WAINUI INTERMENT OF THE LATE MRS. WHARE CARROLL

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23315, 26 July 1950, Page 8

WAINUI INTERMENT OF THE LATE MRS. WHARE CARROLL

A substantial gathering at the Wainui burial-ground on Monday bore testimony to the respect in which the late Mrs. Ataiti (Edie) Carroll was held by her many friends of both races, and testified to the sympathy felt for her bereaved relatives. Mrs Carroll was the elder daughter of Mr. C W. Ferris and the late Mrs. Ferris. Wainui. and had lived almost all her life in the district. Born in Gisborne, she spent some years of her youth at Anaura, where her parents and brothers engaged in sheepfarming prior to the outbreak of the First World War Her three brothers served in the Maori Battalion, and one. Mr. Donald Ferris, was killed in action. In 1926 she married Mr. Whare Carroll in Gisborne, and she continued to live in the district until the time of her death. A woman of ready understanding and keen sympathies’, she inherited in a large measure the qualities which had won her mother a warm place in the affections of European residents of the older generation. She was 59 years of age when her death occurred suddenly Deep sympathy will bo accorded to her husband and to surviving relatives, who include Mrs. .T. Carroll. Wairoa. and Mr H Te Kani Ferris. Wainui. sister and brother respectively of the deceased