DEATH OF MRS DOBSON.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 429, 18 December 1889, Page 2

DEATH OF MRS DOBSON.

*-> — Wrc mncli regret to announce that Mri Dohson, wife of our respected fellowto\vncm in, Air J A. T)nl>sou, pnssed away iit Lwo o'clot k ye t'-rd iy morning, at lier n-S'dc tic •, Waverly House, Whitakei street, TvT u Arohn, at the r-omparntivel eiHv aj™ of thirty-eipht. The end came ralher unexpectedly at the la-t. Mrs Dohson lias been failing in health for Rome years paal", but ao frequently iviUi< d, and at times "•eeuied toso yre itly impr -ye in health, that it .vas oply wi'lun the p-'st j"ear or ■"■> when consumption had un'mtetakablv manifested itself, that her friends eiitert.lined any doubts with r^ape^t to hpr ultimate recovery. Lntterl\ , however, sh« tapidly lost stiength, and for the paßt couple of months had been almost completely f-onfim d to her room. She bore her suif. rings with great patience, for titude, and cheerfidncßS to the very last Her husband and flo\ernl members nf her family were nliim-t constantly with her in her illness, and PveryMiins that ihoutrhtfnlness and affection could suggest was done for the comfort of the invalid. She leaves a family of three, two boys and a girl, the youngest aged seven years. Great sympathy is very generally felt and expre-"-ed for Mr Dobson and family in their bereavement. The funeral will x leave W.ivtrly House this morning at a qnaiter past seven for the railway station, f.g the body will be conveyed to Howick by train for intei merit >n the Knsr'iah Church yard there, Ix-ing her family bttryinu place. Deceased was a Miss Robinson, ard w may add, consumption was never known in the family before. Her father lived to i"'6, and her mother is btill hale tuid hearty at 7G.