"I want them to know she was not alone when she died, " he said.
The assets passing through probate court are those left in her individual name when she died.
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Retired policeman Nick Colbourne was shocked to discover his mother's secret shame when she died.
When she died of an overdose in 2007 it made news around the world.
Ten members of staff from the Ritz hotel, where Lady Thatcher was staying when she died, have been invited.
When she died, the Last Post was sounded at Government House in Adelaide, and she was given a state funeral.
Although she was 101 when she died earlier this week, there was always something of the James Dean about her.
Patient B was taken to a nursing home but was readmitted the next day, when she died of a pulmonary oedema.
The woman, who was 35-years-old or over when she died, had her body position reversed, with her head to the south.
But if that stat were really true then Meg would have been 135 years old when she died, which seems very unlikely.
After poring through thousands of official records from the time, Mr Pallanti believes Lisa Gherardini was widowed and ill when she died.
When she died in 1993, her wartime role had largely been eclipsed in the public mind by Dame Vera Lynn and others.
She was doing charity work with a group called Monze District Land Alliance in the south of the country when she died.
Ms Fenton said their letters detailed how the girl's father, Henry, had been "with his daughter when she died after being taken ill very suddenly".
President Obama hand-wrote a note to Pendleton's parents, when she died.
When she died she bequeathed 15 farms, covering almost 4, 000 acres, to the National Trust on the understanding they were allowed to continue to breed Herdwicks.
When she died in 1680 at age 24, witnesses said her face had been made beautiful again, in what they believed was a sign of God's love.
When she died at Taunton's Musgrove Park Hospital, she had cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA) - also known as congophilic angiopathy - a very rare form of dementia.
As part of her rehabilitation, she was receiving further medical treatment at Hospital Santa Monica, a holistic health center, when she died, her sister Edythe Scott Bagley told CNN.
She enjoyed an acquaintance with Duncan Grant, and a painting he gave her was one of two that she was having put up in her room when she died.
She was 15 when she died after being shot in the back at a playground in late January, in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood, not far from the Obama family home.
When she died apparently by shooting herself in the head, on a rural road in California she had started work on a book on the Bataan Death March and the abuse of American prisoners-of-war by the Japanese.
Nearby panels explain that Magdalenian Woman was about 30 years old when she died, was part of a sophisticated nomadic society of hunter-gatherers who followed the animal migrations, and ate a pretty healthful and plentiful diet.
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Ms. Cargill, who was 85 when she died in 2006, left all of her shares of Cargill stock to be split between the Anne Ray Charitable Trust and the Margaret A. Cargill Foundation, in Eden Prairie, Minn.
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We were married for seven years but when she died and when the aircraft came up for sale I just had to buy it as a tribute to my wife and all of those in the Cotswold Restoration Aircraft Group.
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