By Tyler Marr

Local celebrates 102 birthday

Jul 9, 2017 | 12:54 PM

It was 1915. The First World War had entered its second year, the United States House of Representatives had rejected a proposal to grant women the right to vote and “In Flanders Field” was penned by John McCrae. 

And in Derbyshire, England, Anne Case was born. But for the Prince Albert resident who turned 102 last week, the day was just another chapter in her life.

“Same thing as before, no different,” she said when asked about the milestone. 

Anne and her family departed England for Canada in the mid-1920s aboard the SS Canopic. They landed in Halifax and ventured across the country to Fabian, Alta. where her family set up a homestead for a number of years. 

She married and spent approximately 20 years in Alberta  before hopscotching across Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Ontario prior to settling back down in the Prairies. Throughout here entire life she was a homemaker.

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Anne had 6 brothers and sisters, one of which was a twin who she shared her 95 birthday with before her passing.

“She has seen a lot and done a lot,” Victor Case, 71, one of her four children said. Victor has called Prince Albert home with his wife and kids for over 45 years.

Anne’s eldest son, Lenard Price, passed away at the age of 79. Today, Victor, his older brother Bernard Price, 77, and younger sister Fay Easton, 68, are alive and well. Anne’s large family tree also includes 13 grandchildren, 28 great-grandchildren and 6 great-great-grandchildren.

Victor recalled many fond memories of his mother, saying all her life, she “took good care of us.”

“She was a loving mom and did good things,” he said. “I always remember the lunches she made for us when we went to school. You went home and you knew your mom was there.”

tyler.marr@jpbg.ca

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