The Royal Canadian Legion Saskatchewan Command LEST WE FORGET 361 COOPER (GRUNERUD), Minerva WWII Minerva Grunerud was born on the family farm south of Broderick, Saskatchewan on September 15, 1920. She attended Wheat Plains School with her nine siblings. Minerva was enlisted in the RCAF, Nursing Corp when she met George Cooper, an airman. She continued working as a military nurse until after the war. She and George Cooper were married in 1947. They operated the post office in Keeler, SK where they raised three children: Lloyd, Patsy and Beverley. The couple retired to Red Deer, Alberta. Minerva passed away on April 21, 1993. DUNLOP, George Russell WWII George was born to John and Helen Dunlop in Meaford, Ontario in 1920. He moved out west to Semans with his parents. George married Luella Davis of Glenside. The couple had farmed at a number of locations, including Broderick, before he enlisted in Vancouver. He was serving as a sapper with the Royal Canadian Engineers, 6 Field Park Squadron when he was killed in action on November 6, 1944, age 41. He is buried along with 347 other Canadian Armed Forces personnel at Schoonselhof Military Cemetery near Hoboken, a suburb of Antwerp, Belgium. He and Luella had three children Marjorie, Shirley and George. The inscription on his tombstone reads: “Father, in Thy gracious keeping/ Leave we now/ Thy servant sleeping.” FARDEN, Kenneth Elmer WWII Kenneth was born in the West Star District, near Bratton, Saskatchewan on July 19, 1921 to Knut and Olga Farden. In 1942 he joined the RCAF as an aero engine mechanic. He was based at the British Commonwealth Air Training Base, No. 1 Manning Pool in Toronto. It was there that he met his wife, Bern Gruenig, whom he married at Macrorie in 1943. During the war, Ken was also based in Gimli, Manitoba and Boundary Bay, BC. Following the war Ken and Bern purchased a farm north of Broderick where they raised a family of five children. Farming was Ken’s passion and he continued to actively farm with his sons Peter and Keith until the final years of his life. Kenneth Farden passed away on June 16, 2007.
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