Person:Gertrude Willmore (1)

Gertrude May Willmore
d.20 Sep 1943 South Africa
m. Abt 1900
  1. Doris PenfoldAbt 1904 -
  2. Daphne PenfoldAbt 1906 -
  3. Hugh Marchant Penfold1908 - 2002
  4. Winifred PenfoldAbt 1909 -
  5. Julia PenfoldAbt 1910 - 1994
  6. George Edwin Penfold1912 - 1998
  7. Laura Penfold1914 - 1914
  8. Kitchener Penfold1916 - 1916
  9. Vida Hope PenfoldAbt 1918 - 2006
Facts and Events
Name Gertrude May Willmore
Gender Female
Birth? 22 Oct 1880 Tarkastad, South Africa
Marriage Abt 1900 Kuruman, Cape, South AfricaDr Moffat's Church at Seodin
to Hugh William Penfold
Death? 20 Sep 1943 South AfricaWin's home

Known as 'May'. Married Hugh Penfold around 1900. After her mother Laura's death, May, who was living at the Cape, took in the youngest Willmore child, Douglas, and brought him up as one of her own. May contracted whooping cough from her grandson Aidan. This created a hole as large as an egg in her lung. The infection eventually spread to her other lung. After a long period of hospitalisation she was released and went to Kuruman for a last visit; she died aged 66 in Win's home while Brother and Edwin were on leave from the war (WW2).

References
  1.   ABBR Imported GEDCOM file.