lit a candle 1d agoI only saw this because it came through on a feed of death notices I follow for family history research. Ninety years old, Rita Angus Retirement Village. Never met her, never heard of her before today, but something about the plainness of it stopped me at my kitchen table this morning. Hope she had good days in Wellington.
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Kathleen Mary Peoples died on Saturday 7 November 2026 at Rita Angus Retirement Village in Wellington, New Zealand, at the age of 90. Her passing was announced through a brief death notice published by The Post, Wellington's daily newspaper, on 11 November 2026, and carried through the Legacy.com obituary network.…
Kathleen Mary Peoples died on Saturday 7 November 2026 at Rita Angus Retirement Village in Wellington, New Zealand, at the age of 90. Her passing was announced through a brief death notice published by The Post, Wellington's daily newspaper, on 11 November 2026, and carried through the Legacy.com obituary network.
Unlike most of the people whose lives are documented on this site, Kathleen Mary Peoples does not appear to have been a public figure in the conventional sense. There is no Wikipedia entry for her, no record of a professional career, public office, artistic output, or other achievement that would have brought her to national or international attention. The only substantive record currently available is the short notice placed by her family or friends, which described her simply as someone who had been <cite index="1-1">passed away peacefully at Rita Angus Retirement Village on Saturday 7th November 2026, aged 90 years</cite>, and who <cite index="1-2">will be deeply missed by all who knew and loved her</cite>.
Because the published notice is brief, almost nothing is known about the course of her life: her date and place of birth, her education, any career she may have had, or the names of a spouse, partner, children or other close family have not been made public. The notice does not state a cause of death. What can be said with confidence is where she lived in her final years, the date she died, and her age at death.
The notice indicates she had a Catholic funeral planned. <cite index="2-2">A Requiem Mass to celebrate Kathleen's life will be held at St Patrick's Church, Childers Terrace, Kilbirnie, Wellington, on Friday 13th November, at 11.00am, followed by interment at Makara Cemetery.</cite> This suggests she was a longstanding member of the Kilbirnie parish community in Wellington, though no further detail about her religious or community life has been published.
This page will be updated if further verified information about Kathleen Mary Peoples's life, family, or career becomes publicly available. At present, readers should understand that she is remembered through a short, simply worded death notice rather than an extensive public biography, and that this in itself says something true and ordinary: that a long life was lived quietly, and that she was loved by the people who knew her.
Biography adapted from News reports and the sources cited on this page; death reported by Legacy | Obituary.
Same here, just the notice and nothing else, and somehow that's what got me too.