Life peacefully closed for Miss Phebe Lawrence White at the home of her niece, Mrs. Slocombe, in Worcester, Wednesday evening, April 15. Mrs. Slocombe was reading to her Aunt, as usual, at the close of the day, when the latter was stricken with apoplexy and within a few hours answered the summons to the higher life. Had she lived until July 15, eighty-five years of earthly life would have been completed.
On last Saturday afternoon a service was held from her late home in Littleton Center, where she had lived the greater part of her life. Rev. Carl G. Horst, pastor of the Unitarian church, of which Miss White's grandfather, Rev. Edmund Foster, had been pastor forty-five years and her father, Rev. William H. White, the twenty-five succeeding years, officiated. The minister paid high tribute to the deceased and her illustrious ancestors who contributed largely, not only in laying the foundation and building up the institution of this town, but bore a share of the responsibilities in state and nation. Interment was made in the family lot at Westlawn cemetery on the brightest and mildest afternoon of the early spring.
Miss White is the last of her generation. She leaves two nieces, Mrs. Slocombe, of Worcester, with whom she had spent the last two winters, and Miss Etta Seaver, a teacher living in Worcester; also a nephew, William Seaver, of Woburn, librarian in Cambridge.
Realizing that the publication of any just eulogy might not be pleasing to Miss White's modest taste, we leave it for those to whom she was nearest and dearest to insert on memory's pages the record of a life and character whose benign influence shall endure for years to come.
(Littleton Newspaper - April 25, 1925)
On last Saturday afternoon a service was held from her late home in Littleton Center, where she had lived the greater part of her life. Rev. Carl G. Horst, pastor of the Unitarian church, of which Miss White's grandfather, Rev. Edmund Foster, had been pastor forty-five years and her father, Rev. William H. White, the twenty-five succeeding years, officiated. The minister paid high tribute to the deceased and her illustrious ancestors who contributed largely, not only in laying the foundation and building up the institution of this town, but bore a share of the responsibilities in state and nation. Interment was made in the family lot at Westlawn cemetery on the brightest and mildest afternoon of the early spring.
Miss White is the last of her generation. She leaves two nieces, Mrs. Slocombe, of Worcester, with whom she had spent the last two winters, and Miss Etta Seaver, a teacher living in Worcester; also a nephew, William Seaver, of Woburn, librarian in Cambridge.
Realizing that the publication of any just eulogy might not be pleasing to Miss White's modest taste, we leave it for those to whom she was nearest and dearest to insert on memory's pages the record of a life and character whose benign influence shall endure for years to come.
(Littleton Newspaper - April 25, 1925)
Life peacefully closed for Miss Phebe Lawrence White at the home of her niece, Mrs. Slocombe, in Worcester, Wednesday evening, April 15. Mrs. Slocombe was reading to her Aunt, as usual, at the close of the day, when the latter was stricken with apoplexy and within a few hours answered the summons to the higher life. Had she lived until July 15, eighty-five years of earthly life would have been completed.
On last Saturday afternoon a service was held from her late home in Littleton Center, where she had lived the greater part of her life. Rev. Carl G. Horst, pastor of the Unitarian church, of which Miss White's grandfather, Rev. Edmund Foster, had been pastor forty-five years and her father, Rev. William H. White, the twenty-five succeeding years, officiated. The minister paid high tribute to the deceased and her illustrious ancestors who contributed largely, not only in laying the foundation and building up the institution of this town, but bore a share of the responsibilities in state and nation. Interment was made in the family lot at Westlawn cemetery on the brightest and mildest afternoon of the early spring.
Miss White is the last of her generation. She leaves two nieces, Mrs. Slocombe, of Worcester, with whom she had spent the last two winters, and Miss Etta Seaver, a teacher living in Worcester; also a nephew, William Seaver, of Woburn, librarian in Cambridge.
Realizing that the publication of any just eulogy might not be pleasing to Miss White's modest taste, we leave it for those to whom she was nearest and dearest to insert on memory's pages the record of a life and character whose benign influence shall endure for years to come.
(Littleton Newspaper - April 25, 1925)
On last Saturday afternoon a service was held from her late home in Littleton Center, where she had lived the greater part of her life. Rev. Carl G. Horst, pastor of the Unitarian church, of which Miss White's grandfather, Rev. Edmund Foster, had been pastor forty-five years and her father, Rev. William H. White, the twenty-five succeeding years, officiated. The minister paid high tribute to the deceased and her illustrious ancestors who contributed largely, not only in laying the foundation and building up the institution of this town, but bore a share of the responsibilities in state and nation. Interment was made in the family lot at Westlawn cemetery on the brightest and mildest afternoon of the early spring.
Miss White is the last of her generation. She leaves two nieces, Mrs. Slocombe, of Worcester, with whom she had spent the last two winters, and Miss Etta Seaver, a teacher living in Worcester; also a nephew, William Seaver, of Woburn, librarian in Cambridge.
Realizing that the publication of any just eulogy might not be pleasing to Miss White's modest taste, we leave it for those to whom she was nearest and dearest to insert on memory's pages the record of a life and character whose benign influence shall endure for years to come.
(Littleton Newspaper - April 25, 1925)
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