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Name: LETHAM, May, Mrs
Nee: Sowter
Birth Date: 1899 Wilby, Suffolk
Death Date: 1989 Weston super Mare
Last Date: 1983
Profession: Became Matron of Greensteds School in 1954 and stayed there until her retirement in 1983 when she returned to UK to live at Weston super Mare with Babs and Fred.
Married: In Stratford St John 7 Aug 1926 Thomas Edward Letham (1901-1953)
Children: May Stephanie 'Babs' (30 Aug 1926) m. Fred Hutchinson; Thomas William (31.8.1929 Billericay, Essex -8.2.2014 Cranbrook, Kent); Anne Gwendolen (23 Jan 1935)
Book Reference: EAWL, Hut
General Information:
She was lady captain of the Nairobi Golf Club in 1972 and she won the first EALGU bronze championship and RNGC bronze championship in the same year. Golf featured highly in the Letham family. Source: Mrs Valerie Letham