Kenna Park, Kippa-Ring (Qld.)

Kenna Park was named for Frank Kenna who was born in Rockhampton in 1904. With his wife Emily and family, he came to live on the Redcliffe Peninsula in the late 1940s and purchased several allotments in Frank Street. Frank operated a sand and gravel business in Redcliffe in the 1950s and 1960s. He was a member of the Lions club and a volunteer worker for the carnival run by Father Frawley. One of the Kenna’s daughters was the first baby girl to be baptised in the new St Bernadette’s Church at Scarborough. Frank died in 1977. The name was suggested as being appropriate as it is in the vicinity of land subdivided by Mr Kenna. -- Redcliffe : Looking at the landscape by Pat Gee acknowledging the work of Jack Stapleton and Pat Fields