Ken was born in Lackawanna, a suburb of Buffalo, New York.  He spent his first fifteen years in the small town of Hamburg with an emphasis on church, Boy Scouts and family gatherings. Occasionally Ken helped out starting the Bunson burners in the basement of his home so when his father, a chemical engineer, came home from work,  the beakers of coal dust would be hot enough for his father to work at experimentally making synthetic gasoline.

The family moved to Pittsburgh during World War II. Travel to high school, a school of 3600 students was by street car.  Ken graduated in two and a half years so that he could enlist in the Army Specialized Training Reserve Program, at Virginia Military Institute, which was to lead to Officer Candidate School in the Army.  Following a six month semester he was trained at Camp Blanding and then sent overseas to Germany.

After a year of overseas service he returned for discharge and immediately enrolled in Sterling College in Kansas. After another two and a half years he graduated and accepted a position at Sheldon Jackson Junior College in Sitka, Alaska, supervising the younger boys' dorm and directing physical education, which really consisted of basketball and associated activities.  As the school was short staffed there were also other duties from teaching to work supervision.

Following his marriage in August of 1950 to Betty Ramsey, also a Sterling graduate, Betty also joined the staff of Sheldon Jackson teaching English.  In 1952 he enrolled in San Francisco Theological Seminary in San Anselmo, California and upon graduation accepted a call to pastor the Chapel by the Lake a mission church in Juneau, Alaska. The congregation grew and became a self-supporting church in 1966. In the summer of 1977 he accepted a call to the Larger Waimea Parish on the Island of Kaua'i, consisting of the Christian Church (Japanese), the Hawaiian Church ,and the Foreign (English language) Church. From there Ken and Betty  went to Eagle River in Interior Alaska again a mission church that became self-supporting.  In 1997 following an eight year period of service they retired to Surprise, AZ, first spending another year in Waimea as an interim pastor.  They have had six children.

Ken and Betty moved to Ferndale, WA but spent another year as an interim minister in Hawai'i. In all his places of service he was active in the local community volunteer service.

Ken has been very involved in counseling, both in the congregations and also in the communities,  and the congregations that he has served have been active in volunteer labor so that over the length of his ministry there have been 17 building projects, all accomplished with volunteer labor.  He has no particular building skills but there have been builders who gave of their free time to accomplish much. The congregations have also been active in Alcoholics Anonymous, prostitute rehabilitation, food bank, emergency relief, indigent housing and other community activities. Another of his joys has been the intentional visitation of his congregation, learning first hand of the folk whom he served.

He has enjoyed the challenges of the small church where the pastor is solely responsible for much that goes on in his or her own congregation.  Youth work was always a joy and recreation. He is appreciative of a loving God who has guided his and Betty's lives, providing many friends from not only the churches he has served, and the committees he's labored in but also friends from the communities in which he and Betty have lived.

His desire for further Bible study led to his writing three Biblical biographical novels. He recalls several novels he read as a Junior High student and can still remember word pictures that had a lasting impression on him. As Jesus used the Old Testament means of teaching through parables, Ken decided to write books of parables of cultural and also theological value. He continues to enjoy writing and is always looking for new areas of study.  He normally has a biographical novel and also a book of parables on his computer at the same time for any new insight he might have. His plot planning takes place on 5 A.M. morning walks where he can piece plots and ideas together.