DEATH AT 102

Auckland Star, Volume LXXV, Issue 232, 30 September 1944, Page 6

DEATH AT 102

MRS. ISABELLA MUNRO

AUCKLAND ASSOCIATIONS

Over 102 years of age, Mrs. Isabella Bain Munro died in a convalescent home at Onehunga this morning. Mrs. Munro lived until recently at Sixth Avenue, Tauranga, but upon the death last week of her son, Mr. J. B. Munro, with whom she resided, she was brought to Auckland and entered the convalescent home last Sunday.

On February 19, 1842, Mrs. Munro was born at Lossiemouth, Scotland, the birthplace also of the late Mr. Ramsay Mac Donald, former Prime Minister of Great Britain, and a boyhood playmate of Mrs. Munro's children. After her marriage to the late Mr. William Munro, a ship's officer, Mrs. Munro lived in Scotland and London. In 1903 she and her husband came to New Zealand, and Mr. Munro established a shipwright's business in Auckland. The family lived at Ponsonby and Onehunga and later, when .Mr. Munro retired from business, at Lake Rotoiti. Mrs. Munro's husband died in 1916.

' Active and very alert, Mrs. Munro took pride in assisting with the housework until leaving Tauranga. She is survived by a son, Mr. William Munro, of Sumner; a daughter, Mrs. T. E. Smith, of Onehunga; two grandsons and three granddaughters and nine great-grandchildren.