OFFICIALLY DEAD

Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 November 1939, Page 7

OFFICIALLY DEAD

WOMAN CANNOT CLAIM PENSION Sixty-nine-years-old Mrs Lilian Razey. of Powers Hall End, Witham, Essex. walked to her home town to see if she is still alive. She called at her birthplace. Woodbridge, near Ipswich, and she came back with an official decision. She is dead. Mrs Razcy will be 70 next year, and unless she can persuade the authorities of her existence by then, she will be unable to draw her old age pension. Mrs Razey has been fighting for four years to convince them that she is alive, but they don’t believe her. She claims that it was her younger sister who died and that the mistake was made because her Christian names are Lilian Grace and her sister’s Grace Lilian. Mrs Razey is to ask the East Suffolk Education Committee at Ipswich to allow her to search the school register showing her attendance at Woodbridge infants’ school. She said to a reporter. “My sister was only a few months old when she died, so that if my name is found in the school registers that will prove that I am alive.” The sister, Grace Lilian, died more than 60 years ago—yet officially she is still alive.