Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1894-07-13
Death Of Mrs. W. L. Olivier.

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Mrs. Matte Station Olivier, Secretary
Oh the City Mission for the Poor. died at
the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, on
Monday last at l Z. NJ, in her 41st year.
She was the wife OF ". L. Olivier, one OF
our best known citizens. and the daughter
OF Rev. Geo. w. Station Of Minnesota.
Her health had been failing for a long time
past, and OF late her condition had been
such that it was decided by her physician
that the only hope lay in surgical opera
ton. The operation, which was a most
severe one, was performed on Monday,
July I'd, and disclosed complications against
which surgery could not avail. She sunk
gradually during the week, being for the
greater part Of the time delirious, and on
Monday peacefully passed away. Her de-
voted husband. who had been constantly
with her both before and after the opera
ton, was with her at the last. Her remains
were brought to the city on Tuesday even
ing and on Wednesday afternoon her funer-
al took place from Trinity church, Rev. R.
G. Jett officiating, and the following gentle
men acting as pail bearers-Jos. B. Wood
ward, Judge Lyman Chalkley, A. G. Cor
don, W. B. McChesney, Col. j. II. Skinner,
w. T. Tams, VIM. Patrick and F. B.
Berkeley.
MIS-. Olivier was born near Mechanics
vile. Md, was reared by her grandmother,
Mrs. Dnndore of this city, and was educa-
ted at the Wesleyan Female Institute. She
is survived by her husband, three sons
one daughter-Courtney Olivier In her
death there ended a most beautiful and
well spent life, and q life in which the
community in which she lived had large
share. Few women of our town have so
completely devoted their efforts to the
welfare of the poor and to every public
effort with a useful end that was inaugl-
rated. AS Secretary Of the Mission fol-
the Poor she was tireless in devising and
executing works of charity. A woman of
fine mind, her pen was ever powerful aid
to her work, and some of the most eloquent
and touching appeals tor aid to the poor
published i'll the city press, were from her
hand. Long after her health failed, and
when work was pain, she continued he1
active labor for the helpless and friendless
And withal she made and kept her home
beautiful and attractive to all-no home in
Staunton has been more popular with
young and old than the Olivier mansion.
Personally she was very winning to all
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the writer OF this, from one of the busy
head nurses of the hospital, but in another
ward, and who had seen Mrs. Olivier only
a few times says: II hear poor Mrs
Olivier is dying and | am SO sorry. She
seemed such sweet little woman She
was a brave woman, and while at the hos
pital waiting for the operation, her letters
to her husband were models of courage and
cheerfulness. In her death the poor have
lost an earnest friend; the church an active
and earnest Christian, and society a woman
whose influence was all for the highest
good. For her devoted and bereaved hus-
band and her motherless children there is
the profoundest sympathy.
RESOL OF RESPECT.
The members of the City Mission for the
! Poor, attended the funeral Of their Secre-
tary in body, and adopted the following
tribute to her memory:
Since it has pleased our Heavenly Father
in His infinite wisdom to take to Himself oul
beloved felloWworker, Mrs. W. L. Olivier
and to lift her to a higher. nobler life and
work, we desire to express our grateful re.
cognition OF her faithful devotion, self-deny,
ing conservation wise counsel, and helpful
labor in our City Mission for the poor. Trll-
ly her good works, her kind sympathy and
helpful ministration are known not only by
us, but by all sick and suffering and troubled
hearts in our community.
We would therefore as an organization fol
that work to which she unsparingly gave so
much of herself in labors. self-denials and
sympathy, express our deep sense of the great
loss we have suffered in the removal from oul
work of one who was wise in laying its plans
and faithful and helpful in carrying out its
purposes.
We shall miss her wise counsel and coop
Grafton, but we trust that the influence of hel
life and example will long abide with us, an.
mating us to initiate her as she followed
Him who came to seek and save the lost, and
whose heart and hands were ever at the
service of the sorrowing and helpless ones OF
earth.