Identity area
Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Bader, Isabel Louise
Parallel form(s) of name
- Overton, Isabel Louise
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Other form(s) of name
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Description area
Dates of existence
1926-2022
History
Isabel Louise Overton was born in northern Ontario and graduated from Victoria University in 1949 (DLittS Vic '95). After touring England in the summer of 1949 she accepted a teaching post at St. Francis School, Bexhill-on-Sea in Sussex, where she taught drama, French and Spanish and established a costume museum. She remained there until her marriage to Alfred Bader in 1982. In 2000, the Isabel Bader Theatre was completed at Victoria University. She passed away in 2022.