OBITUARY

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 9, Issue 100, 17 July 1946, Page 5

OBITUARY

REV. H. W. KLINGENDER Some ten years as an Anglican vicar in the Bay of Plenty are recalled by the death at Napier at the age of 77 of the Rev. Horace Weston Klingender. From 1916 he was vicar of Whakatane for eight years and in the late ’twenties, after serving at St. Augustine’s, Napier, he was vicar at Te Puke until he went back to Hawke’s Bay in 1930. Mr. Klingender was born in England, and at the age -of 17 went to Taranaki where his father took up farming. He was ordained a deacon 52 years ago and his first appointment was to Taradale. During the flood of 1897 while he was living at Puketapu, he assisted in the rescue operations and narrowly escaped drowning when his horse dropped out of sight into a subsidence hidden by the flood waters. In 1898 Mr. Klingender was- appointed vicar of Takaka and Collingwood in the Nelson diocese, and after six years went to All Saints Palmerston North. Three years later he was appointed to Waimate Plains, from whence he went to Opunake and to Mangaweka. He retired at Ormondville in 1933.

Mr. Klingender is survived by his wife, and by one son, Mr. Gerald Klingender, Greenmeadows, and one daughter, Mrs. H. Robb, New Plymouth.