MRS. SARAH M. HANDY DIES NEAR BERLIN
Berlin, Md., Aug. 4.—Mrs. Sarah Matthews Handy, widow of Moses Purnell Handy, prominent in Chicago newspaper circles, died Wednesday morning at her country estate, Anthuka, from the effects of a stroke of paralysis. The body was taken to Philadelphia and cremated.
She was the mother of the late Rozelle Handy, founder of the Friendly libraries in Worcester county, and also the mother of the late William Matthew Handy, and for many years an editor of the Chicago Herald and Tribune.
Mrs. Handy's husband, Major Handy, was director of publicity of the World Columbian Exposition at Chicago in 1893.
Surviving are three daughters, Mrs. William Wallace Phelps, of Hermosa Beach, Cal.; Mrs. John Benson, of Scarsdale, N. Y.; and Miss Virginia Handy, of Berlin; and a son, Jamison Handy, of Detroit Mich.
[The News Journal (Wilmington, Delaware), 4 August 1933, Friday, Page 9, Newspapers.com]
Berlin, Md., Aug. 4.—Mrs. Sarah Matthews Handy, widow of Moses Purnell Handy, prominent in Chicago newspaper circles, died Wednesday morning at her country estate, Anthuka, from the effects of a stroke of paralysis. The body was taken to Philadelphia and cremated.
She was the mother of the late Rozelle Handy, founder of the Friendly libraries in Worcester county, and also the mother of the late William Matthew Handy, and for many years an editor of the Chicago Herald and Tribune.
Mrs. Handy's husband, Major Handy, was director of publicity of the World Columbian Exposition at Chicago in 1893.
Surviving are three daughters, Mrs. William Wallace Phelps, of Hermosa Beach, Cal.; Mrs. John Benson, of Scarsdale, N. Y.; and Miss Virginia Handy, of Berlin; and a son, Jamison Handy, of Detroit Mich.
[The News Journal (Wilmington, Delaware), 4 August 1933, Friday, Page 9, Newspapers.com]
MRS. SARAH M. HANDY DIES NEAR BERLIN
Berlin, Md., Aug. 4.—Mrs. Sarah Matthews Handy, widow of Moses Purnell Handy, prominent in Chicago newspaper circles, died Wednesday morning at her country estate, Anthuka, from the effects of a stroke of paralysis. The body was taken to Philadelphia and cremated.
She was the mother of the late Rozelle Handy, founder of the Friendly libraries in Worcester county, and also the mother of the late William Matthew Handy, and for many years an editor of the Chicago Herald and Tribune.
Mrs. Handy's husband, Major Handy, was director of publicity of the World Columbian Exposition at Chicago in 1893.
Surviving are three daughters, Mrs. William Wallace Phelps, of Hermosa Beach, Cal.; Mrs. John Benson, of Scarsdale, N. Y.; and Miss Virginia Handy, of Berlin; and a son, Jamison Handy, of Detroit Mich.
[The News Journal (Wilmington, Delaware), 4 August 1933, Friday, Page 9, Newspapers.com]
Berlin, Md., Aug. 4.—Mrs. Sarah Matthews Handy, widow of Moses Purnell Handy, prominent in Chicago newspaper circles, died Wednesday morning at her country estate, Anthuka, from the effects of a stroke of paralysis. The body was taken to Philadelphia and cremated.
She was the mother of the late Rozelle Handy, founder of the Friendly libraries in Worcester county, and also the mother of the late William Matthew Handy, and for many years an editor of the Chicago Herald and Tribune.
Mrs. Handy's husband, Major Handy, was director of publicity of the World Columbian Exposition at Chicago in 1893.
Surviving are three daughters, Mrs. William Wallace Phelps, of Hermosa Beach, Cal.; Mrs. John Benson, of Scarsdale, N. Y.; and Miss Virginia Handy, of Berlin; and a son, Jamison Handy, of Detroit Mich.
[The News Journal (Wilmington, Delaware), 4 August 1933, Friday, Page 9, Newspapers.com]
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