Educator.
Born on the New Rosedale Colony on 13 January 1953, the sixth of twelve children of Sarah Wurtz (?-1970) and Peter Maendel, she attended Fairholme School where her father taught grades 4 to 8. She completed grades 9 and 10 by correspondence. At the age of 17, she joined her father as a volunteer teacher at the colony school, and later took courses in education at the University of Manitoba, graduating in 1985. She encouraged her students to continue their education and witnessed the colony's first high school graduation in 1994. She also actively promoted a program in the 1990s at Brandon University for training Hutterian teachers. She died at the Fairholme Colony on 9 August 2022.
“A visionary for Hutterite education,” Winnipeg Free Press, 19 November 2022.
Obituary, Winnipeg Free Press, 17 December 2022.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 17 December 2022
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