DEATH AT 104
FALL FROM A CHAIR
RECIPE FOR LONG LIFE
[from our own correspondent] SYDNEY, June 8 Mrs. Kathleen Mulheron, of Red-
fern, Sydney, lived until she was 104, and then she fell from a chair at her home, in February, her hip being fractured. She died on May 12. These facts were stated at the inquest. The coroner found that the injury accelerated her death.
An interesting story of Mrs. Mulheron's life was told by her son, William Mulheron, with whom she lived. Horn at County Donegal, Ireland, in 1829, she came to Sydney on the sailing vessel Sophia when she was 21, and shortly after she left the ship it was sunk on the way to New Zealand.
Mrs. Mulheron was never seriously ill throughout her long life, and always refused to take doctors' medicines for minor complaints. She never wore glasses/ yet could thread a needle up to the time of her death. After the accident, her son explained, she insisted on walking unaided, though the fracture was so bad that it would not knit. She danced in the yard last Christmas Eve.
"Mv mother had only one recipe for long life," Mr. Mulheron said—"hard work."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21521, 19 June 1933, Page 11
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