Career
She received teacher training in Fredericton and moved to a school at Manor, Saskatchewan in 1917. When the "Lemsford Homemakers Club" was formed in 1920, she was elected first secretary-treasurer. She later became president of the Swift Current district Homemakers.
In 1944 she was elected Modern Language Association for Maple Creek.
She represented farm union women at three meetings of the Associated Country Women. The committee study took her to England, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, and Denmark.
She died in a traffic accident on June 4, 1976. She is the grandmother of long-time Regina NDP Modern Language Association Kim Trew.