death_date death_place birth_place imagesize nationality notableworks name birth_date genre image article_title birth_name occupation
12 september 2006 waterloo , ontario berlin , ontario 160px canadian '' namesake for the edna staebler award food that really schmecks '' cookbook series , edna staebler , cm 15 january 1906 non-fiction literary criticism , mennonite cooking , historical non-fiction , creative non-fiction essay , edna staebler.jpg edna staebler
 cora margaret cress writer , philanthropist
edna staebler

edna staebler , cm -lrb- january 15 , 1906 -- september 12 , 2006 -rrb- 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 -lrb- later kitchener -rrb- 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 -lrb- 7 apr 1875 - 23 oct 1932 -rrb- -lrb- machinist -rrb- and louise sattler -lrb- 24 jan 1881 - 8 march 1972 -rrb- who were married 15 jul 1903 .
