Businessman, municipal official.
Born at Brookdale on 14 March 1915, son of William John Kinney (1873-1958) and Clara Townley Lawrence (1877-1975), he came to Russell in 1940 as the Agricultural Representative for the Russell district. He also operated Kinney Hatcheries from 1945 to 1958. His subsequent business interests included Glu-Rite Industries and the Fashion Shoppe.
On 4 August 1941, he married Mildred Trena Marie Foster (?-?) at Russell and they had a son and two daughters. Defeated in the 1958 federal general election, he served as Mayor of Russell (1974-1980). In 1984, he received the Province of Manitoba’s Citizen of the Year Award. He died at Russell on 8 February 2003 and was buried in the Russell Memorial Garden.
See also:
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Arthur the Beef and Barley Bull (Russell, Municipality of Russell-Binscarth)
Marriage registration [Wm John Kenny, Clara Townly Lawrence], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
Birth registration [David Arthur Kinney], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
Marriage registration [David Arthur Kenny, Mildred Trena Marie Foster], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
Obituary, Winnipeg Free Press, 19 February 2003.
“They will never be forgotten,” Winnipeg Free Press, 31 December 2003, pages A6-7.
Obituaries and burial transcriptions, Manitoba Genealogical Society.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 30 September 2024
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