OBITUARY

New Zealand Tablet, 9 October 1913, Page 36

OBITUARY

MRS. MARGARET LONERGAN, AUCKLAND. (From our own correspondent.) Mrs. Margaret Lonergan, who may well be styled one of the pillars of the Church, passed away on September 26. The deceased, who was for over fifty years a familiar figure at St, Patrick’s Cathedral, arrived from Ireland with her parents and family in the ship Westminster in 1842. Eight years subsequently she married the late Mr. Thomas Lonergan, the ceremony being performed at St. Patrick’s Cathedral by the Right Rev. Dr. Viard. Thirteen children were born of the marriage, every one of whom has from time to time assisted in Church work in and abound Auckland. She leaves many grandchildren and great-grandchildren. The remains were borne to the cemetery by four grandchildren. The burial service was read by Rev, Father Forde. The deceased was one of those fast diminishing stock who brought with them from Ireland an ardent faith, and implanted it in this Dominion at a period when it was almost a wilderness. To her and her associates of that period we to-day are under a debt which it is impossible to repay. Her example and practice will remain with us.—R.I.P.