Nurse.
Born at Marchand on 15 August 1919, daughter of and Grace Silda Whyte (1882-1977) and James Isaac Bloomer (1881-1960), she graduated from the Winnipeg General Hospital School of Nursing and began her career as a neurology scrub nurse in Montreal, Quebec. Following her return home to Winnipeg, she became the city’s first public health nurse and played a role in the formation of the nurse’s union. She retired in 1975. She was married twice, first on 21 July 1945 to Leslie Geddes of St. Lambert, Quebec and they had a son. Around 1969, she married Francis “Frank” Weisensel (1921-2006). She died at Winnipeg on 24 January 2007 and was buried in the Chapel Lawn Memorial Gardens.
Marriage registration [Grace Silda Whyte, James Irwin Bloomer], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
Birth registration [Irine Phylis Bloomer], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
“Irene Bloomer weds Leslie Geddes in East,” Winnipeg Tribune, 4 August 1945, page 11.
Obituary [Grace Bloomer], Winnipeg Free Press, 14 December 1977, page 75.
Obituary, Winnipeg Free Press, 27 January 2007.
“They left their mark,” Winnipeg Free Press, 30 December 2007, page B2.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 14 April 2024
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