Educator.
Born in the Rural Municipality of Montcalm on 1 May 1921, daughter of Ella Glenne Paden (c1893-1973) and Thomas Wright McClelland (c1879-1953), she grew up on the family farmstead at 5-2-2East, attended school locally, and completed teacher training at Central Normal School in Winnipeg. She taught in both rural and urban Manitoba, including at Palestine School (1941-1942), St. Charles School (1942-1944, Principal), and Lord Nelson School (1944-1946). During a family roadtrip to southern California in the summer of 1947, she met John Roy “Johnny” Bedsworth (?-1987) at Montebello, California. Two months later, on 22 September 1947, they married at Emerson. She had three children and moved to Whittier, California, where she retired from teaching in 1984. In 2013, she retired to Tigard, Oregon to be closer to family. She died at Tigard on 19 January 2017.
Birth registrations, Manitoba Vital Statistics.
1921 Canada census, Library and Archives Canada.
“Engagement notices,” Winnipeg Free Press, 10 September 1947, page 8.
Obituary [Ella Glenne McClelland], Winnipeg Free Press, 21 September 1974, page 47.
“Emerson,” Steinbach Carillon, 13 June 1977, Section 3 page 3.
Obituary [Ruth Evelyn Milne], Winnipeg Free Press, 13 June 1997, page C8.
Obituary, DignityMemorial.
This page was prepared by Nathan Kramer.
Page revised: 9 June 2022
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