FRIEND OF THE NEEDY
Many people.who have been befriended in needy times by Mrs. Lily Kingston, of Brixton, London, are lamenting her death at the age of 48. The wife of a contractor, she had lived most of her life in Brixton, where she was often seen driving a smart turnout drawn by her. favourite pony. A handsome woman, with a striking personality, she was well known in Covent Garden Market She could not bear to see anyone down and out or hungry, and so often did she open her purse that .-she became known as "Big-hearted LiL" When her body was borne to Tooting Cemetery, the thoroughfares near her home . were lined with people who wished to pay a last respect to a good Samaritan, for such was Mrs. Kingston. More than fifty wreaths were sent.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 128, 1 June 1935, Page 19
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137FRIEND OF THE NEEDY Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 128, 1 June 1935, Page 19
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