It was the obituary for the English writer of murder mystery novels, Ruth Rendell (February 17, 1930 to May 2, 2015). She didn’t die while speaking - that incident happened back in the early 1950s. But her obituary in The Guardian said that:
“...she had been a journalist on the Chigwell Times, but resigned after it emerged that her report of a local tennis club dinner had been written without attending the event, meaning she missed the death of the after-dinner speaker during his speech.”
She had told a similar version in a 2013 article at the Penguin web site. I don’t have access to the Chigwell Times, so I have not been able to find the name of the after-dinner speaker.
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