Morris Kesselring

1942 - 2018  (75 years)

• Name	Morris Kesselring
  Born	2 Nov 1942	Stratford, Perth Co., Ontario, Canada
  Gender	Male
  Eby ID Number	Waterloo-201636
  Died	24 Sep 2018
  Person ID	I201636	Generations
  Last Modified	25 Apr 2024

  
  

  Family	Loah Forler
  Last Modified	26 Apr 2024
  Family ID	F56470	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Lifetimes: 'Mr. Gung Ho' died with his boots on Morris never got the chance to extend his working life as far as he wanted into old age. He died of a heart attack Sept. 24, 2018 while mowing a client's lawn on a riding tractor. by Valerie Hill Waterloo Region Record KITCHENER - The beginning of Loah and Morris Kesselring's love story involves a church dance and two girls climbing out a bathroom window, victims of their own overactive imaginations. Loah Forler and a friend had gone to a church dance and were happily sitting on their own when someone approached them and said "There's two guys who want to meet you," recalled Loah. The girls looked over at these guys standing in the doorway, one of them a very beefy, muscle-bound guy, Morris Kesselring. He was huge, she said. "So we ran to the washroom, we opened the window and pushed out the screen and took off." The great escape however, was only temporary. Morris wasn't about to give up that easily. He found out who she was, got a mutual friend to set up a blind date which Loah agreed to, having no idea it was Morris until she saw him standing on her porch. Loah had to concede. Good thing because he turned out to be "a loving, sweet man." Daughter Cindy Viorel recalls him crying in huge rolling tears when she was hurt as a toddler and he had to take her to hospital for stitches. "He held me so tight," said Cindy. "You knew he loved you, I knew my Daddy loved me." Even years later, when she brought up the story Morris would cry. Morris was born Nov. 2, 1942 in Stratford. His father, Charlie Kesselring, worked as a railway signaller. When Morris was about 10, his parents moved to a farm in the Doon area of Kitchener, a wide open space where Morris began a very physical life, starting with all the heavy lifting required by farming and later, body building. He joined the wrestling team in Grade 9 along with his brother Dave...... Hill, V. (2018). Lifetimes: 'Mr. Gung Ho' died with his boots on. TheRecord.com. Retrieved 25 November 2018, from https://www.therecord.com/living-story/9049019-lifetimes-mr-gung-ho-died-with-his-boots-on/

  
  

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  Born - 2 Nov 1942 - Stratford, Perth Co., Ontario, Canada  = Link to Google Earth