Fifty years ago this June, good friends Terry Pettit and Ronald Yakimchuk packed belongings into the back seat of a beat\u002Dup, 1959 Volkswagen
This is the vehicle Ron Yakimchuk and his wife, Terry Pettit, a former Edmonton Journal reporter, were driving when they disappeared in 1973. At the time the couple disappeared they had a kayak mounted on the roof of the Volkswagen.Finally, on a cloudy Sunday morning, it was time to go. We all ran outside to give them a hearty send-off, sad though we were. There was a mattress on top, which they were delivering to a friend who lived nearby. The kayak they would pick up at another friend’s.
To say it was sparse would be an understatement. My bed was a thin mattress placed on a door resting on cinder blocks. But when you’re young, who cares? I took great delight in telling my friends back in Vancouver that I was sleeping on a door in Edmonton. Another time, he returned from a trip back home with a bunch of moose meat. There were steaks, sausages and stewing meat — all cooked up by Ronald, and all delicious. There was a dignity about him, though not without a twinkle in his eye and a wry appreciation of the fun-loving chaos around him. He also loved Hank Williams, as I found out when I put on my “Essential Hank Williams record, and he nearly brought the house down with his stomping and bellowing out the words.
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