Friday, October 30, 2015

101 - Emma Landymore - Beechwood, Ottawa, Ontario

Waymark Code: WMPXRA

The marker is in section 19, lot 161.

N 45° 26.917 W 075° 39.345

According to the Saskatchewan birth index, Emma Shore, daughter of Robert Shore and Janet Sanderson, was born 10 May 1887. Emma was born only two years after the North-West Rebellion.

According to the Ontario marriage registration (1910 #001134), Emma Shore married William Lundymore in Ottawa, 29 June 1910. In Germany that week, the Zeppelin Deutschland made the first ever commercial passenger flight.

The following death notice was published in The Ottawa Citizen, 13 September 1988, page D5. Long time employee of Charles Ogilvy Ltd. At Beacon Hill Lodge on Sunday, September 11, 1988, Emma Shore, in her 102nd year. Wife of the late William Landymore. Predceased by her son, Wray Landymore. Loving grandmother to 6 grandchildren, 8 great-grandchildren and 3 great-great-grandchildren. Friends may attend the Funeral Service at McLeod Stewarton United Church on Tuesday at 2 p.m. Interment Beechwood Cemetery.

In September 1988, three hundred thousand Estonians demonstrated for independence from the Soviet Union.

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