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Alice Myrtle McKenna (nee Parry-Evans) was born on Sept. 2, 1915 at her parents home (Parry-Evans house) in Langley, BC. She attended the elementary school in Milner and then the Langley High School. Myrtle (as she was known) married Ralph McKenna on December 6, 1941 in the United Church in Milner. Their children are Alan, Pat and Joan. Myrtle was active with the Retarded Children's Association and became its president, and was also a charter member and historian of the Willoughby Women's Institute. She passed away February 1, 2004 in the same bedroom in which she was born.

This house is situated at 7649 - 208 Street in Willoughby. The property was purchased by Mr. Thomas Bird Parry-Evans from Robert Allen Oakes in 1895. The house was built in 1896 by Thomas Parry-Evans and a Mr. Lawrence, a builder from Surrey. An addition was built in the back of the house before 1907. Mr. Parry-Evans and his wife planted an orchard of 60 trees, a few of which still remain on the property. In later yeas, the Parry-Evans farm, which originally consisted of 160 acres, focused on the production of chickens and eggs. A chicken house remained on the property (although is likely gone today-2020). After Mr. Parry-Evans died in 1922 in an accident at Galbraith's Sawmill, the property was left to his wife and further passed on to their daughter, Myrtle McKenna (nee Parry-Evans).