OBITUARY

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 12890, 17 June 1936, Page 2

OBITUARY

AIRS IT. S. LAWRENCE

Mrs Isabel Edith Lawrence, wife of Mr H. S. Lawrence, manager of the Christchurch branch of Da Let y and Company, died: on Wednesday at her home in Garden road. F’endalton. The announcement of her death will be received, with profound regret, not only by' her own and her husband’® friends, but by hundreds of women end children whom she befriended during the sad days of the Great War and during the recent years of financial depression, states the Press. Mrs Lawrence .suffered a severe illness a. few years ago. lmt she mado a good recovery, and, with her husband and niece, Miss Pamela Price, Gisborne, she since enjoyed n holiday in Great Britain and' Europe. She returned to Christchurch in October of last year. Since then he:- health had not keen .satisfactory, and some weeks ago her husband and friends realised that little hope of her recovery could be entertained.

Mrs Lawrence, who was a daughter of the late Mr Walter Ki.tson, a well-known surveyor, spent nearly all her life in Christchurch. She was educated privately, and after her marriage to Air Alan Campbell she lived for a time in India. There Mr Campbell became seriously ill and they returned to Canterbury, where hi® wife nursed him devotedly through a long illness from which he died. Some- years later, his widow married Mr H. S. Lawrence, a member of a, prominent pioneering family in Canterbury.

Mrs Lawrence was a woman of rare gifts. With a. remarkably quick, clear brain with •nimble wit, her Insight was keen, her judgment sound. Her love of beauty* made her deeply appreciative of good must and good paintings. She was interested, in gardening. and played tennis and. golf. She did more than her share of social service.

Notwithstanding her generous and useful wot)- for many causes, it will, perhaps, be for her big-heairtodness and ready sympathy that she will be longest and most gratefully remembered. Always cheerful and amusing, she. took pleasure in doing almost, daffy little acts of kindness and of love taking for drives elderly women to whom a oar wn.s a luxury, sending a hook or flowers to sick persons who had few friends, giving a present of a. pretty jumper to a

young girl with a very small dress allowance, visiting the wife of mother of a, returned: soldier who had fallen on evil times; and even under the. shadow of illnes .she continued; heir kindly deeds until a few month® ago.

Mrs Lawrence is survived by her bus baud, one sister, Mrs F. Wrey Natan, Gisborne, and one Mother. Mr TI. Kitson, of Christchurch.

MRP B. V. GORING Friday marked the passing of still another well-known resident of Hastings In the person of Mrs Bertha Virginia Glaring, who. died at. her residence in Omaliau road. The deceased, who had reached the advanced, age of 90 years, had not been in. the best, of health in recent years, for she suffered an injury to her hip, and at her great ago this necessitated her haying to give up many of the things which made her Efe so' enjoyable. Predeceased by her husband, the late Colonel Goring, some years ago, the deceased lady found a great deal, of pleasure in pottering about, her garden, but her accident. prevented this and .she ' was forced to more or less become inactive.