OBITUARY

New Zealand Tablet, 14 August 1919, Page 30

OBITUARY

■<■ l MISS ELLEN : WILLIS, AUCKLAND. : :::'•• With very-sincere regret, the death is recorded of Miss Ellen Willis, -who passed -away on Tuesday, July 15, at the Mater-?,-Misericordiae:v;Hospital,. Auckland (writes a correspondent). The sympathies of the deceased were wide, and no good work was outside her sphere of activity. As a Church worker she was best known, and by her death 5 a distinct loss is sustained by the community. For a very long while she was closely and intimately connected, with St. Patrick's Cathedral, having occupied the position of president of the Children of . Mary Sodality for . a number of years, in fact, but for the statutes of the sodality, she would have died in harness. No parish worker ever went to her for assistance but found her willing, nay, eager to assist, and any organisation with Miss Willis at its head was, from its inception, assured of ultimate success. As president of the sodality she was ideal, as many members testify. Her advice was eagerly sought, and invariably followed, and always with the happiest results. Tended with the most loving care by the Sisters at the hospital, and visited by others from the surrounding conventsof St. Patrick's particularly —by the clergy from the various parts of the city and suburbs, by the members of the sodality of the Children of Mary, in which were many staunch friends, the last days of her life were calmly and peacefully spent. Having received the constant ministrations of Father J. Forde, Adm., and of Father McDonald, chaplain of the Mater Hospital, she passed away fortified by all the last sacred rites of Holy Church. On Wednesday, July 16, her remains were conveyed to the Cathedral, and on the following morning at 9 o'clock a Solemn Requiem Mass for the happy repose of her soul was celebrated by Father Forde.' The music incidental to the sad occasion was rendered by the Sodality Choir. Miss E. Skinner played the "Dead March," after which the funeral cortege left the Cathedral— Children of Mary in regalia acting as pallbearers. The funeral was largely attended by the deceased's immediate friends, and by the Sodality in regalia. The chief mourners were Mr. T. Willis (brother), Messrs. J. and O. Mahon (nephews), and Mr. Yates.—R.T.P. MRS. J. E. WADE, HOKITIKA. The death took place on Saturday evening, Julv 26, of Mrs. J. E. Wade, of the Dominion Hotel, Hokitika, after a painful illness extending over some months. A native of Londonderry, Ireland, and 69 years of age, Mrs. Wade came to the Dominion some 45 years ago. For many years as proprietress of Pearn's Hotel, Kumara, she won a name for excellent management and attention given to patrons that it would be hard to excel. Later, after her husband's (the late Mr. J. S. Pearn) death, she built the Dominion Hotel in Revell Street, Hokitika, and some years ago married Mr. J. E. Wade. Deceased her husband, three sisters (including Mrs. Maher, of the Dominion Hotel), two brothers, and an adopted daughter (Miss Tesa Pearn), who will have the sympathy of a wide circle of friends in their loss.- The funeral was very largely attended, many friends coming from the north in spite of the short notice. Father Clancy officiated at St. Mary's Church and at the graveside.—R.l.P.