Margaret Catherine "Marnie Rieder

1906 - 2003  (96 years)

• Name	Margaret Catherine "Marnie Rieder
  Born	1 Nov 1906	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [1]
  Gender	Female
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  Name	Margaret Catherine "Marnie Paisley
  Residence	1911	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [1]
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  Eby ID Number	Waterloo-179388
  Died	11 Jun 2003	Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
  Buried	Clinton Public Cemetery, Hullet Twp., Huron Co., Ontario
  Person ID	I179388	Generations
  Last Modified	7 Nov 2024

  
  

  Father	Talmon Henry Rieder,   b. 10 Aug 1878, New Hamburg, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 15 Apr 1922, Montreal, Ile De Montreal, Quebec  (Age 43 years)
  Mother	Martha Melvina Anthes,   b. 19 Nov 1879, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 18 Apr 1971, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 91 years)
  Married	10 Jan 1906	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [2]
  Family ID	F38063	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Elmer William McEwen Paisley,   b. 18 Sep 1907, Clinton, Hullett Twp., Huron Co., Ontario ,   d. 3 Aug 1976, Tucson, Pima, Arizona, USA  (Age 68 years)
  Last Modified	12 Nov 2024
  Family ID	F300293	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Marnie (Margaret) Paisley of Waterloo Born: Berlin, Ont. Nov. 1, 1906 Died: June 11, 2003 of age-related illness BY VALERIE HILL RECORD STAFF There are few of them left, those strong, independent and successful women of Waterloo Region who left an indelible mark at a time when few other women had even found their way out of the kitchen. Marnie Paisley was unique, a woman who promoted birth control and provided sex education to teenage girls in the 1950s and 1960s. She was a university-educated woman who played women's hockey in school and travelled the world. In 1931, she lived in Japan for a year, helping Kitchener's Emma Kaufman set up a YWCA. Paisley's best friends were acclaimed cookbook author Edna Stabler and longtime Kitchener chief librarian Dorothy Shoemaker, a woman who fostered young writers. Shoemaker died in 2000 and Paisley passed away June 11, 2003, age 96, her mind keen to the end. "We'd been friends since high school," said Staebler, who, at 97, now lives in a Waterloo retirement home. "People admired her very much and they listened to her." Born in Kitchener when it was still called Berlin, Paisley was one of four children. Her father, Talmon Rieder, owned a rubber company and moved his family to Montreal when Paisley was a child. He died when she was 15, and her mother decided to return to Kitchener. "She didn't want to go," said her daughter, Penny Hobson of Baden, recalling her mother talking about how difficult it was to leave her friends. "She always felt guilty about giving her mother a hard time.' Once back in Kitchener, Paisley took a tenacious hold on the community. Although she left the city several times during her marriage, she always returned home, even after a 22-year stint in Arizona, where the family had moved because of her husband's ill health. "She was a strong woman, way ahead of her time," Hobson said. "She loved people, and all her life she helped people. And she inspired people with her determination to go on." Paisley needed that grit because, despite her privileged childhood, life as an adult had many bumps. She married Elmer Paisley, a lawyer turned school teacher she met at the University of Toronto. He was a man who did not make life easy, and the upkeep of the family usually fell to her. The couple moved around Ontario. During a long stint in Toronto, she was instrumental in setting up the Family Life Education program at her church and pioneered a nursery school for working mothers. "She went to teachers college when I was in high school," Hobson said. It was a principal from Kitchener Collegiate Institute who saw something in Paisley and thought she'd make a good teacher. "She loved it," Hobson said. "She loved the students, especially teenagers. She could relate to them, talk to them. " Sex education was part of her job as a guidance counsellor and her work with groups such as Canadian Girls in Training. Hobson recalls being embarrassed when her mother talked about such things in public. "She was very free and open about it." Paisley taught high school locally from 1955 to 1969, first at Kitchener Collegiate and then Waterloo Collegiate. But tragedy was always lurking in her life. Her much-loved sister died of cancer and her brother had a serious car accident. The stress caused Paisley's hair to fall out, and a doctor gave her a tranquilizer prescription. She was soon addicted and after many years was almost a zombie, Hobson said. At 78, she entered a rehab program and not only licked her addiction but went on to speak publicly about her ordeal. "She was not going to give in to anything," Hobson said. There was a wonderfully soft side to Paisley. She had all but adopted the two young daughters of a friend who died, and she adored nature, astronomy, horseback riding and hiking. "She was deeply religious and she tried to live her life according to Christian ideals," Hobson said. "I don't think she ever said a negative thing about anything. She was always supportive of me, always positive." Stabler said simply, "she was a wonderful person." Marnie Paisley leaves her son, Ian Paisley of Aurora, H her daughter, Penny Hobson of Baden, six grandchildren and six great grandchildren. The Record, Kitchener, Ontario, Thu, Sep 11, 2003 Page 12

  
  

• Sources

  [S340] Census - ON, Waterloo, Berlin - 1911, Div. 28 Pg. 1. [S721] Vit - ON - Marriage Registration, marriage certificate 19322 (1906), Talmon Henry Rieder-Martha Melvina Anthes. Talmon Henry Rieder Birth Place: New Hamburg (manufacturer of Berlin) (religion: Evangelical) Age: 27 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1879 Father Name: Peter Rieder Mother Name: Emma Merner Spouse Name: Martha Melvina Anthes Spouse's Age: 26 (lady of the house, resident of Berlin) Spouse Estimated Birth Year: abt 1880 Spouse Birth Place: Berlin Spouse Father Name: John S Anthes Spouse Mother Name: Lydia Cath Herlon Anthes Marriage Date: 10 Jan 1906 Marriage Place: Waterloo

  
  

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  Born - 1 Nov 1906 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Residence - Zion - 1911 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Died - 11 Jun 2003 - Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  = Link to Google Earth