OBITUARY

Waipukurau Press, Volume XXX, Issue 301, 28 December 1935, Page 2

OBITUARY

MISS MAVIS KING A particularly sad death was that, on Thursday, of Miss Mavis Kathleen King, Beresford street, Hastings, whose marriage to Mr Frank Forrest, of the staff of Hawke’s Bay Newspapers, was to have taken place during the coming month. Miss King became suddenly and unexpectedly ill on the morning of Christmas Day, and her death occurred in the Soldiers’ Memorial Hospital 18 hours later. She was apparently in her

usual good health on Christmas Eve, when she and her fiance were in town engaged in making preparations for their coming marriage, the banns of which had been published in St. Matthew’s Church only a week

ago. The deceased was a sweet-natured and lovable woman, and her passing will be learned of with grief by a large circle of friends. She was the second daughter, and one of five children, of Mr and Kirs Walter King, of Beresford street, and was born in Waipukurau 21 years ago. She spent the earl er part of her life there, and came to Hastings six years ago. She is survived by her parents and by her sister, Miss Vera King, and her three brothers, Mr Joseph King and Mr James King, of Hastings, and Mr Victor King, of Waipukurau. The funeral left St. Matthew’s Church yesterday for the Hastings Cemetery, and among many beautiful wreaths was one from the HR. Newspapers staff in respect for their colleague, Mr Forrest.

MBS JANET McARTHUR

An old resident of Hastings, Mrs Janet McArthur, died at her home on Christmas Day at the age of 82 years. The late Mrs McArthur was born at Kilmarnock,'Scotland, in 1853 coming out to New Zealand in the Strathnaver. The first 36 years of her residence in New Zealand we?e at Reefton, on the west coast of the South Island, she and her fami y

coming to Hastings in 1910. Since that date she had resided in Hastings continuously. During her long residence in Hastings the late Mrs McArthur has made for herself a wide circle of friends. Her sympathetic understanding of others, her good nature, her sincerity and her loyalty made her a good wife, mother and friend, and all those who have come in contact with her in any way have nothing but feelings of regret at her death. She was always deeply interested in the affairs of the Presby-. terian Church, and in her younger' days took an active part in the af- I fairs of that institution, although in later years her interest was confined I only to regular attendance at church 1 services, -which continued right up 1

to a few weeks ago. The late Mrs McArthur’s husband predeceased her 45 years ago. She leaves to mourn his loss one son,

Mr T. McArthur. A shipmate on her voyage out to New Zealand from Scotland in the Strathnaver was Mr William Keith, of Hastings.

MRS HELEN S. BROWN

Mrs Helen Sheddan Brown, whose death occurred at her residence, 8 Seaview Terrace, Napier, on Thursday, was born at Auchterarder, Scotland, and educated at Dollar Academy, coming to this country with her parents in the late seventies and settling in Dunedin, where she was engaged in the teaching profession for some years prior to her marriage to the late Robert Brown.

On the death of her husband 23 years ago Mrs Brown settled in Hawke’s Bay with her three sons, Allan, who lost his life at Galljpoli with the Main Body, James, who I died in 1928, and the only surviving j member of the family, the eldest son, Mr R. D. Brown, of Hastings, to whom will be extended the sympathy of a wide circle of friends. The late Mrs Brown was of an energetic and independent nature 1 with a keen sense of humour. She was always well informed on current affairs, taking a kindly interest in the welfare of those around her. She was a great reader, a great student of nature, and nothing delighted her more than an exploration of some of the remoter of New Zealand’s mountain and bush preserves, of which she had an extensive knowledge.

MRS M. A. ELLINGHAM

Mrs M. A. Ellingham, one of Hawke’s Bay’s earliest pioneers,

who passed away at the home of her son-in-law, Mr J. P. Rebinson, at Mangahei, Dannevirke, on Decemj ber 24, at the age of 93 years, was I born in Wellington on September 4, 1842, her parents having arrived in Wellington in the sailing ship Lady Nugent, in 1841. In 1860 she mari ried the late Thos. Ellingham, at | Te Aute, who pre-deceased her in I 1912, the ceremony being performed ; by the late Archdeacon Samuel WilI Hams with whom she was closely as- ' sociated in the social welfare of the | neighbouring families, an arduous undertaking in those days. The ear--1 liest years of her residence in Hawke’s Bay were very alarming owing to the unrest of the Maoris at that ’time, one incident being the Poverty Bay massacre. Sixty years ago, she, with her husband and four children, left Te Aute and took up their present property, “WhittleWood,” at Ashley Clinton, where she remained until the marriage of her youngest daughter, with whom she has resided at Mangahei for the past sixteen years.

A family of three sons and six daughters still living are left to mourn their loss, they being: Messrs

H. T. Ellingham, Dannevirke; R. C. Ellingham, Pahiatua; J. W. Ellingham, Ormondville; Mesdames A. W. Cook, Ashley Clinton; M. K. Morrison, Ashley Clinton; M. S. Thompson, Waitahora; W. G. Callender, Mako Mako; A. Me E. Mason, Pahiatua; J. P. Robinson, Mangahei; also 27 grand-children and 24 great grand-children.