Thomas (1887-14/4/1941) and Mona (1928-15/4/1941) Ivey. "driving home from the Fairlie show"

TRUCK STRIKES POLE

Death Of Prominent Timaru Farmer

Daughter Seriously Injured

Mr Thomas Hicks Ivey, a well-known farmer of Kingsdown, near Timaru died as the result of injuries received when the truck he was driving struck an electric light pole near the Pleasant Point township at 6.15 p.m. yesterday. His daughter, Miss Mona Ivey, who was a passenger in the truck, was admitted to the Timaru Public Hospital suffering from serious head injuries and a broken jaw. At the time of the accident Mr Ivey was returning from the Mackenzie show, where he was a successful exhibitor in the light horse classes. The truck left the road and struck the electric light pole at the intersection of the Main Highway and Russell Street, about half a mile on the Timaru side of Pleasant Point. Mr Ivey was rendered unconscious by the impact and died about 15 minutes later.

Miss Ivey was reported by the hospital authorities late last night to be very seriously ill. Mr Ivey was widely known as a successful farmer with a particular interest in horses. For many years he competed with conspicuous success in the light horse classes at A. and P. Shows in South Canterbury and Canterbury, and many of his animals were familiar features of the show ring. His interests extended also to trotting and he was for a great many years a member of the Timaru Trotting Club, serving for a long term as a member of the committee. He was well-known as an owner of trotting horses and several of his horses were prominent performers on the track. Two of Mr Ivey’s sons are overseas with the N.Z.E.F.  -Timaru Herald, 15/4/1941.

ACCIDENTS & DEATHS.

SECOND VICTIM SUCCUMBS.

(Sp.) TIMARTJ, April 15. The death occurred at the Timaru Hospital about 3 a.m. today of Mona Florence Shirley Ivey, aged 13 years, who suffered severe head injuries in the accident in which her father, Thomas Hicks Ivey, of Kingsdown, was killed, when the truck he was driving home from the Fairlie show left the road and struck a telegraph, pole near Pleasant Point on Monday evening. Joint inquests were opened before the Coroner (Mr O. W. Wood) at Timaru this morning, when evidence of identification was given by Jack Sydney Ivey, a son.  -Timaru Herald, 16/4/1941.

DEATHS

IVEY — On April 15, 1941. at Timaru, Mona Florence Shirley, dearly beloved daughter of Mrs and the late Thomas Ivey, Kingsdown, Timaru. in her 14th year. Result of an accident. Deeply mourned.  -Timaru Herald, 16/4/1941.

FUNERALS

IVEY—The friends of Mrs T. H. Ivey are respectfully informed that the funeral of her late husband, Thomas Hicks and her late daughter, Mona Florence Shirley, will leave her residence Kingsdown, This Day (Wednesday, April 16), at 2.30 p.m. for St. Peter's Church and thence to the Timaru Cemetery. Requiem at St. Peter's Church at 10 a.m.  -Timaru Herald, 16/4/1941.

Timaru Cemetery, photo from "find a grave."