OBITUARY

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 8, Issue 76, 29 May 1945, Page 3

OBITUARY

late miss Mclennan AN ENGLISH TRIBUTE The following tribute to the late Miss Eliza McLennan sister of Mrs A. L. Donaldson of Victoria Avenue Whakatane appeared in the Church Magazine of St. Columba's (Church of Scotland) London ) where Miss McLennan was a wellknown member of the congregation and social worker: — News has been received from Whakatani Bay of New Zealand, of the death there on April sth, 1914 of Miss Eliza McLennan. She became ii member of St. Column ba's Church in 1881 a few months after its opening—just after she first came to London from Aberdeenshire. Since that date she had been a loyal and devoted member and she was, ju.stly proud of her long unbroken connection with the Church. She paid several visits to her relatives in Australia and New Zealand and it was- while visiting her sister that she passed -away. When abroad she always saw to it that her Pew Rent was regularly paid and nothing pleased her more, than toi receive regularly (as she did) St. Columba's Church Magazine. It was thus that she kept in touch with her beloved Church. In the last war she rendered great service as a worker for the Soldiers on Furlough Committee who enter-* ° 9 tained Scottish Troops passing through London on their way north on leave. Miss Mary Blackwood writes :— "It, has; grieved me very much to learn that Miss McLennan lias passed away. On behalf of all those who knew her so well at St. Columba's during the last war I should like to paj' a very grateful tribute to her memory. In her last letter to me from New Zealand she seemed ■5 to enjoy recalling those happy days and longed to be here again. She was a valuable worker and ready to use her talents which were manv 9 * * in helping all of us and above all in being "such a true friend to our men from Scotland and the Dominions. I like to picture her setting off with her basket full of sandwiches for men whr> ) having arrived too late to come to the hall had had to go straight to the stations for the North. What a reception she had from them!'' In her. a real Greathcart has fordoid the. stream, "and all the trumpets .-jounded on the other side." J.M.N.