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1 Lancaster Road, |
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Weymouth, Dorset, |
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2nd Dec 1968 |
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Dear Don, |
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You will be surprised to receive this letter & probably know nothing of me! I am the elder daughter of your Uncle Henry Tate & sister of Gladys, who has given me your address. I think you had a brother too! |
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I regret to tell you my Father passed away 24th Nov in a private Nursing Home. I telephoned Gladys asking her to let his relatives know, as I had no addresses. For private reasons she was unable to do this & I was sorry as so few people came to funeral. He was cremated as he wished after a very beautiful Church service at St. Peters. At the great age of 94½ years, his friends had pre-deceased him, apart from Freemasons of his Lodge who came & sent a beautiful wreath, as they had visited him fairly recently. |
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He came to Dorset over two years ago, as his stepdaughter could no longer keep him with her. He needed constant attention for some time & had cancer of the tongue but no pain & old age & sclerosis. |
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Would you kindly inform any relatives he may have living for me please? His end was very peaceful. |
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I am sorry to hear you lost your Father - whom I had not seen since a very young infant. It would have been too far for you to travel in any case probably. |
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During my Father's second marriage I saw little of him, but he turned to me after he became a widower again. |
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I am a widow too having lost my husband with cancer a year ago last April - a major operation a year previously. |
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It seems wrong any family members not knowing. I hope you will understand. |
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Yours sincerely |
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Hilda M. Linington |
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(Babs) |
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Cremation at Winton. |
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Is Uncle Bernard still alive? |
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He may remember me. He would be old too. |
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I may move later to my son in Bucks (unmarried). |
