Maker: Glenys Kempshall

Panel number: 56

Petition Sheet Number: 49 

Person honouring: Lily Redman 

Relationship to makers: Grandmother 

Elizabeth (known also as Lily) Redman came to New Zealand with her parents in the 1860s, probably settling initially in the Gabriel Gully goldfields area. She became a Captain in the Salvation Army and moved to Dannevirke. 

She met Arthur Robert Hoskins in Australia and they were married at Broken Hill, New South Wales on 17 April 1902. 

Lily and Arthur Hoskins eldest son, Frank was born in Australia and came to New Zealand with them. They went on to have three further children; Mavis (or Mayvis), Aubrey and Robert Nelson (known as Nelson).

Lily died in Dannevirke on 17 March 1931 aged about 59 and was described in the Evening Posts obituary as ‘an Honorary Social Worker and there are many who owe her a debt of gratitude for wonderful and consistent kindness shown.’ 

Family sources state that she had been knocked on the head when the Napier Earthquake struck on 3 February 1931.

Panel materials: Three pages copied onto a synthetic material by a local computer nerd plus 100 year old material for the edges.