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Ryde Cemetery

Mr John Rowland Smith

Title: Mr
Forenames: John Rowland
Surnames: Smith
Date of Death: 24/01/1938
Burial Date: 27/01/1938
Age at Death Years: 40
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG 018 C2/C3
Plot Number: Ryde Old Cemetery Section E/F Plot 9
Grave Description: Angled rectangular stone tablet with fluted edges and lead lettering, at upper end of plot. Smaller angled rectangular stone tablet with fluted edges and lead lettering, in central area of plot.

Grave Condition: Poor
Grave Condition Description: Tablet at west end was completely sunken under grass. Central tablet was partly overgrown with grass. Some lead letters damaged and missing on central tablet.

Other Information: Added burial date, source: Bereavement Services records.

Also interred in this plot Edith Elsie Lilian (Lily) Grisdale (1941) and George Harry Pink (1956), source: Bereavement Services records.

Inscription:

Rectangular tablet - upper end of plot
IN
LOVING MEMORY OF
MY DEAR HUSBAND
JOHN ROWLAND SMITH
DIED JANUARY 24TH 1938,
AGED 40 YEARS

Smaller tablet
IN
LOVING MEMORY
OF
OUR DEAR LILY,
DIED APRIL 9TH 1941,
AGED 21 YEARS.
SADLY MISSED.

Photographs:

Kate MacDonell
Smith & Grisdale April 2017
Photographer: Kate MacDonell
Kate MacDonell
Smith & Grisdale (2) April 2017
Photographer: Kate MacDonell
Kate MacDonell
Smith & Grisdale (3) April 2017
Photographer: Kate MacDonell

Related Documents:

PDF file: Marriage; Children Obituary; Funeral

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