WEALTHY WIDOW BURIED
AGE KEPT A SECRET. .United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) Received 12.30 p.m. to-day. LONDON, Feb. 9. Airs. Helen Hornby Lewis, widow of the great Liverpool merchant, was to-dav buried at her own request in the rose garden of the historic country seat at Danesfield, Aledmenham. Deceased, who hart no children, left £2,000,000 and specially requested that her age he not engraved on the coffin and that it should ever remain a secret, known only to her secretary.
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Hawera Star, Volume L, 10 February 1931, Page 9
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