Honours and Death
Travers was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1977. Travers lived into advanced old age but her health was declining towards the end of her life. She died in London in 1996 aged 96 reportedly caused by epileptic seizure delirium. Her son Camillus Travers Hone, grandson of Joseph and Vera Hone, died in London in November 2011.
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