HUTT FATALITY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 June 1938, Page 7

HUTT FATALITY

MRS E. C. RIDDIFORD KILLED.

KNOCKED DOWN BY VAN.

(By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day.

Fatal head injuries were received by Mrs Eleanor Caroline Riddiford, widow of Mr Edward Joshua Riddiford, when she was knocked down by a van while crossing the road to her home at 74 Woburn Road, Lower Hutt, at about 5.40 last evening. Mrs Riddiford, who was attended by Dr W. J. Hutchison, Petone,"” ''ss unconscious when picked up and diea at her home two hours later without regaining consciousness.

Mrs Riddiford, who was the daughter of an early Wellington pioneer, the late Mr Henry Eunny, a former deputy superintendent of Wellington province, was born in 1861. She married in 1879, and, with the exception of a few years in England, lived all her life at Lower Hutt.

A prominent worker in St. James's Church, Lower Hutt, Mrs Riddiford was well known for her acts of charity. During the war she did great service at Walton-on-Thames, London. Mrs Riddiford is survived by her brother. Mr E. P. Bunny, Lower Hutt, and an adult family of five, Mrs Lindsay, Scotlancr; Mrs Daniel Riddiford, Featherston; Mr Eric Riddiford, Orongorongo; Mrs Liddiard, England; and Mrs Dudley Kettle, Napier. Two sons, Mr Vivian Riddiford, and Mr Lionel Riddiford, predeceased her.