Connecticut western news., 1911-12-28
DEATH OF MRS. HUBBARD
EstimabIe Wife of Prominent Citizen
 Passes Away.

ESttfndDlo WlIo oI FToH0inent StIixen
 Passes Away.
 Mrs. Hattie J. Hubbard died Wednes- day night, Dec. 20, in the house on Granite Avenue which has been the family home for tweuty-seven years. Mrs. Hubbard had been in feeble health for about three years and on several oo- casions her friends had been concerned about her condition but when the end came it was quite sudden. On Tuesday she was around as usual but that night was taken ill and in less than twenty four hours she had passed away.
 The funeral was held Saturday morn | ing at eleven o'clock at the Pilgrim church, the Rev. E. O. Gillette officiat- ing. The music was by the church choir, of which Mir. Hubbard has been a member for 8 number of years. The bearers were G. s. Fuller, Horace Holt, B, A. Peirce and George W, Ford and the burial was in the lower cemetery.
 Mrs Hubbard leaves, beside her hus- band. one son John F. Hubbard, of Niagara Falls, Ontario, ,and two brothers, John Tanning, of Winsted, and Henry Fanuing. who has for years made his home with his sister. She also leaves stepmother and niece and cousins in Winchester and WInsted.
 Mrs. Hubbard was born July 20. 1s49 in Winchester, the daughter of John J. and Rachel Brooks Tanning. On May 20. 1875 she was married to Albert A. Hubbard, and since that time they have lived in this village where they have a host of friends.
 MT. Hubbard was for 3616 years the genial and faithful baggage master at the Canaan station and has only recently retired after a, very honorable record.
 Mrs. Hubbard, with her husband, joined the Pilgrim church when it was organized and during the years when strength was hers, was one of the most faithful and efficient members. She had served two terms as deaconess and was most active in all the social and missionary work of the church. Even during the years of her enforced retire. ment from such service her wisdom born of large experience, was constantly sought. She will be surely missed in the church and in the neighborhood.
 Mrs Hubbard was largely possessed of the old-fashioned New England virtues. She was diligent and frugal in the order ing of her household affairs, never "cumbered with much serving" because of her intelligent freehandedness with all her work. Possessed of a delightful sense of humor and a ready wit, she met all the experiences of life with an un. quenchable optimism and an unfaltering trust. There was no fear or discourage ment and no unkindness in her nature. She carried the same unfailing cheeri- ness even into the years of invalidism, from which she knew there was only one escape. She will be remembered longest for her beautiful and persistent neighborliness, in which interest in her neighbors never degenerated into gossip and her innumerable deeds of kindness came not from personal satisfaction in oonferring favors but from a genuine kindliness of nature that was tactful and unobtrusive in it's expression. No pain or discord was traceable to her door and her going from us at this Christmas sea- son only enforces the convection that the spirit of the humble Nazarene is still in the earth-the spirit of simple sincere goodness, which gives itself in Sarxy,oa for ptharc and lna was life Tnnrp possessed. of the peace and good will of which the angels sang k. O. G.