WIDOW’S BROTHER
At Allerton Cemetery, Liverpool, lately there was a remarkable demonstration of public sympathy toward a widow doubly bereaved. Thousands ot 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. When Engineer-commander J. D Williamson, of Carston, died at the age of 06, his widow asked her 50-year-old brother, Mr William Boyd, of Wool ton, to accompany her to the undertakers to select a coffin. Pointing to a coffin, Mr Boyd remarked . “ That is one I would select for 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 vvas being made for him Mrs Williamson, after attending the funeral of her brother, returned home with the mourners, and an hour later started out again to attend the interment of her husband.
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Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 4349, 25 January 1938, Page 2
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