DEATH OF HUSBAND AND WIFE

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 97, 18 January 1935, Page 10

DEATH OF HUSBAND AND WIFE

<> Within Few Hours of Each Other UNUSUAL HAPPENING AT NELSON By Telegraph.—Press Association. Nelson, January 17. The death last night of Mr. Charles George Withers, of Hira, was followed by that of Mrs. Withers early this morning. Both had been in failing health for several months. Their passing was not unexpected, but it was an unusual circumstance that husband and wife should expire during the same night, the widow not knowing of the death of her husband. Mr. Withers was the son of the late Mr. John Withers, who come to Nelson from Somerset in the early years of the settlement. Deceased was born in Nelson 73 years ago near what is now the Queen’s Gardens. Two years later his parents removed to a farm property at Hira. In 1886 he married Jessie Louisa Gill, a daughter of the late Mr, W. Gill, also an early settler in the district, and commenced farming on a property adjoining his father’s homestead. Mr. and Mrs. Withers were well known and. highly respected in the district. Deceased leave three daughters—Miss L. Withers, Mrs. A. Rutland (Nelson), and Mrs. Chesnye Hyne (Christchurch).