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Miss Nora Amelia Reed

Title: Miss
Forenames: Nora Amelia
Surnames: Reed
Date of Birth: 01/01/1909
Date of Death: 01/08/1999
Burial Date: 25/08/1999
Age at Death Years: 89
Grave Type: Cremation
Map Reference Number: RSHG 008 B1
Plot Number: Ryde Old Cemetery Section M Plot 1762a
Grave Description: Flat grave with stone kerbs and gravel top, and flat stone inscribed with leaded lettering at foot end. Small stone flower holder on grave top.

Grave Condition Description: Stone is discoloured and some of the leaded letters are missing, inscription is in danger of becoming overgrown.

Other Information: Nora Reed is not mentioned on the inscription. On 16 April 2009 we were contacted by Sheila Woodford with the following information: "Walter and Lilian Reed, (1876-1964 and 1880-1963 respectively) were my grandparents. My aunt, Nora Amelia Reed who never married, continued to live with them and at their home in Osborne Road until her death too, in 1999. In accordance with her wishes, her ashes were later simply interred in the same grave as her parents."

Also interred in this plot Eliza Batchelor (1893) and the cremated remains of Nora Reed (1999), source: Bereavement Services records.

Inscription:

IN LOVING MEMORY
OF
LILIAN CLARIS PEARL
LOVED WIFE OF WALTER REED
WHO PASSED AWAY NOVEMBER ?? 1963
AGED 83

ALSO OF WALTER REED
WHO PASSED AWAY JANUARY ?? 1964
AGED 87

Photographs:

Janette Gregson
L & W Reed (May 2008)
Photographer: Janette Gregson
Janette Gregson
L & W Reed (May 2008)
Photographer: Janette Gregson

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