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- GROCOTT'S DAILY MAIL, MONDAY, JUNE 20, 1960
OBITUARY
Fanny Atherstone Currie
Fanny Atherstone Currie, last surviving child of George White and Bless (sic) Ann Atherstone and granddaughter of Major T. C. White, of Table Farm, died peacefully in her sleep in the early hours of Saturday, in her 97th year. Born in Grahamstown in March, 1864, she married Joseph Currie, who was - in 1886 - learning farming with her elder brother Lorraine ("Lorry") at "Aylesby" and who then took over the management of the "Vaalkrantz", for his father-in-law. Fanny presently inherited the farm, on the death of her father, and she spent her whole married life on Vaalkrantz. When her husband died in 1941, her eldest son, Herbert, continued farming operations with her until 1943 when Vaalkrantz was finally sold out of the family. She then returned to Grahamstown and, until advancing years intervened, lived in African Street. In her declining years she lived with her son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Currie, first at "Ettrick", and thereafter at "The Castle", Salem. She is survived by three sons and a daughter, eight grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren, in addition to nine nephews and nieces. Her life was a quiet one with no marked highlights, but "Aunt Fan" and "Uncle Joe" were both loved and respected by all who were privileged to know them closely.
The funeral service was held in the Cathedral of St. Michael and St. George at eleven this morning and deceased was thereafter interred beside her husband in the Old Cemetery.
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