Monday, October 19, 2015

100 - Dorothy White MacLaren - Beechwood, Ottawa, Ontario

Waymark Code: WMPVX7

Marker is in section 52, plot 37, the extreme east end of that section

N 45° 26.744 W 075° 39.853

The following death notice was published in The Ottawa Citizen newspaper, 8 August 1987, page F4. In history that week, the world's population reached the five billion mark.

MACLAREN, Dorothy Olivia White
On Wednesday, August 5, 1987, in her 101st year. Wife of the late Brigadier General Charles H. Maclaren. Mother of Donald, Frederick W. and the late J. Ferguson. Survived by 9 grandchildren and 6 great-grandchildren. A private family service was held on Friday, August 7th.

According to the Beechwood Cemetery burial registers, Dorothy was born in Ottawa, 22 November 1886. In the previous month, U.S. President Cleveland dedicated the Statue of Liberty.

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