OBITUARY

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 58, 6 September 1934, Page 19

OBITUARY

MRS. A. A. COESIGAN.

A large circle of private friends, as well as those belonging to a number of social service societies, will hear ■with very great regret of the death of Mrs.; Patty M. Corrigan, which occurred at her residence, Talavera Terrace, last evening. Mrs. Corrigan. was in her 73rd year., . ■

Gifted with great, kindliness and with the capacity of making and keeping friends, as well as that' of interest in humanity and ability to help in a number of directions, Mrs. Corrigan filled a place which was most valuable, and when-her health obliged her to withdraw from "active service" she was much missed. One of ■ the most earnest workers during the war period, Mrs. Corrigan was a great.assistant in the Victoria League efforts to send regular "medical comforts" by every transport, and was an equally efficient assistant in St. John Ambulance work, earning the St. John and Bed Cross decoration, and in 1921 she was appointed as a serving sister .of the Order of St. John, this decoration being bestowed by the Governor-Gen-eral. Another of the early societies on which Mrs. Corrigan did good work was the Society for the Protection of Women and Children, being with Laxly Stout and Mrs. A. E. Atkinson, one of the early supporters of the society. The Plunket Society was another in which Mrs. Corrigan gave early support, and, with the late Mrs. S. A. Bhodes, she took a leading part in the establishment of the District Nursing Guild, for the relief and assistance of the sick poor in the city. She was a vice-president of that organisation till the time of her death.

Mrs. Corrigan was a 1 member of the Whittington family, for a great many years resident in the Isle of Wight,

and was brought to this country in her infancy, and all her adult life—for over 40 years—did good service to God and humanity. She was one of a fine type of women citizens who certainly put "service before r self," and will be much missed- publicly .ant| privately. ' ''

Mrs. Corrigan is survived by her husband,; Lieutenant-Colonel A. A. Corrigan, by, three sons, Messrs. H. A., C. E., and D. L. Corrigan, and by. one daughter, Mrs. A. A. Dunn, of Exeter, who with her two children spent several months in Wellington visiting her mother, and only returned a. few months ago. Much sympathy will be felt with Colonel Corrigan and family in their bereavement. .. ■ ■ -