At the end of the conversation she tells them that Humpty's shower had been running for a whole year, before his death.

Ruth Owens, his 86-year-old widow, told me a poignant story shortly before her death in 2001.

Thus Windthorst could be told shortly before his death that the society had secured its first hundred thousand members.

"I think I had a beautiful life," he told a reporter a year before his death in 1971.

Reportedly, she told her husband about the incident several days before her death.

Sandy told their children of their father's secret before his death.

"I predict that the incidence of war will decline," he told me in 1996, two years before his death.

"We Chinese are gamblers," he told club historians before his death in 1997.

"The new generation - you have to go out and discover," his father had told him before his death.

How much had the Lady Geneva told er mother before her death?