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Florence Weicker was a nurse and the first Lutheran Deaconess in Canada. She was born in Edmonton, Alberta on October 2, 1907 and moved to Kitchener with her family at the age of 13, where she became a member of St. Matthew's Church. She studied nursing at the Stratford General Hospital, graduating in 1932, after which time she worked as a nurse at the Freeport Sanitorium for a year and a half and as an industrial nurse Merchants Rubber for eight years. She studied at Waterloo College for a year, before going to Philadelphia where she worked with children at the Lutheran Settlement House, followed by two years of training at the Lutheran Deaconess House and School in Baltimore, graduating in May of 1947. The same year she returned to St. Matthew's Church in Kitchener, where she worked with refugees, youth groups and made regular hospital and nursing home visits. In addition to her work with the Lutheran Church, Weicker was a member of the K-W Quota Club, a board member of St. Monica's House, and a charter member of both the Sunnyside Auxiliary and the St. Leonard's Society.
Weicker died of cancer on June 16, 1977 and was buried at Saint Peter's Lutheran Cemetery in Kitchener.
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First Lutheran Deaconess in Canada.
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Created March 2022 by DR.
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- Deaconess Florence Weicker - Waterloo Region Generations
- "Kitchener Girl First Lutheran Deaconess". Kitchener-Waterloo Record. June 18, 1947, p. 3