Obituary: Dr. Ralph Larmour
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OBITUARY
DR. RALPH LARMOUR
GRIMSBY - Ralph Kenneth Larmour, PhD, known during his professional career as the 'Dean of Cereal Chemists' died Saturday at the age of 75.
Dr. Larmour received international recognition for his research in the fields of cereal chemistry and food technology. He was an honorary life member of the American Association of Cereal Chemists and was presented with the first distinguished service award of the National Council of the Baking Industry.
He was a member of the Defence Research Board of Canada and was a Canadian delegate to the founding conference of UNESCO in Paris.
For 18 years beginning in 1927 he headed a research project in cereal chemistry at the University of Saskatchewan, and in 1945 he became director of research at the National Research Council's Prairie Regional Laboratory, where he stayed for two years. From 1945 until retirement in 1963 he was research director of Maple Leaf Mills in Toronto.
In 1947, Dr. Larmour warned that Canadian subsidaries of U.S. companies were both economic and scientific vassals of their parent companies and 10 years later warned that the Western nations were using natural resources so fast that the consumer society would come to a cataclysmic end.
Dr. Larmour is survived by his wife, Reta; daughter, Anne; a son, Dr. Peter Larmour of the University of Iowa; and three grandchildren.
Private memorial service only. Cremation to follow.
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