OBITUARY.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXI, Issue 20, 14 September 1894, Page 6

OBITUARY.

The diath of Mrs Mudsod, 'aking pluce bo eron after that of her fa'her, Major Scully, brings udditinnal sorrow to hei friends, but our sorrow is as nothing to that of the loss to her children, ten in' number, and nearly all of an a^e when -hey are in most need of the watchf J care and instruction which can only be bestowed upon them by a good mother, as she had proved herself to be. Deceased was in what might bp reasonably termed the prime of life, 41 ye«rs of age. Her father had only just returned to Napier after a lengthy visit to his daughter when he died, and no doabt hia death, so Boon af er ahe had enjoyed the pleasure of his company, and been edified by the good example he had shown by Mb daily attendance at Mass, frequenting the sacraments, and otherwise conducting himself as a good Catholic, had the effect of assisting to break an already delicate constitution. Mrs Mnnson performed the duties of organist for about five years here without salary, which task is now performed similarly by her cousin, Misa Boylao. Her sister, before joiDiag the Dominican nuns at Dunedin, assisted in teaching the coildren's catechism class on Sandays during her stay at Westport, in company with the writer of this much too brief obituary. This was the time when catecbiets were more required than they are now, as then we bad no Catholio fchools and the prosleytising influence cf Collier's Hiatory was doing its ha'eful work. Another cousin, now wife of Mr Luodon, of the Bank of New South Wales, bat then Miss Boylan, was teacher of our school after the retirement of Miss Munson, the first assistant teacher appointed to our school, and also organist in our church. The funeral took place on Tuesday, August 28. and although it rained all the time, great numbers attended. The body was taken from their cottage in Que«n street, along Wakefiald street, and past the shop and printing office of Mr Munson in Palmerston Btreet, where the

deceased lady's kindly smile and words of sympathy to those in trouble will be met no more. From thence the procession parsed along Brougham street to St C mice's Cburcb, where the first part of the funeral services waa performed by the Very Rev Father Walshe, the choir singing the usual music Kr the burial of the dead, Miss Pain presiding at the organ. The altar was draped in mourning, and the flowers b autifully arranged by Miss Lempfert. The coffin was carried into and out of the church, and from the hearse to the grave, oy old friends and prominent citizens, iccluding the Mayor and councillors, of w! ich body Mr Munson ia a member. Each and everyone seemed anxious to pay jeepect to the departed lady, and when the coffin was laid down at the place of interment, an enoimous quantity o f wreatbp, the last gifts of friends were laid beside it to be placed on top of the grave afier the funeral ceremonies were completed.— It I.P.