The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1920-04-30
Obituary
MRS. GRACE PERRY coTT1NG.

The sad news came to Edgerton last
week that Mrs. Grace Perry Getting
died at her home in Chronicle, Ala
bama, April IA, 1920, and was laid to
rest in the cemetery at Chronicle by
her little son Stanley.
People who lived in Edgerton nearly
half century ago remember the COM
ing to Edgerton of Mr.. T. A. Perry
and the home he and his wife, Amelie
G. Perry, established there. A home
not only devoted to all that was helpful
and best in family life, but to the best
interests of the community as well.
Into this home came three sons and one
daughter, Grace, lovely girl who
grew to womanhood in Edgerton. Grace
was born in Edgerton, October 81, 1880.
At the age of 10 years she joined the
Congregational church and growing up
under it's influence was actively inter-
ested in all phases of church work.
After graduating from high school as
valedictorian of her class, she attended
college at Beloit, Wis, where she was
known as leader in the Y. M. G. A.
of the college, and graduated with high
honors in 1902.
After teaching for two years and be-
ing at home in Edgerton one year, she
was married on June 20, 1905, to Edgar
L. Getting of Chicago, to whom she
became engaged while both were stu
dents in Beloit, and who has been most
tenderly and wisely devoted to her and
their little family. not only during the
trying time of her long illness, but all
through the years of their married life.
Their home was first in Chicago and
then in River Forest, suburb of Chi
cago, where one son, Richard Perry
| Getting, was born. In April, 1912,
Chronicle became the home of the
family. John Lathrop Getting, the
second son, was born in 1914, and Stan
ley Charles, a third son, who lived a
year and half, was born in 1916.
Grace, as we who knew and loved
her liked to call her, went to Ashville,
N. c., in October of 1913, hoping to be
restored to health. For some time her
recovery seemed probable, but her
trouble proved obstinate and she came
home to Chronicle with little hope of a
change in her condition. We are not
surprised to learn that her bravery and
fortitude in her fight for health were
often remarked upon by her physicians
and by the Sisters of Mercy in the SAN
itarium where she spent year and a
half.
During all this time the shadows
were lifted from the lonely home by
the heroic and self-forgetful services
of Grace's mother. Mrs. Perry has the
love, respect and admiration of a large
circle of friends and acquaintance in
Edgerton, who have rejoiced that her
strength and courage have not failed
and that her mother love is sufficient
now to encircle the little family.
In correspondence with her girlhood
friends, while at the sanitarium, Grace
loved to hear of her old friends and
their interests, and they mourn now
with the bereaved family, as do many
of the old time friends of the family.
The saddened home in Chronicle can
never be utterly desolate, for the wife,
mother, daughter, sister, who was so
early called to leave them, has left her
spirit of love, loyalty and devotion with
its inmates.
The faith and trust in the Masters
promises that helped her to bear her
burden of illness and separation from
her loved ones, will help them to bear
their burden of grief and loneliness and
irreparable loss.