Jean Colpitts Waddy
Coverdale, Albert County, New Brunswick, Canada
Canadian, 1922 - 2004
Canadian, 1922 - 2004
| Biography: | Jean Colpitts Waddy lived most of her life on the family farm which was on the original Colpitts family land grant in Albert County. She spent two years at Mt. Allison University but dropped out when her father moved the family to Calgary after the death of his brother. He insisted she move with them as he feared the Germans would attack the East Coast. She married Percy Waddy on June 19, 1947. Percy was a pilot in the RCAF and served in the Far East in 1944 to 1945 then he worked as a pilot for TransCanada Airlines in Moncton. In 1959, she and her husband took over the family dairy farm. She also worked for the research branch of the New Brunswick Department of Agriculture.She loved farming from her childhood when her father had a fox farm. She and her sister took a rug hooking course in Riverview during the fall and winter of 1970 to 1971. She was forty-eight when she started to hook and quilt when she was fifty-four. |
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