Never knew this about his life till I checked the links on Wiki... this tragedy might go some way to explaining the lack of fight in the man; what a weight of guilt to carry on your shoulders for the rest of your life....
Tragic end to life of beauty
Dave Appleton
September 04, 2002
TWENTY-FIVE years ago today a Rochdale beauty queen who married a Littlewood's pools heir died in tragic circumstances.
Kathy Anders drowned in two feet of water when her husband's car overturned into a ditch.
Kathy - the girl who had everything to live for - was just 26 years old when she died on 4 September 1977. She had been married to pools and mail order millionaire David Moores, now chairman of Liverpool Football Club, for just 18 months.
Mr Moores, then 32, had been driving them home to the West Lancashire village of Halsall when the accident happened. They had enjoyed a meal at a restaurant near Formby when his Jaguar hit a roadside banking and somersaulted into a ditch near their home.
Kathy, the "Cinderella'' beauty who life plucked from an end-terraced home in Rochdale to a life of luxury, was trapped and choked by mud when the passenger side of the car submerged in about two feet of water. Later, a coroner's jury in Ormskirk returned a verdict of "misadventure.''
Kathy Anders became Rochdale's most glamorous daughter when she was crowned Miss England in March 1974. It was exactly a year after another road accident which had threatened to wreck her burgeoning career as a beauty queen and model.
For on 7 March, 1973, Kathy, who lived on Bury Road with her family, was lucky to escape with her life when her sports car skidded and somersaulted on a motorway approach road. She was trapped in the overturned car for an hour before help came. She was in hospital for nearly a year and still had a metal pin in her hip when she won the Miss England title at London's Lyceum ballroom.
Kathy told an Observer reporter in 1973 the accident was one of the most important things that had ever happened to her.
"It really changed my outlook on life,'' she said. "I was on my back for a long time in hospital, just thinking I was lucky to be alive. And from then on I found things that I worried about before, didn't bother me anymore.''
Kathy was still convalescing when she decided to enter the heats of the Miss England contest in Blackburn. She said: "The only reason I entered was to boost my confidence after being out of beauty contests for a year.''
When she won, modest Kathy, whose first ever beauty contest was in Fleetwood, attributed part of her success to being out of the public eye for the best part of a year.
"You see, they are always looking for new faces and having been unable to do anything for 12 months meant I wasn't in everyone's mind.
When she won she took her family by surprise. They had planned to meet her in Manchester on her return home, but Kathy turned up at her Bury Road home early and, with a cheery greeting, made it seem as if she was "returning from a trip to the corner shop.''
Kathy, who had once worked at a petrol pump attendant at a service station on Halifax Road, was 22 when she became Miss England. She had already been engaged for two years to Mr Moores and was sure her win would not affect their relationship.
It didn't. She married Mr Moores in February 1976 at the 14th century parish church in the village of Halsall where the couple set up home in a five-bedroomed mansion, complete with swimming pool, on two acres of land.
After her marriage Mrs Kathy Moores, as she had become, never forgot her roots, coming home to Rochdale regularly. She also went on to take part in the Miss United Kingdom and Miss Europe, finishing runner-up both times.
Kathy's funeral service in Southport was attended by about 90 relatives and close family friends. The ashes of the young Rochdale beauty queen, whose life was bathed in publicity, are now interred in a quiet rural churchyard away from the public gaze.
http://www.rochdaleobserver.co.uk/news/s/331/331726_tragic_end_to_life_of_beauty.html 
