DAY, George Arthur (Art) June 12th, 1916 - December 22nd, 2012 Fore!! Art has teed off to the big golf course in the sky! He passed away peacefully at Sutherland Hills Rest Home on Dec. 22nd at age ninety-six. Art was born in Kelowna, B.C. to the pioneering Day family. After graduation, he worked at the Highland Bell Mine in Beaverdell, B.C. until 1940. He married Agnes Ryder (Seddon) in Kelowna in August of that year thus taking on the challenge of raising Agnes' son Wally. He joined the RCAF in 1941 and served on the North West coast of B.C. until the end of the Second World War. He went back to mining in many B.C. locations, returning to Kelowna in the early fifties. Art and his brother Fred opened Day's Sport Centre on Bernard Ave. in 1956 until ill health forced him to sell in 1965. Later, he went into real estate, retiring in the late seventies. Art was an active member of the Lion's Club for many years, and a keen "sports enthusiast", golfing, fishing, hiking, skiing, and boatin
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