GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. – John Harrington Kennaugh, born March 4, 1923, in Rockford, died Friday, Dec. 21, 2012, in Grand Rapids, Mich.

John graduated from Dixon High School in 1941. He served in the Army Air Force for 3 years during World War II in the United States and the China Burma India theater. Through the GI Bill of Rights, he received an engineering science degree at North Central College in Naperville. After finishing his third year of college, he and Jean Hitchcock were married on June 4, 1949.

John served as party chief for Wight & Co. Engineers for 3.5 years; city manager of Buchanan, Mich., for 3 years, and of Wyoming, Mich., for 6.5 years; and executive secretary of the Michigan Grand River Watershed Council in Lansing, Mich., for 10 years. He served in the Sedimentation Control Program, Michigan Department of Natural Resources, in Lansing, for 11 years; and was an associate Realtor for Acorn Realty. He retired in 1991 to Lakeview, Mich.