OBITUARY

Northern Advocate, 15 June 1931, Page 6

OBITUARY

MRH. A. S. HARDEN. Aflcr ;i lon':' ilhu'ss, tin* dentil took |d;iee ;t) a Whangarei private hospital on Saturday evening id' Airs. A. S. Harden, aged Id years. Mrs. Harden j had been in failing health for the past two and a half years, and her condition became worse after the sudden death of her husband IS months ago. She bore her suffering with great fortitude, and was cheerful until the end. Deceased spent much of her early life in the Feilding district. She en-, tered the nursing profession, and trained in Wellington, Palmerston North and To Aroha before joining the staff of the local institution three years before her marriage, which took place in 191.1, The home was “New Brighton/’ Elizabeth Street, from which Mrs. Harden performed many acts of kindness. Her skill and assistance were always most cheerfully and unobtrusively given to her neigh- | boars in times of sickness and trouble. With the death of her mother, Miss Zoo Harden, the sixteen-year-old daughter, is left an orphan. A service was held at Christ Church at .‘bio this afternoon, and the body was taken to Auckland by the Claymore. KEY. J. J. LEWIS. (Special to “Rortliera Advocate.”) AUCKLAND, Saturday. A former president of the New Zealand Wesleyan Church Conference, and a prominent Methodist clergyman, the Rev. John James Lewis, died at his residence, Tenterden Avenue, Mount Eden, on Friday. Mr Lewis ,was born in Wales 86 years ago and came to New Zealand in 1870, his first ministerial appointment being that of junior pastor in Auckland, which then comprised but one circuit. In 1902 he assumed Hie pastorate of the Grafton Eoad Church, Auckland, and later again went to the Wellington district, where he had charge of several churches. Mr Lewis was a scholarly and able minister, and in 1890 he was president of the Wesleyan Church Conference, the highest office in the denomination. At that time the union of New Zealand Methodism had not been accomplished. On his retirement from active life in 1919 Mr Lewis returned to Auckland and took up his residence at Mount Eden. Deceased is survived by his widow, three daughters and a son, Mr Percy Lewis, who is an inspector of schools in Hawke’s Bay. The late Mr Lewis was well-known in Whangarei, having done relieving pastoral work here some years ago, and had occupied the pulpit of the Whangarei Methodist Church and those of centres throughout tho district on many occasions. The funeral will take place at Hillsborough Cemetery this afternoon.

- MBS A. J. COX, Mrs Alice J, Cox died today at'the home of her daughter, Mrs C. H. Dryland, St. Mary’s Road, Ponsonby. She was 95 years of age. She was bom in Cornwall, and came to Auckland in 1878. Afterwards she lived for se'ven years in America, and then returned to Auckland, ißho is survived by two daughters, Mrs Dryland and Miss Cox, Her only son died last year.