Doc Seaman

Daryl Kenneth Seaman was born on 28 April 1922 in Rouleau, Saskatchewan, to Byron Luther Seaman and Letha Mae Patton. Daryl was the second of four children, Dorothy Verna his elder, and Byron James (B.J.) and Donald Roy his juniors. Byron Seaman was born in Wisconsin and had come to Canada during the First World War to help with the harvest. After the United States entered the War on 6 April 1917, Byron returned stateside, joined the army, and fought with the American Expeditionary Forces in Germany. He would return to Canada in January 1920 and marry that same month. Seaman had met Mae Patton in Avonlea, Saskatchewan. Patton was born in Unadilla, Nebraska, in 1899 and moved to Canada with her family in 1912. Until 1928 both Byron and Mae both worked on a farm. In 1928 Byron started a road-construction company, which all of his sons worked for in the summer once they were old enough.\n',…