2009 National Memorial (Silver) Cross Mother – Della Marie Morley
National Memorial (Silver) Cross Mother Della Marie Morley.
(Photo: Royal Canadian Legion)
(Photo: Royal Canadian Legion)
National Memorial (Silver) Cross Mother Della Marie Morley.
(© Her Majesty The Queen in Right of Canada represented by the Office of the Secretary to the Governor General, 2009. Photo credit: Sergeant Serge Gouin, Rideau Hall. Reproduced with the permission of the OSGG, 2014.)
(Photo: © Her Majesty The Queen in Right of Canada represented by the Office of the Secretary to the Governor General, 2009.)
Mrs. Della Marie Morley of East Saint Paul, Manitoba, was the 2009 National Memorial (Silver) Cross Mother. During the national Remembrance Day ceremony in Ottawa on November 11, 2009, she laid a wreath at the base of the National War Memorial on behalf of all mothers who have lost a child in military service to Canada.
On September 18, 2006, her son, Corporal Keith Ian Morley, was killed by a suicide bicycle bomber while on foot patrol in Afghanistan. He was serving with A Company, 2nd Battalion, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry from Shilo, Manitoba.
Originally from Elkhorn, Mrs. Morley attended school there and in Virden before going to study at Western Christian College in Weyburn, Saskatchewan. She married Russel Morley and they raised two children, Keith and Shannon Jaye. Widowed in 2003, she later remarried Fred Duna.
List of National Memorial (Silver) Cross Mothers
(Information courtesy of the Royal Canadian Legion, Canadian War Museum and families of the National Memorial (Silver) Cross Mothers)
2010 - Present
Year |
Name |
City/Town |
2023 |
Mrs. Gloria Hooper |
St. Claude, Manitoba |
2022 |
Mrs. Candy Greff |
Lacombe, Alberta |
2021 |
Mrs. Josée Simard |
Les Mechins, Quebec |
2020 |
Mrs. Debra Sullivan |
Saint John, New Brunswick |
2019 |
Mrs. Reine Samson Dawe |
St-Prosper, Québec |
2018 |
Mrs. Anita Cenerini |
Winnipeg, Manitoba |
2017 |
Mrs. Diana Abel |
Brampton, Ontario |
2016 |
Mrs. Colleen Fitzpatrick |
Prince George, British Columbia |
2015 |
Mrs. Sheila Anderson |
Yellowknife, Northwest Territories |
2014 |
Mrs. Gisèle Michaud |
Edmundston, New Brunswick |
2013 |
Mrs. Niki Psiharis |
Laval, Quebec |
2012 |
Mrs. Roxanne Priede |
Grand Forks, British Columbia |
2011 |
Mrs. Patricia Braun |
Raymore, Saskatchewan |
2010 |
Mrs. Mabel Girouard |
Bathurst, New Brunswick |
1990 - 2009
Year |
Name |
City/Town |
2009 |
Mrs. Della Marie Morley |
East Saint Paul, Manitoba |
2008 |
Mrs. Avril Dianna Stachnik |
Waskatenau, Alberta |
2007 |
Mrs. Wilhelmina Beerenfenger-Koehler |
Embrun, Ontario |
2006 |
Mrs. Alice Murphy |
Conception Harbour, Newfoundland |
2005 |
Mrs. Claire Léger |
Stittsville, Ontario |
2004 |
Mrs. Agatha Dyer |
Montreal, Québec |
2003 |
Mrs. Charlotte Lynn Smith |
Tatamagouche, Nova Scotia |
2002 |
Mrs. Doreen Coolen |
