Obituary

New Zealand Tablet, Volume L, Issue 28, 19 July 1923, Page 9

Obituary

MRS. ELLEN A FITZGERALD, MATA MATA. There passed away recently another link with the past, in the (person of Mrs. Ellena Fitzgerald, wife of ,Mr. Edward Fitzgerald, of Mata Mata (writes a correspondent). The deceased had been visiting Wanganui when she contracted a severe cold which rapidly developed into pneumonia, and despite all that could be done for her at a private hospital in Mata Mata, she slowly sank and passed away, at the comparatively early age of sixty-three years. Much sympathy is extended to her husband, who is left lonely in his old age. The late Mrs. Fitzgerald had no children of her own but was more than a mother to the children of a younger sister who died at an early age, leaving six helpless little mites behind her; she carefully tended and watched over them until they were grown up and established in homes of their own. For this, and many other acts of charity and kindness, the deceased will long be remembered by those who now mourn their loss. ■ The late Mrs. Fitzgerald was the eldest daughter of the,late Michael Glassett, Alma, Oamaru, and is survived by two sisters and a brother — Michael John Glassett, of Australia, Mrs. Murdoch McKay', of Hastings, and Mrs. John Curran, of Wanganui. —P. _.; , ~ .'. i ;