OBITUARY.

Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 22, Issue 91, 24 November 1911, Page 4

OBITUARY.

MRS MARGARET DICK. The following extract from an American paper, which came by post to the Rai Valley, in a letter addressed to the late Mr Robert Forrest, will be,read with interest by many old settlers throughout the Pelbrua district. About twenty-four years ago Mr James Brownlee Dick, along with bis family, left Havelock for the United States, and finally settled in the district of Washington; on the Pacific Coast. Prior to bis arrival in New Zealand. Mr Dick, who was educated for the medical profession, resided several years in the States, where he worked as an engineer, generally in connection with sawmills : So successful was Mrs Margaret Dewar Dick in hiding her sufferings from her children, grandchildren and other relatives that those who gathered round her deathbed did not know that the and was near. Mrs Dick last evening expired at the home of her daughter, Mrs Harry Cook, 1150 Seventeenth Avenue North. Only the members of her family living in Seattle were at the bedside when death callsd. Mrs Diok was a pioneer of Seattle and of old Scotch descant. News of “ Gran ” Dick's death carried sadness into many homes in the Pacific Northwest. In Seattle few women were better known. As the grandmother of Captain of Detectives Charles Tennant and Attorneys Albert and George Tennant, with their wide acquaintance, years ago she became “ Gran ” Diok to hundreds of friends.

A week ago Mrs Diok abruptly left home one morning and went to visit a daughter at Fort Townsend, She returned the ing day at midnight, and although she was 73 years old, she refused to send for an escort, making her way home from the dock and walking four blocks after leaving the street car. This Is only one illustration of the character of “ Gran " Diok. After rearing thirteen children of her own, Mrs Diok cheerfully accepted the task of looking after her orphaned grandchildren, the three Tennant boys, for whom she became a mother after her husband, James Brownlee Dick, died.

At the old Tennant homestead, Terry Avenue and Pike Street, she became the head of the household And remained there until five years ago, when Charles Tennant married. Then Mrs Dick went to live with her youngest daughter, Mrs Cook, and her son-in-law, Hugh Tait, counsel lor the Stone-Webster corporation. Her more than three seore years and ten did not keep Mrs Dick trom attending the Seattle policemen's ball and taking part in the grand march with her grandson Captain Tennant. In the daneing that followed Mrs Dick waltzed long and

oftan as she bad danced at the homes of her many friends. Her grace in. the old Scotch dances and bet voic; ’ heard in tbs songs of her native land aru familiar to handteds of Seattle residents. . As a last tribute to the woman they loved and respected—the grandmother of their fellow workman—members of the city detective department have sent a beautiful floral offering to Dungeness, where the funeral will be held to morrow.

Mrs Dick was born at Carluke, Scotland, near Glasgow, seventy-three years ago, and was married there. Her husband became a mining engineer and his work carried him all over the world. One of their children was born in Scotland, another in New Zealand, and others in the States of Indiana, Louisiana, and Washington. Mrs James Tennant, mother of the Tennant boys, was the eldest of thirteen children, ten of whom survive. There are twenty-three grandchildren. The children are: James and William Dick, of Dungsness; David Dick and Mrs Cook of Seattle ; Mrs H. M. and , Mrs Frank Fisher, Mrs, George Lotzgell and Mrs George Davis, of Port Angeles, Mrs Charles O’Brien, Los Angeles,: and Mrs M. Morrison, Townsend. Interment will, be at Dungeness. Thirteen years ago Mr Dick was drowned in the Dutigeness River.