Like some other veterans, Gerry Parkyn (1892-1984) is a new Pender settler. A friend would say, “Gerry returned from WWI minus a leg, but it didn’t slow him down a bit.“ He marries in 1924, and with Tessie, raises three children and runs a chicken farm at Gowlland Point. He serves as South Pender School trustee in 1926 and oversees the building of the Church of the Good Shepherd in 1938.