A Woman in Time

Mary Soames, second from right, with her father, center, and family           AP

I've said it before and I'll say it again: You meet some of the most interesting people in the obits. Case in point, Winston and Clementine Churchill's youngest and last surviving child, Mary Soames, whom Prime Minister David Cameron called "an eyewitness to some of the most important moments in our recent history." She was also fascinating in her own right: She raised orphan lambs, enlisted during World War II without her father's knowledge and manned antiaircraft batteries, accompanied her father to summit meetings, wrote several well-received books about her family, and once spoke to 900 guerrillas in Rhodesia: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/05/world/europe/mary-soames-daughter-of-churchill-and-chronicler-of-history-dies-at-91.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&_r=0