OBITUARY
MR. B. A. SVENSEN (Special to tho JRoralil.) WAIROA, this day. The death occurred in the Waipukurau Hospital on Saturday of Mr. Beyl Adolph Svensen, a well-known resident of Wairoa, at the age of 66. Mr. Svensen, who was born at Norsewood, Hawke’s Bay, spent most of his life in Wanganui, but for the past two years he had been living m Wairoa with his brother, Mr. J. E. Svensen, of the Clyde Hotel. I-Ie was a returned soldier and went overseas with the First New Zealand Expeditionary Force, seeing service in France. Mr. Svensen was a keen sportsman and a popular man in the district.
He was unmarried, and leaves two brothers, Mr. J. E. Svensen. Wairoa, and Mr. O. E. Svensen, California. The funeral took place yesterday afternoon, leaving St. Paul’s Anglican Church for the Wairoa cemetery.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20471, 4 February 1941, Page 5
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