Sherle Bottrill
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This page is a biography of Sherle Bottrill. The Society’s own record of Sherle Bottrill — the offices held, the standings conferred and the awards won — is on the register page.
When Sherle Bottrill died on 9 August 1993, the Society's newsletter carried this notice. She was President of the Society's Barrie Branch, whose own short history appears in the Summer 1990 newsletter.
C.S.C.L. lost a longtime member and good friend when Sherle Bottrill passed away at the Barrie hospital on August 9th.
After years of secretarial employment in Toronto, Sherle joined Clarke and Clarke Leathers of Barrie in 1952. For some of the time with this company, she worked at the store at 523 Mount Pleasant Road, Toronto. Tandy Corporation later bought the retail division of Clarke and Clarke.
Sherle joined C.S.C.L. in the early days and took lessons from Bob Muma and Don McKinnon. She obtained her Associate standing in 1962 and, at that time, was President of the Barrie Branch, as well as being the Corresponding Secretary of C.S.C.L. Executive Council. She was awarded several Salon ribbons for her leather work and demonstrated at sales and Annual Meetings. At the Annual in 1985, she was made an honourary Life Member for her service to the Society.
Sherle's husband, Geoff, passed away in 1978 and following that, she moved to Grove Park Home in 1983. Here, she continued to do leathercraft as well as the needlecraft and decoupage that she enjoyed so much. She was also a Life Member of the Simcoe County Arts and Crafts Association.
While not able to practice crafts in recent years, Sherle always maintained interest and kept in contact with her friends. She will be greatly missed.
The notice agrees with the Society's other papers: the Spring 1962 newsletter names her an Associate (p3) and chairman of the Barrie Branch (p12), and the minutes of the 1985 Annual, printed in the 36th Annual Meeting booklet, record her Life Membership.
Printed in Canadian Leathercraft, Fall 1993.