Death of Mrs S G Compton

Horowhenua Chronicle, 24 May 1916, Page 2

Death of Mrs S G Compton

♦ VICAR OF ST. JITCfIAEL'S BEREAVED. A painful eensation has been caused in the parish of St. Michael, Waradswortlli Common, by the sudden death of Mm Jeanne Compton, wife of the vicar. Tire circumstances are remarkable. 'Mrs Compton took con siderable interest in two okl ladies who lived at 84 Mallinson ruad They died on Friday and Saturday respectively. On Friday 'Mrs'Compton v <■•- ited the t sisters. ' She called at their ,1101110 again on Saturday to find that both had passed away. On Sunday Mns Compton came down to breakfast about ten o'clock. Immediately alter sitting down with her husband and their little girl she said "Oh daddie" and collapsed. She diecl in the vicar's army. Dr. Clarke, who had attended her for some time, and other doctors ' who had attended 1 her previously, had recognised that her heart was in a serious condition. Heart failure was ihe cause of her death. The late Mrs Compton leaves two children, a- boy and a girl. She was 45 voars old. Bora in South Africa, she married nine years ago in eir Zealandi, where the vicar was then president of a Maori College. When their first baby - was two month . old they went for a world trip, amd m South Africa visited Mrs Comipton's relatives. Many of these are "still : n South Africa, and Mrs Compton's father is living there at the age ot id. Returning to New Zealand, Mr Compton took up work at St. Mary's Levin. They left New Zealand some "two years ago on account of Mrs Compton's health. .

During the 18 months elie has been in Battersea, Mrs Oompton hqs endeared herself to hundreds. She took a keen interest in all the church organizations, particularly in the parochial 'bmncli of the Mothers' Union, the mothers' meeting and the working party. Just before her death she sent out a hundred in connection with a. meeting she had convened for next Firiday in aid of the N.S.F.C.C work. She was an enthusiastic supporter of the Broomwood Ward; Red Cross Dopot. -

The funeral took place on Thursday afternoon. A service in the churoh ■was condluoted by the Bishop of Kingston. The crowded congregation consisted almost wholly of parishioners who had learned the worth of the iady they mourned. Nearly all the momibera of the classes and institutions wlhicli Mrs Compton conducted, or /ra« directly associated with, were present. The service was extremely simple and on that account the more impressive. At the close the hymn the "Saints of Godi" was sung. Then the ohoir and clergy, among whom was the rural dean, Canon "Wesley Denim, walk-'d in procession from the chancel to the opposit end the church. They .ftood there in two lines while the coffin >vas Carried between them, the mourners following. Meanwhile Mies Goldisack the organist, pliayed the air "0 Rest in the Lord." Outside waited an open hearse, coveredl and curtained with wreaths. There were two brougha'-ns for the .mourners. PreotioaiTly -the whole of the congregation, accompanied tho cortege to St-. Mary's Cemetery, Batteresa Rise, where already « large roncourse had aseinhled.

Among the clergy present were tlie Rev. \V. P. Metcalfe (St. Barnabas'), the Rev. A. Clarke (St. John's), the Rev. G. Gioesop (St. Marks), tlhe Rov. —. Sharp (St. Philip's), the Rev. —. Ward( former vica.r ot St. Mioli icl'ri end the Rev. Enskine Clarke (St. Luke's). The churchwardens (Mcv:n Loxley and Oxborrow). with the officers were 'also present. T : ho funeral arrangements worn r>\--collently carried out by Messrs John West a noli Co., Northcote rood. The coffin was of massive oak. polishikl and fitted with brass furniture. In tlio cfluireVi it rested on a bier in front of the oaken screen of the chancel and was coverodwith a violet,paLl, on which was one wreath of the purest white flowers.—South Western Star, London.