EKETAHUNA

Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 February 1943, Page 5

EKETAHUNA

PERSONAL ITEMS — (“Times-Age” Special.) The funeral of the late Mrs Alma Kathleen Lucas took place at the Karori Cemetery on Saturday. The chief mourners were her two daughters, Mrs Palmer (Wellington) and Mrs H. E. Rogers (Eketahuna), her son (Mr R. J. Lucas (Auckland), and a niece (Miss Phyllis Palmer). The pall-bear-ers were Messrs R. J. Lucas, H. £. Rogers, Richard Rogers and W. Manly. The late Mrs Lucas was born in Penzance, Cornwall, and came to New Zealand at an early age. She was well known in Masterton, being a cousin of Mr S. Ralph and the late Mrs E. Jones, of Kuripuni. The late Mrs Eliza Ingram and the late Mrs Helen Judd were aunts, and Mr AV. R. Nicol, Chapel Street, Masterton, a cousin. Mr and Mrs Gallagher, Stanley Street, who had spent a holiday in Hawke’s Bay, have returned home. Miss Doreen King, Matamata, who has been the guest of Miss Patricia Goggin, Rongokokako, has returned home. Mr George Jaspers, Newman, is visiting Nelson. The late Mr Joseph Thomas Jaspers, who received fatal injuries at a stonecrushing plant in the Waihopai riverbed, Marlborough, was a son of Mr Percy Jaspers, who resided in Eketahuna for a number of years, and who was on the staff of the local post office. He is a nephew of Messrs George and Herbert Jaspers (Newman) and Mr Edmund Jaspers (Masterton), and is survived by his widow and a daughter.