MOTHER’S LAST KISS!
11,500 MILES TO SEE SON DEATH ON ARRIVAL Mrs Catherine Beech Marsden, aged 62, who had travelled 11,500 miles from New Zealand to meet her son, whom she had not seen for 15 years, collapsed and died on the quayside at Southampton after embracing him (says tho London "Daily Mail”). Mrs Marsden, who was accompanied by her husband, Mr Joseph Marsden, fanner, of Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand, travelled in the liner Arawa. During tho voyage she was ill, and was attended by the ship's surgeon, who thought she would not stand the journey. Mr Albert Edward Marsden, her son, who is an instructor of aircraft attached to the Air Ministry, living at Poynton, Cheshire, was waiting on the quayside to. greet her. Within a few minutes mother and son were in a happy embrace. Ten minutes afterwards Mrs Marsden was dead. After being carried ashore by a steward and assisted into her son’s motorcar, she collapsed and died before medical aid could he given.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 6 November 1926, Page 4
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