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- Burial:
Mountain View Cemetery
Lethbridge
Lethbridge Census Division
Alberta, Canada
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Lethbridge Herald April 10, 1987
. - THE LETHBRIDQE HERALD - Friday, April 10,1987
Margaret's 100 years have been happy ones
The last 100 years have been "unusually" happy ones for Margaret McNally.
Margaret celebrated her 100th birthday at the Heritage Lodge, Thursday.
Born April 9, 1887, she has witnessed the invention of the airplane to the launching o[ spaceships to the moon.
Margaret Thompson attended school in Scotland and England before travelling to France with the British services as a VON (Victoria Order of Nurses) nurse, ; At the British hospital in France she met a Canadian doctor by the name of Alfred McNally. .
In 1919 they married in Scotland and moved directly to Lethbridge, where Alfred started his practice.
Margaret, who became a housewife, said she found Lethbridge very small after Aberdeen. Shortly thereafter, Margaret had her first child, James. In 1921 she had Robert and in 1925, she gave birth to Edward Elliot.
Today James is a doctor in Lethbridge, Edward, who lives in Calgary, is a lawyer and Robert is a retired businessman and lives in Twin Butte.
She has nine grand-children, approximately 19 great grand children and one great-great grandchild, says Robert.
Her many friends have kept her from becoming lonely after the death of Alfred in 1935.
Incidentally, the McNally school by the airport was named after him.
Margaret, who never smoked but has taken the occasional drink, has had exceptional health. "Her health has been excellent," says Robert. "She is very physically healthy."
When asked what one of the greatest joys of her life was, Margaret replied the birth of her grand and great grandchildren and Persian cats.
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Lethbridge Herald July 21, 1987
Passed away peacefully after a short illness on Monday, July 20th, 1987, MRS. MARGARET ELLIOT McNALLY, at the age of 100 years of the Heritage Lodge, Lethbridge.
Gravesite Details
The years of birth and death are incorrect on the cenotaph.
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