Ashes Sent Back
(Neto Zealand Press Association)
WANGANUI, March 22,
The ashes of a New York woman born in Wanganui in 1887 were interred today in Wanganui near the lychgate of St. Peter’s Anglican Church, Gonville, by the vicar, the Rev. N. B. Smith. The woman’s husband, Mr Alexander Anderson, of New York, flew to New Zealand for the interment.
He said today that he and his wife visited Wanganui four years
ago, and his wife expressed the wish for her ashes to be buried near the church. The couple met on a World War I troopship voyage from New York to England when Mr Anderson was the ship’s navigating officer and Mrs Anderson was then Miss Mabel Fenn, a nurse.
Before leaving Wanganui in 1900 with her mother to live in Scotland, Mrs Anderson was a regular parishioner of St. Peter’s Church.
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 31016, 23 March 1966, Page 3
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143Ashes Sent Back Press, Volume CV, Issue 31016, 23 March 1966, Page 3
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