OBETUARY.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 209, 5 September 1927, Page 10

OBETUARY.

wmnMML or m& stbatvoid. TRIBUTE BY AKCHBISHOI*. "She bath don* what eh© coeJaV ftttiagly describes tbe actfvUies of the late Mr*. A- J. Stratford, whose funeral took pla« yesterday afteraooa at HJU*bero . Cemetery, «ad tu larfeJy attended. Xumerous wreaths had bee forwarded by various iutitatiocu vitk which •Aβ was «oaucctod, aad alao by private frieed*. Tbc lonet at the qrrave was coadacted by the Rev. C A. B. Watson, vkar of St. PaaTe, Where dcecaaed had. beca aa active member for aearly 39 ye*r». Amaa^t those wao attended the foaeral were: Chief Detective Conmiags, repotseating tbe police; Hestta. J. BL Fray, D. Ooaaldaoa, F. Flfiitna, aad A. Boaser (Jo«tice« of the Peace A—ociafaoa), Mr. W. W. Mtwr, presideat, aad lit. W. F. cyDonnell, eecretary (Agricultural aad Pastoral Awodation), Mr. Keesiaf, Aocklaod Croquet Clab. Mr. T. IGehael (Women aad Oiildrea's Protectioa Society). Mr. Tyicoat (Aocklaad School*' Coaunittee), aad Mr. Jeffrey Warden, representing St. Paul's Chaxch. At the funeral service in St. Paul's Church, Archbisbop Arerill paid a tribute to the umelfisa. life of Mra. Stratford and tbe amount of good work she undertook, not only in conaectioa with her owa church but in other orgaaisations for the welfare of huaoaaity. During the war her work for the Patriotic Fund was recogßised at a public meeting held ia Welfiagtoa. Her life, be said, had truly been oae of devotion for others.