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MRS. M. S. SCHRODER
on May 12, 1886. Her family moved to Portage l a P r a i r i e i n
the early nineties. There she received her early education
and l a t e r attended Wesley College i n Winnipeg, graduating
from there i n 1905. For the next eleven years she was a member
of the Vancouver teaching s t a f f.
In 1916 she married Malcolm Sterling Schrider and
spent the next t h i r t y - f i v e years i n Walsh, Alberta, r e t i r i ng
with her husband to Medicine Hat In the f a l l of 1953. One of
her main interests at Walsh was the work of the Alberta Women's
Institutes. She spent several years as the secretary of her
branch but she i s best known as the member who, as Social Services
Convener f o r her branch and f o r Southern Alberta, packed
thousands of pounds of clothing during the Second World War,
Every spare moment she had she spent i t sewing, mending and k n i t t
i n g . She alone knit several hundred pairs of socks during this
. time. It was at the same time that Walsh W. I. nearly disbanded
i n favor of Red Cross work and, although Mrs. Schroder had been
an ardent member of the l a t t e r organization since the time of the
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| Transcript | MRS. M. S. SCHRODER on May 12, 1886. Her family moved to Portage l a P r a i r i e i n the early nineties. There she received her early education and l a t e r attended Wesley College i n Winnipeg, graduating from there i n 1905. For the next eleven years she was a member of the Vancouver teaching s t a f f. In 1916 she married Malcolm Sterling Schrider and spent the next t h i r t y - f i v e years i n Walsh, Alberta, r e t i r i ng with her husband to Medicine Hat In the f a l l of 1953. One of her main interests at Walsh was the work of the Alberta Women's Institutes. She spent several years as the secretary of her branch but she i s best known as the member who, as Social Services Convener f o r her branch and f o r Southern Alberta, packed thousands of pounds of clothing during the Second World War, Every spare moment she had she spent i t sewing, mending and k n i t t i n g . She alone knit several hundred pairs of socks during this . time. It was at the same time that Walsh W. I. nearly disbanded i n favor of Red Cross work and, although Mrs. Schroder had been an ardent member of the l a t t e r organization since the time of the |
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