PARENTS DIE TOGETHER

Patea Mail, Volume L, 31 July 1929, Page 2

PARENTS DIE TOGETHER

ILLNESSES END SUDDENLY. EACH IGNORANT OF OTHER’S FATE. Tragedy (visited No. 5, Coleridge St., Sydenham, Christchurch, in the early hours of Sunday morning, when the father and mother of the family resident there died within 10 minutes of each other. By a queer coincidence neither knew of the shadow of death hovering over the other. The father was John Quinlan, aged 75 years, and the mother was Bridget Quinlan, aged 72 years. Mrs. Quinlan had been suffering from bronchitis for two years and her illness became serious on Friday night last, when a doctor was called.

Mr, Quinlan was taken ill on Tuesday of last week and his condition towards the end of the week was so serb ous that it was not deemed advisable to told him of his wife’s illness.