Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-09-15
LAST TRIBUTE PAID.
Funeral of Mrs. Elizabeth Blair
Lee This Morning.
FROM MARYLAND HOME
Services Held in st. Johns Protestant
Episcopal Church.
IMPRESSIVE HYMNS WERE SUNG
Interment in Arlington Cemetery Be-
side Remains Of Her Husband,
Rear Admiral Lee.
HYMNS WERE SUNG

Before a large gathering OF Borrowing
relatives and friends in ST. Johns Protest
ant Episcopal Church this morning at IL
o. clock funeral services were held over the
remains of Mrs. Elizabeth Blair Lee. widow
of Rear Admiral Samuel Phillips Lee and
mother Of State Senator Blair Lee Of Mont
gomery county.
The services were conducted by Rev. E.
Slater Dunlap. AS the words OF the solemn
ritual were being uttered by the minister
many were the eyes that were dimmed with
tears.
In the audience were many Of the promi-
nent women of the city who had known
and loved Mrs. Lee in life and now as ner
remains lay before them upon the funeral
bier they had come to pay their last sao
tribute Of respect. Others whom Mrs. Lee
had lent much aid to In life were seated
in various parts of the church, and as the
coffin was taken from the edifice sorrow
seemed to prevail in the very atmosphere.
Little children from the Washington CITY
Orphan Asylum. more than nunoreo VI
whom were In attendance, sat In silence
paying their tribute to the woman Who
during the life of the institution where
they are being cared for had given ner
best efforts for its maintenance, which was
at q time when, more than any otner, the
help was needed.
Peculiarly Appropriate.
It seems particularly appropriate that the
funeral of Mrs. Lee should take place IN
historic old st. Johns. where her long ana
beautiful church life had been spent ana
also In sight Of the executive mansion OF
her country. where. during her carrier me-
she had spent many happy days.
AS the strains of the first song, sun OF
NV Soul, Thou Savior Dear" 1oated out
over the edifce, 1t seemed as though tne
walls in rejecting the sound were payins
tribute to the woman who, when IN ner
girlhood days, had been member or the
choir of the church and who though nav
ing relinquished her place among the sing
ers. had still worshiped within the walls
Of the edifice. -
When Rev. Mr. Dunlap read the scrip
ture from st. Paul. beginning NOW IS
Christ risen from the dead and become the
first fruits Of them that slept, proIouno
silence fell over the audience.
Hymn She Had Loved.
The hymn, More Love to Thee. Christ"
which Mrs. Lee in life had loved to sing.
was then sung, after which Rev. Mr. Dun
lap read the service for the dead Inc
choir, with Mr.. H. H. Freeman at the or
gan, then sang "Abide with Me-, at the
close of which song the body was borne to
the hearse.
Mr.. Freeman played Chopin's funeral marcn
The pallbearers were Mr.. Andrew A.
Blair, Mr.. Robert E. Brooke, Mr.. John ].
Hemphill, Mr.. Henry Harrison. Mr.. Edward
M Byrnes. Mr.. George H. Lamar and MI.
Z Previous aN to the funeral at st. Johns a
short service was conducted at the Lee
homestead at Silver Spring. Md. at els
o'clock. after which the funeral cortege
moved in Brightwood avenue to the city
and the church. The services at the home
were conducted by Rev. C1audius Smith,
and though brief were very impressive.
The interment. which was private. took
place in Arlington national cemetery be-
side the remains Of her husband, the late
Rear Admiral Lee.