OBITUARY

New Zealand Tablet, 18 August 1921, Page 23

OBITUARY

MRS. MARY McEVOY, OTAHUHU. There passed away at her residence Avenue Road, Otahuhn, on Saturday, August 6, 1921, Mary the beloved wife of Michael McEvoy in her sixty-fifth year. The deceased was born in Listowel, Ireland, and came out to New Zealand with her father, John Mulvihill, in the barquentine "Menl'ngton," which arrived in Auckland, on August 31, 1867, after a passage of 146 days.- She spent all .her lifetime after arriving in New Zealand at Otahuhn. She was noted for her loving and charatable disposition, which was amply borne out by the numerous tributes of sympathy received from all classes of the community. The Rev. Father Carran, who officiated at the graveside on Monday, August 8, also attended the deceased during her illness, having died fortified by the, rites of Holy Church. The cortege was a very representative one. The deceased is survived by her sorrowing husband and two children to mourn her loss. A daughter, Mrs. J. Mahony and a son, J. N. McEvoy both of Otahuhu.—R.l.P.