Arne Anshem Roos
This was taken in 1965
He was born March 15, 1916 in the house at Okover Arm
Arne grew up in Okover Arm with 3 sisters and one brother. My dad was his brother.
He married Margaret Grace Bundy
She died March 2, 1979 at the age of 68.
They had 3 children John Oscar, Suzanne Nanni, .and Mark
Arne Died in 1998 in Victoria BC
I copied this from a write up in the paper. I think it was written in 1943 or 1944.
Writing in the Vancouver Sun last week, Jack Meek, financial editor of the city daily, pays tribute to Arne Roos, well-known local insurance agent, as one who has literally "hauled himself up by his bootstraps". He says----Arne Roos is a young man from up the coast near Powell River. He has taken his hand as almost everything, including logging and fishing. He was born at a little place known as Okeover Arm on Malaspina Inlet, and received his early education at a small, one-room country school. For years, Arne worked around logging camps up the coast and has had several summers experience at gillnetting. This was part of his life and he liked it. He grew to know everyone on the coast, they were part of him. He spoke their language and was always completely at home with them, but at the same time there was a continual burning desire within him to climb to greater heights. He came to Vancouver and struck the insurance business. This was some three or four years ago. Things were not easy for him. It was a different life and the business world was a different place. He had to adjust himself to it. He virtually ate every bit of reading material that would benefit him.. Then, after months of somewhat indifferent success, he struck it, secured a good boat and traveled up and down the coast for the Monarch Life. In every little bay, every fishing and farming settlement and logging camp, the boat Monarch is known. He has built up his business and is now one of the ace representatives of his company. Those people up the coast are still as much a part of him as ever; he knows their problems and their ways. In fact, it might be said, he is a goodwill envoy between city and country. This is a simple story telling of a plain young man who has made good. It was his great desire to succeed that saw him through. Everything he has done has been the most important thing in the world to him no matter what anyone thought. That is Arne Roos. You should meet him sometime. He's worth knowing.
