COURTED FOR 30 YEARS
WIDOW AT LAST SAYS ‘YES’
LONDON, July 6
For 30 years Mr. George Bond, of Albany street, St. Pancras, N.W., asked a widow to marry him, but she always said “No.”
Their courtship went on until at last the widow. Mrs. Grace Atkinson, has now said "Yes.” ,
"I’m looking forward to married life again,” Mrs. Atkinson says. “I could not marry before because of my family. But now my younger daughter lias a good job there is no reed to wait. I have 10 grandchildren. “I decided to accept George when lie kept sending me gifts while I was convalescing from illness.”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20017, 16 August 1939, Page 8
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106COURTED FOR 30 YEARS Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20017, 16 August 1939, Page 8
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