An obituary?
October 4th 2010 08:29
Continuing with the quotes and extracts I gathered in my old geocities site, here's an interesting one that was a news item originally:
Justice Young, reported in the Otago Daily Times, 8th Oct, 2003, in relation to a case where a family tried to overturn a will which had given Percy Wheatley's entire estate to the .Royal NZ Foundation for the Blind
Mr Wheatley led a 'strange and strictured life' by orthodox standards and became 'increasingly cranky' with age.
'For instance, a dispute over money involving his brother Stan and dating back to 1928 was still reverberating in his mind 68 years later as it is reflected in his will instructions to the trust in 1966.
'He did not like being crossed, was mean spirited about money, had little or no interest in the outside world, did not take newspapers, and did not have a telephone until he was in his eighties and it was presumably required given his declining health.
"He was not a member of any outside organisations and he did not form enduring relationships with people outside the circle of his family. He died, as he lived, friendless.'
This struck me at the time as a sad report of a sad man - what a waste of a life.
Justice Young, reported in the Otago Daily Times, 8th Oct, 2003, in relation to a case where a family tried to overturn a will which had given Percy Wheatley's entire estate to the .Royal NZ Foundation for the Blind
Mr Wheatley led a 'strange and strictured life' by orthodox standards and became 'increasingly cranky' with age.
'For instance, a dispute over money involving his brother Stan and dating back to 1928 was still reverberating in his mind 68 years later as it is reflected in his will instructions to the trust in 1966.
'He did not like being crossed, was mean spirited about money, had little or no interest in the outside world, did not take newspapers, and did not have a telephone until he was in his eighties and it was presumably required given his declining health.
"He was not a member of any outside organisations and he did not form enduring relationships with people outside the circle of his family. He died, as he lived, friendless.'
This struck me at the time as a sad report of a sad man - what a waste of a life.
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