Series S0004 - Evelyn Willison. 1912-1993

Evelyn Augusta Willison, 1902-1993, was born in Calgary, Alberta. Her nickname with her sisters was “Duck”. She was educated at the Calgary Normal School and the University of Alberta. She taught in Alberta schools for 39 years, including Coaldale, 1928-1935, Morley Indian Residential School, 1938-1939, Didsbury High School, 1944-1952, and the School for the Deaf in Edmonton in 1956. She retired in 1960. She was very involved in the Oxford Group in the 1930s, and in its successor, Moral Re- Armament in later years. Her book, Pauline Johnson Still Lives was published in 1992. She lived in Kelowna from 1969 until 1982, sharing a house with her sister, Anne, who died in 1978. From 1982 until her own death in 1993 she lived in Calgary, for most of this time with her sister, Gladys, who died in 1991.