Violet Mary Mann was born in her home near Melville, Saskatchewan on June 28th, 1941. She grew up in a considerably smaller family of the time having a father, a mother, a sister, and two brothers. She attended elementary school until the end of her eighth year; at which time she was of age to assist her parents on the farm. Her father was a farmer in the little town of Cana, Saskatchewan and her mother was a homemaker. At the age of sixteen she married her husband Harold Mann and together they had six children. Following in her parent’s footsteps, she and her husband raised their children on the farmland they owned in Cana, and she also became a homemaker. She idolized her mother and the work she contributed to the farm and her family’s
