PERSONAL ITEMS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 May 1941, Page 2

PERSONAL ITEMS

Mrs S. Mannering, Renal! Street, Masterton, is visiting Napier. Miss I. Stilburn, South Road, Masterton. is visiting Blenheim. Mrs E. Foreman. Gladstone, is visiting Palmerston North.

Mrs J. F. Studholme, Masterton, is visiting Mrs John Studholme, Middleton Grange, Christchurch. The Misses Kummer, Cole Street, Masterton, are spending a few days at Te Wharau.

Mrs Allister Buchanan, New Plymouth, is staying with her mother, Mrs H. J. W. Lord. Essex Street, Masterton.

.Mrs P. J. Borthwick, Eridge, Masterton. who has been visiting her sister, Mrs P. Dillon. Blenheim, has returned home.

The death occurred at the residence of her only daughter, Mrs H. E. Reynolds, Dannevirke, of Mrs Isabella Ewart Anderson in her eighty-ninth year. Mrs Anderson was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, coming to New Zealand in 1884 in the sailing ship Opawa with her husband, the late Air Alexander Forsythe Anderson, for many years •a journalist on lhe London “Pall Mall Gazette.” Mrs Anderson was a member of the Women’s National Reserve, Wellington Royal Choral Society, Sunday school teacher and deaconess of St. John’s Presbyterian Church, and secretary of the Y.W.C.A. In Masterton where she formerly resided, she was president of the Reform Political Party. Up to within a month of her death she was actively engaged knitting for the soldiers. It was only during the last few weeks of her life that Mrs Anderson was confined to bed and she passed peacefully away in her sleep on Saturday morning.