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Memorable Manitobans: Chester Lordly Fultz (1875-1949)
Educator.
Born at Woburn, Massachusetts on 8 November 1875, son of John Conly Fultz (1832-1921) and Margaret Grey Lordly (1833-1909), he came to Canada in 1882 and taught school at Halifax, Nova Scotia. By 1921, he moved to Winnipeg and was a manual training teacher for the Winnipeg School District. He taught at Aberdeen School (1921-1924) and was Principal of Wellington School (1924-1926) and Pinkham School (1926-1928) before returning to the classroom at Aberdeen School (1928-1935), after which he retired. On 2 February 1907, he married Desdemona Millicent McLeod (1880-1936) at Gladstone. They had no children and, after his wife’s death, he moved to British Columbia where he married Grace Selina Bagshaw (1898-1951). He died at Vancouver General Hospital on 2 April 1949 and was buried in the Forest Lawn Cemetery at Burnaby.
Sources:
1901 Canada census, Automated Genealogy.
1921 Canada census, Library and Archives Canada.
Marriage and death registrations, Manitoba Vital Statistics.
Death registrations, British Columbia Vital Statistics.
“Aberdeen School closes three-day display of work,” Manitoba Free Press, 22 June 1922, page 6.
Obituary [Desdemona Fultz], Winnipeg Free Press, 13 November 1936, page 20.
“Icelandic pupils backbone of Wellington School” by Claire Tisdale, Winnipeg Free Press, 4 February 1949.
Winnipeg estate files (ATG 0025A), #40186 - Chester L. Fultz, GR4896, Archives of Manitoba.
We thank Nathan Kramer for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 24 April 2022
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