The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1915-10-07
MRS. J. w. HESTON DIES

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1t is with sincere regret that Brook.
ings friends learned this week of the
death of Mrs. J. w. Heston, wife of
President Heston Of the Madison state
normal school. Mrs. Heston was a res
ident of B~rookings several years while
her husband was president of the State
College and was held in high regard
by all who knew her. We get the fol-
lowing account of her death from the
Madison Sentinel of Saturday:
1t is with great sadness the Sentinel
of DR.. Heston, president of the Madi-
son state normal. Though an invalid
for several months, and her condition
for the past few weeks such that the
end might come at any moment, death
comes with a shock at last, and the
deepest sympathy Of the entire CON-
munity goes out to the bereaved hus-
band and son in their great sorrow.
This afternoon the body was taken
from the rooms in East hall to the Hes
ton residence on Egan avenue, just
completed, the new home in which the
deceased had taken so much interest
and helped to plan and yet was not
permitted to enter it until after death.
This new home is in fact a monument
to the devotion of the husband who
sought in its erection to crafty every
desire and carry out every plan sug-
gested by an invalid wife, that would
administer to her comfort and hasten
recovery.
The sons in New York and Seattle
have been notified by wire and the
funeral announcement will not be
made until reply is received from them.
The funeral and burial will probably
be held in Madison.
Mary Ellen Calder Heston was born
in Harrisburg, Pa, December %, 1862.
Her either, Dr.. James Calder, was
formerly a minister and missionary to
China but later in life he left the
ministry and entered the field of edu-
action and was for many years presi-
dent of the State Agricultural college
of Pennsylvania. Mrs. Heston there
fore has spent her entire life in the
atmosphere of education for since her
marriage she has shared the educa-
tional duties of her husband who has
given his entire life to educational
work and nearly all of it in executive
service.
Mrs. Heston was married in 1881 and
has thus given thirty-four years of
her life to the duties of wife and
mother. She leaves to mourn her
early departure not only her husband
and her mother, who is still living
though eighty-seven years of age, but
two sons, Charles who is an electrical
engineer in Rochester, n. Y, and Ed
ward who is a physician in Seattle and
Rosyln. Wash, also a niece to whom
she Is much devoted, Miss Small of
Harrisburg. Pa. Miss Small has been
with her aunt during the last two
months of her illness. Both sons were
home recently and spent over a week
visiting their parents, DR.. and Mrs.
Heston, but as both were holding re-
sponsible positions in far away places
they had to return home before their
mothers death occurred.
Mrs. Heston was a woman of To-
nestle disposition placing the highest
value on home interests and duties.
She will be remembered by many
young people in the state Of South Da-
kota whom she has met in a social way
and encouraged to strive for better and
higher things. Mrs. Heston's illness
has extended over a period Of years
and can be readily traced to a very
unusual experience forced on her by
political conditions in the state schools
some years ago. Her health vas not
robust enough to throw of those poi
sons and she declined in health until
the complete breakdown two years ago
brought on conditions which resulted
in her untimely death,