, N 45° 26.91 W 075° 39.339 The monument is in section 19, plot 163
LOVING MEMORY OF
TABITHA S. WOODWARD
WIFE OF
JOHN RINGROSE
JULY 24, 1861, MAR. 4, 1929
JOHN RINGROSE
JUNE 4, 1853, JAN. 24, 1934
GEORGE ROBERT COLE
DIED NOV. 9th 1959.
HIS DEAR WIFE
TABITHA S. RINGROSE
DIED NOV. 11, 1983
Information about the centenarian is found in the following death notice published in The Ottawa Citizen (14 November 1983, page 16). Newspaper headlines on that day describe the Druse shelling of a Christian section of Beirut.
COLE, Tabetha (Bert)
In hospital on Friday, November 11, 1983, Tabetha (Bert) Ringrose; beloved wife of the late George Cole. Dear mother of Lorne and wife Kaye. Dear grandmother of Barry, Susan and Ross and several great-grandchildren. Beloved aunt of Ruth McCoy and Donald Reid. A private family service was held at Hulse and Playfair, Central Chapel, on Saturday, November 12. Interment Beechwood Cemetery.
According to the Ontario birth registration (1882 #016097), Tabitha Sarah Ringrose was born in Almonte, 23 January 1882. Newspaper headlines that week include a description of eight thousand Chilian military personnel crossing the Andes into Peru.
According to the Ontario marriage registration (1925 #007773), Tabetha Sarah Ringrose married George Robert Cole in Ottawa, 15 July 1925. In history, the Miners' Federation of Great Britain had just called for a miners' strike.
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