BRIEF MARRIED LIFE

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 716, 16 December 1933, Page 5

BRIEF MARRIED LIFE

C'PoKi" Bneeial Correspondent.)

BRIDEGROOM DIES WITHIN TWO DAYS OF HIS WEDDING MARRIES HIS NURSE

London, Nov. 4. A bridegroom was carried into church for his wedding three days before he died in the St. John Nursing Home, Ealing. He was Mr. Cecil Graham Briggs, aged 51, an Ealing solicitor, whose mother died a fortnight earlier. Mr. Briggs married Mrs. Mary A. Pitt, the matron of the nursing home, who had nursed his mother during her illness. Mrs. Briggs told a Daily Mail reporter : "I met Mr. Briggs ahnost a year ago, when he brought his mother, with whom he lived, to me for treatment. "Throughout he?; long illness he practically lived here. Then she died. He thought the world of her, and her death was a great blow to him — so great, in fact, that he became seriously ill almost immediately afterwards. "Aithough I did all I could for him, he gradually grew worse, and he collapsed. "He asked me tO' marry him the following day. 'I want to be sure of you before I go; it will make me liappier than ever I have been before if you will say yes,' he said to me. "I, on my side> wanted to make him happy, and I agreed. We obtained a special lieense, and the ceremony was fixed. "However, his illness became more serious, and we put forward the ceremony a day. "He had to be carried to St. Thomas' Church, Hanwell, iii an ambulance, attended by two doctors, and he was wheeled to the altar in an invalid chair. "We came home happy, though in our hearts both of us lcnew that our married life would he short. It was shorter than either of us had feared. .He collapsed and died with me at his bedside.