DICKSON, DOLLAR

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Marin Journal
Thursday, January 20, 1921
Page 1

Last Sad Rites For Mrs. Grace Dickson

Mrs. Grace Dickson, wife of Frederick W. Dickson and only daughter of Captain and Mrs. Robert Dollar, passed away last Sunday at the Dickson home in San Geronimo.

The news of her death came as a shock to her countless friends in San Rafael, where she had passed her girlhood, for not many of her acquaintances knew of her illness. The relatives and closer friends had been aware for several days before the end of the seriousness of her condition, and the skill of four physicians and a professional nurse, called upon by the grief-stricken husband and parents, failed to avert the dreaded denouement.

A particularly sad feature of the untimely death is the fact that six little children are left motherless.

Mrs. Dickson was one of four children of Captain and Mrs. Dollar: Stanley Dollar, now vice-president of the Robert Dollar shipping interests in San Francisco; Harold Dollar, managing the affairs of the concern in Shanghai, China, and Melville Dollar, occupying a similar position in Vancouver, British Columbia.

The funeral, held Tuesday with services at t he Presbyterian church here, drew together a great number of sorrowing friends of the deceased to hear the tender tributes rendered in a sermon by Dr. Lynn T. White, and prayer by Dr. W. H. Landon.

The interment arrangements were made by the F. E. Sawyer Company.

Never within the memory of those present at the ceremony had there been a more beautiful display of floral tributes in the Presbyterian church. A solid bank of flowers extended across the long dais upon which the pulpit rests. Orchids in great profusion mingled with other rare flowers in the wealth of loving gifts laid on the altar of devotion by sorrowing friends and relatives.