USA twin sisters, aged 97 years, die on same day.

Etats-Unis : des soeurs jumelles de 97 ans meurent le même jour

Elles sont décédées, samedi 4 mars, à Barrington, dans l’Etat du Rhode Island. Les deux femmes, qui ont fait une chute, seraient mortes de froid.

They died on Saturday 4 March in Rhode Island. The two women, who suffered a fall, died of the cold.

Martha Williams (à gauche) et Jean Haley (à droite), dans le Nantucket, une île américaine située dans l\'océan Atlantique, en septembre 2015.
Martha Williams (à gauche) et Jean Haley (à droite), dans le Nantucket, une île américaine située dans l’océan Atlantique, en septembre 2015. (SUSAN WILLIAMS/AP/SIPA / AP)

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Inséparables toute leur vie, elles sont mortes l’une à côté de de l’autre. Aux Etats-Unis, des sœurs jumelles de 97 ans sont décédées dans la nuit du vendredi 3 au samedi 4 mars. Jean Haley et Martha Williams ont été retrouvées “inanimées à l’extérieur de la maison” située à Barrington, dans l’état de Rhode Island, selon le magazine américain Time (en anglais).  Inseperable all their lives, they also died together side by side. From the USA, the 97 year old twin sisters died during the night of Friday 3rd and Saturday 4th March.  Jean Haley and  Martha Williams were found “unresponsive outside the house” in Barrington, Rhode Island, according to the American magazine Time.

Vendredi soir, les deux femmes ont dîné en ville avec leur (petite) sœur, âgée de 89 ans. En rentrant, Martha aurait fait une chute en voulant se rendre à la voiture, croit savoir la police locale. Sa sœur Jean serait à son tour tombée par terre en voulant contacter les secours.

On Friday evening the two women dined in town with their younger sister aged 89 years. On her return, Martha fell while returning to the car, the local police believe. Her sister Jean then fell while trying to find help.

Cette nuit-là, la température ne dépassait les 4 degrés, selon le Providence Journal (en américain). Ce qui fait dire aux autorités que les soeurs sont probablement mortes d’hypothermie.

That night the temperature never rose above 4 degC, according to the Providenence Journal. The authorities said that the sisters probably died from hypothermia.

“Elles sont nées ensemble et sont mortes ensemble, a déclaré John Haley, le fils de Jean Haley, interrogée par le magazine Time. “C’est en quelque sorte réconfortant de savoir qu’elles étaient toujours l’une à côté de l’autre.”

“They were born together and died together”, said Jean’s son John Haley when interviewed by Time magazine. “It is some comfort to know that they were still side by side”.

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Worked in the technical / engineering area as a Science Laboratory Technician and as an Aeronautics Engineer. The artistic side involves writing under the nom de plume of Billy Olsenn, his recently written play 'A Case of Wine' was staged by the players group Straight Make-Up at the 2012 Birr one act drama festival. It's next staging was in the one act circuit is in Cavan, at Maudebawn on Sat 10 Nov 2012. Then it was performed in the Bray, Co.Wicklow at the very popular one act festival in January 2013. Next play is FEAR. A dark tale about revenge on the cruel death of two pensioners by young thugs. Neighbours hatch a devious and dangerous plan to exact old-style revenge. Bill is a member of the Drama League of Ireland and his plays have been critically vetted and certified as original pieces of work by the DLI. Another literary project is that of commemoration of an aircraft crash on Djouce mountain in Wicklow in 1946. Bill wrote articles for the 50th, 60th and most recently the 70th anniversary, (12 Aug 2016) all were published in the Wicklow Times and ensured the survivors of the crash, all French Girl Guides, were not forgotten. Articles reproduced on this website. But mostly this site gives a more general European and specific French slant on popular and not so popular articles of French news, translated to English by the author. Each article is translated on a paragraph by paragraph basis so easy to read in either language and even possible to improve either language by comparison of the short English and French paragraphs. Amusez vous bien. The author is currently writing an easy to read technical aviation book centered around the Fokker 50. Another interest is that dealt with in another of Bill's websites www.realnamara.net, a Statue of the mother of God, Mary. It was erected in 1972 in Dublin, at the end of the Bull Wall near Clontarf, and my grandfather William Nelson, was the main instigator of that project. I give talks on the history of the statue and my grandfather's adventurous and dangerous life at sea. Technical assistance with each website is by J O'N.
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