Ken Grantham, Oregon PLS 2282
Ken retired in June of 2016 and passed away in November of 2017. I first met him almost 30 years ago and worked with him for 11 years. He was known locally as a very good and exacting surveyor. He knew his $hit and loved the profession of surveying. A surveyor’s surveyor.
He struggled with ill health most of his adult life and because of persistent Crohn??s disease worked with a lot of pain most of the time.
A bum rap. As he told it to me, he came down with Crohn??s in his early 20s. Severe and debilitating intestinal problems that led to hospitalization and numerous intestinal resections throughout his life. At the time of his diagnosis (early 1970s) they tried a treatment of massive doses of steroids. It seemed to help, but a side effect was that it settled in his hips and deteriorated them. He had two hip replacements, per hip, four replacements all told, by the time he was in his early 60s. He moved to the drier climes of central Oregon in the late 1980s because the wet weather of the Willamette Valley wreaked havoc on his joints.
The Crohn??s persisted, and he never took any real vacations as he had to save his time off pay for the one to two weeks at a time he??d be bedridden and sick as a dog with a severe attach of Crohn??s. He would never grouse about it, but you could tell when he was ailing.
He died at home in his sleep, likely of some cause related to the above. He had a long road to hoe. May he rest in peace.
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