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The Guardian & Gazette Newspapers
27th May 1983
A widow has donated a life saving oxygen machine to a
hospital in loving memory of her late husband.
The £1,500 home oxygen concentrator was given to Whipps Cross Hospital and is
now being used by a South Woodford woman.
Mrs. Winifred Coleman, of Buckingham Road, Wanstead
raised the cash by asking for donations rather than flowers at her husband’s
funeral earlier this year.
Her husband, legal executive Kenneth Coleman, 75, died from a lung disease in
Whipps on New Year’s Day.
“He needed oxygen virtually 24 hours a day,” said Mrs. Coleman.
“Although it would have dug hard into our savings, we decided to buy one of the
machines for use at home. The NHS don’t pay for such things. But before we
bought one my husband got an infection and died. Friends and relatives donated
the money to buy a machine for someone else.”
Pictured: In loving memory - Mrs. Winifred Coleman (right) presents the machine
to patient Miss Irene Foster with (from left) Whipps League of Friends secretary Lester Elliot,
Mrs Coleman’s daughter Allison (sic) and physician Dr. Israel Glick.
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