Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-09-16
MRS. FRANK r. CHASE
Called to the Other Shore-Obituary of "A
Lovely Character-Impressiv Funeral
Obseguies Held Sunday,

Called to the Other shore-Obituary of q
Lovely Character-Imp Funeral
Obseauies Held Sunday.
In the death of Mrs Frank r. Chase
who died at Smyrna on Thursday, Sep
tember 9th, this whole community has
lost dearly beloved and most valued
friend. Mrs. Chase had the happy
faculty of endearing herself to every
body who had the good fortune to
know her. 1t was indeed privilege
TO be admitted within the circle of this
lady's acquaintance. 1t would be nc
extravaganza to say that none knew
her but to love her; while within the
more restricted circle of her intimates
this love sent its roots deep down in
almost to idolatry. 1t can be truly
said of her that she loved humanity,
and that she manifested this love in a
thousand different ways. She was
genial, kindhearted, charitable, not in
the perfunctory way that so many are,
but actively, and in ways that took
much of her time as well as money.
No one ever appealed to Mrs. Chase
for aid and went away empty handed.
She had that rare and delicate sym
pathy for those who were in distress,
either from poverty or crushed down
under the burden of some great sorrow
that made her seem a ministering an.
gel to many; and indeed it would be
difficult, in searching the entire com
munity in which she lived to find a
single person who had not at sometime
or other received a kindness at ,h9s
hand.
All the children and young people
loved her. She took such hearty in
terest in their sports and pleasures.
They felt her death deeply, and when
the sad announcement was made the
flag upon the school house was placed
at half mast as a touching testimonial
to the fond place she will ever hold in
their memory 1t may be mentioned
too, that, during her long illness the
village band, which she had asked and
encouraged ever since its organization,
used to come and play before the house
the tunes she liked best.
During the last few years OF Mrs.
Chase's life, when she knew that soon
er or later she must fall the victim to
an incurable and malignant disease,
she would go about just the same, per-
forming her kind offices OF sympathy
and love, and no one into whose pres
ence she came ever felt that she
brought with her an atmosphere OF
gloom. No one could tell, if left to
Judge, from the sweet serenity Of her
lovely face, that the dread disease was
slowly but surely eating away her vi
tality and strength. Carefully this
noble and heroic woman hid the sad
fact from her friends and it is doubtful
il those even who were the nearest and
dearest to her, knew much concerning
it. She knew that at most she had
but a few years to live, and yet she
was determined that no gnawing griei
of her own should cast its shadow over
the household, or make sad the hearts
of those she loved. Her face ever
wore its pleasant smile and she always
had a cherry word for verybody.
This heroism, this patient suffering il
as noble as it is pathetic, and the
recollection of it will not be the least
of the many tributes that affection
will pay to this almost ideal character
1t is needless to say that Mrs. Chase
was a loving and affectionate wife, q
true and devoted mother and sister
The bereavement that has come upon
this family is almost too sacred to dwell
upon in public print, but those whose
hearts are aching with their great sor'
row will perhaps feel something less oi
bitterness in the consciousness that
they have the deepest and most tender
sympathy of all their friends.
Mrs. Chase (nee Hattie Flood) was 0
daughter of Gen. Martin A. Flood and
Prudence d. Flood and was born al
Brooklin, Wis, Sept. 2sth, 1916 She
was married to Major Frank II. Chas,
at Warsaw, Illinois, October 9Th, 1870
and at the time OF her death was near
ly ffty.one years of age. There wer,
| ah a.. Ire
Chase; the first, Bertha Lou, DAISY
died when an infant of two years anC
was buried at Warsaw the second
Dora ID, who was married four year