Ken retired from Essex Community College in 1993. Five years later, after their children had moved away from home, Ken and Jean moved from Joppatowne to 1181 Rollins Court in Bel Air, Maryland.

Upon moving, Ken began attending the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Harford County. As with the Towson Unitarian Universalist Church, Ken became actively involved in supporting the church’s high school youth group.

Retirement also afforded the opportunity for Ken to pursue a variety of volunteer interests. These included teaching literacy to adult students at the Essex branch of the Baltimore County Public Library – the same library that his mother had founded in 1941 (“She gave them the books, and I teach them to how to read the books,” Ken commented in a 1997 profile). Prior to moving, Ken had volunteered for the Service Corps of Retired Executives (SCORE) in Baltimore; upon relocating to Bel Air, he continued this work in collaboration with the Small Business Development Center from an office at Harford Community College. Ken began teaching his course on developing self-concept for the Harford County Department of Social Services offices in Aberdeen, Maryland. Since his maternal grandmother had challenged him to learn to bake bread in the 1940s, Ken had continually been baking and delivering bread to friends and family; upon moving to Bel Air, he delivered his homemade bread to members of the Unitarian fellowship.

After Jean passed away in 2008, Ken moved into a small apartment at 781 White Oak Drive in Bel Air, Maryland, where he volunteered with the senior programming at the at near-by McFaul Activity Center. He also spent time knitting scarves that were then distributed to people who were homeless.

When Ken’s health and mobility became increasingly compromised, his son Rod provided Ken with a place in his own home at 708 Ponderosa Drive in Bel Air. When more constant medical care became necessary, Ken moved again in February 2016 to Greenfield, a senior assisted living center in Bel Air. There, he passed away early in the morning on March 3, 2016.