Eugene Kunkel Hearth^[1]

1908 - 1986  (77 years)

• Name	Eugene Kunkel Hearth
  Born	18 Sep 1908	, Ontario, Canada   [1, 2, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Residence	1911	Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [2]
  	Congregational
  Residence	1921	Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [3]
  	Evangelical
  Eby ID Number	Waterloo-482885
  Died	5 Feb 1986  [1]
  Person ID	I482885	Generations
  Last Modified	25 Apr 2024

  
  

  Father	Simon Peter Hearth,   b. 20 Apr 1882, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 12 Jan 1944, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 61 years)
  Mother	Barbara Kunkel,   b. 23 Jul 1876, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 26 Sep 1964  (Age 88 years)
  Family ID	F297679	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Another building of note in the picture is the two-storey, ivy-covered structure at 99 King St. S., between Snyder's and the Texaco station. In 1960 the storefront here was home to Hearth Radio. Owner Eugene Hearth sold radios, televisions and other electrical appliances here for only about a year, but he was in business elsewhere in downtown Waterloo for more than four decades, starting in 1936. In 1982, four years before his death, Hearth was interviewed by The Record and described how in 1949 he had purchased the first TV in Waterloo - it had a seven-inch screen \emdash and used a friend's antenna to pick up images from a Buffalo television station. "There were about a dozen people there," Hearth said. "We all wondered what we would see. We hooked it up and got a picture. It wasn't 100 per cent, but it showed what television could do." GuelphMercury.com 2011

  
  

• Sources

  [S3232] aaaaCemetery - ON, Waterloo - Woodland. Hearth/ In Loving Memory Of/ Simon P. Hearth/ Died Jan. 12, 1944 In His 61st Year/ His Wife/ Barbara Kunkel/ Died Sept. 26, 1964 In Her 89th Year/ At Rest [A] Son/ Eugene K./ Hearth/ Sept. 18, 1908/ Feb. 5, 1986 [B] Mother [S214] Census - ON, Waterloo, Waterloo North - 1911, Div. 5 Page 15. [S2088] Census - ON, Waterloo, Waterloo North - 1921, Sub District 5 Page 22.

  
  

• Event Map

  Born - 18 Sep 1908 - , Ontario, Canada Residence - Congregational - 1911 - Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Residence - Evangelical - 1921 - Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  = Link to Google Earth