Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1910-11-25

BRATTLEB0R0 LOCAL
MISS MARION LEILA MOVES.
Death Of Brattleboro Young Woman who
Was Filling Position Of Great Useful
ness In school for Deaf and Dumb.

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Miss Marion Leila Noyes. 80. a Brat
tlebOro young woman who was making a
notable success as a teacher Of deaf and
dumb pcrsous, died Wednesday morning
in a hospital in Germantown, Pa, after
an illness Of five weeks with malignant
typhoid fever complicated by pneumonia.
Her relatives had but little warning that
She was not expected to recover, and the
news Of her death came to them and to
her many friends with startling force.
She went to Europe the past summer with
a party Of friends from Philadelphia and
visited in Italy, Switzerland, Germany,
France and England, witnessing the
Passion Play at Oberammergau. on her
return she stayed a few days in Montreal,
where there have been many cases of
typhoid fever recently, and stopped brief
ly in Brattleboro on her way to her
school duties in Mt. Airy Pa, near Phila-
delphia. Soon afterwards she became i'll
and went to the hospital,
The reports from the hospital officers
to her relatives here were favorable all
the time, and the first unfavorable news
came from her brother, Marshall ]. Noyes
of St Louis, who came here recently to
spend a vacation and who started back
the last of last week, arriving in German
town Saturday. Mr.. Noyes saw his sis
ter Sunday morning and on Sunday night
he sent a telegraph letter stating that
she was critically i'll and had little chance
Of recovery. He remained with her until
the end and on Wednesday morning her
brother-in-law, Charles II. Thompson,
left to return home with the body. He
and Mr.. Noyes are expected to arrive to-
morrow, and the funeral will be held in
the Thompson home on Main street at 2
o'clock Sunday. Rev. r. NJ. Houghton
pastor Of the Congregational church, will
oficiate and the burial will take place in
Prospect Hill cemetery.
Miss Noyes was born in Bra ttleboro
Feb. 49, 1850, and was a daughter Of
Charles D. and Leila (F1etcher) Noyes
She attended the public schools here
graduating from the high school in 1897
and then took years course in the Nor
NAL school in Westfeld, Mass. For
three years she was a student in the
Mystic oral school, Mystic Conn, of
which Mrs George Z. Warner Of this
town at that time was principal, and
later she taught one year in the eighth
grade in the Brattleboro incorporated
district. For the past eight years she
had been an instructor in the Pennsyl-
vania institute for the deaf and dumb at
Mt. Airy, spending her summer vacation
here. She developed remarkable talent
for teaching the deaf and dumb and was
regarded as the most efficient instructor
in the institute.
She leaves her father, Charles D.
Noyes OF Colrain, Mass, her brother
Marshall j. Noyes, civil engineer for the
Missouri Pacific Railroad company with
headquarters in St. Louis, and two sis
ters, Ruth, wife Of Charles H. Thompson,
and Eleanor. a student in the high school
in Greenfield, Mass. Her mother died in
1894.
Miss Noyes had been a member of the
Centre Congregational church since 1895
and she was member Of a chapter Of
Daughters of the American Revolution in
Philadelphia. Gifted with a keen intellect
and possessing much strength and beauty
Of character. she was a very attractive
Young woman, and her loss will be felt
deeply not only by those who have known
her since her girlhood but by those un-
fortunate persons to whose physical and
mental needs she was ministering with
such marked ability