OBITUARY

New Zealand Tablet, 16 October 1913, Page 19

OBITUARY

MRS. J. BUCKLEY, LISTOWEL, IRELAND. Death has removed from the community of Listowel in the person of Mrs. Buckley, wife of Mr. Jeremiah Buckley, Main street, one, of its most estimable and exemplary members. The deceased lady had been ailing for a considerable time, and died fortified by the rites of the Catholic Church, of which she had all her life time been such a faithful and devoted member. The late Mrs. Buckley was the mother of the Very Rev. Francis Buckley, of Auckland, New Zealand, and the late Rev. John Buckley, 8.A., of Sydney, and sister to the Rev. Edward O’Flaherty, of Crawfordsville, Indiana, and also sister of the late Francis O’Flaherty, manager of the National Bank at Ballinasloe. Much sympathy is felt for Mr. Buckley, who is one of the oldest and most highly-respected inhabitants of Listowel, and for many years identified with the commercial and civic life of the town: and this fact was well evidenced by the representative character of the funeral cortege to the local cemetery, after last Mass on the 15th August, which was offered up for the repose of the soul departed, and which was fervently participated in fry the great congregation, all of whom held the deceased lady and family in the highest esteem. The priests officiating at the graveside were— Rev. D. J. Canon O’Riordan, P.P., V.F. ; Rev. : C. O’Sulivan, and the Rev. T. Farrell. The chief mourners were—-Mr, Jeremiah Buckley (husband), Miss Nora and Miss Madge Buckley (daughters).—R.l.P.