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Kent ENNS Obituary
ENNS, Kent Underhay
Peacefully and surrounded by family and friends, Kent Enns passed away at the age of 51 after battling brain cancer with tremendous courage, grace and determination for two years. Kent leaves behind his beloved wife, Louise Tardif, and his two children, Thomas and Véronique, who were his core, his joy and his light. He leaves his mother, Adele Underhay; his brothers, Reid and Wade Enns. Kent was predeceased by his father, Peter Enns and his other brother, Shane Enns. He will be missed by numerous nieces, nephews, other relatives and many friends. He was deeply loved in life and will be sorely missed in death. Friends may call at the Turner & Porter Yorke Chapel on Monday from 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. and 6:00 - 9:00 p.m. A Service will be held in our Chapel on Tuesday, July 19, 2016 at 11:00 a.m. The family gratefully requests that donations in Kent's memory be made to either The Gerry & Nancy Pencer Brain Tumour Centre at Princess Margaret Hospital, or Gilda's Club Greater Toronto.
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MARGARETHA BURNETT
February 11, 2019
Kent was a wonderful, fun-loving, brainy fellow I first met at Rimouski on a learn-to-speak French trip funded by the then-Trudeau government. We hung out up our return to Edmonton and he came down to visit me in Beauvais Lake, where I was working as a park Interpreter. He was uber-intellectual, considerate, mature and yet also such silly fun to be around. When he finished his degree, he almost immediately moved out east, to Toronto, and I did not get to see him as much, obviously. I visited him in Toronto some years later and met Louise, his wife. He was taking opera singing lessons and had just made all the bookshelves for his library in the house they were in at the time. He had just finished a final draft of a book, and was putting it out to prospective publishers.
My other Rimouski friends and I frequently talked about him and his then buddy, Michael, and some of the other Rimouski characters. Kent did a fantastic dance in the finale show (with his other male buds) wearing a red beret and doing all the classic moves with panache. These same Rimouski friends and I were together in Tofino celebrating a girlfriend's 50th and again, we talked about our deep fondness and love for Kent, wondering what he was up to. I had fallen out of touch with him-- tracking him through Carlton the past years had yielded nothing and I figured he must have been on sabbatical. With renewed determination I tried to track him down on my return from the Tofino birthday celebration, and my research yielded the information that he had died, fully a year before. My mind was a little blown, as suddenly he was dead in my head, though the day before he was just as dead, in reality, but he had not been dead in my head. Slight existential crisis, which I think Kent would have appreciated as he loved philosophy. Louise, if you ever read this, I would love to be in touch with you and with your kids. Kent was a gem of a guy and so beloved by all his Rimouski friends, and especially me. Did he ever get his cowboy book published? I had offered to read it, but he never sent it. Perhaps it was only let out to a very few?
Please drop me a line. I would so love to hear how you and your children are doing. Wishing you every supportive thought and hug you can imagine. Even though you hardly know me, I know that you are super special as you were the beloved of one awesome guy.
Lightness,
Memet (Margaretha)
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