News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1914-01-07
DEATH OF MRS. C. S. PAGE

e wife of Senator Page, which occurred
f Wednesday evening of last week at about
seven o'clock The end was unexpected,
. as she had been in her usual health until
: the Monday previous, when she was
taken i'll. A physician was then called
, and she appeared better Tuesday and
Wednesday. However, on the latter day
twards evening there was change and
while the family were aware of the seri-
ousness of her illness they were not ap.
prehensive of the nearness of death, which
came suddenly at the above hour, heart
failure being the immediate cause.
Ellen Frances Page was the youngest
daughter of the late T. H. Patch and was
born in Johnson Dec. ~, 1912. April II j.,
1865. she married Carroll S. Page and
ever since that time has resided in Hyde
Park. To this union were born two sons
and a daughter, T. Fl. Page, who died
July 80, 1898, Russell S. Page, and Miss
Alice Page. The Senator and Miss Alice
being with her at the time of her
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wife, was unable to come to the funeral
Besides her husband and two children
she is survived by two grandsons, Car
roll g. and Proctor H. Page, as well as
several nieces aud nephews.
The funeral was held from her late
home Saturday afternoon and was large
ly attended not only by those from
this immediate neighborhood, but several
from Morrisville and other places. Rev.
Mr. Hamlin was the officiating clergyman
and the committal prayer was by Rev.
W. E. Baker OF Morrisville The bearers
were Judge Leach, r. W. Hulburd, H NJ.
| Mcfarland A. l.. Goddard, L. H. Moves
and II A. Noyes. The funeral directors
were h r Lilley and E. M Davis. Among
those present were Senator Dillingham;,
Congressman Greene, Hon. M. F. Hack
EFT of Stanstead, P. Q, c. c. Warren of
Waterbury, D. T. HanIey of Montpelier,
E. L. Ingalls, of Hartford, DR.. Allen of
Swanton, Hon F. G. Fleetwood, c. H.
Slocum of Morrsville, Hon. c. H. Stearns
and W. II. Nye of Johnson. A. H. Copley
of Boston and Hon. A. A. Pike of Stowe
There were many floral tributes from
friends here and away, which included
handsome wreath of English ivy from
the Home Culture Club of this place
The employees of Senator Page attended
in body and acted as an escort to and
from the burial place.
Mrs. Page was an active member of
the Home Culture Club, charter mem
Der OF the Rebekah lodge, and took
great interest in church and Sunday
school work. In all of these organiza- |
tions she will be greatly missed.
NEIGHBoRs TRIBUTE
Our neighbor, Ellen F. Page, has left US.
For nearly fifty years this community has
felt and consciously felt, the beneficent,
uplifting influence of her kindly, womanly
presence.
n NV that she has gone, is there anyone
in all the wide circle of her acquaintance,
anyone that came within the influence OF
her life, that does not say. have lost
friend In all the years that she was
with us no one ever heard her say word
intended to wound the feelings or injure
the reputation of another. She was
woman of absolute sincerity. There was
a restful promise in the amplitude of her
sympathy aud love that at once chal.
lenged confidence and made one feel such
friend With her there was no pretense,
her associates dealt with her, therefore,
on the basis of truth. She was natural
and practical. There was none of the So
called aristocratic atmosphere about her.
The simplicity of real greatness environed
her, revealing in clear light her unaffected
womanhood. Neither wealt ror social
position had built up any artificial bar
rier between her and any other human
heart
Such woman could not isolate herself
she was of necessity a practical and po-
tential factor of the everyday life OF the
community. Her home was model one
made doubly sweet by her gracious pres
ence, and its doors were always open to
her friends. 1t was the dearest place on
earth to her children, and an asylum to
which her husband, weary and worm from
business care, or the duties of official lite,
c 'uld retreat and find sympathy and rest.
1t was the privilege OF the writer, aprlv-
ilege now never to be forgotten, to call at
that home, on the Sunday evening before
her death. She was there, apparently well,
winsome as ever in her manner, interested
IN the affairs of the community, her home
her husband, anxious to make pleasant
and profitable the hour of social inter-
course. Within the week we went again
to that home to find her surrounded by
friends, from far and near, and encircleG
by wilderness of flowers. No, it was
not her. We saw the shell. the rearl was
gone; we saw the house. the tenant had
departed. ONE OF HER NEIGHBoRs.
(From The Burlington Free Press
United States Senator Carroll S. Page
will have the sympathy of large circle
OF friends in the bereavement that has I
come to him in the death of Mrs Page, | l