Putnam patriot., 1914-01-09
WOODSTOCK
Obituary

mothers home on N oodstoek Hill Jan. after several months illness during which time every effort had been made to save. .his life but disease baffied the medical skill of several specialists.
 Everything which medical skill or love could suggest and money procure has been provided for his comfort.
 Our community is griefstricken at the going out ot his life in the prime of his young manhood, in the midst of career of usefulness.
 Born in Woodstock, July II, 1885, the most of his life has been spent in the town of his birth and "Marvin" was well known and beloved. lie was graduated from Woodstock Acad- emy in the class of 1906 and was a member of the First Congregational church. He was married June l5, 1910, to Miss Florence Wilcox, one of Wood stocks favorite teachers, and the ten- derest sympathies of large circle of friends go out to her and her two little boys, also his bereaved mother and brother. Since leaving Woodstock his business and home have been in New London.
 Funeral services were held at the Woodstock home Wednesday after noon conducted by Rev. k. R. Ken dall, pastor of the church, who brought comfort to the sorrowing ones in words of Scripture and prayer and the read ing of the following poem:
 The Abiding Love Ut singeth low in every heart,
 We hear it each and all- song of those who answer not
 However we may call. They throng the silence of the heart,
 We see them as of yore- The kind, the true, the brave, the
 sweet,
 Who walk with us no more. 'Tis hard to take the burden up
 Where they have laid it down. They frightened all the joy of life,
 They softened every frown. But oh, 'tis good to think of them
 When we are troubled sore, Thanks be to God that such have been,
 Although they are no more. More homelike seems the vast un-
 known
 Since they have entered there; To follow them were not so hard
 Wherever they may fare. They cannot be where God Is not,
 On any sea or shore.
 Whate'er betides, Thy love abides
 Our God, for eyermore."
 "The Morning Lsndo and "Abide With Men were sweetly sung by Mrs Ezra May and Mrs. N. T. White. The bearers were Robert Stafford and Harry Wells of Woodstock, Herbert Kings bury of Wethersfield and Louis Linde man of Brooklyn, N. Y. Burial WAS in the family lot beside his father and brother. A wealth of beautiful flowers brought their comforting mess sges from many friends including tributes from Woodstock Christisn Endeavor society, Masonic lodge, and his New London business firm.
 Relatives and friends from Brooklyn, N. Y, Hartford, New London, Wethersfield, Norwich, Worcester, Springfield, Oxford and Upcasville a large number of Woodstock people filled the house.
 "Not now, but in the coming years, 1t may be in the better land, We'll read the meaning of our tears
 And then, sometime, we'll under stand.
 We'll catch the broken thread again,
 And finish what we here began; Heaven will the mysteries explain
 And then, ah then, we'll understand God knows the way He holds the key
 He guides us with unerring hand; Sometime with fearless eyes we see;
 Yes there, up there, we'll under
 stand"
 The young ladies supper at the chapel New Years eve was a success both socially and financially, a sub staniial sum being added to the fund for wiring the church for electric light ing.
 A goodly number of people from this part of the town attended the annual Theft Detecting Society dinner in North Woodstock and report a good time. The lecture by Rev. MT. King was greatly enjoyed.
 Mrs. Bingham, Miss Kendall, Miss Helen Perley, Miss Gladys Sheldon and Raymond Sheldon have returned to their various schools.
 Principal and Mrs. Hall have return ed from their visits in Bridgeport and Philadelphia and Mrs. Wood ward and Miss Mary Perley returned home Sat urday.
 Miss Clara Maynard, who has been forced to give up her Y. w. C. A.work in Cambridge, because Of poor health, is recruiting at her brothers home in Townsend, Florida.