Hubbards, Nova Scotia |
2001 |
Mrs. Ina Galvin |
Bolton centre, Québec |
2000 |
Mrs. Carol Isfeld |
Courtenay, British Columbia |
1999 |
Mrs. Loyola Helen Park |
London, Ontario |
1998 |
Mrs. Anna Zuk (Prygroski) |
Winnipeg, Manitoba |
1997 |
Mrs. Alice Taylor |
Ottawa, Ontario |
1996 |
Mrs. Margaret Langille |
River John, Nova Scotia |
1995 |
Mrs. Elsie Wells |
Edmonton, Alberta |
1994 |
Mrs. Wilhelmina Baerr |
Yorkton, Saskatchewan |
1993 |
Mrs. Isabella Hutchings |
St. John’s, Newfoundland |
1992 |
Mrs. Ida Orser |
Hartland, New Brunswick |
1991 |
Mrs. Alice Taylor |
Ottawa, Ontario |
1990 |
Mrs. Elsie Pearce |
Trenton, Ontario |
1970 - 1989
Year |
Name |
City/Town |
1989 |
Mrs. Rachel Morin |
Rimouski, Quebec |
1988 |
Mrs. Hazel Driscoll |
Halifax, Nova Scotia |
1987 |
Mrs. Secondina Di Persio |
Sydney Mines, Nova Scotia |
1986 |
Mrs. Mabel Bateman |
Richmond Hill, Ontario |
1985 |
Mrs. Rose Bernst |
Thunder Bay, Ontario |
1984 |
Mrs. Olive (Rumball) Hunter |
Summerland, British Columbia |
1983 |
Mrs. Constance Wylie |
Vancouver, British Columbia |
1982 |
Mrs. Janet Fraser |
Debert, Nova Scotia |
1981 |
Mrs. Isabel Harrison |
Bury, Quebec |
1980 |
Mrs. Greta Steeves |
Elgin, Albert County, New Brunswick |
1979 |
Mrs. Eliza Beatty |
Carlyle, Saskatchewan |
1978 |
Mrs. Janet Cantley |
Montreal, Quebec |
1977 |
Mrs. Mary Boutilier |
Niagara Falls, Ontario |
1976 |
Mrs. Olive Rae (Jubb) |
Victoria, British Columbia |
1975 |
Mrs. Alta Wilkinson |
Ottawa, Ontario |
1974 |
Mrs. Annie Margaret Rudd |
Stettler, Alberta |
1973 |
Mrs. Margaret Santo |
Bender, Saskatchewan |
1972 |
Mrs. Mary Louise McLeod |
Neyaashiinigmiing, Chippewas of Nawash Unceded First Nation |
1971 |
Mrs. Mary Anderson |
Selkirk, Manitoba |
1970 |
Mrs. Mary Josephine Meech |
North Sydney, Nova Scotia |
1950 - 1969
Year |
Name |
City/Town |
1969 |
Mrs. Wilhemina Gray |
Vancouver, British Columbia |
1968 |
Mrs. Pearl Rich |
Vancouver, British Columbia |
1967 |
Mrs. Elsie Adams |
St. Catharines, Ontario |
1966 |
Mrs. Josephine Stephens |
Toronto, Ontario |
1965 |
Mrs. Nora Wagner |
Teeterville, Ontario |
1964 |
Mrs. Bernadette Rivait |
Windsor, Ontario |
1963 |
Mrs. Mary E. Stodgell |
Norwood, Manitoba |
1962 |
Mrs. Vitaline Lanteigne |
Caraquet, New Brunswick |
1961 |
Mrs. Sylvia Kimmel |
Mission City, British Columbia |
1960 |
Mrs. Julienne Cantin |
McCreary, Manitoba |
1959 |
Mrs. Dagnie Asta Anderson |
Craigmyle, Alberta |
1958 |
Mrs. Helen Forestell |
Coniston, Ontario |
1957 |
Mrs. Zylpha MacFarlane |
Truro, Nova Scotia |
1956 |
Mrs. Gertrude Edna Reynolds |
Chatham, Ontario |
1955 |
Mrs. Regina Leboldus |
Vibank, Saskatchewan |
1954 |
Mrs. Margaret Heeney |
Ottawa, Ontario |
1953 |
Mrs. Mary Casey |
Ottawa, Ontario |
1952 |
Mrs. Hannah McCann |
Ottawa, Ontario |
1951 |
Mrs. Alice Rochon |
Ottawa, Ontario |
1950 |
Mrs. Susan Beasley |
Ottawa, Ontario |
1936 - 1949