Ursula Rosser

1945, Arkona

by Dr. Ralph Teeple

Ursula Rosser and my father Lorne Teeple met when she came to work on his father’s fruit farm near Rock Glen Arkona.

Ursula was able to leave high school in May of 1945 to become a Farmerette on Roy and Mabel Teeple's fruit farm. Although Ursula was in her final year of high school in Parkhill, she still graduated without writing her final exams because of the Farmerette program. She committed to work at least 13 weeks in order to graduate her year, which at that time was called senior matriculation. 

Ursula lived on the farm with Lorne's parents, Roy & Mabel Teeple, during the week. Lorne would drive her back to her grandfather's house in Ailsa Craig, where she lived with her mother and sisters, for the weekends. My father, Lorne, bought the farm from his parents in 1947. Meanwhile love blossomed and Ursula and Lorne were married in 1948.

My parents raised six sons on that farm and worked in the orchard industry in the Arkona area until approximately 1982.

Ursula Rosser, left, from Ailsa Craig, with Lorne Teeple and his sister Ruth at the Teeple Orchard near Arkona in 1945. Ursula was a Farmerette on the farm that year and married Lorne in 1948.