When Bessie Maude Whiting was born on 2 February 1913, in St. Catharines, Lincoln, Ontario, Canada, her father, Charles Northrup Whiting, was 35 and her mother, Florence Francis Josephine Piller, was 37. She died on 7 February 2007, in her hometown, at the age of 94, and was buried in Victoria Lawn Cemetery, Downtown St. Catharines, St. Catharines, Niagara, Ontario, Canada.
English: from the Middle English personal name Whiting (Old English Hwīting, a patronymic from the personal name Hwīta, from hwīt ‘white’ applied as a nickname).
History: Rev. Samuel Whiting arrived in Boston, MA, in May 1636, and made his home in Lynn, MA.
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