The Archive · 1932

Mr. A. Haas

Services were held on August the Jewish Cemetery on Bai Road for the late Mr. A. Haas, who died on Aug. 3. Mr. Haas had' been Jconfined to the Isolation Hospital fo some time duc to an attack of Jeholera "from which he was recuperating in a very favourable way. An unexpected and' severe heart attack, however, proved fatal, Mr. Haas had been for the last 16 Years connected with the Shangha waterworks Ca, Lté., and is survived by his wife and four children, two sons and two. daughters, to whom deepest sympathy ie extended, Miss Lulu Rose Patton The death occurred in the early morning of August 3 of Miss Lult [Rose Patton at the General Hospital, After a few years' experience in teaching in the United States, Mies Patton was [New York City, a missionary of the [Board and sent to Canton to assist Miss Barnett Noyes and Miss E. M, Butler as a teacher in the True Light Girls Seminary at Kulefav, Canton, arriving on September 10, 1008.

In 1920, the Union Normal Teach-Jers Training School of Canton was Jorganized and the Fulton Kinder-[garten School became an integral part. Miss Patton served first as [teacher and later as principal 1981 when, under the school re-snd gistration requirements of the Chi-Jnese Government, Miss Patton re-ligned her position and devoted herjeelf to the task of securing cormpetent Chinese successor,. Mies Patton continuing to. serve the treasurer. [school in the capacity of adviser and

In connection with a campaign among Chinese friends of the Union School fora building fund for the school, Miss Patton was especially interested in, securing funds for a religious work centre to be s0 loeat~ Jed as to provide a place of worship for Christian students and to give opportunity for the continued acttivities of the students among the community children. "She had thought of this as a memorial to her lown mother and has left. several thousand dollars asa nucleus for the purpose. Her friends now hope to carry out her plan and think of jit as a memorial to her as well as her mother.

Miss Patton, who was "born at, Altoona, Pennsylvania, was one of a {family of seven children in which there was no break by death until, within recent months, both father Patton, residents' of" Shanghai.

The funeral service was held in the chapel of the Bubbling Well [Cemetery on August 4 and was conducted by the Rev. Emory W, Laecock "assisted by the Rev. [Anderson of Canton,

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