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Orma Slack
Orma Slack
Birth: 19 February 1903
Bracebridge, Ontario, Canada
Death: 13 April 2015
Belleville, Ontario, Canada
Age: 112 years, 53 days
Country: CanadaCAN
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Orma Mae Slack (née Snider; 19 February 1903 – 13 April 2015) was a Canadian supercentenarian who, at the time of her death aged 112 years, 53 days, was believed to be the oldest living person in Canada [1] since the death of Colombe Benoit-Leclerc on 14 January 2015.

Biography

Slack was born on 19 February 1903 in Bracebridge, Ontario, Canada. She was one of six children of Frank Lorne Snider and Annie Carson.[2]

On 4 September 1926 she wed William George Slack, to whom she stayed married until his death in 1988. With her husband and their two children, she moved to Belleville in the early 1950s.[3]

Slack was a teacher and the first female principal in Belleville [4] before her retirement at the age of 64.[2] Even after her 100th birthday she remained very active; she was on skis for her 100th birthday, and she worked as a hospital volunteer until the age of 104.[5] She outlived one of her children, Rosemary, who died in 1991 at the age of 51 years.[5]

On her 110th birthday, Slack said that it might be her last.[2]

References

  1. "Woman believed to be oldest Canadian has died" Toronto Sun. April 17, 2015
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Oldest known Ontarian celebrates 110th birthday in Belleville thestar.com
  3. "109 and doin' fine" The Belleville Intelligencer. 17 February 2012
  4. Honours for second oldest (age 109) retired teacher in Ontario countylive. February 28, 2012
  5. 5.0 5.1 Orma goodness! She's 110! Community Press. February 19, 2013


Canada's Oldest Living Person Titleholders (VE)

Flore BelandEmma BinghamHerman Smith-JohannsenAgnes MunceNellie ThompsonAlice Sjoquist • Lillian RossMarie-Louise Meilleur • Marie-Louise Meunier • Maria Mallozzi • Zelda McCague • Fanny Martland • Evangeline SaulnierAnne Samson • Julie Winnefred Bertrand • Jennie Fitzgerald • Margaret Fitzgerald • Pearl LutzkoCora Hansen • Yvonne Lamoureux • Merle Barwis • Colombe Benoit-Leclerc • Orma Slack • Marguerite Wabano • Lilian Cornell • Ellen Gibb • Sarah Patenaude-Bruyere • Phyllis Ridgway • Cecile Klein • Shige Mineshiba • Mabel MahHelen Doan

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