100 - Susanna Neufeld - Didsbury, Alberta
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N 51° 39.151 W 114° 07.934
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Susanna Neufeld is interred in the Didsbury Cemetery located on 16th Avenue near Sandpiper Drive. She is one of three centenarians we located while visiting the Didsbury Cemetery.
Waymark Code: WMPGNZ
Location: Alberta, Canada
Date Posted: 08/29/2015
Published By:Groundspeak Regular Member woolsox
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Susanna Neufeld was born in 1900 and passed away in 2000 at the age of 100. She was married to Abram U. Neufeld and it is unknown if they had children. Abram U. Neufeld predeceased Susanna and died in 1965 at the age of 82.

During Susanna's lifetime; some of the events that took place were World Wars I and II and the Korean War. Also events that took place, locally, were the Frank Slide and the Hillcrest Explosion. Alberta became a province of Canada in 1905.

Also occurred were in 1981 the West Edmonton Mall opened, becoming the world's largest shopping center at that time and in 1988 the Winter Olympics were held in Calgary.

A timeline is provided highlighting events that took place during Susanna Neufeld's lifetime.

1900 - Susanna Neufeld was born
1900 - Reginald Fessenden transmits the world's first wireless spoken message via radio
1902 - The first symphony orchestra in Canada
1905 - Alberta becomes a province of Canada
1907 - Canada Dry Ginger Ale is first bottled
1907 - Proclamation sets fineness & weight of silver & bronze coins of Canada
1908 - Anne of Green Gables is published by author Lucy Maud Montgomery
1908 - Canadian branch of the Royal Mint opens in Ottawa
1910 - Royal Canadian Navy formed
1914 - Hillcrest Explosion
1914 - The First World War begins Britain declares war on Germany on behalf of the British Empire, including Canada
1917 - Women won right to vote
1917 - 1921 Alcohol prohibition
1919 - Canadian National Railways established
1920 - New Canadian small cent coin is released
1924 - The Royal Canadian Air Force is formed
1927 - To celebrate Canada's Diamond jubilee the first coast-to-coast radio broadcast is made
1929 - Women are considered "Persons" under Canadian law
1934 - The birth of the Dionne quintuplets attracts international media attention
1938 - FDR dedicates Thousand Islands Bridge connecting US & Canada
1939 - In WW II Canada declared war on Germany
1941 - Japanese interred in B C interior after bombing of Pearl Harbor
1942 - Over 22,000 Canadians of Japanese descent are stripped of non- portable possessions
1958 - Wooden Roller Coaster at Playland - Pacific National Exhibition in Vancouver - opened
1964 - Oil Sands development at Fort McMurray began
1965 - Maple Leaf becomes official flag of Canada
1965 - Abram U. Neufeld, husband of Susanna, passed away at the age of 82
1969 - Abortion and contraception legalized in Canada
1969 - Canada approves equality of French-English language
1979 - Canada puts its 1st gold bullion coin on sale
1980 - O' Canada officially becomes the national anthem of Canada
1980 - Terry Fox began cross-country Marathon of Hope
1986 - Expo 86 held in Vancouver
1996 - Blizzard dumped 59 inches of snow in British Columbia
1999 - The Mars Polar Lander was launched
2000 - First Homeless Allowed to Vote
2000 - Susanna Neufeld passed away at the age of 100

The Didsbury Cemetery is one of the larger cemeteries in the area and is within the Mountain View County. There are approximately 2,200 interments and is about 10 acres in size. It is still active with the last known burial was in 2014. The cemetery was most like established in the early 1900s. We did location one individual, Wilfred Snyder who was born in 1901 and died in 2004 at the age of 103.

Didsbury is approximately the half-way point between the cities of Calgary and Red Deer.

The town is named after the township of Didsbury, now a suburban area of Manchester, England. The first settlers were Dutch Mennonites who left their homes in Pennsylvania and emigrated as United Empire Loyalists to Waterloo County, Ontario. They were granted the area around Didsbury in 1894 by the government of Sir John A. MacDonald.

In the 2011, Didsbury had a population of 4,957.

Source: Wikipedia (visit link)
Location of Headstone: Didsbury Cemetery

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