101 - Pearl E Robinson - Beechwood, Ottawa, Ontario

Waymark Code: WMPVKQ

The marker is in section 30, plot 215. This one monument is nearly hidden in a small copse of older trees.

N 45° 26.89 W 075° 39.394

COL. WILLIAM H. ROBINSON, O.B.E.
12 AUG. 1879 - 31 OCT. 1940
PEARL E. ROBINSON
29 DEC. 1884 - 28 JAN. 1986

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Information about the centenarian is found in the following death notice published in The Ottawa Citizen (31 January 1986, page C8). The day Pearl passed away is also the day that the space shuttle Challenger was destroyed shortly after launch.

ROBINSON, Pearl Edna In her 102nd year, on January 28, 1986, in Picton, Ontario, widow of Colonel W. H. Robinson, O.B.E. Survived by her son William and step-daughter Louise Brown. Private interment at Beechwood Cemetery. A Memorial Service will be held at Hulse and Playfair, Central Chapel, 315 McLeod Street on Wednesday, February 5, at 11 a.m.

According to the Ontario birth registration (1885 #024627), Pearl Edna Howard Wood was born in Port Hope, 29 December 1884. When Pearl Edna was accepted as a nursing sister with the Canadain Over-seas Expeditionary Force in 1916, she was magically three years younger.

During the week of Pearl's birth, newspaper headlines describe General Wolseley's exploits in the Nile Expedition.