OBITUARY

New Zealand Tablet, 18 December 1913, Page 15

OBITUARY

MRS. DANIEL McGOWAN, MATAURA. The death occurred on November 27 at ' Gowan Brae,' Mar-aura', of Mrs. Jane A. McGowan, wife of Mr. Daniel McGowan, at the age of 70 years. The late Mrs. McGowan was a native of Carnwath, Lanarkshire, Scotland, and was married in 1861, arriving in the Dominion with her husband at the Bluff in 1863. Mr. and Mrs. McGowan resided at Morton Mains X for six years, and for eight years at Longbush. Mr. McGowan having taken up ' Gowan Brae' (near Mataura) in 1875, the family removed there . two years later, where they have resided ever since. There, were six sons and six daughters of the marriage, 11 of whom are married, and 40 grandchildren and one great-grand-child. The sons are Messrs. T. W. and R. A. McGowan (Auckland) and T. McGowan (Canterbury). The daughters are Mesdames W. Cameron, W. P. Thorn, G. Wheeler, and P. Curtin (Mataura), C. F. Taylor (Morton Mains), and Miss McGowan (Mataura). Mrs. McGowan was a sister. of Mr. Robert Anderson (Gore). Mr. and Mrs. McGowan celebrated their golden wedding on July 5, 1911, when alf the members of the family were present. The deceased, who was an earnest and practical Catholic, was attended in her last illness by the Very Rev. Father O'Donnell. The funeral took place on v November 30, when Rev. Father Tobin ofrU ciated at the graveside. The late Mrs. McGowan was well known and highly esteemed by a large circle of friends.—P.