101 - Mary Jane Welburn Parker - Beechwood, Ottawa, Ontario
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N 45° 26.738 W 075° 39.751
18T E 448189 N 5032669
The marker is in section 51E. It is visible from the road.
Waymark Code: WMPPY3
Location: Ontario, Canada
Date Posted: 10/04/2015
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PARKER
MARY JANE WELBURN
1890-1992
GIBSON
1951 GORDON P. 1980
SON OF
1923 WILLIAM 1996
HUSBAND OF
1925 THELMA 2009
Information about the centenarian is found in the following death notice published in
The Ottawa Citizen (27 May 1992, page D13). Newspaper headlines of the day featured the imposition of sanctions on Yugoslavia, hoping to prevent more attacks in Bosnia.
PARKER, Mary Jane
(nee Welburn)
The family of the late Mary Jane Parker announce with sorrow her death on Monday, May 25, 1992, at the Manoir Laurier, in her 102nd year. Predeceased by her late husband Clifford, son Lawrence and son-in-law Walter Thistle. She is held in loving memory by her daughters Georgina (Lendon) of London; Bettye (Thistle) of Toronto; Thelma (Gibson), Ottawa; daughter-in-law Mrs. Eileen Parker of Vancouver and son-in-law R.W. Lendon and W. Gibson. Survived by her sister Hilda Steen and brother Herbert Welburn. Also survived by 11 grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren. Friends may call at the St. Laurent Chapel of Hulse, Playfair & McGarry, 1200 Ogilvie Road, Gloucester, on Thursday from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Funeral service will be held at St. Margaret's Anglican Church, 208 Montreal Road, Vanier, on Friday at 11 a.m. Interment Beechwood Cemetery.
According to the Ontario marriage registration (1912 #006047), Mary Jane Welburn married Clifford Moore Parker in the city of Ottawa, 18 March 1912. In that week in history, newspaper headlines featured the sinking of the ocean liner Oceana off the south coast of England.