The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1912-11-21
MRS. STONE PASSES AWAY.

Mrs. Nellie Packard Stone, wife
Of Mark w. Stone, died at her
home in Bellingham Monday after
noon, and was buried Wednesday
| morning, interment taking place in
| the Lynden cemetery. Funeral Ser
vices were held in the First Metho-
dist church. the Rev. Herbert Jones
conducting the same, and quar-
tette composed of Mrs Harry Foun-
tain, Miss Beatrice Handy, Mr.. e.
Edison and Mr.. F. L. Knapp, with
Mrs. H. H. Jameson at the organ,
rendered several musical selec-
tions. The services were attended
by many friends of the deceased
who feel that in Mrs. Stones death
they have lost a true and tender
associate. The floral offerings were
many and beautiful, mute tributes
of love and respect to the depart
ed. The Fraternal Union of which
Mrs. Stone was an active member
conducted the services at the ceme-
terry.
Mrs. Stone, whose maiden name
was Nellie A. Packard, WAS born
in Wisconsin in 1873. and had at
tanned the age of thirty-nine years
She came with her parents to Lyn-
den in 1887, when her family came
up the river on the old steamboat,
Edith" On Christmas day, 1890
she was married to Mark w. Stone,
three children blessing the union.
The eldest child died at the age of
seven years. Mrs Stone is surviv-
ed by her husband, two daughters
Ida and Theresa, a brother who
lives in Lynden, and another broth
er in the east.
From early summer Mrs. Stones
health was failing and in August
the family moved to Bellingham
where everything possible was done
10 restore her waning strength, but
to no avail, and for several weeks
her life was despaired of.
OF loving and self-sacrificing
nature. kind and sympathetic, Mel
lie Stone,~ as she was familiarly
known to very many of the older
residents of Lynden and vicinity
leaves many friends, who extend
sincerest sympathy to the bereaved
family. Mrs Stone was a member
OF the Brotherhood of American
Yeomen, the Fraternal Union. and
of Delta Grange
The Fraternal Union of Ameri-
ca pays the following tribute to
MRS. Nellie Stone, who was a val
led member of the organization:
To every community there come
times when neighbors pause to say:
"A friend has just passed over;
one who will be missed, not only
by the family and immediate circle
of friends, but by the community
at large" Today our usual round
OF duties is broken by the loss of
such a one: gracious, gentle la
dy, a loving mother, renewed in
two loving daughters; a wife SIN
cerely mourned by her husband; a
sister. not only of the blood bond,
but of the fraternity as well.
Today her fraternal brothers
and sisters, many of whom have
known and loved her for two full
decades, stretch out their hands
in love over these two young girls
with sweet flowers of sympathy;
Today We silently press the hand of
the husband with the surcharged
hand clasp of sorrow, yet of cour-
age.
Today at our fraternal altar, as
we sorrowfully erase her name
from the roll, thus proclaiming our
great loss, We strive to cheer those
more heavily bereaved with the
words of the poet, Omar Khayyam:
There's nothing terrible in death;
'ris but to cast our robes away
And sleep at night without a
breath
To break repose till break of day.
Hall of The Fraternal Union of
America, November 18th, 1912.