DEEPLY REGRETTED.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume II, Issue 122, 8 May 1912, Page 5

DEEPLY REGRETTED.

FUNERAL OF MRS. DONALD

BANKS.

The funeral of the late Mrs. Donald Banks of Hastings took place yesterday afternoon, the cortege, which was one of the longest seen in the district, being comprised of representatives of all creeds and sections in the community. At 3 o’clock a short but impressive service was conducted at the Roman Catholic Church by Very Rev. Father Keogh, assisted by Father Mahoney, in the presence of a large congregation. Mr. P. W. Tombs, who presided at the organ, played Chopin’s March Fu nebre and the Dead March in Saul. The procession then wended its way to the Hastings cemetery, the pallbearers. Messrs. T. M. Lawlor, George Ebbett, J. Sutherland, T. H. Bowie, E. C. Woodward and L. F. Pegler, marching on either side of the hearse, the Children of Mary (30), of which the late Mrs. Banks was an active member, members of the Hastings Bowling Club, members of the legal profession and business people generally following in that order, the remainder of the procession consisting of vehicles to the number of about sixty. At the graveside the burial service was impressively conducted by Rev. Fathei Keogh, assisted by Fathers Mahoney and O’Sullivan, before an assemblage of about five hundred friends and sympathisers who had gathered round the tomb to show a last token of respect to the deceased. Father Keogh in an eloquent address made feeling reference to the exemplai.* life led by the late Mr*. Banks, bedevotedness to her church and *<> her husband, whereby she set a noble example to those round about her. and to the resignation with which she met her death. The body havmg been lowered to ns last resting place, many beautiful v. rcaths ami floral emblems of sympathy were laid on the mound.