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Born in 1926, daughter of Lillian Partridge (1896-1982) and Edward John “Jack” Button (1892-1974), a descendant of Thomas Button, on 18 April 1950 she married physician Gordon William Douglas Steenson (1925-1994) and they moved to Fisher Branch where he practiced medicine until early 1951 when they moved to Ashern. In time, they had three sons and two daughters. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, she was Honorary Secretary of the Manitoba Historical Society. She died at Winnipeg on 2 May 1977 and was buried in the Ashern Cemetery.
Her articles for the Manitoba Historical Society:
Honorary Secretary’s Report, Annual Meeting
MHS Transactions, Series 3, Number 23, 1966-1967 SeasonHonorary Secretary’s Report, Annual Meeting
MHS Transactions, Series 3, Number 24, 1967-1968 SeasonHonorary Secretary’s Report, Annual Meeting
MHS Transactions, Series 3, Number 25, 1968-1969 SeasonHonorary Secretary’s Report, Annual Meeting
MHS Transactions, Series 3, Number 26, 1969-1970 SeasonHonorary Secretary’s Report, Annual Meeting
MHS Transactions, Series 3, Number 27, 1970-1971 Season
Marriage registration [Edward John George Fairfax Button, Lillian Partridge], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
Obituary, Winnipeg Free Press, 3 May 1977, page 32.
Obituary [Gordon William Douglas Steenson], Winnipeg Free Press, 29 July 1994, page 34.
Obituaries and burial transcriptions, Manitoba Genealogical Society.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 29 September 2024
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