Milford chronicle., 1959-08-28
OBITUARY
SMITH

Milford Memorial Hospital WedneS-
day after a long illness.
Services will be held at the Berry
Funeral Home, Saturday at p. M,
with the Rev. Joseph S. Hink, pas
tor of Christ Episcopal Church,
officiating. Interment will be in
Odd Fellows Cemetery, Milford.
Friends may call at the funeral
home Friday from to p. m.
She is survived by one step
daughter, Mrs. Frank R. Grier, Mil
ford, and two step-sons, William
and Donald Smith of Wilmington,
and several nieces and nephews.
For many years, Mrs. Smith was
an active club woman, a member of
the Eastern Star, and the Milford
New Century Club. She was also an
active member of Avenue Methodist
Church.
ELLIS
Funeral services will be held
Friday for John M. Ellis, Sc, who
died August % at his home, 404
Hickory Lane, Seaford.
The son of the late George w.
and Amanda Carmean Ellis, the de-
ceased was retired mechanic at
the DUPONT Company's nylon plant.
Final rites will be conducted at
p. m. in the Watson Funeral
Home.
He is survived by his wife, Flor
ence Outten Ellis; two daughters,
Mrs. Nellie Mae O'Neal, Seaford;
and Mrs. Agnes NJ Porches, Char
lotte, N. c.; son, Robert o. Ellis,
Sr., Seaford; a sister, Mrs. Eve
lyn White, Seaford, and several
grandchildren.
BOOKER
Funeral services were held in
Dover Wednesday at 2 p. m. from
the Torbert Funeral Chapel for
Joseph Bedford Booker, As, for
merly of Hartly, who died Sunday
of smoke poisoning in a fire in
Ocean County Jail, Toms River,
N. J.
The Rev. Robert L. McKim, of
the Presbyterian Church of Dover,
Ofciated at the services. Burial at
Sudlersville, Md.
Mr.. Booker, who was a carpenter
before he took up commercial fish
ing, is survived by three sisters and
two brothers. They are: Mrs. Sar-
ah A. Hill, Hazlettville; Mrs. Eliz-
abeth Cushing, Hartly; Mrs. Ruth
Russum, New Castle; and Louis L.
Booker and Captain Earl Booker,
Bowers Beach.
Many nieces and nephews also
survive.
MAAG
Funeral services for Frank G.
Mag, 81, manager of Maag's sport
ing goods store in Dover, who died
August 10, in the Kent General
Hospital, were held from the Fer
guson and Hayes Funeral Home on
Sunday at 2 p. m. with interment
in Lakeside Cemetery.
Mr.. Mag suffered a heart attack
last Tuesday. A native and life
long resident of Dover, he lived at
403 Wyoming Avenue. Last Thurs
day would have been his 5Sth
birthday anniversary.
Mr.. Mag was an active sports
man and hunter and was a mem
ber of the Dover Lodge of the
Knights of Pythias, Union Lodge
No. z, A. F. and A. M; Evergreen
Forest, Tall Cedars of Lebanon,
Milford; Delaware Consistory, and
Nur Temple of the Mystic Shrine.
Surviving him are his wife, Mrs.
Virginia H. Mag, and five sisters,
Miss Elizabeth B. Mag, Mrs. Car
rie M. Hayes, Mrs. Edward R.
Knight, Miss Lucy S. Mag, and
Miss Helen w. Mag, all of Dover.
HUDSON
Funeral services for Mrs. Mary
Lord Hudson, rs, widow of Will
liam Henry Hudson, of Seaford, and
mother of the Rev. William Henry
Hudson, Jr., pastor. of First Meth
odist Church, Chestertown, Md,
were held Thursday at p. m. in
st. Johns Methodist Church, Sea-
ford. The Rev. DR.. ]. Leas Green,
superintendent of the Easton Dis
trict, Peninsula Annual Confer
ence, and the Rev. Lester E. Wind
sor, of Salisbury, conducted the SER
vices which were arranged by the
Harry e. Darby and Son Funeral
Chapel, Seaford. Interment in Bar
rats Chapel, near Frederick.
Mrs. Hudson died on Tuesday,
August 18, in Weicbaden, Germany,
where she was stricken with cor
onary thrombosis, while on a con-
Quoted tour of Europe with her
son. They had left this country
on July 80 and were due back on
September 8.
Mrs. Hudson had made her home
with her son in all his pastorates
in various parts of the Peninsula
Conference.
She was born May IS, 1884, in
Frederick, the daughter of James
Henry and Annie Elizabeth Har-
rington Lord and was descendant
of the Fisher family of Delaware,
through which she was a member
of the Daughters of the American
Revolution. She married Mr.. Hud-
son on December "a, 1910, in Re
hoboth Beach. He died more than
80 years ago.
Prior to her marriage Mrs. Hud-
son was a public school teacher
in Harbeson, Seaford and Reno
both Beach. She was social work
er for 18 years with Delaware Old
Age Assistance, retiring in 1949.
She was organizing regent of the
Mary Vining Chapter, d. A. R., Sea
ford, and a past worthy matron and
member of Sussex Chapter, Order