Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1903-06-05
IN MEMORY.
Classmates Of Miss Alicia D. Hub
bel Pay Touching Tribute.
LIVED IN albuquerque.

Miss Alicia d. Hubbell, only daugh-
ter of Mrs. Cesaria Perea Hubbell, of
this city, who recently died in the Wis
itation convent in st. Louis, where she
was attending school, has been paid
the following tribute by her class
mates:
After a lingering illness of eight
weeks, our beloved ~classmate, Alicia
Dolores Hubbell, died at the Vista
ton convent, Cabanne Place, st. Louis,
Mo.
Mrs. Hubbell, who had been a pupil
of this convent, desiring for her only
daughter the same advantages of edu-
cation and culture, which she herself
had enjoyed, sent her here at the age
of ten, where the little girl with a doll
in her arms was gladly welcomed by
the mothers clustered friends, and
former teachers. Time sped on until
W. birthdays had passed and Alicia
had completed her seventeenth year.
Last September, the second senior
class began its course. Many of its
members were talented, all were ambi-
tious for the prizes, but Alicia easily
kept the first place until stricken by
her last illness. Her musical talent
was exceptional; she would sit at the
piano for hours studying harmonies
and bringing forth beautiful strains by
the magic touch of her slender fingers.
Her ambitious nature led her to de-
sire and seek for higher ideals; failing
sometimes to realize these at once, she
would become discouraged and feel
like giving up, but the thought of her
dear mother and the happiness her
musical efforts would afford that idol
lied parent, would set the nimble fin
gers off again we the keyboard and
tranquilize the troubled spirit of the
young student.
During a long illness her patience
was admirable and every little service
was sweetly and gratefully acknowl-
edged; in fact, this illness clearly re-
vealed the strength of virtue, even the
saintliness OF our Alicia.
AS soon rs the disease took a serious
form Mrs. Hubbell was notified, and
Alicia had her darling "Mamasita"
constantly with her for three weeks
before her precious death. This death
was as beautiful as it was sad. At her
bedside sat her devoted n dearly low
ed "Mamasita," grouped around were
her teachers and many other sisters
whose voices mingled in prayer for the
dear departing soul. Conscious to the
end the fervent child repeated the as
pirations that were suggested to her
adding to each, land pray for mamma
too" s;aax
The precious soul of our dear Alicia
passed from earth at half past sever
d. m. on the sixth day of May, Al
though so long and so dangerously IL
yet the supreme moment arrived al
most unexpectedly-it was not general
ly known at the time that Alicia wa'
dying. Her classmates, although no
present at the touching scene were
with her in heart; a group reciting the
rosary before a statue Alicia loved 81
well; another, ~conyersing together o
her; the choir, Of which she was /;
member, was practlcing in the chapel
when, just as the angel of death de
scended a m~arvelously sweet voic'
echoed and re-echoed from end to EN-
OF the chapel in tender musical cad
ence the loving words of the Savior
"Come unto Me"
When the news Of Alicia's deaf,
spread throughout the school, word
cannot express the grief of her can
panions TO whom she had in so man
ways endeared herself, Her desk wa
draped in white. with white flower
forming a wreath, in the center c
which a sister placed her picture beaI
ing on the reverse side in her own dea