OBITUARY.

Clutha Leader, Volume XXXIX, Issue 53, 14 February 1913, Page 5

OBITUARY.

ROBERT WILLIAM ORE. (Kuriwao Correspondent.) A deep gloom was cast over the Clinton district when it became known that Robert, second son of Mr Alexander Orr, had passed away after a short but severe illness in a private hospital at Gore on Saturday, February 1. The late Mr Orr took ill suddenly and was removed to receive closer attention on Christmas • Day, and seemed to improve for a time. An operation was performed for appendicitis, but complications set in and he gradually became weaker and weaker, and though all that human hands and skill could do was (lone, it was of no avail, and, conscious to the last, in the presence of his family —his wife and children, father, brothers and sisters —he passed away to the home prepared for him by his Creator in the Great Beyond. Robert married Mary Turnbull, daughter of Mr Joseph Turnbull, Waipahi, and she is left with a young family of two sons and a daughter to mourn their irreparable loss; the eldest live years and youngest about six weeks, for whom tie deepest sympathy goes out from the 'hearts of ,the people, and also to the father, three sisters and two brothers, for it is only five months since Mrs Alexander Orr died. The late Robert William Orr was a <piet, straight-forward and upright'dealing man in all things, an obliging and kind-hearted member of the community of Kuriwao, of which school committee he was an active member for a number of years. He was an active worker for anything pertaining to the good of the district, and, needless to say, ha will be much missed. As a youth he was a successful performer at athletic ■sports, and won several prizes and medals for running and high leap and other events. He was one of the first Iritch of men to form the Popotunoa .Rifles, and served with them for a number of years. With his brother Duncan he leased "Glenroy" from Mr John Boyle, but prior to marrying they dissolved partnership and Robert bought Mr Clark's property, which he improved to some extent, and leaves, along with a small grazing run lease in a flourishing state and much to his credit, be it said, providing comfort, as far as that is concerned, to his bereaved wife and family. The funeral was very largely attended by friends and the general public. The services at the house and graveside were conducted by the Rev. Mr Simpson, of Gore, and were very impressive, but the reverend gentlemen's remarks were founded not on the sinking sand, but on the Rock of Ages, for the late Mr Orr's death was one of peace. The Master wanted him and he was prepared, ready to enter into the presence of Jesus Christ; so it is our privilege not to mourn for him who is gone but to console rather with those who will miss him most—the sorrowing widow especially, the father in his sad trial, the brothers and sisters till Time assuages and softens the pain they all feel ill the great loss they have sustained.