OBITUARY

New Zealand Tablet, Volume LII, Issue 22, 17 June 1925, Page 19

OBITUARY

| MRS:'CATHERINE McMAHON, ?! • X ■ ' ; !■"- • ■ WELLINGTON. :t r 3: With very sincere regret, the death is | 'announced- of Mrs. Catherine McMahon, wife I of William McMahon, who passed away I ■ at hW residence, Scatoun, Wellington, on | /.June 1-,: after several months! illness, at the “‘early age of 28 years. The deceased, who w-as a. • native of Ireland, was married to '■ Mr. McMahon during the closing years : or : the war (she then residing with her parents i- v ati Ilford, vLondon) and, with her husband ito His.-homeland . (New Zealand); 1 The % late . Mrs. * McMahon ..was. attended during iip ifer- ? Rev. Father Connolly, of Kil- ?<-.*• bimie- and, died fortified 1 by all the) sacred ■iV rites ■ ofc Holy }Church.*./ Her, ; husband and one- little* daughter - are left to ..mourn n their loss. - Requiem Mass for the repose of the ;r ; soul of the:, deceased . was . celebrated. at . St. ; Patrick’s‘(Church, Kilbirnie, by her brotherp i | in-law, -Rev-. .Father McMahon (St. ; Joseph’s • Cathedral,jpunedin), who also) assisted by .B \Revii Father Linehan, officiated at the interment in Cemetery three brothers of" tlio- husband being among the pall-carers;.;—R.l.P. H rtA MR. cMrLES DROMGOOL, TUAKAU. • *One of the oldest Catnolic pioneers of tho /\ Tuakau '-parish, ,Mr. Charles Dromgool, passed** away- at Tuakau on Wednesday, 27th ult. Mr. Dromgool, who was in: his 81st year, was born at Dundalk, Co. Louth, Ire- ■ land, 'in ' 1845-, and ; arrived in New Zealand , . with his . parents in the ship Shalimar in 1589. Land was taken up at Waiuku, but at the outbreak of the Maori War his family had to -retir&to.Onehunga. Mr. Dromgool fi9! and his elder, brother joined the vMauku Rill® Volunteers and remained to their -/ ' home—the latter with his life. In 1870 Mr. —’Drotogoaol^^aequired-.land Hin .Timkau and. - immediately -engaged in flaxmillingconvert^l Uig an old Maori flourmill for the : purpose. H«. Liter wadded three other mills and largo . ' arwtfs indiis possessions.. Meanwhile ho, felled-and ‘cleared two farms, .and.in recent years .TetA-ecL from flaxmilling in favor of tarmin'gi-’ Hfetwas one of file greatest bene- '■ factors” of: -the- . Church, • and * the presbytery -church stand on fa?! site which he ' ‘demited. During his last illness Rev. Father Murphy-was most attentive to the deceased s spiritual needs, and he passed peacefully ' away' fortified'by the last sacraments and : ; surrounded by :his relatives f and friends.^Tbe>;. ' Dromgool * gave one daughter to re- J .'ligiqfi (Mother M. St. Ligouri, of the Sisters ; ' Ui lf tlid’Missions, 3 Hamilton) who, s with '; Mrs. 5 ' :.P. ‘Lbokery (Tuakau), Mrs. N. McEvoy (Otahtihu), six sons and thirty-one grand- J M children mourn their > loss,- Requiem Mass J for repose of the soul of- deceased was |. celebrated by Father Murphy; the boys choir : f r&m~ the Marist Drothers Junior ate _ rendering, appropriate ,music. lather Mur-1| . - ’feeling reference to the manly and - lowing qualities of deceased his lively Irish «* . Catholic spirit, and paid jt ■ ( a-tributethe fidelity of his children who, !j: - • ■.ls-.wtt'uic.■>.■ •-5r witlrrmt - exception, -are exemplary Catholics. His last gift to the Church 1 was a v bequest of an area of land, adjoining the "a i ■ • i ■, ' . ■ v; present church property, as a convent site. i: ' -R.I.P. ' r\. j,,-cv -.j -■? vr v t .