Educator.
Born at Morden on 15 December 1937, second child of Andrew Lewis Barkley (1902-1988) and Edith Vene Jane Covernton (1902-1986), after completing high school she attended Normal School then, in 1957, began her teaching career at Sanford School.
In 1962, she married Lorne F. Erb and they had a son and a daughter. She returned to teaching in 1968, at Domain School (1968-1974) and later returned to J. A. Cuddy School in Sanford, serving until retirement in 2002. That year, she received the Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal in recognition of her community service. In the fall of 2002, she was elected to the Red River Valley School Division Board, serving as its Chair for several years.
She died at Winnipeg on 13 May 2012.
Marriage registration [Andrew Lewis Barkley, Edith Covernton], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
Obituary, Winnipeg Free Press, 16 May 2012.
Obituaries and burial transcriptions, Manitoba Genealogical Society.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 5 December 2024
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