PENANG: A former German Navy officer dying of lung cancer in Australia may not fulfil his last wish of coming to Penang, where he met his Malaysian wife, but the state flag is being flown to him so that it could be draped over his coffin.
Willi Hans Boehm, who turns 87 on June 22, is critically ill in a hospital in Perth with weeks to live, and his Penang-born son Willi Goya, 49, had searched for a Penang flag through the Internet which led him to The Star Online, where he made his request. Arrangements are being made to send him a Penang flag, courtesy of The Star.
