Ernest Kay

KAY, Ernest Robert MacKenzie At Hamilton, on Friday, December 26, 2014. Ernest was born in Hamilton, the only son of Ernest W. and Odney Kay, in 1924. He attended school in Hamilton and McMaster University. He completed an M.A. degree with studies of the Dundas Marsh. He taught for one year at Acadia University, then did graduate work at the Medical School of the University of Rochester. He spent two years at the Medical Faculty of the University of Glasgow under a British Empire Cancer Campaign Fellowship. He returned to Canada after a period of research at the Rockefeller University becoming a Professor in Biochemistry at Dalhousie University. He was invited back to Rochester University in 1959 where he continued his cancer research and teaching in Biochemistry. In 1966 he was invited to return to Canada to a position as Professor in Biochemistry at the University of Toronto, from where he retired in 1990. He has been a member of a number of societies among them, Society of Sigma Xi, American Chemical Society, the Biochemical Society, Canadian Biochemical Society. His research has been published in many journals concerning his interest in DNA and Cancer. His textbook on Biochemistry was well received and was used by many students. He is a member of Westdale United Church and his many friends will miss his many contributions of his personal life experiences. Contributions to a scholarship fund which he established years ago would be appreciated in lieu of flowers. Cremation has taken place. Memorial visitation will be held at the MARLATT FUNERAL HOME, 615 Main Street East, (east of Sanford Ave.) on Sunday, January 4, 2015 from 2-4 p.m. A Memorial service will be held in the Marlatt Memorial Chapel on Monday, January 5, 2015 at 2 p.m. Private interment will take place at Paris, Ontario, in the Family Plot. On-line condolences may be made at www.marlattfhhamilton.com