OBITUARY

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 47, 25 February 1937, Page 18

OBITUARY

MRS. MARGARET HANBY.

> The death occurred recently of Mrs. Margaret Mackay Hanby, wife of Canon H. O. Hanby,. vicar of Belfast, and editor of the "Church News," after a long illness, states the Christchurch "Press." Mrs. Hanby was well known in the parishes of Fairlie, before her' marriage, and of Woolston, Cust, and Belfast, after her marriage eleven years ago. In these parishes, in spite of her frail health, she took an active interest in church activities, and by her generous dispositon and many unostentatious kind deeds, especially to the unfortunate in life, was very much loved. The funeral took place on Saturday from St. David's Church, Belfast, the interment being at Bromley, Bishop C. West-Watson and Dean J. A. Julius officiating. The bearers were the young men of the Bible classes, followed by Bible class members from the vicarage to the church.

Mrs. Hanby came from Scotland to New Zealand at an early age on the death of her parents, to the care of her aunt, the late Mrs. H. B. Johnstone, of Park Terrace. She was educated at the Otago Girls' High School when Miss Marchant was principal. She is survived by her husband and a brother and sister, Mr. Charles Munro, of Henley, Otago, and Sister T. Monro, formerly matron of Malvern Maternity Hospital, Ashburton, and known to many returned soldiers during her three years' service with the nursing division of the Expeditionary Force on the transports and in Cairo and English hospitals.