105 - Alice S Storr - Beechwood, Ottawa, Ontario
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elyob
N 45° 26.917 W 075° 39.199
18T E 448912 N 5032995
The marker is in section 17, plot 45.
Waymark Code: WMPVA6
Location: Ontario, Canada
Date Posted: 10/23/2015
Views: 7
STORR
1879 JOHN 1949
1878 ALICE S 1984
1910 CARTER B 1995
1906 WILMA C 1999
Information about the centenarian is found in the following death notice published in The Ottawa Citizen (5 March 1984, page 16). Newspaper headlines on that day refer to the protests to the first US cruise missile tests in Canada.
At Island Lodge on Friday, March 2, 1984, Alice Sarah Twigge, aged 105 years. Beloved wife of the late John Storr. Dear mother of Carter of Ottawa and John of Buffalo, New York. Loving grandmother of 4 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren. Sister of Ena (Mrs William LaClaire) of Salmon Arm, B.C. A private family Service was held at Hulse and Playfair, Central Chapel, 315 McLeod St. on Sunday, March 4, 1984. Interment, Beechwood Cemetery.
According to the Ontario birth registration concerning their son Carter Bosworth Storr, Alice Sarah Twigge and John Storr were married in Ottawa, 4 February 1909. On that day in history, returning from the South Magnetic Pole and the region then claimed for the British Crown, the Antarctic expedition led by Edgeworth David reached the coast and their ship, the Nimrod.