WOMAN'S LIFE TRAGEDY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21112, 20 February 1932, Page 3 (Supplement)

WOMAN'S LIFE TRAGEDY.

STORY OF UNDYING LOVE. BURIAL NEAR SWEETHEART. " I desire to be buried in a grave as near that of my late sweetheart as possible in Marylebone Cemetery . . Behind this wish expressed in the will of Miss Ellen Marion Farmer, who died in October at her home at Bowes Park, London, lies a story of the undying love of a book-keeper for her fiance, Charles Rose, of Highgate. The couple met first in a London office ten years ago when Mr. Rose was 27 and Miss Farmer 25. They became great friends, and in time they were engaged to be married. Within a few months of the time fixed for the wedding Charles Rose died. That was seven years ago. Ellen Farmer never forgot her lover, and for six years paid regular visits to his grave, on which she placed flowers. When she was told some months ago that her heart was seriously affected, and that she would have to go to hospital, she made her will, in which she asked to be buried as near to -her lover as possible. " This was done," said Mrs. Rose, the mother of Charles Rose, in an interview. " I was told that she had expressed a wish to be buried near my son, but I did not know she had made a will. " Ellen and Charles would have been married had not my boy died. She was an exceedingly nice girl, but during the last few months of her life she suffered with severe heart trouble." Miss Farmer left £366. In her will she desired that no mourning should be worn for her, " as it is a needless expense."