Will remembers ‘my friend’

Press, 13 November 1985, Page 27

Will remembers ‘my friend’

NZPA-AAP Melbourne A woman who danced with a soldier in the wartom days of 1940 has picked up an unexpected windfall. The soldier, Laurie Delane, left his estate to the girl on the dance floor, Evelyn Sanders, now Mrs Fred Stewart.

Delane’s estate, which includes a 21-hectare property near Bendigo, in central Victoria, is valued at more than sAust!oo,ooo ($112,000).

He died a hermit in Bendigo three years ago and his simple will, made in 1942, left all his possessions to “my friend.”

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Down 1— Severe. (5) 2— Motherly. (8) 3— Flippancy. (6) 4— Heal. (4) 5— Pedagogue. (7) 6— From now. (10) 9—Softness. (10) 12—Menace. (8) 14—Narrate. (7) 16—Rely. (6) 19— Angry. (5) 20— Robust. (4)

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Mrs Stewart, who has three adult children cannot picture the man she danced with at the Frankton Soldiers’ Hall and wrote to for a short time afterwards.

The only picture of Delane, taken when he was a trooper in the Army, is missing. Law Department officials took six months to find his will and savings of $45,000 ($50,400).

It took them another six months to find Mrs Stewart. Mrs Stewart hopes to turn the Eaglehawk property into a home for children terminally ill with cancer.