Biography

The deceased is buried in the Roman Catholic portion of the cemetery, Section 2, Grave 8 & 9 Broad Arrow.

She had apparently been ordained a "Child of Mary" from Boulder and was staying with her sister, Mrs Mary Jane Tripp, at Ora Banda. Though she was ill a few weeks, no one expected her illness would prove fatal so soon. In fact, her friends thought all danger was past when the end came suddenly. Her brother, Richard (Dick) RICHARDS, drowned at sea at Broome on 10 May, 1917. Her sister, Mary Jane's husband, Benjamin TRIPP, suicided 5 February 1922. Mary Jane TRIPP died 8 July 1926 at Adelaide Hospital.