Kenneth Ian Nattrass

Ian was born in Wayne, Alberta, March 31st, 1940 and passed peacefully on July 18th, 2024 in Parksville, BC. He attended school in Edmonton and graduated from Victoria High School. His careers varied from advertising with the Edmonton Journal to Advertising Manager at Eaton’s, Edmonton. He started his own graphic design company and produced major display units for local and international trade shows together with his brother John. In other partnerships, he designed and built custom homes across Alberta and BC. Always a hobby, Ian took up pottery seriously on retirement and has taught children and adults, first in Stony Plain, AB, and on Vancouver Island, BC and as far as Mazatlan, Mexico. He has had a major impact on the development of Pottery Guilds and worked passionately with many others, for the Tozan Cultural Society of Nanaimo to co-ordinate the move and re-building of the Tozan Noborigama kiln at Tamagawa University in Cedar, B.C.

He was pre-deceased by his parents, John and Jessie Nattrass, his brother Don and his sister-in-law, Corinne, wife of his surviving brother John. He leaves his wife of sixty-one years, Madeleine, his children Scott ( Dalila), Sean, and Nicolle (Paul), his grandchildren of whom he was so very proud – Megan, the two Simons, Saylor and Elliott and great-grandchildren Isadoro, Damion and Chance and many cherished sisters and brothers-in law, nieces and nephews. He will be dearly missed.