OBITUARY

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 113, 8 November 1940, Page 11

OBITUARY

MRS. CHARLES FORDHAM,

The death occurred on Tuesday afternoon of Mrs. Alexa Margaret Fordham, at her residence, 31 Central Terrace, Kelburn.

Mrs. Fordham, who was the widow of Mr. Charles Fordham, was the eldest daughter of the late Mr. A. R. Hislop, one time secretary of the Marine Engineers' Institute of New Zealand, and later founder of the firm of A. R. Hislop, Ltd., Dixon Street, Wellington, merchants and importers of engineers' supplies. Mrs. Fordham was a director of that firm for a time and proved herself a capable business woman. Later her place on the directorate was taken by one of her twin sons. Mrs. Fordham was born in Dunedin, but came to Wellington as an infant and had lived here ever since. She was educated at the old Terrace School and later at the private school conducted by the late Sister St. Francis Xavier.

She leaves two sons, Messrs. Stanley Hislop Fordham and Norman William Fordham, and one daughter, Mrs. Gordon Miller, Levin. Mr. A. R. Hislop, the present head of the firm, is a brother, and Mrs. H. J. Francis, Masterton, is a sister.

The mortuary chapel in Kent Terrace was filled yesterday morning, when a memorial service was conducted by the Rev. J. S. Murray, Kelburn.