The death occurred at St. Luke's Hospital, Tokio, early on the 5th instant of Mrs. Mary Annie Howe, wife of Dr. M. A. Howe, of Yokohama. Mre. Howe has been an invalid for some time. On Christmas night she collapsed, and had since been a patient—first at the Yokohama General Hospital: and later at St- Luke's, Tokio. Towards the end Mrs. Howe. suffered very little, and was conscious up to the last. Mrs. Howe was born at Ingleton Hall, Ingleton. Yorkshire, England, on March 22, 1868, and was thus in her 59th year. She came to Japan in December, 1891, on @ six months' holiday, and while here met Dr. Howe, became engaged and was married. She has only "once been out of Japan, namely in
her husband and son (Mr. L. M. 1920. Mra. Howe is survived Howe), to whom in their bereavement the sympathy of many friends will be extended.
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