Tenth Generation (Continued)
Tenth Generation (Continued)
Family of Frank Mackenzie Meisner (882) & Pearl Marguerite West
1989. Ronald Foster Meisner (Frank Mackenzie9, George Enos8, Jacob Friedrich7, Johann Casper6, Johannes5, Casper Meissner4, Johann Daniel Meysner3, Casper Meißner2, Thomas1). Born in 1926 in Kentville, Kings Co., Nova Scotia, Canada. Ronald Foster died in Kentville, Kings Co., Nova Scotia, Canada, on 2 Oct 2006; he was 80.61

Ronald Meisner was a veteran of the Second World War, and was a loyal member of the Royal Canadian Legion, Branch No. 6, Kentville, Nova Scotia. Following the war, Ron worked at Kentville Experimental Station and Kentville Sanatorium in Kentville, Scotian Gold in Coldbrook, Nova Scotia and for many years for Canadian Corps of Commissionaires.61

In 1947 Ronald Foster married Vivian Pauline Brown. Born in 1928 in Lakeville, Kings Co., Nova Scotia, Canada. Vivian Pauline died in Berwick, Kings Co., Nova Scotia, Canada, on 14 Dec 2010; she was 82.110

They had the following children:
3118i.
Garland Ronald (1951-1951)
3119ii.
3120iii.
3121iv.
3122v.
3123vi.
1992. Kenneth Leroy Meisner (Frank Mackenzie9, George Enos8, Jacob Friedrich7, Johann Casper6, Johannes5, Casper Meissner4, Johann Daniel Meysner3, Casper Meißner2, Thomas1) . Born abt 1936 in Kentville, Kings Co., Nova Scotia, Canada. Kenneth Leroy died in Lower Sackville, Halifax R.M., Nova Scotia, Canada, on 3 May 2013; he was 77.

Kenny Meisner’s love of music began with the fiddle at the age of 11 (self taught) and at the tender age of 16 he released his first fiddle record which was played on radio station CKCN in Kentville, Nova Scotia. Musician JB Hamm came to town and heard him on the radio, he hired Kenny Meisner to play and tour with him. He loved Country and Bluegrass music, and most of all he loved to sing harmony which gave him a long and fulfilling career as a very well known fiddler, harmonizer and branching out as a drummer. Kenny Meisner played on the TV show the Downeasters which he was inducted into the Nova Scotia Country Hall of Fame in 2002. Also the CBC Countrytime TV show in the 1970s and on many occasions a guest on the CBC’s Don Messer’s Jubilee show playing twin fiddles with his great buddy Dave Fenerty. For many years Kenny Meisner played with Jerry Cole and the Roadmasters and in later years a Bluegrass band. He worked construction in his early years and for 20 years worked in the maintenance department of the Dartmouth General Hospitalin Dartmouth, Nova Scotia from which he retired. (Moncton Times & Transcript, Moncton, N.B., 7 May 2013)

Kenneth Leroy married Florence Isnor.

They had the following children:
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3125ii.
3126iii.
Timothy (-<2013)
1993. Jack Meisner (Frank Mackenzie9, George Enos8, Jacob Friedrich7, Johann Casper6, Johannes5, Casper Meissner4, Johann Daniel Meysner3, Casper Meißner2, Thomas1). Jack died in Richmond, British Columbia, Canada on 23 Oct 2005.

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