided it was
time to get out of dock work and
try to go into business for him-
self. Jim and Peggy moved to
Burns Lake, where he started up a
small sawmill. Over time, it grew
into alarge gang mill.

In late 1956, Jim left Omineca
Lumber Co, at Babine Lake and
came to bigger and better things
in Terrace. In June 1957, the fam-
ily moved here, Jim purchased a
logging equipment, sales and ser-
vice business, Industrial Distrib-
utors.

After living in Terrace for a
while, Jim toyed with the idea of
establishing a building supply
business. He was told that he
would never make it in such a
business and should forget the
idea, :

Jim, being Jim, found the ad-
vice most challenging. Tt, spurred
him on to start the business and
gave him. the determination to

~make it successful.
Jim’s -next ambition, was to
build Terrace’s first large - apart-_

ment buildings. Again, he was
fold that such an apartment would
never succeed because he would
never be able to obtain the financ-
ing or tenants to make it into a vi-
able rental proposition. .

Again, Jim was spurred on to
prove the skeptics wrong, so he
built and Gnanced the Keystone
Apartments and filled them with
tenants. ,

In 1978, Omineca Building
‘Supplies, Industrial Distributors
and the Keystone Apartments
were sold and Jim and Peggy

; apie. Jim Petre nan with. vic .
810. .,
a-decision, ‘nia ied: -Pegey: afier'a

James McKeown Sr.

businessman, but also a very kind
and loving father and husband.

‘He had many loyal and long-

lasting friends. Jim also had a
quick wit along with a quick Irish
temper.

As Alan McAlpine said, the
best description of Jim is ‘ta true -

diamond in the rough. ”
-A memorial service was held

June .29 at the United Church, ©
“with Shirley Lindsay officiating, -

Marilyn Brodie singing, and Alan
McAlpine reading the eulogy.
There was a reception afterward.
All of the six McKeown chil-
dren and their families, along
with Jim’s brother Tom, came

here for the weekend for Jim and .

Peggy’s 30th anniversary. Jim
was very. happy to have all of the
family here.

Jim entered Mills Memorial —

Hospital a couple of days before
his death.

He leaves his wife Peggy, his
three brothers and sister, his chil-
dren - David, Jim, Margarct,-
Helen, Joanne and Pam - and nine |
grandchildren, sand many gree | t
friends.:

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