Olive Diefenbaker

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Olive Diefenbaker
Born	Olive Evangeline Freeman (1902-04-14)April 14, 1902 Roland, Manitoba
Died	December 22, 1976(1976-12-22) (aged 74) Ottawa, Ontario
Nationality	Canadian
Other names	Olive Freeman Olive Palmer
Known for	Wife of John Diefenbaker

Olive Evangeline Freeman Palmer Diefenbaker (April 14, 1902 – December 22, 1976) was the second wife of John George Diefenbaker, the 13th Prime Minister of Canada. (John Diefenbaker's first wife, Edna Brower Diefenbaker, died in 1951.)

Olive Palmer was born in 1902 in Roland, Manitoba.^[1] 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 ^[2] but raised a daughter from her previous marriage to Toronto solicitor 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, were reburied in Saskatoon in 1979.

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Olive Diefenbaker Drive in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan is named in her honour.

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Preceded by Jeanne Renault Saint-Laurent	Spouse of the Prime Minister of Canada 1957–1963	Succeeded by Maryon Moody Pearson

Persondata
Name	Diefenbaker, Olive
Alternative names	Palmer, Olive
Short description	Wife of prime minister
Date of birth	April 14, 1902
Place of birth	Roland, Manitoba
Date of death	December 22, 1976
Place of death	Ottawa, Ontario

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Olive Diefenbaker

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