100 - Massey G. E. Read - St John's Anglican Cemetery, South March, Ontario
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N 45° 21.334 W 075° 55.652
18T E 427350 N 5022869
The cemetery is on Sandhill.
Waymark Code: WMQPD0
Location: Ontario, Canada
Date Posted: 03/12/2016
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READ
MASSEY G. E.
NOV. 28, 1909 - MAY 4, 2010
HIS BELOVED WIFE
HAZEL G.
NEE LINDSTROM
DEC. 19, 1916 - AUG. 28, 2011
The text below is taken from
The Ottawa Citizen newspaper, 5 May 2010. In 2010, the International Space Station passes the previous record for longest continuous occupation by humans in space.
READ, Massey Veteran WW II - R.C.A.F In hospital at Carleton Place, Ontario on Tuesday, May 4, 2010, at the wonderful age of 100 years. Cherished, loving husband and best friend of Hazel for 64 years. Special uncle to several nieces and nephews. Predeceased by his brothers Ernest, Clifford, and Harry and his sister Helen. Friends may call at the Alan R. Barker Funeral Home, 19 McArthur Avenue, Carleton Place on Friday, May 7, 2010 from 1 p.m. until service in the chapel at 2 p.m. Interment St. John Anglican Cemetery, Kanata. Donations to the Alzheimer Society would be appreciated. www.barkerfh.com
Massey and Hazel were married right after the end of the Second World War.
According to the Ontario birth registration (1909 #012173), George Elliott Massey Read (son of Edwin Percy Read and Violet Angeline Davis) was born in March township, 28 November 1909. Earlier in 1909, the United States Army Signal Corp Division purchases the world's first military airplane, a Wright Military Flyer, from the Wright brothers.