101 - Maria Alma (Short) Stanley - Beechwood, Ottawa, Ontario

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N 45° 26.795 W 075° 39.861

The lawn marker is in section 41, lot 109.

MARIA ALMA SHORT
1871-1972
WIDOW OF
E. HARCOURT STANLEY

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The following death notice was published in The Ottawa Journal, 24 August 1972, page 48. At the Griffith McConnell Home, Montreal, on Wednesday August 23, 1972; Alma Short, beloved wife of the late E. Harcourt Stanley M.D.V.S. of Ottawa in her 102nd year; dear mother of Reginald H. Stanley, of Westmount, Que. Resting Hulse and Playfair Central Chapel, 315 McLeod St. Service Friday 3 p.m. Interment Beechwood cemetery. In lieu of flowers donations to the Good Samaritan Fund, Griffith McConnell Home, Montreal, gratefully received.

In 1972, the Canadian Anik 1 was launched, becaming the world's first non-military communications satellite.

According to the 1871 census of Dunkerton, Somerset, England, Maria Alma Short was born in March 1871. In March 1871, Queen Victoria opened the Royal Albert Hall.