Mr Douglas Groves - Obituary

The many friends of Mr. Douglas Groves will learn with deep regret of his death, which occurred yesterday at the Masterton Hospital. the late Mr. Groves, who was 35 years of age, had been in ill health for some time. He was the third son of Mr and Mrs F. W. Groves, Opaki Road, Masterton, well-known early settlers of the district. 

He was born in Masterton and educated at the Whakataki and Pahiatua schools. 

The late Mr Groves, who was well and favourably known in Masterton, was in his day a capable footballer and a prominent athlete.

He was a farmer by occupation and had worked in various parts of the district.

He is survived by a widow (a daughter of Mr and Mrs T. Bulloch), an infant daughter, his parents and two brothers, Messrs W.F. Groves (Waipukurau) and D.V. Groves (Masterton) to whom the sincere sympathy of a wide circle of friends will be extended in their sad bereavement.

The funeral took place this afternoon.
Wairarapa Daily Times, 6 December 1937, page 4

GROVES.--On 5th December, 1937, at the Masterton Public Hospital, Douglas, beloved husband of Bessie Groves, aged 35 years. Deeply regretted.
Wairarapa Daily Times, 6 December 1937, page 4

Douglas Sidney Groves was born on 3 January 1902, in Masterton, the son of Frederick William and Annie Groves (nee Brading). He was baptised by the Rev. John Sykes on 9 June 1902. The family farmed at "The Terrraces," in Tinui, and later moved to Pahiatua. Douglas married Elizabeth Fairhurst Bulloch on 14 September 1935, and died at Masterton Hospital on 5 December 1937. At the time of his death they had an infant daughter.

Other children in the family were:
William Frank Groves, born 28 July 1893, at The Terraces, Tinui.. He married Lillian Ivyton Parsons in 1919. They had three children:

• Frederick Charles Groves, 1920-2010

• Alice Jean Groves, born 4 November 1921. She married William Thomas Daley on 17 November 1945, in Pahiatua. Alice died on 19 August 2014 and William Daley on 26 January 2007.

• Noelene Norma Groves, born 25 December 1926 in Pahiatua. She died on 2 April 1940, in Hawkes Bay.

William died on 13 June 1985, in Hamilton, Waikato. His wife Lillian died in 1981. 

Ellen Lucy (Nellie) Groves was born in 1895 in Tinui, Masterton. She attended Wanganui Girls' College and died at Castlepoint on 25 April 1911, aged 16.

Ralph Frederick Groves was born in 1898, in Tinui, Masterton. He died following an illness on 7 November 1921, at Pahiatua.

Alexander John Oswald Groves, born in 1906, died in Pahiatua on 16 September 1928, aged 22

David Victor Groves, born 1911 probably at Masterton. He married Clarice Mildred Riesterer on 15 December 1937, in Auckland. He died in 1990 in Masterton.