Prentice, Sally Irene (1892-1982)

Sally Prentice was born in County Armagh, Ireland, and emigrated with her sister Elizabeth to Vancouver via New York.  Four other sisters and one brother also immigrated to Canada.  Sally worked at Sumas Hospital in the 1920s and 1930s and Santa Rosa Hospital in the early 1940s.  While she never had children, she helped raise a number of nieces and nephews.  At Christmas she and her sister Elizabeth competed with each other over who made the best shortbread.

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