Dear Editor
I want to say how I have enjoyed North Battleford Notables. I wish there could also be a Battleford Notables. That would go back a little further, wouldn't it?
I thought Jane Shury, Leola MacDonald and Joan Bunce made a good source for Phoebe Cutbush, who is buried here in the cemetery around Forest Bank Church which is north of Waseca. It is where she attended church in her childhood and years later came a few times as lay leader and of course she always attended whenever she visited home.
When she came to Canada with her parents, I would like to add, she also came with three brothers and four of her six sisters. She had her fifth birthday on the boat and crew members gave her a party; she was the only family member not sea sick!
She worked for her church in many ways including as a member of St. Paul's Church, North Battleford, Anglican Church Women. She was a skilled watercolour artist, although her teaching gave her little time for it and her few paintings are treasured in the family.
She was also a skilled needlewoman and again examples of her embroidery are also treasured.
There are still people who remember her as a hostess and her culinary skills, especially her saskatoon pies.
She was a member of a family which in its time had many talents and remarkable members.
And to end this, I remember that the parents of some of her voice pupils called her "Mrs. Magic."
Christine Pike
Waseca
