LAST RESPECTS PAID.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20365, 24 July 1934, Page 10

LAST RESPECTS PAID.

Funeral of the Late Mr C. C. Ward. The funeral of the late Mr Charles C. Ward on Sunday afternoon, in Avonside Churchyard, was largely attended by relatives, friends and representatives of the Returned Soldiers’ Association.. A short service in the house was conducted by the Rev O. Fitz Gerald. The cortege proceeded to Holy Trinity Church, Avonside, where the Rev W. J. Hands conducted the service, which was fully choral, a large choir attending as a tribute to the late Mr Ward, who had been a very old member of the choir. The funeral procession moved from the church, headed by the choir singing the “Nunc Dimittis. At the graveside “Abide With Me was sung, the vicar reading the committal service. As a tribute to the deceased who was a member of the second New Zealand Expeditionary Force and served four years at the front, representatives of the Returned Soldiers’ Association recited Lawrence Binyon’s lines from “For the Fallen,” and poppies were dropped into the grave as an act of remembrance. The pall-bearers were Messrs Leicester Ward, Bernard Ward, Marcus C. Ward, Lawrence C. Petrie, A E. Melville Lawrence (nephews of deceased) and Mr E. Watkins. Many messages of sympathy were received and a number of beautiful wreaths were laid on the casket.