Her many friends will learn with deep regret of the death of Miss Mildred C. Watkins, one of the oldest members of the staff of the Shanghai American School and formerly of the Southern Presbyterian Mission, which took place at the Kuling Estate Hospital on August 12. She had been ill for only five days, under the watchful care and medical attention of those she loved best in China. On August 11 it was thought necessary to take her to the hospital for an operation. She rallied well from this, and on the morning of the 12th was in good spirits, and talked of her plans for work at the opening of school in September. A change for the worse came that afternoon, and she passed away' peacefully about nine o'clock that night.
Her body was laid to rest at sunset on Sunday in the little Kuling cemetery beside Mrs. A. C. Dixon, who died only a week earlier. The Shanghai American School boys and girls followed the coffin in procession with arms full of the mountain flowers Miss Watkins was so fond of.
Her loss to the Southern Presbyterian Mission and to the American School is irreparable, for she was a brilliant. wholly selfless, con-secreted Christian worker.
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