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- Ken was educated in Auburn City schools and entered the U.S. Navy at the opening of World War II. He served in the Pacific Theater and was honorably discharged in 1946. Following a brief period in Auburn, Ken went west to California where he worked alongside his Uncle Clayton "Pat" Ballou in the field of scaffold construction. Ken later went on to become an officer of a couple of steel scaffolding and shoring companies on the west coast. Among the projects he was associated with was the construction of the stadium in Seattle and the rehabilitation of "the Needle" in the 1970s. Ken retired from Spider Construction about 1988. He relocated to Auburn for a time, then upon his marriage in 1990 moved to Lakeland, Florida. Ken was involved in the Masonic Orders over the coarse of his professional career. He advanced through the degrees. In the early 1970s Ken placed a grave marker on the unmarked grave of his great-grandfather Albert M. Smith in Natchez, Mississippi. He was very interested and instrumental in the compilation of the Ballou family records.
Ken was educated in Auburn City schools and entered the U.S. Navy at the opening of World War II. He served in the Pacific Theater and was honorably discharged in 1946.
Following a brief period in Auburn, Ken went west to California where he worked alongside his Uncle Clayton "Pat" Ballou in the field of scaffold construction. Ken later went on to become an officer of a couple of steel scaffolding and shoring companies on the west coast. Among the projects he was associated with was the construction of the stadium in Seattle and the rehabilitation of "the Needle" in the 1970s. Ken retired from Spider Construction about 1988. He relocated to Auburn for a time, then upon his marriage in 1990 moved to Lakeland, Florida.
Ken was involved in the Masonic Orders over the coarse of his professional career. He advanced through the degrees. In the early 1970s Ken placed a grave marker on the unmarked grave of his great-grandfather Albert M. Smith in Natchez, Mississippi. He was very interested and instrumental in the compilation of the Ballou family records.
Ken was educated in Auburn City schools and entered the U.S. Navy at the opening of World War II. He served in the Pacific Theater and was honorably discharged in 1946.
Following a brief period in Auburn, Ken went west to California where he worked alongside his Uncle Clayton "Pat" Ballou in the field of scaffold construction. Ken later went on to become an officer of a couple of steel scaffolding and shoring companies on the west coast. Among the projects he was associated with was the construction of the stadium in Seattle and the rehabilitation of "the Needle" in the 1970s. Ken retired from Spider Construction about 1988. He relocated to Auburn for a time, then upon his marriage in 1990 moved to Lakeland, Florida.
Ken was involved in the Masonic Orders over the coarse of his professional career. He advanced through the degrees. In the early 1970s Ken placed a grave marker on the unmarked grave of his great-grandfather Albert M. Smith in Natchez, Mississippi. He was very interested and instrumental in the compilation of the Ballou family records.
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1924 - 2000 (75 years)