MAKES OWN COFFIN
When neighbours called to congratulate Owen Olden, unmarried penter of Carrowentarsna, Eire,' on his hundredth birthday, they found him sandpapering an oak coffin. “Just finishing my overcoat for the next world,” he said. Olden, a first-class tradesman and remarkably active for his years, has never previously made a coffin.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 66, Issue 142, 28 March 1946, Page 3
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52MAKES OWN COFFIN Ashburton Guardian, Volume 66, Issue 142, 28 March 1946, Page 3
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