Australia - Natalie Wood: The woman Sydney forgot

[they'll get you]

Why would she have her mail redirected to people she was no longer talking to? Also I read that her bills were being redirected....So who paid the bills?

JMOO

Good thinking Marg. Were they paying her bills from her account & her pension?

 

[they'll get you]

This is such a wonderful heartfelt statement. Clicking thanks was just not enough! But there is also a flip side to this. I started working in a nursing home to get my feet in the door, to start taking care of the elderly. After three months, I injured my back, lifting a 300 pound patient. The girl working with me was pregnant, and I refused to let her help lift. I ruptured a disc in my back and eventually had to have surgery. The nursing home decided to fight my injury claim, and tried to have me banned from visiting my patients, while on leave. I sought the help of an attorney, and he escorted me to the nursing home and hand delivered a letter to the lady in charge. The letter stated that UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES, were they allowed to deny me access to visit the people I had come to care about. If it happened, there would be a major lawsuit. Needless to say, I was allowed unlimited visitation. The elderly gave us our yesterdays. The least we can do, is give them our tomorrows. Sorry for the O/T, but God bless this lady who died alone.

Tulessa I hear you!
The elderly gave us our yesterdays. The least we can do, is give them our tomorrows. you are beautiful!

Those beautiful people at the nursing home always say hello and I always stop and give them time, they are real....unpretentious and always happy. At times very funny!
The lady I referred to before is next to my mum and actually thinks I come to see her now. She blows kisses and waves back to me now, my mum gets jealous! It puts me in a hard place. Hehehe.
But thats OK

 

[they'll get you]

Wednesday, July 6th, 2011

MEDIA STATEMENT

A City of Sydney spokesperson said

“This is an upsetting case and we send our sympathy to the woman’s family.

It’s important to note that pensioners in the City of Sydney are not charged rates by the Council. The occupant at 139 Kippax Street, Surry Hills was considered a pensioner till 2008/09 when the City was advised by Centrelink that the pension rebate was no longer valid at that address.

http://www.sydneymedia.com.au/4628-media-statement-re-139-kippax-street-surry-hills/

 

[they'll get you]

Wood left no children behind, or no will. Most of her family are long dead. But crucial to how her estate is divided is what date the coroner rules she died.

There are two competing sides for the camp, two groups who - despite little contact with Natalie in life - are legally eligible for her estate.

On one side are her living cousins, on the other side is the family of Wood's deceased brother Vane Herbert Davis.

Vane died in 2009. If the coroner rules that Wood died before this date, the estate may likely go to his family. If the coroner keeps the date of death as 2011, the cousins will likely receive what is left.




http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/ne...-estate-will-end/story-fni0cx4q-1226818658710

 

[Mrs G Norris]

The house is listed now: http://www.realestate.com.au/property-house-nsw-surry+hills-116372903

 

[they'll get you]

The house is listed now: http://www.realestate.com.au/property-house-nsw-surry+hills-116372903

Mrs G, this is for 47 fitzroy st Surry Hills & I couldn't find listing for 139 Kippax street on this site.

 

[Mrs G Norris]

Oh, you're right! Sorry I thought that was it when I saw it :blushing:

 

[they'll get you]

Oh, you're right! Sorry I thought that was it when I saw it :blushing:

I thought it was 139 Kippax too :seeya:

 

[sleepinoz]

Death in Auburn offers a glimpse into the sad lives of some Sydneysiders

She died just before her birthday, a fact not discovered until six months after what would have been her 90th. The dead woman’s Auburn house was as she left it and not a single soul knew the widow was decomposing through the kitchen floor of the house she’d lived in for almost half a century.

This was just one case in the 150 unattended deaths cleaned up every year by forensic cleaner Lee Lordanis including the mysterious death of Natalie Wood who lay undiscovered in her Kippax St, Surry Hills home for eight years.

Unattended deaths leave behind many unanswered questions. But this case was different, and left an incredible window into a generation of elderly people left alone in life and in death.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/comment/death...dneysiders-20140813-103h0e.html#ixzz3AGjImy18

 

[TootsieFootsie]

The woman Sydney forgot remembered in death


The death of Natalie Wood, the woman who Sydney forgot, helped save another elderly woman from what could have been a similar fate as never-before-seen pictures reveal the derelict conditions she was living in prior to her death.

The coroner ruled it was likely Ms Wood, a former war bride and David Jones machinist, died alone shortly after Christmas 2003 on the bedroom floor of her Surry Hills home but was not found until police forced their way into her unit eight years later.

This year would have been her 91st birthday

Read more at http://www.9news.com.au/national/20...ath-a-catalyst-for-change#W3SALJByORDijirC.99

http://www.9news.com.au/national/2015/01/21/13/01/natalie-wood-s-lonely-death-a-catalyst-for-change

 

[TootsieFootsie]

Fate of Sydney's forgotten woman Natalie Wood revealed

The Sydney terrace in which an elderly woman's body lay undiscovered for eight years almost went to an estranged cousin who only learned of her death on the news, it has been revealed.

http://minisites.ninemsn.com.au/9st...sydneys-forgotten-woman-natalie-wood-revealed

 

[Opie]

Just found this thread today. (Her name made me think of the actress Natalie Wood.)
Similar story in my own neighborhood. Elderly woman found on floor when neighbor boy went to carry out her trash for pickup. She had had a stroke, went to hospital, then nursing home, never regained consciousness, and passed away.

She was an extremely generous person and bought annual YMCA memberships for 3 young boys in our neighborhood (including my son).

We were friendly and she had sometimes mentioned various cousins who lived nearby, though we NEVER saw them visit her. Once she died, they came out of the woodwork. They were allowed into her house after 30 days. The cousins who lived less than a mile away were at the house EVERY SINGLE DAY to go through things.

When her estate was finally closed, it was listed at nearly a million dollars. Money will do strange things to people.

 

[newone]

Just found this thread today. (Her name made me think of the actress Natalie Wood.)
Similar story in my own neighborhood. Elderly woman found on floor when neighbor boy went to carry out her trash for pickup. She had had a stroke, went to hospital, then nursing home, never regained consciousness, and passed away.

She was an extremely generous person and bought annual YMCA memberships for 3 young boys in our neighborhood (including my son).

We were friendly and she had sometimes mentioned various cousins who lived nearby, though we NEVER saw them visit her. Once she died, they came out of the woodwork. They were allowed into her house after 30 days. The cousins who lived less than a mile away were at the house EVERY SINGLE DAY to go through things.

When her estate was finally closed, it was listed at nearly a million dollars. Money will do strange things to people.

amazing isn't it ?? no time to visit while they are alive, yet ''long lost'' ""friends"" and relatives swoop in for the spoils so easily