The Washington times., 1937-02-01
VETS TO HONOR
WAR NURSEAT
FUNERAL

can War, some of whom she nursed
during the fighting in Cuba, will
conduct the funeral tomorrow for
Mrs. Lillian Capron, welfare
worker Of the War Department,
who died Saturday in Walter Reed
Hospital.
Following services at II o'clock
in the Birch funeral home on M
Street Northwest, cortege with
her bier will leave for Arlington
National Cemetery, where she will
be buried beside her husband,
Capt. Allyn Capron, U. S. A, who
was killed in action in Cuba during
the Spanish war.
Born SO years ago in Boston,
Mass, she first entered the welfare
department of the War Depart
ment in 1899. During the war
with Spain, she went to Cuba with
the Clara Barton Relief No. 2, OF
the American Red Cross, and
served until the end of the war.
In 1901 Mrs. Capron was sent to
the Philippines as a Red Cross
representative to look over the sit
uation and recommend what steps
she thought were necessary for
administering relief. 1t was here
that she first encounted and
treated yellow fever and bubonic
plague.
During the World War she saw
American men fired upon for the
second time by foreign enemy.
It was overseas as canteen
worker that she became known as
mother" to the men.
Well known in washington vel
fare circles. Mrs. Capron taught
domestic science and hygiene class
es for the District Chapter of the
Red Cross. A life member of both
the Richard J. Harden Chapter
of the Spanish-American War Vet
Grams, and the Rough Riders, es-
tabliShed by Theodore Roosevelt,
she was responsible for erecting
the monument standing today in
Arlington National Cemetery in
honor of fellow members of the
later organization.
She was also a member Of the
Columbia Hospital Board, and the
Providence Hospital Auxiliary,
which founded the hospitals free
ward.
There are no known survivors in
her immediate family.
BERTRAM G.. LENNON, JR.
Requiem mass will be celebrated
Wednesday morning at 9 o'clock
in the Shrine Of the Sacred Heart
Church for Bertram G. Lennon,
jr., II, who died yesterday after
a short illness.
A native Of Washington, Ber-
tram was the son of Ber-
tram G. Lennon, sr., Washington
insurance man, with offices at
1903 H st. N. w. A graduate of
the Sacred Heart Academy, he
would have completed an aca-
demic course at Gonzaga High
School this year.
Besides his father, Bertram Is
survived by his mother, Mrs. Anne
Julia Bertram; and three sisters,
Mary Patricia, attending the I'm
maculata Seminary; Gilmore Anne,
and Marion Aileen, both students
at Sacred Heart.
Interment will be in Mt. Olivet
Cemetery.
MRS. JENNIE M. STAFFORD
Funeral services will be con-
ducted tomorrow afternoon at the
Brookwalder Unite d Brethren
Church in Knoxville, Tenn, for
Mrs. Jennie Maude Stafford, head
teacher of the Corcoran Ele-
mentary School, who died yester-
day after brief illness at her resi-
dence, 1902 Porter St. N. w.
Born in Tennessee, Mrs. Staffird
had been resident of the District
for more than 30 years. She first
entered Government service,
about the time the United States
entered the World War, as a
clerk in the War Department.
She was appointed a teacher in
the District public schools in 1919
as a fourth-grade instructor at
the Blow School, She was trans
ferred to her recent position in
September, 1885.
Surviving is one daughter, Mrs
Vera A. Knight, with whom she
made her home; a sister, Mrs. w.
E. Thornton, of Knoxville; three
brothers, A. B. Tarwater and H.
R. Tarwater, both Of @eXas, and
Ben D. Tarwater, Of Washington.