Mary Gee 4/10/1935 - 27/08/2011

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Gee, Mary (nee Mak) – Suddenly on 27 August 2011 at Wellington Hospital.

Loving wife of Joseph. Loved mother and mother in law of Vivienne and John, Stephen, Carina and Anton. Loving gran to Sean and Anita, Katie, Luke, Matthew. Loved aunt of Michael and Emma.

In lieu of flowers donations to the Wellington Free Ambulance would be appreciated and may be left at the service. Special thanks to the staff of Wellington Free Ambulance and ICU of Wellington Hospital for all their care.

Messages for the Gee family may be sent c/- PO Box 14-366 Kilbirnie, 6241 or left in Mary’s tribute book below.

A service for Mary will be held in the Chinese Anglican Church, Glenmore Street, Thorndon on Wednesday 31 August, 2011 at 1:00pm followed by private cremation.

Harbour City Funeral Home
Lower Hutt - Upper Hutt - Wellington
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Service Information
Date: 31/08/2011
Time: 1:00 p.m.
Location: Chinese Anglican Church
Glenmore Street
Northland
Wellington www.tributes.co.nz/ViewMyTribute.aspx?id=6940

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Obituary..............
Mary Gee (nee Mak)
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4 October 1935 – 27 August 2011
Mary, wife of Joseph Gee from Gee Wong Tong village
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was born in Taishan 台山 County in Seyip, Guangdong, China. Her father was an Anglican minister, the Rev. Peter Mak,who came to Wellington to be the first Chinese Anglican minister in the community in 1941. He
came with his wife and two children, Mary and Marcus, to look after the spiritual needs of the
then Chinese population at the Wellington Anglican Chinese Mission in Frederick Street, Mount
Cook. They lived at the Mission’s vicarage at 242 Taranaki Street for a couple of years until
Rev. Mak took ill and passed away in 1943.Mary was only 8 years old then and in order to keep
the family together and earn a living, her mother bought a fruit shop in Tinakori Road, Thorndon, with living accomm odation behind and worked there for a number of years.
When the family finally sold the shop, the family moved to Herne Bay, Auckland, before returning to We
llington to an apartment in Cuba Street and also lived there for some years.
In May 1959, Mary married Joseph Gee from Masterton and moved up there to live and help in the Gee family business. It was in Masterton that their three children were born and in 1964, they decided to move back down to Wellington where they lived in Willis Street and then in Owen Street, Newtown. In 1975, they bought a house in Lyons Crescent, Seatoun Heights, where they brought up their family and where Joseph still lives.
When Mary returned to Wellington, she worked at a number of companies to help support her family. Among them was Sargoods, Gordon and Gotch, Winstones , and Victoria University. She was with these organisations for
a number of years until she retired in 1993.
Mary was educated at St. Mark’s Church School in Dufferin Street, Wellington and attended Wellington Technical College later. In 1994, she went for a trip to China and in 1995 visited the United States and Thailand.
She loved cooking and her hobbies were reading andknitting.
Mary is survived by her husband Joseph and children Vivienne, Stephen and Carina and four grandchildren, Sean,
Katie, Luke and Matthew.
Her funeral was at the Chinese Anglican Church in G
lenmore Street, Wellington on the 31st
August and was attended
by numerous friends and family.
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