IN MEMORIAM.

White Ribbon, Volume 29, Issue 343, 18 January 1924, Page 8

IN MEMORIAM.

MRS MARIA WHBB. Another of our early members has been called to higher service. Mrs Webb was the wife of (.'anon Webb. They came to New Zealand from Rutland in 1881. They went to Ormondville, and removed to Gisborne in May, 189(2. While in Gisborne, Mrs Webb joined the W.C.T.U. She organised the Gisborne Union, and was its first President. She was N.Z. Super.n!indent of Purity Depa. iinent, and at that time a regular attendant and a familial figure at the Dominion Conventions. In an old diary of 1899 is a copy of a circular letter addressed to Purity Superintendents. In it she spe.nis of the paucity of reports sent to her. In 1901 she returned to Ormondville. During her residence in Gisborne a Union hail l**en organised in Ormo.i lv.l'e. Mrs Webb became its President, which office she held for several years. Then the Union closed down for several years, and when it was re-organised by Miss Powell. Mrs Webb was » >o givut an invalid to attend its meetings, having met with an accident some fight years ago. The excuse is often made bv members that they are too busy to take .. dice or assist in temperance work. Rid here was one who led the busiest of lives, and yet found time to help by her work and her influence tne c.riM of God, Home anti Humanity. Mrs Webb had nine children of her own, and in addition adopted several nephews. She was a great worker in the Sunday Schools and Mothers’ Unions, was Superintenedent of both Gisborne and Onnondville Sunday Schools. Mrs Webb was in her 91st year. On December 6th she had a second stroke, from which she never rallied, and a little after midnight on December Bth she passed into the King’s presence. A long, busy and beautilul life has closed here and gone to fuller service elsewhere. Our sympathy goes out to her family, one of whom, Miss Alice Webb, is President of Mv> Ormondville W.O.T.U. MRS JONKS (KK!DOING). Mrs Jones, one of the pioneer iivpil>ers of the Feildiug Union, has pars'd

home, after a long and lingering illness. She was one of the first officers of the Invercargill Union. For many years .she acted as Evangelistic Superintendent of Feilding Union. To those she has left to mourn for her we tender our sineerest sympathy.