Ormond Alfred Arnott
from Ontario,Canada
Sergeant
5 Company 1 Regiment
born 25.4.1918 Belleville,Ontario
son of William Ormond and Gladys Esther (nee Cunnyworth) Arnott
died 30.10.2006 Owen Sound,Ontario
Greenwood Cemetery,Owen Sound,Ontario
Suddenly at his home in Owen Sound on Monday October 30, 2006. "Lou" Ormond Alfred ARNOTT was born in Belleville April 25, 1918.
Loving husband of sixty-two years to Catherine Anna "Kay" ARNOTT (née BROWN.) Beloved father of Bill (Candace) and Lynda and her husband Don. Loving grandfather of Paul and Patricia, and Scott and Robyn.
Loved brother of Fern and her husband Fred, and Shirley and her husband Red. Brother-in-law of Edna and Bernice. Loved uncle of his many nieces and nephews both in Ontario and British Columbia.
Predeceased by his father William, his mother Gladys and his step-mother Grace, by his brother Tom, his nephew Wayne and by brothers-in-law Harold and Lyle.
Lou was a volunteer with the Canadian Forces from 1939-1945.
Staff Sergeant O.A. ARNOTT served with the 14th Field Regiment in Petawawa and then volunteered and was accepted for service in the First Special Service Force where in 1942 he was severely injured during night time parachute training at Fort Harrison in Helena, Montana.
After his recovery, he rejoined the Field Regiment and was assigned to training duties in England, Petawawa, Truro, Nova Scotia and in Owen Sound where he met and married Kay in 1944. They returned to Owen Sound where they raised their family "out in the country" at 1st Street and 4th Avenue West. Lou was a master carpenter and a jack of all the other trades and worked for many years as a construction superintendent with Ellis Don Construction. He took a position in the maintenance department at the MacKinnon Phillips Hospital once construction was complete.
He worked there until his retirement in 1983.
