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Was it definitely "off" Exeter Road, or might it have been a row of houses on Exeter Rd?Just what I was writing. It was quite common in some places for houses to be identified within a terrace rather than by street number and a quick look on Street View suggests that there are developements of that type in Exeter Road. The row is probably still there with a terracotta plaque with the terrace name burried under paint or pebbledash.
Have you looked at the family's 1911 census entry?
Thanks for posting this..I'm having a job identifying Lithuanian LatvianTransliteration through other scripts can always create anomalies. When I worked in a bank I once interviewed a prospective customer who was a Palestinian from Israel. She produced ID documents that bore very little relation to the name as she wrote it in an Anglicised form as they had been transliterated from the Arabic version into Hebrew then back to Latin script.
Ancestors they seem to alter spellings everytimr they emigrate and have documents in Russian Hebrew Polish and English
The Goldberg's may have been Golden Gold or Goldstein
Friedman also Freed and Freedman within one generation between 1850+1930
The shock of seeing her own obituary would have probably finished her off.The Jamaican politician Marcus Garvey was said to had died from a stroke after reading his own obit. Mark Twain of course had the famous quote The report of my death was an exaggeration although I prefer Dave Swarbrick's Its not the first time I have died in Birmingham
She must be Den Watts' ancestor. Back from the dead.