The marker is in section 40, plot 123.
N 45° 26.756 W 075° 39.767
NEE BURNETT
WIFE OF
FREDERICK WM. BURNETT
1885-1986
According to the Ontario birth registration (1892 #004259), Lillian Mary Burnett was born in Ottawa, 28 September 1884. Soon after her birth, the Greenwich meridian was fixed as the world's prime meridian.
According to the Ontario marriage registration (1910 #001163), Lillian May Burnett married Frederick William Runge in Ottawa, 27 April 1910. Halley's comet would have been visible the week they were married. According to the Beechwood Cemetery burial registers, Mrs Runge died 16 March 1986. During the week of her passing, space craft encountered that same comet on its next visit to planet earth.
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