The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-03-27
IMPRESSIVE
WAS HER
FUNERAL.
0bssqulss Of Mrs. Blxby A.
tended by a ThTong Of
SonoWlng Friends.

Lovely and pleasant were they In their
lives and I'm their death they were not di-
vided." On Saturday last the funeral
rites OF Rev. Moses H. Bixby were SOL
emnized in the Cranston street Baptist
church. where. for so many years. he had
been the beloved and honored pastor.
Today at the Same hour and place oc-
CURED the funeral of his beloved help
meet and wife, Mrs. Laura a. Bixby.
Surrounded by the most beautiful flow
ers aud in the presence OF hundreds who
loved her the body lay. just beneath the
pulpit, for an hour previous TO the SER
vice which was at 2 o'clock.
The decorations about the casket were
very beautiful and tastefully arranged on
either side OF the pulpit were great banks
OF palms. while in the centre was a very
large and beautiful bank OF pink roses,
the offering OF the various societies OF the
church.
Resting upon an easel among the palms
and crowned with pink roses was a large
and lifellixe picture OF Mrs. Bixby Min
gled also among the greens was a great
mass of Easter lilies In all their chasts
beauty and fragrance.
This significant Offering. so suggestive
OF the life OF the departed. was from the
Rhode Island Baptist Foreign Missionary
Society. with which Mrs. Bixby was so
closely identified. Another beautiful OFFER
ing was a massive bunch of callss lilies,
Baptist Foreign Missionary society.
Upon the casket rested large pillow of
flowers bearing the word 'Attained>
During the hour i'm which the b( " lay
in state the church was throngeH with
those who came for a last farewell Dur
ing this solemn hour Organist Sanford T..
Hawkins brought forth subdued and
touching melody from the organ. -
At . o'clock the funeral service was be-
gun, Rev. DIR. Henson, pastor OF the
church. officiating.
The service was exceedingly simple and
i The ssercisss r. Of ts tt ,' s5nos
scripture reading, prayer and music
There was no eulogy, no funeral sermon,
yet the service was most touching and
But above all The sadness and the gloom
which filled the hearts of the bereaved
and the saddened In that vast assemhlsRe.
rose a triumphant note of foy in the
thought that these two. so united in all
things so dependent the one upon the
other. were separated but for a brief
season 20 meet An the life beyond. There
fore no eulogy was needed. no words OF
comment. no requiem song, for in Inc
hearts of all was buried the most tender
and the most hitting eulogy OF the depart
ed.
The church quartet rendered with beau-
tiful effect, the same seiecuons hsara a., a.
solemn fhought." beloved. IL Is Well''
and abide With Me
Tho ushers were Fred l.. Pearce. John
J. Vickery. Henry l.. Wilcox. Albertt n.
Nichols, John II. Corp. William B Car
ter, Lincoln II. Smith and Colver Il.
Interment was at Swan Point cemetery.
beside the husband. The bearers were
Deacons Sanger, Jillson, Maine and Pep
per, representing ,ne churen; ;,n -; -, az AZ
church society. and j. r.. Nichols and G.
r. Westcott, representing the congrega-
ton.
that offlciated at the funeral OF DR.. Blk
by.
representative not only OF the friends and
members of the church and sunday
school but of various missionary societies
throughout the city and state. a.,
large delegation was present from the
Womans Foreign Missionary SOCIETY," OF
Boston.
A delegation was also present from the
Machine Gun Battery, OF which the son,
H. Merle Bixby IL captain.
A double memorial service for DR.. and
Mrs. Bixby will be held at the Cranston
Street church on Thursday evening. when
the people OF the church will unite In IN
dividuaf tributes 60 the memory OF Their
former pastor and his wife.
on Monday evening. April s, second
service will he held in the church. which
shall represent the various missionary so
cleties and religious and educational bod
les with which Or and Mrs. Bixby were
connected.