McKEE: Glen Frederick “Hap”

Died at the North Bay General Hospital – Scollard Site, on Friday, July
18th, 2008. Hap was the beloved husband of Elizabeth Rae “Betty” (nee
Ross), he was in his 92nd year. Loving father of Steven and his wife Jeannie
of Sundridge and Terry-Lynn Hill and her husband Jim of Orillia. He will be
lovingly remembered by his grandchildren Megan, Ryan, Gillian, Lindsey,
Alison and by his great grandson Kyle. He was predeceased by his parents Dr.
Frederick W. McKee and his wife the former Ruth Ganton and by his brother
Terry McKee. Born in North Bay in 1916, Hap played football for North Bay
Collegiate and helped them win four consecutive Poupore Cups. He was also on
the Collegiate basketball crew that won a Northern Ontario title. On
returning home from overseas after World War II, he played in the City
League with Fischer Monarchs which won the city's first Provincial
Basketball title in 1946. Hap McKee was an outstanding all around athlete.
He won Provincial championships in three sports - curling, trap shooting and
basketball, and regional titles in curling, trap and skeet shooting,
basketball, football and track as well as placing first and second in
Dominion Legion curling. Not many local athletes can match that record.
McKee was lead on Rudy Steski's rink that became the only local quartet to
win the Canadian Legion Curling Championship. In 1968 the rink won nine
consecutive games in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan to sweep the Dominion crown.
All told, McKee and the basic Steski rink played together for fifteen years.
During that time span, they won a number of District "H" titles and three
times captured the Provincial championship and went to the Canadians,
winning it all in 1968. He also took part in track and field and hockey both
at home and in the armed forces. After the war he took up skeet and trap
shooting and won an All Ontario Trap Shooting title in Barrie in 1953. As a
result of all his athletic accomplishments he was inducted into the North
Bay Sports Hall of Fame in 1994.Visitation times for Thursday have not yet
been confirmed, for further information, please call the Martyn Funeral Home
at 472-8810. A Funeral Service will be held in the Martyn Funeral Home
Chapel on Friday, July 25th at 11:00 am. Cremation will follow the funeral
service. If desired, donations to a Charity of Choice will be gratefully
acknowledged as expressions of sympathy.