Event Date : Sunday, May 15, 1955
Event Type : Death
Municipality : Toronto, Ont.
Community : Other - Bradford
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Description : The death of Miss Edna Maude Moriarty, R.N., occurred on May 15, 1955, at the home of her sister, Mrs. Reg. Drysdale, Toronto. She had been ill for six months, two months at the Nurses' Residence and the remaining four with her sister, Marjorie.Miss Moriarty was the second daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Harry C. Moriarty, Coulson's Hill. She attended Bradford High School and received her nurse's training at the Ontario Hospital at New Toronto and East General Hospital, Toronto. On graduating she was presented with the gold medal for highest academic standing in her class. She joined the hospital staff at the Ontario Hospital as supervisor of the operating room, where she remained for twenty-two years. In 1944 she took a post graduate course in the School of Nursing, University of Toronto. She was president of the Nurses' Alumnae for many years. She was a member of St. John's Presbyterian Church.Miss Moriarty was a most kindly and unselfish lady. Her kindness to the sick and to those who worked with her in her profession has left a host of sorrowing friends. Even during her last illness her thoughts were to spare others and not of herself.Left to mourn her passing are her sisters, Mrs. Hulse Stoddart (Ruth), Bradford, Mrs. Reg. Drysdale (Marjorie), Toronto, Mrs. Douglas Kirkup (Gladys), Bradford, and her brother, Clarence Moriarty, Bradford, and five nieces and nephews.Miss Moriarty's body rested at the Morley S. Bedford Funeral Chapel, Toronto, until Tuesday evening at 10 p.m., and after at the Lathangue-Kilkenny Funeral Home, Simcoe St., Bradford.The funeral service was held at St. John's Presbyterian Church, Coulson's Hill, on May 19, at 2:30 p.m. The Rev. E. Carson MacLarnon of Westview Presbyterian Church, Toronto, conducted the service.The pallbearers were Douglas Drysdale, Jack Kirkup, Wilson Stoddart, Matthew Kneeshaw, Bill Moriarty and Gerald Roberts.The flower bearers were Lloyd Kneeshaw, John O'Neill, Louis Moriarty, Elwood Bateman, Harold Matthews, Harold Cronan, Walter Edney, Milton Hambly, Dice Sturgeon and Clarence Ritchie.