Barbara Elizabeth Dexter (1924 - 2013)

Born 16 Oct 1924 in Nova Scotia, Canada [uncertain]

Ancestors

Died 22 Jun 2013 at age 88 in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Canada

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Biography

Barbara was born in 1924. She was the daughter of Warren Dexter and Myrtle Weir. She passed away about 2012.^[1]

Barbara was educated in Milton and attended High School in Liverpool walking back and forth every day. She taught school in her late teens in Lunenburg County then took training to become a nurse at the Aberdeen Hospital in New Glasgow. Following her training, Barbara worked in the Annapolis Royal Hospital, the Victoria General Hospital in Halifax, as well as hospitals in Vancouver and Kelowna, BC. She provided nursing care to native villages in British Columbia by flying from Powell River. She studied Operating Room Techniques in Winnipeg General and cared for TB patients in Foot Hills Hospital in Calgary, AB. She returned to Nova Scotia and studied Public Health at Dalhousie and travelled to Belfast, Ireland to study mid-wifery and work in various hospitals in Ireland and Scotland. She was a life long member of the Gospel Assembly Hall in Ninevah, Lunenburg County.

Sources

1. ↑ Personal notes of Kelsey Rempel.

• https://www.chandlersfuneral.com/?s=Barbara+dexter&cat=3