The marker is in section 21, perpetual care grave 20.
N 45° 26.957 W 075° 39.38
IN LOVING MEMORY OF
MERIAM SAIKALY
WIFE OF
SIMON A. SAIKALY
1863-1966
The following death notice was published in The Ottawa Journal, 30 November 1966, page 60.
SAIKALY, Mrs. Marion - In hospital Tuesday, Nov. 29, 1966, Marion, widow of Semhan, aged 103 years, of 1876 Norwood Avenue, dear mother of Elias, George, Toufic and John of Ottawa, Mike, Burlington, Vermont, Saleme, Lebanon, Karene and Emelie, both of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Resting McEvoy Brothers-Shields Funeral Home, 235 Kent Street. Funeral Friday to St. Elijah's Syrian Orthodox Church (Lyon and MacLaren Streets) for service at 2.30 p.m. Interment Beechwood cemetery.
In Lebanon in the 1860s, thousands of Christians were killed by the Druzes. In 1966, Charles Helou, a Maronite Christian was the president of Lebanon. The prime minister was a Sunni Muslim.
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