Clayton Kenny, Olympic boxer, Died at 86

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Dead, Clayton Orten Kenny born on the 1st of December 1928 and died on June 29th, 2015 he was a boxer from Canada, who competed for his native country at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland.

There he was eliminated in the second round of the Men’s Lightweight (–60 kg) division by Istvan Juhasz of Hungary.

Kenny was born in Ottawa, Ontario and died in Carleton Place, Ontario.

Kenny was an avid sportsman, earning his pilot’s license and keeping a Piper float plane at the family’s Mississippi Lake cottage. He love hunting so much, John notes, that when he discovered that the trials for the 1956 Olympic Games were scheduled for hunting season, he thought long and hard about which to pursue.