OBITUARY

Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 129, 28 November 1932, Page 11

OBITUARY

Regret will, be expressed-by a large circle of old friends at the death of Mrs. Isabella Mary Broad, widow of tho late Hon:.'!'Mr, Justice Lowther Broad, a District Judge of Kelson. Mrs. Broad was living in Wellington, and passed away on Saturday evening. The late Mus. Broad was a daughter of the lute Mr. Henry Bunny, v well-known pioneer resident and politician, and of his first wife. She was born in Neivbury, England, anil came, to >'ew Zealand with her parents in .tho very early (lays, her sister being Mis. Eclwuid Bidcliforcl (now in London). Mr. 13. P. Bunny, of Lower Hutt, is ti brother. Some old residents of Wellington will remember Mrs. Button's school, situated iiv n Httlo avenue opposite; the. upper part of Ilawkostono street, and it wa*. there Mrs,. Broud wax educated in tho early slHgus. is he was a very kindly and senile lady of the old school. She was, alwajb both likei1 ami respected by the many friends, and represented a type now getting Nery rave. She leaves a family of six sons and two daughters. The. sons- are Messrs.' B. L. Broad (Taurahg'a), C.' H. Broad (headmaster ..of. Nelson College), .J.! H. C. Broad (Marton), and George -N., and P. 8..8. Broad (Wellington). The last namedis well-known in tho Public Trust Office, and1 as chairman of tho Wellington Cricket Association. Tho daughters are Mrs. Ormond Cooper, of Tinnkori road, Wellington, and Mrs. George Waddy, of Blenheim. There aie .25 grandchildren and two greatgrandchildren. Roquiem Mass will be celebrated ait the Hill street Basilica at 9 a.m. to-mbiTow, before the. funeral.

Another old identity, Mrs. Cathc'rinu O'Connor, passed away at her homo in Kailmia street, Northland,' on Friday at tho'agc of S4. Requiem Mass was comlneted by the Jiev. Father Smytlie at the Basilica, Hill street, on Saturday, and the funeral took place: at Karori yesterday. Mrs. O'Connor arrived in Now -Zealand over 60 yoara uro 'in., the "Cross Patrick." This ship wns burnt, at sea. on her next trip,

there being -only one survivor. • Mrs. O'Cortnbi1 was to have travelled by the later voyage of the ill-fated ship,'but with great good fortune last-minute arrangements were made for the earlier passage. With the exception' of a "yeav or two spent in the Wairarapa, Mrs. O'Connor lived most of- her days in and around Northland., For some years, she and her late husband carried on. the business of dairy farming-oil tho property, now comprising the Karori Cemetery. ■ She waa predeceased by her husb'md five years ago, and by her youngest daughter, Mrs. H; Spiers, four years ago. The late Mrs. O'Connor -leaves two daughters and three sons, Mrs. C. J. Spiers (Te Awamutu), Sister Marcoline Joseph (Sydney), John and Ed-> ward (of the Government Printing Office, Wellington), aDd James Arthur (Awapuni). There are fourteen grandchildren and.two great-grandchildren.