The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-09-08
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of the nation, came messages of
sympathy for the President
Telegraph offices were flooded,
and special wires were set up
to handle them.
From late Saturday night on,
President Roosevelt and the
first lady had kept a sorrowful
watch by the bedside III his
mother. They were with her
when the end came shortly af-
ter noon yesterday.
So was the family physician,
DR.. Scott L. Smith, who said
the mother of the chief eXecu-
tive had had IAN acute circ'ila-
tory collapse, due principally
to her advance age"
She had been in a coma for
twelve hours.
PRIVATE RITES
The funeral, limited to rela-
tives and to old neighbors and
friends, will be held at the
family residence tomorrow.
Mrs. Roosevelt will be buried
in the family plot in the church
yard of Picturesque St. James
Episcopal church. Several gen.
erations of Roosevelts have
worshipped at the little church,
and behind it under a canopy
Of aged oaks and elms, is buried
the Presidents father.
The Chief Executive was only
18 when his father, James
Roosevelt, died in 1900, and he
and his mother have been ex-
ceptionally close. Her home has
been his home all his life.
Proudly she had seen her son
inaugurated as the only three
term President Of the United
States. Yet, she had never
quite approved of politics as a
career for him. To her, he was
more my boy, Franklin" than
"the President"
The Matriarch of Hyde Park
house was supposed to have
been one individual who s,,b-
dued the vociferous Huey Long,
the late Senator and "KinRfish,"
from Louisiana, at q dinner
party.
SQUELCHED HUEY
Other guests said he had
monopolized the conversation,
expounding his ideas on govern
ment and passing along advice
to the President, until Mrs.
Roosevelt turned to q neighbor
and said in q stage whisper:
"There was only one reason
why didn't want Franklin to
60 into politics. He has to deal
with such peculiar people"
She had taken In stride such
historic events az the visit in
June, 1899, of King George and
Queen Elizabeth of England.
And she was not hesitant to in
terrupt her son, even when he
was comforting with a distin-
guished parsonage in his clut-
tered study. IL. she wanted to
know what he desired for
lunch.
But then, Sara Delano had
some royal blood, as q desc"r-
dant Of the Prince of Scyrri Of
France and of the Delanos, who
originally spelled the name De
Lannoy.
The first of the family TO
come to America, in 1921, was
Philip Delano.
LIVED IN CHINA
Mrs. Roosevelt's father. War
rem Delano. who engaged in
banking and commerce, came a
long line Of merchants of the
Far East trade. When she was
eight, she and her mother took
q four months trip to China on
the clipper ship Surprise" and
for q time lived with her father
in Hongkong.
She was educated by COVER
nesses at her childhood home
In Newburgh. N. Y, and in
France and Germany. In 1880,
when she was Is, she was mar
ried to James Roosevelt. a
lawyer with rail and financial
interests, who was exactly twice
her age. Six years later he
bought Hyde Park house. high
above the Hudson. whose orr
FINAL portion was begun In
l74a.
There In her second-flo> r
bedroom. overlooking the Al
bany post road and q segment
If Q 1900 scre estate. Mrs.
Roosevelt died.
Her son Is expected to inherit
a considerable fortune. along
with Hyde Park house and TIE
mart of the estate not already
IN his name Al his death. the
Store and St,,cco home and its