Ken died Tuesday night after a sometimes tough battle with Parkinson’s disease.
I’ll remember Ken as an absent-minded professor type who was always happy and jovial and could always be counted on to know the latest sports scores…especially golf! He had a long career as a geologist and professor at FSU in which he devised and improved upon dating of water through the examination of naturally occurring radio isotopes and tortured many students in the finer points of crystallography and mineralogy. The last few years he had been working on a theory which if true would show how the prevailing interpretation of the U-series disequilibria in mid-ocean ridge basalts (MORB) had violated mass balance principles.
Ken (or grandpa doggies, as Devon referred to him as) spent the last several years as assistant dog wrangler for Julie’s Big Dog Rescue operation. He always seemed willing to accept another foster dog into the home to be nurtured and rehabilitated and could be counted on to send the dogs away with a well developed skill set of ball and Frisbee retrieval.
Below are a few pictures of Ken taken over the last few years:
October 25th, 2006 at 10:30pm
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We took Devon to the Pumpkin Patch last night to pick out some pumpkins and take a few pictures. Here are a few that I thought were cute.
October 23rd, 2006 at 02:54pm
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We’ll Be having our Annual Pumpkin Carving Party on Sunday, October 29th at 5pm. We’ll provide carving implements, dinner and drinks, you provide the pumpkins. Hope to see you there.
A few Pictures from last year
October 22nd, 2006 at 09:16am
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We met Manda & Quinn and Lincoln & Melissa this morning at Bruegger’s and then went to Winthrup Park to let the kids play. Manda & Quinn came up for the weekend for a conference and the ball game. I took around 200 shots, but thinned it down a bit.
October 21st, 2006 at 12:21pm
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We took Devon fishing for the first time today.  Here he is with what must be a 3-4 pounder!
October 21st, 2006 at 12:49am
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