RELATIONSHIP: Grandfather
Kenneth KANALLEY 🇺🇸 –> Patrick KANALLEY 🇺🇸 –> Craig KANALLEY 🇺🇸
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FATHER: Wallace KANALLEY
MOTHER: Mildred McQUAID
BORN: 7 May 1932 Buffalo, Erie, NY, USA1
BAPTIZED: 29 May 1932 St. Joseph’s Old Cathedral, Buffalo, Erie, NY, USA1
GODPARENTS: Edward McQUAID and Gertrude McQUAID
RELIGION: Catholic
OCCUPATIONS: Maintenance Man, Steeplejack, Millwright, Electrician
MILITARY SERVICE: U.S. Marines, Korean War
MARRIED: 13 Jun 1953 St. John the Baptist RC Church, Buffalo, Erie, NY, USA2
WIFE: Rita ROMANE, daughter of Eric ROMANE & Margaret HILBURGER
PHOTOS:
INTERESTING NOTES: Both of his parents grew up in Canada, though his father was born in Cleveland technically. His father still grew up in Cobourg & his mother in Kingston. They met in Buffalo, NY in the late 1920s and married in 1930. Kenneth’s middle name Wallace was a family name, as his paternal grandmother was Mary Wallace.
He got in a bad car accident at 16 years old, went to the hospital & had his spleen removed. According to family members, he was lucky to make it through this alive.
At age 17, he enlisted in the U.S. Naval Reserve, and 3 years later he joined the U.S. Marines, spending 15 months in Korea & some time in Japan. In his 5+ years of military service, he spent time at Parris Island, SC; Camp Lejeune, NC; Vieques, Puerto Rico; Camp Pendleton, CA; Pearl Harbor, HI; and Quantico, VA. He reached the rank of Staff Sgt.
He was employed at the Buffalo Pipe & Foundry Corp. for 23 years. He later worked as an electrician, a maintenance man at General Motors, and then as a steeplejack in between jobs with his father Wallace.
He enjoyed fishing, hunting and spending time in the outdoors. He had a great sense of humor, and those who were close to him said he could be a bit of a prankster. He cared deeply for his family, instilling traits of discipline & loyalty to his children which he learned from his time in the military.
Growing up, he loved playing ice hockey and he would play across the border in Fort Erie, Ontario alongside future Hockey Hall of Famer & longtime Chicago Black Hawk (NHL) defenseman Pierre Pilote (they were about the same age, only 5 months apart).
Shortly before he passed away, he predicted the Team USA men’s ice hockey team would pull off a monumental upset of the Soviet Union at the Olympics in Lake Placid. Two days later, they did exactly that, pulling off the “Miracle on Ice.”
DIED: 20 Feb 1980 Buffalo, Erie, NY, USA, age 47 years old3
BURIED: 23 Feb 1980 Mount Olivet Cemetery, Tonawanda, Erie, NY, USA3
SOURCES
- United States, New York, Erie, Buffalo – Official Birth Certificate
- United States, New York, Erie, Buffalo Roman Catholic Church Records, St. John the Baptist
- Find A Grave, Mount Olivet Cemetery, Tonawanda, Erie, NY, USA – Kenneth Kanalley Memorial Page
ANCESTORS [back to top]
PARENTS:
Wallace James KANALLEY *1902 Cleveland OH 🇺🇸 +1977 Buffalo NY 🇺🇸
Mildred Agnes McQUAID *1912 Kingston ON 🇨🇦 +1992 Lockport NY 🇺🇸
GRANDPARENTS:
James KANALLEY *1868 Cobourg ON 🇨🇦 +1923 Cobourg ON 🇨🇦
Mary Ann WALLACE *1878 Cobourg ON 🇨🇦 +1940 Buffalo NY 🇺🇸
Joseph Francis McQUAID *1872 Kingston ON 🇨🇦 +1934 Buffalo NY 🇺🇸
Agnes Odelia SHORT *1876 Storrington Twp. ON 🇨🇦 +1947 Buffalo NY 🇺🇸
GREAT-GRANDPARENTS:
Thomas KENNELLY *c1820 Co Limerick IRE 🇮🇪 +1899 Cobourg ON 🇨🇦
Rose FLYNN *c1831 IRE 🇮🇪 +1902 Cobourg ON 🇨🇦
Andrew Martin WALLACE *1856 St. Catharines ON 🇨🇦 +1916 Brainerd MN 🇺🇸
Catherine Agnes BULGER *1856 Cobourg ON 🇨🇦 +1913 Brainerd MN 🇺🇸
John McQUAID *1836 Co Tyrone IRE 🇮🇪 +1919 Kingston ON 🇨🇦
Mary KILLEEN *1842 Toronto ON 🇨🇦 +1882 Kingston ON 🇨🇦
Edward SHORT *1836 East Loughborough ON 🇨🇦 +1904 Kingston ON 🇨🇦
Margaret HART *1842 East Loughborough ON 🇨🇦 +1925 Kingston ON 🇨🇦
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POSTS MENTIONING THIS ANCESTOR:
- Remembering Grandpa Kanalley, published 20 February 2010
Craig Kanalley 