The Tree - Person Sheet
The Tree - Person Sheet
NameMargaret Olive Bear 
Birth3 Dec 1929
Death23 Feb 2025, Auckland, New Zealand
OccupationNurse
FatherReginald Charles Bear (1901-1977)
MotherElizabeth McBride Macaulay Bates (1904-1999)
Misc. Notes
Advise on 25 February 2025 from Helen Norman (nee Bear), that her sister passed away yesterday.
Name, confirmation of date of death, estimated year of birth, names of siblings, from Obituary published in The New Zealand Herald on 25th February 2025:
https://notices.nzherald.co.nz/nz/obituaries/nzher...obituary?id=57640717
BEAR, Margaret Olive. Passed away peacefully at Auckland Hospital on Sunday 23 February 2025 aged 95 years. Dearly loved sister of Helen, Brian, Cedric, and the late Douglas. Much loved aunt to all her 12 nieces and nephews. A service to celebrate Margaret's life will be held at Somervell Church, 497 Remuera Road, Auckland on Thursday 27 February at 11.00am. Thank you to Auckland Hospital Staff and St John's Ambulance for their loving attention. In lieu of flowers donations to Kidney Health New Zealand would be much appreciated.
Year and country of death, date of birth, from death search on New Zealand BDM website in March 2025:
2025/6470. Bear, Margaret Olive. Date of birth: 3 December 1929
Full date of death of 23 February 2025 confirmed from further searching in March 2025 on BDM Search by incrementally changing the date range for the death.
Result from birth search on New Zealand BDM website in March 2025:
1929/21789. Bear, Margaret Olive. Mother: Elizabeth McBride Macaulay. Father: Reginald Charles
Full date of birth of 3 December 1929 confirmed from further searching in March 2025 on BDM Search by incrementally changing the date range for the birth.
Place of birth, occupation, from the Register of New Zealand Presbyterian Church - Ministers, Deaconesses & Missionaries from 1840:
https://www.presbyterian.org.nz/archives/Page149.htm
BEAR, Sr. Margaret Olive
b. Te Kuiti 3.12.1929
Educated at Te Kuiti, Rotorua, Manurewa, Remuera and Tolaga Bay Primary Schools.
Secondary School education at Rangiora District High School and Wellington Girls’ College.
Registered Nurse Aug 1951.
Appt. Missionary Nurse India,
Appointed to replace Sr. Gwen Morrison at Jagadhri Hospital 1959;
Dedicated in Manurewa Church 18 Nov 1958 then left NZ 21 Nov 1958.
Completed 20 yrs in India - & returned to NZ 1979.
Appointed Assistant Matron at PSSA Meadowbank Home & Hospital Auckland 10 Oct 1979
“Own Missionary” of St Johns, Wellington.
Name, confirmation of date of death, estimated year of birth, names of siblings, from Obituary published in The New Zealand Herald on 25th February 2025:
https://notices.nzherald.co.nz/nz/obituaries/nzher...obituary?id=57640717
BEAR, Margaret Olive. Passed away peacefully at Auckland Hospital on Sunday 23 February 2025 aged 95 years. Dearly loved sister of Helen, Brian, Cedric, and the late Douglas. Much loved aunt to all her 12 nieces and nephews. A service to celebrate Margaret's life will be held at Somervell Church, 497 Remuera Road, Auckland on Thursday 27 February at 11.00am. Thank you to Auckland Hospital Staff and St John's Ambulance for their loving attention. In lieu of flowers donations to Kidney Health New Zealand would be much appreciated.
Year and country of death, date of birth, from death search on New Zealand BDM website in March 2025:
2025/6470. Bear, Margaret Olive. Date of birth: 3 December 1929
Full date of death of 23 February 2025 confirmed from further searching in March 2025 on BDM Search by incrementally changing the date range for the death.
Result from birth search on New Zealand BDM website in March 2025:
1929/21789. Bear, Margaret Olive. Mother: Elizabeth McBride Macaulay. Father: Reginald Charles
Full date of birth of 3 December 1929 confirmed from further searching in March 2025 on BDM Search by incrementally changing the date range for the birth.
Place of birth, occupation, from the Register of New Zealand Presbyterian Church - Ministers, Deaconesses & Missionaries from 1840:
https://www.presbyterian.org.nz/archives/Page149.htm
BEAR, Sr. Margaret Olive
b. Te Kuiti 3.12.1929
Educated at Te Kuiti, Rotorua, Manurewa, Remuera and Tolaga Bay Primary Schools.
Secondary School education at Rangiora District High School and Wellington Girls’ College.
Registered Nurse Aug 1951.
Appt. Missionary Nurse India,
Appointed to replace Sr. Gwen Morrison at Jagadhri Hospital 1959;
Dedicated in Manurewa Church 18 Nov 1958 then left NZ 21 Nov 1958.
Completed 20 yrs in India - & returned to NZ 1979.
Appointed Assistant Matron at PSSA Meadowbank Home & Hospital Auckland 10 Oct 1979
“Own Missionary” of St Johns, Wellington.