OBITUARY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 263, 5 November 1937, Page 10

OBITUARY.

SISTER OLIVE PEARCE. A popular member of the nursing staff of the Grey Hospital, Grey mouth, Sister Olive Pearce, passed away 011 Tuesday afternoon at the hospital after a brief illness. The late Sister Pearce, who was born at Templeton, Canterbury, 50 years ago, became ill last week and her passing came as a great shock to the nursing staff of the hospital. Sister Pearce commenced her training at the Auckland Hospital, where she took her massage and general certificates. For a term she was a sister at the Auckland Hospital, later transferring to Thame* in a similar capacity. For some time she was engaged nursing privately in Christchurch, and about 12 months ago she went to Greymouth to relieve at the hospital. When her duty was completed she returned to Christchurch. but last April she wa« appointed to a permanent position as a sister in charg« of one of the wards. Massage treatment was the late Sister Pearce's special duty and she had under her care the nine children now remaining in the hospital for massage treatment after the recent infantile paralysis epidemic. The late Sister Pearce leaves two sisters and two brothers, nil resident in Canterbury. One sister, Mrs. March, of New Brighton, and her son. Mr. March, of the Lands Department, Nelson, were present at the time of her death. | Speaking to the "Grey Argus," 1 the matron of the hospital (Miss iMoffatt) said that the death of Sister | Pearce wan widely regretted in the hospital. She herself had known the late j sister for many years and had come to appreciate her fine character, devotion to duty and kindness to those under her care. With the children, continued Miss Moffatt, the late Sister Pearce was extremely popular for she attended with wonderful devotion to all of their requirements. She was an asßet to the hospital for her knowledge of massage treatment was wide and her work in this direction had been frequently the subject of favourable comment on the part of medical practitioners. The whole of the nursing staff deeply regretted the death of their popular colleague. whose courtesy and kindness would leave a cherished memory with

those who were associated with her in the nursing profession.

MRS. MARIAN GORDON. (From Our Own Correspondent.") OPOTIKI, this day. The death has occurred in her seventysecond vear of Mrs. Marian Gordon, widow of the late Mr. W. R. Cordon. Mrs. Gordon was born at Miltown, County Antrim, Ireland, and came to New Zealand with her parents in the ehip Fern Glen in 1874. Five years later she arrived in Oj>otiki and resided here continuously from that time "until her death. She is survived by five daughters and four sons, the eldest son being killed in the Great War.