OBITUARY

Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3946, 23 May 1929, Page 2

OBITUARY

MBS. I. GIBB, AGED 87 YEARS. There passed away last evening at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. John Ross, Thynne Street, Mrs. Isabella Gibb, relict of the late Mr. John Gibb, of Dunedin and Moeraki, at the ripe old age of 87 years. The deceased had lived with her daughter for several years and enjoyed comparatively good health until quite recently. The late Mrs. Gibb and her husband were pioneer settlers of Otago, having arrived from Scotland at Port Chalmers in ilie ship Nelson in 1862. Her husband was an engineer and assisted in assembling the first railway locomotives to run in Dunedin. He was subsequently appointed an inspector of railway construction between Dunedin and Oamaru. Old settlers will gee-all the Dimedin,Oamaru mail coach disaster at Moeraki on the Horse Range on the day that the railway was first opined. The late Mrs. Gibb rendered aid to the injured on that occasion. Her husband predeceased her in 1884. The late Mrs. Gibb was beloved by all who Iknew hyr for her .kindly and Christian character. She leaves a son (Mr. Walter Gibb, farmer of Pukctapu) and two daughters (Mjrs. R. Henderson, of Dunedin), and Mrs. John Ross (of Foxton), together with thirteen grand-children and twenty-three great grand-children to mourn thenloss.

The funeral will take place tomorrow, leaving- Mr. John Ross’s residence, Thynne 'Street, for the Foxton iGemetery at 2.30 p.m.