Olive Evangeline Freeman Palmer Diefenbaker (1902, Roland, Manitoba

Roland, Manitoba

Roland is a village of about 300 people in the Pembina Valley Region of Manitoba, Canada, located in the Rural Municipality of Roland, about 16 km north of Winkler. International children's musicians, LuLu and the TomCat, make their home in Roland. Roland is the birth place of the Canadian 4-H...

 – December 22 1976) was the second wife of John George Diefenbaker, the 13th Prime Minister of Canada

Prime Minister of Canada

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. (John Diefenbaker's first wife, Edna Brower Diefenbaker

Edna Diefenbaker

Edna May Brower Diefenbaker was the first wife of Prime Minister John Diefenbaker.She was born in Wawanesa, Manitoba, and worked as a schoolteacher in Saskatoon before marrying John Diefenbaker in 1929. Outgoing and vivacious, with a genuine concern for others, Edna was an exceptionally popular...

, died in 1951.)

John Diefenbaker proposed to Olive Palmer in Paddockwood Saskatchewan while she was a school teacher. John Diefenbaker and Olive Freeman Palmer married on December 8, 1953. They had no children but raised a daughter from her previous marriage to Toronto

Toronto

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 solicitor

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 Harry Palmer, who died less than three years after the birth of the child.

On her husband's death in 1979, her remains, buried in 1976 in Ottawa

Ottawa

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, were reburied in Saskatoon

Saskatoon

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in 1979.