Show decision of roses left lef t up to heirs soldier wills weekly flowers to his secret love RICHMOND VA the virginia supreme court of appeals left it up to a dead soldier soldiers s heirs today to decide whether one perfect rose would be sent each week to the girl he loved secretly and in vain the court ruled that the 3 es fate tate left by valentine browne lawless was willed to all his heirs when valentine lawless went to war hs he made a will which mentioned that some of the money should be spent for a special purpose in a letter to edward lawless he told the story of his hopeless love tor for mildred fitzpatrick who never knew he loved her the letter asked edward to have a florist send one perfect rose to mildred each saturday before 10 a m she was never to be told who sent the flowers she was only to have the pleasure of receiving them valentine lawless died in a plane crash in austria october 16 1944 but the only girl he ever loved never got the roses she did not know of lawless strange request until last summer when the case reached the courts she is now a happily married 30 year old housewife and she said she did not want the roses the soldier soldiers s sister margaret lawless said it lust just isn t cal to use the money as valentine w wished the norfolk court had held that the soldier a estate was left to ed ward lawless this ruling we was s reversed by the appeals court it held that the es tate late should be divided among all heirs since the perfect rose request was not mentioned specifically in the will it was left up to the heirs to decide whether to carry it out |