OBIT VARY

Mr Edmond Shanahan, J.P.
A FORMER MAYOR OF EAST HAM
We regret to announce the death of Mr Edmond Shanahan, J.P., an exMayor of East Ham, and one of the district's most respected public men. Mr Shanahan, who was aged 64, went to the offices of his son's estate agent business in Station-road, Manor Park, in the usual way on Wednesday morning, August 31).
He went out for about twenty minutes, and on his return collapsed in a chair. His son immediately took him home to Westcliff by car, but Mr Shanahan died soon after his arrival there.
Mr Shanahan was well known in business circles in the borough, and for more than 30 years conducted a house furnishing business at Manor Park Broadway. He always took a great interest in East Ham affairs, but did not become a local public figure till after the war. He first became a councillor in 1920, when he won Little Ilford Ward. He resigned his membership in 1924 to fight Manor Park Ward, which he won, and from then on he remained on the Council till 1932, when he resigned. In April, 1925, he was appointed a J.P., and during 1924-5 he Was Deputy Mayor.
He was eventually elected Mayor for the year 1925-6. In November, 1926, he became an alderman. Mr Shanahan was well known in the district as an ardent Catholic.
Mrs Helen Taylor
Mrs Helen Taylor, the mother of Professor Hugh Taylor, of Princeton University, U.S.A., and of six other children equally distinguished, died on Tuesday, August 29, at Hindley, Wigan, at the age of 81. She was a founder and parishioner of St. Mary's, Lowe House, St. Helens, where Requiem Mass was said in the presence of a large congregation on Friday, September 1, prior to the interment in the grounds of the old Windleshaw Abbey. Professor Hugh Taylor is a member of the Pontifical Academy of Science. Austin Taylor, another son, is professor of chemistry at New York University, Mr James Taylor, master of the St. Helens C.E.G., is on the teaching staff of the Hindley Grammar School. Mr William Taylor, chief rolling mill engineer of Metro-Vickers, Manchester, last year new to Australia on the first stage of a world tour he successfully undertook for his firm. Of Mrs Taylor's three daughters, Sister Mary of the Apostles, S.N.D., is principal of the Mount Pleasant Training College, Liverpool; Miss Helen Taylor, now an invalid, was formerly a teacher of mathematics at Notre Dame High School and Cowley Girls' Secondary School, St. Helens. Mrs S. McDermott, a widowed daughter, has taught at Ashton and Mount Pleasant and is at present on the Notre Dame High School staff, St. Helens. Mr and Mrs Taylor celebrated their golden wedding four years ago when there was a family reunion. Mr Taylor, an analytical chemist, died last year.
Miss Annie Hughes
The Requiem for Miss Annie Hughes, 25-year-old daughter of Mrs M. Hughes and the late Mr John Hughes, of Stalybridge, was held at St. Peter's Church, Staiybridge. Miss Hughes was a popular member of many confraternities in the parish and was much loved by her workmates at Copley Mill, where she was employed as a winder. She died at the Lake Hospital on August 18 after a long illness.