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- Old Family Bereaved
Sudden Death of Mrs. C. Trigg
EARLY DAY ASSOCIATIONS
The death occurred under distressingly sudden circumstances in Perth early on Wednesday morning of Mrs. Caroline Trigg. wife of Mr. W. W. Trigg, of Fitzgerald Street. Slightly more than a week earlier Mr. and Mrs. Trigg left Geraldton to spend a holiday in Perth and on Monday evening last they entertained Mr. Trigg's brother (Mr. F. A. Trigg) and his wife to dinner at the city hofel at which they were staying. The following morniing Mrs. Trigg complained of feeling unwell and as the day progressed her condition worsened. A doctor who was summoned ordered her immediate removal to hospital, where she lapsed into a coma and died early the following morning. The late Mrs. Trigg was a native of Geraldton. where she was born eighty one years ago.
She was a daughter of the late Mr. George Baston who was for many years associated with the commercial life of the town and was the first Mayor of Geraldton. She received her early education in the town and completed her studies at a Perth girls' college. Returning to the town she, in association with a sister, conducted a school in Geraldton prior to marriage in December, 1895 to Mr. Walter W. Trigg. Ever a devout adherent of the Church of England the late Mrs. Trigg associated herself actively with many of its activities.
She was a Sunday School teacher, a member of various church choirs and a conscientious member of the women's guild. A foundation member of the Geraldton Tennis Club, she did much to establish the sport in the town. Her parents, returning from a holiday visit to Melbourne, are reputed to have brought the first equipment for playing the game to the town and the deceased lady and her sisters encouraged others in its use to lay the foundations of the sport in Geraldton. Acknowledgment of this fact was made on the occasion of the last State hard court championships played in Geraldton when the late Mrs Trigg and her sisier (Mrs. L. Howes) were the guests of honor at the carnival. She was also for very many years a member of the Geraldton Croquet Club.
It was in her home and in the devoted care of her family that the late Mrs.Trigg found her greatest interest and where, undoubtedly she spent the happiest years of a long married life. Retiring and unostentatious she was ever solicitous of thententment of those about her and her ready sympathy and practical Christianity earned her the warmest esteem of all with whom she came in contact. She retained vivid memories of the Geraldton of her early days and was ever happy relating incidents and speaking of personalities of those years. She is survived by her husband, three, daughters (Mrs. W. Kendrick and Misses Doris Trigg and May Trigg) and one son (Mr. W. Trigg, of Perth). Her sister (Mrs. L. Howes, of Fitzgerald Street) is the one surviving of the Baston family. The funeral took place at Karrakatta on Thursday last, when many former Geraldton residents assembled at the graveside to pay a last tribute of respect to the deceased lady and express sympathy with the members of her bereaved family.
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1867 - 1948 (81 years)
