Empty Mansions (2013)
“That’s the last time any Clarks recall seeing their dear Tante Huguette.
In front of the golden altarpiece of St. Thomas Church on Fifth Avenue, sixty-one-year-old Huguette walked up after the funeral Mass to offer her condolences. This was the same church where her sister Andrée’s funeral had been held in 1919. Today’s deceased was their half-niece, Katherine Morris Hall, for whom Huguette had been a bridesmaid at this altar in 1924. After a respectful moment, Huguette quietly left the church,... without being introduced to the younger relatives.
That’s the last time, that is to say, any Clarks saw Huguette while she was awake.
It was more than forty years later, in 2009, when two of Huguette’s relatives showed up unannounced at her hospital room. They had discovered something their 102-year-old aunt didn’t know: Her accountant was a felon.
As the relatives started to do more research, they had good reason to suspect that Huguette’s money was being stolen, and even to doubt whether she was alive.MoreLess
In front of the golden altarpiece of St. Thomas Church on Fifth Avenue, sixty-one-year-old Huguette walked up after the funeral Mass to offer her condolences. This was the same church where her sister Andrée’s funeral had been held in 1919. Today’s deceased was their half-niece, Katherine Morris Hall, for whom Huguette had been a bridesmaid at this altar in 1924. After a respectful moment, Huguette quietly left the church,... without being introduced to the younger relatives.
That’s the last time, that is to say, any Clarks saw Huguette while she was awake.
It was more than forty years later, in 2009, when two of Huguette’s relatives showed up unannounced at her hospital room. They had discovered something their 102-year-old aunt didn’t know: Her accountant was a felon.
As the relatives started to do more research, they had good reason to suspect that Huguette’s money was being stolen, and even to doubt whether she was alive.MoreLess
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