Memorable Manitobans: Irene Gabrielle Potvin O’Sullivan (1909-2004)

Educator.

Born at Winnipeg on 3 January 1909, daughter of Joseph Napoleon Potvin (1871-1965) and Virginia Trudeau (1871-1949), she grew up at Makinak. Her teaching career included service at Bardal School (1928-1929), Greenridge School (1931-1933, Principal), North Springfield School (1935, Principal), and Swan River School (1936-1939). On 4 November 1949, she married Emmett Quinlan O’Sullivan (1911-1988) of Salt Lake City, Utah at St. Gertrude’s Catholic Church in Stockton, California. The couple then moved to California and established residence at Sacramento where they had a son, Joseph Emmett O'Sullivan (1951-2019). She died on 30 August 2004 and was buried in the San Francisco National Cemetery.

Sources:

Birth registrations, Manitoba Vital Statistics.

1911 Canada census, Automated Genealogy.

“Mr. and Mrs. Emmett Q. O’Sullivan [...],” Winnipeg Free Press, 29 November 1949, page 11.

Obituary [Mrs. Joseph Potvin], Winnipeg Free Press, 30 July 1949, page 6.

Obituary [Mrs. Joseph Potvin], Winnipeg Free Press, 2 August 1949, page 24.

Obituary [Miss Marie Potvin], Winnipeg Free Press, 11 May 1963, page 36.

Obituary [Joseph Napoleon Potvin], Winnipeg Tribune, 3 March 1965, page 38.

Obituary [Joseph Emmett O'Sullivan], Sacramento Bee, 25 December 2019, page B7.

Irene Gabrielle Potvin O'Sullivan, FindAGrave.

We thank Darryl Toews for providing additional information used here.

This page was prepared by Nathan Kramer.

Page revised: 14 May 2024

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