Classification scheme:
Hist.Mss.1.315
Title: Christene (Hodgins) Allemang fonds (s.c.)
Dates of creation: 1983, 1990
Physical description: 1 cm of textual records ; 2 photographs
Biographical sketch: Ada Christene ("Chris") Allemang (1940-1990) was raised in Cambridge, Ontario and lived in Kitchener. She grew up in the United Church. She marred Vernon Allemang in 1963; the couple had two children. She was a music supervisor of public schools in two townships, served on the executive of Women Alive, helped found the Independent Living Centre, and was a member, choir director and organist of First Mennonite Church. Following a cancer diagnosis that left her in a wheelchair, she gave personal support to other cancer patients and frequently shared her story with church and other groups.
Custodial history: Donated to the Archives in 2017 by Arlene Kehl
Scope and content: See file list, below
Notes: Original archival description created 2018 by Laureen Harder-Gissing
File list:
- Newspaper clippings profiling Christene as a community worker and describing how her faith helped her to live with inoperable cancer
- Newspaper column describing Christene and Vernon's wedding
- Correspondence from friends
- Obituary
- Funeral order of service
- Photographs of Christene and Vernon at their wedding, and Christene as an infant
- Sunday School certificates from St. Paul's United Church
- Documents re the purchase of a modified van for Christene