The Washington herald., 1922-02-02

mOuTnerS Hlcu soIliy anu EcNeTche-
Iy into and out of the churches of
Washington yesterday. Grief
stricken relatives and friends paid
final tributes to victims of the
theater crash.
Fraternal rituals marked services
over many of the bodies. Various
fraternal orders attempted to MI
the void which had been made by
the disaster. Bodies of some were
sent to other cities, where rela-
tives will receive the remains.
Harmony lodge, No. 10, F. A. A.
NJ. of which John l.. Walker. 2lO9
Eighteenth street northwest, was
Junior warden. honored the services
at the undertaking parlors of
Thomas s. Sergeon, 1011 Seventh
street northwest. The last rites
were combined for Mr.. Walker and
his wife, Agnes Walker. The lodge
was in charge of the rites. The
services were held at 2 p. m. The
Revs. Earle Whitley. pastor OF the
Vermont Avenue Christian Church
and William Carroll. of st. Paurs
| Catholic Church, officiated. Burial
was in Rock Creek Cemetery.
At st. Margaret's Church. Con-
necticut avenue and Bancroft place
northwest, the church in which Mrs.
Alfred G. Eldridge was organist for
seventeen years. a joint service for
| Mr. and Mrs. Alfred G. Eldridge,
1888 Twentieth street northwest,
were held yesterday at IL a. m. The
Rev. Herbert Scott Smith conducted
| the services. Burial was in the
Glenwood Cemetery.
Three of Family Buried.
Buried in Alexandria. Va. are the
| bodies of father. son and daughter.
| Thomas Fleming and his children.
John p. and Mary Lee, formerly re-
| sidins at 1861 Wyoming avenue
/ northwest. Service for the above
were held yesterday at the St.
| Thomas Episcopal Church at IL a m.
The club of the Colonial Danes,
of which Mrs. Charles Cowles
| Tucker was a member, paid final
| tribute to its dead member and her
| husband, Charles Cowles Tucker.
! Joint funeral services being held
| from st. Margaret's Church at 5
p. m. The Rev. Herbert Scott Smith
/ officiated.
Services were held at All Souls
Church at 3 p. m. prior to removal
of the bodies of Mr.and Mrs. Chaun-
Island. n. Y. The Rev. James Mac
Bride Sterrett. assistant rector Of
the parish, officiated at the services
| Mr.. Brainerd was the Washington
correspondent of the Brooklyn
Daily Eagle and vice president of
the Gridiron Club.
| Attended by officials and approxi-
mately 400 students of the George
town University, high requiem
mass was sung at st. Patrick's
Catholic Church yesterday morning
for the five Georgetown students
who lost their lives. The Rev. w.
Coleman Neyils. 81. dean Of the
college, conducted the mass. The
senior class from the college at
tended in a body, and members of
the Georgetown Union from the
law, foreign service, medical, and
dental schools were present. STAN
ley c. Burke, chairman Of the
union, arranged for the mass.
Five student Victims
Students who received the last
tribute from their former class
mates and friends were Wilfred A.
Brosseau. North Adams. Mass; Vic
tor NJ. Sturgis. Augusta. Ga; Ivan
]. white, Culpeper, Va; DR.. James
S. Shea. South Hadley Falls, Mass.
and William Walters, Brooklyn.
n. Y.
Last rites for Lois Pitcher. 1910
Mckinley street, Chevy Chase, and
Mildred walford, 1927 Riggs place
northwest, George Washington Uni
versity co eds, who were killed
when they attended the theater to
celebrate the end of their midyear
examinations. were held.
Canon Austin. of All Saints Epfs-
copal Church. of Chevy Chase, said
the burial services in the Lee I'm
dertaking establishment at 1 p. m.
Services for Miss Walford occurred
yesterday at St. Thomas Episcopal
Church at pm. Rev. Ernest Smith
presided The bodies of the class
mates were inferred in a vault in
the Rock Creek Cemetery.
Services for Mrs. Cora c. Sigour-
ney, 27O1 Connecticut avenue, were
held in the undertaking establish
ment of ]. William Lee. preceding
the cremation of the body.
Last rites for Thomas Dorsey. Ia
wears old, son of Rev. w. B. Dor
sey, pastor of the Methodist Church
at Colesville. Md, were held al
noon at the home of his brother
Henry Dorsey, who resides here
Services were performed by Rev j.
Howard Wells. presiding elder OF
the Washington District of the NJ
f. Church. The body was shipped
to Martinsburg. W. Va. for burial
l Services for Louis w. Strayer
were held at the undertaking rooms
of Joseph Gawler and Sons Com
pany at 2 p. m. The body was sent
to sydney, Ohio. Rev. Wallace Rad
cliffe. of the New York Avenue
Presbyterian Church. presided.
Miss Atkinson Buried.
From the same establishment
services for Miss Ethel Atkinson
1923 Eighteenth street northwest
were held. The Rev. Dunlap pre-
sided. The body of Mrs. Carrie
Pesson, of the Calverton apart
ments, was shipped to Bealsvf11e
Nd, and that of George S. Free
man, a musician, who resided a,
1927 Connecticut avenue, to Lex
ington, KY, yesterday noon.
Rev. F. N. Hinkle. assistant rec
tor of ST. Margaret's Episcopai
Church., oficiated at the rites for
IT. Randolph Bourne. held in the
former residence of Mr.. Bourne al
2O27 Hillyer place northwest. Bur-
ial was in the Oak Hill Cemetery
| Accompanied by her mother the
body of Mrs. Genevieve Mirskey
wife of the orchestra leader at the