Kathleen Keleny Williams, life long vegan, died aged 94

[catala]

for Kathleen Keleny-Williams, a GOD of woman who's died at the age of 94.
I've just found this out and I'm quite sad by it

[fiamma]

Who is she?

[Mr Flibble]

she was a lifelong vegan who made it to 94 before dying 4 years ago

[eco]

This was Kathleen's obituary in the autumn 2003 edition of Vegan Views:

Kathleen Keleny Williams, a life long vegan, has died
aged 94. Her father, Henry Cook, became the manager of a
newly-opened first class vegetarian restaurant in
Corporation Street, Birmingham in 1896. The meals were
an instant success, serving some 100 lunches a day and in
1898 a hotel was opened called the Pitman Vegetarian
Hotel, named after Isaak Pitman the inventor of shorthand
and a famous vegetarian. Customers started asking for
vegetarian foods to take home for their health. This is how
the term Health Food Store originated. Then a factory was
opened to produce simple and appetising foods from nuts,
cereals, fruits and vegetables. He brought up his daughter
on a vegan diet before the word had been coined.

Kathleen bought a Guest House called Coombe Lodge in
Wooton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire which she ran for
very many years as a Vegetarian establishment. She was
also keen on yoga and gave lessons there.

Here's another obituary from the European Vegetarian Union with a bit more information about her life. She was a remarkable woman.

http://www.european-vegetarian.org/l...d-obituary.php