Remembering a
favourite teacher

IVERNA Lillian Stradeski (nee
Lindsay) was one of the young
pioneer women who ventured out
to teach school in a one-room
. country schoal house,

Many of you have seen this
beautiful lady walking almost
every morning to have coffee at
Tim Horton’s an Lakelse Ave.

Bud sadly,

the Millburn Lake one-room
school house 10 miles west of
Quesnel.

She travelled by bus to Ques-
nel, and then by horse and wagon
the remaining 10. miles —a first
for the city girl,

The school house was equipped
with the very bare necessities,
like a desk for the

Iverna passed
away--peacefully~:
on Nov. -14, 200!
at Kelowna B,C,
at the age of 84.
Though born
in Seattle’ in
1917, she and her
parents ~ Samuel

Mark Lindsay
and mother
A noni oe
(Lawrance) —

came to Vancou-

HERE ‘N:THERE

YVONNE MOEN

children and a
wood heater;
The water was

from a well in the
back and the tea-
cher and children
would pack in the
wood and water,
And of: course
everyone would
walk out to the
back to get to the
privy.

Iverna stayed in a
little cabin about

ver when she was
only ai few
months old.

Iverna grew up in Vancouver
and attended Tecumseh School
from Grade |-8 then went to al-
tend the John Oliver High School
for grades 8 to 13, graduating in
1935,

She worked as a substitute tea-
cher for $3.50 a day in Vancouver,
After two years of summer. school
in Victoria ‘and a good report from
the scheol inspector, she received
her teacher's certificate.

At the age of 20 Iverna left
Vancouver to go teach school at

IVERNA STRA-
DESKI, on the
right in this pic-
ture, with hergé
1972-73 ESL
class and principal |()4
Rick Shaw at Cas- |
sie Hall Elemen- f
tary School in Ter- |
race. lverna pas- |
sed away Nov. 14 Fae
in Kelowna at the f&
age of 84. She
first taught in a
one-room school
house near Ques-
nel,

a quarter mile
from the school. It cost her $15
oul of her $75 monthly salary.

The cabin had a wood cook
stove, which also heated up the
place, She packed water in from’a
nearby stream.

'. Growing up in the city, she had
not seen’ much. wildlife. One day

-she looked out the school window

and ‘saw-eight moose: leisurely
walking by. Once while walking
to school she came face to face
with a bear — luckily there was a
fence between them.

From this one-room school,

The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, March 13, 2002 - 83

KITSUMKALUM

BAND COUNCIL

Notice To Kitsumkalum Band Members

Community Meetings have been scheduled to deal with
Minister Nault ond proposed changes to the Indian Act.

| The meetings will take place at the Kitsumkalum

Community Hall and all Band Members ara encourages

THIS WAS the one-room school

_nel. where lvarna Stradeski first. taught...

house 10-miles west of Ques-

Iverna went on to teach ‘at Black
Pine School in the North Thomp-
son area.

She had room and board there,
and as it was during the Depres-
sion, supper was always mashed
potatoes, pickled beets and moose
meat.

Eventualiy [verna returned to
Vancouver, where she taught ele-
mentary school for years before
upgrading to become one of the
first. teachers of English-as a Sec-
ond Language in B.C.

Iverna lived in Penticton from
1960 to 1972, where she raised
her children as a seamstress by
dqay-and an ESL teacher by night.

She then made the move to
Terrace in 1972.

The lush green mountains and
forests welcomed her home and
this is where she chose to live the
rest of her life,

Here she got a position at Cas-
sie Hail Elemetnary and also
taught at Kiti K’Shan Primary
School.

She retired as a leacher in

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“Over the years as: a. teacher,
Iverna made some. very close
freinds with students, Some wrote
letters of thanks for her caring,
discipline and extra attention,

Iverna had said her life as a
teacher was very rewarding.

Sadly now, this wonderful lady
and teacher has passed away,

She was a cancer survivor but
after 12 years ‘her breast. cancer
returned and she travelled to Ke-
lowna for a number of treatements
throughout the past year.

She moved to Kelowna in early
September to access the excellent
facilities and support.

Her hope was to be able to go
quickly, and Ged in his mercy
granted this to her in his time,

The funeral service for Iverna
Lillian Stradeski (nee Lindsay)
was held at | p.m. Nov. 23, 2001
at the Zion Baptist Church in Ter-
race.

After a graveside service at
Terrace Municipal Cemetery, a
tea was held at the church with
everyone sharing a story.

Iverna touched the lives of
many people through her years as
the ESL and learning assistance
teacher at Cassie Halt Elementary
School.

Her teaching years in Terrace
were some of the best years of her
life.

Iverna
daughter Myrna Stradeski of Ter-

is survived by her

horse, and her son Allan Stradeski

Saturday, March 14th

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