Roderick 'Roddie' Clifford Ackerman was born to Wilbert Starling Ackerman and Elizabeth Constable on 13 Mar 1921 in Winnipeg, Manitoba. They family moved to Calgary and struggled through very hard times. Roddie worked as a bus boy at the Palacer Hotel at one time and drive tour bus at Lake Louise. He married Ruth Penelope Wales on Oct 23, 1941. They moved to Edmonton where their son Roderick Merton was born. Roddie worked as a sales clerk and then a aircraft mechanic for Aircraft Repair Ltd. He died of a massive intestinal hemorrhage on 6 May 1943 in the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Edmonton at the age of 22 years, 1 month and 23 days. He is buried in Beechmount Cemetery, Edmonton, Alberta. |
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