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Fred Mac Donald and Flora Isabel Mac Donald Flora Millions

Flora: She was 89 and had suffered from multiple illnesses, including Alzheimer's, in recent years, according to The Waterloo Record. Flora and I worked together to write her memoirs, which for a variety of reasons we were not quite able to finish. Flora Isabel Mac Donald — "Flora" to millions of Canadians even if they had never met her — died Sunday in Ottawa. Hers is quite a story — quite a life. There was no money to send Flora to university, so after high school she went to business college. Born and raised in Cape Breton, Flora was the daughter of a Western Union telegrapher, Fred Mac Donald, who decoded top-secret messages sent by cable between London and Washington during the Second World War. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.