WIDOW’S BROTHER
'DEATH AFTER CHOOSING COFFIN.
I At Allerton Cemetery, Liverpool, lately there was a remarkable demonstration of public sympathy toward a widow doubly bereaved. Thousands 'of people gathered and there was a , procession a mile long. Behind the .two funerals, which took place within |an hour of each other, lay a tragic story.
W’hen Engineer-commander J. D. Williamson, of Carston, died at the age of 56, his widow asked her 50-year-old brother, Mr William Boyd, of Woolton, to accompany her to the undertakers to select a coffin. Pointing to a coffin, Mr Boyd remarked: "That is one 1 would select lor myself.” A moment later he had a stroke, and died shortly afterwards. Within a few hours a coffin similar to the one Mr Boyd had selected for his brother-in-law was being made for him.
Mrs Williamson, after attending the funeral of her brother, returned home with the mourners, and an hour later :;tarted out again to attend the interment of her husband.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 31 December 1937, Page 9
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