WAR WIDOW’S WINDFALL
BEQUEST OF £50,000. News of a fortune of £SO.’DO, said to be duo to her as her share from the estate of a great-uncle, who died in America last year, has been received by Mrs Sarah Planner, a war widow, living in. a small house at Bromley, Kent. “I can hardly believe that it is true,” Airs Palmer told an interviewer. “Until I really get the money I do not care to think what I shall do in the future. I believe a sister of my great uncle may still be alive. If so, slv* would, of course be the r.ext-of-kin.• ’ Airs Planner has four children. Her husband was killed wlrih serving with the West Kent Regiment at Basra in 1916. The money is said to be Jue from the £200,000 estate of Mr James Hamilton, Mrs Planner ’s great-uncle, who emigrated from Scotland to America. Airs Planner had not heard of him for years until she received a letter from her niece, Miss Leah Hamilton, of Glasgow, who told her that part of the dead great-uncle’s estate would be due to Airs Planner’s share is believed to be approximately £50,000. It is thought that her nieces and nephew in Glasgow will also share in the fortune.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 115, 18 May 1931, Page 8
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210WAR WIDOW’S WINDFALL Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 115, 18 May 1931, Page 8
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