The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 25, 1953, Page 9

\ \ MILLIONS MOURN PASSING OF BRITAIN‘'S QUEEN MARY By PHILIP CLARKE { LONDON ™# — Britain’s grand| old Queen Mary died peacefully | in her sleep last night at the age ef 85. Around the world, millions Mourned her. | Her passing was not expected | to delay the coronation June 2 of her granddaughter, Queen Eliza- beth Il. The decision is the young Queen’s, but her stern-willed old @randmother told friends months | ago, while talking of the cere-| mony, that “nothing must inter- fere with it. Nothing.” Queen Mary had been ill for| i} Some had waited all through the | Princess Royal Mary, anxious hours for the posting of | Countess of Harewood, the first medical bulletin, at 11:30 | Duke of Gloucester. a.m. yesterday, announcing the| She is survived also by nine queen had suffered a relapse. grandchildren and three great Her oldest and dearly loved son, | grandchildren. the Duke of Windsor, had been} During her long life, Queen Mary summoned urgently by the doctors had seen England fade from it: for his third call of the day. He | days of 19th century imperial glor arrived at his mother’s silk-shroud- ed bed just nine minutes after she and . the d ;world wars, into the economic died. : straits and tense uncertainties of Forty-five minutes later, gray | the Postwar atomic era. and drawn, he left. The duke had} Her long career was punctuated rushed to London from a Florida|by personal tragedy. Her first vacation two weeks ago. ifiance, Prince Edward, Duke of _Earlier yesterday three genera-|Clarence, died in 1891, a little tions of the royal family had called | more than a month after their en- to pay their last respects in the Dowager | }under Queen Victoria, through two | | agement. She subsequently mar- : ther, Edward VII, in 1910, brought jthem to the throne, As queen-empress; and later as queen mother, she led a busy life f public service. She inspected |slums and the homes of the work- |ing classes, gave generously to harity, visited hospitals, institu- tions and orphanages, constantly mingled with different classes of jsociety, and was an indefatigable Patroness of the arts and the | theater. Trained in economical methods as the daughter of not-wealthy {parents, she ran her palaces on strict and careful budgets. She vose early, ate lightly, carried on a voluminous correspondence and more than a month with what her | darkened rogm filled with flowers doctors described as a gastric ail-| and the mementos of other years. ment. The exact nature of her ill-| The old queen was barely con- @ess has not been disclosed. | scious when the granddaughter she Prime Minister Winston Church-| helped train for Britain’s throne, fll gave the hushed House of Com- | Elizabeth II, stegped quietly to the Mmons—and the world—the first | bedside. But she reccgnized the @ews of her death Jast night. jyoung Queen, turned her face and Holding a single sheet of white | smiled. paper in his trembling hand, the| Three of the old queen's six chil- dinner-jacketed government lead. | dren survive her — Windsor, the er said in a voice breaking with; ~~ > se a z mn: ¢™" |50—Legal Notices “Mr, Speaker, I rise to move —Yonc ee adjournment of ‘he House. I have | with great regret ‘o make the an- pee that Queen Mary has, lied.” UNDE rat NOTICE the unde La A few cries of dismay from pub- | Street. Key West, Florida,’ intend lic galleries broke the quiet. auattariiie tice ceere OE Mon Churchill told the House he would | °° © make an address of condolence to | Queen Elizabeth today, then ask} adjourment’for the day ‘“‘as an ex- | pression of our profound sorrow and respect.” In Ottawa, Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent announced the death to the Canadian Commons and that House also adjourned. As Churchill spoke, a solemn attendant a few blocks away post- ed the fourth and last medical bul- letin of the day on the gates of Marlborough House Edged in black, it said simply: “while sleeping peacefully, Queen Mary died at twenty minutes past ten o‘clock.' Four generations of Britons who knew and loved her as the proud symbol of royalty paid their trib- ute. Throughout the far-flung Brit- ish Commonwealth, with 575 mil- lion inhabitants, flags were dipped and minutes of silence observed. President Eisenhower sent his deep personal sympathy and re- called: “Queen Mary was a good, great queen. Free ‘peoples the world over will her loss.” Similar expressions from other chicfs of state poured in to her monarch-granddaughter at Buck- ingham Palace, “She was like your own grand- mother,” said one of the mourners who crowded in silence about her stately Marlborough House resi- dence, where she died in London's foggy gloom last night. “Poor old soul—and she wanted so badly to see her grandchild erowned,” murmured another A period of official mourning will be announced shortly, probably | within 48 hours. lt was expected to last only a few weeks. Funeral arrangements were ex- pected to be announced today. Men bared their heads and many women wept as the queen’s per- sonal standard was lowered slowly over her residence last night. AL DISCHARGE (Probate Law 1933) COURT OF THE COUNTY » MONROE COUNTY, TE OF FLORIDA. IN PRO- he Estate of E. PERKY, 1 WHOM In re LEILA TOA c Notice fs hereby given that T. Carlos Henslee and B. L. Whitte have filed their final report Executors of the estate of Lei Perky, deceased; that they filed their petition for final dis- charge, and that they will apply to the Honorable Raymond nty Judge of Monroe Coun ida, on the 10th day of Ap . for approval of same and final discharge as utors of the estate of Leila F Dated on this 17th 1953. T. CARLOS HE B. L. WHITTEN As Executors of the Es Leila Perky, deceased. PAUL E. SAWYER Attorney for Deceased IT MAY CON- Perk IN THE CIRCUIT COL oF SIXTEENTH JUDICIAL CIR OF THE STATE OF IN AND FOR MONROE COUNTY. Chancery Case No, 13-563 JAMES WARING, Plaintiff, vs. DIVORCE MARY HAWKINS WARING, Defendant. NOTICE BY PL TION ‘0: MARY HAWKINS WARING 844 East Valley Street Seattle, Washington YOU ARE HEREBY ORDERED AND REQUIR toiserve a copy of your Answer to the Complaint for Divorce on the plaintiff's At- » file the original A cuit day of A above entitled cause allegations therein will be t as confesse ith day of Mar (Seal) E Deputy Clerk (sd) ALLAN RB. CLEARE, JR. Attorney for Plaintiff 604 Whitehead Street Key West, Florida mari§-25:apr1-8,1953 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE SIXTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA, IN AND FOR MONROE COUNTY. Case No. 13-552 JOHN a. WRUCHA ‘ Plaintiff. Defendant, OTICE BY PUBLICATION LINOR DAT WRUCHA, N. Bnodgrass, | vs. apes DARE WRUCHA, | Y NOTIFIE has been fi ye 2D IRCUIT COURT OF THE TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT ATE OF FLORIDA, IR MONROE COUNTY. RY. MAN FROM MARS?—Former | Governor Adlai Stevenson looks more like a modern ad- venture strip character than a Democratic presidential n inee as he gets a briefi Seoul for a flight to the c: Oriskany off the Korean | Case Xo. 13-330 WILLARD HENRY LAWRENCE. - | Platat DIVORCE MARION AUGUSTA LAWR E DR. J. A. VALDES OPTOMETRIST Duplication of Lenses and Frames OFFICE WOURS $17 61? BUVAL STREET (Upstairs) TELEPHONE 2.782! ——— DIVORCE |ied his brother George. Their youngest s Prince John, j died in 1919. The death of her h | band Jan. 20, 1936, brought widow. j hood, but within the year she was | struck by another tragedy—the ab- | dication of her, beloved eldest, Ed- | ward VIII, to marry an American divorcee whom Queen Mary never ! received. | With World War II came death ifor her- fourth son, the Duke of {Kent, in a Royal Air Force }erash in 1942. On Feb. 6, 1952, |her second son, King George VI, passed away. Through all the public and pr vate sorrow, the indomitable wom an never faltered in her stern de- remained the center of her large family. x During World War II, when she was moved to the relative security of the Gloucestershire village of |Badminton, she helped in troop (canteens, organized entertain- ments, often dug in her vegetable ; garden as an example to the “Dig |for Victory’ campaign for more food, and gave standing orders to her chauffeur to give rides in her limousine to servicemen and wom- en walking or resting on the high- way White-haired, stately, ramrod-| her aristocratic imperi- | ousness softened by humanity and | simplicity, the old queen in her) | votion to duty. |later years represented what his- ; She was born May 26, 1867, in|torian Arthur Bryant described as Kensington Palace, the daughter “the English sense of home, of of the Duke and Duchess of Teck | quiet certainty, of continuing and a great-granddaughter of King | standards.” George III. Her parents christened| The millions of Britains loved her Victoria Mary Augusta Louisa ‘her for these qualities and for her Olga Pauline Claudine Agnes, but! human touches—her tightly rolled she became known as Princess umbrella, the turban-like hats she Mary. always wore because “George After Prince Edward’s death of |liked them,” her tireless shop- influenza in 1891, she married, ping, her ardent needlework, and George in 1893. The death of Vic- all the other things that made her toria, in 1901, and of George’s fa-|a woman as well as a queen. THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Wednesday, March 25, 1953 Page 9 deceased, | day of March, T} FLORIDA, | | “I just can't PULL my husband away trom that lovely playroom we financed with a loan from CITY LOAN COMPANY!” x @gf © You, too, can improve your home with a Joan ‘ from City Loan Co. Just phone, and then drop in. 3 Y LOAN CO. scaly CIT OF KEY WEST | 524 SOUTHARD ST. DIAL 2-5681 } | Bet | i Overseas Transportation Company, Inc. 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