CREMATION OF G. B. SHAW
(Rec. 9 p.m.) LONDON. Nov. 6. The body of George Bernard Sinv.’ will be cremated in London to-day at a simple non-religious ceremony. Only a few relatives, close friends, his household staff and the two nursing sisters who tended him on his deathbed will be at the chapel. It was his wish that his ashes should be mingled with those of his wite. He said he did not care what was then done with the ashes. It has been proposed that the ashes be buried in Westminster Aboey, bu. the Dean of St. Patrick’s, Dubhfl, Shaw’s birthplace, wants to bury them there beside the body of Jonathan Swift
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Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26263, 7 November 1950, Page 7
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