IN HER 97TH YEAR.
ASHBURTON RESIDENT’S DEATH. LONG SERVICE AS TEACHER. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Ashburton, Last Night. The death ha.s occurred of Mrs. Jim Jennins in her 97th year. Mrs. Jennins came to Canterbury in 1859 in the ship Clontarf. She was the first headmistress of the Church School, Papanui, Christchurch, a position she occupied for diany years, and was headmistress of the Papanui State school for twenty years. Then for a quarter of a century she taught in a school conducted by her daughter, retiring to Tinwald 25 years ago. Deceased leaves a son, two daughters, nine grand-children and sixteen great-grand-children. Her husband died shortly after arrival in New Zealand.
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Taranaki Daily News, 16 June 1925, Page 6
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