Identity area
Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Stirling, Anne Mathilda Willison
Parallel form(s) of name
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Other form(s) of name
Stirling, Anne M.
Stirling, Anne M
Stirling, Anne Mathilda
Willison, Anne Mathilda
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Description area
Dates of existence
1889-1978
History
Anne Mathilda Willison, 1889-1978, was born in Gravenhurst, Ontario, and came to Calgary, Alberta with her family in 1900. She helped out on the family farm northeast of the city as a young girl, then trained as a nurse as the Holy Cross Hospital, graduating in 1912. She worked as a school nurse for the Calgary Board of Education from 1917 until 1938, when she married Will Stirling, a widower from Hanna, Alberta. After Will’s death in 1950, she lived Edmonton, then she shared a house in Kelowna with her sister, Evelyn, from 1969 to her death.