HUGHES, Valmai Viola (Val) (nee Burling) Passed away peacefully with her family at her side in Middlemore Hospital on Friday, 9 October 2015. Loved wife of the late Clem. Loved mother of Cecil and Sharron, Wayne, and Beryl, and Julie and Allan (both deceased). Grandmother of Michael, Mark, Amanda and Timothy. Great Grandmother of four. Many thanks to the Doctors and Nurses of Ward 5 at Middlemore Hospital. Funeral details to follow.

Published by The New Zealand Herald on Oct. 10, 2015.