Widow(er) Shopping

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9 hours ago, YoungWillz said:

Well, I have to say this is surprise.

 

Lilly Laker, widow of cricketer and commentator Jim Laker, dead at 102: http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/252674/laker

 

Jim Laker died in....1986!

 

 

Good spending the inheritance innings, then...but Clarissa Eden (101 not out) can better that since her other half pegged out in 1977

[time 8,596]

Ginny Mancini, widow of Henry and a former singer herself, has died aged 97. She was also a noted philanthropist.

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Telegraph obit for Lady Grade, the widow of Lew Grade (wiki), who has died aged 100.

Before her marriage, she was a singer in Britain, known as Kathy Moody or "the Singing Starlet".

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Lady Veronica Gibson, widow of conductor Sir Alexander Gibson (died 1995), and notable herself for her patronage of Scottish Opera, died on the 27th January: https://www.scotsman.com/news/people/obituaries-lady-veronica-gibson-arts-patron-and-president-of-scottish-opera-3558999

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Spanish tenor Bernabé Martí, the widower of Montserrat Caballe, has died. He was 93.

 

https://slippedisc.com/2022/03/the-widower-of-montserrat-caballe-has-died/

[The Watcher 314]

On 08/10/2021 at 09:48, maryportfuncity said:

 

 

Good spending the inheritance innings, then...but Clarissa Eden (101 not out) can better that since her other half pegged out in 1977

Helen Jackson who was the last known American Civil War widow and died in 2020 was a widow for almost 81 years. 

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14 hours ago, The Watcher said:

Helen Jackson who was the last known American Civil War widow and died in 2020 was a widow for almost 81 years. 

 

 

Was discussing her with our youngest lately, the context being speculating about events that would make a good two-hander play. For those struggling with the maths here that story involves a 17 year old marrying a 93 war veteran purely because said veteran couldn't repay kindness so - basically - offered up his war pension as bait if they married. I'm assuming the wedding night was fairly quiet The 17 year old  then went on to live to 101.

[Phantom 2,533]

Lana Dale, Dick Dale's widow is currently battling pneumonia

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The wife of journalist Martin O’Hagan - the only journalist killed during the Troubles - has died.

Marie O’Hagan passed away peacefully in hospital on April 22.

Marie O’Hagan had been with her husband, a journalist with the Sunday World, when he was targeted as they walked back from a night out in Lurgan on September 28, 2001.

 

Here’s a stunner: No one has ever been charged with his murder, suspected to have been carried out by cowards of the Loyalist Volunteer Force (LVF).

SC

[YoungWillz 21,034]

Death Notice for Beryl Patricia Arlott (nee Hoare), widow of John Arlott, aged 92: http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/257004/arlott

 

For reference, John Arlott died in December 1991.

[YoungWillz 21,034]

The man who lost the Tory party leadership to Margaret Thatcher above, John Peyton's widow, Lady Mary Constance Peyton (nee Cobbold) has died aged 101: http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/257938/peyton-of-yeovil

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Cindy Heenan, widow of Bobby "The Brain" has died, 74. no cause announced.

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On 18/07/2022 at 19:36, time said:

Cindy Heenan, widow of Bobby "The Brain" has died, 74. no cause announced.

He was quite reliant on her in his later years. Horrible, Roger Ebert-esque type jaw cancer. 

[YoungWillz 21,034]

Death Notice for Yvonne Elizabeth Finsberg, formerly Sarch, nee Wright, the second wife and widow of the former Tory MP Geoffrey Finsberg:  http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/258545/sarch

 

Geoffrey Finsberg retired from Parliament in 1992 (his seat taken by some upstart called Glenda Jackson for Labour) and died in 1996.

[YoungWillz 21,034]

On 21/12/2016 at 12:14, The Dead Cow said:

Patrick Jenkin dead

 

Edit: Guardian obit

Alison Monica Jenkin (nee Graham) widow of Patrick Jenkin, reportedly died 18 July: https://peeragenews.blogspot.com/2022/07/the-baroness-jenkin-of-roding-1928-2022.html

 

Mother of some motherfucker called Bernard Jenkin...

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Asta von Tiesenhausen, widow of Georg von Tiesenhausen, leading member of Werner von Braun's team, died 1 August, aged 96.

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Mary Frances Veeck (paywall), widow of Baseball club owner (Brewers, Indians, Browns, White Sox) & innovator, died 10th September aged 102.

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On 29/09/2007 at 18:25, Whitehouse said:

Earlier this week, Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema died. Resistance hero, managed to escape to England in 1941, flew 70 sorties over enemy territory in a Spitfire.

 

The Royal Dutch House is in mourning over him.

 

His wrote his autobigraphy which was later put to film, to great acclaim. Still one of my favorite films.

 

True hero and all around nice chap. R.I.P.

Karin Hazelhoff Roelfzema, widow to Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema (1917-2007) has passed away. She was 93 years old.

 

As you might know, Erik was a Dutch student who became a resistance fighter during WW2, eventually sailing to London and becoming one of Queen Wilhelmina's main assistants. He became well known as the "Soldier of Orange".

 

Besides being an editor and advisor to Erik during the writing of his autobiography (which was made into a film by Paul Verhoeven in 1977 as well as a musical which has been on stage since 2010), Karin was an interior designer and one of the founders of Ulu La'au, the Waimea Nature Park in Hawaii. 

 

The couple married in November 1958 and had been living in Hawaii since the 1970's, which Karin continued to do after her husbands death.

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Death Notice for Lady Moyra Bannister, widow of Sir Roger Bannister of the sub-4 minute mile note: http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/260610/bannister

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Ludmila Shuvalova (13 November 1926, Dyatkovo - 11 November 2022, St Petersburg) was a Soviet and Russian theatre and film actress and theatre director.

She was the widow of Vladislav Strzhelchik (31 January 1921, Petrograd - 11 September 1995, St Petersburg) - a Soviet and Russian theatre and film actor.

Both served at the Bolshoi Drama Theatre (Leningrad - St Petersburg).

She initiated the creation of the Vladislav Strzhelchik St. Petersburg Independent Actors Award, which has been held every year since 1998 on 31 January.

Vladislav Strzhelchik is known to foreign audiences for his role as Napoleon in the film adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's novel "War and Peace" (1962-1967), directed by Sergei Bondarchuk; he won an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film (1969).

 

Obituary on the theatre's website:

https://bdt.spb.ru/novosti/ushla-iz-zhizni-lyudmila-pavlovna-shuvalova/

 

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Lady Felicity Butler (nee Molesworth St-Aubyn), widow of the former Tory MP Sir Adam Butler (Bosworth), death notice: http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/260791/butler

 

She was 90. Sir Adam Butler died in 2008, aged 76.

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Lady Barbara Poole (nee Taylor),  widow and third and last wife of the former Tory MP Lord Oliver Poole (Oswestry), death notice: http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/260775/poole

 

She was born in August 1934 according to Companies House, so died aged 88. Oliver Poole died in 1993, aged 81.

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Cecilia "Cissy" Marshall, widow of Thurgood (the first African-American Supreme Court justice), has died at 94.

 

Noting that she was 20 years his junior.

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Galina Govorukhin (1948-2022), widow of director and actor Stanislav Govorukhin, died in a fire in the village of Lesnoye Ozero in New Moscow.

 

In the USSR, Stanislav Govorukhin directed the cult films Vertikal (1967) and Mesto Vstrechi Nyten (1979).

 

tass.ru

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From 2018, we missed the death of Eve Tetley, widow of Nigel Tetley - the first man to circumnavigate the world solo in a trimaran and the second famous person to die of a stranglewank (after Albert Dekker).