Athlete.
Born at St. Boniface on 20 January 1914, daughter of Ada Elizabeth Foxall (1879-1936) and Norman Hall (1876-1966), she played with several women’s softball teams and won several championships. Also an active curler as a member of the Heather Curling Club, she was a member of the Ernie Boushy team that won the first Mixed National Curling Championship (1964). She was inducted into the Manitoba Softball Hall of Fame (2002) and Manitoba Sports Hall of Fame (2004). On 23 October 1943, she married George McKenzie (?-?) at Winnipeg. She died at the Middlechurch Home on 22 September 2011.
Birth registration [Beatrice Ada Norma Hall], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
Death registration [Ada Elizabeth Hall], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
Obituary [Ada Elizabeth Hall], Winnipeg Tribune, 28 January 1936, page 4.
Marriage registration [Beatrice Ada Hall, George McKenzie], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
Obituary, Winnipeg Free Press, 26 September 2011.
Obituaries and burial transcriptions, Manitoba Genealogical Society.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 31 December 2024
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