The first wife of the late president Linden Forbes Sampson Burnham, Sheila Lataste Burnham, died last Friday at her daughter’s home in St Vincent at the age of 90.
Mrs Burnham, who bore three daughters for the late president, was a Trinidadian by birth but was living in St Vincent for the past ten years.
According to her son-in-law Dr Richard Van West Charles, Sheila was born on November 26, 1911 in Trinidad and Tobago. It was while she was