From San Francisco Call, February 8, 1895.

At 11 o'clock yesterday morning the little church of St. Stephen's, on Fulton Street, near Webster, was filled with the regular congregation and a host of others, who had come to pay their last tribute to their beloved pastor, Edgar Jacob Lion. In prayer and meditation they waited for the final service to be read over his body. At noon the funeral cortege arrived and slowly wended its way up the middle aisle, led by the cross-bearer, E. F. Cheffins, who is the lay reader of the church, who was followed by many of the clergy of this city and other cities. The Right Rev. William Ford Nichols, reading the burial service, led the pallbearers, Arthur Faraday Price, Clark J. Burnham. M. D., Alfred J. Fairweather, Frank W. Yale, James Buchanan Miller, Frank H. Gardiner. J. F. D. Curtis., G. E. Benpet, James Fisher and John Hinkle. Bishop Nichols was assisted in the service by Archdeacon J. A. Emery and Rev. H. Howitt of Mill Valley. The choir sang "Guide Me,Oh, Thou Great Jehovah" and "Now the Laborer's Task is Done." The Bishop announced that the service at the interment at Iona churchyard, in Cypress Lawn Cemetery, would be private, and that he had appointed a committee of clergy to arrange for the holding of a memorial and tribute service and that the time and place would be given out later. Throughout the ceremony the vast congregation, choir and clergy were visibly affected. Among the clergy present were Revs. R. C. Foute, S. J. Lee, Mr. Sanford of St. John's, Mr. Reilly of St. Paul's, C. Hitchcock of the Hitchcock Military Academy of San Rafael, who will conduct the early communion service at St. Stephen's this morning, Father Parrish and Rev. H. B. Monges of the Church of the Advent.
Edgar Jacob Lion was a life-long resident of California, and for twenty-eight years held the rectorship of St. Stephen's. The parish had never known any other pastor, nor had the rector known any other parish. He was a hard and untiring worker, and among his friends in the parish and the diocese his influence and work had developed so quietly that few will at first appreciate how he will be missed. The parishioners of St. Stephen's parish will find it difficult to adapt themselves to another, having had him for almost a generation of their parochial life. Mr. Lion was dean of the convention and member of the board of missions of San Francisco, vice president and chaplain of the Old Ladies' Home, warden of the community of the Sisters of St. Saviour, a member of the Sunday school commission of the diocese and an examining chaplain. In the institutions with which he was connected he had a large share in their foundation and continuance. Of a deeply devotional nature, strong and outspoken as a preacher, he will be missed in many ways.