DYING WISH GRANTED
SONG BRINGS HAPPINESS. By relaxing one of their cast-iron rules, the British Broadcasting Cor-' poration granted the dying wish of an 83-year-old woman. When Mr John Haigli, a well-known Blackpool baritone, gave a broadcast recently, there was one song he insisted on singing, and the 8.8. C., who usually have the last word in such matters, not only made the concession, but did so gladly. The song was “I Walked Beside You,” by Alan Murray. Of the millions who must have heard it, there was one who knew it was being sung especially for her. She was 83-year-old Miss Betsy Birtwhistle, who lay dying in Mr Haigh’s native village of Tottington, near Bury. Years ago Mr Haigh sang this ballad at the village Methodist chapel. It was a favourite of the old lady, who knew the singer when he was a boy. Through a nephew she got in touch with him and begged him to sing the song once more.
Made happy by the promise readily given, she borrowed a wireless set and listened eagerly while the song was being broadcast. A few days later she died.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 September 1938, Page 8
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190DYING WISH GRANTED Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 September 1938, Page 8
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