Jessie Saruk turns 98, but visitors to popular ex-teacher restricted due to pandemic
With the Covid-19 crisis restricting visitors Jessie Saruk celebrated her 98th birthday April 20 at the Lamont Beaverhill Lodge.
Many in Lamont will know Saruk, since she taught grade 2 in the town from the early 50s until the early 1980s. Sometimes she has touched three generations of the same family, said her son Bertrand, interviewed at his home near Seattle, Wash.
During some Remembrance Day services in the community it was Jessie who often recited in Flanders Fields.
Jessie retired from teaching in 1981. But, he added, she often went back to work as a substitute after she retired.
Jessie, said her son, attended the United Church in town, but was also a member of the congregation at Huwen United Church, east of Lamont where her father had been the first pastor.
“She never had a bad student,” said her son. “She loved every one of the kids. Even the bad ones were pretty good.”
But, he said, she was always looking out for the welfare of her students.
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He said the students did get new desks and she maintained her old wooden one.
“Well, when she retired she was given her old desk,” he related. He said the desk has now been passed on to his son in Vancouver.
Bertrand said their family has mostly moved from Lamont, with a daughter in Toronto and one in Winnipeg.
He added she has six grandchildren, and 10 great-grandchildren across the country from Newfoundland to B.C.
“I know there was a cake brought in, but no one from outside was able to come in to help her celebrate,” he said. “And she’ll be getting plenty of phone calls from across the country.”
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