Annie Christine "Nana" KIRKPATRICK

1896 - 1999  (102 years)

• Name	Annie Christine "Nana" KIRKPATRICK  [1]
  Nickname	Nana
  Birth	23 Mar 1896	Alkali Lake, BC, Canada   [2]
  Gender	Female
  Death	21 Feb 1999	Edmonton, Alberta, Canada   [3]
  	Annie's obituary reads: Annie Salter March 23, 1896 - February 21, 1999 On February 21, 1999, Annie Salter of Edmonton, passed away, leaving to mourn her loss, her daughter and son-in-law Kae and Ken Larson of Edmonton; daughter-in-law Pat Salter of Calgary; eight grandchildren, Alec (Anne) Deeves of Calgary, Ronald (Dede) Larson of Singapore, Melody (Dave) Livingston of Grande Cache, Mavis (Ray) Berard of St. Albert, Donna of Edmnton, Dawn Giles of Cobble Hill, B.C., Darlene Bell of Blacki, Alberta, and Denise (Darcy) Anderson of Calgary; along with twenty-one great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren. She is predeceased by her husband Frank in April 1983, Grandson Barry Deeves 1988, son Jim 1994, parents, Jim and Emma Kirkpatrick, five sisters and five brothers. Funeral services will be held on Saturday, February 27, 1999 at 2:30 p.m. at EVERGREEN FUNERAL CHAPEL, 16204 Fort Road, Edmonton... with interment in Evergreen Memorial Gardens, Reverend Hart Cantelon officiating. Special thanks to the staff of Capital Care Grandview. If friends so desire, in lieu of floral tributes, memorials may be made to Capital Care Grandview in care of The Capital Care Foundation, 500, 9925 - 109 Street, Edmonton, T5K 2J8. EVERGREEN FUNERAL CHAPEL. Telephone: 1-780-472-9019.
  Burial	27 Feb 1999	Evergreen Memorial Gardens, Edmonton, AB, Canada
  Person ID	I57	kirkpatrick
  Last Modified	12 Apr 2014

  
  

  Father	James Douglas KIRKPATRICK,   b. 23 Feb 1867, Cook's Ferry (Spence's Bridge), BC, Canada d. 9 Mar 1933, Calgary, AB, Canada (Age 66 years)
  Mother	Emma BOWE,   b. 8 Mar 1872, Alkali Lake, BC, Canada d. 1 Apr 1925, Calgary, AB, Canada (Age 53 years)
  Marriage	29 Jul 1895	Kamloops
  	Witnesses were Lawrence Quinsy (sp?) and Ida J. Kirkpatrick. Married by E. Flewelling Source: Wedding registration.
  Family ID	F16	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Thomas Francis "Bumpy" SALTER,   b. 1891, Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, Canada d. 4 Apr 1983, Newfoundland (Age 92 years)
  Marriage	25 Dec 1917	Redcliff, AB, Canada   [4]
  Family ID	F40744	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	12 Apr 2014

  
  

• Notes

  Anna's name was given as such by her granddaughter Denise in a letter to me. I had always thought it was Anne before. (And since, I've seen it given both ways. Will have to watch documents for this.) Update: Her birth certificate gives her name as being Annie Christine Kirkpatrick. ------------------------------------- When I was at the Ashcroft Museum recently, I was amazed to find this undated article, possibly from the Ashcroft Journal: A kitchen oven was turned into a makeshift incubator when Annie Salter was born more than a century ago, several months premature and weighing a little over one pound. Neonatal technology was still decades away when her grandmother wrapped tiny Annie in cotton cloth, laid her in a cigar box and popped her in the warm oven with the door open. "It was quite the miracle," said Salter's daughter Kae Larson of the remarkable survival in a rural home in 19th-century Dog Creek, BC. Incredibly, Salter's mother had miscarried a twin about three months earlier. The oldest of 11 children, Salter, now 102, was born March 23, 1896 and spent much of her life caring for and feeding others. First it was her siblings. After she married Frank Salter Dec. 25, 1917, there were her own two children and often several young members of her extended family all living under the same roof. Sometimes Salter worked as camp cook in the southern Alberta oilfields where her husband toiled. She couldn't stand to see anyone go hungry. During the '30s Depression, she would cook up a huge, hearty stew every Sunday and invite in a dozen or more unemployed oilfield workers, recalled Larson. "She always said the reason she got married on Christmas Day was that was the one day of the year she knew there would be plenty of food on the table," said Larson, sitting beside her mother's wheelchair in the Capital Care Grandview nursing home, 6215 124... [page cut off]. ----------------------------------- Posted by Ken Kirkpatrick on Facebook, August 24, 2011 "In about 1995, a tornado went through their area. Nana was home alone at Ken & Kae's, and they had those big windows overlooking a nice view. She knew she was supposed to go downstairs but "I had never seen a tornado in person, and I wanted to watch it." So she wedged herself between the fridge and stove and enjoyed watching the storm - until the tornado threw a bird against the window with such force that the bird died instantly." ------------------------------------ Notes from conversation with Kae Larson (Nana's daughter) at the 2013 Kirkpatrick Family reunion: Nana never left the house without makeup on and hair done. About 1922 or 1923 a woman came and saw Nana looking for a Kirkpatrick. Not sure if this is the time, but there is a rumour that TG's granddaughter from his first marriage (the one where Esther Stiles passed away and we never knew where the baby went) came looking for him. Cannot verify.

  
  

• Sources

  [S423] Dennise Anderson, Dennise (Salter) Anderson email to Dawn Kirkpatrick. [S413] Government of Canada, 1901 Canadian Census, Yale Cariboo District (Reliability: 3). [S460] Alberta. Edmonton., Obituary - Anne Christine [Kirkpatrick] Salter. [S178] Marriage Records, 12 Apr 2014, BC No. 43628 (Reliability: 4).