the Bubbling Well Cemetery on Sept. 4, the funeral took place of the late Mrs. Mary Idella' Stedman, who died in Pasadena, California, following an_ operation, for appendicitis on July 29 last.
The remains were brought to Shanghai from Los Angeles on Monday morning by the str. President Wilson and were buried in the family lot at Bubbling Well Cemetery in which her late father, Capt. W. H. Lunt, and the infant nephew, Maxwell Lunt, are also buried, Mrs, Stidman was born in Shanghai in 1891 and had spent nearly alli her life in this port, where she took part in many local activities. For tone season, she was chairman of the Music Department of the American Women's Club and in her early years took a keen interest in the King's Daughter's Society. She left Shang. hai to live in California, where she came to an untimely and greatly regretted end. She Laves a son, Theodore, who is about to enter Harvard University, and a daughter, Helen, who is eight years old.
The service was conducted by the Kev. F. L. Hawks Pott in the presence of members of the family and relatives and a large number of friends. The chief mourners were Airs, J. 1. Lunt, the late Mrs, Stedman's mother; Mr. Carroll Lant, her brother; and Mrs. Carroll Lunt, Fessenden, the Rev. George A. Fitch, Mr. V. G. Lyman, Mr. J, Trevor The and ram received in Shanghai on Sept. 5 contained news of the death, at the age of 71, of Me. J. F. Oiesen, Mr. Oiesen's death removes a personality who had won the deepest fection from those who worked and associated with him in China and who commanded, through his achievements, the admiration of those of a younger generation. The details of his remarkable career fully justify this latter statement, while it is only necessary to mei tion his name to one of the host people who knew him during his. residence here to appreciate the former.
The deceased was born at-Ronne, on the Island of Bornhelm, Denmark, on October 17, 1857. He came to China to join the Chinese Maritime Customs in July, 1877, and for the next 43 years he served ith distinction. Hig outstanding ability at his work and his early acquired familiarity with things Chinese singled him out for promotion, and he rapidly rose to the rank of Commissioner. This post he held at several ports, including Foochow, Canton, Hankow and Tientsin, while he also held the posi tion of Statistical Secretary and also that of Chief Secretary at the Inspectorate-General.
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