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Name: LE RICHE, Phyllis Elsie, Mrs

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Nee: Greathead, dau of Helen Douglas Huntly Greathead and sister of Kenneth Greathead

Birth Date: 16 Nov 1906 Doornfontein, Transvaal

Death Date: 28 Nov 1937 Nairobi

Last Date: 1937

Area: Nairobi

Married: In Salisbury, S. Rhodesia 3 Oct 1928 Philip Henry 'Tim' Le Riche (1905-1970)

Children: Phillip David (1932); Phyllis Diana Anne (1937 Nairobi)

Book Reference: Barnes, Ken Greathead

General Information:

Nairobi Forest Road cemetery - Phyllis Elsie Le Riche, British, age 31, died 28/11/37 - Ken Greathead - complications after the birth of her second child. Inscription: Phyllis Elsie / beloved wife of / Phillip Henty Le Riche / 28 XI 37/ love sweetness goodness / in her person shined
Web After the flax crash Ken Greathead went to Mrs Norval's private school as a weekly boarder and the girls stayed at the High School where they finished their education. Ken stayed at Mrs Norval's for a year and then went to Matopa's Agricultural College near Bulawayo in 1924, leaving in June 1925 when he was fourteen years old, much against his mother's wishes. Phyllis married Philip Henry 'Tim' Le Riche in April 1928 in Southern Rhodesia, South Africa.Following the tragic early death of her father in 1924, Phyllis helped her mother build and run a boarding house in Bindura for young men working on the mines until her marriage.Tim and Frank sold their farm in 1930 . Frank returned to England, Tim and Phyllis came to Kenya to join Ken. Phyllis's mother, Eileen and the boys, Godfrey and Guy soon followed, although Helen died shortly after arriving in Nairobi.
Tim taught at Nakuru Primary School for some years. In 1935-6 Tim took long leave and the family went to England where Tim did further study and on their return to Kenya he was employed as Inspector of African schools, stationed at Kabete near Nairobi. Phyllis died in 1938 in Nairobi, Kenya.

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