Connecticut western news., 1920-03-25
TRIBUTES TO OUR DEAD
To the Editor of the News r.

To the Editor of the News:-
 I have been saddened as from time to time word has come of the death of one and another of those for whom I have had sincere affec- ton, Harry Dodge, and MT. Hubbard and his dear old aunt, Mrs. Oles who so soon followed the one for who she had long made home. It would have been gratifying to me if could have stood by each one of them in the noble dignity of death and paid them the tribute which was in my heart.
 And now comes the news of the passing of our good neighbor, Mrs. Lorraine, and the little neighborhood on the hill will never be the same without her. We had known of the long pain patiently borne and we know that the summons comes as blessed release from it; but there is pain and regret and loneliness for those who loved her. As a faithful christian whose sincerity knew no artifice we believe she has gone to the "Heavenly Home, and that is the only term which seems to fit when it is thought of in association with her. "The courts of the Lord" or even the "Many Mansions" do not satisfy the associations of thought, for Mrs. Lorraine was "home-b body" a 'home-maker"; and we can not think of any place where she can be without thinking of it in terms of n4 ho+ i,,+n sympathies were confined to the limits of her home and family circle, but it was within that circle and that life where her life was strongest and sweetest; and wherever her interest and sympathies went it was with the mother-heart and with the home makers thought and solitude.
 To what an extent her cheerful, discerning cyr.~@thy wc3 thc re- source CT h-c l:+e coHl ls-.-,.-. a. s...a close of a wes.-.l day, no one will ever know; but during long years of happy married life not one night un- til near the end found them under separate roofs. Our sympathy goes out to all but to none more than to him who loses for a while this beau tlful companionship.
 In this connection 1 would like to say word about MT. Lorraine, for why should we always save our tri- butes until our friends cannot hear them? It seems to me that Canaan and in fact the whole of Southern Berkshire owes MT. Lorrain more than perhaps is realized by many and good work may be forgot.
 Mir. Lorrain has built so many of the homes and other buildings in that area that his contribution to the appearance and to the comfort and service ob life should be long re- membered. A man of native taste. and of such high ideals of workman ship that he would rather do a good Job than to make money, and of such strict integrity that if he con- tracted to build a building for a cer-f tam price and he saw that he was gong to lose by it he would never resort to those tricks to save himself which were always possible.
 1t was pleasure to be associated | with him in the rebuilding of the | school building and to drop in often to the home and look over plans upon which he was working, and to chat with the cheerful, friendly wife. Pleasant memories these. and they will not fade; and with the passing of the one who made that home of life so pleasant" there goes to the Eternal Home a quiet, sin cere, friendly soul, followed bv the love of all who knew her.
 Edwin c. Gillette