Wood, Marjorie Dick McGuffin

Born as Marjorie Dick at Rainier, OR and moved to Canada in infancy with her parents. Measles contracted at age 3 left her blind and progressively deaf, totally deaf by age 7. Seattle day schools for several years, then the Oregon School for the Deaf from age 12 to about age 19. In 1922, married deaf man Albert F. McGuffin for 36 years until his death; later remarried to Eric A. Wood. Took a correspondence course in writing and became a writer of over 30 articles in newspapers and children's magazines, plus a book, Trudging Up Life's Three-Sensed Highway (1978). Awarded the Order of Canada in 1976 in recognition of her service to Canadian deaf-blind persons.