THE LATE MRS STEWART.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18179, 11 June 1927, Page 8

THE LATE MRS STEWART.

The respect in which the late Florence Jean Stewart, wife of Mr John Taylor Stewart, Peer Street, Upper Riccarton, and elder daughter of Mr and Mrs James Thomson, Middlepark Road, was held was shown by the large assemblage of the residents of the district at her funeral on Tuesday afternoon last, despite the very wintry weather. The cortege left her home for St Peter’s Anglican Church, where a service was conducted by the Rev 11. T. York, who also officiated at the graveside. The pall-bearers were Mr Walter Thomson (brother), Mr A. E. Wormald (brother-in-law) and members of the Returned Soldiers' Association. Born in Riccartop thirty-three years ago, the late Mrs Stewart was a popu lar pupil at the Riccarton School and St Peter’s Sunday School, and up tc the time of her marriage was a prominent member of the Riccarton Tennis Club. Numerous expressions of sympathy were received by the family at her death at such an early age. Many beautiful wreaths were laid on the grave, included among them being tributes from the following:—Dad and little ones, mother, father, Wallie, Bert and Myrtle, Stanley, Peggy and little Raymond, Mrs W. Thomson and family. Colonel and Mrs Studholme, Mr and Mrs John Wood, Mr Lovell Smith and family, Mr and Mrs J. *A. Holmes, Mr and Mrs J. S. Holmes and family, Mr and Mrs Freeman Holmes and family. Mr and Mrs F. G. Holmes, Mr and Mrs P. Mason, Mr and Mrs R Bowman, Mrs M’Donald and Lily, Mr and Mrs P. D. M’Nab, Mr and Mrs Cheeseman, Cousins Harriet and Bob Joal, Mr and Mrs Alex Muir and son, Mr and Mrs D. Morgan and family, Mr and Mrs E. Blakeway, Stanley and Gordon, Maud and Fred Byron, Mand Mrs Ted Scoullar, Mr and Mrs H. Purvis, and “An Old Schoolmate.*