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Name: HOWARD, Alice Margaret Violet 'Margot'
Nee: daughter of Charles Hudson Boileau Cane
Birth Date: 22 May 1903 Rydal, Westmorland
Death Date: 1990 Limuru
First Date: 1914 - with her parents who bought a farm in Limuru and grew vegetables.
Last Date: 1990
Profession: Helped to start Mandeleo Wanawake. An indefatigable and determined lady with a tremendous capacity for enjoyment and participation in all activities.
Area: Limuru
Married: Charles Robert Parker 'Roy 'Howard (1908-1974)
Children: Felicity Ann (1936)
Book Reference: Seventy, Golf, Barnes
School: Miss Seccombe's School on the Hill
General Information:
The original Brackenhurst Hotel is still there [1987] together with several of the hotel rooms including the lovely old dining room in which the Annual Limuru Flower Show is still held. It is no longer a hotel but is now an American Baptist Assembly, and Margot lives in the Lodge which her mother built in 1922, a lovely old house of great peace and character. Margot was of course amongst the principal organisers for the Limuru Day in 1938 and we see her dressed as a Pearly Queen with feathers in her hat from an ostrich shot by Sherlock Holmes, the White Hunter of the district.
Pre war member of Brackenhurst Golf Club
All Saints, Limuru cemetery - in loving memory / Roy & Margot Howard / 1908 - 1974 1903 - 1990