Professor, community activist.
Born at Winnipeg on 27 July 1919, one of two daughters of Anna Juba and John Hawirko, she received a BSc degree from the University of Manitoba (1941) then a Masters (1949) and PhD (1951) in Bacteriology from McGill University in Montreal. She returned to Winnipeg as a professor of Microbiology at the University of Manitoba. Active in the community, she served on the board of the Canadian Citizenship Federation, founded and chaired the Language Bank of Winnipeg, and was President of the Altrusa Club of Winnipeg, for which she received a City of Winnipeg Community Service Awards (1971). She died unmarried at Victoria, British Columbia on 4 March 2011.
Birth registration [Roma Zenovea Hawirko], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
Obituary, Winnipeg Free Press, 12 March 2011.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 9 December 2024
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