Pharmacist Irma Polari (os Toivanen) died in Seinäjoki on October 25, 2021. He was 92 years old, born in Sortavala on May 23, 1929.
Polaria was interested in appearing and writing early on. Among other things, she acted from an early age at school parties and started keeping a diary as a child.
In February 1940 The bombings in Sortavala were violent and in March the family had to evacuate. First through Oulunkylä to Lahti and then to Jyväskylä, where Irma continued her schooling and took a small job as a transmitter. The family from Sortavala moved back in the spring of 1942.
During the Civil War, life normalized. In the spring of 1944, however, the family moved to Seinäjoki after Jalmari’s father got a job there. Irma recalled being shocked to leave her beloved Sortavala.
Time It didn’t start well in Seinäjoki: the happy, open and energetic girl immediately got into trouble due to the Karelian dialect. Despite the difficulties, Polari enrolled in 1949 as a student. For her, all the journalists were drunks, so Irma applied to the pharmacy industry.
The lively years of the family with children followed. In addition to running the family, Polari periodically wrote. He took part in writing competitions in the 1960s and 1970s, partly with good success.
Winning play Room 200 was performed at the Seinäjoki City Theater, as well as a children’s play Mummy and Blueberry, which was also shown on TV and appeared in Ottawa Children’s happy theater in the book. Children’s play Petteri and the terrible lizard was born in 1984.
Thanks to these merits, Polari became a member of the Finnish Playwrights’ Association. He also wrote poems, for example Stage dances ended up singing until. Other poems were also published.
Polari worked as a music and play critic for the newspaper Ilkka from the 1970s until the 1990s – in this respect, the youth’s dream of working as a journalist came true.
She was also active in the cultural life of Seinäjoki, such as the puppet theater in Viipperö, the board of the Seinäjoki Art Association and the Seinäjoki women’s gymnasts.
He read poems and fairy tales to children in Seinäjoki schools and library.
Irma was not an ordinary mother of the family anyway. As early as the 1960s, he began traveling around Europe alone and with friends. She had strong opinions about, among other things, equality, and she resigned from the church in the 1980s as a protest when female priesthood was not accepted.
Irman’s last years were overshadowed by a memory disorder. Nevertheless, the happy Karelian girl kept up with her faith in life. His close circle included five children, eleven grandchildren, and five grandchildren.
Jukka Polari
The author is the son of Irma Polar.
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