Piano teacher, artist.
Born at White Pigeon, Michigan on 16 March 1892, only child of John Allan Bunn (1857-1937) and Edna Miranda Bunn (1864-1940), she moved with her parents to Quill Lake, Saskatchewan in 1904 where her father built the first house in the town. She studied piano in Chicago, Grinnell and Winnipeg, graduating with ALCM and ATCM degrees.
In 1914, she moved to Charleswood with her family where she taught piano lessons to local children for over 60 years, retiring at the age of 76. A biography entitled Gladys A. Bunn, Piano Teacher and Artist was written and published by Anne Edith Edmunds Cott in 1981. She died unmarried at Winnipeg on 31 May 1987 and was buried beside her parents in the Elmwood Cemetery. She is commemorated by a public park in Charleswood.
1921 and 1931 Canada censuses, Ancestry.
Death registration [John Allan Bunn], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
Obituary [Edna M. Bunn], Winnipeg Tribune, 31 December 1940, page 20.
“Miss Gladys Bunn,” Winnipeg Free Press, 14 March 1987, page 30.
Obituary, Winnipeg Free Press, 2 June 1987, page 43.
Obituary, Winnipeg Free Press, 29 June 1987, page 29.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough who, at a young age, took piano lessons from Miss Bunn.
Page revised: 2 February 2024
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