Milford chronicle., 1935-10-04
SELBYYTLL.E
Church News

Destiny, and the lesson was from
the parable in the 18th chapter O
st. Luke, where men ought Away
to pray and not to faint, and th'
text was 1st Kings, and 5-Asl
what l shall give thee.
The subject of the evening sermon
was Christianity And Ethiopia" thu
story of Philip and the man of Ethi
opa having been read from the tSl
chapter of Acts, and the pastor SAID
if he were to announce a text il
would be a part of the 39th verse oi
the same chapter, The Ethiopian
went ON his way rejoicing. A spe.
cial prayer was made that the wal
between Italy and Ethiopia may be
averted and the Ethiopians go on
their way rejoicing.
Funeral Of Mrs. Owens
The body of Mrs. Ida Owens, aged
81 years, who passed away on Tues
day, September gath, 1895, after a
prolonged illness at the home of her
daughter in Laurel, was brought to
the -Whaley Funeral Home,
where it remained until after the fu-
neral services were held on Friday
afternoon, with DR.. Wood, a young
Episcopal minister of Bridgeville Of
ficiating. Following the services the
body was then taken to ROxana GEM
etery for burial with her first hus-
band, Mr.. Louis Lynch. Mrs. Owens
was formerly Miss Ida Bishop of
Dagsboro, and several years after
the accidental death of her first hus-
tod - In
Owens of Bridgeville. 1t was there
that Dr. Wood first came in contact
with Mrs. Owens, he having just re-
turned from the Mission field in
China, and as he termed it in his fu-
neral remarks, was physically sick
and spiritually discouraged, but he
lived in her home, and she like
mother. nursed him back TO health.
and encouraged him to go on and be-
come a minister. Since the death of
her last husband which resulted
from an automobile accident about
six years ago, Mrs. Owens has spent
a great deal of her time with the two
daughters of her first marriage, Mrs
Nettie BOwden, with whom she re-
sided at the time of her death, but
whose home will now be in Sails
bury, Nd. and Mrs. Myrtle Turling-
ton of ChincOteague, Va. Besides
the two daughters there are three
and two grandsOns,
all children of the latter daughter.
Other relatives and friends who came
for the funeral in addition to those
mentioned were the two
Messrs. Ernest BOwden
and Stanley burlington of Salisbury
and Chincoteague. friends from
Mr. and Mrs. George c.
Laurel, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Gray and others from DagsborO, Mr..
and Mrs. Horace Lynch, BishOpville,
Md, Mrs. Angie DerricksOn, Mrs.
Levin McCabe and family of Roxana,
Mrs. Lizzie Lewis and others from
and the two sisters-in-
law, Mrs. Ollie Timmons and Mrs. A.
NJ Lynch of town. Those who car
ried the floral tributes and acted as
pallbearers were one of the grand
sons, and her nephews. as follows,
Louis L. burlington. ChincOteague.
Marvil Lynch, Laurel. William and |
Harvey McCabe, Vaughn and Holly |
Lynch, Roxana, and Auluth Lynch
Of Selbyville.
Death of Mr.. McCabe
Our town was again very much
saddened. by the death of Mr.. Albert
McCabe on Wednesday, September
18th. 1885, after having been con-
lined to his home in town for the
last six weeks. Mr.. McCabe who
vas Just a little more than 33 years
# age, had suffered an affliction of
he heart for the past few years, and
lad twice been to the Johns Hopkins
hospital in Baltimore, Nd, but medi- ]
al skill could provide no cure for {
is ailment. BY his passing away I
ur town has suffered. the loss Of a |
rominent and very promising young '
usiness man, who was much loved I
Y all with whom he came in con- s
.ct. His marriage to Miss Roberta a
cCabe, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. [
)hn B. McCabe (the latter now de-
.ased) took place about sixteen Il
,ars ago, and after living in Phila- s
lphia for awhile and operating a Fl
lultry farm near this town, Mr.. and C.
rs. McCabe purchased the home {,
ID store of Mr.. and Mrs. w. NJ. II
ing, known as the Bee Hive" and "
IS since conducted a successful Il
siness there, the transaction hav- h
g taken place in September 1880. fl
addition to this, Mr.. McCabe also +,
rried on quite an extensive busi- Il
SIS with service trucks. Funeral D
rvices, were held in Salem NJ. E. il
lurch on Sunday afternoon by his n
stor, Rev. L. NJ. ShOckley, and the n
rial took place in Odd Fellows fl
Bishopville, Nd, he hav- 81
2 been a member of that Organiza- la
IN. The floral tributes were beau hi
ul, and the pallbearers were, the W
,ssrs. CASHIER Evans, Lloyd Warren, 81
nj Long, Horace Wiley, Arthur 81
npler and. Benjamin Hall. He is oil
rvived by the widow and one 50
lighter, Miss Volta McCabe, to
lom we extend our deepest SYM fl
thy. He also leaves father, Mr.. te
mes McCabe near town, and five
ters, one residing near Ebenezer, b
lille most of the others live in tr
iladelphia. tu
Fhe death of Mrs. McCabes uncle, tn
.. Horace E. Johnson occurred az pa
home in Wilmington OH the same OF
lie as that of her husband, and the bU
rial was made in the Wilgus Ceme- an
Y at ROxana on Saturday. her at
her and step-m0ther having gone WI
Wilmington for the funeral SER tn
es, while other members of the in
liiy attended the burial services. an
neral News Items ca
lFs. Betty Murray of Shovel, Md, Nj
5 a guest of her sister-in-law, ac
5. Emma Hill, and other relatives fol
mill AIrn..