Clint Parker died doing what he loved, father says

Clint Parker had planned on becoming a full-time plumber, like his father and two older brothers.

The 18-year-old Kincardine man was only a week away from finishing a trades program at Fanshawe College in London when he was killed in a snowmobile crash in Saugeen Shores Sunday.

Clint was a very hard worker and a very outdoors-type person, his dad Ernie said Tuesday in an interview.

We lived not any place but on a farm. He liked animals. He could run any type of equipment a backhoe, skid steer, a tractor, anything at a young age. He was talented with everything he did. Smart as a whip.

Clint, who went to both elementary and high school in Kincardine, was also the life of the party and always had a smile on his face, his dad said. He had hundreds of friends.

He was just the perfect boy.

Mr. Parker was pronounced dead at the scene of the crash, which is where the Saugeen Shores Rail Trail meets the Bruce-Saugeen Town Line. His snowmobile had collided with a Ford Explorer. An autopsy revealed he died of head injuries.

Ernie Parker has owned E&E Parker Plumbing, a family business for some 40 years. His eldest son Ryan, 23, is a licenced plumber. Sheldon, 20, is also working towards becoming a licenced plumber.

Clint worked with his dad as a co-op student in both Grade 11 and 12. He graduated last year from high school and worked with his dad full-time before going to Fanshawe for January and February.

He had finished about a third of his apprenticeship and would have become a licenced plumber in another two years, Ernie said.

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Clint Parker died doing what he loved, father says