Francis Raymond QUENETT
Edna CAMPBELL
Elizabeth UNKNOWN

Husband:  Francis Raymond "Slim" QUENETT
Birth:  21 Aug 1898, Menahga, Wadena Co., Minnesota
Death:  12 Oct 1951, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
Burial:  Nov 1951, Evergreen Washelli Memorial Park, Seattle, King Co., Washington
Father: Charles Francis QUENETT
Mother: Safrona Lillian "Fronie" MORGAN

Marriage-1: 28 Oct 1923, Nokomis, Saskatchewan, Canada

Wife-1:  Edna CAMPBELL
Birth:  May 1903, Rose City, Ogemaw Co., Michigan
Death:  30 Jun 1971, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
Burial:  2 Jul 1971, Woodlawn Cemetery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
Father:  Henry James CAMPBELL
Mother:  Minette MOCKERIDGE

Marriage-2: Aft 1945, Seattle, King Co., Washington

Wife-2:  Elizabeth UNKNOWN
Birth:  23 Jun 1900,
Death:  Jun 1985, Seattle, King Co., Washington
Burial:  
Father:  
Mother:  

Children - Marriage-1:
1. Shirley Frances QUENETT, b: 2 Nov 1924, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
2. Lois Safrona QUENETT, b: 28 Nov 1926, Kronau, Saskatchewan, Canada
3. Beth Arline QUENETT, b: 31 Jul 1928, Gary, Lake Co., Indiana
4. Robert Terrance QUENETT, b: 7 May 1942, Nokomis, Saskatchewan, Canada
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Notes:
Slim filed on his homestead in 1915 in the Sweet Hills District, west of Simpson, Saskatchewan (Homestead Description: Part: SW, Section: 13, Township: 29, Range: 27, Meridian: W2).  He tried farming and soon returned to working in his father's garage in Penzance.  He met Edna in Nokomis, Saskatchewan where she worked in the telephone office.  They were married in 1923 in Nokomis at the home of Edna's sister, Esther Burt, and made their home in Penzance.

Edna was only 6 years old when her father, Henry, died of typhoid fever.  Edna almost died too battling both typhoid fever and pneumonia at the same time. The family migrated to Saskatchewan after Henry's death, only to lose their mother to cancer when Esther, Edna and Edward were still in their teens.

Slim and Edna's first child was born in Regina.  From Penzance, they then moved to Kronau, Saskatchewan where their second child was born.  In 1927, the family moved to Gary, Indiana to be near Slim's sister, Cora and brother, Charlie and to work in the steel industry.  Their third child was born there.  The family returned to Simpson in 1931, moved from Simpson to Govan in 1934 and settled permanently in Saskatoon (where Edna's sister and her family lived) in 1942.  A fourth child completed the Quenett family shortly before the move to Saskatoon.

1930 Federal Census Data (T626_0600, Page 80A), Gary Ward 9, Lake Co., Indiana,
                                                                                    Enumeration District: 55, Enumeration Date: 10-Apr-1930, Family #330

In 1937, Slim "hopped a freight" to Vancouver, British Columbia to work in the shipyards. Slim was one of the first men from the Govan District to volunteer for the Canadian Air Force at the outbreak of World War II in 1939, eventually rising to the rank of Corporal.  His initial posting was to Brandon, Manitoba and then to Sydney, Nova Scotia in 1940.  In 1942, he was stationed in Bella Bella, British Columbia, then served the remainder of the war in the Aleutians.

After the war, he secured a position as chief electrician on the United States Navy ship, David C. Shanks, based in Seattle, Washington.  This was quite an accomplishment, since Slim's electrical knowledge was entirely self-taught.  From there he went to the transport, Simon D. Buckner.  He served there until his sudden death, caused by a stroke, on board ship while docked in Yokohama, Japan.
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Sources:
1) Homestead: Western Canada Land Grants - Liber: 879, Folio: 337, Fill Reel Number: C-6644
2) Wife - Burial:  Woodlawn Cemetery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada; Burial Block: 36A, Lot: 60, Section: N 1/2
3) Biography: a) Down Memory Lane, Simpson History Book Committee, 1986
                      b) Penzance Prairie Profiles, Penzance Historical Society, ISBN 0-919533-12-4