The Brooklyn Eagle (May 22, 1944)
Rites Wednesday for Indian heiress
Yonkers, New York – (May 21)
Funeral services for the late Miss Valsa Anna Matthai, Columbia University student, whose body was found floating in the Hudson River off Yonkers last Wednesday, will be held Wednesday afternoon at 2:00 p.m. ET at the Universal Funeral Chapel, 597 Lexington Avenue, Manhattan, it was announced here today by John J. Flynn, Yonkers undertaker. Burial will be in Mount Hope Cemetery, Flynn announced.
Miss Matthai, 21-vear-old daughter of John Matthai, wealthy industrialist of Bombay, India, disappeared from her rooms at International House in Manhattan, on March 20.