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Object Description

Object ID

4567

Title

West Langley School Grade 1-4 Class with teacher Miss Marion Freeman, 1932-33.

Date

[1932-1933].

Description

West Langley School Grade 1-4 Class with teacher Miss Marion Freeman, 1932-33. Kathleen McVicar (Kay Kells) was in grade one this year. Front row (l-r): Mike Benson, Norman Severide, Eric Strom, Bertie Chatham, ?, Bernard Muench, Nelson Wood, Harold Wright, Yoshi Fujimoto. Second row: Doris MacDonald, Irene Bethell, Kathleen McVicar (Kells), Charlotte Evans, Gladys Welford, Andree Nordman, Rosamund Benson, Veronica Wood, and Lily Kirby. Third row (l-r): John Yeomans, ?, Billie Freeman, Bobbie Bethell, Edith Skov, Doreen Hooker, Joan Bethell, Ruth McArthur, Dorothy Woof, Mitsu Abu, and John Yurik. Back row (l-r): Tommy Goodyear, Elgar Moody, George Kirby, Mickey Chizz, Miss Freeman, Henry Dyke, Harvey Hooker, Arthur Harris, Arthur Penn.

People/Subject

Freeman, Marian Lawson

Marian Lawson Freeman lived in Milner and was a teacher. She married Roy McDonald.

Hooker, Harvey

Kells, Kathleen Laura (nee McVicar)

Kathleen Laura McVicar was born on December 29, 1925, in Langley, to Archibald and Ivy McVicar, nee Chatt. She married Frederick Ellis Kells (April 9, 1923 - ) in 1946, and they had twin boys in 1950 and a daughter in 1956.

Muench, Bernard

Bernard Muench (1925-1995) was the son of Bernard Henry (Dutch) Muench (1902-1966) and Florence Armishaw (1902-1950), and a great-grandson of Edward Muench, who homesteaded in West Langley in the mid-1860s. Bernard was married to Mina McIntosh. They had three children: two boys and one girl. Bernard died in 1995.
Term Source: Fred Braches, Whonnock Notes No. 10

school portraits

Severide, Norman

Norm Severide was born on August 14, 1923, in Vancouver, to Gunnar (1881/1882-March 17, 1954) and Frances May Severide, nee Dakin (1885/1886-August 6, 1976). He was raised at the family home in North Langley. In 1942 Severide joined the armed forces and served in the air force as a pilot. He attended the University of British Columbia and completed a law degree. He began practicing in Vancouver with some of his classmates, but they soon opened a branch in Langley, for which Severide became responsible. He was joined at this branch by Maurice Mulligan. Norm married Iris Birchall in 1953 and the couple had two sons. In 1983, Severide was honoured with an appointment as Queens Counsel by the Lieutenant-Governor of B.C. He passed away at the age of 95 in 2018.

West Langley Elementary School

West Langley School started out as a one-room school at 208 Street and 96 Avenue. More classrooms and other rooms were added to the school at various times including 1924, 1948, 1957 and throughout the 1950s and 60s. A fire destroyed the building in 1978. A new building was erected in 1981 at 9403 - 212 Street.

Worden, Joan (nee Bethell)

Daughter of Frank and Ada Bethell.

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