The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-12-16
CROWN POINT.
IN MEMORIAM.

Aimee Annie Parry. wife Of DR.. w.
Forney Hovis, pastor of St. PauTs
Methodist Episcopal church of South
Bend, and second daughter CT Mr.. and
Mrs. William Parry of Crown Point.
was born in Clitheroe. Lancashire,
England, Feb. Is. 1877. The family.
consisting of the parents. Percy A.
Parry. Gwendoline Parry and Howell
Parry. came to this country when she
was four years old and have lived in
Crown Point ever since. Mrs. Hovis
attended the public schools and gradu-
ated from the Crown Point high school
with honors. Being a pianiste of
more than ordinary ability, she taught
music for a time and then taught in
the East Chicago public schools, car
rying on her music less ons and teach
ing at the same time. It was during
this period that she met DR.. Hovis,
who was pastor of the East Chicago
NJ. f. church. Later she resigned her
position in East Chicago and taught
the German language in the Crown
Point high school. In September,
1902, she was married to DR.. Hovis at
the Auditorium in Chicago and the
couple moved to South Bend, where DR..
Hovis was called to assume charge Of
the beautiful Studebaker Memorial
church-St. PauTs, the finest church
edifice in the state. Here for eight
years the young couple worked in that
great field in South Bend, attending
every conference meeting and won
such ecomiums that the immense con-
gregation refused to permit DIR. Hovis
to go elsewhere. Mrs. Hovis entered
with great zeal and activity into the
work of her husband up to the very
hour when her career was ended, and
undoubtedly shortened her life by per-
sistence in the manifold and firing
duties entailed upon devotion to her
husbands sacrificial labors. For sew
eral years she had suffered with ap-
pendicitis, but ignored 1t until on
Saturday, Dec. 4. It was seen that an
operation was necessary to save her
life She was removed to Epworth
hospital, where the gravity of her case
was realized. A complex operation
was necessary and so much was her
| love for her family that she insisted
on her suffering being kept from them.
Her condition, however did not occa-
sion serious alarm until Sunday, Dec
IL, at 5 o'clock. when she suddenly
grew worse A consultation of doc
| tors took place and it was seen that
the end was near. The family circle
| in Crown Point and Hammond was
| summoned by wire, and every effort
that modern medical science could use
was resorted to to keep the spark OF
life extant until her relatives coulc
arrive, but at nine o'clock she went
Home, few minutes before the rela-
/ tives came. She did not know until
an hour before her death that it was
at hand, yet with sublime fortitude and
| amid a scene of the most ineffable love
| and peace she breathed her last. The
news of her death stunned South Benz
and Crown Point and the Northv%es
Indiana Conference. where she wa
idolized.
The desolate husband was the re
cipient of the most profound sympath,
from all sides and all classes of PEG
pie. The funeral services were helC
on Tuesday morning at the family
home, and never in the history o
South Bend, it was declared. were sucl
lavish sympathy and keenest distres
, manifested. The services were con
Quoted by DR.. J. NJ Mcconnell, presi
| dent of DePauw university, in the alb
sence of Bishop Mcdowell, of Chicago