- December 13, 2025
Ivan Heron celebrated his 100th birthday Wednesday, Aug. 17, with friends, family and fellow gym members, at the Belle Terre Swim and Racquet Club.
Heron was born in Kingston, Jamaica, and moved in 1938 to Panama, to work in the quartermaster department of the Panama Canal.
Later, he worked in the engineering department on the canal locks.
Heron returned in 1944 to Jamaica, and, later that year, he immigrated to the United States to work in the War Manpower program in Ohio, and Connecticut.
In 1956, in New York, he married Violet Ina Chang, a nurse whom he had known as a girl in Jamaica.
Before moving in 1987 to Palm Coast, Ivan and his family immigrated to Canada, where he worked for Searborough College until his retirement.
He has one son, Courtney Heron, and two grandchildren, Courtney Heron and David Heron.
