Judith Boel

George Sheridan Penwarden - February 7th., 1930 – January 21, 2023 The final chapter of George's life talks of love and laughter, hopes and fears. It speaks of adventures and of work well done over many golden years. It bears witness to loss and pleasure; to take and give. Now George's last page is full finished but what is remembered lives! George was born in Selkirk, Manitoba in 1930. He describes his dad as a “gentle person” and his mother as “strong and determined...ahead of her time.” George went to college at 17 and describes his time there as a “breaking out” period in his life. He worked for a year in a psychiatric hospital and realized he “had some kind of 'knowing' about people and situations...” George worked summers to help put himself through college. Once in a logging crew, and then as a porter on the cross-Canada trains. He received his B.A. at the University of Manitoba in 1951, as well …