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Mabel Lorraine Bell MacLeod
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Community activist.
Born at Winnipeg on 14 December 1932, daughter of Florence Bell and Robert "Bob" Bell, her family lived at Kane then moved to Morris when she was two years old. In her youth, she was active in softball, hockey, figure skating, CGIT, and choir. In adulthood, she worked as a bookkeeper for an agricultural firm, was a CGIT leader, taught Sunday School, played in the Morris Harmony Band, and coached figure skating.
In 1957, she married civil engineer Angus Alexander MacLeod (1932-1999) and they moved to St. Vital and had two sons and a daughter. She volunteered with many organizations, including the Manitoba Games Council, Manitoba Ladies Golf Association, and Manitoba Golf Hall of Fame. She served as President of the Manitoba Ladies Golf Association (1987-1988) and chaired the Canadian Ladies Amateur Championship (1991). In 2014, she was inducted as a builder into the Manitoba Golf Hall of Fame. She was a member of the United Church, Winnipeg Canoe Club, and Friendship Force of Manitoba.
She died at Winnipeg on 4 August 2024.
Obituary [Angus Alexander MacLeod], Winnipeg Free Press, 23 February 1999, page 37.
Obituary, Winnipeg Free Press, 17 August 2024.
Obituary, Ethical Death Care.
“Faces I knew now gone” by Kevin Rollason, Winnipeg Free Press email newsletter, 1 September 2024.
Obituaries and burial transcriptions, Manitoba Genealogical Society.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 1 September 2024
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