Fred Storey Explained

Fred Storey
Birth Date:3 March 1932
Birth Place:Empress, Alberta
Death Place:Calgary, Alberta
Curling Club:Calgary Curling Club[1]
Brier Appearances:7
World Championship Appearances:3 (1966, 1968, 1969)

Frederick Lewis Storey (March 3, 1932 – December 2, 2019)[2] was a Canadian curler from Calgary. He won three World Curling Championships and three Brier Championships playing as lead on the Ron Northcott rink.[3] [4]

Storey grew up in Empress, Alberta and moved to Calgary in high school, and won a provincial school boys title for Mount Royal in 1951, and finished runner up at that year's school boy championship (now the Canadian Junior Curling Championships) playing for the Bob Harper rink. He also played baseball in high school.

At the time of the 1960 Brier, he worked for Pacific Petroleums as chief clerk of inventory and equipment control. He was married in 1959 to Donna Chaput.[5]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Curling Canada | A legend passes away.
  2. Web site: Remembering the life of Frederick STOREY . https://web.archive.org/web/20191215130557/https://www.remembering.ca/obituary/frederick-storey-1077943312?ckprm=1 . 2019-12-15.
  3. Encyclopedia: Frederick Lewis Storey. PAULINE MCGREGOR. The Canadian Encyclopedia. 10 March 2015.
  4. Web site: Storey, Frederick L. 'Fred' – CCA Hall of Fame - ACC Temple de la Renommée Virtuelle. curling.ca. 10 March 2015.
  5. News: Your Brier Rink. March 1, 1960. 32. Calgary Herald. March 1, 2020.