Obituary

New Zealand Tablet, 9 March 1922, Page 37

Obituary

MR. PATRICK HENAGHAN, FEILDIN6.

One of the pioneer settlers of the Feilding district, in the person of Mr. Patrick Henaghan, passed away at his residence, Kimbolton Road, on February 12, at the age of 65 years. Deceased, who was a native of Belmullet, Co. Mayo, Ireland, came to New Zealand about 49 years ago. He remained about Wellington for a time. Then after working in New Plymouth he took up bush land in the Harbor Board Block (now Waiata) in Feilding district, and after enduring all the hardships and privations of the early settler he made a home and commenced his successful farming career. Four years ago he left Waiata and took up his residence on Kimbolton Road, Feilding. The late Mr. Henaghan was an exemplary Catholic, and took a very keen interest in the affairs of the land of his birth. He was attended during his short illness by Rev. Father O’Dwyer and was visited by the Sisters of St. Joseph. His death was most edifying. He leaves a widow and family of three sons and two daughters to mourn their loss. The funeral, which took place on February 14, was largely attended. Rev. Father O’Dwyer officiated.— l.P.

MRS. ELLEN O’BRIEN, EDENDALE. The death of Mrs. Ellen O’Brien, relict of the late Daniel O’Brien, Edendale, which occurred recently at the residence of her son-in-law, Mr. J. M. Coats, Kana Street, Mataura, removes another of the last diminishing band of pioneer settlers. The deceased was born in Co, Waterford, Ireland, in 1838, and had thus reached the ripe old age of 84. She landed at Port Chalmers with her husband in the ship Timaru in 1878, and after a couple of years at Dunedin removed for a similar period to Milton. The next shift was to Edendale, where the late Mr. O’Brien joined the railway staff. After a residence at Edendale of 18 years the couple removed to Mandeville, where they remained for a number of years until Mr. O’Brien retired from the railway service, and returned to Edendale. The late Mrs. O’Brien was predeceased by her husband some five years. The deceased, who was of a kindly disposition had been ailing for some time, but she bore her suffering with fortitude, passing away peacefully. A family of seven was ■ reared, the surviving members being Messrs. John O’Brien (Mataura), Charles O’Brien (Taihape) Mesdames Reynolds (British Columbia), and J. M. Coats (Mataura), to whom the sympathy of a large circle of friends will be extended.—R.l.P.

MR. FRANK McGRATH, INVERCARGILL His many friends learned with deep regret of the death, at the age of 29 years, of Mr. Frank McGrath, Spey Street, the youngest son of his family. Although he had been seriously ill for a fortnight it was not expected that the malady would prove fatal. Even a few hours before fie died the doctors assured the relatives that there was no danger, but the end came suddenly and unexpectedly. The deceased was educated at the Marist Brothers’ School and afterwards served his apprenticeship to the engineering trade at Messrs. Johnston and Sons’ foundry thence joining the Government Workshops, where he had worked for a number of years. Frank McGrath had a host of friends and his workmates aver that he was the most popular man in the “Shops.” His immediate associates will find the gap hard to fill, but most of all will his sisters and widowed mother miss him, because he had been an excellent brother and ideal son. For a number of years he had been an enthusiastic Hibernian, and was tfi 16 looa M ranch of th * "***> which last r t 6 m ° Vabl6 meeting in Christchurch last year He was a past president'of the Invercargill branch of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers and took a keen interest in the work „t that unioTThad ° ceived Holy Communion practically every morning during ‘of" Ctarth 8 C ° l,SOlation ° f reCeiving «“ ** The funeral cortege was a very large one and the Hibernians turned out in full force B i x „ f t'h ’ C’ acting as pall-bearers. It was but’ loth thelr mimljer his great popularity. The r- Father iTthe funeral service. To the molhor «u, , read tiie family the deepest sympathy oTTT memb . ers of the tended.—R.l.p. ' P % ° f the community is ex-