Memorable Manitobans: Evelyn Margaret Flett O’Dell (1913-2002)

Educator.

Born in the Rural Municipality of St. Andrews on 14 January 1913, daughter of Mary Young (1884-1943) and Henry Flett (1870-1954), she grew up at the family farmestead at Walkleyburg (northeast of Selkirk) until they moved to Little Britain to be closer to a school. She graduated from the Central Normal School and taught at Brightstar School (1935), Stony Point School (1936-1938), Hoey East School (?-?), and Lockport School (1948-1950 and 1954-1958) at which she was Principal (1948-1950). While teaching at Bissett, she met Charles Henry O’Dell (1903-1975). They married, had two children, and moved to Port Credit, Ontario, where she continued teaching at Cooksville Public School (?-?, 20 years) in Mississauga. She died at Selkirk on 28 September 2002 and cremains were interred at the Springcreek Cemetery in Mississauga.

Sources:

Marriage registration [Henry Flett, Mary Young], Manitoba Vital Statistics.

Birth registration [Evleyn Margaret Flett], Manitoba Vital Statistics.

Post Offices and Postmasters, Library and Archives Canada.

Obituary, Winnipeg Free Press, 4 October 2002, page C11.

Springcreek Cemetery burial transcriptions [Mississauga, Ontario], FindAGrave.

Obituaries and burial transcriptions, Manitoba Genealogical Society.

This page was prepared by Nathan Kramer.

Page revised: 15 May 2023

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