PERRY, HILLER

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The Marin Journal
Thursday, December 16, 1915
Page 4

Pneumonia Takes Pioneer Rebekah

A shock to her scores of friends, many of them unaware that she had been ill, was the death Friday afternoon of Mrs. Carrie I. Perry at her home on Petaluma avenue.

She had been ill but a few days, having contracted a severe cold a week before which rapidly developed into pneumonia.

Mrs. Perry was prominent in the work of the Rebekah lodge, taking a personal and active interest in all the social as well as purely fraternal affairs connected with the local order.

Her illness was not deemed to be at all serious until the Sunday before her death, when a turn for the worse terminated in a high fever and fatal symptoms. Despite the efforts of a physician and nurses the sad end came.

Her husband, John E. Perry, is also prominent in fraternal circles, being the secretary of the local Odd Fellows’ lodge.

The funeral, largely attended, was held Sunday under the auspices of Golden Star Lodge No. 112.

Mrs. Perry was the aunt of Fred D. Miller, who had lived at the Perry home, and the sister of the late Elizabeth Hiller.

Her death, entirely unexpected, was a terrible shock to those who knew her. Few have departed from this life more sincerely regretted.

Many and heartfelt were the flora tributes sent by those who knew her some of whom perhaps only by her sweet and lovely disposition and her unaffected manner; always a bright smile, a flower from her garden, a word of sympathy and encouragement for the suffering and for those in sorrow. It was those little things which in themselves are trifles that endeared her to her friends. She never refused to perform any task assigned her, however difficult, even the beautiful thought so beautifully expressed at her funeral by the Rev. Dr. White that “God had given her and the Father had received her back into his arms and taken her to that Home where care and sorrow are unknown” can scarcely reconcile her associates in her lodge work to her death. They cannot bring themselves, for the present, to face their faithful Treasurer’s vacant chair and events that were to have taken place in the lodge have been indefinitely postponed.