(RSBM)
Respectfully, Max, the source I'm quoting is from an in-depth, 6-page article at Macleans.ca. It was obviously meticulously researched and very specific with its information.
"In September 2000, Harriman lost her mother to Lou Gehrigs disease. Four years later, on Canada Day, her dad passed away at the age of 84. They are buried in the same plot at a cemetery in Fort-Coulonge, the small Quebec community where they married."
http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/07/27/the-colonels-wife/4/
"Mary Elizabeth Harriman was born on Nov. 15, 1957, the only daughter of Frederick and Irene Harriman."
"Her mother, Irene Lavigne"
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/busine...ectly+normal/3718016/story.html#ixzz1580UBwVp
Everyone is entitled to believe whatever source they wish, but I choose to believe a 100+ year-old news magazine like Maclean's over an unidentified source mentioned in an online blog. It's certainly possible that
someone called Kingston Pen (a reporter? a busybody? an amateur sleuth?) and claimed to be MEH's father, thus misleading the "source", who then misled RT. However, a responsible journalist would have checked whether this was even possible before publishing his column.
It took me only a few minutes of Googling to find further proof here. If I could do it, so could have RT.
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~snaylor/Mansfield/StPierCO/STPIERCO2.HTM
(This website was last updated the year before FH passed away. If he were still alive, he would be 91 years old.)
Anyway, my main point was that there has (so far) been no application for visitation and therefore no approval of same. I just stated my personal opinion that I can't get all upset over something that hasn't even happened and never might. If it does, I will be as outraged as the rest of you.
JMO