Educator.
Born at Napinka on 18 July 1904, daughter of Edith Mary Moore (1876-1970) and John McKillop (1866-1957), she lived at Souris (1911) and trained at Brandon to become a teacher. Her career included work in Saskatchewan, Ontario, and Manitoba, among which was teaching at Golden Bay School (1937-1938), Beausejour School (1938-1942), Donald McLeod School (1943-1944), Kimberley School (1945-1946, Beausejour School District), Lockport School (1946, Principal), and Poplar Park School (1950), after which she joined the staff of the East Kildonan School District and taught at Salisbury School (1951-1952), Lord Wolseley School (1952-1958), and Polson School (1963-1967). On 2 December 1939, she married James Henry “Jim” Bethel (1911-1979) at Winnipeg. They had no children. She died at Oakview Place in Winnipeg on 28 September 2001 and was buried in the Elmwood Cemetery.
1911 Canada census, Automated Genealogy.
Birth and marriage registrations, Manitoba Vital Statistics.
Obituary [Edith M. McKillop], Winnipeg Free Press, 23 November 1970, page 28.
Obituary [James Henry Bethel], Winnipeg Free Press, 11 October 1979, page 91.
Winnipeg estate files (ATG 0025A), #2307/79 James J. Bethel, GR5658, Archives of Manitoba.
Obituary, Winnipeg Free Press, 2 October 2001, page 38.
Henderson’s Winnipeg and Brandon Directories, Henderson Directories Limited, Peel’s Prairie Provinces, University of Alberta Libraries.
Obituaries and burial transcriptions, Manitoba Genealogical Society.
We thank Gordon Goldsborough for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Nathan Kramer.
Page revised: 14 May 2023
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