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Name: ROOKEN-SMITH, Ronald
Nee: son of William Alexander (Rooken) Smith
Birth Date: 15.8.1926 Umtata
Death Date: 28.1.2001 Mossel Bay
Profession: Farmer, pilot
Married: 1. Daphne Eileen Ebell b. Johannesburg, d. 7.8.2008 Johannesburg (div.) 2. Joan Donaldson b.14.8.1927 Manchester, d. 13.12.2000 Mossel Bay
Children: 1. Daphne Ann (11.7.1948 Nakuru) (Spare); Dereck (29.6.1951 Nairobi) 2. Michael Cameron (28.6.1963)
Book Reference: RS
General Information:
RS - Ron returned to Kenya in the late 1940s and took up farming with Daphne at Glenavon, the farm on which Harold and Marge started their married life, and which after the war had been sold to 'Mater' (Caroline, Ron's mother) when Harold and Marge moved to Soy in the Uasin Gishu district, Ron then took up commercial flying and went to Rhodesia where he became one of the senior pilots in Central African Airways. The marriage ended in divorce and Ron married Joan Donaldson, an air hostess.