Mary Esme Hortin
Individual, P071
Biography
Mary Esme (Molly) Hortin (1916-1949) was born in Launceston to Ernest Stanley Hortin and Ethen Kate Benjamin.Molly was given a good education though a good deal of it took place at home due to ill-health.
The family attended St. John's Church where Molly was a student at the Sunday School. In the late 1930s the family moved to Hobart to live for a few years, returning to Launceston about 1943 to take up residence in Hill Street.
Molly died on 11th October 1949 aged 33. In her memory her mother, Kate, made provision in her own will that a stained-glass window be erected in St. John's. Kate lived until 1985. The memorial of two lights was placed in the south Clerestry The two panels, one featuring 'Mary Sumner', founder of the Mothers' Union, the other featuring 'Elizabeth Townsend', founder of the Girls' Friendly Society The lights of the memorial have been placed one on either side of the memorial for Joan Carr Walsh. The inscription on a brass plaque reads:
TO THE GLORY OF GOD
THE SIDE PANELS OF THIS WINDOW ARE
IN MEMORY OF
MARY ESME HORTIN 1916-1949
GIVEN BY HER MOTHER ETHEL KATE HORTIN
DEDICATED 1988