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New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1572, 10 June 1920, Page 4

Miss Margery Deakin, the artist whose body was recently found on the beach at Croy de, North Devon, England, was buried at sea at Porthpean, near St. Austell, in accordance with a wish expressed in her will. She named two fishermen whom she wanted to take her body in a leaden coffin out to sea in their boat, when they went fishing, and to drop it quietly over the side, “without any gaping crowd looking on, or any relatives, or hypocrites expressing false sorrow.” Charles and William Axford, the two men named, superintended the removal of the coffin to their small rowing-boat. The boat was rowed up to a waiting motor fishing lugger, which conveyed its strange freight six miles out and three miles from the nearest land There the coffin was placed on a couple of planks and slid into the sea.