102 - Helena Thompson Orr - Beechwood, Ottawa, Ontario
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N 45° 26.863 W 075° 39.596
18T E 448393 N 5032899
The marker is in section 25, lot 33.
Waymark Code: WMPY1D
Location: Ontario, Canada
Date Posted: 11/08/2015
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According to the Beechwood Cemetery burial registers and the 1901 census of Ottawa (Wellington ward), Helena was born 6 June 1853. In the summer of 1853, Commodore Perry was in Japan, seeking a trade treaty for the United States.
When Helena died late in 1955, General Motors had become the first American corporation to declare a single year profit of $1 billion. The following death notice was published in The Ottawa Citizen, 19 December 1955, page 34. At her residence, 318 Cooper Street on Sunday, December 18, 1955, Helena Thompson widow of Oliver Orr and precious Mother of Clarence H. Orr and Clare T. Orr of Ottawa, in her 103 year. Resting at Hulse and Playfair Limited, 315 McLeod Street. Service in the chapel on Tuesday, December 20 at 12 noon. Interment Beechwood Cemetery.