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GARDYNE, Dawn Langley (nee Thayer) - Peacefully at Windsor Park Care Home, Gore on Saturday, September 28, 2024, aged 101 years. Dearly loved wife of Ernie*, mother to Kathryn* and George Smith, Janet and Hugh* Orr, Hugh and Kathie Gardyne, Marie and Mike* Cannon, Robin and Jenny Gardyne, and Gran to 17 grandchildren, and 31 great-grandchildren, much loved sister and sister-in-law of Bill* and Doris* Thayer, Henry and Meriel* Thayer, loved sister-in-law of Edna* and Dave* Lawlor, George* and Isobel* Gardyne, Elsie* and Ernie* Black, Jim* and Phyllis* Gardyne, Gordon* and Dorothy* Gardyne, Bert* and Ada* Gardyne, Alec* and Celia* Gardyne, and a much loved aunty to all her nieces and nephews (*denotes deceased).
"He has delivered my soul in peace." Psalm 55:18
A thanksgiving service for Dawn will be held at St Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Ardwick Street, Gore, on Thursday October 3 at 2pm. Livestream link available at www.southernfuneralhome.co.nz. Messages to 106 Hokonui Drive, Gore.
sincere sympathy to all Dawns family from the late Ngaire Elder-Rees-Davidsons family. We remember visiting the family farm at Esselmont when we were all young and lived on Rankleburn farm. We remember Janet & Hugh from the CYC days at Pukerau camp our uncle Brian Botting used to organise. I remember Janet from the YFC days when she had just met Hugh along with his twin brother meeting Elsie. My sister Virginia McCall & I visited Dawn last year in the rest home when visiting Betty Smith in the next room when we had a lovely chat with Dawn. Wonderful memories remain always. Paula, Barbara, Marilyn, Virginia & Peter Rees.