Margaret E. Zoeller
Inducted In
1998
Margaret E. Sudden was born in Galt (Cambridge) in 1920. She attended St. Andrew’s School and the Galt Collegiate Institute where she took a commercial course. She was a prime study analyst before her marriage to Austin S. Zoeller, a Wilmot Township farmer.
Beginning in the Haysville Branch of the Women’s Institute, she served with distinction in six levels of this rural women’s organization, including the Associated Country Women of the World.
Zoeller was public relations officer for the Federated Women’s Institutes of Ontario and later became Provincial President from 1968 to 1971. She was the voice of Ontario Women’s Institutes when she was editor of Home and Country from 1974 to 1982.
She was director of the first provincial Junior Farmers’ Board, a member of the Ontario Food Council and received the Centennial Medal in 1967.
Photograph by Belair, Kitchener.