Edna Staebler, CM was a Canadian author and award-winning literary journalist, best known for her series of cookbooks, Food That Really Schmecks, based on Mennonite home cooking as practiced in the Waterloo Region. She was born in Berlin, Ontario in 1906 and grew up there. Staebler received a BA from the University of Toronto and a teacher's certificate from the Ontario College of Education. Staebler married in 1933 but divorced in 1962. She wrote articles for Maclean's, Chatelaine, Saturday Night, Reader's Digest, Star Weekly and other newspapers and magazines; she has also written non-fiction with Canadian themes. In 1991, she established an award for creative non-fiction, awarded annually by Wilfrid Laurier University. Staebler was awarded membership to the Order of Canada in 1996. She died of a stroke in Waterloo, Ontario, in 2006 at the age of 100. Edna's birth certificate shows she was originally named Cora Margaret Cress but her name was changed after registration by letter to Edna Louise Cress. She was the daughter of John Gerp Cress and Louise Sattler who were married 15 Jul 1903. 

January 15th, 1906 in Kitchener  /  Died:   Sep 12th, 2006 - at the age 100, stroke