Mary Agnes Sharry is widely known as the wife of Toby Curtis.
Mary Agnes Sharry and Toby Curtis married in 1966.
Through their marriage, the duo had four children.
Mary Agnes Sharry and Toby Curtis were together until his death.
Although Mary Agnes Sharry is a celebrity spouse, her details are under wraps.
But her husband Toby Curtis was a New Zealand educator and Māori leader.
Curtis studied at Ardmore Teachers’ College and the University of Auckland, graduating with a Diploma of Teaching in 1972, and a Master of Arts degree in 1980. He then obtained a Ph.D. at the University of Auckland in 2005.
After working as a primary school teacher and with intellectually disabled students, Curtis became a principal of his old high school, which had changed its name to Hato Petera College, and vice principal of Auckland Teachers’ College in the 1980s.
In the late 1980s, Curtis was chair of the Māori broadcasting advisory committee, leading to the formation of Aotearoa Radio, iwi radio stations, and Māori Television.
In 1997, he was appointed chair of Te Māngai Pāho (the Māori Broadcast Funding Agency). Curtis chaired the Te Arawa Lakes Trust and was a member of the Iwi Chairs Forum. He also served on the police commissioner’s Māori Focus Forum.
In the 2014 New Year Honours, Curtis was appointed a Knight Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to Māori education.
Toby Curtis died at his home on Lake Rotoiti on August 17, 2022, at the age of 82.