The end of life for Mrs. Rev. S. B. (Annette) Ross came Saturday, August 11th, at the Flagler Memorial Hospital in St. Augustine, unexpectedly, as but a few days before physicians had told her husband she might be able to come home in September. Then came a swift journey back to Interlachen by undertaker's ambulance accompanied by Mr. Ross.
The funeral was on Sunday afternoon with a brief service at the home, the expressed wish of the deceased. A large number of friends were present, filling piazzas and into the flower-decked yard. In the parlor Miss Clara Kephart, at piano, the Congregational Church choir sang simple hymns, and meanwhile thought lovingly of the leader of the choir now passed into the heavenly choruses. Rev. Caldwell, Methodist pastor, said a few fitting words and Rev. Ross read a life tribute to his dear wife. Interment was made in the Interlachen cemetery, just as she wished when far away this spring in the old Iowa-home State.
Born in 1854, in Ohio, Mrs. Ross had lived most of the remainder of her life at Fairfield, Iowa, valued member of the Congregational Church through it all, but a few years before coming to Florida when, as the bride of Rev. Ross, she helped in Christian church duty. Over four years ago they came here, and to the Congregational pastoral service, in which Mrs. Ross was just as useful and faithful as her husband, her special work here, and indeed since childhood, being musical talent consecrated to God.
Until last fall Mrs. Ross was remarkably strong of body and mind, and looked twenty years younger than women of her age usually do. She commenced the fatal illness, a gland disease, extremely slow, painful, and yet but little understood by even doctors, who have seemingly so far found no cure for it. Death came painlessly, and her last words to her husband by her bedside were, "I'm not afraid to go." (Times-Herald Obituary dtd Friday, 10 Aug 1923.)
The funeral was on Sunday afternoon with a brief service at the home, the expressed wish of the deceased. A large number of friends were present, filling piazzas and into the flower-decked yard. In the parlor Miss Clara Kephart, at piano, the Congregational Church choir sang simple hymns, and meanwhile thought lovingly of the leader of the choir now passed into the heavenly choruses. Rev. Caldwell, Methodist pastor, said a few fitting words and Rev. Ross read a life tribute to his dear wife. Interment was made in the Interlachen cemetery, just as she wished when far away this spring in the old Iowa-home State.
Born in 1854, in Ohio, Mrs. Ross had lived most of the remainder of her life at Fairfield, Iowa, valued member of the Congregational Church through it all, but a few years before coming to Florida when, as the bride of Rev. Ross, she helped in Christian church duty. Over four years ago they came here, and to the Congregational pastoral service, in which Mrs. Ross was just as useful and faithful as her husband, her special work here, and indeed since childhood, being musical talent consecrated to God.
Until last fall Mrs. Ross was remarkably strong of body and mind, and looked twenty years younger than women of her age usually do. She commenced the fatal illness, a gland disease, extremely slow, painful, and yet but little understood by even doctors, who have seemingly so far found no cure for it. Death came painlessly, and her last words to her husband by her bedside were, "I'm not afraid to go." (Times-Herald Obituary dtd Friday, 10 Aug 1923.)
The end of life for Mrs. Rev. S. B. (Annette) Ross came Saturday, August 11th, at the Flagler Memorial Hospital in St. Augustine, unexpectedly, as but a few days before physicians had told her husband she might be able to come home in September. Then came a swift journey back to Interlachen by undertaker's ambulance accompanied by Mr. Ross.
The funeral was on Sunday afternoon with a brief service at the home, the expressed wish of the deceased. A large number of friends were present, filling piazzas and into the flower-decked yard. In the parlor Miss Clara Kephart, at piano, the Congregational Church choir sang simple hymns, and meanwhile thought lovingly of the leader of the choir now passed into the heavenly choruses. Rev. Caldwell, Methodist pastor, said a few fitting words and Rev. Ross read a life tribute to his dear wife. Interment was made in the Interlachen cemetery, just as she wished when far away this spring in the old Iowa-home State.
Born in 1854, in Ohio, Mrs. Ross had lived most of the remainder of her life at Fairfield, Iowa, valued member of the Congregational Church through it all, but a few years before coming to Florida when, as the bride of Rev. Ross, she helped in Christian church duty. Over four years ago they came here, and to the Congregational pastoral service, in which Mrs. Ross was just as useful and faithful as her husband, her special work here, and indeed since childhood, being musical talent consecrated to God.
Until last fall Mrs. Ross was remarkably strong of body and mind, and looked twenty years younger than women of her age usually do. She commenced the fatal illness, a gland disease, extremely slow, painful, and yet but little understood by even doctors, who have seemingly so far found no cure for it. Death came painlessly, and her last words to her husband by her bedside were, "I'm not afraid to go." (Times-Herald Obituary dtd Friday, 10 Aug 1923.)
The funeral was on Sunday afternoon with a brief service at the home, the expressed wish of the deceased. A large number of friends were present, filling piazzas and into the flower-decked yard. In the parlor Miss Clara Kephart, at piano, the Congregational Church choir sang simple hymns, and meanwhile thought lovingly of the leader of the choir now passed into the heavenly choruses. Rev. Caldwell, Methodist pastor, said a few fitting words and Rev. Ross read a life tribute to his dear wife. Interment was made in the Interlachen cemetery, just as she wished when far away this spring in the old Iowa-home State.
Born in 1854, in Ohio, Mrs. Ross had lived most of the remainder of her life at Fairfield, Iowa, valued member of the Congregational Church through it all, but a few years before coming to Florida when, as the bride of Rev. Ross, she helped in Christian church duty. Over four years ago they came here, and to the Congregational pastoral service, in which Mrs. Ross was just as useful and faithful as her husband, her special work here, and indeed since childhood, being musical talent consecrated to God.
Until last fall Mrs. Ross was remarkably strong of body and mind, and looked twenty years younger than women of her age usually do. She commenced the fatal illness, a gland disease, extremely slow, painful, and yet but little understood by even doctors, who have seemingly so far found no cure for it. Death came painlessly, and her last words to her husband by her bedside were, "I'm not afraid to go." (Times-Herald Obituary dtd Friday, 10 Aug 1923.)
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