Jane Margaret Truesdell(1911-2011)
- Actress
A 1933 graduate of Drake University,with a joint major of music and
journalism Jane Margaret Truesdell married Earl Canady, the owner of a
gas station and spent the first years of her marriage helping him in
his business and raising five children. However, she continued to
write, and subsequently (1958) joined the Des Moines "Register &
Tribune" as Society Page Reporter; upon her marriage to Warren
Edgington, she was known to her readers as Jane Canady-Edgington. At
her retirement in 1980, she had risen to the Editor of the Society
Page.