Norwich bulletin., 1920-12-28
BODY OF MRS. ". c. LANNAN
 BROUGHT HERE FOR ATRIAL

The body of Gertrude Halle, widow of ]. William Camp Lanman, reached Norwich from New York on the , o'clock train
 Monday afternoon and was taken to Yam tic cemetery for burial in, the family lot.
 Accompanying the body was Mir. Lan-
 mans niece. Mrs. Blanche LaRlnan Carr.
 wife of Rear Admiral Clarence M Carr
 of the Brooklyn navy yard
 During the morning the grave had been
 consecrated by Rev. Daniel F. Sullivan,
 assistant pastor of St Patricks church,
 Who also read the committal service, at which there were Assembled many promi-s nent Norwich residents, including the members of the Pantops, friends. of the Lanman and Halle families, former neigh bors, Rev. William F. Williams, acting
 rector of Christ church, long a personal 1 friend of Mrs. Lanman and her husband during his residence in Westerly, dele
 gation of ten members from the Halle lclub, Miss Katherine Smith, acting pres ident, and others. In the flowers arranged about the grave by Mrs. Albert H. Chase and Mrs. Frank l.. Farrell was a beau tiful wreath from the Pantops and an other from the girls of tlle Halle, club. The bearers were Rev. Mir Williams. Will 1 liam F. Habekotte, James F. Sheridan and 1 Thomas F. Burns.
 Shea & Burke were in charge of the l funeral arrangements in Norwich
 l It has been recalled since Mrs Ian
 mans death in New York Thursday that l it was she who took the initiative in in
 stituting branch of the Red Cross in Norwich. inviting Miss Mabel Boardman ] here from Washington and enter taining 1 her for several days at "Glanbauer.' her beautiful Washington street residence l The first president of the Red Cross was
 Francis J Leavens and Mrs. L.anman Twas teiected the first secretary, continu- I ing the work until after many years she
 relinquislaed the duties, on leaving Nor | Wien, to younger, most faithful and
 efficient successor in office. Mrs. Robert 1 w Perkins.
 1 Her public efforts; to secure the state l tuberculosis sanatorium for Norwich have
 been referred to. the, legislative commit tee before whom she advocated the project admitting that it was the argu- ments of the womels delegation which
 won the members over to take this com
 passionate step in behalf of the then neglected sufferers from the White l Plague.
 l This same quality of love for others. desire for service, actuated her every I notive-moved her to establish the Halle club for the welfare of employed Norwich girls. to open later a vacation housel at i Norwich Town. that New York girls l might come into the big, free, cool coun- l try for fortnight's outing
 T Mrs. Lanmans father, Dr. Ashbel B, [, Halle, a Yale man, studious and scholar ly, was of Canadian ancestry, his fore
 Fathers having spent much of their lives amid the vast open spaces of the great
 northwest-and to this fact she attributed ,l Ter intense fondness for the woods counting day amid the beauties of Mo.
 began park, during her return visits tc
 Norwich as among her chiefest joys She had crossed the ocean ten or a dozer times, and especially during her winters . in Nice had come to have fondness fol
 flowers which found it's expression in tht rose-houses, the growing of chrysanthe nuns and other. beautiful blooms which ; her gardeners produced-mostl4 for tn, sl pleasure of her friends. She ins pired the t flower show at the Norwich armory. ii which her rare gift of arranging decora , tive blossoms delighted every visitor She was fond of animals, as sfe loveS
 all Gods creatures. At Glanbauer tn, Z horses and dogs were always high bred 5 Mrs. Lanman's mother. Miss Mar, May, was of French (Naye) ancestry, al : exemplary mother, through whose teach | ings her daughter had mastered all house l hold arts :; could, as her friends knew : make her livelihood if necessary witt her needle, her brush, her pen. She pos ] sessed the sprightly, artistic French na 3 ture, never lost the freshness and spon : taneity of her childlike delight even il
 simple pleasures Perhaps that was tn