Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-08-24
FUNERAL SERVICES
Over the Remains Of the Late Mrs ]. A. Proc.
tor at the Home in Richmond.

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Funeral services over the remains of
the late Mrs. j. A. Proctor were held
at the family residence ON Front street.
at P. NJ, Monday. a large number of
neighbors and friends of the deceased
being present. The remains rested in
an embossed White casket, a most beau
tiful bank of flowers of every kind and
hue being arranged about it.
Among the floral contributions was Il
pillow of white roses with the word
Fannie" from Mr.. Proctor; a wreath
of pink roses, maidenshair and ferns
from Dr. and Mrs. d. S. Richards; a
basket of pink and white roses and
fine flowers from c. w. and Miss Julia
Richards; wreath of pink and white
asters from Col. Proctor; harp with
broken chord from George, William
and Joseph Proctor: pillow of roses and
ferns from Wilder Covill; 81 pnks from
Miss Lint and Miss Nellie Hurley; 81
white roses from Mr.. and Mrs. NJ T.
Milliken; wreath of white asters from
Mrs. George b. Randlett sickle of
pansies from Mrs. F. L. Rogers; bunch
of white petulias from Mrs. j. X.
Hathorne; cross of roses and ferns,
Sterling Supply and Rubber Co, Prov
idepce. r. L.; basket of mixed flowers
surrnounted with a white dove from H.
j. Southland; star and crescent of earn
alton roses, MIR. ard Mrs. NJ. w.
Browne, Providence. being marked
Asleep" sweet peas. Mrs. F. l..
Rogers; 81 pinks. Mr.. and Mrs. c. A
Potter purple asters and sweet peas,
Mrs. Glen Alexander; wreath of pinks
and roses, class of 'S3, r. H. S.. pillow
of carnation roses and mixed flowers,
a. F. F. ID. c.; basket of mixed flowers,
Mrs. ]. p. Jenkins; cluster of whira
and purple asters, Mrs. Mary Marble
and Mrs. f. E. Corey; bunch of white
asters, DIR. and Mrs. C. w. Price;
wreath, Hattie Trask; four punches of
white asters, Mrs. II. NJ. Libby. Mrs.
Elias Millaken, Mrs. Z. NJ. Clark nj
Waltham, Mass, and Mrs. S. w. CovllI;
wreath of pansies, Mr.. and Mrs. G. H.
Southard; wreath, Captain and Mrs $.
B. Dinsmore; wreath of roses. pinks
andchoice flowers with smilaX and ferns,
S. J. Hegarty, George Clark, Frank
Kimbal, E. F. Pitts, Fred Cole. J. E,.
Drake, VIM. Robbins, Ernest Murch,
VIM. Bickford, Thos. Trask and j. V.
Lane of Augusta; basket of mixed
flowers, Mrs. j. S. Chapman; three red
roses, American beauty, Mrs. Noble
MAXWELL bunch of hydrangeas, Mr.
and MRS. George c. Lowell; asters.
Mrs. A. L.. Cole, Waltham. Mass.
The bearers We're Z. j. Southland, e.
1. Herbert, Bert Trask and George
Thompson.
sbr
e. II. Newcombe, pastor of the Con-
gregational church. who read from
John IL and l Cor. 15 His remarks
We're sympathetic ana hopeful He
said in part:
1t is "a comforting thought that today.
we have to do with the same compassion
ate Jesus who gathered with the sisters
at the graVeside of their brother and
wept with them in their great sorrow.
fIe is the same, yesterday. today and for
ever. This occasion is not an unusual
one, but it is one to which we will never
become accustomed. How many homes
are there which have not the vacant
chair? The old families. break up and
pass away and new ones take their
places. For Il time the circle may be
complete and then perhaps one of the
little ones is taken. or, later on, the
young man or maiden is called away: or
it may be the man or the woman who has
left the old home and assisted in estab-
,ishing one more distinctively his or her
own. And again it may be the one who
is ripe in years ami experience, who has
lived out HIS allotted years and gone the
way of mankind. But especially sad is it
when the first break is made in the fam
lily circle, and more sad is it when it is
the father or mother of Il young family.
We don't understand God, but he under
stands us. / feel that it would be unbe-
coming for me, a comparative stranger,
to characterize one whom you all knew
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