For four months, four elderly sisters lived with their mother’s corpse at their home in Belmore (New South Wales), until it was discovered recently. One of them told the police that she had received “a message from God” not to bury their mother, but to let her body stay in the house “until it returned to dust.” The photo shows three of the sisters, from left: Misses Ann Forster (65), Linda Forster (55), and Grace Forster (58).
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 March 1939, Page 6
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77For four months, four elderly sisters lived with their mother’s corpse at their home in Belmore (New South Wales), until it was discovered recently. One of them told the police that she had received “a message from God” not to bury their mother, but to let her body stay in the house “until it returned to dust.” The photo shows three of the sisters, from left: Misses Ann Forster (65), Linda Forster (55), and Grace Forster (58). Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 March 1939, Page 6
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