Celebrates 104th Birthday This Week
[Special to “Northern Adv—ate”! AUCKLAND, This Day
Mrs T. G. Marlow, of 15 Wilding Avenue Epsom, will celebrate her 104th birthday on Wednesday. Mrs Marlow lately recovered from three months of serious illness, an attack of influenza followed by pleurisy and pneumonia. She has passed the convalescent stage and is able to go about her house as usual. Born a few months after Queen Victoria came to the throne. Mrs Marlow came to New Zealand in 1865 and the following year was married at Dunedin to the late T. G. Marlow, who was associated with a well-known warehouse firm in that city. In 1881 Mr Marlow came to Auckland and later took up farming at Katikati. Later he joined the Waihi Goldmining Company. He retired to Auckland with Mrs Marlow when well past 80 and his death occurred 10 years ago. Mrs Marlow has a family of four sons and two daughters. One of her many grandsons is a prisoner of war in Germany.
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Northern Advocate, 17 November 1941, Page 3
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