News reached Shanghai yesterday of the death in Hongkong on Thurs day of Mrs. J, P. Jorgensen, wife of Captain J, P. Jorgensen, of the Shanghai Licensed Pilots' Association," Death was from malarial fever attended by complications.
Mrs. Jorgensen left Shanghai for Hongkong a few days after hostilities broke out in the Shanghai area, travelling down to the Colony: with her two daughters and other evacuees in the Norwegian steamer Tai Shan, She has remained in Hongkong ever since, and her daughters were with her at the time of her death, at the age of 58 years, Among those who really knew her, she was noted for a generous and cheerful disposition which endeared her to all.
Mrs. Jorgensen was born in York, England, the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Harry Latham Chal-longer, an old and prominent York family. She was a trained nurse after a certain amount of work in England came out to China in 1911, at the age of 32.
She later married Captain S, P. Jorgensen, now of the Shanghai Licensed ' Pilots' Association, but then Superintendent of the Whangpoo Conservancy Board. The first Year of their marriage was spent at Woosung Forts, during the exciting days of the Chinese Revolution.
Her two daughters, the Misses Peggy and Mavis Jorgensen, are at the moment still in Hongkong, while her son, Noel, is at present studying in Copenhagen B
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