South Yorkshire Times April 6, 1957
Wath Girl Dies in Ethiopia
Montagu Hospital Nurse Who Married Doctor
her many friends and relations in the Wath district will be grieved to learn of the sudden death in Addis Abba, Ethiopia, Mrs Jeannie Ghose, former Jeannie Carroll, SRN of Wath on Dearne
Two Young Children
this week, the “South Yorkshire Times” received a letter from her husband Dr R Ghose, M.B., D.A., F.F.A.R.C.S., Consultant Anaesthetist at the Princess Isalhai Memorial Hospital, Addis Ababa , Ethiopia informing us that Mrs Ghose had died of heart failure one March 12.
She was 25 and leaves two children, Sherry (two years old in June) and Robin (two months old)
The funeral service took place at the Catholic Church at Addis Ababa , according to Mrs Ghose’s wishes people of many nationalities pay their last tribute to her as a carriage bearing her coffin passed along the 5 mile route. Guards lining the streets presented arms as the cortege passed.
Among the people who paid sympathetic respects were Their Excellences, the Minister of health and the director General of health services, H IM government of Ethiopia, Miss Sylvia Pankhurst, a famous English journalist now residing in Addis Ababa, Mr Metha, president of the Indian Association of Addis Ababa and the doctors and staff of the hospital.
After leaving school, Mrs Ghose became a nurse at Mexborough Montagu hospital and after four years training, in 1953 Pastor State registered nurse examinations. She then worked in various responsible positions in the hospital been acting 60 in the children’s ward, and acting chief nurse on night duty.
After the birth of their first child in 1955, she had an illness, and after treatment at home in Cleethorpes and Grimsby, was admitted to hospital in Lincoln.
Dr and Mrs Ghose later went to Ethiopia, and Dr Ghose writes: “Especially on the doctor’s advice, we moved up to Addis Ababa in August 1956, but she had a relapse after the birth of our second child. She passed away on the night of March 12.”
Mrs Ghose’s mother, sister and two brothers reside at 29, Midland Terrace, Wath.