OBITUARY

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIV, Issue 7, 15 February 1906, Page 20

OBITUARY

MRS. HUMPHRY GEANEY.

(From our Timaru correspondent.) There passed away at Cairnsmore Private Hospital, Timaru, on Tuesday evening last, in her 30th year, Mrs. Humphry Geaney, one of the most widely known and esteemed Catholic ladies in South Canterbury. She was a. daughter of Mr. J. Kenny, of this town, and a sister of Mrs. T. J. Burns. Seldom indeed has such widespread sympathy been shown at any demise as has been tendered to her sorrowing husband and relatives. Born in the Waikato district in 1876, her education was commenced in the Christchurch Convent and completed at the Sacred Heart Convent, Timaru. On leaving school she taught for two years in our Catholic boys' school, then on the advent oi the Marist Brothers she took charge of the Catholio mixed school at Gisborne for three and a half years till the Sisters came, and then spent two years more assisting in the girls' school, Timaru. She was a successful and devoted teacher, and her ex-pupils and their parents speak in the > ighest terms of the good done by her teaching ana example. Later on she married Mr. Humphry Geaney, of Makikihi. Since settling there she had been more than ever active in Church work, and particularly devoted herself to forming the present fine choir of nineteen members, which is a ciedit to a church in a scattered country district, and moie particularly reflects the energy and devotion of her who has passed away. She died as she had lived, a pious, fervent Catholic. A Requiem Mass was celebrated by Rev. Father Le Floch on Thursday morning for the repose of her soul, a large congregation attending. The funeral took place the same afternoon, and was one of the most imposing that has left the church for a considerable time. — R.I. P.