Dr Effie Muriel Morgan 1901 – 1937
Percy Gates Morgan M.A married Mary Jane Gilmour in 1900. Percy was a graduate of the Otago School of Mines and Mary (Minnie) was the daughter of a mine manager. Effie, born in 1901, was one of four daughters born to the couple. Percy went on to become director at New Zealand Geological Survey.
Effie was the Dux of Roseneath School in 1913. She then attended Wellington Girls College and was awarded a junior university scholarship. In 1926, she qualified at the University of NZ (Otago) and graduated M.B., Ch.B. (Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery). She worked first as school medical officer in the Hawkes Bay, Wellington and Otago and later as house surgeon at Wellington hospital. She also acted as assistant medical officer at Porirua Hospital.
Of her sisters, Hazel attained a Bachelor of Arts and was a schoolteacher and Margaret was a nurse. Joyce attained a Bachelor of Home Science and became a teacher also.
Over the last 12 years of her life, Effie suffered ‘indifferent health’ and died at her home in Hataitai in 1937.
Interred in this plot – Effie’s father (d 1927) and mother (d 1952) and sisters Margaret Eileen (d 1953) and Hazel Noel Emily (d 1977). The fourth sister Joyce Gilmour was cremated at Karori in 1990 and her ashes scattered in the rose garden.
Plot Ch Eng 2/J/30
