The Washington herald., 1922-02-01
LAST RITES TODAY
Social Organizations to
Pay Tributes to the
Memory of Dead.
ORDERS ARRANGE,
SOLEMN RITUALS
Victims of Knickerbecker
Crash Are Rendered
Due HonOrs.

ternal and social organizations -
Washington today will formally pay
tributes to their associates who lost
their lives in the Knickerbocker The
ater Saturday night.
BY attendance in bodies and
through solemn fraternaI ritual. the
orders will express their esteem for
the lost members and add to the
sorrowfuI mcmorization which the
victims of the crash have received
during the week.
At two OF the four services for as
many of the married couples who
pcrished together in the catastrophe.
the void which their loss has made
in the societies will be expressed
in rites by the organizations.
John L. Walker, 21o9 Eighteenth
street northwest, will be honored
by Harmony Lodge No. 10 +. A. A.
NJ. of which he was formerly junior
warden. Tho lodge will be in
charge during the final rites for
their former leader and his wife,
Mrs. Agnes Walker. The services
will be held in the undertaking
parlors Of Thomas s. Sergeon, 1O1l
Seventh street northwest. at . p. n.
The Rev. Earle Whitley. pastor of
the Vermont avenue Christian
Church. will ofiiciate at tho serv-
ices OF Mr.. Walker. Rev. William
Carroll. of St Paurs Catholic
Church. will preside over the rites
for his wife. The bodies will be
inferred In Rock Creek Cemetery.
As token of the socisty's re-
spect for its dead member. Mrs
Charles Cowles Tucker. The .toInt
funeral for her and her husband,
Col. Tucker. will be attended gen
masse by the Club of Colonial
Danes OF Washington, Mrs. Charles
G. Matthews. president of the club.
announced last night. The obse-
auies will be held at St. Margaret's
Church, at Connecticut avenue and
Bancroft place northwest. at p. m
Members of the club will assemble
in the parish room of the church
building at 2:45 p. m. Rev. Herbert
Scott Smith will officiate-
Joint Service in Church.
A joint service for Mr.. and Mrs.
Alfred g. Eldridge, 1888 Twentieth
street northwest. will be held at IL
a. m. today in ST. Margaret's Church.
the sanctuary which Mr. Eldridge
filled with music as its organist
for seventeen years. Rev. Herbert
Scott Smith will conduct the serv-
ices. Interment will be made in
the Glenwood Cemetery.
Prior to the removal of the re-
mains of Mr.. and Mrs. Chauncey
c. Brainerd to Flushing. L. l.. serv-
ices will be held in the All Souls
Episcopal Church at p. M. Rev.
James MacBride Sterrctt. assistant
rector of the parish. pf2ciating.
Mr.. Brainerd was coaS spondent of
the Brooklyn Daily Eagle and vice
the time ofsffs death.
26riai in AIex.sdria.
ather, son and daughter. Thomas
y 1eming and his children, John P
5and Mary Lee, formerly residing at
1861 Wyoming avenue northwest.
will be buried at Alexandria this
afternoon. Services will be held at
st Thomas Episcopal Church at IL
a. m. the Rev. Ernest Smith being
in charge. Joseph Gawler's Sons
will supervise the funeral arrange
ments.
Lois Pitcher. 1910 Mckinley
street, Chevy Chase. Nd. and Mil
dred Walford. 1927 Riggs place
northwest, George Washington Uni.
versity co-eds, who were killed
when they attended the motion pic
lures together to celebrate the end
Of their midyear examinations will
be buried today.
Services for students.
Rites for Miss Pitcher will he
said by Canon Austin. OF the All
saints Episcopal Church of Chevy
Chase, Nd, in the lee undertaking
parlors at p. m. The burial serv-
ice for Miss walford will occur az
81. TT omas Episcopal Church at ;
p. m. Rev. Ernest Smith presiding.
Following the services the re.
mains OF the schoolmates will be
placed in a vault at Rock Creek
Cemetery.
Memorial services for FIVE stu
dents Of Georgetown University,
who were killed in the disaster,
will be held in st. Patrick's Church
by the Georgetown Union, the stu
dent organization, at 8 o'clock this
morning.
The students who will receive this
tribute from their former mates of
the classroom and campus are:
Wilfred Brosseau, North Adams
Mass; Victor M. Sturgis, Augusta,
Ca; Ivan J. white. Culpeper. Va;
DIR. James S. shea, South Hadley
Falls, Mass: and william walters,
Brooklyn, n. Y.
Will Hold Memorial Mass.
Ths memorial will be in the. form
of mass, Rev. W. Coleman Nevils
presiding. Following the service.